Gaza ceasefire deal reached between Israel, Hamas; truce to begin Sunday
Gaza ceasefire deal reached between Israel, Hamas; truce to begin Sunday
Good news, but disappointing it won't start sooner. Some Israeli soldiers are going to go crazy trying to get as much civilian killing and brutality in as they can before Sunday.
Well, so apparently the first possibility I noted is not the case, and the early reports weren't just yet again blowing smoke.
So we're down to two alternatives - it's a legitimate deal that cedes at least some significant Palestinian autonomy, in which case Netanyahu will, as he already has in the past, sabotage it, or it's just a long term con job that will leave enough of an Israeli presence that they can shift to West Bank style incremental conquest.
Palestinians in Gaza rejoice in streets In Tel Aviv, hostage families express joy Israeli PM says some items unresolved
And he's already prepping his get-out clause, whatever "issues" he decides are "unresolved".
It’s the second one.
Israel is already doing incremental conquest in the West Bank.
In the end it all hangs on how much Trump will allow Israel to get away with. It appears far less than Biden.
It's not so much what Trump will let them get away with, but what Putin will let Trump let them get away with.
Just left to his own devices, Trump, strongman sycophant that he is, would let Netanyahu get away with anything. But there isn't enough Israeli support for continuing to just grind away at murdering Gazans, which is why Netanyahu tried to expand it out to a regional war. And the problem with that is that any regional war is going to draw Iran in, and Iran is allied with Russia, so Putin isn't going to stand for that. And Trump is Putin's lapdog.