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Date: March 12, 2024 at 14:54:55
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: After 5 months of fierce fighting, how close is Israel to its goals? |
URL: https://forward.com/opinion/592049/israel-war-gaza-hamas-5-months/ |
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Hamas is banking on Israel eventually having to leave
Gaza due to both international pressure and domestic
distress over an eternal war of attrition and the costs
of maintaining a full occupation, as displaced persons
in Rafah start to return to areas they evacuated.
The group’s leaders are almost certainly pleasantly
surprised by the Israeli government’s refusal to
contemplate reinstalling their rivals in the
Palestinian Authority to the “liberated” parts of Gaza.
The return of the P.A. to Gaza is a central pillar of
the postwar plan supported by the U.S., Europe and
moderate Arab states. That plan calls for new
discussions of a two-state solution to the Palestinian
conflict and would move Israel toward peace with Saudi
Arabia and additional other countries.
That Israel is walking away from this version of a
victory is a staggering strategic failure and a gift to
Hamas.
Why would Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give his
enemy such a gift? Four years after embracing a two-
state proposal put forth by President Donald Trump,
Netanyahu now rejects every mention of “two states”
because he fears it will make the far right bolt his
coalition — and he has little hope of surviving another
round of elections.
Three quarters of Israelis tell pollsters they want to
go back to the ballot box, and barely a third would
support Netanyahu and his current coalition.
Hamas will not soon agree to Israel’s demand to return
all the hostages without an end to the war. So, absent
a change of strategy, Israel seems actually not so
close to winning the war at all.
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Date: March 12, 2024 at 15:59:21
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: After 5 months of fierce fighting, how close is Israel to its... |
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good article that shows there in no clear path to winning, whatever the
hell winning is but daily the number of innocent women and children
killed by israel rises. 21,000 women and children killed is the last update i
saw
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Date: March 12, 2024 at 18:21:25
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: After 5 months of fierce fighting, how close is Israel to its... |
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The only place we disagree. I think it is Hamas who is
killing these people by their refusal to surrender and
using them as fortifications.
But the people are lost just the same. What a tragedy.
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