Well, bright new strategies; land grabbing. So is that working? It’s working in the sense, that Hamas gets lesser space to operate on. But it is detrimental to the freeing of the hostages. That is really the conundrum. We have to reach two objectives that are mutually nullifying each other.

It’s a balance. Either you get the hostages by being soft, or you destroy Hamas by being strong.

Right now the balance is skewed, so the hostage negotiations have stalled but Hamas is getting destroyed.

Land grabbing was not my idea, and I think we should have found a much more balanced approach.

Supporting the peace movement would have been much more advantageous.

Now we just get more war, less hostages and therefor the final destruction of Gaza.

It’s skewed and will destroy Israel in the long run.

Just stalling peace, which it is, essentially, will bring us closer and closer to the edge.

We FEEL that we are doing something. Yet it is only the release of anger that we are feeling. Looking at the strategic situation with a neutral eye will tell us, that we have no more negotiations. We failed to capitalize on the rare movement of peace in Gaza. We will not totally destroy Hamas, as long as there is a chance for them to play a role, they will.

So it’s stupid, and that is the bare truth of it.

Following my strategic advise would have made peace already. But that is the thing, the war has become convenient. It’s a distraction. But wars are costly, and we will see what price we will pay for this war. Dragging it out is Russian roulette.

G-d bless the will to make sound and pro Israel decisions.