play videoplay video

Video duration: 29 minutes 43 seconds 29:43

Analysts and experts believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking advantage of the disparity occurring within society, in order to continue his war on the Gaza Strip and thwart the negotiations, stressing that the War Council has not yet put serious pressure to complete the exchange deal.

From the point of view of political analyst Muhannad Mustafa, this discrepancy represents one of Netanyahu’s means of power.

Because it means that there is a segment that supports the failure of the negotiations, despite the anger of another segment that wants to release the prisoners.

During his participation in the program “Gaza... What Next?”, he expressed his conviction that the war council still lacks the political effectiveness that would force Netanyahu to deal seriously with the exchange deal.

However, political analyst Ahmed Al-Hila believes that the resistance cannot give up the minimum related to the basic needs of life;

Because this means accepting the killing of Palestinians by starvation.

According to Ahmed Al-Hila, Netanyahu is currently practicing brinksmanship;

Because he controls the issue of starving the Palestinians in light of Arab weakness and international complicity, and he wants to obtain his prisoners for free after he failed to recover them by force.

Therefore, Netanyahu is practicing a policy of biting his fingers in order to achieve what he wants, a policy that requires teeth, in Ahmed’s opinion.

Regarding Israel’s possession of these teeth, military expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi says that the forces present inside Gaza or in the cover area are unable to resolve the battle, indicating that the army cannot withdraw forces from the West Bank and push them into the Gaza Strip at the present time.

Because he did the opposite last week.

Accordingly, Israel needs many months to achieve its goals by force in Gaza, says Al-Duwairi, who stressed that the resistance has set demands that it knows well that they are achievable.

The Israeli military establishment also knows that going ahead with the Rafah attack is not feasible.

Because it faced violent resistance in all the operations it waged in the north and center and was unable to consolidate anywhere, according to Al-Duwairi.

The army confronts extremists

On the other hand, the Israeli military establishment does not want to continue fighting at the present time and needs to reach a truce, and it knows that the extreme right does not want this, as Muhannad Mustafa says.

Not only that, the military and security institutions - according to Muhannad - see that the current Netanyahu government is a disaster for Israel, and that the Prime Minister is taking Israel towards the abyss.

From this standpoint, Israel is experiencing a confrontation between two institutions that realize the extent of the danger that Israel faces, and an extreme right that only wants to reoccupy Gaza and achieve its ideological goals, regardless of the lives of the prisoners, in Muhannad’s opinion.

Israel is also currently facing great internal and external pressure due to the approaching month of Ramadan, which has become a source of tension in the West Bank, Jerusalem and inside Israel due to the behavior of settlers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, which made Washington push for a truce, according to Muhannad.

Netanyahu takes advantage of Biden's weakness

Despite all the pressure Netanyahu faces, he has not changed his position yet.

Because he is exploiting the US electoral administration crisis and wants to gain more time, and therefore the pressure will not bear fruit unless it moves from talk to action, especially regarding what is related to military matters on the part of the United States, according to Ahmed Al-Haila.

But Netanyahu - in Ahmed's opinion - realizes that Joe Biden's administration is experiencing an electoral crisis, in addition to the fact that he possesses strong cards within the United States, foremost of which is the great support that Israel has among the Americans.

Therefore, these matters keep all of Washington’s pressure in the margins, and maintain its support in a way that does not push it to change its position, and at the same time reduces internal anger against Biden, according to analyst Ahmed.

Source: Al Jazeera