This is the constant missing piece, not just during the course of this war, but historically in the US management of the peace process and their policy toward Israel and Palestine,
For the war to end, the US’s main ally in the region, the state of Israel, would have to change quite significantly what it is doing, and the US has not shown at any time in the past year a willingness to use the leverage that it does actually have to force that change in behaviour,
Sinwar was not the only obstacle to a ceasefire or indeed the main obstacle to a ceasefire. That was Netanyahu and that remains Netanyahu,
Never has a country so flagrantly and so bluntly violated every single rule in the book. Never has a country done exactly what it wanted regardless of various attempts to intervene by its friends and allies,
What day after? What is a day after when you have destroyed more than 70 percent of Gaza and rendered most people homeless and five percent of the population has been killed?”
Gaza has just been demolished – its infrastructure, its villages, its towns, its buildings, its cities. It lies in ruins,
Israel is doing what it has always done: It’s bombing and it’s killing and it’s assassinating, but there’s no plan, there’s no progression, there’s no sense of anything happening except death,
Of course there is (an opportunity) and we would hope we can work together to take advantage of that opportunity."
Clearly there are opportunities for a change in direction, and we would hope that parties would take advantage of that, both in Gaza and in Lebanon,
Sinwar's death also provides an extraordinary opportunity to achieve a lasting ceasefire, to end this awful war, and to rush humanitarian aid into Gaza,
They have been through hell, and so have their families,
There is no victory whatsoever in this war against Hamas without the return of the hostages,
Now that Sinwar has evidently been killed, ... there is zero justification for doing anything other than all means possible and necessary to get the hostages home.”
Now is the time to move on, move towards a cease-fire in Gaza,
I fear that the motives of Netanyahu’s government are never entirely pure,
It leaves him in one sense in a strong position,
There’s going to be huge pressure on him to arrange a cease-fire deal now, from internally in Israel to get the hostages back and from right around the world including from Israel’s allies to bring the killing in Gaza, including of civilians, to an end,
If we have internal strife among ourselves, even physical conflict between Israelis, Israel will still survive. It will survive that and that’s the point. [But] anyone who cares about the future of Israel has to understand that without solving the Palestinian issue, Israel won’t survive,
This is a clear message to all of our enemies — the IDF will reach anyone who attempts to harm the citizens of Israel or our security forces, and we will bring you to justice,
Bibi is chained to two ministers in his coalition government who dream of rebuilding the temple of the kings of Judea … It is unbelievable. It is Messianic. And they are menacing every time there’s a chance of a deal to release the hostages, a deal with the Palestinians and the opportunity for compromise,