Hamas, despite being battered by Israel, is more determined than ever to continue to inflict damage to the Jewish state, The Times of Israel’s Avi Issacharoff writes, and a negotiated ceasefire via Cairo is further away than ever, as is a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation.
Issacharoff writes:
All members of the Palestinian delegation know full well that the deadlock now is not with Israel, or even with Gaza, but with Doha [Qatar]. Mashaal and his colleagues are refusing any flexibility and resisting the Egyptian formula, with its key provision for an immediate ceasefire and only then the negotiations on all the various issues.
Mashaal and his people in Gaza are trying hard now to replace the Egyptian channel with one involving the Americans, Qatar and Turkey and to maximize their military gains in the meantime — that is, to kill as many Israelis as possible, even if this means dozens of Gaza apartment buildings being blown up in Israeli airstrikes seeking out those who are responsible. In Gaza, the despair is acute, but Hamas certainly is unmoved by the sight of the bodies and the destroyed buildings. As has been stated before, Mashaal is following the Muslim Brotherhood agenda, and is prepared to fight to the last drop of Gaza residents’ blood.
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