Yes, there is a difference. Are there "good Palestinians" and "bad Palestinians"? Are all Palestinians the same? Are they all seeking to destroy us, and the only difference between them is a mask behind which Israel's potential murderers are hiding? After all, it is clear that differences between people are a human trait, and that in every society, just like among the Jewish People, there are some like that and some like that. It is not easy to throw out generalizations like "all Jews are the same," or "all girls want the same thing." There is nothing more simplistic than that.
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To say that there is no difference between Hamas and the PLO under Fatah's leadership is the ultimate way of saying that Israel is not prepared to talk to the Palestinian entity that recognized us, whose leader opposes the use of violence and believes in a two-state solution. The "theory" of "no difference" is factually wrong, of course, but historically helps the peace refusers: If they are all "the same," it means that the pragmatic agent willing to compromise will eternally be misleading.
Netanyahu's refusal to discuss the question of the day after the war and the control of the Gaza Strip with the Americans does not stem from a solution that he is hiding, but from the fact that he objects to the return of the Palestinian Authority (with which more intense security negotiations are being held, even though no one is prepared to admit this) to the Gaza Strip. If no solution is found, Israel will be the one to establish military rule there. He knows that the return of the PA will involve a return to the peace process, after which a Palestinian state will be established in the West Bank and Gaza, and since he has made himself Israel's best defender against the only solution that will guarantee the future of the Jewish state, he is simply not ready to talk about it.
Netanyahu's government was supposed to find itself at present in the midst of international discussions to establish a body that would temporarily lead Gaza, after Hamas. The composition of the Coalition prevents it from taking the most vital move imaginable. After the war, we will find ourselves in a conflict regarding the return of the PA to Gaza vis-à-vis a US administration that is closest to Israel than ever before. The events of October 7, in addition to the intelligence failure, are the result of a mistaken policy that favored Hamas, which was not ready for a political compromise, over the Palestinian cause that wants such a compromise. Whoever refuses to negotiate with the PLO continues to adhere to the old "concept," like the same blind horse that falls into a pit time and time again, and puts us all at risk.
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