In an interview at Foreign Policy of Israeli hostage negotiator Boaz Ganor by Tal Alroy, Mr. Ganor selects a variant o my option B from my musings over the likely outcome of the war between Israel and Hamas:
I would expect to see a military operation in large parts of Gaza changing into rescue operations here and there based on new intelligence on the whereabouts of the hostages.
The consideration of the Israeli hostages will become a minor consideration. The success of the military operation and the guarding of the lives of the Israeli soldiers would probably be the first priority.
I suspect it may start out that way but that won’t last long and it will transmogrify into something easier on Israel’s soldiers and harder on the Gazans.
Speaking of predictions William Galston’s prediction that the attacks by Hamas over the weekend are likely the end of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s political career—that is confirmed by the opinion polls which are telling us that 4 out of 5 israelis blame him for Israel being caught flat-footed by the attack.
