Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, wearing a kaffiyeh, is seen in this 1982 picture in Beirut, surrounded by heavy security as he leaves the Israeli-occupied city for Tunisia.
Posted on 11/30/2023 6:19:23 AM PST by SJackson
TEL AVIV—As Israeli forces prepare for a renewed offensive targeting Hamas’s top leaders in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military and political leaders are confronting the challenge of what to do about the thousands of fighters that represent the group’s power base.
To address that challenge, some Israeli and U.S. officials are discussing the idea of expelling thousands of lower-level militants from the Palestinian enclave as a way to shorten the war. The idea is reminiscent of the U.S.-brokered deal that allowed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and thousands of fighters to flee Beirut during Israel’s 1982 siege of the Lebanese capital.
The prospect of expelling Hamas fighters is part of evolving Israeli and American talks about who will run Gaza when the war ends and what can be done to ensure that the territory can never be used to stage another attack on Israel like the one on Oct. 7, the worst in the nation’s history.
One proposal for how to govern a post-Hamas Gaza, developed by the Israeli military’s think tank and viewed by The Wall Street Journal, would start with the creation of what it calls “Hamas-free safe zones” that would be ruled by a new Gaza authority backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Separate U.S.-Israeli discussions about moving Hamas fighters and their families out of the Gaza Strip aim to provide some Hamas fighters with an exit strategy and make it easier to rebuild Gaza once the fighting ends.
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, wearing a kaffiyeh, is seen in this 1982 picture in Beirut, surrounded by heavy security as he leaves the Israeli-occupied city for Tunisia.
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To a large extent they have no choice. I suspect Israel will make good on their decision to destroy the leadership of Hamas and install new governance though that's going to be a long process.
Joe will be glad to bring them here.
The only “solution” for islamists is the Germany and Japan solution: Break the will of the people by functionally destroying their society so that there is no going back.
Utter defeat is the solution.
Get on with it.
Exile them to hell.
Exile them to hell. That’s where they’ll end up anyway, so just save some time and a lot of earthly misery.
39 seconds. I should have skipped the second sentence.
Only when the majority of insane islamists are dead can the potentially sane peaceful remainder create peace.
Get busy.
islamists plainly state that they love death.
Give it to them.
Problem solved.
You have to eliminate the political infratsructure of Hamas, not just its fighters and fighter commanders.
The structure of the Palestinian Authority as well. New leadership, from where is the question.
Other Arab countries DO NOT want these trouble makers in their midst.
RABID DOGS get put down.
HAMAS deserves the same.
Saudi’s are making plenty of $$$$$$$ living sane lives & interacting with the NON-MUSLIM world.
THEY are smart enough to know that will all end IF they allow any HAMAS idiots into their midst.
What are we talking here, maybe a dozen people at most in the entire Middle East? Works for me.
I’ve got a better idea!
“The structure of the Palestinian Authority as well. New leadership, from where is the question.”
Unfortunately, only possible with Israeli occupation and an Israeli designed and organized government over Gaza. That is necessary in order to end Hamas (and other) indoctrination perpetuated in schools in Gaza.
1. Beirut is the last place to emulate.
2. Letting Arab terrorist gangsters escape is not a Success strategy.
3. Israel isn’t fighting this war to just replace one foreign regime in Gaza with another one.
4. The IDF needs to get in with the job now! Then all of the above speculative bull krap will be made irrelevant anyway.
Try this: Kill them.
But politely rephrased, “Send them to Allah.”
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