Why is Israel so weak?

[Anonymous]

Israel is such a small country that you can barely see it on the world map. After two years, it still hasn’t defeated Hamas or rescued the hostages. Honestly, why does it seem so weak? It’s lucky the U. S. is backing it.

[Anonymous]

Israel has the biggest military on the planet to my knowledge and has won pretty much as conflicts it gets into in The Middle East also his the dome defensive.

Trust me, if they were weak The Middle East would’ve taken them down a long time ago. USA doesn’t send boots on the ground, only supplies money, military craft, and missile defense system.

Israel and Palestine leadership are bad for the citizens they vowed to protect and I wish the citizens get a government by the people for the people rather than looking to exploit for their selfish nationalistic extremist religious BS. Israel and Palestine have good people living in their borders, just a government that makes them both look bad and bring down trust in each other. It is very sad to exploit your own citizens this way.

[Avicenna]

Gaza is a densely populated urban area in which Hamas uses the civilian population as human shields and Hamas has a huge network of underground tunnels built with slave and child labor where it hides, meaning it is about the toughest possible situation for rooting out a terror group deeply embedded in the civilian population (Hamas also uses civilian infrastructure like hospitals, schools, mosques and even children's bedrooms to store weapons). There are also smuggling routes into Gaza from Egypt. In addition, Israel has conducted its response to Hamas terror attacks with a lot of restraint.

[Asker]

Still, two years have passed. I don’t understand how Hamas built a tunnel that they still can’t find.

[Avicenna]

"A" tunnel" Try hundreds:

www.timesofisrael.com/.../

Be a bit more realistic, please (and I'll wager the numbers cited in that article from January 2024 have been revised upward somewhat).

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

I actually think Israel is actually holding back for it's own gain - they don't destroy Hamas because to keep up their current regime they need an enemy. The enemy justifies any choice the government makes and diverts anger and negative feelings from the populace which otherwise could be aimed at the government.

[Asker]

In fact, wouldn’t this cause even more anger toward the government? I know there are ongoing protests in Israel over the hostages.

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

True, but there's a lot of anger against Hamas too. It's a delicate balance I think, and Israel it's in a very precarious position - or at least, its government.

[Asker]

I believe the Netanyahu government will lose the 2026 election because of this failure.

[exitseven]

Israel is not weak. The fact tht it is still a country surrounded by enemies isa testament to it's resolve.
I knew somebody that was in the Israeli Army. He was not much to look at but you got the feeling that he could kill you with his bare hands.

[Asker]

It’s hard to see such a small country as strong when it barely shows up on the map. They’re very lucky to have the US backing them, yet they still haven’t been able to defeat Hamas, it’s very strange.

[jshm2]

LOL, Israel, like North Korea is basically a criminal enterprise.

Hence it will not succeed, but continue to exist like a cancer in the region.

[DrPepper12]

Israel is a terrorist theocratic apartheid state