Netanyahu needs the war to go on for ever to stop his own crimes ending up with him in jail – Peter
And still there is no plan for the day after. Perhaps the most egregious of all Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategic failures in prosecuting his war against Hamas in Gaza has been the absence of a plan for the day after the fighting.
This lack of a coherent plan was again on display in his latest interview with Fox News, just before his cabinet approved his call for an expanded occupation of Gaza. Israel, Netanyahu said, didn’t want to keep Gaza. It wanted to create a security perimeter and then “hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly, without threatening us, and giving the Gazans a good life”.
Exactly which Arab forces would be willing to accept a handover of Gazan security and governance from the Israeli military was never articulated. Because there is no such force, and no country that would want to administer what will be left of Gaza after Israel departs.
Israel’s international reputation has been besmirched by the continuation of a war that was forced upon it by the actions of Hamas, but which long ago surpassed what was militarily necessary to achieve its security aims. Its use of humanitarian aid, or access to it, as a tool of its military campaign says much about a government that has lost the moral high ground that it stood upon when its response to Hamas’ bloody terrorist attack began. So, too, is the lack of proportionality that is another bedrock of international humanitarian law.
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