It would be unwise to draw from Israel’s battlefield successes in the early stages of its war against Hamas a straight-line projection of total victory. No plan survives contact with the enemy. But those successes have surely focused the minds of Israel’s post-war planners. What is Israel’s plan for the Gaza Strip after Hamas? Does it even have one?
“There’s no going back to the status quo as it stood on October the 6th,” President Biden declared several weeks after the 10/7 massacre. There are, however, no guarantees that whatever replaces that status quo will be more stable than the intolerable conditions that preceded it. Moreover, the White House has made its opposition to a new Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip clear.
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