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As Netanyahu and Trump meet in Washington, doubts stay about how a lot Israel’s chief needs to finish the conflict

Editorial Board Published February 4, 2025
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Freed Israeli hostages are holding emotional reunions and a whole bunch of 1000’s of Palestinians try to restart their lives in obliterated Gaza communities, because the ceasefire deal introduced Jan. 15 continues. However whether or not the tenuous calm involves a crashing halt will hinge on key talks in Washington starting Tuesday. 

Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, and the end result will likely be pivotal in figuring out whether or not the practically 16-month conflict between Hamas and Israel strikes to the subsequent section of the ceasefire, or if the combating roars again to life.

“I think that actually there’s pressure being applied from D.C. on Netanyahu to get to Phase 2,” mentioned H.A. Hellyer, a Center East analyst with Britain’s Royal United Providers Institute (RUSI).

“The question will be how much leverage.”

Protesters demand the discharge of all hostages who had been kidnapped in the course of the lethal Oct. 7, 2023 assault, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv on Feb. 1. (Ilan Rosenberg/Reuters)

Some Israeli households with family members nonetheless held hostage in Gaza concern no matter stress the U.S. president is ready to convey gained’t be sufficient.   

And so they fear that Netanyahu could also be intentionally establishing the ceasefire negotiations to fail to appease the far-right events that preserve him in energy. 

“Netanyahu and his associates haven’t stopped trying to sabotage the deal,” Dani Elgarat was quoted as saying by Israeli media, talking at a Tel Aviv rally over the weekend. His brother, Itzik, is among the many dozens of captives nonetheless held by the militant group, although he has mentioned he believes his brother to be lifeless.

The households have trigger to be apprehensive, mentioned Hellyer. 

Hellyer mentioned sustaining the established order leaves a weakened Hamas answerable for Gaza, nevertheless it additionally places off having to make troublesome selections on how the territory is ruled going ahead.   

In his public statements, Netanyahu has mentioned any speak of sabotaging the ceasefire or abandoning the remaining Israeli hostages is nonsense. 

A protester holds a placard demanding the return of all hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack by Hamas, ahead of a planned meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, Israel February 3, 2025. A protester holds a placard demanding the return of all hostages held in Gaza for the reason that lethal Oct. 7, 2023 assault by Hamas, forward of the deliberate assembly between Trump and Netanyahu, outdoors the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, Feb. 3. (Antonio Denti/Reuters)

As he left for Washington, Israel’s prime minister mentioned his conferences with the U.S. president will give attention to reaching “victory over Hamas,” the discharge of “all of our hostages” and to proceed to “redraw” the map of the Center East.

Trump, who has been busy launching commerce wars towards his closest neighbours Canada and Mexico, could have a considerably completely different set of targets within the Center East.

WATCH | Former Israeli PM Barak’s interview with CBC Information: 

Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak on the way forward for Gaza’s governance

Saudi normalization

The U.S. president has lengthy sought to dealer a deal to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and two weeks into his time period, he has indicated his want to maneuver ahead rapidly. The Hamas-led assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 derailed a earlier try from the Biden administration to maneuver ahead on such a deal.

Final week, his Center East envoy Steve Witkoff visited each Israel and Saudi Arabia, whereas additionally making a short cease in Gaza. 

Wikoff emerged as a vital participant in securing the preliminary ceasefire deal in January, reportedly pushing each Hamas and Israel to make concessions to get it accomplished.

Saudi’s Crown Prince Prime Mohammed Bin Salman has repeatedly mentioned there will likely be no rapprochement with Israel and not using a dedication to a Palestinian state. Representatives of a number of Arab nations made the same assertion this previous weekend as a part of a joint communique.

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, walks on the day of the release of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Tel Aviv, January 30, 2025. U.S. particular envoy to the Center East, Steve Witkoff, walks on the day of the discharge of hostages held in Gaza, as a part of a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Tel Aviv, on Jan. 30. (Shir Torem/Reuters)

Whereas Palestinians and their Arab supporters see an answer to the broader Israeli-Palestinian battle as an existential concern, for Trump, cementing the Saudi Arabia-Israel relationship is the primary prize.

