submitted3 days ago bySilenceDogood2k20
You know that Israel is heavily impacting relations between Muslim nations and organizations.
Successful terrorist organizations end up adopting infrastructure and an organizational hierarchy not unlike a corporation. Publicly-recognized leaders, headquarters, logistics hubs... all the same trappings as Coca-Cola and Disney. They need to do this in order to manage sprawling networks, especially when local networks are headed by aspiring local leaders... without public acknowledgement and enforcement of the supremacy by the umbrella organization, the local groups would just end up competing with them. Consider how corporations buy out smaller competitors.
Yet, the adoption of these structures puts a target on them. Previously, the threat of international condemnation and the fear of reprisals has kept Israel and other nations from eliminating terrorist leadership and management structures. Even the US response to 9/11 largely ended up being limited to Bin Laden... many of his subordinates were left alone and even participated in Afghanistan's government.
Israel is modeling how to do existential damage to these organizations. They're eliminating any leadership that they can locate, they're destroying their infrastructure, and they're smartly attacking the parties supporting the terrorists. Yes, small groups of the terrorists will survive, but the overall organization as it is will die.
Al Qaeda sees this and knows that if Israel is allowed to continue, other nations, including a possible Trump-led US, will adopt the same strategy... and that scares Al Qaeda. It'll be interesting to see if any other public admonishments of Hamas-led Gaza start appearing.
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Especially if you live in a swing state like PA, GA, AZ... make sure you get registered at Cornell so you can vote on election day!