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West Bank Emerges as Israel’s Primary Security Threat – Analysis

Yonah Jeremy Bob

Jerusalem Post, Nov. 27, 2024

“This will continue to be a focus for Iran because it is an indirect way to confront Israel, and Iran will have more plausible deniability than on other fronts because the terror actors will be Palestinian terror groups with whom there is no ceasefire anyway.”

No one is saying this explicitly, but the 2023-2024 Middle East war is basically over.

Surprisingly, what this means is that the greatest near-term danger to Israeli security will return to being the West Bank, as it was before this war.

How does that make any sense?

First, the IDF defeated most of Hamas militarily by February, and after waiting three months, in May-June, Hamas was finished off in Rafah.

Israel has not gotten back the hostages, and many of them have died since February, but that decision is not only a military one; it is a political and diplomatic one as well.

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