Tension is growing between America and Israel over what happens to Gaza the day after Hamas is defeated and removed as a military and governing power.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested several times that Israel will need to exercise direct military control over Gaza for a period of time. Similar to what US forces did in Iraq and Afghanistan until new, more moderate local elements could take over.
And he has been adamant that the current iteration of the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas is not that moderate element.
“As long as I’m in this chair, a Palestinian Authority that supports terrorism and incites terrorism will not rule in Gaza,” Netanyahu reportedly told visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week.
Since the start of the war, the Palestinian Authority has given the lie to US President Joe Biden’s repeated insistence that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians in general, and that most Palestinians just want peace. Just a couple weeks ago, a senior and popular Palestinian Authority official called Hamas’s brutal October 7 invasion of Israel a “natural response” and a “defensive action,” adding that the Abbas regime continues to seek unity with the jihadist group.
Still, Biden administration is worried that Israel’s approach will elicit widespread international condemnation and create a diplomatic crisis that will fully occupy both Jerusalem and Washington for the foreseeable future.
But it doesn’t disagree with Netanyahu.
“What [Netanyahu] said was right now you’ve got an unreformed PA. And that’s unacceptable to him. I would tell you that’s unacceptable to us too. We don’t believe the PA is in a position right now to be in—a credible control of governance in Gaza,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday in an interview with ABC News.
Even so, Kirby added that the Biden administration remains committed to a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and will continue to push for an independent, democratic Palestinian state. He forgets that the last time the Palestinians held a general election in 2006, Hamas won, which is why they haven’t held another one since. All current polls show Hamas would win again.
My dream is to see the building dedicated to some, no name goddess, removed from the top of the Temple Mountain. It’s an abomination to have such eye sore , the temple of the false god on display in the Holy Land of Israel!
The Arabs, from all Israelis territories, to be expelled to Jordan.
Jordan is a Palestine.
PA moderate?? Never! For all those deluded two staters, this is what Almighty God says to you.
Psalm. 59/5-8. Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Behold, they belch out out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.