Reuters quoted Egyptian security sources on Monday, November 27, 2023, as saying that the Egyptian, Qatari and American mediators are close to agreeing to extend the truce in the Gaza Strip, which is scheduled to end today, amid international calls to extend it for additional days.

Egyptian sources indicated that the negotiators are working to resolve some differences regarding the duration of the extension of the truce and the list of Palestinian prisoners who will be released.

The sources stated that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is seeking to extend the truce for four days, while Israel wants to extend it day by day as negotiations continue regarding the Palestinian prisoners it will release.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would welcome the extension of the truce if Hamas facilitated the release of 10 additional prisoners every day, as agreed upon under the original agreement brokered by Qatar, according to Reuters.

International calls to extend the truce in Gaza

Hours before the end of the temporary truce in Gaza, international calls escalated to extend it for several more days, while others called for it to be transformed into a comprehensive ceasefire and the start of a political process.

42 delegations from member states meet at the Union for the Mediterranean Forum; Member states of the European Union, the Middle East and North Africa, in the Spanish city of Barcelona, today, Monday, to discuss the Israeli war on Gaza, coinciding with the fourth and final day of the truce.

In addition, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on Monday for extending the truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which entered its fourth and final day on Monday, to allow “the entry of more humanitarian aid and the release of a larger number of hostages.”

Stoltenberg told reporters: "I call for extending the truce. This will allow (the introduction of) more aid that the people of Gaza need and for the release of more hostages."

In this context, European Union foreign policy official Josep Borrell said on Monday that the four-day truce is an important first step towards resolving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), but more is needed to find a way out of the crisis.

While calling for the need to extend the temporary humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip, the European official warned of “unprecedented waves of extremism and violence if the war in Gaza is not stopped.”

On Monday, Iran also called for making “the truce in the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement” permanent to ensure “a complete cessation of Israeli crimes” in the Gaza Strip.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said at a press conference in Tehran: “In the Islamic Republic of Iran, we want and hope, like many countries” that the truce “will enter into a permanent process and that the crimes of the Zionist entity will stop completely.”

On Friday, a temporary humanitarian truce for 4 days, subject to extension, entered into force between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip.

During the first 3 days of the truce, Hamas released 40 Israelis (women and children) and 18 foreigners, while Israel released 117 Palestinian prisoners (women and children) during the same period.

The truce agreement includes the release of 50 Israeli prisoners from Gaza, in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinians from Israeli prisons, and the entry of hundreds of trucks loaded with humanitarian, relief, medical and fuel aid to all areas of the Strip.

From October 7 to November 23, over a period of 48 days, the Israeli army launched a devastating war on Gaza that left 14,854 Palestinians dead, including 6,150 children and more than 4,000 women, in addition to more than 36,000. Wounded, including more than 75% children and women, according to the government media office in Gaza.

source: Arabic Post

Rogel Alvear

The second intifada killed the Israeli left and the two-state vision, and created a state of absolute distrust of the Palestinians within Israeli society, and a desire for revenge against them. 

The massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7, and the kidnapping of Israelis to Gaza, will bury the two-state solution as deep as nuclear garbage, where the world will never see it. It is not clear where the Biden administration derives its optimism to revive this solution after the war. This blindness stems from wishful thinking. 

In the eyes of Israeli citizens, this is politically impossible.

First, we have before us the model of the Second Intifada: the violent Palestinian uprising that cost the lives of civilians, led to the strengthening of the power of the right in society, both horizontally and vertically. Now, in the wake of October 7, the Israeli narrative being formulated is based on the following: “Hamas = Gaza = Nazism = all Palestinians.” This is the new equation. All Palestinians, including Palestinians in the West Bank, are from now on considered “monsters” who must be killed. Society and the media completely ignore the death of civilians in Gaza by air force bombing, regardless of army and gender, and this is at best. The Israeli moral standard also includes a desire to annihilate them, or allow them to be annihilated, depending on the operational need.

Also, the emphasis in Israel is that a humanitarian view of the Gazans is a demand of “the world.” Palestinian life has never been this cheap in the eyes of Israelis. Fear of the Holocaust strengthened; It "happened again." The feeling of “we are right” has been strengthened, as has the feeling of victimhood, which creates a feeling of ownership of the entire country. Feelings of superiority over the gentiles also strengthened, and no one should look down on us. They say: Thank you Biden, but don't you dare tell us what to do. Widespread anti-Semitism reinforces Israeli fear, making it closer to a feeling of existential danger. As a result, the religious and national fighting spirit is strengthened. The two-state solution is considered madness, weakness, and betrayal.

