Why Benjamin Netanyahu Is Going Back to War

As if the losses of the Israeli people from October 7 are not dangerous enough, their fears of the hostages are not chasing enough, and the misery of Ghazan Bani, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns his country to war. It also exacerbates its sections, and incites Orthodoxy and coercion to the rule of secular law. “Netanyahu’s real goal seems to be increasingly clear,” Haritz A senior defense analyst Amos Harril wrote, “A gradual segment towards an authoritarian style system, which will try to keep it through the permanent war on multiple fronts.”

On March 18, with the approval of the Trump administration, the Israeli plane renewed the Gaza bombing. At least five senior Hamas officials were killed. They also killed, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, about four hundred people, more than two thirds of them women and children. Since then, Hamas and Houthis in Yemen have resumed missiles and fire rockets in Israel, which led to the launch of the alarm sirens in the center of the country; The Israeli land forces prompted the Netzarim corridor, once again cut Gaza to half. The missiles were also launched from Lebanon in the northern Israeli town of Metula. It is now difficult to see what will stop the escalation.

Netanyahu’s office said that the strikes were necessary because Hamas rejected the proposals – elaborate from the Trump Administration Envoy, Steve Witkeov – to extend The ceasefire agreementWhich has been present since January 19, by negotiating the issuance of more hostages. “Israel will disburse, from now on, against Hamas, with the increase in military force,” the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. from now. The hostage forum and the lost families, a group representing almost all families of the roots, had almost no. He called for the mass demonstrations and issued a statement accusing Netanyahu of “abandoning” their loved ones while engaging in “complete deception”.

On Saturday night, more than a hundred thousand people joined these demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Both the main opposition leaders, Democrats Yer Golan and Yair Lapid, of the Central Party, Yich Atid, called for civil disobedience: collectively refusal to pay taxes and a general strike. On Channel 12, the party leader in the center, the National Unity Party of Gadi Ecenkot is usually supported by their position. The three pledged to form one democratic bloc to topple the government. “We stop the economy, ports, transportation, schools, academic circles, companies and streets,” said the Golan, who was pushed to the ground by the police in a recent demonstration. “We stop the country – to save it.”

The ceasefire agreement consisted of two phases, the first of which ended at the beginning of March. Hamas (and the Islamic jihad) launched thirty -three hostages (and the bodies of eight others) in return for about two thousand Palestinian prisoners. The second stage, which should have been under negotiations now, was aimed at arranging the return of the remaining hostages, who are believed to be twenty-four people, in exchange for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza-and change the government there. In theory, Hamas will be replaced by a new Palestinian administration supported at the regional level. Once he was in place, the Saudis were expected to join the subscription to rebuild Ghazan and to normalize relations with Israel.

However, since the beginning of the war, Netanyahu hindered any effort to establish a new Palestinian ruler’s structure, because this would inevitably occupy the Palestinian Authority, and thus will be a step towards Palestinian independence in the end. Harril told me that the Netanyahu government is now not only authoritarian in style, but also “a thunderback”, which, among other things, aims to Israel “Jews and Samaria” – the occupied West Bank. An alternative to Gaza alternative is not completely hypothetical. Earlier this month, the Arab countries with Western alignment gathered in Cairo, where they detailed plans for the Palestinian “technocrats” government-who were toured in the Palestinian Liberation Organization, but were not chosen, by the Palestinian Authority, which controls parts of the West Bank, under the auspices of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Egypt and Jordan pledged to provide security support. About fifty -three billion dollars, and in large part of the Gulf states, will be converted to reconstruction. Hamas will agree to the temporary administration, although it was not clear what will be done about its armed units.

“All Palestinian parties see the Palestine Liberation Organization as the unified umbrella of the struggle against the occupation.” padico (A possible “technocrat” candidate for a new government), told me. “Hamas can be combined into the Palestine Liberation Organization, as soon as it agrees to its charter and previous agreements with Israel.” Then it will be “a political party, not a militia, but rather compete in future elections.” Its rifles will be handed over to a Palestinian police force to be created in Gaza and the leadership of PA, which in turn can recruit police officers from Hamas, decisively, to pay their salaries. The business community is mobilized in the West Bank as a whole, in a state of despair due to the escalating violence by settlers and the Israeli army in that region, in addition to the violence in Gaza. ((padico More than three hundred and fifty million dollars invested in real estate in the West Bank and Gaza. The president of the company, Bashar Masseri, was built independently RhetoricA planned city with a billion dollars, near Ramallah, designed to accommodate forty thousand people. Houthi attacks have shifted most of the shipping from the Red Sea into a road around South Africa. This, among other losses, reduced Egyptian revenues from the Suez Canal by eight hundred million dollars a month.

However, Witkoff did not provide the second stage, but rather a type of one stage: half of the remaining hostages in exchange for a truce for fifty days. At that stage – the families of the hostages may be afraid of the hostages – Netanyahu can extend to the restoration of Gaza, and perhaps the remaining hostages “abandon”. (Its popular partners and Christian coalition are already retaining Trump’s fictional plan for us to reduce – removing Ghazan from – tape.) In other words, the second stage evaporated. Netanyahu claims that Hamas rejected all the settlement – a point that Witkev, with curiousness, seemed to suspect an interview with Taker Carlson on March 21. Meanwhile, with the presence of many angry youth in Gaza, Hamas and Jihad al -Islami, it was reported that they recruited new fighters – not enough to threaten Israel but more than enough to intimidate Ghazan. With Netanyahu’s logic, the bombing should continue until Hamas simply surrenders, but, in an irrational way, the hostages first.

Netanyahu’s justification for renewable war is a deception as well, because his peak movement in a political conflict will determine whether Israel is still an open society; And the competing camps in this competition map is closely close to those who fought against his government The so -called judicial reformIn 2023. Which – which The maneuver aims to reduce the ability of the Supreme Court to set constitutional borders on the actions of the Netanyahu government. In both cases, the transparent concern of the Netanyahu coalition is the old one: to push the annexation and preserve the Dehocracy – and for the sewage, respectively, the Palestinian independence and Israeli liberalism. Haritz The editor, Alouf Ben, wrote earlier this month. The government is now “approaching this task again”, but this time “it faces a lower protest and a weaker opposition.”