The timeline for an Israeli military return to the Strip is expected to be short.

Echoing the demand by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Israeli prime minister issued Hamas an ultimatum and threatened its “total defeat.”

The Hashemite leader agreed to accept 2,000 severely ill children into his country, but stated that Arab leaders would present a counter proposal to the president’s idea to “own” Gaza.

The withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Netzarim Corridor strengthens Hamas, undermines Israel’s position, and plays into the terrorists’ hands.

The US president stated a deadline of noon; otherwise, he says, “it’s going to be a different ball game.”

Hamas has managed to plunge Israel into the kind of moral dilemma depicted by Hannah Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism.”

Moving Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip may not happen, but at least, there will be a four-year respite from pressure to achieve the unachievable.

The redeployment was conducted as part of the implementation of the truce struck with Hamas in January.

Eli Sharabi grew up in Tel Aviv, but as an adult, he fell in love with Kibbutz Be’eri and made it his home until he was kidnapped by Gazan terrorists.