PNN – A Zionist writer, referring to the military stalemate in the Gaza war, described it as a repeat of the bitter experience of Vietnam for the US military and warned that continuing this approach will not lead to victory.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Sama News Agency, in an article in the Ma’ariv newspaper, the well-known Zionist writer Ephraim Ganor has taken a critical look at the performance of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, comparing the current war to the Vietnam War.
Pointing out that after more than eighteen months of war, none of the main goals, such as returning the Zionist prisoners or destroying Hamas, have been achieved, he emphasizes that the war has continued solely out of revenge and lacks political foresight.
Ganor warns that turning the military presence into permanent bases not only does not ensure security, but also allows resistance forces to inflict heavy blows on them by taking advantage of their geographical location and guerrilla tactics.
He compares Hamas to the Viet Cong (the National Liberation Front, the name of the political and guerrilla organization that fought for a long time against the US army and the South Vietnamese government in South Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War), and writes: Like the Viet Cong in the jungles of Vietnam, Hamas uses tunnels and familiar terrain, and despite casualties, it has succeeded in attracting fresh forces to continue the fight.
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He concludes that the hope for an absolute victory in such circumstances is nothing more than an illusion, and the Zionist regime must be vigilant against the war becoming prolonged and erosive.
In the first days of the war, more than 1,200 Zionists were killed and hundreds were captured; an event that, according to many observers, is considered the most unprecedented intelligence and security failure of the occupying regime since its establishment.
Afterwards, in the extensive ground operations that the Israeli army launched to free prisoners and suppress the resistance, the Palestinian resistance inflicted heavy losses on Israeli military units through irregular warfare tactics, the use of complex tunnels, precise ambushes, and planned explosions.
During more than a year and a half of the war, Zionist sources have acknowledged the killing of hundreds of army soldiers, while unofficial statistics indicate higher casualties and thousands of injuries among the regime’s combat forces.
The Palestinian resistance also succeeded in destroying or capturing dozens of Merkava tanks, armored personnel carriers, drones, and advanced reconnaissance systems of the Israeli army.
Now, after more than eighteen months, many observers believe that the Palestinian resistance, despite widespread destruction and human casualties, has managed to change the equations of the battle and trap the Israeli army in an attrition and costly war in which there is no clear prospect of victory.