Five days of war on Gaza... What did Netanyahu achieve?

The sudden assassination in the early hours of dawn of three senior members of the Military Council of the Al-Quds Brigades affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement ended something called the cease-fire understandings that Egypt had reached after a short round of confrontation following the assassination of the martyr (Khader Adnan) in captivity. This assassination was expected. And we were constantly warning about it. It was not expected in this way that the occupying power would target the residential apartments in which these leaders and their families reside, and thus eliminate them and their families, women and children, a well-planned and studied crime, but the occupation did not believe that the Islamic Jihad would delay its response for 34 hours, and it was expected To respond in time, and the confrontation lasts for a few hours and ends like a short confrontation in Gaza, and there are more of these short confrontations, as they exceeded fifteen short confrontations during the two years. The occupation was disappointed in its estimates, and its leaders in (Kiriah) waited 32 hours for the Islamic Jihad’s response with many questions about the reason for the delay in the response. The military experts did not reach an answer, which confused their calculations, but the Islamic Jihad adopted a new tactic in response, which is playing with the nerves of the occupier before the response, which was intense. And qualitatively and at different ranges, by a decision of the joint operations room of the Palestinian resistance, which confused the occupation’s accounts again and constituted a shock to its military system.

During the process of responding to the resistance's bombing of many settlements around the Gaza Strip in the various settlement blocs and Tel Aviv and its environs, Netanyahu wanted to perpetuate the policy of assassinations and prove it as an equation in this confrontation. Over the course of the five days and every new assassination, the Islamic Jihad Movement was responding with missile salvoes of various ranges, between short and medium, to reach even areas in (Etzion) south of Bethlehem. Weakening it and forcing it to stop incitement to carry out more revenge operations as a movement that is difficult to contain and submit to any understandings to stop the truce in Gaza. This is in addition to Netanyahu’s attempt to neutralize the jihad movement by settling scores with those he accuses of supplying the resistance brigades in Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarm, Balata and Hebron refugee camps with money and weapons.

On the Israeli domestic level, Netanyahu believed that by war on Gaza, targeting the Islamic Jihad Movement and killing many of its leaders, he could restore his fractured coalition and convince the opposition to unite around this coalition, thus ending the Israeli street protests that are worrying his coalition and threatening his extreme right-wing government. As for the political level in the affairs of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Netanyahu was and is still planning to break up the resistance front in Gaza and completely deviate from what is happening in the West Bank, in preparation for resolving the issue of Jerusalem through Judaization, settlement and displacement of Palestinian citizens in the neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. This is in addition to imposing Israeli sovereignty over large areas of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, and thus More blows occur to the two-state solution plan, which is in its final breath, especially since the United States of America, the central countries, and the United Nations have not yet presented any initiatives to save the two-state solution. It is a tool in the hands of the occupation, nothing more.

Netanyahu's campaign against Islamic Jihad in Gaza failed, and thus he achieved nothing but failure. He hurried out after five days with minimal losses, after arduous negotiations by the mediators to prevent the scene from erupting and the war rolling into an all-out war in which Netanyahu would be forced into a military confrontation on more than one front. Now we can confirm that Netanyahu was planning for this round of fighting to be a short military operation that would bring significant results in terms of restoring calm, and thus he would say to his opponents and opposition and to the Israeli people that he had managed to weaken the Islamic Jihad movement, which incites terrorism, according to his claim, and thus his country would restore calm for a long time, but I believe that this will not be achieved according to Netanyahu's perceptions. He was unable to neutralize the Islamic Jihad movement and prevent it from supporting the resistance in the West Bank and continuing to resist the occupier. Yes, Netanyahu could come out the day after the fragile ceasefire to say that he had settled his scores with military leaders in Jihad who are behind the recent military operations in the West Bank, and that the Islamic Jihad movement needs a long time to rearrange its ranks and compensate for its loss, and this is what will preoccupy it from caring about the resistance file in the West Bank. bank, he believes.

The day after the cessation of the military operation on Gaza, the Israeli public and the opposition will discover how much lies Netanyahu practiced to portray to the Israelis that he achieved great results from this war, but it seems that the Israeli public is not deceived by such lies, as it knows that Netanyahu was the cause of the destruction of many From the buildings in the settlements, extending from the settlements of the edges of Gaza to (Holon and the mountains of Jerusalem), and it was the cause of paralyzing half of its country from the south to the center for five consecutive days, in addition to the refuge of more than 4.5 million settlers to shelters and the complete disruption of commercial movement, trains and transportation. The truth is that Netanyahu, with this military operation on Gaza, lost a lot, and the first loss was that he became a laughing stock for many leaders and opposition men, and the second is that he did not repair the deterrence system, which military experts know has increased cracks due to the skill of the Islamic Jihad administration for this battle on the ground, and to achieve deterrence to the occupation, the results of which will be known after any An assassination of any of the movement's leaders in the future, and he will know in return that the operation to weaken the jihad failed and that it also failed to distance the movement's men from adopting, supporting and backing the resistance in the cities of the West Bank as an important Palestinian front on the lines and circles of engagement with the Israeli occupation.