Gaza End Game (also see Israel – Day After War and Peaceful Solutions)
Updated 2024-07-16
2024-06-23 Why Israel Has No ‘Next Day’ Plan for Gaza The lack of such a “vision” does not entirely rest on Netanyahu’s own failure to produce one, but due to his inability to determine, with any degree of certainly, if the war would yield favorable results for Israel.
Some of these criticisms emanate from Israel’s traditional Western allies, who are wary of Netanyahu’s personal and political agendas, which are fixated on delaying his corruption trials and ensuring that his extremist allies remain committed to the current government coalition.
The criticism however is loudest in Israel itself. “As long as Hamas retains control over civilian life in Gaza, it may rebuild and strengthen (itself), thus requiring the IDF to return and fight in areas where it has already operated,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in May, demanding a “day-after” plan.
For a post-war plan that fits Israeli interests to be produced, Gaza would have to be militarily subdued, a goal that seems more distant than ever. At the start of the war, and many times since then, Netanyahu argued that Israel would have “overall security responsibility” for the Gaza Strip “for an indefinite period.”
That too is unlikely, as Israel tried to establish such security control between 1967 and 2005—when it was forced, due to the popular resistance during the Second Uprising, to redeploy its forces out of the Gaza Strip, imposing a hermetic siege that has been in effect since then. Recent events proved that even the Israeli blockade itself is unsustainable, as those who were entrusted with keeping Gazans locked in failed miserably at their main task. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-no-plan-gaza
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