The world has become sick and tired. How many more pictures can it take of children dead and dying, people starving, houses in ruins, unimaginable tragedies of hundreds of thousands of citizens remaining without homes, food and a future. This is what the world is viewing, morning and evening, day after day. A war without end.
The world wants to see an end, that this tale will finally come to a finish and that it all will be behind us. Who remembers that a year and seven months ago those selfsame 'wretched' citizens, together with their dispatchers, massacred over a thousand Jews in vicious and brutal ways? To whom does it matter a whit that for the same amount of time, Israeli hostages are being held captive and treated inhumanly? The world is tired of this unending war and wishes to see a culmination to it all.
The most difficult problem of all is that apparently President Trump is also sick and tired of it all. As is well known, this president has a short fuse, perhaps too short, and also wants to see results here and now. He made an impressive tour among the Gulf nations and in Saudi Arabia, arrived at economic agreements of many billions of dollars, and even received a coveted little 'toy' in the form of an exclusive and extravagant presidential airplane. Only this annoying war beclouds his well-known dream of signing additional peace agreements and even hopefully arriving in Oslo to receive the Noble Peace Prize.
If Obama was awarded this prize only a few months after being in office, without lifting even half a finger to promote world peace, Trump dreams of receiving the award justifiably and rightfully because he deserves it.
He gave President Netanyahu absolute carte blanche in order to end this war quickly, to bring Gehennom to Gaza and to finish off Hamas. But now that he sees no end to this war, he is determined to end it anyway at all costs. Even if at the end, that cost will be paid by Israel.
All the countries of the West want to see Israel bending on its knees to receive the dictates of Hamas for an end to the war, leaving that organization as the sole determining factor ruling in Gaza. At first, Trump was against the whole world but by now, he is also disgusted and seeks to end this saga. He no longer wishes to see blood on the screen.
It no longer really interests him to see how nine of the Gaza doctor's children ended their lives. Was it from an Israeli shell or some abortive terrorist explosive which the Gaza army itself detonated? Here in Israel, the story hardly found the inside pages of newspapers. This, however, is what made the headlines of the major media publications of the world and calls for a stop to the war here and now.
The Chief of Staff wants two months in order to complete this task, but it is doubtful if he even has two weeks in order to do so.
