"With tight lips, as if being forced by the President of the United States, Binyamin Netanyahu succeeded in saying that if and when and maybe and perhaps, he would be willing for there to be something obvious, something that Israel signed on to long ago and that he himself adopted 13 years ago.” - Ofer Shelah, writing in Maariv
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Israeli truce negotiator attacks Israel's leaders
After the collapse of the Egyptian brokered truce negotiations with Hamas, Israel’s chief negotiator, Amos Gilad, was quoted at length attacking his country’s leaders in Israel's Maariv newspaper.
"I don’t understand what it is that they’re trying to do. To insult the Egyptians? We’ve already insulted them.
It’s madness. It’s simply madness.
Egypt has remained almost our last ally here. For what? After all, it’s damaging to national security. Our very essence here is a choice between bad alternatives to worse ones and even worse ones.
The Egyptians have shown extraordinary courage. They’ve given us maneuvering room, they’re trying to mediate, they’re investing efforts, they’re showing goodwill of a kind they’ve never shown before. So it’s true that on the ground that comes out as 60% and not 100%... So what are we going to do?
Mubarak has been fair and courageous—the Rafah border crossing is closed, Hamas is under siege.
What are we thinking? That they work for us? That they’re a subordinate unit of ours?
We’re talking about a country with 85 million citizens, a country that almost destroyed us in 1948 and dealt us a blow in 1973.
Look at what is happening in the region, how the lava is bubbling, how everything is in an uproar, they also have the Muslim Brotherhood, look at Jordan, look at Turkey. Do we want to lose all that?"
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