of colonialism. So military force alone does not work. You need the political dimension and right now there is no political dimension. If you want to fight an ideology like Hamas, the argument is you need to present a better ideology, some better options and that is not coming at the moment at all.”

they believe in sacrifice, why give them more martyrs? Because it's now an insurgency. If you look in the history, it's very hard for a regular army to defeat an insurgency. Think about Vietnam, Iraq, for the Americans and others. Algeria for the French, many examples for Britain over many years

And throughout, from the very beginning here, the Israelis have been saying more military pressure is going to do it, and it hasn't. Hamas is an acronym in Arabic for the Islamic Resistance Movement. So, as this diplomat was saying, since they believe in the resistance,