Almost titled this Iranian Hostage Crisis 2024 edition.
The stages of this event are:
- Yay! The war can end and there can finally be elections in Israel and Palestine. Nothing good was ever going to come from this war.
- Hold on… the timing of this is very similar to the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1980-1981…
- Oh shit… Likud is in the lead…
There will be cables. There is a lot of information on this which will not be public for a long time to come.
But if I were a betting man I would be putting my money on the purpose of all of this was to keep Netanyahu in power and remove Biden from office from the very beginning.
I also have deduced from the reading I have done that Hamas and Likud deliberately time their conflict to keep each other in power. They have been doing this since Hamas was founded.
What happened to the point of this war being to “destroy Hamas?”
We shall see…
I stand by my stance that a strictly military victory is impossible to work in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There needs to be a democratic process involving all people in the concerned region.
I am just very wary about the timing.
If I am right that this war was always about removing Biden from office and keeping Netanyahu in power, then Biden literally sowed the seeds of his own destruction by funding Netanyahu’s war, plus he is really bad at choosing his friends.