OPINIONS
Sat 17 Aug 2024 9:15 am - Jerusalem Time
Doha talks and Netanyahu's intentions
Arab efforts continue, represented by the participation of Egypt and Qatar in the talks to reach a halt to the massacres and slaughters against our Palestinian people in Gaza. This round of talks is taking place based on an American invitation that is said to be serious this time; as the head of the American intelligence is attending at the head of a delegation participating in the talks, which forced Netanyahu to send his delegation, and he is not satisfied with any of the proposed items. Netanyahu's desire to prolong the war has not changed, and his passion is to continue it without any understandings or agreements, which explains the continuation of the killings, bombing and siege, in light of the talks in the Qatari capital, Doha.
The American position seeks to pressure Arab positions in order to pressure Hamas to accept the terms of the deal, while it does not exert any pressure on Netanyahu and his government to accept and implement it. This gives Netanyahu room to maneuver to thwart any agreement at the zero hour. This America, which is biased in word and deed, continues to be biased and supportive, whether with weapons and equipment, or with money and political and military cover on land, sea and air, and under the pretext of neutrality in the deal negotiations.
A new round of indirect talks without any expectations leading to results, although what is leaking from it is that the American position this time is more serious, but it is not strong enough to impose an agreement that Netanyahu and his government accept so far, and this makes us expect results that will lead to nothing, but rather the war of extermination will continue and the suffering of the people in Gaza will continue.
It is true that the blood level is rising every moment, and that the scale of the destruction is expanding and with it the suffering of the hungry and thirsty people is increasing, but the resistance still has great ability in the matter of preserving the hostages, away from all the search and surveillance devices and from the hands of the occupation soldiers, and this means failure to achieve the goals of the war that the war government had announced about 320 days ago.
Perhaps this is another opportunity that may be lost, and it may be the last before the war expands to other fronts, and perhaps this is the decisive moment that everyone must seize before the situation deteriorates for the worse. Netanyahu wants the situation to deteriorate, and is maliciously seeking to continue the war even if its scope expands to other fronts, and he is maneuvering for personal reasons related to his remaining at the head of the occupation government, and other reasons related to the state of blind extremism and fanatical right-wing that the entity has become.
With the negotiations faltering at times, and the war government not being serious at other times, the people of Gaza are torn between one displacement and another, in a daily scene that breaks the heart, and tearful images of the state of the people who are sleeping in the open, fearing the bombing and targeting operations, as they move from one residential block to another, and from one neighborhood to another, and they have no escape except to try to escape the bombing operations, the advance of tanks and armored vehicles, and the brutality of the soldiers.
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