The recent rocket attack from the Gaza strip Prime Minister Netanyahu at an inopportune time. Shortly before the elections he must show that he can guarantee Israel’s security. However, the Hamas of the attack at an inconvenient time.
On the attack, the Silence followed. No Palestinian organization has yet to launch a rocket, which wounded early Monday morning in a house in the village a few kilometres to the Mishmeret, to the North of Tel Aviv struck seven people and destroyed the building. Currently in Washington, because at the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that it will respond “powerfully”.
The question is, who is behind the attack, has responded to the Israeli government, apparently, already. Late Monday afternoon, they flew air strikes on the Gaza strip, and a multi-storey house destroyed in the process, according to the Israeli military, a secret headquarters of the Hamas.
The radical Palestinian party that governs the Gaza strip, had previously denied any responsibility. The launch could not go back on a mistake, or the act of an Individual, declared a Hamas spokesman, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. At the same time, he had expressed the hope for a moderate counter-reaction of Israel. In this case, would hold back from the groups in Gaza, an escalation if one wants to avoid in any case.
Whether it remains in the air strike and how Hamas responds to it, is yet open. “We are well prepared for different scenarios,” said Israeli military spokesman Ronen Manelis. Has underpinned the military leadership, the by informed the reservists about a possible convocation, a process that is announced so far, regularly a ground offensive.
Destroyed by a rocket from the Gaza strip struck a house in Mishmeret
Perplexity in Israel
Whatever happens from now on. The location of Isarels President Netanyahu a few weeks before the Israeli parliamentary elections is not likely to make the attack easier, says Peter Lintl, Israel expert at the Berlin Foundation “science and politics”. Netanyahu will not be criticized by both right-wing politicians such as Naftali Bennett that he is not doing enough. But also representatives of the left-hand side in front of throws Netanyahu, the Gaza Problem will not be solved. “However, it currently looks not so, as if anyone could win here at the Moment, more credible than Netanyahu,” Lintl.
Because Netanyahu’s leading Challenger, former Israeli chief of staff Benny Gantz, could benefit from the current crisis: “it has been criticized that he is not proposing any alternative strategies. With regard to Gaza, he is quite similar to Netanyahu,” says Lintl. It would be doubtful that a military confrontation with Hamas, a could the country’s domestic politics.
Israelis dissatisfied with government work
Politically, the attack is likely to bring from the Assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu in a position in which he can hardly score. A just-published survey by the Israel Democracy Institute has found that 76 percent of Israelis with the performance of the government in respect of the Gaza strip are satisfied, a dramatic increase compared to June 2018. At that time, only 56 percent indicated their dissatisfaction on this issue. The discontent goes through all the camp: On the side of the than on the right defining the Israelis show 73 percent critical of the government’s course, on the side of the Left even further, to 77 percent.
In: Israel, and the military on the border to Gaza, 25. March 2019
Also the fact that he took over after the resignation of defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman in the autumn of the last years of his office, does not benefit Netanyahu. 58 percent of Israelis believe that Netanyahu was overloaded by the dual role as Premier and Minister of defense.
Internal Political Verbal Arms Race
Meanwhile, Benny Gantz made the Hamas for the rocket fire and called for a decisive response. “Who does not respond to these attacks, who is the Hamas protection does not pay money to anyone who takes attacks on residents of the southern parts of the country are sufficiently serious, and an attack on Tel Aviv, lightly, takes, gets, now the rockets in the center,” he said in a written statement.
Even staunch culture Minister Miri Regev said. “We have to go back to the policy of targeted killings,” she said. “Only when the leaders of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad feel that they are being hunted and in the crosshairs are, you will begin to see us with other eyes.”
Demonstration of the resolution are: Hamas fighters at a military parade in the Gaza strip, December 2017
Hamas is in distress
The Silence in the Gaza strip indicates, however, that the rockets of the Hamas attack is currently highly inconvenient. Although residents of the Gaza strip are gathering regularly at the border fence to Israel to demonstrate against the occupation. But at the same time, supporters of the new Alliance “Bidna go naisch” (We want life) against Hamas on the street. They criticize above all, your ever-worsening living conditions. Hamas has responded to the protests with violence.
The launch of the rocket show, says Peter Lintl, how strong is Hamas within the Gaza strip under pressure. The come from all different directions. He came to the one of groups such as the Islamic Jihad, resulting to tensions with the Palestinian authority in the West Bank, the holding on a regular basis for the Hamas-specific funds. “All of this leads to an ever more authoritarian state leadership of Hamas, which has then caused ultimately result in the recent protests in the Gaza strip. That Hamas can these protests hardly suppress, is a clear sign that she is politically weakened.”
Another war with Israel, which collapsed the population even deeper into misery, was likely to want, Hamas can hardly afford. Open is, whether you can fend them politically. Because it’s not just you, even the Israeli government is under pressure.
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