Ludovic Hood
Israeli military operations deserve scrutiny, but media coverage has more often than not treated the Jewish state unfairly.
In Steven Spielberg’s film Munich, the mysterious “Papa” tells Avner, the reluctant Mossad assassin: “The world has been rough with you, with your tribe. It’s right to respond roughly to such treatment.”
Israel’s response to the October 2023 Hamas-led massacres and kidnappings of over one thousand civilians, as well as to missile and drone attacks from Iran and its regional militias, has been vigorous, and it has been rough.
Pursuing victory—ending the threats to Israeli towns and cities from Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and the regime in Tehran—requires not just the spycraft which Israel excels at but the application of determined, and at times overwhelming, military force.
In Gaza, Israel has been fighting a foe that conducts almost all military operations from civilian sites, which never allowed Palestinian families to shelter in its vast tunnel network, and for which dead Palestinian children are “necessary sacrifices” (to quote the late Hamas commander Yahya Sinwar). Israel’s army has been operating in some of the most difficult urban warfare conditions in history.
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