Saturday 30 December 2023

There has to be a post-Hamas peaceful future for the Palestinians

By the sound of it, Binyamin Netanyahu is putting all his efforts into destroying Hamas in Gaza, along with much of Gaza's infrastructure, and is not thinking of what should happen after the war comes to an end. In fact, the only way he is going to win this war is if he designs a twin-track policy: eliminating Hamas but also coming up with a brilliant new solution for the Palestinian people which will mean giving up parts of Israeli territory to create a proper country to be called the Democratic Republic of Palestine. Only then will Netanyahu be granted a decent legacy. Right now, if he were to fall under a bus, his legacy would focus solely on how he destroyed Gaza and its people in revenge for the Hamas October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis, how his complacency led to that massacre and how his alignment with extreme right wingers produced the most radically conservative and dangerous cabinet in Israel's history. But if he were to come out with a visionary idea about a new future for the Palestinians and made solemn pledges to hand over territory for their new nation state, Netanyahu would be given credit and praise, and there would be new optimism for the suffering Palestinian people. So far, he has shown absolutely no interest in creating this sort of legacy for himself which means he will be booted out of office in ignominy and the Palestinians will continue to face a bleak future.

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