tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post3953393445285719545..comments2024-03-27T16:27:03.093+02:00Comments on Shiloh Musings: Duh?!? Did I Miss the Surrender?Batyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-14400035602429498182014-08-04T22:22:11.462+03:002014-08-04T22:22:11.462+03:00There were no plans beyond destroying the tunnels,...There were no plans beyond destroying the tunnels, partly because no plans are made more than a few days in advance because of the possibility of ceasefires.<br /><br />The Israeli Cabinet is divided as to what to do. They don't really want to turn over Gaza to Abbas. <br /><br />The Palestinian Authority, also, is not disposed to accept it if that would carry with it any responsibility to prevent hostile activity (see Tom Friedman's column in the New York Times today)<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/opinion/sunday/thomas-l-friedman-how-this-war-ends.html?_r=0<br /><br />They only want a national unity government, with Hamas and Islamic Jihad inside.<br /><br />Benjamin Netanyahu wants a negotiated surrender of rockets, and controls over concrete in Gaza - he doesn't want a war or to re-occupy Gaza.<br /><br />It is possible this stopped because the United states aggreed to replenish the Iron Dome anti-missiles. <br /><br />They are needed also to cunter the more numerous and more dangerous misisles in Lebanon and Syria.<br /><br />The thing that would cause the least loss in Israeli (and other) lives is just letting Hamas shoot off its missiles - except for the possibility of running out of anti-missiles. There have been far more losses of soldiers than are being killed by the rockets, which are near useless to Hamas.<br /><br />(This time the right to import concrete and other material won't be re-started - also Netanyahu will try to think of some other losses he can cause to Hamas if it doesn't agree to gte rid of its missiles. Close combat and patrolling of Gaza he doesn't want. An agreement whereby Hamas surrenders its rockets and somebidy audits the concrete is what he wants.<br />Sammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.com