Israel IS now ‘at war’ with two enemies …….
Iran and Hamas….
It’s punching at Iran right now….
And Netanyahu HAS talked the American President into helping him at it…..
As Putin KNOWS?
Donald Trump IS lost in foreign affairs…..
Trump’s effort to try settle things in Gaza so he can do a recreational vacation venue there and maybe get a Nobel Peace Prize in the process has been put on hold and actually degraded…
By who/what?
Isreal’s Hard Right WingNuts….
The Iran war shut down things in Gaza….Trump’s ‘Board of Peace‘ included….
That shut down has ALSO helped Hamas continue and grow in control OVER Gaza’s Palestinians….
The question of Hamas has been a nagging one….
It has NOT been dealt with…
The Israeli Right WingNuts have and continue to deal with things with bombings…
THAT has NOT worked in Viet Nam, Korea, Ukraine, Iran and now Gaza….
Gaza’s 2 million citizens are accustomed to waiting for a world that has other things on its mind. But the attacks on Iran have led to a particularly cruel reprise of that script, closing the doors for now on perhaps the closest thing to progress Gaza had experienced in years.
To feed the people, Israel said it has reopened one crossing with new security requirements for about 200 trucks a day. Officials would not say when the flow might rebound to prewar levels or when they would reopen the crossing into Egypt.
“The whole world is now preoccupied with the war on Iran, but the pressures on Gaza remain in place,” Mustafa Ibrahim, a human rights activist and political commentator in Gaza, said in a phone interview. “The Israeli army controls half of the Gaza Strip, the crossings are closed. No one is talking about it. Everyone is busy with themselves.”
How long it stays that way may depend on how the battle with Iran plays out. A prolonged war risks becoming a prolonged distraction, leaving Gaza’s reconstruction promises in limbo while emboldening Israeli hard-liners who have never accepted the ceasefire as the final word on Hamas.
“You see what is happening in Iran,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a television interview Friday, pledging to go after Hamas again militarily unless the group puts down its arms. “We will not abandon [Gaza], that is where it all began,” Katz said. “There will be no Hamas there to pose a threat.”
Meanwhile, as Israel focuses on Iran, Hamas is not so quietly continuing to rebuild its police, courts and civil administration in the roughly half of Gaza where it is restoring its reach into everyday life. The group is collecting taxes, has officers directing traffic at some intersections and announced new vehicle license plate requirements over the weekend.
“Hamas is present now in a clear and prominent way,” Ibrahim said. “It’s imposing control over people. It’s a de facto authority existing on the ground.”….
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The military campaign to topple the Iranian government has also raised new questions about the Board of Peace.
Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation and an early contributor of troops to a proposed Gaza stabilization force — warned last week that it could quit the initiative amid domestic criticism. Gulf Arab states that have bankrolled the board also might pull back funding, squeezed by the economic fallout of Iran’s retaliatory strikes….
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What comes next for Gaza will likely depend on what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does after the military operation against Iran that he began with Trump, the broker of the Gaza ceasefire.
Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition partners have never made peace with Trump’s Gaza plan, which foresees a shrinking Israeli military presence, the deployment of an international security force and a highly conditional pathway to Palestinian statehood.
If Israel emerges having crippled the Islamic republic, some hard-liners will argue the moment has arrived to go back into Gaza and destroy what remains of Hamas down to the last Kalashnikov — no matter what the ceasefire deal says….
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Abeer Salah, 28, was on the verge of leaving Gaza to resume her studies in Spain on a scholarship. Something like normal life seemed to be coming soon. Instead, war returned.
“The Iranian war came to rob me of my dream,” she said. “Our lives are held hostage.”….
image….Displaced Palestinians gather for their iftar meal amid the rubble of destroyed buildings at the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip….Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty
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