Maybe the first strike decapitated Hamas leadership.

I don’t know. If IDF killed 200 of the right guys and took out their cool digs and stuff and promised they’d never get their cool digs and stuff back for as long as they shelled Israel–well that might impress the Hamas.

I think its better to do precision bombing than rolling into Gaza with tanks. Tanks are very photogenic. Tanks are about controlling a war space. The IDF shouldn’t care about that. They should just care about killing Hamas and destroying their cool stuff.

By now there should not be an inch of Gaza that israeli intelligence doesn’t understand. They should know the comings and goings of Hamas officials five steps down. Anyone they didn’t get in the first strike they can take out on the 5th or 10th strike.

IDF preditors should just be parked over gaza airspace.

If the first strike was successful then likely the results of the first strike will be to both dumb down and skatter Hamas soldiers. They won’t have any leadership and they won’t be keen to gather at their old stomping grounds to make the job of IDF jets easier.

What to do?