Our responsibilities are to prevent a second catastrophe that threatens us all

After a long year of conflicts, tensions, and deep internal rifts, the Israelis put their sharp differences aside, and all decided to line up behind the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and support its decision to launch a war of extermination and displacement against the Palestinian people. 

This happened even without any reservation by the opposition forces regarding the decisions of Netanyahu and his army to use an arsenal of killing, lethality and destruction to take revenge on the Palestinians, and to violate all the laws of war and international law, including committing described war crimes, such as the crime of preventing access to water, food, electricity, fuel, communications and medical supplies. 

About the people who have been under siege for more than fifteen years, and the crime of mass displacement, whether due to the terrible bombing, or because of the occupation army’s calls for the population to leave the north of the Gaza Strip and head to the south of the Gaza Valley and to demand that the citizens of the Gaza Strip in general go to Egypt, in addition to the crime of targeting civilians by bombing residential buildings. And the towers and demolished them on the heads of their residents without any distinction between fighters and civilians.

There is no surprise in the position of the Israeli forces, which culminated in Benny Gantz and his party joining the emergency government and the war council. Indeed, the other forces that did not join the government did not hesitate to express their support for the war and retaliatory efforts. 

It also postponed its calculations with Netanyahu until after the war, even though there is a consensus in the street and among the political forces to hold the Prime Minister and his partners fully responsible for the blow that Israel received on October 7, thus dragging the reputation of its army into the mud and dissipating the aura that surrounds this army Described as invincible. It also dealt a severe blow to the reputation of the Israeli military industries, which in the past decade have turned into a source of political, diplomatic and economic power for Israel and have become, through their integration with modern technology industries, the locomotive that drives economic growth. 

In the past year alone, Israel sold weapons, military equipment and spyware for more than Sixteen billion dollars, the share of the Arab countries participating in the Abrahamic Accords alone was about three billion dollars.

The blow that Israel received in the Al-Aqsa flood affected its regional status, prestige, and image before itself and before the world, but it does not affect its existence, while the war of extermination, destruction, and displacement that Israel is waging against the Gaza Strip heralds a new catastrophe no less disastrous and painful than the great catastrophe that befell our people in the year 1948. 

Talking about a new Nakba is not an invention by Palestinian analysts, nor is it merely constructive talk. Rather, it is a continuous threat issued by Israeli leaders, officials and analysts in response to every Palestinian act of struggle, and they had previously launched it during the Great Intifada, the Al-Aqsa Intifada, during the Battle of Saif al-Quds, and up to the events. witnessed in the West Bank over the past two years.

For all of this, it is better for our people, their forces, their factions, their civil organizations, and all their political and social components to put aside all their differences (including the excessive discussion about the justifications for Operation Al-Aqsa Flood) and agree on ways to confront the imminent dangers, the danger of genocide and displacement in the Gaza Strip, and the danger can easily spread to the West Bank. Especially after settler leaders announced that their militias would be in charge of controlling law and order in the West Bank under the pretext of the army being busy in Gaza.

We saw the immediate translation of this trend through declaring the West Bank a military zone, and closing most areas, including governorates, cities, and villages, with iron gates, military barriers, and cement blocks, and then in the series of attacks launched by settlers on some villages and external roads, including the bloody attack on the village of Qasra, and the assassination of the martyr Randa Ajaj from Deir Jarir.

The highest priority now is to protect our people in Gaza from the dangers of the war of extermination and displacement, which is a brutal war in which America and the colonial West in general side with Israel. Not only do they take political sides, but they also take part in the operations rooms, sending air bridges and aircraft carriers to supply Israel with death bombs and ammunition.

In this battle, our people need every Palestinian, Arab and humanitarian voice to support and defend them, unified political positions, and advocacy activities everywhere. Our people's forces and our friends around the world can deliver clear messages that our people in Gaza are not alone, and that the aggressors and their supporters will pay the price.

The priority associated with protecting Gaza and our people there is to unify the political and field position in the West Bank, and if it is difficult to resolve the differences and discrepancies that have divided us over the past years, it is easy to agree on a temporary and field work program to protect villages and towns threatened by settler militias, organize advocacy activities for Gaza, and deliver a clear message to the occupiers and to the entire world that we are one people, and we will never accept attempts to monopolize Gaza or any of the struggling political forces.

When the Israeli propaganda and lying machine shamelessly intends to fabricate all these slanders to demonize our factions and criminalize our entire people, this does not come in the context of a verbal debate and presentation of positions, but rather to justify the brutal attack that does not take into account any international controls or laws, and makes it permissible to commit war crimes without any reason or motive. 

A deterrent, total approval and practical alignment by the American administration, which over the past year had avoided meeting with Netanyahu and the pillars of his government after describing it as the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, but it was open to him to the extent of participating in his decisions after the Al-Aqsa flood, because of the blow that Israel received. On the 7th of October, it is a blow to its influence, its regional status, and its functional roles, as well as a blow to the heads of the Western colonial alliance.

We are not alone in the field of confrontation and defense of the values of justice, truth, and freedom, but mobilizing the forces supporting our people and their cause requires, first and foremost, a unified and effective Palestinian performance that is based on the heroism of our people in the field and invests in the justice of our cause and its standing in the conscience of the peoples and the liberation movements.