An razing of a Urban place that holds 3 Million people or, its occupation is NOT something Israel can realistically do….
Despite all the bellicose statements?
One finds NO realistic option for Israel to get its hostages back and some sort of temporary peace without a end of its military operation and a brokered settlement of the situation….
The long term solution to preclude anything like this from happening is BETTER intelligence and a better economic comeback for the Palestinians..
And….
Prime Minsiter Netanyahu DOES have political issue’s arrising from this…..
There is NO DOUBT that other Middle East countries and Yes, America , will have to rebuild Gaza……
And Iran WILl continue to be the agitator all over the Middle East….
Other countries in the region HAVE to get along with Israel and do NOT want a Palestinian state set up with their borders….
Iran money on hold….
The United States and Qatar have agreed to deny Iran access to $6 billion recently transferred to the nation as part of a deal between Washington and Tehran that led to the release of five imprisoned Americans from Iran last month.
Wally Adeyemo, the deputy Treasury secretary, told House Democrats on Thursday that Iran would no longer have access to the funds, according to a person familiar with the matter. The money was under close supervision and strict conditions that it be used only for humanitarian purposes.
U.S. officials did not describe the money as frozen permanently but said that case-by-case applications to spend it under the current arrangement will be denied for the foreseeable future.
The move comes after harsh criticism, mainly from Republicans, that the Biden administration had given Iran a vast sum that freed up other funds for Tehran to provide support to Hamas before it attacked Israel over the weekend…..
End Goal for Israel?
U.S. secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, he compared Hamas to the Islamic State and said: “Hamas is ISIS, and just as ISIS was crushed, so too will Hamas be crushed.”
There is no disagreement in the new unity government, which must approve the military’s plans, on the need to dismantle Hamas — to ensure that it can never threaten Israel again and that those responsible for the killing of more than 1,200 Israeli civilians are hunted down, officials say.
That a major operation is coming is hardly in doubt. Already, near the border, there are massive, overt Israeli troop and tank deployments, and the country has called up 360,000 reservists.
But there are tactical arguments over how any operation should start, whether it will begin massively or with raiding parties, and how best to coordinate Israel’s overwhelming strength in land, sea and especially air power, said Yaakov Amidror, a retired major general who served as national security adviser to Mr. Netanyahu in an earlier government and has spoken to government officials.
Any invasion of Gaza, a small, densely populated territory of 2 million people, would be daunting. Hamas, the Islamist organization that has ruled the enclave for 17 years, knows the terrain exceedingly well, operates in a complex network of smugglers’ tunnels, has hidden weapons in centers of civilian life and has previously employed noncombatants as human shields.
Since turning Gaza over to the Palestinians, the Israelis have shown little appetite for a ground invasion. Before a more limited conflict nearly a decade ago, the military’s internal forecasts of major casualties were leaked to the news media — and the suspicion has long been that Mr. Netanyahu did it, to bring some realism to public debate over the cost of a Gaza reoccupation….