Most Israelis oppose the
ceasefire with Hamas and feel less secure than before Operation Protective
Edge, polls broadcast on Channel 2 and 10 found Wednesday night. Fifty-four percent oppose the cease-fire and
37% support it, according to a Shiluv Millward Brown poll on Channel 2. The
poll found that only 29% believe Israel defeated Hamas and 59% think it did
not. The same number, 59%, said they
were dissatisfied with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s performance.
Satisfaction with Netanyahu fell to just 32%, down from 38% on Monday, 55% last
Thursday, and 82% on July 23. Netanyahu
fared better in a Midgam poll on Channel 10, which found that 55% were
satisfied with him. When asked which side won in Gaza, 32% said Israel, 25%
Hamas, 26% called it a tie, and 19% did not know.
The Channel 10 poll indicated
that a significant portion of the dissatisfaction with Netanyahu comes from him
not going far enough in the operation. Seventy- five percent said he should
have toppled Hamas. A majority of
respondents said war would restart in under a year, and 37% predicted it would
happen in less than six months. When asked if they felt more secure personally
due to the operation, 60% said they felt less secure and only 19% said more. Despite those numbers, Bayit Yehudi chairman
Naftali Bennett and other politicians on the Right said they do not intend to
take immediate action to unseat Netanyahu or topple his government. Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel
of Bayit Yehudi said it would be inappropriate to take such action after an IDF
operation.
He said that if the government
will fall, it would only be in another year and it would be over matters of
religion and state or the state budget. “Polls
show we’re the only party rising, so maybe theoretically it would be in our
interest to topple the government, but I don’t think we will,” he told Army
Radio. “Eighty to ninety percent of the
public do not want elections and they are right.” Netanyahu will, however, face a challenge
inside his Likud party. The chairman of
the Likud central committee, MK Danny Danon, announced on Wednesday that it
will convene in two weeks in rocket- stricken Ashkelon to discuss the operation
in Gaza. It was unclear on Wednesday
whether the prime minister would attend. Danon said the committee would also
deal with security policies regarding the challenges posed by Hamas, Hezbollah
and Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
“The Protective Edge war that
began with huge support ended with Israel shamed and confused,” he said. Labor chairman Isaac Herzog said he did not
expect Netanyahu to take any diplomatic steps following the cease-fire. He
hinted that an election was the only chance for a diplomatic deal. “It will be up to the public to decide,” the
opposition leader told Army Radio. “Only a revolutionary diplomatic process can
guarantee us a better and quieter future. I know it will take time for the
public to realize it, but whoever wants to prevent Judea and Samaria from
becoming Gaza will have to understand that we need to go toward a diplomatic
maneuver.”
ON THE OTHER HAND….. Aug 28, 2014, 11:30AM | Rivka Salomon
Khaled Mashaal: “The Agreement is a Loss
for Hamas”
Although
the Hamas terrorist organization celebrated victory in the streets of Gaza, the
most senior level members of Hamas refuse to take part in the festivities.
According to the head of the Hamas political bureau, a ceasefire with Israel
cannot be considered an achievement. On
the other hand, the Gazans blame Mashaal for refusing to accept the ceasefire
earlier, which unnecessarily prolonged the war. The Hamas leadership continued
the fighting in Gaza without additional achievements aside from barrages of
rockets on the Gaza periphery and Eshkol.Many Hamas leaders support the
inevitable celebrations in the streets of Gaza. There were only thousands and
certainly not tens of thousands. Although they went out of their bunkers, they
are still not seen in the streets. Hamas does not have a real sense of
accomplishment. However, there is an attempt to pretend they had a victory by
succeeding to “stand on our own for 50 days.”
Hamas Negotiator Attacked, Both Legs Broken
It’s tough to be a Hamas
negotiator. If your coworkers and friends are unsatisfied, you can get fired,
literally. Amad Al-Almi, a senior Hamas
official who represented Gaza in Cairo during the negotiations with Israel,
returned to Gaza, to what seems to be some unsatisfied friends and
coworkers. Al-Almi’s fellow Hamas
terrorists and other attacked him and broke both his legs, according to Channel
2′s Ehud Ya’ari. Al-Almi is believed to
also be the Iranian representative within Hamas. The reason why Al-Almi was attacked is still
not known, but we can guess. Yesterday Hamas kingpin Khaled Mashaal told the
Hamas leadership that the ceasefire agreement is a loss for Hamas.
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