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Μλα εκεχειρλα &sigma τζδετοε&nu ;ιχοκης Χαμàς /></p> <p><strong>The US may be pushing as hard as ever to reach a truce that will also bring back to Israel those prisoners who have survived, but this is exactly the scenario that essentially “ties” the hands of both political leadership of Hamas but also of the prime minister of Israel.</strong></p> <p>On the one hand, Hamas, which has in fact not lost any of its “high-ranking” officials, and no one has been arrested either, does not in any way want to lose the only substantial advantage it has over Israel: the hostages it has taken from his lands as hideous “spoils” on Black Saturday. If it hands over those hostages who have not been killed in its tunnels either by its own forces or by Israel's six-month sweeping bombardment, it will not be able to do the slightest thing in order, as its political arm claims, to negotiate the establishment of a Palestinian state.</p> <p >This argument, as extreme as it sounds and as much as the entire planet is convinced that Hamas does not want peace under any circumstances, has a basis as against it there is an Israel that has leveled everything inside Gaza if we except one short-lived ceasefire in which women and children were exchanged for hostages has shown no sign of anything more.</p> <p><strong>“Annihilation of Hamas”</strong></p> <p>On the other hand, Israel and in particular its political leadership does not want a permanent ceasefire and an agreement with commitments to Hamas as Netanyahu cannot remain in power if there is no active front and something that he will almost obsessively present to his society as a major. Today, Prime Minister Netanyahu's narrative has not changed in the slightest: “we must eliminate Hamas and bring back the hostages”… he is trumpeting despite the mass demonstrations against him that today even go so far as to encourage his far-right partners.</p> <p> < p>Those who today insist and will continue to do so in an immediate solution are the Americans. Anthony Blinken, to be clear about this, does not leave the slightest room for maneuver to either side, even leaking details of what is happening at the Cairo conference. The head of American diplomacy knows very well that both Netanyahu and Hamas will put up as many obstacles as they can and that is why he chooses to play this crucial “game” with all the cards open.</p> <p><strong> American pressing</strong></p> <p>The US has been pushing for a cease-fire in Gaza, and it appears to be paying off by dramatically increasing humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave, where more than 1.5 million people are now at risk from both bombs and famine, and the diseases. At the same time, the US is also putting pressure on the Hamas side, making it clear that in a not-so-distant phase, there is a possibility that Hamas will not be at the same table. In essence, the US is clarifying today to Haniyeh that Qatar “lies far” from Gaza and that “Hamas is one and the Palestinian civilians” for whom Washington has decided to protect them.</p> <p> Within this outline, if the White House has also succeeded in anything, it is to hold the reins of the developments in the field itself and not one of the other two poles. Today, with the state of negotiations at this level, Netanyahu cannot help but “burn” to give the OK for the operation in Rafah, and Hamas cannot but agree to a truce even if the absolute “number” of prisoners that will released from Israeli prisons are fewer than those requested.</p> <p>source: CNN Greece/<em>Yiannis Charamidis</em></p> <p><noindex></p> <div class=Source: 24h.com.cy

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