op-ed: A new revolution: Netanyahu is not fighting ghosts

The Israeli newspapers and the media were abuzz about the proliferation of Palestinian military operations recently in the month of 8 of the year 2023 AD, which are unprecedented operations that come against the Israeli occupation represented by the criminal colonial gangs and the army inside the West Bank.

In the context of these operations, the commander of the Central Command in the Israeli aggression army, General "Yehuda Fox", acknowledged the failure of the army to confront the (recent) Palestinian operations in Hawara and Hebron, and said in a statement that: "For a long time we did not know such a wave of terrorism, this week We did not succeed in thwarting it," he said.

The recent escalating operations were the beginning of their emergence and launch from the city of Jenin since the year 2021, and most of their military operations came from new field Palestinian youth groups, or from individuals who have no direct connection with factions, even if some of them - and some of them remained - belonged to the "Fatah" movement "Jihad" or "Hamas" or "popular front" or other historical factions.

And the "Black's Den" group in Nablus (fedayeen belonging to the Fatah movement or the Jihad movement... mainly), or the Jenin battalion (similar to its counterpart in Nablus), or the Tulkarm battalion and the Bethlehem battalion, or the Jericho battalion, or in Hebron are only examples of solo armed Palestinian commando action, or linked partially or without a direct organizational link to the major factions that are engaged in a sterile debate that does not end, mostly over the division of spoils and power. These new armed Palestinian groups also have no real connection to the active revolutionary frameworks emanating from the factions, especially the "Fatah" movement, in the field of peaceful popular struggle in the West Bank.

Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh, the former leader of the (Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades) in Nablus, had indicated in the year 2021 that the escalation of the occupation and its fierce attack against Palestine and the Palestinians, and the political adoption of this by successive Israeli governments, is a sufficient reason to make the young generation belong under the wing of any resistance faction. Although he and many other analysts believe that the groups on the ground operate individually and not as factions, he clearly stated that "repeated attacks, especially by settlers, will create a state of linkage or coordination between the different factions," which seems to have begun to materialize in the year 2023. It appeared with the escalation of the Palestinian armed revolution operations in the West Bank, north and south, which necessitated a great Israeli political, security and military mobilization.

In his commentary on the Hawara-Nablus operation and then the Hebron operation on Monday 8/21/2023 , the Israeli Prime Minister "Benjamin Netanyahu" preferred, as usual, to turn his back on the truth and deny the existence of the Palestinian people, their steadfastness, and the right to their homeland and state, and denied their dignity and their constant and continuous revolution in all forms for their occupation And against the practices of his army and colonial gangs.
Netanyahu, in his response to the operations, did not see the Palestinian people anywhere "in the sun", and assumed that this mighty people would be an invisible ghost until it was lit up by the fingers of others, and through terror it became visible!

"Netanyahu" said: "Israel is in the midst of a terrorist attack encouraged and financed by Iran and its proxies.!?" He added that "offensive and defensive means are used to settle scores with the killers and also with their senders," as he put it.

Yoav Gallant, the Israeli Minister of Defense, following Netanyahu's approach, denied the existence of the Palestinians and their right to refuse to occupy their land. He said, "The attack is directed by Iran, which is looking for every means to harm Israeli citizens... We will reach out to the terrorists and take additional measures... All options are on the table." On the table".

"Netanyahu" (and his Minister of War and his government), who does not see that the Palestinians as a people deserve to be mentioned except linked to terrorism, denies the reality of the Israeli terrorist killing that overthrew more than 200 Palestinians in the West Bank until this month, including the direct killing practiced by the colonialists, and they only had to flee with cynical faces And laughing at the responsibility as usual.

