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Marwan Bishara has said there are at least three explanations for why Israel decided to break the ceasefire and resume its war on Gaza.
On the military level, Netanyahu had long expressed his intention to continue the war until Hamas was destroyed. The group’s theatrical release of captives “humiliated Netanyahu” and persuaded his camp that the war must continue, Bishara said.
“There’s also a strategic rationale, and that’s building on Trump’s vision of transfer [of Palestinians out of Gaza],” the analyst said. “You cannot transfer millions of people without war.”
Lastly, Netanyahu “is on trial on a number of corruption charges and needs to deflect the attention away by launching another bloody campaign in Gaza”.
The move will not be welcomed by Egypt, which played a key role in the ceasefire negotiations, as well as Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
“The entire region is on the brink of something,” Bishara said. “Clearly, this humiliation of [Egyptian] President [Abdel Fattah] el-Sisi cannot go by with total impunity.”
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Source: AJE Live blog
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