Le Monde newspaper said that recognizing the Palestinian state, 76 years after the establishment of the State of Israel and in the face of the ongoing catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, could help alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians and protect Israel from itself.

The French newspaper stated - in its editorial - that Israel is preparing today, Tuesday, to celebrate the very dismal 76th anniversary, after more than 7 months of continuous massacres and a resounding war in Gaza, which made the international community dissatisfied with this country that continues to sow unprecedented devastation, for the sake of unjust goals. It's still a long way off.

It pointed out that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had promised to eliminate the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and release detainees in Gaza whose fate depends on endless negotiations, and neither camp seems to want them to succeed, according to the newspaper.

As for the Israeli forces, they are threatening Rafah, the last city in Gaza still standing, which would add a new massacre to the disaster, and they are returning to bombing the northern Gaza Strip again after the armed wing of Hamas reappeared, after months of strikes and ground incursions that It turned the area into a wasteland and killed thousands of Palestinians.

Today's military failure, and the horrific human losses it left behind, was the result of the Israeli strategy that turned Gaza into a huge open-air prison, and a theater for repeated wars. The current war represents its climax, after it was facilitated by criminal international negativity, whether it was tolerance in the face of the siege imposed on Gaza. Or weakness regarding the mistakes of the official representatives of the Palestinians, or cowardice in the face of the leprosy that is Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

This military failure is coupled with a political impasse for which Netanyahu bears great responsibility - according to the newspaper - by opposing the slightest perspective that takes into account the legitimate rights of the Palestinians, which means that he must answer many questions related to the destruction of Gaza and the thousands of victims of Israeli bombs and his bet on the “Axis of Resistance".

The newspaper pointed out that today’s military failure, and the horrific human losses it caused, was the result of the Israeli strategy that turned Gaza into a huge open-air prison, and a theater for repeated wars. The current war represents its climax, after it was facilitated by criminal international negativity, whether that was tolerance in the face of... The blockade on Gaza, or weakness regarding the mistakes of the official representatives of the Palestinians, or cowardice in the face of the leprosy that is Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

The newspaper concluded that Israel's most trusted ally, the President of the United States, came too late to realize this dead end, to take a decision to deprive the Israeli army of some offensive weapons, but the world must go further than that, because the state of emergency requires a qualitative shift, according to The newspaper says.

In order to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians and protect Israel from itself, recognition of the Palestinian state, which the United States rejects and which new European countries are preparing to do, can only contribute to this.

Source: Le Monde + Aljazeera