Rejection of liberal Western values is strengthened. One of the most striking manifestations in the aftermath of the massacre is the desire of many Israelis and Jews to conform to their preconceived image of Arabs. Dialectically, fueled by racism and fear, everything Arab is now treated as strength, respect and victory. In the new narrative, Post-Traumatic narrative, it is emphasized that elephants who want to survive in the forest must stop behaving like elephants, and behave as part of the forest, and according to its rules. Elephants cannot hold out. Now, the Israelis treat Arab values as “violent and brutal,” capable of victory in the name of Allah and the land. Western Israeli values are presented as naive and will lead to ruin.

Many believe that Netanyahu is responsible for the failure, but they fear Sinwar more than they fear him. The massacre created a feeling that all Palestinians wanted to "slaughter all the Jews" and, therefore, the Jews should kill them. A large section of the left is “maturing” and refuses to place the massacre in any context; “Hamas’s brutality” was born out of vacuum. All of Israel is in shock from the global left. At the same time, intellectual affiliation and emotional affiliation to the global right, Islamophobia, is strengthening.

Critical discussion of the occupation is rejected, and is outside the boundaries of the Israeli camp. Settler terrorism almost always has the support of the majority of society, even if it is silent. 

In the end, Netanyahu will not resign, which will push us to one of two choices: either the protests against him will decline, under the pretext of “we will win together”; Or a civil war will break out, after the war, which will be prolonged as much as possible. In any case, Netanyahu's presence will thwart any possibility of serious dialogue regarding the two states.

United Nations human rights experts called on Monday for independent investigations into “allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity” during the recent aggression on the Gaza Strip.

A joint statement issued by Maurice Tidball Baines, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, and Alice Jill Edwards, Special Rapporteur on Torture, stressed the need for “prompt, transparent and independent investigations.”

“Independent investigators must be given the necessary resources, support and access required to conduct prompt, comprehensive and impartial investigations into crimes allegedly committed by all parties to the conflict,” the statement said.

According to the experts, “the duty to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity, including any act of summary or extrajudicial killing, torture or other attacks on human dignity, is a fundamental legal obligation.”

The statement urged the international community to ensure that all those responsible for the most serious violations - especially those bearing leadership responsibilities - are brought to justice expeditiously.

He stressed that "there is no statute of limitations" for war crimes and crimes against humanity, which fall under what is called universal jurisdiction.

This means that courts in any country in the world can try those responsible, regardless of their nationality and the country in which these crimes were committed.

According to the experts, “We encourage all countries to play a proactive role in identifying the main suspected perpetrators and to help facilitate prosecutions through the principle of mutual legal assistance.”

The White House: Israel agreed to extend the truce to release more detainees

Source: Annahar

The Israeli war on Gaza dominated the opening of the Union for the Mediterranean Forum held in Barcelona, Spain, where most of the speakers emphasized in their speeches the necessity of reaching a permanent ceasefire in the Strip and seriously seeking a two-state solution.

European Union foreign policy official Josep Borrell said that Israel had exceeded the limit of self-defense, and should not think about reoccupying Gaza, stressing the need to extend the humanitarian truce in the Strip and turn it into a “permanent” truce to allow work on a political solution to the conflict.

Borrell added, in his speech at the annual regional forum of the Union for the Mediterranean in its eighth edition, that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) “is not just a group of individuals, but an idea and an ideology that cannot be killed.” He pointed out that the world will face what he described as unprecedented waves of extremism and violence if the war in Gaza is not stopped.

The European official stressed that "there will be no peace or security for Israel without a Palestinian state."

No to deporting Palestinians

For his part, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that everyone must work to stop the war on Gaza once and for all, and that Israel "must understand that we will not accept the deportation of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip."

Al-Safadi pointed out in his speech at the forum that Tel Aviv did not work to achieve peace, did not implement the signed agreements, and undermined the two-state solution, and that the conflict did not begin on October 7, but rather is the result of the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands of Israel for decades.

In turn, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said that there is no alternative to the two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The minister added in his speech at the forum that Israel bears responsibility for all the violence we see.

