According to Aljazeera, the Israeli army believes that achievements on the ground will erode over time without political action.
One of Netanyahu's goals in prolonging the war is to restore his damaged reputation who called himself “Mr. Security”.
The insistence by Netanyahu and his extremist cabinet on committing more crimes in the coastal enclave of Gaza has even infuriated some within the army. It is the army whose personnel are committing war crimes against the Palestinians and also being killed by resistance forces, who have freely chosen the path of sacrificing their life. They prefer death over living under suffocating occupation.
Israeli army personnel and those on the top are noticing that they are getting caught deeper into the Gaza quagmire as the war is dragging on.
Even when Netanyahu ordered the ground offensive in Gaza on October 27 he was snubbed by the military officers and refused to meet him in military fatigue.
Netanyahu and the mad persons in his cabinet are also thinking of a greater Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is also called “crime minister” in Israel, has even asked the Palestinians in Gaza to leave Gaza.
Some analysts say extremists in Israel want all of Palestine with no Palestinians in it. They say if it is not so, what is the justification for such unspeakable crimes in Gaza?
“…..their current leaders are blatantly saying that Palestinians in Gaza should be shoved into Egypt and live in tent cities. That is their intent. If they can’t eliminate them with bombs, they will starve them to death or make life so difficult, Palestinians will begin dying of diseases,” American analyst Greta Berlin tells the Tehran Times.
She says, “Israel wants all of Gaza for three reasons: 1. Israelis are slobbering over the idea of 35 miles of pristine beachfront property after all the debris has been swept away. 2. Israel wants to steal Gaza’s gas. The Gaza marine field, discovered by BG in 2000 has 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.7 billion barrels of oil worth around $524 billion! 3. Israel has been planning the Ben Gurion Canal Project, originally proposed in the 1960s as an alternative to the Suez Canal.”
Also, in an interview with the American media on Thursday, Republican Party candidate Nikki Haley said that the people of Gaza should leave the enclave.
"The Palestinians should have gone to the Rafah crossing and Egypt would have taken care of them. But I have always said that what the Palestinians need is to move to pro-Hamas countries such as Qatar, Iran and Turkey,” Haley shamelessly said.
Some analysts also say the current bloodthirsty Israeli political leaders want to kill the chances of Joe Biden in the presidential election. Being fully aware that Democrats and Republicans compete with each other in presenting themselves as the strongest supporters of Israel, Netanyahu is seeking to kill the chances of Joe Biden in the presidential election through indiscriminate attacks in Gaza as Biden was critical of Bibi.
Paul Pillar, a former top CIA analyst, says if Biden loses the election, one of the reasons will be his “embrace” of Netanyahu, that his regime’s genocidal campaigns in Gaza have embarrassed the entire world.
Some top officers may have realized that they are being manipulated by Netanyahu and his bigoted ministers, especially as the prime minister is facing corruption charges and the intelligence failure of his government to predict the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
“… there are the corruption charges against Netanyahu, the trial for which recently resumed after an interruption of several weeks because of the Hamas attack and the war. That personal legal problem provides additional motivation for Netanyahu to continue hardline policies that entail a war that distracts from everything else. Those policies also help to satisfy the most extreme elements in his right-wing coalition, thereby keeping that coalition together and further delaying the day when he might have to face the full legal consequences of his conduct,” Pillar notes.
First published by Tehran Times