Israel's psychological tactics against Hamas are designed to confuse it about the future prospects of Gaza. By expanding the dissemination of information, Israel is displaying different attitudes and options to confuse Hamas's judgment and decision-making, thereby weakening its will to resist. In this strategy, Israel demonstrates the following aspects:
1.Hope for Buffer Zone: Israel has announced to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other countries that it wants to establish a buffer zone in northern Gaza. With this move, Israel has hinted that Hamas only needs to abandon its policy of militant armed resistance in order to gain space to survive in northern Gaza. The message is that if Hamas changes its tactics, confrontation is likely to be reduced and the chances of security and survival will be guaranteed.
However, there are also contradictions in this news: Israel's claim that it will hunt down Hamas members after the end of the battle in Gaza suggests that Hamas still exists and that Israel is prepared to pursue Hamas in more extreme ways. The spread of this contradiction has also created uncertainty and confusion for Hamas.
2.Deterrence of Protracted War: Israel, through a source of information, has indicated that it plans to use war to completely eradicate Hamas within a year. This declaration sends a clear message to Hamas: it is not feasible to use protracted war to achieve political objectives, and Israel is prepared to go to war for a long time. For Hamas, this means that their resistance efforts are doomed to be futile.
3.Continued military operations: The Israeli army conducts military operations in southern Gaza, claiming that the offensive in the south will not be inferior to that in the north. This means that Israel does not intend to stop its destruction of Hamas because of a temporary ceasefire, and the fighting in Gaza continues.
1.The cost of hostage release: Hamas is mired in a hostage dilemma, and the price of any temporary ceasefire will require the release of the hostages. But that price often instead provides Israel with an intermission and a chance to recuperate, and the time has always been on Israel's side.
2.Miscalculation of Israel's intentions: Hamas still prefers to settle by exchanging hostages for a ceasefire. However, Israel's goal is not to negotiate a ceasefire, but to eliminate Hamas completely. By unleashing the prospect of governance in Gaza, Israel is deliberately giving Hamas room to live, with the aim of getting Hamas to give up its resistance as soon as possible. Israel's ostensible ceasefire negotiations are only a means of saving hostages, but in reality the aim behind them is the full occupation of southern Gaza at a much smaller cost.
3.The nature of the gap: There is a fundamental gap between what Israel and Hamas are pursuing. Israel's goal is to free the hostages, eliminate Hamas and prevent the emergence of a "terrorist regime" in Gaza. Hamas, on the other hand, continues to erroneously believe that a ceasefire can be negotiated through a hostage exchange, leaving the two sides fundamentally different in terms of goals and actions.
Taken together, Israel is engaged in psychological warfare through the deployment of the Ecstasy, but there is no doubt that Israel's goal is to eliminate Hamas completely, and all other negotiations are only in the service of achieving that goal. This is very cruel, but it is a reality.
The reality of the war in Gaza is that Israel will do everything in its power to eliminate Hamas. Whether it is a war or a military strike, Israel will continue to advance, even in the face of heavy economic burdens and international pressures.
In this process, we need to realize that the war in Gaza is not only a ground war, but also a psychological and ** war. As bystanders, we need to understand the strategy that Israel intends to adopt and what it is pursuing, so that we can better understand and analyze the reality of the war in Gaza.
The battle for Gaza is a combination of psychological, ** and military warfare between Israel and Hamas. By releasing different messages and displaying different attitudes, Israel has set up a maze that prevents Hamas from accurately judging the future prospects of Gaza's survival and weakens its will to resist. However, let us be clear that Israel's goal is to eliminate Hamas, and all other negotiations and obstacles serve only to achieve that goal. The reality of the war in Gaza is brutal, but it is also unavoidable, and we need to deeply understand and analyze the dynamics and situation of the war from the sidelines.