Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington leaving behind Israel, two opposite storms: on the one hand the ministers of the extreme right – especially Bezalel Smotrich – who press him as hungry hawks, demanding ‘iron and fuocò; on the other, the rumors broken by the family members of the hostages, who continue to ask for an agreement to get their loved ones at home.
On the occasion of the meeting with Trump on the plan presented by the President of the United States to end the war in Gaza, the Israeli Premier arrived in Washington with a little margin of maneuver and a lot of pressure. In the last few hours from the White House, Trump has repeatedly reiterated that on his plan he received a “very good answer” from both Israel and Arab leaders, but judging by the first reactions the situation is not so simple.
From Tel Aviv, in addition to the advertisement of the family members of the hostages that threaten to “unleash a hell” in case of non -agreement, the atmosphere is also incandescent in the safety cabinet, due to the exclusion of Israeli’s establishment of Israeli – including the head of the Idf Eyal Zamir – from the discussions on the Trump level.
To put petrol on the fire, as usual, the Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich thought about it, placing the Israeli premier of the red lines that “cannot be overtaken”. The first is that the Israeli forces will have to remain on the perimeter of the strip, and have complete freedom of action throughout the coastal territory. At the same time, Smotrich asks that the ANP has no role in governing the strip, as well as Qatar. But above all, this is one of the hottest points, the request is that Netanyahu establishes “politically and practically” the West Bank as an inseparable part of the Israeli state. Diktat that – in particular the latter on which Trump has expressly said that he will not transigo – contrast with the 21 points of the president.
Another theme of discussion will be the role of Qatar. The Israeli media explain, in fact, that Qatar wants to be the “dominant factor” in the Gaza strip, while Israel – following the deterioration of relations with Doha after the attack of the past weeks – wants to reduce Qatarine influence in the strip in the post -war.
Another question then concerns the freedom of action of the IDF in the event that Hamas strengthens, reconstruct or accumulate weapons. Israel asks that it is expressly indicated that the army has a free hand to remove the “terrorist threats” from the Palestinian encycling.
On the opposite front, the situation is no less articulated. Hamas said in a note that he had not received any new proposal from the mediators on a ceased the fire and the release of the Israeli hostages still prisoners in Gaza. Furthermore, the Islamist group “confirms his will to consider any proposal received from the mediators in a positive and responsible way”.
Changes to the plan also came from the Arab countries and the ANP. Channel 12 reports that changes would primarily concern a softening of language and positions on Hamas, but above all the future of the government, which for neighboring countries must be aligned with the Palestinian authority. Then there would be a veto against the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a supervisor of the implementation of the agreement.
And if the leaders of the executive has arrived from the leaders of the right and members of the executive, the opposition leader and president of National and White National Unity, Benny Gantz, expressed his support for the plan of Donald Trump. «The picture of President Trump is a huge opportunity for Israel. It could be reached a long time ago, but better late than ever, “added the former General and Minister of Defense.
In the meantime, a new fact risks feeding the tension even more within the Jewish state. Sara Netanyahu, Bibi’s wife, during a visit to a place of Orthodox Jewish pilgrimage to New York, refused an ex -hostage of Hamas, Ilana Gritzewsky, and the relatives of two others kidnapped in Gaza. The young woman said that the security guards removed her from the tomb of the Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Menachem M. Schneerson, in Queens, in New York, before the visit.
With her there were also the mother of her partner Matan Zangouker, and Dvir Kperstein, brother brother, both still in the strip. Gritzewsky has published a movie in which Sara’s screams, which ignores her, while in another video, you see Hagai Angrest kindly healthy Sara Netanyahu from a few meters away but she ignores her and leaves.