Financial Times: Israel’s leaders have no idea how the Gaza war will end
The Financial Times quoted an Israeli source regarding the post-war on the Gaza Strip saying that it has become almost impossible to defend Israel even by its friends, in light of the field and political developments associated with the ongoing aggression on the Strip.
“There is no idea of Israel’s leaders how the war will end and no vision of what victory will actually look like,” the Israeli source added.
In addition to Israel’s heavy losses during its recent operations in Gaza, the al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was able to fire rockets into southern Israel, he said.
Regarding the supposed Israeli invasion of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, the Financial Times confirmed – citing two informed sources – that the demands of the United States for a credible plan to evacuate civilians from the city haven’t been met.
On the other hand, Israeli Maariv newspaper quoted an Israeli official as saying that the US administration has come to the conclusion that Hamas won’t disappear from Gaza after the end of the war, stressing that it will remain in one form or another in the besieged enclave.
The Israeli newspaper added – quoting the same source – that Washington’s main goal is to weaken Hamas so that it’s not able to launch a military attack similar to the one launched on the seventh of last October.
Kurt Campbell, the US deputy secretary of state, revealed last week that President Joe Biden’s administration doesn’t see Israel achieving a complete victory over Hamas in Gaza.
Speaking at a NATO youth summit in Miami, the US deputy secretary of state said, “When we listen closely to Israeli leaders, they mostly talk about the idea of a landslide victory on the battlefield… I don’t think we see that as possible or possible”.
Campbell’s comments came as the US administration warned Israel not to go ahead with a major military offensive on Rafah, where more than a million people displaced from the northern Gaza Strip by Israeli attacks are sheltering.
It’s noteworthy that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to achieve a complete victory over Hamas in Gaza, where the Israeli army continues for the eighth month in a row a devastating war that left tens of thousands dead and wounded, most of them women and children, famine and an unprecedented humanitarian and health crisis, according to UN and international reports.
