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The ceasefire on Gaza- whether it lasts four days, 11, or much longer - is a disaster for Israel on every level.
Symbolically: By agreeing to a hostages-for-prisoners swap, Israel has implicitly agreed the Palestinian criminals in its prisons are no different than the civilians that hamas’s terrorists grabbed from their beds and homes.
Militarily/Tactically: The pause gives hamas’s fighters a chance to rest after weeks of bombardment, rebuild their defenses, and rearm. Worse, Israel has lost the chance to force the action. hamas decides whether to keep the ceasefire in place by releasing more hostages; Israel has no choice in the matter.
Militarily/Strategically: By agreeing to a ceasefire so soon, Israel enables its critics to question if the invasion was necessary at all - especially because it has failed to capture any senior hamas commanders and killed only one. Even the most fervent Israeli partisan cannot justify killing thousands of civilians to take out the equivalent of one mid-level general.
Morally: Most importantly, Israel has squandered what is left of the world’s sympathy for it. It should have told Hamas that the taking of hostages was a war crime and it would never agree to a ceasefire as long as hamas held them. It should have drawn that line and stuck to it. It should have repeated over and over: As long as hamas holds hostages, Israel views all of Gaza as a legitimate military target.
Once the ceasefire ends (again, on hamas’s timetable), Israel will be stuck in the worst of all possible places. In reality, though, Israel will face an impossible choice: to push deeper into Gaza - and face even more civilian casualties and worldwide outrage - or to pull back, without coming close to achieving its goal of destroying Hamas.
The deal is so terrible that it raises the question how the Israeli government could possibly agreed to it. One possibility is that the biden regime - despite its public support for Israel - essentially forced it to do so. Another, more hopeful, is that Israel has reached secret side deals with major Arab countries that will help it eliminate hamas’s leadership - and quickly, in months, not years.
But the 3rd is that as pressure from inside Israel to release the hostages grew, Netanyahu buckled, instead of telling his people the truth - that allowing the hostages to be taken was a failure, and he would not compound it by making a terrible deal to release them, as innocent as they are.
Worry about Israel's future. As things stand, it has shown that it cannot protect its civilians yet has also managed to turn much of the world against it through its bombardment of Gaza.
Maybe Israel and Netanyahu have a secret plan. Maybe they have a pinky promise from Qataris that hamas’s leaders will be shipped to Tel Aviv for speedy trial and even speedier execution. At this moment, things look grim.
Additional Info:
https://spectator.org/israel-lost-the-initiative/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/curing_jews_of_leftism.html
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