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Thu 09 May 2024 5:44 pm - Jerusalem Time

What will follow from the start of the attack on Rafah, and where is the movement heading in the Middle East?

Bassam Abu Sharif

I will not prolong this article. Rather, I will try to be brief in order to reach the specific and required points that will come as a result of the Israeli government’s decisions, the expansionist decisions and the decisions of the Nazi-Zionist poisons that are centered and embodied in the war of extermination waged by those who have lost all their minds and who commit daily crimes and massacres. I do not want to repeat what we say on a daily basis. They commit these massacres and fight a war of genocide because they are no longer able to live without shedding the blood of others.

We ask the question: Why did Benjamin Netanyahu take the decision to storm Rafah even though the United States had publicly announced more than once that it did not support the attack on Rafah? Indeed, the Israeli government demanded that the United States, citing Israeli officials, not oppose the attack on Rafah publicly and to discuss it secretly so that it does not backfire. Negatively on the Israeli government and Israel,

In other words, Netanyahu and his government took the decision to attack Rafah despite the opposition of the American administration, which stood with all insolence and participation in the war of extermination and stood by Israel, using its veto in the face of a ceasefire, using its veto in the face of Palestine becoming an active state in the United Nations, and using rejection and pressure on all countries to refuse. Any decision taken in favor of Palestine. Despite all these positions, the American administration announced that it does not approve of the attack on Rafah. Despite this, Netanyahu took the decision to attack Rafah because Netanyahu and his government are based on a delicate balance that is subject to collapse at any moment. We only have to read the statements of Ben Gvir and the mentally ill Minister of Finance. So we know that there will be a permanent overrun by these two groups in the government if Netanyahu does not implement what he promised to these two blocs, that is, the occupation of all of Rafah until the entire Gaza Strip is occupied from end to end and so that they can say that Israel’s occupation of the Strip is a military victory despite knowing all The world knows that Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip and Rafah is evidence of failure and inability to do what Netanyahu promised from day one, which is the liquidation of the Hamas movement. This attack, which Netanyahu decided upon based on the desire of his allies to rule, this decision stems from his desire to record a victory that he has been searching for for months and only finds. In more failure, retreat, drowning in lies, destruction of homes, war of extermination, starvation, and preventing any entry of medicine and food into the land of the Gaza Strip.


On the other hand, Netanyahu knows that making this decision will anger a large group of Democrats in the American Congress and will anger the White House in a specific way, but he is holding the men of Congress and the White House by the collar, if not by the neck, because of the generous donations paid by the Zionist Jewish community. Interest in operating military complex factories, warplanes, cannons and missiles in order to continue wars, especially in the Middle East. Netanyahu is holding the stranglehold of the ruling Democratic Party and members of Congress through this group that owns the American military industrial complex, which generates huge profits for the United States through the Ukraine war and through the war. Israel's destructive and genocidal action against the Palestinian people and against Arab countries in the Middle East and forcing some Arab rulers to submit to American pressure and American decisions and to force these regimes by Washington to stand against any military activity against Israel or even criticize Israel for the crimes it commits against the Palestinians.

It was brought out by Washington that Arab countries possess strong cards to put pressure on Washington and to put pressure on the world in general. If we take a quick look at the oil that these countries, led by Saudi Arabia, supply to the world, specifically to the United States, and their ability to decide the price of a barrel of oil, we know very well that these regimes do not possess strong cards. It is allowed to be used by the United States and its military bases located on the lands of these countries under the title of protection, and in fact it can only be called under the title of occupation and the presence of a military force that forces these regimes to kneel to the decisions of the imperialists in Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv.

In order to complete this list, we say that Netanyahu took the decision to enter or storm Rafah and begin destroying its towers and houses on top of those who sleep in his house and on his land. We say that Netanyahu is betting that the military forces he recruited to storm Rafah will be able to achieve what he wants, which is to control Rafah completely and remain there. If necessary, this is what Netanyahu’s allies in the government are thinking, and in Netanyahu’s mind as well, that if the military forces are unable to carry out his orders or achieve his dreams, he will blame the military forces for having failed miserably, and therefore he will purge the army of them and put in their place officers subject to Ben Gvir and the Minister of Finance, but...

