It sees that Israel is preparing to invade the Gaza Strip, 300000 reservists have been sent to the border with Gaza.. The onjective presumably to free the hostages and wipe out Hamas. Whether eother are achievable is debateable. It coulsd attempt to annexe the Strip and bring it under Israeli control, although with 2 million residents that could be difficult.
The US have stated that Israel had 3 days notice from Egypt of the attack. This will put Netanyahu under pressure as he has made security his main issue. The left and moderate elements of Israeli society have been decimated bythe attack, not only figuratively – the kibitz attacked were socialist leaning societies..
There has been no reporting in the British Press of any propoganda offensive by either side. Hamas preumably do not care but again I am surprised that Israel has not mounted a press offensive. Guterres, UN secretary-General has expresswed concern that Hezbollah has shelled Northern Israel – escalation must be avoided. There are no reports of violence in the West Bank that I have seen.
The 2 nation concept seems doomed to failure when one of the nations wishes to drive the other into the sea. A federal type state could have a possibility as it would enable both sides to claim that they were magnamonously conceeding elements? There would be no place for Hamas, or the fanatical Jews either.
Something I had not thought of – there are at least 500 Americans in Gaza and probably a total of more from other countries.