Military experts and political analysts believe that the Israeli occupation’s insistence on prolonging the war it is waging in the Gaza Strip will not lead to achieving the goals it has set, which is what intellectual and military leaders within Israel itself are warning about.

As part of the daily analytical pause on Al Jazeera, “Gaza...what next?” The expert on Israeli affairs, Dr. Muhannad Mustafa, confirmed that there are two parties in Israel that want to continue the war in Gaza at any cost: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who wants the war to continue indefinitely to save himself, and the military establishment, which is trying to compensate for the failure it suffered on the 7th of October.

In contrast to the insistence of the right-wing Netanyahu government and the military establishment, some different voices and movements are rising, even within Israeli society, calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The expert on Israeli affairs revealed that there are three central trends today in Israel, the first represented by Netanyahu, and the second expressed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in his article, as he stressed the importance of a ceasefire and placed the return of Israeli detainees held by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza as a central goal of the war. The third trend relates to the diplomatic option. There are those who focus on the need for a political solution.

In the same context, military and strategic expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi confirmed that those who insist on continuing the war in the Gaza Strip are the Israeli War Council and Netanyahu, because they believe that prolonging the war may lead to change that leads to a political solution to the war.

Al-Duwairi pointed out that the insistence on continuing the war is unrealistic, and the evidence is that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, one of the most prominent Israeli chiefs of staff, spoke frankly and said that it is not possible to achieve what Israel says is the goal of eliminating the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

After 77 days of the Israeli ground battle, Netanyahu - as Al-Duwairi adds - was unable to rescue a single detainee, and described the Israeli army’s operations as all failures, citing the occupation’s withdrawal of a unit of the Golani Brigade from the Shuja’iya neighborhood.

As for the writer and political analyst, Hossam Al-Dajani, he expressed his disappointment with the performance of the UN Security Council, which was unable to adopt a resolution requiring a ceasefire in Gaza. He said that the Council’s adoption of the resolution related to the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza will ease the burden on Palestinian civilians, but only if Israel is forced to bring it in. To all areas of the sector.

Al-Dajani warned against what he considered to be the issue of the legitimacy of purging the Gaza Strip of the Palestinian resistance, especially the Hamas movement and Islamic Jihad, that is, the legitimacy of military operations. He said that this text is very dangerous, and spoils the joy of the Palestinians and the joy of everyone who expects the international system to have a say, noting that “the idea "Cleansing" Israel will not be able to do because of the strength and ability of the Palestinian resistance.

It is noteworthy that the UN Security Council adopted, on Friday, by a large majority, a reduced resolution on expanding humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and monitoring it, but without adopting the draft resolution on an immediate suspension of “hostilities” between Israel and the Hamas movement.

13 of the 15 member states of the Security Council voted in favor of Resolution No. (2720), while the United States and Russia abstained from voting.

Source: Al Jazeera