It seems that after October 2023 the original Israeli plan for the Gaza Strip was about implementing regime change in the territory.
It seems that after October 2023 the original Israeli plan for the Gaza Strip was about implementing regime change in the territory. But the problem quickly became that the most obvious candidate for a replacement regime in Gaza was the Palestinian Authority, which they also found unacceptable no matter how compliant it was because it made nationalist claims. The Israelis realized that putting the PA in charge of Gaza would raise a political problem for them since it would unite all Palestinian territories under a single government that also enjoyed the diplomatic support of the international community, and thus might result in the creation of a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines. (The entire strategy by Netanyahu of "offshore balancing" and supporting Hamas in Gaza and the PA in the West Bank was predicated on maintaining this division.)
Accordingly, the Israelis quietly shelved the regime change idea and continued simply killing people and destroying Gaza for no avowed strategic objective for at least a year. Since then, after getting an apparent greenlight, or at least sufficient indulgence from Washington, they have now moved towards the more ambitious goal of committing full-scale genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian population. From the perspective of the current Israeli government, even if people outside Israel are upset about this today, in the long-term they will get over it, meanwhile Israel will have taken control of the land while eradicating its competing claimants.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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