Published November 19, 2023
JERUSALEM, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his opposition Saturday night to a proposal by U.S. President Joe Biden to restore control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority (PA) once Hamas is removed from power and destroyed.
On Saturday, Biden published an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he supported Israel, though once again joining the Israeli cause to the Ukrainian one, putting Hamas and Russia in the same category as enemies of the United States.
Biden also reiterated his support for a “two-state solution” as the only answer to the conflict, and added: “As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution.”
However, Netanyahu emphatically rejected that idea.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
RELATED: Israeli forces advance in Gaza City as Benjamin Netanyahu resists ceasefire calls
Published November 18, 2023
The Israeli army is advancing through the south and east of Gaza City after taking full control of the enclave’s largest hospital as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to resist international pressure for a ceasefire. The fighting in the Zeitoun and Jabalia neighbourhoods, east of al-Shifa hospital, picked up overnight even as an early winter storm set in.
Nine Israeli soldiers were killed over the weekend, the army said. Hundreds of people on Saturday left the hospital — a focus of Israel’s three-week long ground offensive — joining more than a million displaced people living either outdoors or in crowded UN shelters. Torrential rain lashed Gaza on Sunday, with temperatures plunging below 15C, heightening the risk of disease as sewage flowed on the streets.
Speaking on Saturday night, Netanyahu said a limited amount of fuel — no more than two trucks a day — would now be allowed into Gaza to stave off a feared outbreak of disease, a concession he said he made after US pressure. “This is not a change of policy but a limited, localised response in order to prevent the outbreak of epidemics,” Netanyahu said, adding that the spread of disease would affect Israeli soldiers as well as Gazans.
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SOURCE: www.ft.com
RELATED: ‘A lot of discontent’: Netanyahu alone as Israel turns on wartime PM
From families of Hamas captives to politicians in his own government, Netanyahu’s popularity is at an all-time low.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 28, 2023 [File: Abir Sultan/Pool via Reuters]
Published November 18, 2023
As the families of Israeli captives held in Gaza march from Tel Aviv to Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Saturday, Israel’s longest-serving premier has never been less popular.
A poll from November 14 has Netanyahu’s popularity among Israeli Jews at about 4 percent and both his opponents and traditional allies are calling for him to resign once the current war ends.
“He’s very vulnerable, more than he’s ever been in his political career given that he presided over the greatest intelligence security failure in Israel’s history,” Khaled Elgindy, an expert on Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, told Al Jazeera. “Prime ministers have fallen for far less than that.”
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SOURCE: www.aljazeera.com
