Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday, ahead of a key cabinet meeting on the next stage of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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war, that Israel intends to take control of the entire Strip, then hand it over to an unspecified Arab governing force.
The premier said a "detailed plan" will be developed for this post-Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...government, and that it will not place Israel in control of the Strip as a civil government, nor allow the Paleostinian Authority to play a role.
Asked in a Fox News interview if Israel will take over the entire 26-mile strip, Netanyahu said: "We intend to, in order to assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza (sic), and to pass it civilian governance." But, he stressed, "We don’t want to keep it. We want to have a security perimeter, but we don’t want to govern it. We don’t want to be there as a governing body."
The prime minister said that Israel wants to "hand it over to Arab forces that will govern it properly, without threatening us, and giving the Gazooks a good life."
Netanyahu also told a group of visiting Indian journalists, according to the English-language CNN
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-News18, that, "Our plan is not to occupy or annex Gaza. Our goal is to destroy Hamas and get our hostages back, and then hand over Gaza to a transitory government."
"We will never hand [Gaza] over to the Paleostinian Authority or Hamas. We will provide overall security. There will be a security perimeter provided by us," the premier added.
"We want to end the war very soon. It will be over speedily. If Hamas concedes and lays down their arms and frees hostages, it will be over tomorrow. Even Paleostinians in Gaza are fighting Hamas," the prime minister said.
Netanyahu’s comments were met with wholesale rejection from the Hamas terror group and led Jordan to stress that it would only accept any decisions on the future of Gaza agreed to by the Paleostinians.
While Arab states have expressed willingness to assist in the post-war reconstruction of Gaza, they have long conditioned their involvement on the inclusion of the PA, viewing Ramallah’s role as critical to establishing a diplomatic horizon for a two-state solution, by having the same governing body in charge of both the West Bank and Gaza.
But Netanyahu’s rejection of a role for the PA has stopped any Arab country from expressing interest in playing the post-war role in Gaza that the Israeli premier is seeking.
In addition to rejecting a role for the PA, Netanyahu has refused for much of the war to advance a viable alternative to Hamas, which his critics say has allowed the war to drag out endlessly as the terror group has managed to remain the most dominant Paleostinian force in Gaza.
For his part, Netanyahu has argued that no alternative to Hamas will be able to survive in Gaza before the terror group has been defeated.
The prime minister’s remarks came shortly before the security cabinet convened Thursday evening to discuss a controversial plan to take over and occupy the entire Gaza Strip.
Israel currently controls about 75% of the enclave, but has stayed out of areas where the Hamas terror group is believed to be holding hostages, and has refrained from asserting any civilian governance over the Strip’s population, who have been ordered to evacuate from all of the areas where ground troops are operating.
Speaking to Fox News’s Bill Hemmer immediately before the cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said: "We want to liberate ourselves and liberate the people of Gaza from the awful terror of Hamas."
Netanyahu denied any intent to cause civilian suffering, noting Israel’s efforts to get humanitarian aid
into the Strip.He also explained to Fox that "the reason you see the flattened buildings [in Gaza] is because Hamas booby traps every single building," and that when the terror group’s underground tunnels are detonated, they take down buildings above them, emphasizing that all such buildings are empty, following broad evacuation orders.
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When Hemmer asked if US President Donald Trump
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had given Jerusalem a green light to take control of the whole Strip, Netanyahu declined to give a clear yes, responding: "He just says, ’I know Israel will do what it has to do.'"
"We haven’t got into that kind of discussion," Netanyahu continued, but he said the US and Israel had discussed a humanitarian surge leading up to a major operation, and certain principles, but not a detailed plan, for a post-Hamas Gaza.
Regarding the humanitarian surge, Netanyahu told Fox, "I want the population to be in safe zones, to have food, water, sewage, electricity, medical help."
With respect to the day after, he said Jerusalem and Washington agree it "has to have certain principles," but added, "I’m not talking about a detailed plan yet, because I think that will be developed."
Netanyahu listed five principles: Hamas’s disarmament; Gaza’s demilitarization; the release of all the hostages; Israeli security responsibility; and a non-Israeli civilian governing authority "that basically is willing to live in peace with Israel and give Gazooks a different future."
Hamas, in a statement, called Netanyahu’s comments "a blatant coup" against the negotiation process.
"Netanyahu’s plans to expand the aggression confirm beyond any doubt that he seeks to get rid of his captives and sacrifice them," the statement said.
The terror group added that it would view any governing force formed in line with Netanyahu’s proposal as an "occupying force linked to Israel."
A Jordanian official told Rooters on Thursday, following Netanyahu’s comments, that Amman "will only support what Paleostinians agree and decide on."
"Security in Gaza must be done through legitimate Paleostinian institutions," the source said. "Arabs will not be agreeing to Netanyahu’s policies nor clean his mess."