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Behind the Scenes/ Israel's Strategy to Retake the Gaza Strip: Military Governor and New Settlements

2025-08-05 12:21:38Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Behind the Scenes/ Israel's Strategy to Retake the Gaza Strip: Military
Benjamin Netanyahu

Lorenzo Cremonesi - Corriere della Sera

To take everything without losing the support of the only ally that ultimately matters: Donald Trump's United States.

To occupy Gaza entirely, to return to the status quo before the dismantling of 15 Jewish settlements ordered by Ariel Sharon exactly 20 years ago, even at the cost of the lives of 20 hostages held by Hamas.

Although, these hostages have always been secondary to the plan to completely destroy the jihadist organization and prevent any form of Palestinian independence.

Gift

To try to get inside Benjamin Netanyahu's head on the eve of what appears to be an imminent military operation for total control of the Gaza Strip, it is useful to go back to January 19.

Then Bibi, albeit reluctantly, announced a ceasefire with Hamas: prisoner exchanges, the entry of aid into the Strip, the apparent beginning of the end of the war.

Trump had received the image of a peacemaker as a "gift," without doing practically anything.

Broken promise

A slap in the face for Joe Biden, who as of October 7, 2023 had continued to send military aid, but demanded in return something he never received: the promise of a comprehensive peace plan that would include the revival of the 1993 Oslo peace plan, which envisaged the creation of a Palestinian state in the territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 war.

Then came everything we know: the confusing and provocative “Gaza as a tourist resort” plan announced by Trump, which among other things gave the green light to the “relocation” of Gaza residents abroad; followed by the agreement between the two leaders on war against Iran.

Netanyahu then felt reassured. So much so that in mid-March he realized that he could easily violate the ceasefire with Hamas and resume bombing, resulting in new massacres of civilians in Gaza, without Trump issuing harsh punishments.

The Iranian Blitz

Quite the opposite happened: a little more than two months later, he even managed to convince Trump to attack Iranian nuclear plants, after the US president himself had declared that he was not "involved" in Israel's military plans and had even attempted to renew the 2015 treaties (signed by Obama) on control of Tehran's nuclear project, which Bibi had again convinced him to boycott in 2018.

Recently, Washington's criticism of Israel's overly aggressive activism in Syria and against the "starvation" in Gaza seems to be a thing of the past.

Jerusalem and Washington also cooperate on the controversial food distribution, which causes daily casualties and draws harsh criticism from the UN and major international humanitarian agencies.

One factor, however, remains constant in Bibi's politics: he seeks to make even his boldest decisions in harmony with Washington.

Israeli commentators recall that during his first term as prime minister, after the 1996 elections, the current hawk was even willing to accommodate Bill Clinton and accept the Wye Plantation Accords, which provided for a Palestinian state and even a partial partition of Jerusalem.

"Youthful mistakes"

For some time, Netanyahu himself has referred to these steps as youthful mistakes from an entirely different era.

And he has every right to be so. Despite mounting international criticism, especially from Europe, the Israeli prime minister will no longer be content to openly oppose the “land for peace” principle.

Polls among the Israeli public continue to show that a clear majority favors annexation of the occupied territories.

The maximalist and messianic project of the nationalist and religious parties led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and the even more extremist Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir calls for the total annexation not only of Gaza, but also of the West Bank.

deportations

In their meetings, often held in the most militant settlements in the West Bank, they openly declare their intention to expel as many Palestinians as possible “by fair means,” offering financial incentives, or “by dirty means,” which includes burning property, requisitioning, road closures that make daily life impossible, and armed raids that result in injuries and deaths.

Settlers are already preparing to reopen settlements in Gaza that were dismantled in 2005.

Today, it is forgotten that Sharon considered them too costly and too exposed to Palestinian attacks.

And nothing suggests that the total occupation of the Strip could truly defeat the armed guerrillas, who are today more desperate and therefore more motivated than ever.


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