OPINIONS
Mon 09 Oct 2023 9:32 am - Jerusalem Time
A preliminary reading...of October Gaza!
Hamas... called it the Al-Aqsa flood. Israel called its response iron swords.
Leave aside the labels, let's talk about the true description of what happened and is happening. Firstly, it is a war to deter the arrogant Netanyahu and the obsessed leaders of his coalition.
It is a war of response to the Israeli belittlement of the Palestinian people, considering them non-existent and that they can be controlled with some services and facilities.
It is a war of response to the Israeli violation of Palestinian dignity, Palestinian rights, and the Palestinian present and future.
It is a war on the legislation of shooting Palestinians according to the desire of the army, the border guards, and herds of settlers, and the intended legislation is being discussed in the decision-making governmental institutions.
These are some of them on the Israeli-Palestinian level, but on the broader level, it is a war that has completely destroyed the remnants of Oslo that no one dares even talk about anymore.
It is a war that tells the Americans that your excessive pampering of Israeli extremism has resulted in new blood, destruction, new orphans, and new displacement, and this time not only at the level of the Palestinians, but also at the level of the Israelis.
War... changed equations and produced new ones.
This war changed our era and opened another new era. It seemed that everything that happened between October 1973 and October 2023 was just a past of peace, and if it had partially stabilized, it was no longer completely viable.
The official who will not escape conviction is everyone who understood the trampling of Netanyahu’s ministers on the heads of worshipers at Al-Aqsa and considered it self-defense. And everyone understood the settlers’ spitting on Christian clergy as being part of Jewish culture, and this is what I did not say, but rather senior officials in Israel said. What prompted the Israeli writer Gideon Levy to say that Israel spat in the face of the world...
This war...is an explosion of a cauldron that has been boiling for years, which was calmly vented until venting no longer had the ability to prevent the explosion.
This war... its hero, and perhaps its victim at the same time, is Netanyahu, and his army, all those who did not do justice to the Palestinians. They left them prey to a brutal military force that did whatever it wanted with them, and they overlooked sieges from which no Palestinian city, village, or neighborhood was spared.
The Palestinians went on the path to peace when they raised the olive branch before the world, and the enemies of peace, truth and justice insisted on dropping it from their hands. What happened at six-thirty in the morning on October 7 was not just a military operation, but rather the explosion of a cauldron that had been boiling for years, and neither relief nor cooling helped.
Many may claim what happened as an achievement on their part, but the truth is that it is an achievement for a besieged people, against an opponent killed by his arrogance, a unique Gazan achievement par excellence.
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