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Sun 17 Dec 2023 10:22 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel is not the safest country in the world for Jews

There does not seem to be an end in sight for the war on the Gaza Strip due to internal Israeli considerations and the resistance’s insistence on continuing the fighting until God decrees something that was already in effect. 


Internal considerations in Israel are summed up in Netanyahu’s awareness that his political life ends with the end of the war, and begins with criminal files awaiting him in the courts and committees investigating his role in the negligence that occurred on 10/7, and his belief that achieving a victory, any victory, in this war may mitigate his bad political end. 

His political history gives him some credit in his record, as he spent the longest period as prime minister in the history of Israel, and no one expected his political career to end in this way. Therefore, Netanyahu will continue, in a demagogic manner, to raise his expectations from the war, and to resort to playing the string that the extreme right wants to hear, because he believes that this right is his only lifeboat in this turbulent sea, and that he can convince him that he is the most qualified to continue running the government in Israel to implement the Presbyterian plan to establish Jewish Kingdom.


The Council of War and its aftermath
As for Minister of Defense, Joab Galant, he is unable to digest or “swallow” the cruel insult to which the invincible army was subjected, which shook the foundations of the Israelis’ sense of security in their homes and in their state, the aim of which was said to be to create a safe national home for the Jews, especially after the Nazi Holocaust. Galant, who will also have to stand before the investigation committees and be held accountable for the negligence that led to the disaster that befell the Israelis on 10/7, is trying through this war to restore the morale of the army, which was damaged to the core, and to achieve any form of victory that improves its situation after the war. It reduces the burden of the price he will pay as a result of this negligence.


Gantz, the war council trinity, is trying to play the role of "Mr. Security" and feels euphoric whenever he looks at the public opinion polls that indicate that he won by more than double or double the seats he has today in the Israeli Knesset and promises that he and no one else will be the next prime minister. This is taking into account the signs of cracks that have begun to appear in his alliance with Gideon Sa'ar, who seems to have enjoyed sitting in the government with Netanyahu and is seeking to separate his "Tikvah Hadashah" party from the coalition he established with Gantz's party, and return to the Likud House in which he grew up.


Together, these factors make thinking about searching for an end to this ugly, dirty war seem to be on the horizon, and that preferring the subjective considerations of those in charge of it is stronger than the humanitarian considerations, whether the mass murder and barbaric destruction in the Gaza Strip or the deaths and injuries of many Israeli soldiers, and, more or less, my day is in a battle that could have been prevented a long time ago if Israel had abandoned the lust for expansion and regional expansion and accepted the recognition of the right of the Palestinians to live freely in an independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel and on the basis of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which is still on the table and can still be formed. 


As a basis for an acceptable settlement of the conflict, especially since it is the only political initiative that enjoys the consensus of all Arab countries, as well as the Islamic countries that are members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, including Iran.


Fighting to win one of the two good deeds
As for the resistance in the Gaza Strip, all indications suggest that the resistance did what it did on 10/7 and it expected the violent Israeli response, perhaps not with the violence that occurred, and it prepared for a long-term battle and prepared its men to fight and withstand this war from a ideological jihadist standpoint seeking victory. One of the two good deeds is victory or martyrdom, and it sees each of them as a gain, not a loss. It is not expected to surrender or retreat as Israel thought.


In the face of this intransigence on the part of Israel, which sees Hamas remaining on stage as a defeat that Israel cannot accept, even if it kills thousands of Hamas supporters, or condemns to death tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, because its war leaders are governed by the aforementioned considerations. Its adherence to the idea of eliminating Hamas puts it in the face of a long war with no end in sight, and the Islamic resistance’s insistence on victory or martyrdom in return coincides with the path that Israel has entered, which is walking on a path from which there is no return.


The third party that does not exist!
In the face of this situation, a third party must intervene forcefully to separate the roosters who have bloodied each other, and none of them shows any intention or desire to stop fighting.


Unfortunately, such a third party does not exist on the international scene because of the way the major Western countries, led by America and Germany, dealt with the war on the Gaza Strip. In addition to the Jewish influence and control over their policies on the one hand, and their sympathy with the Jews for common religious considerations and historical responsibility, as is the case with Germany, these countries see this war as a continuation of the war against political Islam for some of them, and against Islam and Muslims in general for others, and believe That it is possible for Israel to wage a proxy war on behalf of these countries against Islam, especially after Israeli propaganda succeeded in the first days of the war in drawing a stereotypical image of Hamas that placed it within an ISIS framework and found those eager to pick it up and believe it.


These facts will cause the region to revolve in a vicious circle of bloody violence, the results of which cannot be predicted, while acknowledging one fact proven by this war, which is that Israel is not the safest region in the world for Jews, but perhaps the most dangerous for them, and that the negative impact of the expansionist ambitions of extremist Jewish groups Whether religious or national, its violations of the human, political and religious rights of the Palestinians, its desecration of their sanctities, the plundering of their lands and property, its refusal to acknowledge the national rights of the Palestinian people, and the Palestinians’ response to this aggression have become a real existential threat to the security, stability and survival of Israel.
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