israel will have a long time getting over this if they do;

A retired Israeli general says the regime is stuck in Gaza, with its ground forces badly weakened and reeling from major strategic setbacks in its fight against the Hamas resistance.

Major General Yitzhak Brik, a former senior officer in the Israeli military, pointed to the growing military weakness and strategic failures of the regime in an Op-Ed at Israeli news website Arutz Sheva, saying, “The painful truth, as reflected by senior IDF officers—from generals to company commanders speaking off the record—is that Israel was not prepared for the ‘Iron Swords’ war.”

The Israeli regime, he continued, “has already suffered a strategic loss in its campaign against Hamas.”

The general pointed to a severely weakened military. The Israeli ground forces are “severely depleted and undergoing structural decline,” he said, adding, “Their inability to decisively defeat Hamas is only part of a larger problem.”

Brik’s assessment comes on the heels of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, where, despite months of a brutal military campaign, the Israeli army has failed to reach its objectives, including the elimination of Hamas resistance movement..........more..........