Hamas fires - and receives: Netanyahu-Bennett government marches to Oslo C

Paradoxically, the prime minister and the new defense minister are consciously weakening the PA, contributing to stabilizing Hamas with the nascent series agreement. Netanyahu's puzzling pattern, which is based on a violent Palestinian operation, rewarded with numerous concessions, has only one explanation: fear of Hamas reaction

Hamas fires - and receives: Netanyahu-Bennett government marches to Oslo C

Quietly, quietly, under the nose of the State of Israel, the Netanyahu-Bennett government (the fifth Netanyahu government) is stepping into an equally historic move designed to de facto two-state reality: one in the Gaza Strip under Hamas rule, and the other in the river-to-sea area, in power Israeli, including the West Bank, under Israeli occupation.

On the one hand, the settlement agreement with Hamas, to which the Netanyahu government is making huge strides, as well as the economic sanctions and lack of political process vis-à-vis the PA, could carry a heavy price - if not in the near future, in the years to come. This two-pronged action points to the target of Prime Minister Netanyahu and his new defense minister, Naftali Bennett: weakening the Palestinian Authority until its disintegration, while retaining Jewish grip on the West Bank - against the stabilization of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, the same terrorist organization vowing to destroy the State of Israel.

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Bipartisan action during an election period. Netanyahu and Bennett (Photo: Reuven Castro)

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In simplest terms, Israel punishes those who have declared that it is striving for a peace treaty with it, and is doing everything possible to help those who fire rockets, carry out terror attacks and repeatedly call for jihad against Israel. Hamas is already receiving a lot of relief and gestures, starting with the introduction of Qatari money and through the introduction of goods, even those that were considered prohibited from being transferred to the Gaza Strip until a few days ago. On the other hand, only in recent days has the government decided to cut the PA's salaries for the families of the killed terrorists (martyrs). This step, however straightforward, raises a simple question: why does Israel not deduct, for example, from the Qatari funds the money Hamas invests in building tunnels? The answer is clear - Israelis are afraid of Hamas' response. And for the umpteenth time, how much the Israeli government proves, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, that "Jews only understand power."

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Israel punishes those who have stated that it is striving for a peace agreement with it. Abbas at Ramallah funeral (Photo: Reuters)

PA President Abu Mazen during the funeral of former Fatah senior in Ramallah December 4, 2019 (Photo: Reuters)

And this is actually the most difficult problem that the current regulation process creates. Israel may improve security situation in the Gaza Strip for a few weeks and maybe even a few months. But the lesson learned by every young Palestinian and the public in general is that Hamas' way of firing rockets, violent demonstrations, terrorist attacks, etc., works better than the Palestinian Authority, which still maintains security coordination with Israel and helps prevent it. In fact, Netanyahu is proving just how old his slogan "let them get," emptied of them. On the contrary: if they are shot, blown, killed - they will still receive. If they cooperate with us and help Israel - they will be punished.

Security Perforated Agreement. Arms activist during Hamas parade in Gaza, today (Photo: Reuters)

Hamas activist with weapons during a demonstration to mark 32 years of Hamas construction in the southern Gaza Strip December 30, 2019 (Photo: Reuters)

And all this before the discussion of the security-perforated agreement at all began, leaving too many question marks and huge problems for Israel: the entry of thousands of Gaza workers to assist Hamas in gathering information about Israel and sensitive targets (or transferring, for example); Hamas' ability to continue to dig tunnels and disarm without interruption as long as rockets are not launched; Lack of explicit Hamas commitment to prevent "rogue" shootings (Islamic Jihad and others); The lack of Hamas's ban on terrorist attacks from the West Bank, as well as the Israeli government's disregard for the issue of the missing soldiers and bodies of Israeli soldiers, Oron Saul and Hadar Goldin, held by Hamas.

However, there is some logic in such a security agreement. Gaza has no real solution at this time, and the northern front is far more troubling to Israel. In addition, the Netanyahu-Bennett-Kochavi camp joined the National Security Council, Meir Har-Shabbat, whose previous role as head of the southern Shin Bet was major opponents of the introduction of workers or significant relief to the Gaza population. To one of the enthusiastic supporters of the regulation process.

Netanyahu and Bennett are thirsty for achievement in Gaza

Still, the political price of a move that weakens the PA on the one hand and strengthens Hamas on the other can be fatal, even at the security level in the long term. In addition, the considerations to go through the regulation process are far from purely security. Netanyahu and Bennett are thirsty to present any achievement related to Gaza, given the harsh criticism that is being put on them. This is an election period, and it is possible to be assured that "The Magician of Balfour" and the band around him will present this disgraceful surrender agreement to Hamas, as a victory for the glory of Benjamin Netanyahu. Bottom line, Bibi returns to the pattern of "Hebron Agreement", a moment after taking office as prime minister for the first time: a violent Palestinian move that eventually leads to a lot of concessions on his part that may still cost us all.