The truce deal

We are heading towards a "calm" deal after a journey of suffering, pain, killing and destruction by the colony against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. A difficult and harsh outcome, and an unprecedented bitter experience that the Palestinians were subjected to until the days of the Nakba and displacement in 1948. Its outcome is that the Palestinians stood firm, and they had no other choice, and so did the "resistance", after it paid the heavy price.

The Palestinians have held out, but they have not won, unless some boast and exaggerate, and describe survival and steadfastness as a victory, and it is so, if we understand the plan of the coalition leading the government of the colony, which is composed of: 1- the extreme right-wing political parties, and 2- the extremist Jewish religious parties, and their goal is to displace, expel and emigrate as many Palestinians as possible outside their homeland: 1- the people of Gaza to Sinai, and 2- the people of Jerusalem and the West Bank to Jordan.

The survival and steadfastness of the Palestinian people is a victory, and it is a frustration for the entire Israeli colonial expansionist project based on two terms: 1- land, 2- people. They were able to occupy the entire map of Palestine, but they failed strategically to expel all the Palestinian people, as more than seven million Palestinian Arabs remained on the entire map of Palestine, and this is the result of a transformation and preventing the establishment of a “Jewish state” in and on Palestine.

The Palestinians held out but did not win in the real, tangible, material, realistic sense, while the Israelis failed. They failed in:

1- Discovering the locations of the Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip despite their occupation of the entire map of the Strip, and thus they were unable to release them without an exchange operation.

2- They failed to end and eradicate the resistance despite the painful blows that the resistance leaders were subjected to, as Netanyahu, his coalition team, his army and his apparatuses worked and sought.

3- The indirect negotiations with Hamas continued until now, towards reaching the required calm deal, with Hamas and not with anyone else.

4- Palestinian prisoners who have “blood on their hands” will be released, despite the lack of Israeli consensus on this decision and approach.

The outcome of the confrontation, the results of October 7, 2023, and what followed throughout the past months, is that the Palestinians have held out but have not yet won, and that the Israelis have failed but have not yet been defeated.

The battle is a debate that will not stop strategically, but it is a stage of confrontation between the two contradictory projects: the Palestinian national democratic project in the face of the Israeli expansionist colonial project.

Netanyahu did not want to cease fire and end his war on the Gaza Strip, because he did not achieve his entire program, but Trump forced him to do so, because he wants to reach the White House with the table clear of troubles and wars. He is a businessman, a merchant, who wants calm, stability and open markets. Netanyahu’s response and ambition later included Trump’s support for the program to annex the Palestinian West Bank, or at least the settlements and the Palestinian countryside, after he recognized Jerusalem as the unified capital of the colony, as well as the Golan Heights, and moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and attempts to liquidate UNRWA and end the refugee issue.

Hamas has an interest in a ceasefire, in an effort to protect what remains of its leadership, cadres and bases, so that it may win by maintaining its sole authority over the Gaza Strip.

The political conflict after the truce deal, the ceasefire and the expected results will be no less bad than the bloody, savage war against the Palestinians. What is worse is that the Palestinians will fight their political battle divided, and in doing so they will continue to provide their free service to their lurking, merciless enemy.