Israel renewed its attacks on Gaza. Experts say this is because Netanyahu has its own goals

If the death of the resumption of Israeli air strikes this week has left any doubt that Israel has returned to the war in Gaza – including more than 130 Palestinian children killed in one day, According to UNICEF – Then the new evacuation orders for Gazans and the return of the Israeli ground forces to the tape must be sufficient evidence.

If anyone should be surprised by another issue.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has constantly said that he will not end the war until there is a final end of Hamas, although regional analysts say this is impossible.

Israeli critics have long insisted that Netanyahu see the prolongation of the war as the best opportunity to survive. An ongoing corruption experience The government of its coalition’s dependence on the shattered Jewish nationalists who want the war to continue.

“The real cause of the war is the saturation of the warning war on the far right, and the prime minister won more time in power,” Esther Solomon, Editor -in -Chief of the Israeli Israeli newspaper wrote on Thursday.

Certainly she paid A quick return to the cabinet from ITamar Ben-GVIR, A non -national settler leader resigned from his post when Netanyahu agreed to the ceasefire deal in January, which expected the deteriorating release of Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of the Palestinians from Israeli prisons.

“This is the correct, moral and more justified step, in order to destroy the terrorist organization Hamas and restore our hostages,” Bin Ghaffir said earlier this week after the Cabinet in Netanyahu re -appointed him as the National Security Minister in Israel.

But many Israelis, including supporters and family members in the hostages, do not agree, and they appear against Netanyahu’s decision to resume the war, saying that it endangers the hostage of the hostages. It is pressure that the Israeli Prime Minister resisted over the past year.

“What will happen is that the hostages will be killed and that the government of Israel sacrifices the hostages in favor of the political survival of Netanyahu,” said Girchon Baskin, a well -known Israeli political activist who supports a solution in the Israeli/spine.

“If we want to return the hostages home – which must be the primary goal of any Israeli government, which does not require us to end the war and withdraw from Gaza.”

The ceasefire stages

The war arose after October 7, 2023, an attack led by Hamas on Israeli border societies, which killed about 1,200 people and took about 250 others captive, according to the Israeli.

Israel responded with a military campaign in which more than 49,000 Palestinians were killed, according to Gaza’s health officials. Thousands of them are still buried and do not carry it under the rubble.

The ceasefire is now – any He entered into force on January 19 And it lasted for 42 days – The release of 25 hostages was released by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the bodies of eight others, compared to about 1,800 Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

Ghazan’s pause also presented a shock in the possibility of sleeping without fear, an opportunity to find their dead and bury them, and the possibility of reaching more humanitarian aid to the stricken lands.

The second phase was framing about the release of all the remaining living hostages (it is believed that there is 24) and negotiating a permanent ceasefire. A third had witnessed the return of the bodies of all the hostages and the talks held in rebuilding Gaza.

Israel’s request to extend the first stage and its refusal to start the second conditions of the conditions of the deal, but it was given strong support from US President Donald Trump and his private envoy, Steve Witkev.

In a television speech on Tuesday, Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the collapse and said that there are other negotiations to be held “under fire” until all the goals of the Israel war were achieved, including the return of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas.

Hussein Ibish, chief residing at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, believes that Netanyahu knows very well that it will be impossible to eliminate Hamas.

“Hamas will fight and die and this is what they are doing. They will recruit more fighters. They will lose more fighters,” he said in an interview with CBC News.

But he agrees with those who say that Netanyahu wants to prolong the war – and takes it a step forward by noting that it is not in the interest of Netanyahu, seeing Hamas completely eliminated.

“Withdraw indefinitely”

“I think (Netanyahu and his government) wants to leave Hamas in the semi -powers. They want, as you know, to make war indefinitely.”

If Hamas is disappearing from the scene of the accident, it is possible that you will give a stronger hand for the Ifta Ida’a in Hamas, responsible for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the occupied West Bank.

“They consider Fatih more dangerous than Hamas because (the goal of the Netanyahu government) is to include the West Bank,” he said.

The right-wing Israeli ministers, such as Ben Ghafir and Finance Minister Bizalil Sottic, did not hide their belief that the West Bank-which they refer to the name of Judea and Samra-their right through the right of the Torah.

Thus, the weaker the Palestinian Authority, the better for Israel, says Ibish.

This is not the first time that Netanyahu has been accused of using Hamas to undermine the Palestinian Authority and prevent the possibility of a Palestinian state. It has been widely reported that Netanyahu was for years allowing cash flows to Gaza Help strengthen Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian AuthorityDespite the Israeli siege decades from Gaza.

Trump effect

Gershon Baskin – who gives credit for Trump and Witkoff to obtain Israel and Hamas to the first stage of the ceasefire deal – says Washington’s support for Israel’s efforts to change terms will make it very difficult to achieve another break.

“What (Trump) did is to give the green light to Netanyahu and his government to renew the war in Gaza, and this is really terrible,” he said.

Israel re -imposed a ban on humanitarian aid from entering Gaza two weeks before the resumption of its military operations in Gaza.

Ibish says that Trump’s participation in the region – including his meditations that he widely condemned to remove millions of Palestinians to make room for Ghazan Rivera – was never about ending the war in Gaza.

“I think he got larger fish to fry in the Middle East, especially a potential nuclear deal with Iran. If it is hitting one, the Israeli right and their conservative evangelical American friends and right -wing Jewish groups in the United States will be angry.”

American support is proposed for any possible Israeli inclusion in the occupied West Bank to soften this strike.

The Israeli settlements created on the occupied territories in the 1967 war are illegal under international law and many see it as one of the largest obstacles that prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

During Trump’s first presidency, his administration announced that the settlements “no longer conflict with international law.” One of the first actions in the second was the retreat of sanctions against the violent Israeli settlers imposed by his predecessor Joe Biden.

Paskin says that the Iranian nuclear issue is a transformation far from what he calls the central issue of Israel’s existential existence.

“The Palestinian issue should be the focus of our focus, but Netanyahu was able to transform the attention of the Israeli public on the issue of the Palestinians and their rights to the Iranian question two decades ago.”