American website: Only Israeli military failure will stop the genocide in Gaza

The American website "Mondoweiss" published a report in which it confirmed that the only solution that would stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza is for the Israeli army to suffer a defeat, as happened to it when it invaded southern Lebanon.

  The website said in its report that the Gaza Strip is being subjected to the most intense bombing in the history of the Middle East, which has already been torn by conflicts, and the mass killings of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces are being committed on a daily basis. On the other hand, there is a growing belief that there is a level of death, destruction and suffering beyond which Western governments will stop or It significantly reduces its participation in the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, as well as its support for its actions.

But this assumption - according to the site - reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how such governments set their policies. Until the present moment, Israel has imposed a comprehensive blockade on the Gaza Strip, depriving an entire community of all basic supplies except oxygen. Entire towns and neighborhoods were destroyed. Within one month, more than 10,000 people were killed and perhaps three times that number injured, more than a third of them children.

  The website added that the Israeli bombing campaign has no legitimate military purpose or goal, but rather its clear goal is terrorism, revenge, physical destruction, and punishment of the entire society. The bombing campaign did not weaken the military capabilities of the Palestinian organizations in the Gaza Strip in any way. According to its own statistics, Israel has killed more UN employees than Palestinian military commanders.

If the scale of Palestinian death, destruction and suffering had actually played a role in Western governments' calculations, it would have made a difference. While Israeli forces directly and repeatedly bomb schools, hospitals, refugee queues, UN facilities, self-declared safe zones, and all forms of civilian infrastructure, most Western governments proudly continue to support the Israeli government. Pope Francis is almost the only Western leader who did not visit Netanyahu.

The site stated that during the siege of Beirut in 1982, the previous Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, and almost all other Israeli campaigns against the Palestinians since 1948 and especially after 1967, the policies of Western governments revolved around “Israel’s right to defend itself,” which is considered a duty and obligation, and it is the right The same thing that these governments have not granted to the Palestinian people on a single occasion since 1917.

For example, in 2023 US and European Union officials began referring for the first time to specific massacres of settlers in the West Bank as “terrorism.” However, they conspicuously refrained from stating that Palestinians have the right to defend themselves against terrorism. Instead, they called on the state that armed the settlers, deployed them as auxiliary militias to implement its policies, and ensured impunity for their actions, to exercise restraint. When governments cite Israel's right to self-defense against an occupied people, they are, in effect, supporting Israel's right to dispossess an entire people and seize their lands.

The website emphasized that what will bring about a change in the essence of Western policy is the Israeli military failure. For this reason, the Biden administration has devoted more energy to forcing Israel to formulate achievable goals. To give a prominent recent example in this regard, in 2006 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cheerfully welcomed Israel's war against Lebanon as "the birth pangs of a new Middle East." Confident that Israel would crush Hezbollah, the United States strongly rejected efforts to achieve a cessation of hostilities. 

But once Israeli armored columns and ground forces faced carnage when they attempted to advance into southern Lebanon, the United States immediately changed its tune and pleaded with the United Nations Security Council to adopt a ceasefire resolution.

In 1982, the United States gave Israel the green light to eliminate the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. Once it became clear that it lacked the capacity to occupy West Beirut, the Reagan administration sent Philip Habib to negotiate an agreement to protect the PLO. In other words, as long as the United States and other Western governments reject the truce in Gaza and focus on meaningless phrases such as “humanitarian truces,” it means that they still believe that Israel will or can succeed. If they reversed their position, this would mean that they concluded that Israel had failed.

The site noted that the alternative scenario is that Western governments have concluded that their behavior and Israel's behavior constitute a major threat to their own interests, and that the time has come to end the war. This could come in the form of growing instability in the region, threats facing puppet regimes within it, and the possibility of an expanded war that would require direct intervention, which the United States prefers to avoid, not to mention concerns about domestic economic or security repercussions, or partisan political possibilities or electoral calculations. .

In the absence of accountability or any opportunity for Israel to bear any consequences for its behavior - there has never been an example in which Israel has faced significant and sustained repercussions for its policies since 1948, so Israel knows it can move forward undeterred.

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