Israel Is Losing

 

 

 

"Israel’s military will likely oust Hamas from governing
Gaza. But analysts like Tareq Baconi argue
that Hamas has sought to break out of the shackles
of governing a territory sectioned off from the rest
of Palestine on terms set by the occupying power.
Hamas’s gambit may have been to sacrifice the
municipal governance of Gaza in order to cement its
status as a national resistance organization.

Hamas sees victory not in one year or five, but
from engaging with decades of struggle that
increase Palestinian solidarity and increase
Israel’s isolation. In this scenario, Hamas rallies
a besieged population in Gaza around it in
anger and helps collapse the Palestinian Authority
government by ensuring Palestinians
see it even more as a feckless adjunct to Israeli
military authority. Meanwhile, Arab states
move strongly away from normalization, the
Global South aligns strongly with the Palestinian
cause, Europe recoils at the Israeli army’s
excesses, and an American debate erupts
over Israel, destroying the bipartisan support
Israel has enjoyed here since the early 1970s."

 READ ANALYSIS BY TONY KARON AND DANIEL LEVY