Lieberman thwarted ceasefire deal with Palestinians

Military analysts said today that the remarks of the Palestinian resistance that Israel receded terms agreed upon on Thursday, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

The newspaper analyst Alex Fishman said: “The remarks of the Palestinian delegation and Hamas that Israel receded agreed upon deal regarding cancelling the buffer zone and expanding fishing zone were true.”

Fishman said that the reason behind this gap was the Israeli foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who disclosed the terms of the deal brought to the government by the Israeli delegation to Cairo.

He expected that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to propose the Egyptian document as a final draft deal for approval, but when Lieberman disclosed its terms for the ministers before the approval, the document lost importance.

Thus, the team returned to Cairo on Sunday with new amendments caused by the pressure of the three opposing ministers Naftali Bennett, Gilad Erdan and Lieberman.

Based on what Fishman said to the Israeli newspaper, it became clear that internal disputes in the cabinet which decided the issue and reaffirmed the saying that “Israel has no external policy, but it acts based on politics and results of internal clashes.”

Meanwhile, other analysts said that the failure of the truce gives Netanyahu another chance to end what he did not in the first stage of the battle –solving the situation with Hamas militarily.

Analyst Barak Rafid said that the new situation gives Israel the chance to turn to the UNSC to ask for a resolution to bring a lull to the region. Thus, Israel would invest the international cooperation in order to put Hamas in the corner even if the fight did not end.

Such situation obliges Hamas to take a fatal decision regarding its future, especially if the international resolution was accompanied with mechanisms that guarantee disarmament of Hamas and bans it from rebuilding its military power.