https://wapo.st/3J4jiUa

“.... A decisive majority of Security Cabinet ministers believed that the alternative plan that had been submitted to the Security Cabinet would neither achieve the defeat of Hamas nor the return of the hostages,” Netanyahu’s office added without elaborating on what the alternative plan was.

But the military’s senior leadership, including chief of staff Eyal Zamir, opposed conquering and reoccupying Gaza, according to two former Israeli officials and a person familiar with the prime minister’s decisions. That person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.

Zamir and his commanders were expected to have also laid out plans that included striking and besieging — but not entering — Gaza City, as well as the central area’s refugee camps, to pressure Hamas. In a statement Thursday, Zamir, who has clashed with Netanyahu this week, said that the military had already “met and even exceeded the operation’s objectives” in Gaza....

..... Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser, said Netanyahu and the Israeli army understand the price of occupation of Gaza, which Israel practiced from 1967 to 2005, the year before Hamas won legislative elections in the territory. He said that period had cost Israel in soldiers’ lives, billions of dollars and social divisions that still resonate in the heated public discourse...."

Anyone siding with this is heartless.

This is gonna be an even bigger bloodbath than we’ve already seen.

civilian casualties.

He is trying to fine-tune the killing rate to the maximum dead per day that will not result in a public outcry in the U.S. It is already far over what the rest of the world is ready to tolerate.

They can remind us yet again that Hamas can end Bibi's brutal, years-long campaign of deliberate civilian murder remains any time they want to.

Greed, power, and narcissism is the name of the game. Cruelty is a bonus. trump aspires to the same.

I think this was Netanyahu's plan all along, and the October 17 hospital bombing was the perfect excuse. Was it an inside job? Flame away.

Netanyahu’s Plan for Gaza Has Skeptics in Highest Levels of Israel’s Military

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-takeover-military-objection.html

"When Israel’s security cabinet ministers voted early Friday to approve a risky plan to take control of a war-torn Gaza City, objections flowed in from key international allies.

But criticism had also notably come from the highest levels of Israel’s own military — the same military that is expected to carry out the cabinet directive.

Earlier this week, the military’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, objected to expanding the war in Gaza, according to four Israeli security officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues. General Zamir raised questions about the exhaustion and fitness of reservists after a grinding, nearly two-year war in the enclave.

The Israeli military leadership has said that it prefers a new cease-fire instead of renewed fighting, according to three of the officials. Now one of the last commanders of Israeli forces in Gaza before Israel withdrew troops from the territory in 2005 is throwing cold water on the plan to widen operations in Gaza..."

Bibi has been funneling cash to Hamas for years to undermine the PA and with it a two-state solution.