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Moon of Alabama – Jan 3, 2024

The war on Gaza has not proceeded the way the Netanyahoo government had planned. Fierce resistance continues and Israeli Occupation Forces are taking relatively high losses.

Haaretz is reporting (archived) that the military leadership does not agree with the government plans:

A large, almost unbridgeable disparity exists between the understanding that the Israel Defense Forces are already in the midst of deployment for the third stage of the war in Gaza, and what the political decision makers are projecting outwardly.

Five brigades, mostly consisting of reservists, have been pulled from Gaza and will be demobilized. But the military expects the war to continue throughout the year if on a lower level.

The Israeli government plans to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip. It has held talks with Congo and other African countries to take in the involuntary refugees. Bribes will flow and some governments will agree to take in whoever comes.

Pushing Palestinians out by making all living in Gaza unbearable is the underlying tactic to achieve that goal.

The U.S. government is publicly opposed to those plans but does nothing to prevent their realization.

Netanyahoo has recognized that a victory in Gaza, and the dismantling of all of Hamas, is not really possible. But he needs a victory to keep  a chance to survive in the government and to not go to jail for the various cases of taking bribes.

He attempts to achieve this by expanding the war into Lebanon. Several border provocations have so far not incited Hezbullah to respond with a larger war.

But yesterday an Israeli drone assassinated a leader of the Palestinian Hamas in Beirut:

Cont. reading: Palestine SitRep – Hizbullah’s Response To Assassinations By Israel In Lebanon