For his part, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki said that there is no other solution but to end the war and extend the ceasefire to become permanent.

For his part, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez said that the international community must work to achieve the establishment of a Palestinian state, which will ensure peace in the region.

In his speech before the forum, Albarez stressed that any Israeli response must be in accordance with international law and not by killing thousands of innocent civilians indiscriminately.

Union for the Mediterranean

The Union for the Mediterranean is a Euro-Mediterranean partnership established in 2008, which aims to strengthen regional integration among Euro-Mediterranean countries, and establish peace, democracy and cooperation between the various parties in the region.

The Mediterranean Union includes 43 members, namely the European Union countries and the Arab Maghreb Union countries, in addition to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Turkey, Monaco, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro.

The presidency of the Union is shared between a president belonging to the European Union and another who belongs to one of the Mediterranean partner countries, as the Paris Summit in 2008 stipulated that the principle of the presidency should be shared between the North and the South.

Union members meet regularly at the level of senior officials from each member country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the European Union Foundation and the League of Arab States.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies

The emergence of China, India, the aggressive return of Russia, and the ambitions of Turkey, Brazil and other countries herald the end of the “Western moment,” that short period that since the collapse of the communist bloc has seen a united West led by the United States dictate its law to the rest of the world, which should serve as a wake-up call for what is often repeated that we are living in.” The collapse of the American empire.

With this introduction, Gérard Arrow began his article in the French magazine Le Point, stressing that the West had barely realized this moment because its superiority seemed natural and useful to it in a “rules-based world” and “the spread of human rights and democracy,” without realizing that its actions often contradicted its words which causes resentment and bitterness around him.

But now - as the writer sees - the world has begun to liberate itself from the guardianship of the West, which is evident in its audacity to declare the end of the West’s moment and to criticize democracy, which the West has been obliging everyone to worship publicly if they do not appear enthusiastic about it, asking: Will this inevitable collapse sweep away everyone? Americans and Europeans? Is Europe doomed to become a tourist destination or a retirement home?

But the writer seems not to be convinced that this end is near, at least with regard to the United States, which maintains its traditional advantages: the global financial center in New York, excellent universities, exceptional research centers, and a continuing entrepreneurial spirit, which provides investors with a large market, abundant and inexpensive energy, and absolute legal and financial security. Especially since efforts to overthrow the supremacy of the dollar have all failed so far.

Obama's prophecy

But this issue seems more difficult for Europe, as former US President Barack Obama predicted in 2016 when he said that the future of the world would be determined between New Delhi and Los Angeles. For Americans and Asians, Europe certainly remains a rich region, but it is gradually marginalized due to the return of Asia, which for thousands of years was the richest region in the world.

The writer pointed out that the century of the Pacific Ocean will come after the century of the Atlantic Ocean, especially since the modest growth in Europe and before it the increasing decrease in demographics heralds an aging continent that sleeps in the comfort of its social democracy and memories of its greatness, and it will be more of a tourist destination than a center for creativity and adventure.

However, before it becomes a holiday camp and a home for the elderly, Europe can experience good days on the margins of history despite Russia's hostility and the danger of the presence of a strong Turkey that wants to regain its position, and above all the presence of Africa with a young demographic structure at the gates of a rich and aging continent.

Although Europe has proven its ability to withstand many times, today it needs all its advantages to avoid becoming a victim of a history it wrote itself a long time ago, but it is divided into cantons in a world in which it needs unity, vision, and youth most.

Source: Le Point +Aljazeera

The French newspaper Le Monde said that the Palestinian people, who have moved from one tragedy to another since the Nakba in 1948, have never endured nor have their children endured such suffering in such a short time, as they suffered during a month and a half of continuous and relentless bombing.

Historian and expert on Middle East issues, Dr. Jean-Pierre Filliot, explained - in his column in the newspaper - that the Israeli army may not have achieved any decisive success with this continuous bombing and destruction in the northern Gaza Strip, but it is preparing to destroy the southern Strip with the same systematic blindness with which it destroyed its north, so that the Palestinians will pay such a price. For a conflict in which they are innocent, as we must remember, as it was sparked by the attack of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on the seventh of last October.

