Posted on 05/19/2024 9:01:22 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Yep! Dumbass, thankless Brits turned their back on the man in 1945. They were more interested in what the Labor Party claimed they were going to give them.
The internal jockeying in Israel is backed by outsiders IMHO from Schumer to Hillary to Biden and so on.
Poor Netanyahu. He thought a unity government would be united. Leftists (Gallant and Ganz) have no real allegiance and can’t unify with anyone, even if it means total destruction of your own people.
As I have posted many times since well before 10/7, Israel’s tactics are superb but their strategic situation continues to get worse.
If they fail to defeat the Hamas element of Palestinian warfare, as now seems likely, their enemies will be further motivated to escalate.
It is very concerning that almost all involved parties continue to blather on about the ridiculous “two state solution”. One side or the other in this long war will prevail and impose their will on the other, that is how wars end.
Thanks. Good analysis. I wish Netanyahu would announce that he will take over Gaza and then will deal with the parties necessary. He can fire Gallant though. He needs to somehow make a party of UNITY. Not a small chore.
He’s not going to take over Gaza. The Israelis don’t want it. They should have forced Egypt to take it back at Camp David but that’s history now. They should have hit harder and more often over the last decade when Hamas was shooting rockets and amassing an arsenal smuggled in mainly from Egypt and by fishing boats. They may occupy it for a while but they don’t want a constant war of attrition among hostiles. If some other Arab states can fill the security gap they will take that chance. Gaza will need a civilian police force and social order, some non zealots with public interest at heart and perhaps willing to keep Hamas in check; and assuming Gaza continues to rely on Israel for everything (electricity, telecoms, water, banking, tax collection you name it - it almost all comes through Israel - they even use the Israeli currency) they will need some civilian counterparts to deal with. If, and it’s a big if, the Gazans can see what a semi-honest government looks like with a fair justice system and somewhat efficient delivery of social services who knows they might even reform their society.
Looks like we are going to sign a bilateral defense deal with Saudi Arabia. There is a third component to that deal that seems to include normalizing a path to Palestinian statehood which would also lead to normalization with Israel. The path to create conditions for a peaceful Palestinian state could take a long time, and longer to get there given all their internal problems. But under the surface there is some opportunity - everyone is sick of this crap and they know Hamas and their ilk has to be kept under thumb. Even Hezbullah has to be dealt with at some point, ideally they disband and with Israeli normalization with more Arab states there could be ways to broker peace in Lebanon, which is a basket case ever since the PLO went in 40 odd years ago. So who knows.
We shall see. Lots of deals to work out but I think most reasonable people in the region know that their common enemy is not the Jews or Israel but the radical terrorists and Iranian proxies.
Very reasonable solution if you were dealing with honest partners. You are not dealing with reason however. Things will change with Iran, probably for the worse, but we will see.
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