What unites Hamas and Israel?

Gaza, with its oppressed people, became a victim of a very simple equation. The Hamas movement launched an attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which destabilized the entity of that state, especially since it led to large human losses of more than one thousand and two hundred people killed, in addition to the capture of dozens of Israelis, including a good number of soldiers. More than that, the attack destroyed the most important thing that Israel possesses and is proud of, namely the deterrence force that makes any party count ten times before launching an attack against it. What remains of Israel after it lost its deterrence power in the face of an armed organization, called "Hamas" and not in front of a state?

On the other hand, Israel, which was exposed by the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” had no choice but to take revenge in a brutal way after it discovered that it was fighting what it considered to be a life of war or death. This is at least what every Israeli feels who suddenly discovers that certain areas of the Hebrew state have become completely exposed to a movement like Hamas. There are areas where Israelis can no longer live, whether in the Gaza Strip or along the border with Lebanon. It must be recognized that the attack launched by Hamas radically changed the nature of Israel.

From Gaza, Hamas fought a war without a political horizon. The Islamic movement, which is an integral part of the global organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, despite its denials, cannot say what it wants and what the goal of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” is. Did it expect to open other fronts at the same time or was it just that it embarked on an uncalculated adventure whose results and repercussions are difficult to predict on the Palestinian level and in the entire region?

On the other hand, Israel is also fighting a war that has no political horizon. The absence of a political horizon seems to be what brings Hamas and Israel together at the present time, especially with Benjamin Netanyahu in power. What does Israel want from the destruction of the Strip, whose area does not exceed 365 thousand square kilometers and in which more than two million two hundred thousand Palestinians live? It is certain that it is not enough for Israel to consider that it has regained the deterrent power that it lost on October 7, 2023, for it to rest and think seriously that it cannot abolish the Palestinian people and remove them from existence.

Netanyahu's government is exploiting the "Al-Aqsa flood" to go beyond revenge and restore deterrence at the same time. It practically seeks to eliminate Gaza from existence. The most dangerous thing is that there is no one who can stop its crazy war on Gaza, which is likely to move to the West Bank. Such a transition, if it occurs, will not be according to a Palestinian agenda, but rather according to the agenda of the Netanyahu government. This right-wing government seeks to displace a portion of the West Bank population to Jordan, in implementation of an old, unattainable dream of the Israeli right.

Such an Israeli approach makes King Abdullah II very cautious and pushes him to focus on a very important point, which is stopping the Gaza war as soon as possible and seriously searching for a political solution. The position of the Jordanian monarch appears to be the height of sanity, with the aim of getting rid of the absence of politics on the one hand, and the Israeli madness that does not appear to have limits on the other hand.

It is no longer a secret that Israeli madness threatens stability in the entire region, especially with the continuing clashes between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon and with Iran exploiting the Gaza war to show its muscles in Yemen, Syria and Iraq. The "Islamic Republic" is flexing its muscles in Yemen, where the Houthis have moved in the Red Sea and are threatening navigation in it. The same applies to Syria, where the militias affiliated with Iran are the force in complete control of the regime headed by Bashar al-Assad. In Iraq, there is no longer an illusion that the state is the "Popular Mobilization Forces" militias that are mobilizing in border areas with Jordan and acting as if it were the Iraqi state or what was left of it...

Who will extricate the region from the absence of policy that is so clearly and brazenly expressed by Israeli brutality? What is certain is that the Joe Biden administration has all good and sincere intentions. This is what the US President expressed in the article he recently wrote in the Washington Post, in which he spoke again about the two-state solution. Talking about two states, Palestinian and Israeli, is beautiful and realistic. But this talk, which is accompanied by the need for a new national authority in Ramallah and a radical change in Israel, requires first and foremost an American president with leadership qualities. Such a president tells Israel, the first thing he says is that enough is enough. He also told the "Islamic Republic" of Iran that threatening to expand the war is of no use, on the one hand, and that its game based on blackmail is exposed, on the other hand.

Can the American administration fill the void resulting from the absence of politics, especially after it became clear that there is no viable political project for Hamas, while the Palestinian Authority is in a state of wear and tear, and there will be no more wear and tear... and Israel is just a faded monster that possesses nothing but weapons of killing and destruction!

Source: Annahar