The revenge of the free and the impossibility of defeating the people

We will need thousands of pages and dozens of serious studies to cover the various aspects of the battle for the revenge of the free, in order to draw lessons and discover the shortcomings and gaps that marred the Palestinian performance, while showing the elements of strength to develop and strengthen it. It suffices to point out here that, after the Battle of Saif al-Quds in May 2021, Israel formed 14 official investigative committees to study the failures that accompanied the Israeli performance in that battle, including intelligence failure, the performance of Iron Dome, the home front, media, propaganda and new media, and coordination between official bodies. Including the military and security arms, and diplomatic performance. Some committees needed several months to come up with their results and recommendations, most of which remained confidential and were restricted to the concerned official authorities. The foregoing confirms that objective evaluation needs specialized professional reviews away from the language of daily statements of a tactical and emotional nature. What we are interested in here is referring to some explicit facts that were controversial during the battle and could answer some of the questions raised.

The first fact that should be highlighted is that this latest round is an aggression against the entire Palestinian people, not against a faction or a specific geographical area. sharpness, to show the battle as part of Israel's efforts to combat the alleged Iranian expansion. It is true that the Jihad movement played a distinguished, persistent, and well-known role in the recent confrontations in Gaza and the West Bank, but it is worth remembering that the battle of "Revenge of the Free" is closely related to the repeated and escalating attacks against Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem, and to the assassination of the martyr Sheikh Khader Adnan, whose epic martyrdom represented a glorious page in the struggles of the captive movement. And the entire Palestinian people.

This aggression cannot be separated from the series of attacks over the past two years in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, the implementation of dozens of assassinations, the frantic settlement attack, the abuse of the captive movement, the demolitions of homes, the mass arrests, and the prevention of any Palestinian activity in areas classified (C), all of which are episodes in the same The scheme aimed at exploiting the international, regional and local conditions in order to resolve the conflict by unilateral measures and by force of iron and fire, and the entrance to this solution is the elimination of all forms of resistance.

This is the sixth round of open military aggression against the Gaza Strip during the last fifteen years, and each time Israel aims to achieve some goals related to its internal situation and the competition of political forces in it, in addition to the goal of deterring and resisting the Palestinian people, and incurring the people the cost of their support and embrace of the resistance. And push people to believe that the resistance is a burden on them instead of being a lever for their national struggle and a place of support and pride for them.

The only achievements of the Israeli war machine is killing more Palestinians, mostly children, women and civilians. From the evaluation of the six rounds, it becomes clear that the resistance returns after each round stronger than the rounds that preceded it, and that every leader who is assassinated is replaced by a new leader who is eager to prove his role and avenge his predecessor. It is noteworthy that in all the rounds of fighting that took place and despite the heavy and painful losses that befell the people, the occupation failed to bring about between the people and the resistance. Rather, the people’s adherence to the choice of resistance increased and their rallying around it and its symbols, and the resistance, in its renewed forms, became a major element that cannot be ignored in the equation The Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In this confrontation, as in the previous rounds, there are three necessary elements that the resistance takes into account when making any decision: The first is the interest of the people. Also, the heavy loss of life, displacement, destruction of infrastructure, the terror faced by children and other civilians, the enormous suffering in providing the necessities of life, the loss of work and study days, the drain on already scarce resources, and the pressure on weak medical facilities. The other two factors are the protection of national unity and the establishment of the rules of engagement that were enshrined in blood and sacrifices, which in themselves are an expression of the national dignity of the people summed up by the equation that the resistance is always ready to respond to the treacherous blows of the occupation, any decision of the resistance should balance these three considerations in isolation from the populist discourses that rush The missile responses and put themselves in the place of the joint operations room, and the problem is that some of these same voices are the ones who criticize the resistance if its response is delayed and then continue to criticize it if it initiates a response claiming that it exacerbates the suffering of the people.

The Israeli political and military mentality stems from the conviction that Israel has triumphed over the Arabs and Palestinians in all previous wars, and thus has the power and ability to impose and dictate its political conditions on the Palestinians, which means their surrender. Of course, this logic was prevalent in the Middle Ages and is no longer applicable in modern times. Nor in the wars waged by superpowers against countries and peoples that are much weaker than them, as in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Israel's problem is that it forgets that these wars are not against a state, regime, or army, but rather against the Palestinian people and their yearning to live in freedom and dignity, and it is an impossible battle to win. Defeat the people.

Everyone knows that our internal situation is divided and disjointed, and this weakens our ability as a people and institutions to manage the battle and achieve integration between the various arenas on the one hand and between the forms of political, diplomatic, legal, resistance and public action on the other hand. Which justified its inaction by considering that what is happening in Gaza does not concern it because of the division. It would be better if these votes were held accountable after the dust of the battle had cleared.