OPINIONS

Wed 03 Dec 2025 7:50 am - Jerusalem Time

Rolling stones!

Ibrahim Malham

Ibrahim Malham

Opinion Writer

It is five, rolling between the plains and valleys, from the heights of the mountains, in the cities, villages, and the five towns after which the operation is named, in Tubas, stretched under the planes and drones and the harsh landing operations on its fertile land.

But the operation, as usual, does not stop at borders, nor is it constrained by restrictions; it narrows and expands with the rope of pretexts that has been loosened on its edge, to confine people to narrow areas within the cities, after confiscating vast spaces of their plains, their encampments, and their sheep pastures, in the area extending to the riverbanks, which covers tens of thousands of dunams.

The elderly Likud member, along with his partners in the coalition of nibbling, annexation, erasure, burning, and resolution, does not cease to openly express the desires for control and dreams of expansion, which aim to connect the Jordan Valley with the Green Line, and work on reducing the geography and demography there, so that the settlers, who today hold the reins of power, remain dominant, after the head of the Shin Bet joined the quartet of Netanyahu, Katz, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir, who are indifferent to the international condemnations their policies bring, under the pretext of security, which has become a scapegoat for the operations of terrorism, intimidation, and field executions, that the occupation soldiers and settlers continue to commit, describing them as "acts of rioting," according to the Minister of Defense.

According to a military document, the Israeli army aims, through this operation, to build a wall in the northern Jordan Valley, 22 kilometers long and 50 meters wide, separating the villages from the settlements and isolating them from each other, and any buildings in its path will be demolished.

In parallel with the villages and towns of Tubas, the stones roll to Tamoun, which the occupation announced a siege on and imposed a curfew on its residents, which will witness the same scenes that Tubas experienced; of abuse, arrests, displacement of residents, and destruction of property.

The stones will not stop rolling unless they find someone to rein them in and halt their momentum by imposing deterrent penalties; statements of condemnation and denunciation are not enough, as the perpetrators have gained immunity from their repetition until they have lost their effect... what is happening in the West Bank is a silent annexation, no less severe than what Gaza is experiencing in terms of extermination.

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