The Dangerous Journey of the Israeli Prime Minister in the Aftermath of the Gaza-Baseline War: Why Israel Can’t Leave the Hamas

Israel is at a strategic point in its war with Gaza, and there is every indication that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is about to take the Biden administration along for a very dangerous and troubling ride. It is so dangerous that Israel may have to abandon the Hamas leadership in Gaza. Yes, you read that right.

Barkat offered, feebly, that the policy had been mistaken and that everything would be investigated after the war. When an Israeli minister is forced to humiliate himself on American TV because he can muster neither the sophistry nor the servility that a smoother answer would require, it’s a sign he’s in the wrong government.

Why — to paraphrase Scarborough and his co-hosts — was Netanyahu asking Qatar to fund Hamas to the tune of hundreds of millions just weeks before the massacre? Why was the bulk of the Israeli military nowhere near Gaza in the first hours of the attack? There are legitimate humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip, but the Israeli government doesn’t have an answer for that.