In video" Prime Minister Netanyahu reading a scroll with men and women of the Erez Battalion of the Military Police Corps 03.24.24/Official website
"Today in modern Persia, a new oppressor has arisen - the Iranian regime, which seeks to exterminate the Jewish state. We have already seen what one of the emissaries of this oppressor did. On October 7, Hamas committed what President Biden also called 'absolute evil.' Absolute evil when you leave it as it is in Rafah. We will enter Rafah and achieve absolute victory. We eliminated Haman, we will also eliminate Sinwar," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday with pathos after reading the scroll with male and female fighters - and of course issued a press release.
Netanyahu's message is complex and full of contradictions.
In fact, he is both right and wrong, but mostly - misleading.
Against Hamas it is possible to achieve a tactical victory, perhaps even in certain circumstances a strategic victory - but it is not possible to achieve a complete victory.
It's just not possible.
There are those in the security establishment who claim, with a great degree of awareness and understanding of the limitations of the genre, that Hamas is not an organization but an idea - and an idea that is very difficult to eliminate.
An idea that can't be beat.
What is that absolute victory that Netanyahu is marketing to his base?
It is not clear.
But it is clear that it does not end with the elimination of Yahya Sinwar.
Another month, a year or five years will pass - and Sinwar will be eliminated.
There is no scenario in which the leader of Hamas in Gaza ends his life with a good return.
But someone else will come after him, as there were many and cruel ones before him.
Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but an idea - and ideas are hard to eliminate.
Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar/Reuters
The IDF's extensive (and successful) operation in recent days at Shifa Hospital is the most successful proof that there is no such thing as absolute victory. The IDF, in a heroic operation and at an unbearable price, has already cleansed Shifa Hospital.
When the last of the soldiers left the compound behind, the Hamas squads began to return to the scene of the crime and regroup.
Were you surprised?
So you won't be surprised to find out that this will happen even after the current promotion.
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Netanyahu, the master of words, will know how to market what that "total victory" is and print it on hats.
However, after the State of Israel realized the hard way that Hamas was not really deterred before October 7, the citizens of Israel should not rush to buy again the slogan "total victory", which will soon be sold wholesale on the shelves and on the message boards.
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Netanyahu reading a scroll with IDF soldiers/IDF spokesman
Proof that there is no such animal as "absolute victory".
IDF forces in the second operation at Shifa Hospital/IDF spokesman
Yes Rafih, no Rafih, not a question of if but of when, yes deal, no deal, yes liquidation, no liquidation, yes healing, no healing - there is and will never be such a thing as absolute victory.
If the government directs energy to the right place, perhaps the understanding will fall that a deal must be promoted and all the abductees released, even when the price is heavy.
This will also increase the chance that tens of thousands of Israelis will return to their homes. Even today, almost six months after Black Sabbath, they are wandering around as refugees in their country.
It would be great if someone would pick up the phone to the Prime Minister's office and update Netanyahu.
The writer is the deputy editor-in-chief and head of Walla's news department
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