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| Uuseful idiot Ehud Barak |
According to a Monday night report by the Wall Street Journal, while Qatari and Egyptian mediators were endeavoring to expedite ceasefire negotiations, Yahya Sinwar was ordering his subordinates in Hamas’s political leadership outside Gaza to reject any concessions. Sinwar spelled it out in a message, promising that significant civilian casualties would generate global pressure on Israel.
This was the time thousands of anti-government protesters crowded the streets two or three times a week, demanding Netanyahu cobble a hostage deal “now.” Right-wing pundits insisted there was no deal to cobble, that it was all a fiction produced by Hamas and the Israeli mainstream media – the latter grabbing at any opportunity to unseat the democratically-elected PM.
In March, Sinwar communicated with Hamas officials, ordering them once again to reject any hostage agreement. He asserted that Hamas held a favorable position in the negotiations, and referenced the internal political discord in Israel, fractures within Netanyahu’s wartime coalition (Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot resigned three months later), and increasing pressure from the United States to mitigate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
“We have to move forward on the same path we started,” Sinwar wrote his underlings abroad.
