I welcome the ICC prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants for Hamas leaders, Sinwar, Deif and Haniyeh, and for Israel’s PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant. Hamas leaders should be held accountable for the war crimes and crimes against humanity they undoubtedly committed

DM Gallant tells Likud faction meeting that US declarations on Palestinian statehood shouldn't be taken seriously. 'Forget the American declarations. They realize the PA won't be in Gaza and that there won't be a Palestinian state, not under this gov't and not under any gov't.'

Being talked about less is that the ICC is also seeking an arrest warrant against Yoav Gallant, who some in the US have been viewing a 'reasonable alternative' and possible future PM. cnn.com/2024/05/20/mid…

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

We always have choices. This is the one Netanyahu made, knowing full well who he was bringing into positions of governmental power. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

🚨A War Cabinet member told me: 'Netanyahu doesn't want to move on the hostages issue. He is willing to give up on them. He is holding back everything and leading us to the abyss'

ICYMI - don't miss this vital long read
nytimes.com/2024/05/16/mag…

'Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest'
#ShabbatShalom
youtube.com/watch?v=MZzn9V…

'America’s romantic mythology and wishful thinking about Israel encourage a tendency' to depict Netanyahu as the bad guy, the 'convincing ogre', whose removal would solve the problem. 'But that's an oversimplified story.' By Megan K. Stack nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opi…

Were DM Yoav Gallant to form his own party, per this week's poll, it would draw its votes entirely from anti-Netanyahu center-right and centrist parties - National Unity, Yisrael Beiteinu, Yesh Atid. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

So apparently it was more than just a 'few bad weeds'. 🤥nytimes.com/2024/05/16/mag…

Netanyahu is trying to maintain a coalition balance between hard right and extremist right - between supremacist, eliminationist forces and those who seem to be striving for an indefinite occupation that offers the Palestinians limited local autonomy.

SMH. He's PM. If he were that opposed to 'Fatahstan', he'd have pushed long ago to dismantle the PA. What Netanyahu really means - My policy was, is, and will continue to be to keep Palestinian political leadership divided so that diplomatic movement is impossible.

47% of Israelis support security establishment position re Gaza voiced yesterday by DM Gallant; 32% opposed; 21% don't know.
49% support civil control by Fatah, backed by Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, US ('with full IDF freedom of operation'); 26% want IDF to control civil affairs.