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#Gaza: What is victory? COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

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#Gaza: What is victory? COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/15/iran-tells-hamas-will-not-enter-war-israel/

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and enjoy the ease of tax-free shopping in Spain. Jeff McCausen, United States Army retired CBS News, the Gaza War. Headlines, these are out of

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London.

0:37.3

IDF finds AK-47 hidden behind MRI scanner and Gaz hospital raid.

0:43.5

Or Iran tells Hamas it will not enter the war with Israel.

0:47.7

Or why the IDF troops find weapons stockpiles after flash bang raid on al-Shifa Hospital.

0:56.2

In other words, a picture that is entirely non-translatable into English.

1:01.0

What we have are scattered points, headlines coming through London, which has a very

1:05.2

good source at the Ministry of Defence and I have every reason to believe these are well-informed

1:10.4

headlines, except Jeff, right now we've got a Gaza war that doesn't have, to my understanding, a goal

1:18.2

to achieve what constitutes victory.

1:21.9

There's reason to believe there are leadership positions inside Gaza.

1:26.0

They all have all Hamas leadership has not escaped. Is that the war aim to

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to decapitate Gaza's Hamas?

1:35.7

Can we tell what would look like a victory?

1:40.0

Well, the Israelis have said

1:41.2

their goal is to destroy Hamas, but frankly that sounds like a great bumper sticker but I'm not sure it's a great stretch.

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I don't know how you affect destroying Hamas unless you say you must kill every current member of Hamas and even if you do that

1:55.7

it does not just encourage a formation of an expert or an expansion of an existing group like

2:00.9

Islamic jihad or whatever does it attract more support for other

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