OPINIONS
Thu 20 Feb 2025 12:47 pm - Jerusalem Time
America and Israel are unprecedentedly aggressive

It is clear that there is a complete identification between the forces of the Zionist Talmudic Torah right and the forces of the extreme Evangelical right in America, and that America thinks with an Israeli mind and sees things only through Israeli eyes. This is what Trump’s statements, plans, threats and intimidation reveal, according to what is known as his plan to expel and displace the residents of Gaza, control its land and establish what is known as the “Riviera of the East”, as well as seeking to annex large parts of the West Bank, within the project of “geographical and demographic engineering” of the West Bank. To strengthen these projects and plans, great American pressure is being exerted on its Arab allies from what is known as the “moderate” camp, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, in order to force them to bear the consequences of the occupation and bear the burdens of rebuilding the Gaza Strip.
American support for Israel goes beyond all military and political dimensions, to providing Israel with the latest advanced weapons, including guided bombs weighing two thousand pounds, strategic Hellfire missiles, and even the “Mother of All Bombs” bomb, which weighs 11 tons.
This identification between these extremist forces aims to restore Israeli hegemony, which was subjected to major shocks after October 7, 2023, and absolute support for all policies of the extreme right and the religious Talmudic Torah right, including support and endorsement of the annexation of the West Bank, changing its name to the state of "Judea and Samaria", and legislating this through a law in the "Knesset", where the Ministerial Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security approved this decision in the preliminary reading, and there is also a draft resolution presented to the US Congress to change the name of the West Bank to "Judea and Samaria", in line with the Israeli decision.
This American-Israeli encroachment and brutality, which we are witnessing on the ground, through the dissolution of the agreements in which America was a guarantor on the Lebanese front, and a guarantor and mediator on the Gaza Strip front, all indications are that it is on its way to collapse. On the Lebanese front, there was an American-Israeli agreement on the continuation of Israel’s occupation of five strategic Lebanese hills: Tal al-Labouneh, Tal al-Awida, Tal al-Hamamis, Tal al-Aziziya, and Tal Jabal Balata. In the Gaza Strip, the agreement is faltering, the aggression is ongoing and continuous, there is no commitment to the terms of the agreement, no humanitarian protocol has been implemented, no heavy equipment has entered, no mobile homes or tents, no regularity in the exit of the wounded and sick, and no trucks carrying humanitarian aid are entering in the required number, not to mention the non-stop violations in the form of destruction, shelling, overflights, and multiple attacks.
We said that America under Trump is completely identical with Israel, America is Israel and Israel is America, and Trump, as his partner and ally Netanyahu described him, is America’s best friend in the White House throughout all American governments, and not as former US President Biden said about himself, it is not a condition to be Jewish in order to be a Zionist, as this Trump says that I am more Zionist than the Zionists themselves, and more loyal to the generation of Zionist founders, Jabotinsky and Ben-Gurion.
American pressures will continue to weaken the axis of resistance and thwart any efforts to reach a just political solution, which will place the region in an explosive scene dominated by power calculations and the interests of international alliances, especially the United States of America and Israel.
Netanyahu, after meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, said that Israel is on the verge of victories that we have never dreamed of before with Trump’s support. He added: We will change the face of the entire Middle East in coordination with the Trump administration and “we are on the cusp of a historic change to ensure the future of the State of Israel.”
Israel is becoming more brutal and aggressive, with full American coverage of everything it does. It is rampaging in Syria, occupying new Syrian lands, and establishing more than twenty observation points inside its lands, paving roads, blowing up and destroying, and continuing to bomb and destroy, without anyone to hold it accountable or supervise it. It is doing the same thing in southern Lebanon, despite the truce that prevents it from any attacks and destruction operations, but it did not pay attention to the truce, nor to Resolution 1701 and its executive mechanisms. America extended its stay until the eighteenth of this month, and it continued its aggression, military actions and violations that exceeded 1500 violations, in which more than 60 martyrs and dozens of wounded fell, and to announce that it will not withdraw from five strategic Lebanese hills, in joint coordination with America.
What applies to the Lebanese front applies to the Gaza Strip front. It is clear that there is an American-Israeli agreement to recover the largest number of prisoners and to transform the first phase into a long transitional phase to recover the largest number of Israeli prisoners and to prolong the term of Netanyahu’s government and prevent it from collapsing from within. Netanyahu has begun to make contradictory statements. Sometimes he sees Trump’s plan to expel and deport the residents of the Gaza Strip as the ideal solution, and he tasks his Minister of War with forming a committee to “voluntarily” deport the residents of the Gaza Strip, with the participation of multiple ministries in that plan, and to be carried out by land, air and sea. On the other hand, he announces that he intends to go and implement the second phase of the prisoner exchange deal, that phase whose fate and the possibility of its implementation are shrouded in mystery, as Netanyahu is shackling it with impossible conditions: disarming Hamas and the resistance, and Hamas not remaining militarily and politically the day after the cessation of aggression, and deporting its military leaders and senior prisoners who are being released and deported to the Strip to multiple countries. These impossible conditions are a recipe for returning to Fighting, and perhaps America and Israel agree on this direction, but returning to fighting is not an easy option, and it cannot achieve goals that Israel failed to achieve in 471 days, in which it used all its surplus power and tried all types of advanced American weapons. This option would also threaten the lives of the rest of the Israeli prisoners. Perhaps Netanyahu’s change of the negotiating team in the second phase, by excluding the heads of the Mossad, David Barnea, and the Shin Bet, Gonen Bar, and making this team led by his close friend, Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, reflects Netanyahu’s desire to control the security and military institutions, in a way that serves his political and personal interests, after he worked to dismiss his former Minister of War, Yoav Galant, and after him, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.
It seems that the region will be pregnant with developments, especially since Netanyahu's options in this direction are limited, and he is walking in a minefield, and facing great and contradictory pressures. Trump is pressuring him to go with the plan to expel and displace the residents of the Gaza Strip, and he says that he will change the face of the Middle East in partnership with him, and the region will face a historic change that guarantees the future and existence of Israel, and pressures from within the government, exerted on him by Smotrich to return to fighting again, after recovering the largest number of prisoners, as well as pressures from outside the government, Ben Gvir who resigned from the government and the coalition, and pressures from the political opposition and the families of the prisoners, in order for him to continue with the prisoner exchange deal in its three stages. It seems that Netanyahu's decision is no longer in his hands, and perhaps the decision is now in the hands of his partner Trump, and the coming days will answer all these developments and the nature of the options
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