Television is used as a tool to convey messages, even between leaders and enemies.
Yesterday, as was his custom throughout the war, the Minister of Defense released another recorded statement to the media that consisted of vague messages, mentioning achievements and sending threats to our enemies.
Defense Minister Galant to the Yehlam fighters: "Hamas is collapsing into the tunnels it dug for itself" // IDF Spokesman
It must be said - Gallant's pompous statements have exhausted themselves.
They are just old propaganda, which makes him sound like a soldier from the Napoleonic era or like an Ashkenazi trying to speak Arabic.
"15 years ago, as commander of the Southern Command, I was close to breaking Hamas's joint. Then the political echelon stopped me. This time we will change the face of reality in the Gaza Strip 50 years from now," he promised on October 7, and has not stopped promising since.
"We will wipe out the thing called Hamas. This thing will not continue to exist" (12.10);
"It will be a huge, deadly and precise war that will change the situation forever" (15.10);
"Yahia Sinwar, the vile terrorist, is hiding in a bunker. He is cut off from his surroundings. His chain of command is eroding" (7.11);
"Sinwar's time is limited. He is living on borrowed time. He will not end his life in a nursing home" (21.11).
Sinwar after the guard of the walls, in the ruins of Gaza, photo: Arab Networks
"The fate of Sinwar and the junior terrorist is the same - to surrender or die" (11.12);
"Sinvar hears IDF tractors above him, soon he will meet the barrel of our guns" (22.12); "The mushrooms of smoke from the tanks, cannons and planes will continue to cover the skies of Gaza until we achieve the goals" (21.1); "Hamas collapses into the tunnels He dug hard.
We will go and take his head off.
without wisdom" (25.1).
Yesterday Gallant met reservists and addressed them with his dry pomposity.
"Every terrorist should know," he said, "Hamas must be eliminated."
Gallant in Gaza, photo: Ariel Harmoni, Ministry of Defense
Gallant has always been like that.
Last August he knew how to confidently declare: "If an escalation or conflict develops in the north - we will return Lebanon to the Stone Age."
Nasrallah is still waiting.
In fact, as early as May 2018, while he was the Minister of Housing, he pledged: "Sinwar and his people bled in their heads."
Somewhere in a tunnel in Gaza, Yahya is sitting waiting for Gallant's next statement.
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