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The Jenin Brigades said its fighters detonated a “guided bomb” against an Israeli military infantry force that was advancing inside the besieged Palestinian camp.

The coalition group of armed fighters added on its Telegram channel that its operatives “confront the storming infantry forces and military vehicles with heavy showers of bullets and explosive devices, achieving confirmed injuries”.

The Jenin Brigades also reported detonating an explosive device planted under a road in the al-Damaj axis in Jenin camp, and said a military vehicle was attacked and put out of commission by an explosive.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The PA thinks that whatever Israel will leave them when they're done stealing land will be more than what they'll get fighting against the worldwide conspiracy. They actually believe that if all groups in Palestine had agreed to one of the past agreements and it went smoothly, they'd have proper borders and live relatively peacefully neighboring Israel, even with everything going on with countries Israel considers established, sovereign countries.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them think what they're doing is right, noble, and in the best interest of the whiny ungrateful fighters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

In fairness to the PA, Palestine has an approximately 0% chance of winning a war against Israel. And an approximately 100% chance of them getting blown to pieces if they ever had an attack successful enough for Israel to fully mobilize against them (see Gaza).

Their most likely to succeed strategy would be pursuing victory through the Israeli court system (which was relatively on their side, leading to the attempted "court reform" power grab that was the political story in Israel prior to October 7). Their next best bet would be Israeli politics moving away from the current right wing nationalist coalition.

That is not to say that any of the above is easy, or likely to succeed. But at least it has a plausible chance. And, if it fails, that failure still leaves them better off than a war against Israel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Their most likely to succeed strategy would be pursuing victory through the Israeli court system (which was relatively on their side, leading to the attempted "court reform" power grab that was the political story in Israel prior to October 7). Their next best bet would be Israeli politics moving away from the current right wing nationalist coalition.

Just gonna say that the problem in Israel isn't just the current right wing coalition. Israel has been an Apartheid Nazi state since its founding in 1948, and before that it was always meant to be an Apartheid Nazi state. That aside, this was the plan after the Second Intifada ended in 2005, but here's the thing: The peaceful resistance project failed. It's over, peaceful resistance from the inside will never bring change for Palestinians. At this point the PA's only role is to enforce Israel's Apartheid on the Palestinians of the West Bank. I'll also point out that the Israeli court system is a dead end because the West Bank isn't governed by Israeli civil law. It's governed by Israeli military law as a military occupation. The court system you're talking about explicitly doesn't protect the Palestinian occupied territories.

In fairness to the PA, Palestine has an approximately 0% chance of winning a war against Israel. And an approximately 100% chance of them getting blown to pieces if they ever had an attack successful enough for Israel to fully mobilize against them (see Gaza).

The Gaza war has been/was an absolute disaster for Israel so if anything the violent resistance route is much more effective than whatever the PA is doing.

But at least it has a plausible chance.

It... doesn't. The last time Israel had a leader willing to engage in good faith negotiations was in 1996 during the Oslo accords, and they killed him for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The PA is a great example of Counter Insurgency. Adi Callai has a great segment on it here but really the whole video is worth a watch