Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
dayan launches the second wave of his attack on the egyptian controlled sinai. israel completely controlled the skies and that rendered all the armies and even army of jordan very weakly defended. the goal was to occupy and destroy the egyptian army. as the israeli army started to advance toward gaza, their first encounter with egyptian forces was extremely bloody and israel lost several battalions. the casualties was extremely disheartening and this could have fueled lots of acts of vengeance on the part of israeli soldiers. but israeli army did moving into sinai, they created what they call a box fire. basically, soldiers standing on this side of the box. soldiers standing on this side of the box. and then, shooting everybody that stands right in the middle of that box or in the way of
egyptian-controlled sinai. now, israel completely controlled the skies, and that rendered all the armies, army of syria, army of egypt, and even army of jordan very weakly defended. the goal was to occupy the sinai and destroy the egyptian army. as the israeli army started to advance toward gaza, their first encounter with egyptian forces was extremely bloody and israel lost several battalions. the casualties was extremely disheartening, and this could have fueled lots of acts of vengeance on the parts of israeli soldiers. but the israeli moving into sinai, they created what they called a box fire. basically soldiers standing on this side of the box, soldiers standing on this side of the box, and then shooting everybody that stands right in the middle of that box or in the way of that box. so they showed no mercy to the egyptian soldiers.
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