Another 7 Israeli soldiers are killed in Gaza – for what? As long as there are Israeli soldiers on the ground in Gaza, Hamas has targets to kill. Hamas is broken, they have no remaining army, their ability to resupply weapons including weapons does not exist. Hamas can no longer effectively govern Gaza – the people of Gaza don’t want Hamas there any more. But as long as there are Israeli soldiers on the ground, the remaining armed Hamas fighters can kill them, and they will continue to try to kill as many as possible. Israel continues to kill up to 100 Palestinians in Gaza on most days – most of them are non-combatants -non-Hamas – most are innocent civilians struggling to survive. Gazans have a daily struggle to survive – the bring the next bottle of war, the next meal to their families. Israel’s war in Gaza has been for a long time the war to save Netanyahu’s political life and his coalition. Netanyahu gained some life-line from the war in Iran. I predict that it will not hold – his failures and those of his government will come to the surface once again very quickly.
This war must end now. Yesterday we saw the total dependence of Israel on the US with President Trump demanding that Netanyahu order the war planes to make a u-turn and return before bombing Iran once again. Trump ordered Netanyahu to end the war and Netanyahu immediately complied. Trump can force Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza as well. Hamas is ready for a deal that will release all 50 Israeli hostages on the condition that it ends the war. Hamas will give up governance in Gaza – it wrote that to me in Arabic and English back in September 2024. Whoever will govern Gaza from the Palestinian side will have to disarm Hamas, because there will not be one dollar of money from anyone to begin to rebuild Gaza if Hamas continues to be a military threat. Some of the Arab countries are prepared to send troops to Gaza to assist the new Palestinian Gaza government to create law and order, on the condition that Israel withdraws, the war is officially over and Hamas is no longer in charge. That is the only viable day-after scenario. So what are we waiting for. President Trump – do what you need to do now – don’t wait even one more day. Doing it now will prevent the next death of Gazans and of Israelis.
