Does Israel accept the terms of Hamas?
| After the pressure of the public opinion and the opposition parties of the government, now the Israeli army has joined the group of those who believe that the Israeli prisoners cannot be freed from Gaza by war. Netanyahu has become more alone than before and may have no choice but to accept Hamas' terms. |
Fars News Agency International Group – Analytical note; Channel 12 of the Israeli regime TV reported on Saturday, January 20, that in response to the proposals made by Tel Aviv, Hamas announced its conditions for the exchange of prisoners. In its response, Hamas has not said anything about what the Israelis want to hear; This means that Hamas or its leaders are not going to leave the Gaza Strip.
According to reports, Hamas’ conditions include a complete cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of the army from the Gaza Strip with a guarantee of not returning to war, and finally giving guarantees not to target Hamas leaders. The price of this is the freedom of Israeli prisoners. Of course, Hamas has stated many times before that the release of prisoners is against the release of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, and this is another condition.
107 days have passed since the war, and Benjamin Netanyahu and the three-member war council (Netanyahu, Gantz and Gallant) still declare in front of reporters every night that his goal is to return prisoners and destroy Hamas. . But not only did it fail in both goals, it also caused the death of several captives.
In such a situation, differences have increased within the three-person war council and among Israeli parties, and these differences have gradually emerged within the army and even among the commanders of the active army brigades in Gaza. Is. At the same time that Benjamin Netanyahu insists on the continuation of the war in order to achieve a remarkable achievement, the New York Times quoted four high-ranking army officials who did not reveal their names and wrote: It is impossible to investigate two war goals at the same time. It is not possible to destroy Hamas and release the hostages…; A protracted battle aimed at destroying Hamas will most likely take hostages’ lives. The return of the hostages is possible through diplomatic means, not through military means.
On the other hand, Netanyahu’s political front, which sees its survival in power in the continuation of the war, insists on the continuation of the war. Gudavot Sa’er, the Minister of Political and Security Affairs (a member of the Security Cabinet) said in response to this news, “Of course, we will not agree to these conditions because we want to live in this area”.
Opponents of Netanyahu’s front and at the head of all of them, Yair Lapid, the head of Yesh Atid party (there is a future), announced his opposition to Netanyahu and told him, “If you want to destroy Hamas, you must first remove the kidnapped [from Gaza] take it out. I already said in the Knesset [Parliament] and I also told the Prime Minister personally that we support any deal [for the release of prisoners] no matter how painful it is. Whatever price it has, let it have it.
The problem in Israel is quite clear. Israeli prisoners are not only not freed by war and military attack, but may also be killed. This is what Kataib al-Qassam and his spokesman Abu Ubaidah have stated many times during the war. According to the New York Times news quoted from four officials in the Israeli army, it is clear that the army also understood that it cannot free the prisoners with a military attack and can only return their bodies to their families.
Lapid also understood this. Because he said on October 30, the war will continue until Israel assassinates six of the leaders and commanders of Hamas. But now, after 107 days have passed, it has been realized that the declared goals cannot be realized, and the Israeli prisoners, whose families intensified their demonstrations in Tel Aviv, want the return of their captives, and it is necessary to stop the war and give in to the demands of Hamas and the resistance groups in Gaza. . According to Lapid, the price of the return of Israeli prisoners, however painful, Israel must accept sooner or later. It is still not clear, Netanyahu can resist and keep himself in power until the last day of the war. The clear point is that sooner or later he will agree to the exchange of prisoners and stop the war, but the more important question is how much time he wants to bear the pain of it.
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