The top two U.S. military leaders are traveling to Tel Aviv to advise the Israeli government on how to transition from major combat operations against Hamas in Gaza to a more limited and precise campaign — the kind of strategic shift they both have considerable expertise in.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown served in leadership roles as U.S. airpower and ground forces moved from major combat to lower-intensity counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it is not clear how deeply their advice from lessons learned will resonate with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
There is no “next phase” of the US-sponsored Zionist ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The Zionists do not have a military that is ready for small urban warfare incursions against Hamas. We either watch the mass-murdering Zionists proceed with their indiscriminate terror campaign against the people of Gaza, or we watch the Zionists accept defeat again.
But this visit has nothing to do with tactics–it’s about optics. No one in Zionist-ruled Washington DC really has a problem with the ethnic cleansing of the Gazans, but they do understand that appearances are everything. Thus, we will announce that a new phase is beginning, and then we will pretend like the new phase is not simply the exact same thing that the initial phase was.