Afrasianet - Lotfi Al, Obaidi - Signs of disappointment with the goals of Netanyahu and his far-right government, who have ruled out ending the fighting despite public pressure to reach an agreement to return the remaining hostages held by Hamas.

This ongoing failure, which exposes the fragility of military planning and raises real questions about the army's ability to control the Gaza Strip, if it is attempted to be occupied, as Netanyahu and his group of extremists want, is sparking a wider debate about the course of the war and exacerbating anger at home with no end in sight. Netanyahu has been in Gaza for almost two years.

However, Hamas was not eliminated, it did not succeed in retrieving the hostages, and it did not achieve the initial goals set by Netanyahu after the October 7, 2023 operation. Opinion polls, as reported by the Financial Times, indicated that more than 60 percent of Israelis want Netanyahu to strike a deal with Hamas to return the remaining hostages, even if it means ending the war.

But the prime minister, under pressure from his far-right political allies, such as Smotrich and others, has vowed not to stop fighting until Hamas is eliminated, despite loud voices from opposition parties and hostage families, who argue that the escalation will endanger the lives of prisoners in Gaza, arguing that the war is politicized to ensure the survival of Netanyahu's coalition, with warnings in military circles of increasing attrition of fighting power. The burden is on the reservists, whom you will call up to reinforce the regular army.

So far, it is not clear to what extent the Israeli occupying forces can afford more. Israeli analysts warn that reservists could fall behind once again, if they feel obliged to sacrifice themselves to achieve the far-right's goals of rebuilding Gaza's settlements and expelling all Palestinians, not just destroying Hamas and retrieving hostages.

This is supported, for example, by the fact that some reservists collapse because of the injustice of sacrifice, while the vast majority of religious men who qualify for conscription are not drafted at all.

Israel's Supreme Court ruled last year that the state must begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews, after decades of delay. But of the roughly 80,000 people eligible for recruitment, only a few hundred have been recruited. At the same time, the government is frantically drafting a law to make the collective exemption permanent for as many of this ultra-Orthodox group as possible.

Since January 2024, the United Nations has considered Gaza to be uninhabitable. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu is not seeking to liberate Gaza from Hamas, but rather to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population.

This means that Israel is pursuing the criminal project of Greater Israel, with the goal of "maximum land and the least number of Arabs." This objective is clearly reflected in the ongoing forced displacement in the West Bank and calls for the "resettlement" of Gaza.

Netanyahu's maintaining alliance with the far-right, maintaining his ruling coalition in power, and his own survival in office are key factors in Netanyahu's motivations for keeping Israel at war.

It is difficult to describe the pain that a person feels as he watches his people being destroyed. It is even more difficult to imagine a new Israeli escalation, after we have witnessed so much suffering and crimes committed against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. In the face of all this, the British "Guardian" asked: How can this happen in front of the eyes of the world for so long? Will the world stand idly by?

Thus, the scene in Lebanon also appears to be laden with heavy losses at the sovereign and humanitarian levels, and confirms that the radical solution does not lie in military adventures, but in ending the occupation in all its forms.

Lebanon, the country of the resistance in support of Palestine, which has made sacrifices, is witnessing today a new reality represented by an open-ended Israeli occupation of part of its territory.

At a crucial political moment in which external pressures intersect with internal divisions, and economic and social crises, the Lebanese government's recent decision to hand over the weapons of the resistance came to constitute a dangerous turning point in the course of the conflict with the Israeli occupation.

This decision is subject to clear US-Israeli pressure to expand the boundaries of hegemony and limit the resistance, which impedes Israel's project and its ambition to expand at the expense of neighboring Arab countries, not only Palestine. Meanwhile, the Trump administration views increasing pressure as the best approach to disarming Hezbollah, but the easiest way is not always the right way, as escalating pressure on the party feeds the same arguments that underpin its support, most notably resistance to aggression and foreign occupation, and this support cannot be written off by desires or ignored by denying.

The Lebanese scene, summed up by the National Interest, comes nearly a year after reciprocal attacks between Hezbollah and Israel, which displaced tens of thousands on both sides of the border, amid widespread destruction in Shiite-majority southern Lebanon and Israeli occupation of five key points inside Lebanese territory.

Despite U.S. mediation that led to a truce in November, it quickly became clear that it was nothing more than a cover to continue the aggression, through near-daily raids on Hezbollah positions and sometimes even the capital Beirut.

It is now clear that Israel, not Washington, determines when to cross the red line that calls for military intervention, having set a clear precedent in this direction. However, the United States will continue to provide military capabilities and support as needed.

The U.S. administration understands without a doubt that a resumed offensive in the form of a direct occupation will be more successful in materializing the stated goal of destroying Hamas than the devastating attacks that have lasted 22 months.

In the end, their shame walks naked, as the war criminal Netanyahu continues to kill and starve, and rejects any mediation to stop the daily humanitarian violations against innocent people in the stricken Gaza, in the face of international silence, Arab abandonment and international helplessness, all of which are unable to impose sanctions on an outlaw state, which practices occupation and terrorism, and continues to kill and starve.