Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, wearing a kaffiyeh, is seen in this 1982 picture in Beirut, surrounded by heavy security as he leaves the Israeli-occupied city for Tunisia.
Posted on 11/30/2023 6:19:23 AM PST by SJackson
TEL AVIV—As Israeli forces prepare for a renewed offensive targeting Hamas’s top leaders in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military and political leaders are confronting the challenge of what to do about the thousands of fighters that represent the group’s power base.
To address that challenge, some Israeli and U.S. officials are discussing the idea of expelling thousands of lower-level militants from the Palestinian enclave as a way to shorten the war. The idea is reminiscent of the U.S.-brokered deal that allowed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and thousands of fighters to flee Beirut during Israel’s 1982 siege of the Lebanese capital.
The prospect of expelling Hamas fighters is part of evolving Israeli and American talks about who will run Gaza when the war ends and what can be done to ensure that the territory can never be used to stage another attack on Israel like the one on Oct. 7, the worst in the nation’s history.
One proposal for how to govern a post-Hamas Gaza, developed by the Israeli military’s think tank and viewed by The Wall Street Journal, would start with the creation of what it calls “Hamas-free safe zones” that would be ruled by a new Gaza authority backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Separate U.S.-Israeli discussions about moving Hamas fighters and their families out of the Gaza Strip aim to provide some Hamas fighters with an exit strategy and make it easier to rebuild Gaza once the fighting ends.
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, wearing a kaffiyeh, is seen in this 1982 picture in Beirut, surrounded by heavy security as he leaves the Israeli-occupied city for Tunisia.
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No quarter, double tap.
An example of my pessimism...3rd trip for Blinken? That jerk has trouble speaking, let alone laying out a plan for how Israel should conduct itself. This is what I mean about not trusting anyone in that administration. You are no doubt correct in predicting a long and painful process. Hope it’s not made worse by politicians in DC...Sad but I trust Bibi more!
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I wonder if the Brits would let them use part of South Georgia Island?
Construct chambers under the ice cap in Antarctica.
Too funny!
Yet, Osama bin Laden was a Saudi. I wouldn't be caught dead vacationing in Riyadh, birthplace of Osama bin Laden.
Shortening the war is not winning it. If the objective is to destroy Hamas, it is necessary to kill almost all of them. Otherwise the problem is simply moved around.
Osama bin Laden was an OUTCAST Saudi.
"Or so the Germans would have us believe." But honestly, he had to be getting funding from somewhere.
sterilize down to the ground and repopulate with only Jews.
“ Israeli military and political leaders are confronting the challenge of what to do about the thousands of fighters that represent the group’s power base…”
I have an idea.
Kill every last one of them and their combined families.
That works for me.
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The only answer is for Israel to adopt the plan “From the river to the sea”? These militants are supported by a huge majority of the Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.
They need to be moved into another Muslim country...if one can be found to take them.
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