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To: Les H who wrote (48583)	10/29/2025 6:50:08 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48606

The Gaza War is not over Peace has again been declared prematurely Seymour Hersh Oct 29, 2025 President Donald Trump deserves kudos for his bullying of the Israeli leadership, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, into a settlement with Hamas that resulted in the return of the remaining live hostages and the bodies of all but three of the dead. The peace agreement will not move into its second phase unless the remaining hostage bodies are returned, along with the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed and buried in Gaza during the war that took place in 2014. I have been told by an informed Israeli that the Israeli intelligence community is convinced that Hamas knows where those bodies are. Trump has taken victory laps about the return of the hostages and, as the New York Times reported this week, he has repeatedly claimed: “I will decide what I think is right” for Israel. A new multinational command, the Civil-Military Coordination Center, headed by an American three-star Army lieutenant general, has been set up in Israel, and the press has been told that one of the general’s functions will be to decide when to engage Hamas in case of treaty violations. More specifically, a well-informed Israeli told me, the pending peace plan gives the American general “the right to overrule Bibi” if he concludes that a pending Israeli military incursion is not justified. Jared Kushner, the president’s businessman son-in-law who has been reincarnated in the US media as a foreign affairs expert, told 60 Minutes last week that it was his understanding that the president thought “the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing”—that is, continuing to bomb and kill Gazans in its ongoing effort to eliminate every member of Hamas—“and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.” The problem with these analyses is that little is known about the extent of the authority the new US command center has, if any. There are some in Israel who believe Netanyahu is required to coordinate his attacks with the center. If so, that agreement would be an unprecedented restraint on the Israeli leader. THE GAZA WAR IS NOT OVER - Seymour Hersh Netanyahu appears to take the position that he can take military action first and let the Americans decide how they're going to explain it to the media. They can doing this in a piecemeal fashion like they did during the Biden administration. The cover story is that Israel acted on its own and they go back to pretending everything's fine.