“Gaza is a stumbling block for that,” says Hellyer. “But I don’t think he sees Gaza as an issue in and of itself.”

Amongst Israelis, help for a “two-state solution” as a way of ending the 70-year battle had already been slipping for years earlier than the Hamas-led assault of Oct. 7, 2023 that killed about 1,200 folks.

Since then, most surveys counsel it’s at an all-time low. 

A key member of Netanyahu’s cupboard, far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, mentioned that whereas he helps a normalization cope with Saudi Arabia, it can’t be contingent on the creation of a Palestinian state.

A crowd at hostages square in Tel Aviv watches on a big screen as four women soldiers are returned from captivity in Gaza on Feb 25, 2025A crowd at hostages sq. in Tel Aviv watches on an enormous display screen as 4 ladies troopers are returned from captivity in Gaza on Jan. 25. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC Information)

Troublesome compromises

Nonetheless, outstanding Israeli supporters of the idea say Trump’s unpredictability, coupled with the prize of Saudi normalization, may find yourself pushing each Israel and Hamas to make compromises they won’t in any other case be ready to do.

Whereas badly weakened by Israel’s incessant bombing assaults over the previous yr and a half, Hamas stays in management in Gaza, and its fighters staged brazen public appearances in the course of the handover of the Israeli hostages over the previous weeks.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak gives an interview to CBC News in his Tel Aviv home on Jan 28, 2025.Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak provides an interview to CBC Information in his Tel Aviv dwelling on Jan. 28. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC Information)

“To the best of my judgment, he [Trump] is not looking for a new war, I think he looks at a much wider picture,” mentioned Ehud Barak, 82, a former Israeli prime minister who tried and failed to barter a two-state answer with the late Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat at Camp David in 2000.

“He may not be very tough with Netanyahu or Israel about details, but he may be quite rigid about the process he wants to lead.” 

The Palestinian Authority, which at the moment serves as a type of municipal authorities within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution, has mentioned it needs to take over from Hamas in Gaza — an association Netanyahu’s authorities has adamantly rejected.  

Changing Hamas

Barak says Netanyahu could have little alternative however to just accept the PA in Gaza, if it means eliminating Hamas. The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority misplaced management of Gaza to Hamas within the 2006 parliamentary election. In contrast to the militant group, it has continued to advocate for non-violent confrontation and negotiations with Israel to safe a state. 

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (L), US President Bill Clinton (C), and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat pause for a photo as they tour Laurel Cabin, the site where former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and US President Jimmy Carter conducted peace talks in 1978, during the Middle East Peace Summit 11 July 2000 at Camp David, Maryland, the US presidential mountain top retreat. The peace talks are aimed at resolving the issues of the 52-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict including the status of Jerusalem, the borders and nature of a Palestinian state, and the future of Jewish settlers and Palestinian refugees.   Barak (left), then-U.S. president Invoice Clinton (centre), and then-Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat pause for a photograph as they tour Laurel Cabin, in the course of the Center East Peace Summit in July 2000. (Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Photographs)

As a substitute, many in Netanyahu’s authorities have been pushing to develop Israel’s navy occupation of Palestinian areas by establishing settlements in Gaza and formally annexing giant parts of the West Financial institution. 

Barak says with both measure, Israel dangers changing into both “non-Jewish” or “non-democratic,” as completely denying Palestinians the identical rights as Israeli Jews is just not a democracy. 

“For our own future, our own destiny, our own identity, we need to find a way to disengage the Palestinians — it’s not a subject to talk about in Hebrew right now, but it doesn’t cease to be the basic truth.”

Relying on the end result of the Trump-Netanyahu discussions, negotiations over the small print of Section 2 may start in Qatar later this week.  

The aim is to have a deal on the way forward for Gaza together with the discharge of all of the remaining Israeli hostages in place by Day 42, roughly 25 days from now.

In a commentary, Britain’s RUSI think-tank struck a constructive observe.

“With Saudi normalisation with Israel high on the U.S. wish list, and Saudi’s capacity to fund Gaza reconstruction, Saudi Arabia has what Trump craves in any deal — leverage.”

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