Israeli analysts and experts: Hamas will not kneel and has proven that it is in control of the arena

Analysts, former military personnel, and Israeli media professionals said that what is happening after about 50 days of war confirms that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is still strong and functioning, stressing that it imposed its conditions during the current truce.

Ehud Himo, a journalist on Channel 12, said that Hamas is adopting a policy of extending the truce and dissolving the war until it stops because it has proven, after 49 days of war, that it is still strong and in control of the arena.

He added, “It is not easy to say these things, but they are the truth because the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades succeeded in establishing a ceasefire in the north and south, even in areas that were supposed to be isolated from any communication.”

Even managing the process of liberating the detainees, according to Himo, is carried out as if it were a purely military operation, because they brought the released detainees at the specified time and the agreed place in Khan Yunis, which appears to be the second capital of Hamas after Gaza, as he put it.

Himo concluded that all of the above “means that Hamas will not be on its knees soon.”

Another guest said that he did not know whether Israel would return to war again after this truce or whether it would surrender, but he stressed that its surrender would mean the fall of the government whose existence would have no justification. He added, “They do not understand. It has been a religious conflict for more than 120 years, and Yahya Sinwar is not stupid and he taught us a lesson.”

As for Reserve General Tamir Hayman – the former head of the intelligence division in the occupation army – he said, “We know the sarcasm and cruelty of the other party (Hamas), and every day will tighten the nerves, and we need time to know the good from the bad in this deal.”

Hayman added, “We only know what is in our hands, but we do not know what alternatives exist, but we need to negotiate during the war, and we will know whether the deal is good or not after a time when we know the alternatives.”

Hayman believes that Israel is currently “caught up in Sinwar’s sarcasm and his cruel circus,” but stresses that “there is no better second deal as a benchmark.”

Hayman said “there is no such thing as all for all” and that the government had “succeeded in getting the best deal currently”.

In turn, Giora Eiland – former head of the National Security Council – said that the disturbing and shocking thing that the Israeli media does not focus on is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a press conference that the Red Cross would visit the prisoners and detainees who have not yet been released, and this has not happened.

He added, “Now neither Qatar, nor Hamas, nor Egypt, nor the United States, nor the Red Cross acknowledge that this was part of the agreement,” considering that this matter is “extremely important because history proves that all the prisoners that the Red Cross visited everywhere, including the Yom Kippur War… October 1973) They have returned, and in every place they have not visited, many of them have not returned, and this element is very ambiguous.”

Regarding Hamas’ current situation, Mikhail Melshtain, a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies at Reichmann University, said that talking about the term “breaking point” does not apply to Hamas.”

Mlishtain added that this term refers to countries whose army is dispersed at a certain moment, whose government stops working, and the public does not listen to anyone, stressing that this “does not apply to Hamas because it is a party of authority and a secret organization at the same time, and it has succeeded in operating so far despite the terrible and unjust strikes.” “Preceded.”