New Flash! Former COS Gadi Eisenkot was just featured on the 18:00 news bulletin of Kan Radio for this posting on his Facebook page (original in Hebrew). He writes:
-Netanyahu - stop the total blurring.
-On 27/5/24 you brought to the war cabinet an agreement that was approve unanimously and in it were four principles: exchange of hostages for prisoners, permanent ceasefire, withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and rehabilitation of the Strip in exchange for demilitarization.
-Since then, a series of excuses led to the blurring of deals that cost the blood of hostages and fighters.
-Two chiefs of staff informed you in a long series of cabinet meetings that the conditions for returning the hostages had been met.
-Political and personal considerations prevented the deal; the Hamas organization, which defines as its vision the destruction of Israel, will be defeated in every way.
-A government that is afraid to make a necessary decision is not worthy tlead this people.
And in an article, published earlier Saturday, The New York Times Magazine claimed that Netanyahu intentionally prolonged the Gaza conflict to maintain political power.
Oops!
Here's the catch:
"in exchange for demilitarization"
A flying pig condition.
Hamas has never agreed to lay down their arms.
Demilitarization of the Gaza Strip by agreement was a dead letter from day one.
And yet the Israeli public is continually bombarded with this total falsehood claiming that political considerations are keeping 20 live and 30 dead hostages stuck in the Gaza Strip.
It is anything but a political consideration that Hamas can't remain an armed force in the Gaza Strip.
Yesterday Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with some of the hostage families in Washington and had both the guts and the decency to tell them the truth: that if Hamas won't agree to a demilitarized Gaza Strip then we will use our full military power to demilitarize the Gaza Strip ourselves.
To read the complex situation like it is, go to this Spectator article by Alan Kessel, not the NY Times or Israel's mainstream media.
Dr. Aaron Lerner is head of IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis, since 1992 providing news and analysis on the Middle East with a focus on Arab-Israeli relations.
The Israeli Left is condemned by their hatred of Bibi. I recently had a conversation with one of them. It began with the usual: Bibi is the one holding up the deal. We could have all the hostages back tomorrow if he would just sign on.
ReplyDeleteTo what, Hamas' demands? To allow them to have victory?
Yes, because Israel isn't winning anyway. They have accomplished nothing in Gaza other than blowing up buildings and causing massive suffering. The government has no plan. The Tzahal has no plan. It's all a waste of time made to look like something is being accomplished but it isn't. Every soldier died for nothing. That's on Bibi too!
That's how the Left has managed to hold on to their Bibi hatred. They don't care if they reframe the deaths of all our brave boys as a waste of time, if they label all the tremendous successes as "a waste of time that accomplished nothing." And even though it's Hamas that shows up at the table making unacceptable demands and promises no one believes they'll keep, it's Bibi who's responsible for the hostages not coming home.
Pathetic.