Why a ceasefire?

In 1945 much of Europe lay in ruins. Civilians were killed, crippled, left homeless, starving literally by millions. Nobody said, let's have a humanitarian ceasefire and give the Germans time to re-arm and re-group.

The war did not end until the Nazi government had been driven from power. Because that was necessary to prevent a new round of atrocities and warfare. And it was indeed the right thing to do.

How does it make sense to provide the genocidal terrorist group Hamas with the chance to re-arm and commit more diabolical crimes like the one they did in October.

Hamas is no better than the Nazis were and should have been dealt with in the same way.

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Longpatrol · 31-35, M

They can re arm but much of their arms flowed to them via Hezbollah which has been fucked up. It'll take a good long while, since Iran too isn't in the best shape to provide the kind of support they had been given before.

You must also look through the lens of the decades of ground work Hamas had to fall back on, much of which has been erased.

This is not an easy recovery for Hamas, and they'll not have the scale to commit an October 7th atrocity for a long time, if ever again.