The title is displayed in large size on the website of the Wall Street Journal. “Benyamin Netanyahu now faces a difficult choice: declare victory or continue the fighting.” The conservative New York daily hardly dares to believe in the first option. And yet: after a year of bombings, massacres, all-out geopolitical fractures, can the death of Yahya Sinwar on October 16 open the way to a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza?
The hypothesis, unthinkable twenty-four hours ago, has crept into the columns of the Western press almost everywhere. After all, the sponsor of the bloody attacks of October 7, 2023 is no more. “The entire high command was killed, apart from Sinwar’s brother Mohammed, who oversees day-to-day military affairs”note the Wall Street Journal.
On the one hand, Tel Aviv can therefore logically claim victory over the Islamist organization. “Especially since the Israeli military authorities have been repeating for months that a pure and simple annihilation of Hamas is not realistic.” On the other hand, a weakened Hamas led by a less extremist current could end up conceding an agreement to release the hostages, still considered by the Hebrew state as a sine qua non condition for the end of its military operations. “Perhaps using the last 101 hostages, half of whom are presumed dead, as leverage to
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