Nowhere Girl@gwynnion@mastodon.social
Netanyahu has no desire for peace and was content with the brutal status quo of ongoing violence in Gaza and the West Bank, the resulting radicalization of some Palestinians, and the ongoing security threat to Israeli civilians that created.
In fact, Netanyahu enabled Hamas in order to keep Palestinians politically divided and the West chose to keep quiet and look the other way, at least until Hamas did what Hamas was always going to do.
Nowhere Girl@gwynnion@mastodon.social
The Israeli government is well aware that the easiest way to stop Hamas is by making them irrelevant by improving conditions in Gaza, ending the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank, and making partners of peaceful Palestinian political groups.
It's also aware that moves them in the direction of an eventual negotiated settlement, which Netanyahu and other hardliners have already rejected because they want all that land.
So here we are.