A killing that surpassed all that preceded it

The writer believed that the scale of this massacre today has never occurred over the past 75 years, despite the tragedies that have marked Palestinian history since then, as the death toll in the bloodiest of them reached a thousand people during the first Israeli occupation of Gaza, and a few thousand in 1970 in “Black September” in Jordan, then a few thousand in the 1976 massacres in Lebanon, and between 800 and 3,000 dead in the 1982 massacre in the Sabra and Shatila camps, in addition to 1,200 in the suppression of the first intifada, 3,000 dead during the second intifada, and finally more than 4,000 dead at the end of the various Israeli attacks on Gaza from 2008 to 2022.

As for the number of deaths in the current war, it reached 14,854 martyrs in Gaza as of November 22, according to figures issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which means that a month and a half of hostilities has claimed more than 75 full years since the Nakba, and the number of children Those killed amounted to 6,150 children, or more than 40% of the victims.

Destruction of the largest city in Palestine

Since ancient times, the Gaza Oasis has served as a trade crossroads between Egypt and the Middle East, and for a century its port was a major export center for citrus and grains. Despite the siege and repeated wars, Gaza City remained 4 times more populated than the city of Hebron, 5 times more populous than the city of Nablus, and 20 times more populated than the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, as the writer says.

Today, between 40% and 50% of the buildings in the largest Palestinian city have been destroyed or damaged, and the water and electricity distribution networks in it are no longer usable, and only one hospital is operating in it, and even the Nakba did not witness such destruction.

Three-quarters of Gaza's population have been forced to flee their homes, and half of them are crowded into United Nations shelters, threatened by epidemic risks in the absence of drinking water, and all of humanity is witnessing such a disaster.

Source: Le Monde +Aljazeera

The British newspaper The Observer published a report from inside the world of angry armed youth in the occupied West Bank. It quoted analysts and officials as saying that these young men are completely different from their predecessors.

The newspaper, published every Sunday by the Guardian Media Foundation, claimed that armed Palestinian youth in the West Bank also differ from their counterparts in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip.

The report reviewed the escalation of confrontations between Palestinian youth and the Israeli army in the West Bank. It stated that the Balata camp remained for many years a stronghold of armed activity and a target for Israeli security forces.

The newspaper pointed out that violence has escalated sharply since the attacks of last October 7, and the subsequent Israeli attack on Gaza, which led to the deaths of more than 14,000 people, according to local authorities.

It explained that popular local television networks are broadcasting "unretouched" images of destruction and death in Gaza around the clock in stores, cafes and homes throughout the West Bank.

“The impact of what is happening on this generation will not only be in Gaza, but also among Palestinians in general and among Arabs and the world,” said H. A. Hellyer, an expert on extremism issues at the Carnegie Center for International Peace.

The British newspaper conducted interviews with 10 armed young men in the cities of Nablus and Jenin in the West Bank, which it said were sufficient to identify the new wave of armed activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. All of the young men stated that their ultimate goal is to liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

The Observer quoted Hellyer as believing that ideology did not play a major role in the decision of young people in the West Bank to take up arms.

According to Michael Millstein, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and expert on Palestinian affairs at Tel Aviv University, this generation of militants grew up in a “very complex and chaotic” situation, claiming that the youth’s exposure to what he calls incitement is a reflection of deeper problems in the Palestinian arena.

Many armed youth in the West Bank expressed their longing to achieve victory or martyrdom, but they do not approve of suicide operations as a method of resistance, according to the British newspaper.

There is another change in the view of the new generation of Palestinian youth in the West Bank from the view of previous generations regarding resistance operations. Among the variables is the resort of “dissident” factions - such as the group called “Lions’ Den” in Nablus - to the use of social media in their struggle against Israel.

According to the newspaper, several analysts talk about the current youth’s disillusionment with the generation of older Palestinian politicians, who are seen as “collaborators” with Israel, saying that this has left a vacuum that has been filled by armed groups.

In this regard, Nour Odeh, a political commentator and analyst in Ramallah, says that these young men speak a language that the old leaders do not speak, and they use sarcasm and humor, adding, “They are a generation that is tired of everyone. They are frustrated, disappointed and let down.”

The newspaper goes on to say that the streets in Nablus and Jenin were filled with thousands of people to mourn the martyrs of the clashes with the Israeli forces, and they fired a barrage of bullets into the air as an expression of their determination.

