It’s just that there’s no indication of what that plan might be. Netanyahu swore that the IDF was going to go into Rafah and clean out the last of Hamas but there’s still no action. Now the word is that Israel has made an insane offer to shut down the war, pull out the troops and release thousands of terrorists in exchange for 33 hostages, after hundreds of IDF troops have died in the effort to rid Israel of Hamas. This makes absolutely ZERO sense. What the hell is going on?
This is probably wrong, but I can think of only one reason for this, which is that Israel may be waiting for some deal to close before launching the Rafah assault. A big aid package was passed the other day in the US Congress that Biden signed, but Israel doesn’t have the money and guns yet.
The aid can be withheld if Israel has been found to have committed war crimes. “Israel provided its assurances of NSM-20 compliance in March. The State Department has until May 8 to report to Congress whether it finds Israel’s assurances credible. Ahead of that deadline, a group made up of critics of Israel’s conduct on Wednesday called for suspending the arms transfers, accusing the Israel Defense Forces of a “systematic pattern of war crimes.”
So this may be the cause of the delay. I don’t know that it is or that Israel needs this aid to be successful in the war with Hamas, but I do know that if this trade for 33 hostages in exchange for total defeat happens, there’s going to be riots in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It just can’t be allowed to happen.