Prolonging the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip without taking action for the future of the Palestinian issue constitutes a suicide strategy for Israel and for the West as well, which holds every opportunity to increase the popularity of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) among the Palestinian population in particular and all Islamic countries in general.

This is how the newspaper "Liberation" opened journalist Renaud Girard's column, which he begins by asking: If what the Israeli government repeats that the residents of the Gaza Strip are hostages of Hamas is true, could it be a justification for systematically destroying infrastructure and residential buildings in this land, which has an area of 365 square kilometers? Square, which is inhabited by two million Palestinians and occupied by Israel since 1967?

The writer pointed out that the human and material damage (22 thousand dead) is so great in Gaza, that the life of the Palestinian population, who have nowhere to go, has become so fraught with danger that it is right to question whether the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched, consciously or Unconsciously, she unleashes her desire for revenge on residents locked inside an automated fence.

Collective punishment

And with the strategy that the Israeli government worked on ended in a miserable security failure on October 7, 2023, the politically frustrated Israeli government, which felt that it was close to the exit door, allowed itself to inflict collective punishment on the Palestinians, and when did collective punishment succeed in the post-World War II world? ? The writer wonders.

If Netanyahu's three goals - to destroy Hamas, demilitarize the Gaza Strip, and eradicate "extremism" among the residents of the Gaza Strip - appear legitimate after the Hamas attack, a careful examination shows that only the second goal can be achieved, because the Israeli army is militarily capable. To turn the sector into a field of ruin, it will be demilitarized for at least a while.

As for Hamas, it embodies an ideology that the power of bombs cannot confront, and “removing extremism” from the residents of the Gaza Strip is not self-evident - as the writer says - who would believe that the thousands of orphans left behind by the Israeli army’s bombings will stop avenging their fathers who died under the rubble?

Renaud Girard concluded that this Zionist invasion constitutes suicide for Israel and for the West that supports it, because true security comes from the state’s harmony with all its neighbors. As for the strategy of forced expulsion of the population who have lived for centuries in Palestine, it will not gain the acceptance of the neighbors and is the ideal recipe for eternal war.

Prolonging the war is also considered suicidal for the West because it offers Russian President Vladimir Putin, on a silver platter, a double gift that he had never dreamed of, which is evidence of double standards in Western moral lessons, thus rallying the “South” towards the “axis of tyranny” that it constitutes. Russia, Iran and China.

Source: Le Figaro +Aljazeera