As the Road Map gets ripped into piece after piece on a daily basis, something caught my eye in the Reuters article linked to below. Here is the excerpt:
“Palestinian officials and experts say the militant group Hamas, threatened by the air strikes, is considering declaring a new truce to ensure its political survival.”
Israel obviously knows a whole lot about where each of the Hamas leaders spends his day, eats his lunch and goes for a little afternoon drive. The intelligence is very good and delivered in real time. Never mind the arguments about whether these targeted killings are in conformity with international law. I ask a question:
Does it appear as if the targeted killings of Hamas leaders is working (from Israel’s perspective)?
Israel is bringing Hamas to their knees. By allowing Hamas to control the ceasefire allows them to control the peace process, which obviously makes it doomed to fail.
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Israel is bringing Hamas to their knees. By allowing Hamas to control the ceasefire allows them to control the peace process, which obviously makes it doomed to fail.
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Interesting comment about allowing Hamas to control the ceasefire. This is from the same Reuters article:
*"A senior Israeli military source ruled out a new truce but said Israel would consider halting the military strikes if Hamas declared it was "giving up totally the tool of violence...and its infrastructure." *
Every living person with half a brain and minimal knowledge of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict knows that Hamas can't give up totally "the tool of violence." If it renounced violence, it would no longer be Hamas. Hamas' reason for existence is the central belief that there can be no political settlement that involves the continued existence of an Israel.
It sounds as if Israel is putting preconditions for a truce that Hamas cannot live with. Thus, maybe they are taking control over a ceasefire and truce away from Hamas.