The Israeli newspaper Maariv said that the War Council (led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Minister Benny Gantz) by pinning hopes that it will be able to easily find a civilian alternative to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, is like someone living in a fantasy world, but nevertheless it is not Alone in this illusion.
In an article entitled “A civilian alternative to Hamas? Netanyahu, Gallant, and Gantz live in a fantasy world,” Chaim Ramon wrote that the war council, despite the losses incurred by the Israeli army, is delaying the necessary task of giving orders to dismantle Hamas’ civilian rule in Gaza.
The writer was surprised at how the General Staff had not yet announced a military rule that would immediately replace the civilian rule that Hamas was establishing.
According to writer Ramon, Hamas will remain the de facto ruler in Gaza unless another civilian rule is established, and therefore there is not “in the real year” a vacuum of governance at all yet.
A virtual world
Ramon gave examples of the areas from which the Israeli army left and Hamas returned to install its governing bodies (as is the case with its police in Gaza City and in the northern Gaza Strip in general). However, the war council trio insists – according to his opinion – on living in a hypothetical world in which they imagine that establishing a rule A civilian replacement is very easy, and this is also the case at the top of the political and security levels.
The Israeli writer adds that all commentators and journalists oppose military rule in Gaza and “promote civil rule that only exists in their wild imagination.”
This is, for example – Ramon writes – the case of retired Air Force general and former head of military intelligence, Amos Yadlin – one of the most important political commentators – with his call to begin building an alternative to Hamas that would lead to a positive gradual change in the reality of the Gaza Strip.
Ramon quotes Yadlin in his opinion that the alternative governance system for Hamas will help technocrats and employees of municipal institutions, which are bodies – Ramon says – that worked under the authority of Hamas, that is, they were managed by Hamas men.
The Israeli writer concludes that Yadlin himself refutes his idea by acknowledging that these solutions cannot be implemented immediately and throughout Gaza “because no one will enter areas where Hamas’ military force has not been neutralized and dismantled.” He then notes that Yadlin at the same time supports military rule in the Gaza Strip, and wonders: : How does all this fit?
Ramon concludes his article by saying that the real strangeness for him is not the introduction of such a confusing position, but rather its complete adoption by the War Council.
