Zionist divisions on Gaza’s future; Egypt potentially replacing Qatar and Turkey?
Citing Hebrew media, the Zionist newspaper Haaretz reported that Israeli political officials are awaiting a meeting next Monday between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Miami to decide how to prepare for the implementation of the second phase of the Gaza reconstruction plan.
Informed sources said that Trump intends to present Netanyahu with the US government’s approach to the plan and related decisions at this meeting.
In an Israeli narrative, the main concern in the occupied territories is how the disarmament of Hamas will be linked to the continued withdrawal of the occupying army from Gaza, as well as the regime’s demand to discover and destroy the movement’s remaining tunnels.
Meanwhile, Itamar Ettenkhir, an analyst for the Zionist newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, has warned that while Tel Aviv is strengthening trilateral alliances with Greece and Cyprus, countries with hostile relations with the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey may become Israel’s real enemy. This effort by Tel Aviv is seen in Israeli political circles as a sign of a change of approach and replacing Egypt as the main partner in the Gaza issue, instead of Qatar and Turkey.
On the other hand, the disagreement between Netanyahu and Trump over prioritizing the two cases is seen in the Zionist media; whether to address Iran or Gaza; an issue that some international analysts say Netanyahu and his team prefer to focus on the Iranian threat in this equation, so that Tel Aviv can escape its responsibilities regarding Gaza and focus the Trump administration’s attention once again on Iran.
In this regard, according to the Hebrew TV channel Kan, Amos Yadlin, a retired general of the Israeli army and former head of the Institute for National Security Studies and former commander of the regime’s military intelligence, expressed his doubts about the reports claiming that Iran is producing thousands of missiles per month, saying that this issue alone is not a sufficient reason to start a new war.
In contrast, Moria Asraf, a reporter for Hebrew Channel 13, reported the Israeli security apparatus’s strong concern about the speed of Iran’s missile reconstruction and noted that Eyal Zamir, the chief of staff of the army, considered the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles to be on par with the nuclear threat.
Also, Matan Kahane, an extremist member of the Knesset, warned that Tel Aviv cannot allow Iran to possess thousands of ballistic missiles, because, according to him, the existence of 12,000 missiles with one-ton warheads is equivalent to the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Assaf Cohen, the former head of the Iranian section in the Israeli military intelligence, has also emphasized that the reconstruction of Iran’s missile capabilities has not stopped for a moment and that the country is preparing itself for a new round of confrontation with Israel.