It concluded its report with a statement by a young Palestinian man named Abboud (19 years old), carrying a rifle, in which he said that they had no choice but to buy a weapon to fight the enemy.

Source: Observer+ Aljazeera

The US Central Command announced, at dawn on Monday, the launch of two ballistic missiles from areas controlled by the Houthis in Yemen towards a US naval destroyer in the Gulf of Aden.

The missile launch came while the American destroyer was assisting a tanker belonging to an Israeli-linked company in the Gulf of Aden, which was seized by gunmen on Sunday, they released it before the US Navy arrested them.

The command said in a statement on the “X” platform: “The two ballistic missiles fell in the Gulf of Aden, 10 nautical miles from the American destroyer, without causing damage or injuries to the destroyer.”

Commander of US Central Command, General Michael Eric Kurella, said, “Security of the maritime domain is essential for regional stability. We will continue to work with allies and partners to ensure the safety and security of international shipping lanes,” according to the statement.

The statement explained, "On November 26, the US Navy destroyer Mason, along with allied ships from the Anti-Piracy Task Force and associated aircraft, responded to a distress call from the merchant ship (Central Park), which was attacked by an unknown party." .

The statement indicated, "When the destroyer Mason arrived at the location of the hijacked tanker, the coalition members demanded the release of the tanker. After that, five armed individuals disembarked from it and tried to escape via their small boat, but they were chased, which led to their eventual surrender."

On Sunday evening, the Central Park ship, owned by the Israeli Ofer family, was attacked near the coast of Aden, Yemen.

According to what Hebrew newspapers reported on Sunday, the ship sailed “under the Liberian flag, and is owned by the Zodiac Marine Company, based in the United Kingdom.”

Earlier yesterday, Sunday, gunmen seized a tanker loaded with phosphoric acid in the Gulf of Aden, according to the Embrey Maritime Security Company. The company said in a statement, "The Houthis previously threatened to attack the ship if it did not divert its course towards the port of Hodeidah." It added: “There are citizens from Russia, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Georgia, India, and the Philippines on board the tanker.”

The Yemeni government accused the Houthis of being behind the attack, although the Houthi group has not admitted to hijacking the ship or launching the two missiles yet.

The company that owns the tanker, the American and British armies, and the "Embry" company said that the attackers seized the tanker "Central Park", which flies the Liberian flag and is managed by the "Zodiac Maritime" company in the Gulf of Aden.

In addition, Zodiac announced this morning that the tanker and its crew, consisting of 22 sailors from Bulgaria, Georgia, India, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey, and Vietnam, were unharmed.

It added, "We would like to thank the coalition forces that responded quickly to protect assets in the region and uphold international maritime law."

Zodiac, headquartered in London, is part of the Zodiac Group, owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer.

On November 19, the Yemeni "Ansar Allah" (Houthis) group announced the "kidnapping" of an Israeli ship, which Tel Aviv later denied, confirming that the ship was owned by a British company and operated by a Japanese company, denying that there were Israelis on board.

The Houthi group has previously vowed to target ships owned or operated by Israeli companies “to support the Gaza Strip,” calling on countries to “withdraw their citizens working on the crews of these ships.”

(Anatolia, AP)

An Israeli researcher estimated on Monday that the security and strategic challenges facing Israel will increase after the war it is currently waging in the Gaza Strip. Researcher Ronen Schickler expected that the war on Gaza would lead to the deterioration of Israel's strategic and economic position, just like the first war it launched against Lebanon in 1982, which was called the "Peace for Galilee" war.

Shekler added in posts on the “X” platform that there are similarities between the current war that Israel is waging in the Gaza Strip and the first Lebanon war, which ended in major failure.

Shekler found that there is a similarity between the Israeli leadership’s pledge that the main goal of the war would be to eliminate the Hamas movement, and the announcement by Menachem Begin’s government in 1982 that the goal of the First Lebanon War was to eliminate the presence of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon, and expel its members from there.

He pointed out that while Israel was able to expel the PLO from Lebanon, it paved the way for the rise of Hezbollah, which took the initiative and fought bloody confrontations with Israel, noting that the total number of Israelis killed since 1982 reached 1,195 soldiers and settlers.

He pointed out that contrary to Israel's pledges that the first Lebanon war would result in the elimination of the sources of "terrorism," it led to its growth, warning that this is what will await Israel if it continues its current war on the Gaza Strip.

