Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu may have calculated that widening the conflict frames him as someone fighting an existential war for Israel’s survival
Israeli prime minister may have calculated that widening the conflict frames him as someone fighting an existential war for the nation’s survivalBinyamin Netanyahu: the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate building in Damascus was done as a calculated step in escalation. Iran will respond in some fashion. Photograph: Leo Correa/APWhether it would be possible to accomplish both by a ground offensive is uncertain.
quietly kill them rather than add, say, 10,000 to its population of prisoners and detainees held at present? I have always suspected that mass graves rather than prison camps is the intended destination for captured Hamas fighters. The shoot-to-kill option is much neater from a long-term, flawed Israeli perspective, rather than having to identify who are the Hamas activists who must be annihilated.
If annexation does not happen, who will rebuild Gaza for its people? Does Israel hope wealthy Arab states will rebuild Gaza for the Palestinians? Could that happen without a clear policy to integrate the West Bank and Gaza under effective Palestinian control with a view to establishing a two-state solution?
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