Israel Plunges Into Darkness

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1. Gershom Gorenberg: “After 19 months of war in Gaza, the Israeli government has decided to march deeper into the quagmire.

   “Israel has announced its intention to take and retain a significant part of the Gaza Strip. Call-up orders are going out to tens of thousands of already exhausted reservists. The battered, hungry population of Gaza is to be forced into an even smaller part of the narrow enclave. The lives of the remaining Israeli hostages are in greater danger than ever.

   “The plan came with a caveat: The escalation will reportedly not start until the end of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tour of the region next week, allowing for the possibility of a new hostage deal. But reports of an impending deal have become such a constant background murmur that few observers count on a diplomatic breakthrough to head off the new operation.

   “‘We will achieve full, absolute victory in Gaza,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Hebrew in a social-media clip just before the decision Sunday night by the security cabinet—the committee of senior ministers responsible for military affairs. ‘We are in the stages of victory,’ Netanyahu added. Or, to paraphrase in American English: We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

   “For this Israeli, as for many others, the escalation is a promise to plunge deeper into darkness, militarily and morally.”

   Read more here: [https://theatln.tc/96pYFZdQ](https://theatln.tc/96pYFZdQ) 

2. Strategically stupid both diplomatically and militarily and economically, goes against even Israeli public opinion and Trump is doing seemingly nothing unless some reports are to be believed nothing to stop it.

   All because Netanyahu knows as soon he gets thrown out of office, he is going to an Israeli jail cell.

3. – “What is hyperbole mixed with wishful thinking?”

   – “This virtue signaling opinion piece on theatlantic.com”

4. Remember the “Gaza isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s a tiny strip of land” talk when this all went down? Who could have foreseen the terrorist group ingrained with civilians in a relatively urban environment would be impossible to destroy? If only we had examples of this.

5. I’m not sure that saying Israel is the one which “plunges into darkness” is right in this case.
   I really think that the Palestinians are making themselves plunge into darker and darker place each and every day, and to be honest, it’s happening to them because of ridiculous reasons of refusing to release 50-60 individuals (mostly corposes), and refusing surrender (they already lost, so surrending is just declaring it in public).
   As hard as this war might be for Israel in many aspects, it will certainly not make them to collapse and in my opinion, when this war will be over, Israel will come out of it in a much better situation geopolitically and economically.

   As much as I hate netanyahu, expecting him to cave in to hamas’s demands and let Hamas regroup and rearm themselves in the day after is just suicidal.

6. So far, about 80% of the hostages are back, and rocket fire from Gaza has dropped by over 99%. A lot of militants and their infrastructure have been taken out. Sinwar, Deif, and Haniyeh are all dead.

   Israel now holds key areas like the Netzarim Corridor, Morag Corridor, and a new buffer zone. It also controls the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphi Corridor, which means the Egypt-Gaza border is sealed and weapons smuggling is basically cut off. Gaza and the West Bank are more separated than ever, both politically and physically.

   UNRWA is on the ropes, and despite Hamas calling their war the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” Israel still fully controls Jerusalem. And even with everything going on, the Israeli economy is still growing.

   Also the response rate of the Israeli reservists so far has been 102%.

   So no, I’m not buying the 101st article claiming Israel is about to collapse any minute now.

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