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Both presidents Trump and Biden have taken credit for the long-awaited agreement between Hamas and Israel, brokered by Qatar and the US, for a ceasefire and release of hostages on both sides.
The agreement, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party allies have revealed, allows Israel to recommence its siege on Gaza after a period of 42 days with a US guarantee of support if they feel Hamas is not upholding the conditions.
Based on the fact that Israeli airstrikes have killed 110 Palestinians in Gaza since the agreement was signed, (though it enters effect on Sunday) and that the ceasefire has interrupted the General’s Plan to ethnically cleanse north Gaza, it’s almost certain Netanyahu and his administration will take issue with Hamas’ conduct and return to its genocidal siege.
The Likud statement also signaled that Israel got some kind of guarantee about getting additional military aid from the US for agreeing to the ceasefire deal, according to Antiwar, with the Likud statement describing “the unfreezing of previously delayed US military aid, with IDF and Defense Ministry officials now cleared to submit comprehensive rearmament requests for both immediate and long-term need”.
Aside from a full rearming and unilateral termination clause, the biggest reason the ceasefire is unlikely to hold is that key members of Netanyahu’s administration have threatened to resign and withdraw their political powers from the right-wing coalition that currently governs in the Israeli parliament, called the Knesset.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist party and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party, both allow Netanyahu to hold the majority and empower him as prime minister. If they were to both leave the coalition, he would be in the minority and new elections could be called for.
Both Smotrich and Ben Givr have threatened to leave and opposed the ceasefire for different reasons. The former wants to cleanse the entire Gaza Strip and march on Damascus. The latter opposes the ceasefire’s conditions of temporarily abandoning the Netrazim Corridor, built to bisect Gaza City from northern neighborhoods as part of the ethnic cleansing program known as the General’s Plan.
“A clear condition for our remaining in the government is the absolute certainty of returning to war with great force, on a full scale and in a new configuration until complete victory over all its components,” Smotrich wrote on X on Wednesday when the deal was announced. In a document Smotrich submitted to Netanyahu, the minister outlined that his conditions for remaining part of the government location must include “increased military force in the next phase of the fighting, utilizing additional means, and significantly reducing humanitarian aid to Gaza”. WaL
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PICTURED ABOVE: Hundreds of bodies of Palestinians during the Flour Massacre. PC: IDF, released, CC 3.0. BY-SY
