Category: Gaza

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• Declare victory and go home — The exit John Kiriakou prescribed for Israel in Gaza: turn the territory back to the United Nations, declare Hamas destroyed, declare victory, then engage the Saudis on the Abraham Accords and negotiate a deal later. His reasoning was that nothing remained to destroy, that killing as many people as possible is not a viable policy, and that Israel had no other way out.
• The airbridge — John Kiriakou's definition of an airbridge, given when the term surfaced in reporting on German aid to Gaza: a direct path into another country's airspace along which safety is guaranteed — his worked example being Cyprus to Gaza, with an undertaking that the Israeli Air Force will not shoot the aircraft down.