After two decades of incessant Palestinian attacks on Israel it seems Israel has run out of patience for tolerating an interminable conflict and has decided to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. It is an understandable choice by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Having the terror organization Hamas with a quasi legitimate governing status for most of that time has enabled the development of a vast underground terror cache of missiles and other weapons frequently used to attack Israel. Evidently the October 2023 invasion by Hamas to kill and kidnap Israelis from Israel and the years long refusal of Hamas to return living hostages or surrender to end the need to interminable war in the Gaza sometimes aided and abetted by external forces like the Houthis of Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran has brought the strategic Israeli need to change the context of the conflict of international war upon Israel.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/04/netanyahu-says-decision-made-for-full-occupation-of-gaza
The loss of civilians in the Gaza as casualties of the conflict is of course terrible. Simultaneously Christians and Druze are being killed in Syria as a part of the broader Muslim assertiveness through death for increasing empowerment. Syria is now led by a former member of Al Qa’eda, and like Ukraine’s Prime Minister has probably employed tawfiq (lying deceit) to trick President Trump into partially supporting their personal objectives of power through killing antipathetic persons.
It is a paradox that half of the Muslim world is developing almost cordial relations with the west while the other half is a hotbed of terrorism. When Israel develops the Gaza into a kind of beach resort and allows vetted Palestinian civilians to return there will still be conflict and terrorism by Hamas. However the underground base of Hamas terror weapons and equipment will no longer exist and the Gaza will no longer serve as a base with moderate impunity to attack Israel from. Hamas never participated in the Oslo accords and obviously has no respect for them as the Palestinian Authority once professed to have following the P.L.O.’s acceptance of the Accords. Given political sovereignty over the Gaza, Palestinians used it as a base for direct attacks on Israel.
In the future there may be a different path to a Palestinian return to the Gaza through a number of channels after peaceful, normalized relations exist between Palestinians and Jews. Until that time, if terror continues through new and traditional sources it is unlikely that Israel will want to try again a one-hand clapping approach to peace by giving the Gaza to the next generation of terrorists. No one should should expect a codicil to the 1994 Oslo Accord.
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