{"id":15408,"date":"2024-02-12T00:46:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/netanyahu-declares-victory-is-within-reach-as-hamas-reduced-to-last-remaining-bastion\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T00:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:46:27","slug":"netanyahu-declares-victory-is-within-reach-as-hamas-reduced-to-last-remaining-bastion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/netanyahu-declares-victory-is-within-reach-as-hamas-reduced-to-last-remaining-bastion\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu declares \u2018victory is within reach\u2019 as Hamas reduced to \u2018last remaining bastion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that victory over Hamas in Gaza is \u2018within reach.\u2019<\/p>\n

Netanyahu made the statement during an appearance on \u2018Fox News Sunday\u2019 with host Shannon Bream. He said Israeli forces have beaten Hamas back to its final stronghold in Gaza and argued the campaign must continue to deliver the final blow.<\/p>\n

\u2018Victory is within reach,\u2019 Netanyahu said. \u2018We have already destroyed three-quarters of Hamas\u2019 organized terrorist battalions. Three-quarters, 18 out of 24 \u2013 we\u2019re not going to leave the other six. That would be like you leaving a quarter of ISIS in Iraq in place and you say, \u2018Well they can have their little territory. It\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Obviously, ISIS would re-establish itself. Hamas-ISIS would re-establish itself, too, if we don\u2019t finish its last remaining bastion,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Bream asked Netanyahu about recent comments from President Biden that appeared to criticize Israeli operations in Gaza. Biden said on Thursday that \u2018the conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip has been over the top.\u2019<\/p>\n

Netanyahu told Bream that he was not sure what Biden meant by the statement and added he has not spoken with Biden since he made the comment.<\/p>\n

He went on to list the various efforts Israeli forces are making to minimize the loss of civilian life in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Fighting in Gaza remains fiercest in the southern city of Khan Younis, where Hamas\u2019 top leaders are believed to be holed up in a network of tunnels.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu has said Israeli forces will remain in Gaza for an extended period following the war, another friction point for the Biden administration. Biden has argued that occupying Gaza after the war would be a \u2018mistake\u2019 and has urged Netanyahu to work out a two-state solution.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Palestinian people deserve a state of their own and a future free from Hamas,\u2019 Biden wrote in a November 2023 opinion piece in the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Critics argue a two-state solution is currently unrealistic. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman says Palestinians \u2018are not willing\u2019 to accept a Jewish state, and added that any Palestinian state would be extremely likely to become a terror state.<\/p>\n

\u2018I do not think a two-state solution is possible, and, even if possible, it is not advisable. For more than 50 years, hundreds of self-proclaimed \u2018peacemakers,\u2019 led by the United States, have attempted to coerce Israel and the Palestinians into a two-state solution,\u2019 he said. \u2018The efforts repeatedly fail regardless of who\u2019s in charge.\u2019<\/p>\n\n

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that victory over Hamas in Gaza is \u2018within reach.\u2019 Netanyahu made the statement during an appearance on \u2018Fox News Sunday\u2019 with host Shannon Bream. He said Israeli forces have beaten Hamas back to its final stronghold in Gaza and argued the campaign must continue to deliver the final <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}