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Fri 12 May 2023 10:30 am - Jerusalem Time

Halima returned to her old habit

Halima is said to be the wife of Hatim al-Ta'i, who was famous for his generosity. As for her, she was famous for being stingy, so if she wanted to put ghee in cooking, the spoon trembled in her hand. It is said that she did not even put ghee in the cooking, and the master of the generosity did not like that, her husband. So Hatim wanted to teach her generosity, so he said to her: The ancients used to say that every time a woman put a spoonful of ghee in the cooking pot, God increased her life by one day, and the gray hair decreased in her head. The only one whom she loved more than herself, she was so frightened that she wished for death, so she began to reduce the use of ghee in cooking so that her life would shorten and she would die, so people said: “Halima has returned to her old habit.” Halima’s story is different from what the occupation thinks, there is no similarity between them. In their view, all of them are profitable adventures, for the generosity they have in tons to increase the life of their state is a metaphor for the greater the volume of their operations against the Palestinians, in their view, the more the state will live, so the occupation government has returned again to the policy of assassinations against activists from the Islamic Jihad movement, which recently led to the martyrdom of less than sixteen A martyr in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and while the world is trying to cool the region down, Netanyahu and the right-wing government are continuing their policy of liquidation and exclusion of the other.


The trick was the occupation
Successive Israeli governments have frozen the policy of assassinations, but it has reared its head again, as a method to deter and intimidate the Palestinian factions from the consequences of repeated rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, despite the intervention of mediators to bridge the rift. This is why the recent assassinations came to export the internal crisis in Israel, and after the President of The occupation government came under harsh criticism from his government's coalition from the far right about the lack of response to the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, such as Ibn Gvir and Smotrich, which prompted Netanyahu to resume the physical liquidation of activists from the Islamic Jihad organization. Bibi Netanyahu wants this behavior, which is to focus on elements of the Islamic Jihad , and distancing Hamas from the battle and neutralizing it, so that jihad would be an easy prey for it. As of writing this article, things are still calm on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip, with extreme caution on the part of the settlers who evacuated their homes for fear of reactions from the targeted organization.


The struggle continues
But the question remains, is the assassination that took place at dawn on Tuesday the end of the war between Islamic Jihad and the occupation government? There is no end to the conflict between the Palestinians of all stripes and the occupation, as long as there is an occupation perching on their chest, the confrontation continues, Israel is not interested at this particular time in cooling the West Bank front, not even Gaza, after two weeks there will be a vote on Israel's budget in the Knesset, and this requires That the Netanyahu government get 61 votes so that Netanyahu can pass the budget, and in the event that the quorum is not completed, then his government will be in danger, and therefore it will fall and new Knesset elections will be announced, and this is what Netanyahu does not want.


Support for the Netanyahu government declined

According to opinion polls, which indicate that the opposition is leading by a difference of seven to eight seats, this means the resounding fall of Netanyahu, and his being put on trial for corruption cases. In the event that the government is dissolved, some right-wing parties may not reach the threshold, or receive fewer votes, in addition to not being accepted into the opposition that tops the highest votes, if elections are held for the Knesset at the present time. So the Likud leader wants to hold the stick from the center first to preserve his coalition as much as possible, and secondly to satisfy the international community, and the best of them is bitter and difficult to achieve in light of the international community’s rejection of the policy of the extreme right in Israel. The current government of Israel may hold out in power for some time, but there are indications. On the contrary, including the right-wing insistence on amending the law, their insistence also on evacuating Al-Khan Al-Ahmar, and seeking to vote on a decision that requires the execution of prisoners, and many others. But this may not be in line with Netanyahu's policy, which is trying to be less extreme than religious Zionism, and he may break his silence and cannot. He endured the volume of internal and external pressures for a long time, and thus announces the date of new elections.


confessions of their leaders
Dr. Pinhas Yehezkili, a former head of the Strategic and Policy Research Department in the Israeli army, considers that the word assassination is "a euphemism for premeditated killing and extrajudicial execution" and that countries resort to this policy against parties they consider "terrorist" to achieve several goals ranging from purely military purposes such as Deterrence and preventing the implementation of an imminent operation, or what is described by Israel as a time bomb, in order to reach moral goals such as raising public morale, revenge, and responding to a painful operation. It is counterproductive and feeds into and expands the cycle of bloodshed and violence, and does not constitute a substitute for other means, in addition to its damage to Israel's image in front of world public opinion, and exposing Israeli officers and leaders to prosecution in international courts.

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Halima returned to her old habit