Netanyahu is finished": Seymour Hersh wrote an article about how Israel will not storm the Gaza Strip, but will begin to suffocate it in a #blockade "like the #Germans in #Leningrad".

"It is unlikely that Israel's armed forces, after years of performing "security" duties in the West Bank, will be able to withstand heavy fighting in the dense urbanisation of Gaza's two million inhabitants.

As for a ground assault, an insider tells me that a brutal alternative is being considered. It could be described as the "Leningrad approach", referring to the attempts by the Germans during the Second World War to starve the city now known as St Petersburg.

The option under consideration, an Israeli insider told me, is to continue to isolate #Gaza City in terms of electricity, food and other essentials.

#Gaza's ruling #Hamas has two to three days' supply of purified drinking water and is already facing food shortages. At some point, Israel may negotiate the release of some prisoners - women and children - in exchange for food and water.

According to the source, a veteran of Israeli security, #Netanyahu will have to go once the conflict with Hamas is over. Netanyahu is finished. He is a dead man walking. He will stay in his post until the shooting stops, maybe for another month or two".

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