He brought to mind the fact that the heavy losses incurred by the Israeli occupation army in Lebanon led to growing rejection among the ruling circles in Tel Aviv and the Israeli public, of the idea of continuing the occupation of southern Lebanon, which ultimately led to convincing former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to issue his instructions to withdraw from the south Lebanon region in Year 2000.

Sheckler warned against the Israeli leadership implementing its threats to impose a security buffer zone along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, noting that this is what must be learned from the experience of the security belt area that Israel imposed south of the Litani River in Lebanon.

He stressed that the security belt that Israel threatens to impose in the Gaza Strip will not only fail to reduce the pace of operations carried out by the resistance from the Gaza Strip, but will also work to intensify them, just as the security belt in southern Lebanon failed to prevent Hezbollah from being able to enhancing its ability to target occupation soldiers.

He highlighted the fact that just as the security belt in southern Lebanon did not prevent the occupation army from being forced to launch military incursions north of the Litani, the inauguration of a security belt in the Gaza Strip will not prevent Israel from once again being forced to launch military operations deep into the Strip.

He explained that the period of calm that prevailed in the confrontation with Hezbollah after the Second Lebanon War in 2006 was exploited by the party to strengthen its military power in an unprecedented manner, which turned it into the greatest source of strategic threat to Israel.

According to Sheckler, even if Israel succeeds in eliminating the “Hamas” movement, an organization “worse than it” will rise in its place, just as the elimination of the PLO led to the rise of “Hezbollah,” which means that eliminating “Hamas” will not lead to remove the threat posed by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. He added that Israel's attempt to impose a cooperative and "friendly" government in the Gaza Strip after the war will end in a miserable failure, just as the experience of the South Lebanese Army, which cooperated with Israel, ended, "because this government will not have legitimacy in the eyes of the Palestinian public in the Strip."

He described Israel's talk about an Arab force that could take over the Gaza Strip after the war and do the "dirty work" on its behalf as just an "unrealistic fantasy."

source: Al-Araby Aljadeed

Netanyahu devoted part of his time to managing the war on Gaza to meet with members of the Knesset to ensure that they would not join the coup against him, following deliberations in the Likud about withdrawing confidence from him and nominating Edelstein to temporarily head the government.

It seems that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is not entirely preoccupied with managing the war on Gaza, and that he devotes part of his time to his political survival. Therefore, in recent days, he has devoted himself to holding “personal meetings” with Knesset members from the Likud Party to prevent “ A coup” he expects against him.

The goal of these meetings, according to what the Ynet website reported today, Monday, is to seek to consolidate his position within Likud and learn about the atmosphere within the party, against the backdrop of the war on Gaza and its demand to bear personal responsibility for the security failure that led to the success of the attack by Hamas fighters in  the envelope of Gaza, on October 7th.

Ynet reported that secret deliberations took place in recent days within Likud about the “day after” the war. A Likud leader was quoted as saying that the possibility of overthrowing Netanyahu is being studied, through a vote in the Knesset General Assembly on a draft law to remove confidence in him, and putting forward the name of another Knesset member from Likud to form a government without holding general elections.

One of the names being put forward in these deliberations is the head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Yuli Edelstein, to be appointed interim prime minister until a new Likud president is elected.

Netanyahu met alone with Likud Knesset members last Friday, including Kate Sheetrit, Dan Illouz, Hanoch Milevitsky and Boaz Bismuth.

Ynet quoted an informed Likud source as saying, "Netanyahu is afraid of the rhetoric about replacing him and wants to make sure that no one joins the coup against him."

He added, "Netanyahu wants to 'feel the pulse' of Likud. He is passing on two central messages, which sound like his upcoming election campaign: I pledge to continue fighting until the end; and he is the only one who will prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state."

The same source continued that during personal meetings with members of the Knesset, “the feeling was that it should be directed towards elections immediately after the war.”

Regarding the possibility of Netanyahu stepping down from his position after the war, one of the Knesset members who met with him said, “This is not at all on his agenda. Even a D9 bulldozer will not budge him.”

The arrest operations were concentrated in the town of Bani Naim, Hebron District, and the town of Kafr Ni’ma, Ramallah District, while the rest of the arrests were distributed among the governorates of: Jenin, Nablus, and Bethlehem, according to a joint statement issued by the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.

