Since the beginning of the war in the Middle East, the Arabs have been defeated again and again, and both the will to fight and the tactical level have been suppressed by the Israeli army with absolute superiority for many years. In the past, the IDF was not only able to win more with less, but also had the style of daring, fighting, and fighting ruthlessly, which is rarely seen in the Arab coalition army.
In fact, the problem of troops and equipment is not the main one, but the key is in terms of fighting will and style, which is far inferior to the IDF at that time. Especially when they enter the critical stage of seeing the red of the bayonet, they are often defeated and collapsed in a very short time, so that the army is defeated.
However, after the first and second generations of IDF, Israel has established absolute superiority over neighboring countries, and the new Israelis do not have that strong spirit of restoration and sense of crisis.
Under its absolute superiority in technology, military strength, and, above all, psychological superiority, the Israeli army has long considered itself invincible in the world, but at the same time, its military personnel's salary, training level, and establishment system have failed to keep pace with the times, and the individualistic thinking of military personnel has also spread rapidly, and the cohesion of the entire army is much worse than before, especially the ground forces.
Therefore, after entering the 21st century, the Israeli ground forces have already been "lost and defeated", and in 2006, they "lost people and became conspicuous" in the ground war with the Lebanese Allah armed forces.
It stands to reason that the war has dragged on, and this should arouse the alarm of the Israeli army, but the fact is that the Israeli army's self-absorption and self-superstition are quite deep, and a battle like the one in 2006 can be turned into victory.
Since it has "won" again, there is naturally no need for major changes, and even the direction of military reform in Israel has further weakened its combat strength on the ground.
However, after verifying the new tactics of the Lebanese Allah Party, the armed forces of the Lebanese Party have been further reorganized and reformed, and their combat strength has been greatly enhanced. Since then, in the 2010s, troops have been deployed in Syria and have been tested on a larger scale.
These successes were also absorbed by the Qassam Brigades after the Hamas forces were incorporated into the Arc of Resistance system.
At the same time, the Qassam Brigade has also combined its own experience and experience in fighting the IDF, carried out the improvement and absorption of Gaza localization, and carried out long-term and arduous training in a targeted manner.
The results of its training have obviously been tested in the current war in Gaza, and it has handed over a very good answer.
It is even said that the gold content of the Arab armed forces in the current war in Gaza may exceed the performance of the Arab army in any Middle East war in history.
Whether it is the will to fight, the tactical level or the combat effect, the current Gaza armed forces are quite like the original IDF, but the current IDF is more like the Arab coalition forces of the past.
Of course, we say this not because we think that the Gaza armed forces can now crush the IDF as a whole, after all, if they can really crush it, it will not be the indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli army, but the battlefield will be moved to Israel proper. The huge disparity between the national strength of Gaza and Israel, which is a "large concentration camp", will certainly not be fundamentally reversed because of the relative stretching of the IDF's combat strength and the efforts of the Palestinian resistance forces, and will be reflected in the military strength.
But in that case, why do you say that the IDF is fighting exceptionally badly and the Gaza armed forces are fighting exceptionally well?
The key depends on resources and cost.
Because we cannot talk about victory or defeat on the battlefield without the resources in the hands of the armed forces of both sides.
For example, a dozen or so professional boxers got into a fight with a kid on the street who was begging for food, and as a result, a group of professional boxers fought for a long time and didn't win.
Even if the boxers win in the end, they have already lost.
Israel's military resources are more disparity in strength than those of Gaza's armed forces, and the disparity in strength is probably greater than that of ten professional boxers and a begging child.
What do the Gaza armed forces have in their hands?
Fighters, tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery, do they have them?
No, their best ** is just a couple of large-caliber mortars and rocket launchers, and even a limited number of anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, which are old and even ineffective.
And how many fighters does Israel have? How many tanks are there? How many armored vehicles are there? How many heavy guns are there?
This is all counted in hundreds or thousands, and their various types of ** equipment are a hundred or a thousand times stronger than the total number of various types of armed forces in Gaza, so that they can hardly be compared in the same dimension.
Even in terms of the number of troops, the armed forces in Gaza are far less powerful than the IDF.
Because after the Israeli army was mobilized, the regular army alone had 530,000 people, and Hamas, the strongest armed force in Gaza, according to Israel's highest estimate, was actually only 30,000 troops, which was only a fraction of the Israeli army. Combined with the strength of Jihad and other groups, Gaza has no more than 40,000 troops, not all of whom are combatants.
Some netizens said that it is natural that the Israeli army will not be able to send all 530,000 people to Gaza.
However, according to the degree of input of the Israeli army's ground forces, its 11 active brigades, 14 reserve brigades, plus 2 regional defense brigades, as well as a large number of special operations, engineer, and artillery units directly under it, are already its absolute main force.
You must know that even if it was a "vigorous" big ** on the battlefield in Ukraine before, the Ukrainian army has invested more than 20 main battle brigades in two main attack directions and one strategic attack direction on the entire southern front.
