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BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,215, February 5, 2024
“We cannot always prevent the murder of workers in an orchard or sleeping families, but we can set a high price for our blood. A price too high for the Arab settlement, the Arab army and the Arab government to pay. … [Retaliation operations] are not for vengeance. It is an act of punishment and warning, that if that state does not control its population and does not prevent them attacking us – the Israeli forces will cause havoc in its land.“
IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan,
Lecture to IDF officers: “Retaliation Operations as a Means of Ensuring Peace”, July 1955
(Published in IDF monthly journal Skira Hodsheet, August 1955).
WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
Negotiations:
There have been many reports of negotiations between Israel and Hamas but no concrete results.
In return for handing over the remaining hostages, Hamas and its partner/rival the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are demanding a complete and final ceasefire, total Israeli withdrawal from Gaza territory, the release of all their members held in Israel (more than 5,000), and international guarantees that Israel will not renew its offensive afterwards.
Israel obviously refuses to …read more