What Benjamin Netanyahu did not take into account is that the Palestinian resistance was not ready, cross-legged, and was not thinking and planning how to strike him and his army so that this army would become a symbol not of defeating Israel, but of defeating the United States.

The truth that must be said here is that the United States, which warned Israel against entering Rafah, storming it, or attacking it, was doing so under the pretext of concern for the lives of civilians. The truth is that the United States does not care about the lives of our children, women, men, or civilians in Gaza. It did not care and did not say a critical word. One out of 150,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women, were butchered by Zionist butchers who bombed them with American bombs that did not explode, most of which remain traps that explode when anyone thinks about returning to their home in the north or center of the Strip.

Didn't Netanyahu calculate that the Palestinian resistance led by Hamas in Rafah had arranged elaborate ambushes for them and would be carried out until this army emerges, inflicted with defeats and shame on those who made the decision?

Finally, we say that they wanted the war to continue, so be it, because the continuation of the war is not in Israel’s interest. Israel is collapsing from within, its economy is being cut up, and it is chanting and calling for the arrival of Palestinian workers until the economic wheel begins moving again in Israel. The bankruptcy of Israeli companies is a long, busy line waiting for its turn to settle its bankruptcy with the Israeli government.

We must not exaggerate the enemy's loss, and we must know that every penny that Israel loses will be compensated for by NATO countries, including the United States. Therefore, we must know that the continuation and prolongation of this war is an opportunity for the resistance to prolong the resistance and to inflict daily strikes on the Zionist enemy until it is exhausted and the infernal machine begins to disintegrate. The NATO-sponsored effort led by the United States in the land of the Arabs and the heart of the Arabs must begin with the disintegration of the state of the Zionists, the Zionist entity that was planted in our land so that the Palestinian people regain their rights, albeit gradually.

Here we must ask how the United States will react to the decision taken by Netanyahu, which at least practically contradicts what the American government expressed in the White House, that is, the rejection of this attack on Rafah.

Of course, it is not an exaggeration to say that the group of Democrats opposed to handing over weapons to Israel without specific conditions preventing it from using them to commit war crimes will increase and the number of those who oppose handing over weapons without conditions will increase. We do not want to say not to hand over weapons, but rather we say hand over weapons, but with specific conditions that prevent Israel. By using it against international laws, against international treaties, against the Treaty of Rome and Vienna, etc. This will make Netanyahu’s position during the American electoral battle a shaky position among the Jewish community in America, as the community there will stand astonished and do not know how to behave in the elections, to whom it sides with Biden or Trump, or whether it sides with someone. Finally, you are confused about who you support and whom you pay, not only for the White House and its candidates, but for the members of Congress who will be elected during this period as well. The White House is in crisis, Congress is in crisis, and Biden cannot think about how to move, and he will be subject to great limits and great distances for a number of Democratic members of Congress if they can. To reach a common political ground that governs Biden’s positions during this period regarding the military and financial support Israel requests,

There is no doubt that a large number of observers and followers of what is happening in the United States said that Trump prolonged the court hearings on Hash Money in order to avoid the necessity of expressing positions on what is going on in the Middle East and on the role of Israel, which takes decisions and implements them despite the will of the American administration, which is forced to hand over Israel. What you are asking for in terms of missiles, cannons and bombs to kill Palestinian children and their women. Therefore, Trump is also in a crisis. As for the third candidate, Kennedy, whom no one thought of except Trump when he said that his candidacy was a point of trouble, but with the student revolution in America and their merging with the unions and their renewed revolution yesterday, today and tomorrow. We will see that there is the beginning of Kennedy's approach as President of the United States,

At the level of the Middle East, we tell you honestly, definitely, and without any exaggeration, that the resistance forces on all fronts will escalate their work and concentrate it in a way that will cause severe damage to Israel. Yemen announced this, Iraq implemented it and began implementing it, as well as Hezbollah, which bombed today and made Israel bloody, and everyone is awaiting a dangerous Israeli response.

We have battles ahead of us, and the war will be prolonged in our favor. It is our duty to fight and defend our nation, our people, and our land. We must take advantage and exploit the opportunities. The Palestinian resistance announced its approval of the ceasefire initiative and the Israeli government rejected it. Now the world, including the West, must act based on what Israel is acting against the wishes of the West and the United States and against the wishes of the West and the United States. 


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