Julian Borger
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489 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2021
last heard 25 Aug
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And so this has been a sticking point up to now.
Well, the Israeli officials being quoted anonymously on Israeli media have been pouring cold water on it, saying it's just Hamas play for time.
You've had the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gavir, saying the only thing to do with Hamas is destroy them and encourage emigration from Gaza.
The hard line of the coalition have never accepted this ceasefire and can be expected to carry on opposing it.
So Netanyahu at the moment is in a bind because this is something Donald Trump is asking him to do, but he knows it's not palatable to much of his coalition.
Yeah, very much so.
The elections loom large in Netanyahu's calculations.
And any sign of apparent weakness in the face of Hamas will lose him votes in his base, in the core, in his core support, which is mostly on the right.
So he is in a difficult position.
Now, up to now, he has tended to agree with things and then drag the Israelis on the whole have dragged their heels.
They've not allowed a lot of the aid going into Gaza.
They have pushed forward their front lines.
So up to now, the tactic has been agree on paper and then create as many problems in the system as possible.
Now, whether this will be possible in this case for him to agree officially is really up in the air.
And we don't know, as we've talked now, we don't know how he's going to play it.
But he's obviously taking some time to think about it.
Yeah, it does seem like that.
But the other way, it's one of the reasons why it took so long to come to agreement.
Hamas has been saying we've got to be able to carry out our elections to produce a new leadership before we can make big decisions like this.
And they carried out a vote in Gaza in which a lot of the people trying to or some of the people trying to organize a vote got bombed.
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