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Feb 11, 2025
What does Smotritch want?
PM Netanyahu just announced a threat to Hamas. he sort of backs the Trump announcement from last night but not explicitly and not fully, a bit ambiguously. he announced if the hostages are not released by Saturday, Israel goes back to war as ceasefire will be over.
Does Netanyahu mean the 3 scheduled for release? Does he mean the hostages scheduled for the first stage of the deal? Does Netanyahu mean all the hostages?
More than Netanyahu's ambiguity, which may be a good thing for the threat, Minister Smotritch is a bit perplexing.
More than Netanyahu's ambiguity, which may be a good thing for the threat, Minister Smotritch is a bit perplexing.
I dont get Smotritch. He is out there demanding Netanyahu announce full support for Trumps plan and say explicitly if all hostages arent released by Saturday, no more rounds of releases, all at once, all hell breaks loose. We will conquer Gaza. We will shut off their water, shut electricity, gas, fuel, no more humanitarian aid, etc.
I dont get him.
All that sounds like a great threat and a great plan. But, if Hamas takes the threat seriously and releases all the hostages, Israel has to officially end the war, and then Smotritch promised to leave the government because we have to go back to the war. so what does he want? Does he want all the hostages out right away and the end of the war or does he want to go back to fighting a war to destroy Hamas?
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We'll never know for sure but back in 2000, many people figured that Ehud Barak was so generous with Arafat, y"sh, because he knew Arafat would reject the deal and it would relieve all the pressure on Israel. He took a gamble and it worked.
ReplyDeleteI think Smotrich is doing the same thing here. Hamas can't release all the hostages. It doesn't have all the hostages and when it turns out the Bibas kids are dead, there will be tremendous outrage so they're trying to drag things out. He's gambling that on Saturday Hamas will release 1-2 of the hostages because of American pressure and hope that the world will say "Well you can't attack them now Israel!"