The deadline given to Hamas for disarmament has expired
Predictably, the demand was rejected.
This is a good moment to remember how nearly two years of war against Hamas ended: with the deaths of our citizens, billions wasted, and the very same Hamas still alive, still in power, still armed, and still confident in itself.
In the end, our "right-wing" government, despite having all the resources and legitimacy it needed, led us not to a solution, but to a situation in which foreign states are increasingly making decisions on matters of our own security instead of us.
The very fact that the central framework for Gaza’s future is now being shaped by Trump’s "Peace Council" - in essence, a personal external structure of the American president - already speaks for itself.
And here is the main question:
if the U.S. military ultimately ends up physically deployed in Gaza (and such scenarios have already been raised in the United States), and if the next U.S. administration, against the backdrop of rising antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment, is no longer a friend of Israel, then how much meaningful independent policy will Israel actually be able to pursue afterward if it is not coordinated with Washington?