This would be a capitulation on Israel’s part. Israeli authorities repeatedly vowed to destroy Hamas altogether. Instead, “neither Hamas nor Israel would rule Gaza.” But with the Biden regime so intent on saving Hamas that it is abandoning Israel, it may be the best the Israelis can get.
“Opinion A Gaza cease-fire agreement appears within reach,” by David Ignatius, Washington Post, July 10, 2024:
After months of agonizing negotiation, the Biden administration appears close to a cease-fire deal that would halt major fighting in Gaza, release some Israeli hostages and surge humanitarian aid to desperate Palestinian civilians.
A senior U.S. official told me Wednesday that “the framework is agreed” and the parties are now “negotiating details of how it will be implemented.” To forge the deal, Middle East adviser Brett McGurk and CIA Director William J. Burns have been shuttling among regional capitals since November….
Israel and Hamas have both signaled their acceptance of an “interim governance” plan that would begin with Phase 2, in which neither Hamas nor Israel would rule Gaza. Security would be provided by a force trained by the United States and backed by moderate Arab allies, drawn from a core group of about 2,500 supporters of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza who have already been vetted by Israel. Hamas has told mediators that it is “prepared to relinquish authority to the interim governance arrangement,” a U.S. official said.
As security expands in postwar Gaza, the peace plan envisions a third phase, with what the U.N. resolution describes as a “multi-year reconstruction plan.”…
Derek says
WHY ON EARTH DO ALL PEOPLE CONCERNED ABOUT INNOCENT LIVES HAVE NOT EVEN CONSIDERED THE OBVIOUS WAY THE WHOLE ISSUE COULD COME TO AN ABRUPT END AND PEACE WOULD FOLLOW: HAMAS MUST SURRENDER.
Of course, this would not happen as all Gazans’ ultimate goal to annihilate Jews would not be fulfileld by the surrender of Hamas. It is so sad that the obvious is not even being considered as it does not suit the left and Islamists – and so people must die only so that the left can fuel hatred towards western democracies in general.
JS says
Security by “moderate Arab allies”? From a core of 2,500 Palestinians in Gaza that Israel has vetted? And US trained by this Islamic Biden Administration? And the US believes that it will “relinquish to the interim governance arrangement?
Well, there we have a New Nazi regime being helped by the US and the world and coming every nation in the world.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Even if Israel accepts such a deal now (ideally they shouldn’t!), they should let it lapse come October, and renew operations against Hamas, ideally making hostages the casus belli that provokes it. Right now, there’s chaos in the Democrat ranks, so Israel needn’t do anything. But in October, there is a good chance of the Dems coalescing behind whoever their nominee is, so what Netanyahu should do then, as payback for all the occasions that Clinton & Obama tried to defeat him, is drive a major wedge b/w the Intifada faction of the party and the Jewish donors & moderates in the party
If the Dems hated the supposed Russian interference, their reaction to Israeli “interference” would be priceless ?
Billy Corr says
At the end of the Second Chechen War, Putin installed the appalling Kadyrov clan as their
despotic viceroys, louts with absolute life-and-death powers
It was a crude and medieval stratagem but it seems to have worked just fine; it’s a pity the Israelis
didn’t do the same when they left Gaza.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War
Yeshayahu says
Release some Israeli hostages, the key word some. Is all I needed to see. Either all hostages dead, alive or otherwise are released or every man ,Woman ,child ,cat, dog and goat dies. There are no other options. We don’t negotiate with terrorist we kill them.
somehistory says
When a bank robber gets trapped, he holds the employees and any customers until he gets what he wants…a car full of fuel, a helicopter, etc.
The negotiators keep him talking while plans are made and carried out.
He may ‘release’ one or more of his hostages, but usually only after he is neutralized do all of the others get their freedom….because hostages are his only bargaining power.
That “power” is all hamas really has over the situation; but they get weapons and help from so many sources. Including biden and his gang.