Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds Part III. Is It Finally Over?

The Israeli Cabinet still has to agree to the deal and that pos Smotrich already said he will not vote on it, but hopefully his vote is meaningless and I'd expect the Cabinet to approve sometime today or tomorrow.

 

It’s not over til the fat lady sings.

 

$10000000000000 question.

1. At this point, we don't know if Hamas has agreed to completely leave the scene. In fact, I would bet they will now want to think of themselves a la Hezbollah. The real government behind the puppet.
2. Qatar seems to be the main protagonist in leading the charge in the formation of the new "leader." I've no idea how and what that looks like.

 

It's not just filling the leadership void in Gaza, it's undoing 20 years of programming that led residents to believe their primary raison d'etre was to murder their neighbors.

 

The Israeli Cabinet approved the plan. Now we wait.

 

I thought I'd read that the PA was expected to play some role, but that may have just been the PA itself jockeying for leverage. I don't know.

 

The Middle East famously never had wars or conflicts prior to that, of course.

 

Want to? Maybe. Will they, I doubt it. Abbas is widely disliked by majority of Palestinians. He's basically a tiny dictator in a tiny piece of land. He's been around about the same number of years as Bibi, which means it's been way too long for both of them to be anywhere near power. I sincerely hope Palestinians get a new leader (ideally through honest and fear-free elections) and that they can first and foremost, deal directly with Israel. It's nice that some ME countries (Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Saudis) and Turkey want to play a role and maybe for now, that's how the process starts, but eventually, the two people will need to deal directly with each other, without involvement of other parties.

 

Overthrew is the most appropriate term to use in this case.