The year of challenges

The year 2025 cuts the ribbon of its events without testing the pulse and without any introduction, to delve deeply into the events of the criminal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, and Israel’s goals of annihilating the Strip completely through continuing the massacres, and Israel’s desperate attempts to expel and displace as many citizens as possible. At the forefront of the undeclared goals, it seems that there is an Israeli desire to reduce the population of the Strip, displace a large part of them, impose a settlement strip on the lands of the Strip, and the desire to continue the war even if a swap deal is reached, and to ignore all international appeals and calls.

In parallel with this greater challenge facing the Palestinian cause, the fundamental political change in the region and the attempt to impose a new reality that responds to the vision of the American administration, which seeks to formulate a new Middle East, will be at the forefront of the goals of Israel and the United States, and will pass through targeting the Palestinian cause through attempts to change the leadership of the Palestinian Authority, to conform to the American vision and end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the manner decided by the Trump administration, and allow Israel to establish large settlements in the West Bank to isolate it from Gaza, and thus thwart the two-state solution, while the issue of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank and its annexation may need more time.

Based on the vision of the new Middle East, the American administration will strive hard to revive new Arab normalization relations with Israel, led by Saudi Arabia, in order to close the door in the face of Iranian expansion in the region, target the Iranian nuclear project through Israel and the United States, attempt to impose economic sanctions on Iran, and await developments on the Lebanese front. If presidential elections are held and the government is freed from the grip of Hezbollah, this may contribute to improving the situation on the northern front, especially since moderation is the master of the situation in the Syrian arena led by the opposition, and this does not mean that Israel will leave Syria or southern Lebanon.

Among the major challenges is the attempt to weaken the role of the Palestinian Authority economically without ending this role, in order to strengthen internal divisions and disputes. This requires a decisive stance from the national action factions to combat attempts to undermine the Palestinian national project and liquidate the cause, as the structure of a new Middle East depends on marginalizing and weakening the role of the Palestinian cause.

Israeli wishes will undoubtedly come true at the expense of the Palestinians. Israel, which has lost soldiers, money and property, and has failed because it has fought the longest war since the establishment of its entity, and is still unable to return the detainees from Gaza, and more than a million Israelis have remained away from their homes in the north and south alike, will seek to continue taking revenge on our people. Despite Israel’s claim that it has accomplished the mission of eliminating Hezbollah in the north, Hamas in the south, and that it has caused Iran to lose several important strongholds, it will continue its policy of creating problems in the region, as it is a source of concern and a real threat to the entire world.

The year of challenges will dominate the reality of Jerusalem, and its targeting and the pace of Israeli attempts to Judaize it and attempt to control the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque will be at the forefront of the Israelis’ priorities, in addition to the policy of demolishing homes and establishing settlement projects that will cover the new year.

While the peoples of the world are monitoring the wishes of joy and happiness in all aspects of life with the advent of a new year, our Palestinian people, who are imprisoned, oppressed, subjugated and defeated due to the unjust occupation, remain unable to achieve their wishes, which will face painful and difficult challenges. What can we say but: May God be with our people, and let all efforts unite to stop the war of extermination, asking the Almighty for imminent relief, and to protect our homeland and grant it victory over the unjust invaders.