Israel and the international community

by Sanaa Al-Jak

The Arab and Islamic bet is growing on a change in international public opinion towards the war of extermination waged by the Israeli killing machine against the people of Gaza, and it is relying heavily on popular movements and demonstrations that denounce the killing of Palestinian civilians, perhaps leading to pressure on its countries to abandon absolute support for Israel, do justice to the Palestinian people, and reach an agreement. A fair solution to his case.

But to what extent can such a given be relied upon?

It is known that Israel will not stand idly by exposing its image in the media game that it has controlled globally since the establishment of its entity, and it is certainly preparing to regain continued sympathy for its project to uproot the Palestinians from their land as compensation for the historical European persecution of the Jews, even though the project predates Nazism and its Holocausts by about two decades, and call for “tolerance” for everything it has committed and is committing in Gaza. It has not and will not leave any stray or incoming thing unless it invests it to its advantage.

Perhaps its concern for the image is reflected in French President Emmanuel Macron’s haste to say that he “unequivocally supports Israel’s right and duty to defend itself and the war it is waging against Hamas.”

The official French confirmation came after an Israeli objection to a previous statement by Macron urging “Israel to stop the bombing that kills civilians in Gaza.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s government rejected the statement and considered it “causes pain and discomfort to Israel,” and contradicts “the facts and the moral position,” because “the responsibility to harm to civilians should not be attributed to Israel, but to Hamas.”

The Israeli government does not hesitate to consider the mere reference to the killing of civilians in Gaza as anti-Semitism, according to its modern dictionary. Accordingly, yesterday, Sunday, more than 100,000 people came out in Paris and tens of thousands across France to participate in the “Great Civil March” against “anti-Semitism,” with a remarkable presence of the French political class.

Because the thing is mentioned, it is useful to return to the memoirs of former Jordanian Prime Minister Taher Al-Masry, in which he narrates that during his work as his country’s ambassador to France, the late President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing invited him to Jordan, and the latter accepted the invitation and visited a military site in the Umm Qais region on the Palestinian border. 

When the time came for the presidential elections in France a year after this visit, the Jewish community took action and used a picture of d'Estaing on the Umm Qais website looking through military binoculars at Israel, and underneath it was written that he had not visited Israel and looked at it through Arab military binoculars. The photo was widely distributed, and had a significant impact on his loss of the elections against François Mitterrand.

The task of “taming” the international community is a supreme Israeli interest, and a permanent duty that cannot be neglected, and today more than ever before, as if the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation came as a golden opportunity to enable Netanyahu to ride the propaganda wave required to escape from his crises into a war that he wants open, and he wants at any cost, we can achieve victories that erase these crises by implicating the international community in them.

Therefore, Netanyahu continues to insist that he will not stop the war on Gaza until he eliminates the last Palestinian under the pretext of eliminating “Hamas ISIS,” and he expects the international community to be lenient regarding his committing massacres that are classified as “war crimes,” as stated in the final statement of the Arab-Islamic summit. He does not care about embarrassing Western regimes with their slogans about attacking civilians, violating human rights, and violating international laws, as long as these regimes, to date, have not exerted actual pressure on him to stop the war.