There are only a few formed brigades of the Ukrainian army, which have realized NATO-armed forces in the true sense, and these brigades of the Israeli army are all fully equipped and fully organized.
And that's just the ground forces, if you take into account the air force, the Ukrainian army is hardly worth mentioning, but the Israeli army has more than 300 F15 F16 fighters, as well as 36 F35 fighters.
Since Ukraine's old-fashioned F16 can "destroy Russia", there are so many artifacts in the Israeli army, it is not a big problem to fight Hamas, right?
Therefore, before the start of the large-scale ground war in Gaza, even the bloggers who despise the IDF the most will not conclude that the Israeli army will definitely not be able to occupy Gaza, let alone think that the Gaza armed forces can stand hard until next year and can continue to fight, and as for forcing the Israeli army out, it is even more unthinkable.
At that time, we thought that it would be good for Hamas to withstand a large-scale ground attack by the Israeli army for one month, but it would have to be a question mark in two months, especially since Hamas's armament and ammunition were unlikely to support the fierce fighting for too long, and the Israeli army would not have a problem achieving a superficial occupation of Gaza at least until the beginning of this year.
However, from October 27, 2023 to the present, the large-scale ground war in Gaza has exceeded 100 days; If it is counted from October 7, it has been 4 months; The Israeli army has not even taken possession of the surface of Gaza, and has even vomited out the northern city.
Street fighting is difficult to fight, and there are many tunnels in Gaza, which are the reasons for the slow advance of the Israeli army, but the military strength and attack time it has invested have been long enough, which can only be explained by "vegetables".
Some netizens have long fallen under the myth of IDF winning all battles, and they dare not face the reality.
We don't know what level of spiritual Israelis these netizens are, but at least the real Israelis and the Israeli army don't think they are "good-hearted". Large-scale demolition of civilian houses, as well as showing off bullying civilians and looting property in Gaza, quite a few of them were released by the Israeli army itself.
Even its own prisoners and civilians will be shot on the spot (for example, the commander of the 99th Israeli Division ordered tanks to shell the settlement of Beerry and the 828th Infantry Training Brigade to shoot 3 of its own prisoners, etc.), which is called "kindness"?
Even if you put these netizens in the local environment, do you think that if you shout two words of IDF invincible, the latter will be able to help you to the maintenance table and entertain you?
What do you think? Among the prisoners shot by the Israeli army itself was a reserve soldier of Yahalom, an elite unit of its combat engineering regiment, who was also called up on the day of the war, and after his death, the Israeli army did not even give him the status of "authorized death". Relying on the Internet to blow water on the IDF, do you still expect Israel to give you an honorary title?
Don't be funny. A group of "netizens" thousands of miles away, one minute ago, they chanted "the tunnel is filled with seawater, IDF is invincible", and the next minute they turned to "I can't fight on the battlefield, IDF is too kind", we really can't understand this kind of brain circuit of "colonization" and "soil" to the extreme.
Not to mention anything else, the Israeli army alone has killed tens of thousands of Gaza children in more than 100 days, can it be "kind-hearted"?
In which wars can you see examples of children dying so quickly?
Palestinian children say they don't grow up because they don't live that long. Behind these tens of thousands of children, how many families are there? In addition to child deaths, how many children have both parents died?
Some people ask how Hamas came to be, parents are killed, and children will most likely become Hamas when they grow up; If a child is killed, there is a high probability that the parents will also become Hamas.
Few of Hamas's soldiers have children from intact families, and the vast majority have family members killed by Israeli army guns, and some are even orphans.
Can you understand what it's like for light infantry to stand a few meters away from a tank **?
You can't do this without a super mental quality, because you can be blown to pieces at any moment, but in the fighting in Gaza, we have seen countless shots of this.
So if you want to ask how Hamas came to be, in fact, it is precisely Israel itself that created it, and the more evil it is in Gaza, the more Hamas it creates.
For any normal person, if his parents, wife and children are killed, he will take revenge. Only those soft bones, who can't be called people, will go to kneel down to the enemy as slaves and sing praises after their parents, wives and children are killed.
So why is Israel strong and Palestine weak, and why do the vast majority of people still support Palestine? Because normal people have the most simple emotions and values.
As for the few remaining "people", we have already evaluated them.
Finally, returning to the fighting in Gaza, it is impossible to expect a complete defeat of Israel in this war in exchange for the national liberation of Palestine. It is a fact that Gaza is now bleeding too much and is badly damaged by indiscriminate bombing.
But the blood of this generation has completely ripped off the skin of Israel, exposed the combat power and brutality of the IDF, and at the same time showed the most tenacious resistance of the Arabs since the Middle East war, and achieved the most intuitive results.
Again, the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is not October 7, 2023, and it is not the end.
To paraphrase an old man: Freedom is the price of one generation, and the price of slavery is for generations. It is to be hoped that the Palestinians will be reborn from the ashes and that they will finally achieve true national and national liberation.