Le Figaro newspaper said that Israel must choose between maintaining military control over all of Mandatory Palestine while continuing to live in intermittent chaos, and giving up 22% of it to create a demilitarized Palestinian state and win peace on its borders, according to newspaper columnist Renaud Girard. .
Renaud Girard explained that he found a consensus in Israel, which he visited 10 days ago, on the idea of destroying the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) until the end due to the shock that Israeli society suffered in the wake of the magnitude of the losses it suffered in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7 last. In which about 1,250 Israelis were killed, that is, 8 times more than those killed in the 2006 Lebanon War, but also because of what he described as the brutality of crimes committed by Hamas against peaceful civilians, according to his claim.
The future of war
Reno believed, in his article in this right-wing newspaper, that Hamas in its revolutionary war is sufficient for it not to lose completely, but the Israeli government today does not intend to provide “the slightest gift” to the movement, so he wondered with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, will this cause Israel to create new enemies?
Lloyd Austin says that Israel, by continuing its indiscriminate bombing of a densely populated area such as the southern Gaza Strip, will turn a tactical victory into a strategic defeat, and therefore it must realize that the escalation of criticism against it in its faithful ally America means that the time has come to prevent the Israeli right from doing anything. To remove the fanatical settlers who are ready to kill in the West Bank, it is also time for the Israeli army to stop destroying the infrastructure necessary for normal life in Gaza.
The writer concluded that the moment of truth is approaching for Israel, and in this regard, he urged the resumption of the 2008 Olmert-Abbas negotiations from where they left off, when Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas made a mistake by not accepting the “generous” offer made by then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
The offer – according to the writer – is for Israel to annex 3 settlement blocs representing 80% of the area of the occupied Palestinian territories, and to establish a Palestinian state on 94% of the West Bank, provided that it takes the remaining 6% from the Negev Desert and the sovereign corridor linking Gaza to the West Bank, and it will be… Its capital is in the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem, with the holy sites placed under international administration.
Renaud Girard concluded that the regional powers must convince the Palestinians of the impossibility of the return of refugees to Israel, which wants to remain a Jewish state, stressing that America has the necessary means to support this solution politically, and that the oil countries have the necessary funding for it, and “if the Palestinians do not take advantage of this extended hand And the opportunity to build their state, and they continued their dream of throwing the Jews into the sea, they would deserve their disastrous fate,” in the words of the writer.