Haaretz newspaper editor-in-chief, Aluf Benn, said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a new Nakba in the Gaza Strip, and called for listening to Netanyahu’s words instead of claiming that he is trying to evade responsibility through tricks.

Ben pointed out that Netanyahu's critics tend to mock Netanyahu's statements and speeches, and consider them false and that their goal is to solve immediate political problems, such as the fact that Netanyahu is subject to the dictates of extremist ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, and that he is not able to make a decision. “But if Netanyahu is just a robot, or a football being kicked between the White House and Ben Gvir’s party, then what exactly is he guilty of?”

He added, "Netanyahu always hides behind strong figures, and prefers to appear like a rag on the ground and not struggle for different positions around it. His tendency to shift responsibility (away from him) has worsened, of course, since he led Israel to the disaster of October 7 and to a war of attrition in Gaza and the north." ".

Ben said, “Since he recovered from the panic he felt when the war broke out, Netanyahu has been persistent in presenting his policy for the ‘next day’: an Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip again. Thus he announced in December: ‘Gaza will be demilitarized after eliminating Hamas is under Israeli security control, and there will be no party in it that threatens us and raises its children in terrorism.”

In February, Netanyahu added "absolute victory" to his statements. Ben wondered, “How will we deal with Netanyahu if he means what he says, and that he actually means victory similar to the War of Independence (in 1948), through which Israel occupies Gaza, and many of its residents leave for Arab and Western countries, and Jewish settlements are established there? This result is appropriate.” Exactly to the clause that opens the outlines of the current government: 'The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all areas of the Land of Israel.'

He pointed out that “Israeli military operations in Gaza allow achieving the following results: expelling the population, destroying villages and cities, making it difficult to transport food and fuel to the refugees, dividing the strip with a cross road and establishing Israeli army bases along it, and gradually entering Rafah. The military rule that he is now proposing is Another stage in the military operation towards the 'Judaization of Gaza'.

Ben warned, “At a time when the right is openly calling for a second catastrophe in Gaza, the regime’s opponents console themselves with the conviction that this is a redemptive fantasy that will not come true. They are pinning hopes on ‘the world’ not to allow Israel to repeat the ‘birth of the Palestinian refugee issue.’ There is no doubt that The international community, led by the United States, strongly opposes a permanent Israeli occupation of Gaza and, of course, opposes the ethnic cleansing of its Palestinian population and their replacement with Jewish settlers, and the threat of arrest warrants in The Hague and the freezing of ammunition shipments from America are intended to deter Netanyahu from moving forward until the end.

But Netanyahu knows history very well, according to Ben. “He knows that America has time and again opposed steps that Israel saw as vital, and backed down in the face of Israeli insistence. This is what happened when announcing the establishment of the state, rejecting the return of Palestinian refugees, declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, establishing the nuclear reactor in Dimona, and establishing settlements in the territories ( occupation) and its expansion, and even in the current military operation in Rafah.”

He added, "Israel listened to the Americans in all of these latest events and did the opposite. Just as Netanyahu is now ignoring President Joe Biden and his envoys, who come to repeat the talk about 'returning the Palestinian Authority to Gaza'. And the talk about a deal to return the kidnapped people in exchange for a ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal, for him, is... Just a way to pass the time until the world gets used to the new reality that will emerge in Gaza, just as it got used to the results of the civil war in Syria.”

Ben underestimated the threat of war cabinet member, Benny Gantz, to withdraw from the government, stressing his inability to bring down the government, “because of a problem not only related to Gantz’s political weakness, but also to his fundamental position, which he repeated in his ultimatum speech to Netanyahu. Gantz supports the policy of the government of which he is a member. And he He calls for Israeli security responsibility in Gaza, just as he supports the occupation of the West Bank, and opposes the presence of Hamas and the presence of (Mahmoud) Abbas (in Gaza). The difference is that Gantz wants to “conduct deliberations” and Netanyahu does not, and thus, Israel is moving confidently toward a coup The disengagement plan and return to Gaza, in the spirit of Netanyahu’s promises and the hope of his coalition partners.”

The political analyst in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Nahum Barnea, emphasized that “Netanyahu seeks to push the Israeli army into a permanent presence in the Gaza Strip, first as an occupying army and then as a military rule,” as Penn wrote.

Barnea wrote, “If Gallant and Gantz are right, Netanyahu’s transformations were not clean from personal and internal political considerations. Therefore, Netanyahu seeks to turn the muddying in Gaza into chronic muddying.”

Barnea considered that, “Although they in Israel have now learned lessons and are cautious in dealing with the civilian population, the pictures that come out from the refugee camps to an American, and they are pictures that they do not publish often in Israel, exact a political price (from Biden).”

According to him, Israeli officials say in closed talks what they cannot say publicly, which is that “the fighting in Gaza must end. We will get our kidnappers, Hamas gets its deal and Biden can boast of an Israeli-Sunni alliance against Iran. This is not a victory, but rather involves A basis for future victory. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who came to Israel from Riyadh carrying normalization in his hand, will return to Washington empty-handed.”

Barnea also referred to Gantz’s warnings to Netanyahu, and that “it is not clear what the discussion is about between them. Like Netanyahu, he supports the continuation of the fighting and its expansion to Rafah. Netanyahu’s position is that he refuses to enter the Palestinian Authority in order to manage the Gaza Strip, and like Netanyahu, he spreads myths about an American partnership - European-Palestinian seeks to manage the sector, and there is no such partnership at the present time, and Gantz’s warning came only out of fear of losing votes in the polls.

He pointed out that the International Court of Justice in The Hague may call on Israel, this week, to stop the war. "If this happens, the next stop will be the UN Security Council. Its decision will require Israel to abide by it. We are not Iran or Russia. The sanctions will lead to our collapse. Israel will be dependent on the American veto, and there is a price for this as well."

Source: Sama News