From yesterday evening until Monday morning, Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 60 Palestinians from the West Bank, including former prisoners.

During the arrest campaigns, the occupation forces continue to carry out widespread acts of abuse, severe beatings, field investigations, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of Palestinian homes, in addition to detaining Palestinians as hostages to pressure family members to surrender themselves.

Thus, the total number of arrests since the start of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7 last year has risen to more than 3,260, and this total includes those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure.

The ongoing arrest campaigns come within the framework of the comprehensive aggression against the Palestinian people and the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, after the seventh of last October, and have included all groups, including children, the elderly, women, and hundreds of freed prisoners who spent years in Israeli occupation prisons.

Today, Monday, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on civilian homes east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

Press sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on citizens’ homes east of Al-Maghazi camp in the Central Governorate, in violation of the humanitarian truce on its fourth and final day, without any casualties being reported.

Yesterday, Sunday, the occupation forces violated the humanitarian truce more than once, targeting farmers while they were working on their land east of Al-Maghazi camp, which led to the death of one of them and the injury of the other.

Also yesterday, seven citizens were injured by bullets from the Israeli occupation forces in the vicinity of the Al-Quds Hospital in Tal Al-Hawa, west of Gaza City, and the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.

It is noteworthy that, on the first day of the humanitarian truce, the Israeli occupation forces targeted a group of citizens, while they were trying to return from the south of the Gaza Strip to the north, which led to the death of two of them, and the injury of others.

During the days of the truce, the Israeli occupation forces prevent 1.7 million people displaced to the southern Gaza Strip from returning to inspect their homes and property, most of which were bombed and destroyed in the center and north of the Strip, or even from searching for their missing family members, after threatening to target them.

The "humanitarian truce" in the Gaza Strip entered into force at 7 a.m. last Friday, after an Israeli aggression that continued since October 7th against our people in the besieged Gaza Strip, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 15,000 citizens. , including 6,150 children, more than 4,000 women, in addition to more than 36,000 wounded.

At the opening of a meeting of the "Union for the Mediterranean" forum in Barcelona, Borrell stressed that this truce, which he described as an "important first step", "must be extended" and transformed into a "permanent" truce to allow work on a political solution.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called on Monday for extending the truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which entered its fourth day on Monday, in order to work on a "political solution" to the conflict.

Borrell stressed at the opening of a meeting of the "Union for the Mediterranean" forum in Barcelona that this truce, which he described as an "important first step", "must be extended" and transformed into a "permanent" truce to allow work on a political solution.

He explained that Israel had exceeded the limit of self-defense, and should not think about reoccupying Gaza, saying: “We will face waves of extremism and unprecedented violence if the war in Gaza is not stopped.”

"Nothing can justify what Hamas did against civilians on October 7. But one atrocity cannot justify another atrocity," he said, referring to the Israeli army's reprisals and "the suffering of civilians in Gaza."

He added, "A political solution will enable us to break the cycle of violence once and for all," noting that "there will be no peace or security for Israel without a Palestinian state."

The European Union foreign policy official continued, "Hamas is not just a group of individuals, but rather an idea and ideology that cannot be killed."

As the truce between Israel and Hamas enters its fourth day, diplomatic efforts continue to extend it.

In this context, Hamas said in a statement at dawn on Monday that it seeks to "extend the truce after the end of the four-day period" with the aim of "increasing the number of prisoners released."

For his part, US President Joe Biden expressed his hope that the temporary truce would continue as long as the prisoners were released.

On Sunday, Hamas released 13 Israelis it had been holding since its unprecedented attack on Israel, in addition to 4 other detainees from outside the agreement, while Israel released 39 Palestinian detainees from its prisons.

Source: arab48

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said that the destruction revealed by the truce in the Gaza Strip indicates the extent of the crime practiced by the Israeli killing machine, and that the world must deal with Gaza as a disaster area, and that the one who caused this is the occupying state, and they must bear responsibility for that. .

The Prime Minister added in his speech at the beginning of the government session today, Monday, in Ramallah, that the scenes of destruction revealed by the war of extermination that our people were subjected to in the Gaza Strip over the past 52 days, show the extent of the atrocities that were committed motivated by a desire for revenge against thousands of children, women, and the elderly, and the extermination of Entire families, and the destruction of all elements of life, including hospitals, schools, universities, markets, bakeries, water and electricity stations, which reveals the true goals behind the aggression targeting all Palestinians.

