(The Age, 27/1/2025)
Lets hope Netanyahu and his evil Government finally falls – Mark
The fragile Gaza ceasefire continues to hold after 15 months of Israeli devastation of the Strip in response to Hamas’s attacks on Israel. That the second exchange of hostages and prisoners has peacefully taken place, bringing the total to seven female Israeli hostages and 290 Palestinian prisoners in the first part of a three-stage agreement, is a remarkable feat.
For the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, the road ahead cannot be anything but very rocky given their unfulfilled objective of wiping out Hamas.
From the start of the crisis, Netanyahu vowed to totally uproot Hamas as a terrorist organisation and free Israeli hostages, and made known his aspirations for Israel to play a key role in determining Gaza’s future.
But in the process of attempting to meet these ends, Israel has been subjected to global condemnation and isolation, allegations of genocidal actions and crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, alongside those of senior Hamas figures who are dead.
But of the 251 Israeli citizens kidnapped on October 7, the Israel Defence Forces have managed to rescue only a dozen.
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