This Truce Reflects the Failure of Israel’s War on Gaza by Mohammad Alsaafin

[R]ather than use his unparalleled leverage over Israel to prioritize an earlier deal that would have gotten captured Americans home, the U.S. president has seemed more interested in buying Israel time to expand its destruction in Gaza over the last month.

…If anything sums up the utter failure of this war, it is that. Between the genocidal calls to flatten Gaza and arrogant claims that the Israeli army wouldn’t stop until they had destroyed Hamas, there was clearly no strategy and no plan other than vengeance and destruction. A lot has been said and written in the last 6 weeks; few things have been as relevant as the Israeli Army spokesman’s admission that “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy,” or reservist major general Giora Eiland’s vow that “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.”