Palestinian presence and Israeli decline

The Palestinians are now armed with significant political leverage, thanks to their sacrifices and resilience in the face of Israeli failure and crimes against the Palestinian people, which have left them isolated and relegated to the background, despite the strongest American support.

The Palestinians have a set of political factors that have clearly and prominently formed supportive levers for them:

First, their exceptional steadfastness in the Gaza Strip, in the face of the invasion, aggression, barbarism and fascism of the colony in a blatant manner represented by: killing, destruction and targeting of civilians, which turned into a state of human sympathy supporting and backing them.

Second, the decisions of the Arab Summit in Cairo on March 4, 2025, preceded by the five-nation summit in Riyadh on February 21, 2025.

Third, the decisions of the extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on March 7, 2025 in Jeddah.

Fourth, the continuation of the Arab effort, through the five-member ministerial delegation of foreign ministers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, and the UAE, along with PLO Executive Committee member Hussein al-Sheikh, and its efforts to support and back the Palestinian position and meet its requirements, including direct negotiations with representatives of the US administration:

1- Steve Witkoff, the US administration's political envoy to the Arab world, Moscow, and Ukraine.

2- Eric Trager, Middle East affairs officer at the US National Security Council.

Fifth: Western European countries that expressed their sympathy and support for the urgent Palestinian demands.

The outcome of Palestinian steadfastness, Arab-Islamic solidarity with the justness of Palestinian demands, and the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle to regain their plundered rights and occupied land, in a gradual, multi-stage process, is met with a state of Israeli failure and disgrace:

1- Failure to recover Israeli prisoners without an exchange.

2- The failure to end and eliminate the Palestinian resistance, despite the killing, assassination, and destruction caused by the October 7, 2023 operation.

3- The expansion of Israeli protests against the war, demanding the continuation of negotiations and a shift towards the option of negotiation and prisoner exchange.

4- The decisions of the army and intelligence regarding not resuming the war, as there are no strategic objectives that can be achieved, and the statement of the new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir: “The resumption of the war will be limited to bombing, which is what is currently happening with the fall of civilian martyrs as a result of the air, land and sea bombardment, and the concentrated assault, meaning that the invasion operations and the continued presence of the occupation forces inside the sites and neighborhoods of the Gaza Strip do not constitute a gain for the occupation army, but rather provide the resistance with freedom of movement, and to snipe at the occupation forces and their vehicles, due to the logistical factor and the obstacles caused by the dust and piles of destroyed buildings.

5- A split within the enemy front between Israeli priorities and American priorities, as direct American negotiations with Hamas took place to release prisoners with dual citizenship, weakening Israel's negotiating position and increasing Israeli protests and opposition to the Netanyahu government's behavior.

The danger of negotiating with Hamas is that it will intensify the deliberate Palestinian division. Therefore, Palestinian sacrifices and resilience must be invested in strengthening the unity of Palestinian decision-making institutions, not in responding to weakening them. This will not be achieved without Palestinian coordination and understanding in two steps: the first, unity of the Fatah movement, and the second, unity of the Palestinian household.

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The outcome of Palestinian steadfastness, Arab-Islamic solidarity with the justness of Palestinian demands, and the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle to regain their plundered rights and occupied land, in a gradual, multi-stage process, is met with Israeli failure and disastrous consequences.