Mind-boggling that no one has exploited the political opportunity to produce such a plan.
Tel Aviv, March 3 – Political scientists and analysts voiced wonderment today that the government continually fails to adopt policies regarding the conflict with Hamas that entail completely satisfactory results without any painful losses, sacrifices, or concessions, leaving wide open the opportunity for Opposition parties to advocate for such ideal moves and put the Netanyahu government’s prospects in jeopardy.
A survey of more than eight hundred Israeli voters over the last two days indicated that one hundred percent of respondents supported any option that removed Hamas from power, deterred or prevented Palestinian violence forever, eliminated the threat from Iranian and Qatari proxies, brought home all the hostages, and normalized relations with all regional Arab states and Iran. Commentators expressed puzzlement in the wake of the survey – conducted by polling firm Geocartographia – that parties not in the Coalition have not seized on the obvious: proposing just such an approach to the regional and local security situation.
“Israelis obviously support a perfect way of bringing back the hostages and defeating the enemy with no casualties in our side,” remarked columnist Nahum Barnea. “It should be a no-brainer for someone from The Democrats, Yesh Atid, or Blue and White – even Yisrael Beiteinu – to put forward a way to accomplish just that, and that’s a surefire path to winning the next elections and deposing Bibi. It’s mind-boggling that no one, not even attention-hungry [Yesh Atid Party Chairman Yair] Lapid, has done so. Political malpractice.”
“Regardless of the current political implications,” added journalist Ilana Dayan, and regardless of who might exploit the moment for electoral gain, it’s an indictment of the successive Netanyahu governments of the last sixteen years that they have not pursued such a policy. Can you imagine having defeated Hamas and other Iran-backed terrorists once and for all back in 2009? Or back in 1997? Why didn’t Netanyahu do it then? The entire electorate supports getting everything for nothing. But the government has done just that – nothing.”
Analysts also noted that the succession vacuum within Netanyahu’s Likud Party – in large part a function of Netanyahu sidelining potential rivals – could take a dramatic turn if one of the hopefuls – names suggested included Gideon Saar, Yariv Levin, and Nir Barkat, among several others – produced or endorsed a plan to retrieve all the living hostages alive, retrieve all the bodies held in Gaza, eliminate Hamas and allied groups’ capacity to harm Israel, and, given the Trump administration’s radical new approach, perhaps transform the Gaza Strip, and maybe even Judea and Samaria, into an economic asset rather than a security threat.
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