American and European rejection of "displacement"... but without credibility

It is difficult to forget the images of premature babies waiting for the end of life, to forget the storming of the Shifa complex and other hospitals in northern Gaza by a military full of hatred and barbarism, or to forget the incident of the National Baptist Hospital and the hundreds of victims who died there and the attempt to exonerate the Israelis from it, for no other reason than inhumane the malice that  implied that attacking a site with a Christian title offends public opinion sympathetic to an occupying force that kills innocents in defense of this occupation. 

With the repeated question that has traveled the world: How many victims are enough for Israel to consider that its revenge on Gaza has been accomplished? There was no answer except more killing chasing those walking along the paths of displacement, in UNRWA schools, and in homes near and far. The world was so overwhelmed by the extent of the Palestinian death that the Israeli killing machine had accumulated on its conscience, to the extent that it forgot the dead in the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip after attacking them on the first day, as if the Israelis themselves did not also respect the lives of their victims.

There is no secret anymore, as Israel is heading to invade the entire Gaza Strip. “We will be in a place,” Benjamin Netanyahu said, meaning reoccupation. Joe Biden only said that “that would be a mistake,” meaning that he would let him occupy and then see how he could secure political coverage for him. But the Israeli wants to control the ruins of what once was, and cities with a history older than Israel, and wants to exterminate a generation of Palestinians and occupy a land without a population to ensure safety, but it does not establish any security or peace.

Where do the residents go? The bombing and killing will continue until the displacement scenario becomes a reality. Egypt has previously rejected and is currently rejecting this project, Jordan rejects it, the Arab-Islamic Summit also rejects it, even the Europeans say they reject it but no one believes them, and the American administration even rejects it but is evasive to keep it on the table, and its argument is ready, as it is waiting for some end to the war in order to defend “ “Realistic” displacement, under the pretext that the Gaza Strip will be ruins that no one can contribute to its restoration, in addition to the most important thing, which is the impossibility of rehousing two and a half million people - with or without “Hamas” - who pose a “danger” to Israel and its security, ignoring that the occupation was and will remain a danger to the entire Middle East.

Displacement is rejected, not only because it is “forced” and therefore considered a “war crime” by international law, but also because it does not constitute a solution to the “Gaza dilemma” but rather confirms the pursuit of the “Gaza Nakba 2023” (according to a statement that Minister Avi Dichter derived from internal discussions). It is rejected because it actually aims to liquidate the entire Palestinian issue (in fulfillment of the ambitions of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir and their religious Zionist doctrine). 

Even the Hebrew press disapproved of the rhetoric of extremists whose longing to restore the Gush Katif settlements in the southwest of the Gaza Strip, in addition to being astonished at the low and obscene level of populist rhetoric in which military commanders say in the most “polite” language: “We will annihilate it (the Gaza Strip) and annihilate its memory.”

More than the madness of individuals, this reflects an unbridled collective hysteria with no limits to its vengeance and brutality, and this is what appeared in the first contact between the military and everyone else in the Shifa Complex. They said, false propaganda is necessary. They brought medical supplies with them while the hospital was out of service and did not bring fuel to restart it. Then they sabotaged the equipment and destroyed the medicine cabinets. They did not care about the sick and injured and killed those trying to escape from the displaced people crowded around the hospital. They left everyone for days without No water or food, then they gave them an hour to leave on foot, and some of them were unable to walk due to their health condition. At that moment, Yoav Galant (Defense Minister) did not say which of the “human animals” was: the Israeli military or the civilians he was abusing?

There are no words to describe what has become “beyond hysteria,” especially after discovering that there is nothing reliable beneath the hospital: no leadership, no Hamas fighters hiding there, no weapons arsenal, no hostage takers, and no operating room, and assuming it exists at all. Since the start of the ground operation, there has been sufficient time to evacuate and move them. In any case, these were allegations based on old intelligence information, but that did not prevent even the White House from insisting on believing them, even though media witnesses brought in from CNN and the BBC said that the Israeli story and outcome were empty. In fact, the matter is not about accessing the "tunnels" as much as it was about completing the emptying of northern Gaza of its remaining residents who had no place to resort to. But the occupation does not want their presence, as it learned from its long experience with the Gaza Strip before its withdrawal from it in 2005 the impossibility of coexistence between Gaza and the occupation.

This erratic Israeli approach has a strong impact on “post-war Gaza,” and there is no vision of ending it. Discussions are built on assumptions, the most important of which is “eliminating Hamas,” which in this case means that the war will last without a specific “end,” because the Israelis were not content with about fifty thousand Palestinians dead, missing, or injured, and the destruction they caused. Rather, they do not recognize any “victory.” Unless the Hamas missiles stop completely, and unless they reach Muhammad al-Deif, Yahya al-Sinwar and others to arrest them or show their murdered bodies... All the other hypotheses proposed seem absurd as long as there is no international will - specifically American - to prevent Israel from reoccupying the Gaza Strip, and to resolve the issue. 

The people of Gaza remain on their land because this is simply their right. The United States and the Western world face two tests: either respect and enforce international law, or submit to the law imposed by the Israeli occupation. Either there is a real determination to achieve the “two-state solution,” or a determination to consider this solution merely a symbol of permanent hypocrisy.

Since the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack and the war that followed it, it has been frequently said that “what happened did not come out of nowhere” (Antonio Guterres), and that it was “the result of the international community’s failure to find a political solution to the Palestinian issue” (Josep Borrell). These are two facts that cannot be denied even in internal discussions in Washington, London, Berlin and Paris, without their public acknowledgment. 

The issue raised by the war is related in particular to a “Western function” that Israel failed to perform, and to “peace agreements” that it disrespected and mis-implemented, using the “Oslo Accords” as a means to perpetuate the colonization of Palestine and its people, and relying on absolute American support that is not devoid of stupidity. 

Now Washington and others lack the presence of a “vibrant and ready” Palestinian Authority, forgetting that they and Israel have done everything to weaken and incapacitate this authority.

Source: Annahar