“Hamas is an ideology, we cannot eliminate an ideology,” said Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. Peace negotiations are stalled.
Amid the stalemate in the Gaza Strip peace negotiations, the Israeli army spokesmanrear admiral Daniel Hagarisurprised this Wednesday by stating that The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas could not be eliminated. The government of his country issued a statement to “clarify” his statements.
“Hamas is an ideology, we cannot eliminate an ideology. “To say that we are going to make Hamas disappear is to throw sand in people’s eyes,” he said. Hagari to the Israeli station Channel 13. This view of the Islamic movement is out of harmony with the predominant discourse in Israel, where they describe it as a terrorist and aim for its destruction.
For Hagariit is necessary to think about Hamas and, therefore, the conflict from a greater complexity, taking into account what this movement represents for the Palestinians. “If we don’t offer an alternative, in the end, we will have Hamas” in power in Gazahe predicted.
The statement from the Netanyahu government
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Hagari’s assessments were quickly refuted by the Israeli prime minister’s office, Benjamin Netanyahu. “The political and security cabinet headed by Prime Minister Netanyahu defined as one of the objectives of the war is the destruction of Hamas’s military and government capabilities“they stated in a statement. “The IDF [Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel, el ejército] They are, of course, committed to it,” he added.
For his part, the Israeli Army released another statement where he tried to “clarify” Hagari’s sayings. In reality, the military spokesman would not have meant that Hamas could not be eliminated because it was an ideology, but rather that spoke “of the destruction of Hamas as an ideology and idea.”
To leave no room for doubt, the statement states: “any other statement would be taking things out of context.”
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