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Six months into its war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel is running out of options.
Pressure is mounting both domestically and internationally for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shift course. Yet, as Middle East politics expert Ian Parmeter explains, he has backed himself into a corner.
At the start of the war, he set a high bar for victory: the complete destruction of Hamas and release of the Israeli hostages snatched during Hamas’s deadly raid into southern Israel on October 7.
He has achieved neither. And the war has reached a devastating stalemate, with more than 33,000 Palestinians now dead and famine looming.
As Parmeter notes, many Israelis want Netanyahu to prioritise the return of the hostages. And Israel’s chief ally, the United States, has made clear its growing frustration with the course of the war and the growing humanitarian crisis.
Netanyahu’s problem now is US President Joe Biden has limited Israel’s freedom of action in prosecuting the war. Given that, a diplomatic solution seems the only way forward – if the two sides can find a way to get there.
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Justin Bergman
International Affairs Editor
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Ian Parmeter, Australian National University
US President Joe Biden’s recent warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has limited Israel’s options in Gaza. And neither of Israel’s war objectives appear to have been met.
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Georgia Ward-Fear, Macquarie University; Rick Shine, Macquarie University
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