Post by Murph on Apr 26, 2024 7:06:16 GMT -6
Netanyahu’s New Military Secretary Favors Israeli Control of Gaza on Day After the War
Brigadier General Roman Goffman, a fierce warrior who was critically injured in the defense of the Negev against the Hamas invaders on October 7, 2024, is expected to take over shortly the post of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military secretary, this week distributed a document to all the decision-makers in the country’s military establishment, endorsing continued Israeli control over the Gaza Strip after the victory.
The document was not received well, since it contradicts the views of the security brass as well as the official Israeli government’s position and that of the IDF, explicitly pledging they don’t wish to govern the lives of millions of Arabs in Gaza indefinitely, and that at the end of the war, they would transfer control to another party (which is yet to determined). Even PM Netanyahu, who said the IDF would remain in Gaza until things settled down there, did not speak of a continued long-term Israeli rule.
Goffman believes Israel should establish a military government in the Gaza Strip. Now, both he and the IDF have insisted that the document only expressed the new military secretary’s point of view, and Goffman also denied allegations that he was expressing his new boss’s opinion – but with the Rafah operation around the corner and the possible ending of the occupation part of the war in six weeks, to be followed by clearing operations to extinguish remaining terrorists’ nests, it’s important to know that Israel will not allow anyone else to run things in the Strip.
www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/government-israel/netanyahus-new-military-secretary-favors-israeli-control-of-gaza-on-day-after-the-war/2024/04/25/