op-ed: Netanyahu's schemes to corroborate his position

After the last two operations in Hawara and Hebron, in which three settlers were killed and three others were injured, the security and military systems did not acknowledge the failure of the political system to address the tension in the West Bank as a whole, and to develop radical solutions by recognizing all the rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination. Rather, they were led by Netanyahu's distortion of the compass about the ability of the Palestinians to confront the occupier, to cause him pain, and to threaten the future of the entire settlement in the West Bank, attributing the matter to Iran directing such operations and financing them with weapons and money. It is as if the Palestinians cannot resist or do not have the ability to carry out commando operations unless Iran permits it. A miserable occupation attempt to exploit the Iranian file to serve Netanyahu’s personal goals of overcoming the opposition and portraying that his entity is under threat, which requires unifying efforts and ranks between the opposition and the coalition so that his government can confront the challenges and implement its Judaization programs and plans to resolve the conflict in the West Bank and Jerusalem without Palestinian resistance that obstructs and overthrows these programs and distracts them. The security and military systems are trying to restore calm and stability without paying political prices or making political concessions to the Palestinians.

The Hebrew media is raising a serious campaign of incitement to assassinate Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders. Yesterday, the Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, published an inciting report on the assassination of Al-Arouri, describing him as a "deadly man." It considered him the most dangerous person and the most important person in Hamas abroad. The report said that the man holds all the strings in the West Bank, and he is the one who threatened two days ago that the return of the occupation to the policy of assassinations would lead to a regional war with multiple arenas. The newspaper considered that the occupying state is mainly interested in his assassination, and said that Al-Arouri is one of the authors of the guerrilla agenda in the West Bank, and this is what made him very close to the axis that sees the West Bank and Jerusalem as central tools in its struggle against occupation. The Hebrew media said that the sources in the security and military system accuse Al-Arouri of giving the green light to Hamas men in Lebanon to fire rockets at the northern settlements of the occupying state last Ramadan, which contributed to breaking the deterrence system between the occupying state and Lebanon.

Netanyahu directed an explicit threat to Al-Arouri, head of the Hamas movement's office in the West Bank, and said that he and his movement were behind a series of recent attacks against Israel. At the outset of his cabinet meeting, he added, "Those who try to harm us and finance the commando operations and stand behind these operations will pay a heavy price." Netanyahu sent important messages to the Israeli public, taking advantage of these events, and said, "These are not easy days, they are full of challenges, and we must unite our forces against what he called terrorism and against Crime in Arab society and against external and internal threats organized by Iran to a large extent, we will stand together and defeat them." Netanyahu, at this stage, is preparing the Israeli public for a battle that may be prolonged and is suggesting to them that he will do everything he can to deter Hamas and the Jihad, but at the same time he is maneuvering and trying through mediators not to reach this battle because its results are unknown to him and may bring negative political results at the level of the Israeli internal scene and on the level of the relationship with Gaza , if he gets out of this war without achieving great goals that lead to a long calm in Gaza and the West Bank. At the same time he manages to divert the resistance of Gaza from the West Bank and ensures that none of Hamas and Jihad will interfere in the resistance work there.

The mediators did not stop their efforts, especially Egypt, which has been making efforts over the past days and at the present time to defuse any possible confrontation, which received heated messages from both sides, and built its efforts on the basis of what is considered the most dangerous of these messages. Haaretz said, "Israel has informed the Egyptian mediator that it has washed its hands." of all the recent understandings that were concluded with the factions, especially the Islamic Jihad Movement, which led to stopping Israel’s aggression last May, which stipulated the cessation of assassinations.” Sources had reported that many messages had reached the leaderships of Hamas and Jihad from more than one source, stating that the occupying state was going the direction of carrying out aggressive military action against them and that they should take caution. Efforts are faltering because the demands of the occupying state are beyond the impossible. It demands a long-term calm in Gaza and demands that the resistance in Gaza be neutralized from any resistance action in the West Bank, whether it is supplying the resistance men with money or weapons or directing the implementation of any resistance actions without the occupying state giving any political or non-political price. Therefore, it only wants by force to conclude humiliating understandings for the Palestinian resistance, and this is what complicates the scene and may lead to a major confrontation.

It seems that the decision to return to the assassinations was taken in the mini-cabinet on the eve of the Hebron operation, and the occupying state is proceeding in the stage of collecting and updating intelligence information about some of the senior figures in the two movements, especially Al-Arouri in Beirut. Perfect, but this failed so far after the Lebanese intelligence and Hezbollah elements arrested a Mossad man and his wife who were collecting information in the southern suburbs about the whereabouts of Mr. Al-Arouri on Lebanese soil. The occupying power is preparing for a sudden strike that opens this confrontation, starting with the assassination of several people at the same time in Gaza and Lebanon, and through which it assures the Israelis that it has achieved the required deterrence, and then the confrontation will take place for several days before the mediators reach a new cease-fire. This is the expected scenario, but the unexpected may be the severity of the Palestinian resistance's response to such an act, which will surely surprise the security and military systems of the occupying state.
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