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Sorry if I was unclear, I was hoping for clarity about your argument and its relevance to urban warfare situations across different conflicts, not more detail a

• lazide 1y ago
  When two ideologically incompatible parties (as in what is good/bad, high ground or not) are fighting, it gets complicated and ruthless/very destructive. In large part because it’s about incompatible identities and trying to purge ‘the other’, rather than ‘mere’ control of a specific piece of land. It takes a potentially resolvable conflict (an area where there may be a stable compromise), and can turn it into an existential fight. This becomes especially destructive in very dense environments like urban centers, because the level of hiding that can happen becomes almost fractal. The fight in Gaza is one recent example, as are the others. I’m not surprised that Gaza has escalated to the point it has (total war, essentially), because Hamas can’t actually give up without losing their entire identity and reason for being, for example. And the factions in Israel can’t back down without winning or ‘it would have all been for nothing’. Or are you referring to tactics, because there are actual religions reasons/justifications for the nature of some specific tactics being used in Gaza.