So, an article in the Jerusalem Post about comments made on [Hebrew] radio by former IDF Major General Israel Ziv is rather instructive to say the least. He says, ‘Hamas’s military capabilities have indeed been damaged, undoubtedly eliminated by the IDF, but they still have thousands of terrorists. The territory in terms of civilian control remains in the hands of Hamas; the organization is alive and is still kicking.’

He goes on to say, ‘In the absence of a policy, what is the IDF supposed to do? We are over five months into this war without any predictable political goal. Let’s say [that] we stayed until now. What is next? Even if we stayed and declared that we were occupying, we would become the new government in Gaza. [Our neocolony] would need to establish civil police and security systems and take care of the various services. What happened to us is not just the Hamas situation. The lack of decision‐making on our part is the most serious thing.’

He’s basically saying that [the neocolony] doesn’t have a strategy at all. I mean, essentially that’s what he’s saying, and indeed the question there he’s posing is rather interesting.

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Now interestingly, though he goes on to say [that] because of this, the public opinion in the world is ‘against us’, the point here is that in the end, he says [that] the U.S. will not be there for us either because there is a limit to what they are willing to contain. He warns that if [Zionism’s neocolony] goes back to being […] on its own, ‘maybe we can last a few months’, but says [that it] wouldn’t be able to continue to defeat Hezbollah in the north without backing from its allies and said ‘we’re already in a very serious situation. [Our neocolony] must make a decision.’

He [says that Imperial] America doesn’t work [for the neocolony], saying [that] they have worked with [it] until now but [Imperial] America doesn’t agree with [its] policy. When asked about the need to convince the U.S. of the necessity of the action in Rafah, he says ‘we’re not ourselves convinced’, asking if Rafah is so important, ‘why didn’t we enter anyway?’

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But crucially, he says by saying… that the IDF knows what to do but the war’s being lost. It has no goals, no direction. If you agree with the path of the government, the problems will continue. If not, please make room for someone else.