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<\/p>\nHowever, any resumption of the war in Gaza would most likely be time-limited and end back at some sort of ceasefire that Israel breaches on a daily basis \u2014 just at a lower scale of intensity, and with a continuously deteriorating humanitarian situation that receives only intermittent relief.<\/p>\n
In other words, a return to the same status quo. And why? According to all military officials, it is because there is no clear goal to be achieved in Gaza.<\/p>\n
This is especially true if the real goal of renewed hostilities is tied to internal Israeli political calculations, which in turn are influenced by Netanyahu\u2019s need to demonstrate some sort of achievement after the stalled campaigns in Lebanon and Iran. Neither he, nor his government, nor the Israeli military at large has succeeded in achieving any of the stated goals they set out to achieve in Iran, including regime change, let alone the decimation of the nuclear program.<\/p>\n
Back in October, when Hamas accepted Trump\u2019s terms for the ceasefire, it consulted the other Palestinian factions, which collectively agreed to the deal. But Trump\u2019s idea of a deal\u00a0wasn\u2019t favorable for Palestinians<\/a>, and after two years of what the entire world has now recognized as a genocide, the ceasefire\u2019s framework guaranteed no accountability, no reparations, no end to the Israeli blockade, and\u00a0no unity with the West Bank<\/a>. Even the reconstruction was mentioned without any guarantees. Instead, Trump\u2019s vision for Gaza was to turn it into\u00a0a playground for investors<\/a>.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t even to mention any broader Palestinian national demands for self-determination. The technocratic committee for the administration of Gaza was bound to Trump\u2019s Board of Peace \u2014 not to the PLO or the Palestinian Authority (PA) \u2014 and last February, Netanyahu\u2019s office officially rejected the technocratic committee\u2019s request to enter Gaza because it had used a\u00a0similar logo<\/a>\u00a0to the PA\u2019s. Yet Palestinians accepted the terms of the committee\u2019s formation due to the enormity of the calamity Israel has inflicted on Palestinians \u2014 in effect, the \u201cshock doctrine<\/a>\u201d through genocide.<\/p>\n Yet even such terrible terms for Palestinians, which were framed by U.S. negotiators, remained unsatisfactory for Israel\u2019s maximalist ambitions. If there is one part of the ceasefire deal that Israel implemented without any resistance, it is the splitting of the Gaza Strip in two through the drawing of the Yellow Line. Although it was nominally supposed to mark the first phase of Israel\u2019s military withdrawal from the Strip, Israel simply saw it as the next step in total colonization, as confirmed by the Israeli army\u2019s Chief of Staff,\u00a0Eyal Zamir<\/a>, when he said that the Yellow Line would be Israel\u2019s \u201cnew border.\u201d<\/p>\n And as the wars in Lebanon and Iran developed, Gaza faded into the background, and Palestinians\u2019 hopes of beginning to overcome the genocide faded as well. Since Israel and the U.S. haven\u2019t been able to conclude the war in Iran and Lebanon with complete Israeli military superiority in the Middle East, the region has been forced into a status quo of \u201cno war, no peace.\u201d<\/p>\n Israel had hoped that the outcome of the war on Iran and Lebanon would result in uncontested Israeli dominance in the region. That hasn\u2019t happened yet, and the signs of it happening aren\u2019t forthcoming. Yet without that strategic positioning of regional dominance, Israel lacks the capacity to end any war on any front. Crucially, however, it also lacks the capacity to go on and complete the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, especially with international criticism mounting and the army engaged in other never-ending fronts. The result? A continuation of the current dystopian, post-apocalyptic reality in Gaza.<\/p>\n