The demise of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas ‘ leading head and the genius of the team’s Oct. 7 strike, has opened the door to a possible peace and prisoner deal. Hamas is reeling from a year of being battered, as well as the comprehensive removal of its top management.  ,
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Its connections are shattered, its soldiers killed, and its weapons stockpiles have been blown up. More weapons supplies are cut off, and they’re hardly getting any forces. They have been in survival mode for decades and are a ghost of their former selves.
It’s certainly working. And then, with the death of Sinwar, Israel’s battle attempts have generally been met.  ,
For the Israeli prime minister, the death of Sinwar in Rafah, a town that Joe Biden claimed had cost Israel U. S. help if attacked, may be a complete justification. Is the war’s close possible, though?
” It is now clear to everyone, in Israel and in the world, why we insisted on no ending the war”, the prime minister said in his Hebrew-language speech Thursday evening. ” Why we insisted, in the face of all the forces, to provide Rafah, the guarded enclave of Hamas where Sinwar and many of the assassins hid”.
” Biden told him three times over the mobile not to go into Rafah”, said one standard. ” Not only did Netanyahu say we would go into Philadelphi]the Gaza-Egypt border corridor ] and Rafah, but that we would fight with our fingernails”.
Israel will almost certainly get whatever it wants out of this conflict because of this. This Jewish state has defied the will of the United States in a way that no additional Israeli government has ever done. And because of that, the people of Israel are safer than they’ve always been.
The fact that Israeli rulers are disputing payment for the Rafah operation’s pinnacle, and that Sinwar’s demise is the result of this conflict underscores how effective it has been.
The IDF shut down the trafficking routes that Hamas had formerly used to send large quantities of weapons from Egypt into Gaza, both above and below ground, as it defeated four Hamas troops throughout the procedure. The dissolution of Hamas’s combatants in Rafah has reinforced the idea that the war has largely been won, at least on a fundamental defense level.
There is no denying that Netanyahu has been on a winning streak lately, always since he decided to increase the pressure on Hezbollah in September. Israel has quickly done extensive damage to the organization in the last few months, eradicating most of its management and crippling its ability to go to war.
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The opposition in Israel claims Netanyahu does n’t want to end the war because he would n’t survive politically. The two far-right events that have threatened to leave the prime minister’s partnership if Hamas is destroyed may be persuaded that a cease-fire would take the captives home. The present situation in Gaza will never be more suitable for Israel.  ,
Does Netanyahu believe that?
” For the sake of their own physical survival, they may make more compromises than the man who initiated the whole war”, Ibrahim Dalalsha, director of the Horizon Center, a research group in the West Bank, told The New York Times. But, he added,” They wo n’t say: ‘ Yes, we’ll do whatever you want, Mr. Netanyahu.'”
For Netanyahu, a peace deal also brings political risks. He has long opposed a Palestinian state, as have the far-right parties in his governing coalition. Both the U. S. and Saudi Arabia, among other countries, favor a two-state solution and have said any peace deal must include steps toward a Palestinian state. Achieving those measures could sever Netanyahu’s coalition, which would either cost him his job or force him to form a coalition with more centrist parties.
” A lot of people seem hopeful that Netanyahu will use Sinwar’s killing as an opportunity to declare victory, negotiate a hostage deal and end the war”, Gregg Carlstrom, a Middle East correspondent for The Economist, wrote. However, to think that everything Netanyahu has said and done in the past year is to be ignored is a myth.
Perhaps the biggest question is whether Sinwar’s passing has a significant impact enough to alter the political dynamics in both Gaza and Israel.
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Biden and our allies in Europe could ostensibly derail any deal by calling for a” two-state solution” as part of a ceasefire agreement. Biden needs to understand that if he wants the war to end, Netanyahu will never accept a Palestinian state next to Israel.
Netanyahu has a number of choices open to him. One of the ways to end a war is to.