Former ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) Director Yuval Diskin told the press that citizens of Israel are entitled to the details of the ceasefire agreed to by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
The former senior security official expressed criticism over the prime minister’s conduct, his decision to agree to the ceasefire without bringing it to his cabinet ministers for a vote.
Leaders and residents of Gaza border communities and other southern municipalities feel betrayed by the prime minister. Some question why 64 military personnel and 6 civilians had to be killed when in the end the prime minister sold out the nation’s security interests.
In the Eshkol Regional Council, which represents a number of Gaza border communities, leaders are instructing residents not to return home, skeptical at best regarding the integrity of the ceasefire agreement. The head of the neighboring S’dot Negev Regional Council called the ceasefire “acquiescing to terror”, decrying the decision to trust a Hamas ceasefire once again.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Well if they don’t return home what will prevent arabs from squatting on their property? The leadership, and may I add, Netanyahu was a significant part of that leadership, gave Gaza away. These neighborhoods are neighbors and…. Who knows!!!
Had Israel waged the war like the US or other countries, there would have been no need for a ceasefire because the war against this tiny group of terrorists would have been over in no time.
However, since Israel fought with their hands tied to their backs and gained nothing after all these weeks, why should they continue the war against empty buildings and tunnels? It’s not as if they’re planning to eradicate Hamas. Netanayahu is not ready to sacrifice more soldiers for that.
Bibi decided for ceasefire with hamas because there are no empty buildings left in Gaza to bomb.
Before the ground op started I suggested that the Gazan civilian population be moved into the Sinai with airlifts to provide food and water, so we could attack with greater force and more surprise.
I think that if another conflict starts in the near future, Israel has to insist that all these nations, that are “so concerned” about the Gazan civilians, have to find a way to move them out so Israel can do a through job and not risk our soldiers and our civilians.
Of course, that will be a huge problem, because, like the Arab League before them, the international community wants to hang the “civilian Gazans” around our neck like a millstone and hope to deal with us that way.Let’s transfer the blame/responsibility from us to them…maybe there are still a few media friends that will be able to help us to “spin” that perspective.