Israel assessing alternatives to Hamas rule in Gaza, defence minister says

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Source: Reuters

June 2, 2024 11:17 AM EDT Updated 7 hours ago


JERUSALEM, June 2 (Reuters) - Israel's defence minister said on Sunday that Israel would not accept Hamas continuing to rule Gaza at any stage during the process to wind down the war, and that it was examining alternatives to the Islamist group.

"While we conduct our important military actions, the defence establishment is simultaneously assessing a governing alternative to Hamas," Yoav Gallant said in a statement. "We will isolate areas (in Gaza), remove Hamas operatives from these areas and introduce forces that will enable an alternative government to form – an alternative that threatens Hamas," Gallant said. He did not elaborate on the possible alternatives.

Iran-backed Hamas, which is sworn to Israel's destruction, has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, a year after it won parliamentary elections and following a brief civil war with security forces from the Western-backed Palestinian Authority.

Israel's war cabinet, of which Gallant is a member, is expected to meet later in the day, Israeli media reported, after U.S. President Joe Biden presented a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war. Hamas has provisionally welcomed the initiative but has given no indication it might step aside or disarm voluntarily.

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1. Unfortunately, 59% of Palestinians want Hamas rule.

https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/969

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3. Israel

Look how many DU posters still have confidence in Israel, in spite of everything it’s done.

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4. I have confidence that whoever leads Israel is going to want to destroy Hamas.

Just like we did Al-Qaeda.

When the corrupt and incompetent Netanyahu is finally replaced, his replacement will still go after Hamas.

Letting Hamas rule Gaza would be a nonstarter for any Israeli leader, progressive or conservative.

But with Hamas more popular than ever in Gaza, this is going to be a mess. I do not envy Blinken.

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5. We never destroyed Al-Qaeda

Its still there we just pulled out .

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6. Obama killed Bin Laden and now pretty much everyone who was involved in the planning of 9/11 is dead.

Biden killed Bin Laden's successor, Al-Qaeda emir Ayman al-Zawahiri, on July 31, 2022.

What's "still there" is the Taliban, since we pulled out of Afghanistan.

Israel is going to do the same thing with Hamas that we did with Al-Qaeda--kill all of its leadership and anyone even remotely involved in the 10/7 attack.

ISIS and whatever scum is being supported and hidden by Iran and the Taliban is the main foreign terrorist threat to the US now.

The most immediate threat, however, are domestic terrorists, particularly right wingers.

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8. ISIL still exists - in Afghanistan.

ISIS-Khorasan.

Not Al Qaeda.

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7. Non-sequitur.

Confidence in Israel means what? That they can pull off a no-Hamas collaborator govt in Gaza?

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2. Gallant is a right-wing Likud loon who wants to make Gaza uninhabitable. It practically is now.

He has referred to Palestinians as "human animals."