no illusions
The price of blood that Israel paid this week was heartbreaking, but it must not cause the decision makers to make a grave strategic mistake.
The proposal to end the war that came from Hamas to release the abductees in stages, to keep it in power in Gaza and to guarantee the integrity of the leaders of the organization, is an invitation to Israel's letter of surrender.
Such claims cannot be accepted.
The duty of the Israeli government, which abandoned thousands of Israeli citizens to the clutches of Hamas, is to go out of its way and make every effort to free the abductees, while risking the lives of those who seek to save them;
But ending the war while Hamas is still in power in Gaza is a cynical demand that could put the continued existence of the state in question.
You have to check every proposal that comes up on the agenda.
It will be necessary to pay heavy prices if the military move does not reach the abductees, but the end of the campaign today is an Israeli admission of defeat, even though the trend on the ground is the opposite.
Whoever believes that in a few years, on one bright day, when "we have more" to act against this organization of murderers, we will rise up and crush it - is deluding himself.
Don't reject Biden's ideas.
Seven years ago, the important researcher and thinker Dr. Micha Goodman published his book "Catch 67", about the difficulty of reaching an Israeli-Palestinian solution. His main assertion: the left supports the division of the country in order to guarantee a Jewish majority and a democratic government, but it does not have a good answer for guaranteeing security. The right, which opposes the division of the country, thereby provides a good answer to security, but does not have a good answer to the demographic question. At this stage, he proposed to focus on "reducing the conflict", and instead of fighting over everything - to reach agreements on various issues, not to prevent any political solution for the future, and postpone the political decision until a later time.
Among the insights of October 7, I think it is possible to agree that the right does not have an adequate security solution.
Not reducing the conflict, not shrinking the conflict and certainly not managing the conflict.
"Mr. Security" is no longer Mr. Security, and the amazing invention according to which it is possible to make "peace for peace" without paying any price has collapsed.
It turns out that Menachem Begin was not wrong when he gave up all Sinai in order to achieve peace with Egypt.
Representatives of the kidnapped families met with President Biden at the White House
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The way of the right is to try to push the Palestinian question into a corner.
His assertion that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the heart of the conflict, but the refusal of the Arab world to come to terms with the existence of Israel, blew up in our faces.
Since the beginning of the Zionist immigration to the Land of Israel, our main problem has been the challenge of living in this land alongside the Arabs, and the Palestinian state solution (after the right rejected the Jordanian option) is the only one left for those interested in a democratic and Jewish Israel.
If the right's non-solution has existed for generations, and has proven its failure time and time again - the two-state solution has never been tried.
President Biden repeats almost every day his proposal to implement this solution.
He talks about a demilitarized Palestinian state and normalization with the Arab world, with Hamas pushed out.
He does this when feelings of hostility on both sides rise, but precisely at such moments, after difficult conflicts, nations make arrangements.
Instead of seriously examining Biden's plan - if only because of his uncompromising standing by our side in recent months and the assistance provided by his administration, both on the military and political levels - Netanyahu turns his opposition to a Palestinian state (after so many times in which he publicly expressed support for a two-state solution) into a slogan his for the next election.
Whoever gave his hand to strengthening Hamas, and who understands his great contribution to the reality of our lives since October, had better count to ten before he rejects a political solution offered to us by the best of our friends.
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