The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, publicly announced his plans for Gaza after the war. These plans included a sideways glance at US diplomacy.
The United States thinks it is unethical for him to ask Israel to keep its military force and security buffer zone in place. In his message, he also talked about his plans to free Israeli hostages and make Hamas’s government less military.
“Israel wants to maintain its operational freedom of action in the entire Gaza Strip, without a time limit,” he said. “It also wants to keep a security buffer inside the besieged territory.”
It said, “The security perimeter being built in the Gaza Strip along the border with Israel will stay in place as long as there is a need for it for security.”
The US is a friend of Israel and helped the country during the war. However, the US is against the buffer zone and has said in the past that it does not want one to be added.
In December, Matt Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said, “Gaza’s size must not be shrunk.” That is still our view, and it will stay that way. In light of this, any suggested buffer zone that was inside of Gaza would be against this principle and should be fought.
Netanyahu not only talked about a buffer zone, but he also said he wanted a “southern lock” on the border between Egypt and Gaza and that the UN Relief and Works Agency should be removed from the area because he thought they were involved in the attack on October 7.
He didn’t say anything about Palestinians and said they have no plans to take back Gaza or send innocent Palestinians back to their homes. There is a difference in how the US and Israel feel about each other because his plans and the paper go against what Washington wants.
Not much is known about whether the paper has been sent to Netanyahu’s war cabinet or not.
