Will the Netanyahu government push the Palestinians to return to the method of martyrdom bombing operations?

Written by Dean: Ahmed Issa
Easily and effortlessly, the observer of the bitter reality experienced by the Palestinian people, especially in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since Netanyahu formed his current government, which is described as the most right-wing in the history of Israel, concludes that most of the conditions and necessities for the Palestinians to resort to martyrdom operations to defend themselves, their dignity, their properties, and their sanctities, This government is systematically seeking to ripen these conditions
Security experts, especially Israelis, have divided these conditions into two parts, the first is objective, and the second is subjective. The first objective condition is related to the policies and procedures of the occupation, especially the attacks on holy places such as Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Ibrahimi Mosque and other Islamic and Christian places of worship.
The most prominent of these attacks was the massacre carried out by the terrorist criminal (Baruch Goldstein) from the settlement of Kiryat Arba, in the Ibrahimi Mosque at dawn on Friday, corresponding to the 15th of Ramadan in 1994, which resulted in the rising of 29 martyrs from kneeling while performing the dawn prayer, and wounding more than 150 others.
The second attack was on Al-Aqsa Mosque, when the opposition leader at the time, on September 28, 2000, guarded by hundreds of police and border guards, stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, who opened fire on the worshipers who demonstrated in protest against this storming, which resulted in the injury of hundreds and the death of several A large number of martyrs, which was considered the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which extended until 2005.
The second objective condition revolves around the ease of the occupation army and herds of settlers killing Palestinians, attacking their property and land, accelerating the pace of settlement, and the determination to kill the Palestinians' hope for liberation and the establishment of their independent state, even on part of Palestine.
As for the self-conditions, they relate to the Palestinians, and here they are a result, not a cause, and their motives are more defensive than offensive, and they relate to the personal decision of the person who carried out the martyrdom (martyrdom), and I do not reveal a secret here by saying that they were many in the nineties of the last century, then to the party supporting this person, which is here the Palestinian organizations. By providing what he needs to implement his pure self-decision to take revenge and defend the people, their sanctities, and their property, which means the convergence of the self-decision with the political decision of the supporting organization.
A study issued by Harvard University in 2007 on martyrdom operations shows that the Palestinians have carried out, since 1994, in which the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre was carried out, until 1999, a total of 20 martyrdom operations, for which Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
The study added that the period from 2000, the year in which Sharon attacked Al-Aqsa Mosque, until 2005, witnessed a total of 142 operations, for which Hamas claimed responsibility by 39.9%, the Islamic Jihad movement by 25.7%, and Fatah by 25.7%. 26.4%, the Popular Front with 5.4%, and the Democratic Front with 2.7%. The operations that preceded the year 2000 resulted in the killing of 163 people, and the killing of 624 people in the period after the year 2000.
And if we compare what is happening in the West Bank since the beginning of this year by the current government through the army and settlers, we find that it is much more than what happened in the two previous periods referred to above, as this stage witnessed the Hawara Holocaust and the call for its removal from existence, as well as daily attacks from Settler gangs attacked Palestinian travelers on the roads, in addition to daily assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque, and carrying out daily massacres against Palestinians in the West Bank, which have so far resulted in the death of 80 martyrs, in addition to the war declared by (Ben Gvir) against prisoners in Israeli prisons. This indicates that the objective conditions have reached an advanced stage of maturity.
And while it can be assumed that the mastermind of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre missed the assessment that the attack on sanctities will be faced with major martyrdom operations, it cannot be assumed that this equation was absent from the strategic assessment parties when Sharon stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it becomes naive to assume that this equation is absent from Strategic security assessments in Israel now, which makes it legitimate to assert that Israel is pushing the Palestinians to return once again to the method of major martyrdom operations through organized work to mature its objective conditions, especially since the young Palestinian generation has appeared since 2015, or with the outbreak of The Israelis called it a knife and trampling uprising that includes in abundance young men and women who would not have hesitated to replace knives and cars with explosive devices.
The foregoing means that the objective conditions for such a type of operation became mature not long ago, and it also means that nothing remained of the subjective conditions except the political decision of one of the organizations to begin with, which I argue is a matter of time if the process of ripening the objective conditions continues at the same pace.
As for why the current government closes its eyes and insists on continuing its attacks on the Palestinians without exaggerating the consequences of these attacks, even if it pushes them or some of them to carry out major martyrdom operations, it seems that it stems from an illusion that dominated the minds of its members that only with these attacks can victory be made against the Palestinians and achieve a decisive victory over them.
On the other hand, it explains the need of this government for this type of operation at the present moment due to its mistaken assessment that this type of operation may change the headlines of the newspapers and push the entire people to unite behind the government in its fight against (terrorism), in addition to the current government's miscalculation that this type One of the operations will re-label the Palestinians as “terrorists” at the level of world public opinion, especially since this label has begun to erode and world public opinion no longer listens to it much.
And about whether Israel will achieve its goals from that, the answer is certainly a big no, for several reasons, the most important of which is with regard to the internal situation, that the division in Israeli society is not fleeting and is no longer resolvable, especially after the leaders of this government called a high percentage of this. Society, including a high percentage of its senior officers and generals, described disobedient, rebels and terrorists. One of them even told them to "go to hell", which will not end the division and unite society behind the government in the fight against "terrorism", and perhaps hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protesting against the government and its measures will leave Last Saturday, corresponding to March 11, 2023, after the Tel Aviv operation, which Netanyahu described as complex, is the best proof of that.
With regard to international public opinion, failure will fall on the government's intentions, because the world is changing and the huge Israeli media machine is no longer able to market its narrative that it is fighting "terrorism". It is easy for it to erase this label, and the clearest indicator of that is evident in the monthly strategic assessment issued by the Israel Institute for National Security Studies in October 2015, showing that the number of times Israel was associated with the concept of apartheid in reports written in English during the period from 1967- 2000 has reached 54 times, and reached 1774 times in the period from 2001-2015. It is noteworthy here that this association has jumped fantastically in recent times, as Israel was branded with apartheid on the cluster network during the last two weeks of last February, more than ten million times. And about 12 million times during the month of January, according to the American (Semrush) application.