Israel Plunges Into Darkness
Source: The Atlantic
Israel Plunges Into Darkness
What Netanyahu describes as impending victory is a dive into the morass.
By Gershom Gorenberg
May 9, 2025, 7 AM ET
After 19 months of war in Gaza, the Israeli government has decided to march deeper into the quagmire.
Israel has announced its intention to take and retain a significant part of the Gaza Strip. Call-up orders are going out to tens of thousands of already exhausted reservists. The battered, hungry population of Gaza is to be forced into an even smaller part of the narrow enclave. The lives of the remaining Israeli hostages are in greater danger than ever.
The plan came with a caveat: The escalation will reportedly not start until the end of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tour of the region next week, allowing for the possibility of a new hostage deal. But reports of an impending deal have become such a constant background murmur that few observers count on a diplomatic breakthrough to head off the new operation.
“We will achieve full, absolute victory in Gaza,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Hebrew in a social-media clip just before the decision Sunday night by the security cabinet—the committee of senior ministers responsible for military affairs. “We are in the stages of victory,” Netanyahu added. Or, to paraphrase in American English: We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/05/israel-netanyahu-gaza-war-victory/682744/
Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-plunges-darkness-110000880.html
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