"Netanyahu" sees in his army's killing of the people of Palestine in the Gaza Strip or in the West Bank only an achievement of the policy (killing, then more killing) within the "Smotrich" plan that is actually implemented to get rid of the Palestinians. Therefore, the settlers generously participate with the army by "paying the price" for the Palestinians.
The colonialists (settlers), under the strict protection of the "Netanyahu" government, are not satisfied with breaking cars, burning trees, burning houses and mosques, stealing sheep and olives, not only stealing and occupying land, nor expelling or beating Palestinians, but rather they practice direct, subsidized and paid killing in front of the army's joyful eyes at what you see! As is the joy of "Netanyahu" and his government to get rid of any member of the Palestinian people.
And here is the latest example of the series of killings by colonial gangs: Qusay Jamal Maatan (19 years old) was martyred on (4/8/2023 AD) as a result of being shot by terrorist settlers who attacked the village of Barqa, east of Ramallah, of course accompanied by burning operations that they still practice as they did in Jerusalem and in Huwwara-Nablus and Turmusaya-Ramallah and other villages. This is a terrorist operation that drew international, even American condemnation, but there is no life for "Netanyahu" and his government, or whoever calls them. The fate of the well-known killers was the space of freedom.
This is not new, as the citizen Ali Harb was killed in the village of Iskaka, east of Salfit Governorate, in June 2022. Likewise, the colonial terrorists killed the martyr Mithqal Rayan, in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, while he and the people of his steadfast town confronted an attack by settlers from the outpost on the side. north of the town.
In all cases, let the killers be free! Is it any wonder that the Palestinian reaction, especially from the ardent youth (ghosts), is revolution, uprising and resistance! And what might follow in terms of a massive uprising or a new revolution that achieves the interdependence of individual and semi-organized groups in one decade.
Why the escalation of operations against the Israeli presence in the West Bank is a question that "Netanyahu" and his minister of war and his minister of what is called national security and their government do not want to answer except by denying the real reasons represented by the occupation of the land, and by playing behind the truth and beyond the greatness of the Palestinian Arab people who have been rooted in this land since eternity And since drawing the shape of the bridge and Natufian civilization, then the Palestinian civilization from 20 thousand years ago, and what followed it until today.
Let us sum up by saying: The occupation of the land of Palestine is the first and last cause of violence and terror coming from the army, and from the colonialists supported by the army, who practice terrorism as a picnic under the protection of the army. We have always written and pointed out that the criminal behavior of the government, the aggression of the army, and the practices of the terrorist colonial gangs are the first reason that paves the way for a massive intifada or a new revolution in Palestine.
We repeat to those who want to hear that the existence of the occupation as the occupation of the land in itself is the reason for igniting the launch of the Palestinian revolution in 1965 AD, and it is the same as the reason for all the uprisings and movements, and it will be the reason for the launch of the new revolution, or the next uprising, which has emerged individually or semi-organized since the year 2021 and is geographically or dispersed Structurally not continuous, then with the continuation of the killing policy, more Israeli killing, the groups or cells will become organized and then incendiary.
If the leadership of the political organizations, headed by "Fatah" and "Hamas" and others, cannot understand well that they are at the mercy of the new revolutionary generation, then they may find themselves within the remnants of the Palestinian revolution. And if she is well aware of her role, she will be able to seize control of the impending historical moment, both internally and externally.
The new uprising or revolution of the ghosts may take its violent or non-violent form, and it will often depart from the methods of the existing political organizations - if the leadership of these organizations does not understand their required role - if they are able to organize their ranks, and set a strong, realistic and reasonable political goal, and accordingly they will propose their correct methods of struggle in terms of Absolute trust in the masses and their primary role in the revolutionary struggle, because without them, i.e. the masses, there is no hope for communication and no ability to achieve victory.
And let me say in conclusion that the loss of hope in the political goal of a solution on the one hand, due to the policy of killing and more current Israeli killing, and the loss of hope in the old Palestinian leadership component that is unable to change the existing reality, the reality of occupation and division, represents a great fuel for the embers of the new revolution that may overthrow the stable It creates or matures a burning generation that realizes that its role has not yet begun, but rather is on the threshold of a new beginning.