Israel's Gaza war strategy has all been wrong from the start

Israel's stated war strategy was to destroy Hamas. Joe Biden went along with that. The UK went along with that. Many others did, too. But then it all went wrong. Instead of launching precision strikes and avoiding killing civilians, the Israel Defence Forces went hell-for-leather at hitting anything and everything where its intelligence services said Hamas fighters were hiding, never mind whether it was on the sixh floor of an apartment block or Ward C of a hospital or the basement of a mosque. They pounded it with air-launched bombs and artillery until nothing was standing and no one emerged alive. From that moment, Biden started to get worried. Which is why the US president has been warning Israel against doing the same to the town of Rafah in the south and why he has held back sending more American bombs and missiles to Tel Aviv because of his concerns about what they will do to Rafah and the more than a million Palestinians living there. Israel will argue and does argue that they had to bash everything because Hamas was everywhere, hiding within the civilian population. But in the process Israel lost Biden's support and created a worldwide pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel movement. Now Israel is trying to apply more precise strikes in Rafah to seek out the Hamas combat brigades. But Hamas is clever. Its leaders have survived by remaining underground, thwarting Israel's attempts to discover them and kill them. So, in frustration, the military action now being taken in Rafah is bound to kill civilians and destroy homes, just like the terrible scenes in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Losing Biden's undying support was Binyamin Netanyahu's gravest error.