Quick-hit developments in the Israel-Hamas war. Depending on the source, we learn that the fighting will go on for months, or that talks are unfolding between different players regarding a ceasefire or end to the hostilities.
It’s hard to know where things stand, but it’s clear if it were up to Bibi, Israel would fight on until not one Hamas fighter is left and his own countrymen and women are dying in (relative) droves as well.
Netanyahu is a hawk, seemingly oblivious to calls to let up, to show mercy on Gazans who are literally trying to stay alive, who have next to nothing going in their favor. He is coming across as not so much a good leader as just another hothead with something to prove, or something that distracts, something to hide behind.
Apart from trying to rid the region of a terrorist organization, how can he so insistently order the continued loss of his own soldiers, not to mention getting the nation to buy into his own sense of urgency, or whatever it is that’s driving him? It might cause one to think in terms of unacceptable sacrifices.
Meanwhile, the U.S has to walk the tightrope of supporting an ally and trying to get that ally to reevaluate its strategy, to ease up on the relentless bombing and indiscriminate killing of civilians who, in Bibi’s estimation, must be guilty by association.
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