He stressed that President Mahmoud Abbas is working to mobilize a pressing international effort to stop the aggression once and for all, and there is also an intensification of humanitarian, relief and medical support, re-providing the necessities of life in all areas of the Gaza Strip, and reconnecting water, electricity, communications and fuel services, leading to the opening of a real and serious political path. On the path to a comprehensive political solution, leading to world recognition of the State of Palestine and setting a timetable for ending the occupation.

He condemned the incursions and escalation carried out by the occupation authorities and colonizers in the West Bank governorates, including Jerusalem, including killing, incursions, colonization and mass arrests, and stressed that what is happening in the West Bank proves every day that the war is against us all and must be stopped.

In another matter, Shtayyeh pointed out that the number of martyrs in Gaza and the West Bank deprived us of the joy of receiving female and child detainees who were released, and he said: “Suddenly the world woke up to realize that there are children and women in the occupation prisons, sick people, and detainees serving life sentences.”

The Council of Ministers welcomed the statements and positions that expressed solidarity with our people and their suffering, especially what was issued by the Prime Ministers of Spain and Belgium to stop the aggression and recognize the independent Palestinian state, and expressed its aspiration that the broad state of solidarity from the peoples of the world would contribute to putting pressure on their governments to recognize the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. .

The Council of Ministers expressed its confidence that the people and the current Dutch government are capable of responding to the racist Geert Wilders, who in his statements denied the right of the Palestinian people to their land and historic homeland, Palestine, and that the attempt to tamper with regional security and the security of the Arab countries will be confronted to thwart it.

The Council of Ministers is following up on the aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and is discussing the security, political and other situations, including arrangements for employee salary payments by the end of this month.

The Swiss newspaper "Lotan" said that the photo of the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, which shows him with the Israeli flag behind him next to the Dutch flag, did not go unnoticed, describing him as a populist leader who seeks to remove Islam from the Netherlands, and for whom Israel represents the first line of defense for the West.

The newspaper added in a report written by Frederic Kohler that Wilders' identification - whose anti-European, anti-foreigner and anti-Muslim party won - with the Israeli occupation's battles against "Islamic terrorism" and the promotion of Greater Israel through settlements has become a sign of the extreme right, not only in Europe.

The newspaper pointed out that when Javier Miller won the presidential elections in Argentina, he gave his first interview to a newspaper, to announce that his first official visit abroad would be to Israel in order to move the Argentine embassy to Jerusalem, in the footsteps of former US President Donald Trump.

Nationalists support Israel

From President Viktor Orban in Hungary to the Christian Democratic Union in Switzerland, Lotan says, the strongest support for the Israeli authorities today comes from nationalist groups that are increasing almost everywhere, as the writer says, and this may be due to two reasons: fear and rejection of Muslim immigration, and ideological rapprochement with an Israeli state. Recently I have drifted towards the far right, which links nationalism and religious extremism.

The newspaper comments that what is amazing is that the mobilization against anti-Semitism after the resistance attack on the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip on the seventh of last October broke down the barriers that prevent racist groups from adopting the fight against racism.

Not support for the Jews

The writer asked, “Is Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right party in France, going against anti-Semitism or in support of Israel?” Then he answered that her move is neither support for the Jews nor mobilization against anti-Semitism, but rather support for a state that takes revenge by imposing collective punishment on the residents of Gaza.

In Europe, as in the United States, only Jews who do not want to be associated with the policies of the State of Israel and do not find themselves on the side of the extreme right are concerned.

The report quoted the former head of Doctors Without Borders, Ronnie Brauman, as saying, “Israel is not only the place where Jews are exposed to the greatest danger in the world, but Israel also exposes the world’s Jews to danger.” In other words, it is time to distinguish between the true supporters of Israel and the false friends of the Jews.

Source: Lotan

Nader Dargham, a Lebanese journalist based in London, believes that the Israeli-Palestinian war has raised serious questions about the future of the Middle East and the way it interacts with world powers.

He pointed out in his article on the British Middle East Eye website that with the United States and a number of Western countries throwing their weight and declaring their unconditional support for Israel, some Arab countries found themselves trying to protect their interests while calming popular anger with official support for the Palestinians.

Dergham added that while all Arab countries issued statements condemning the Israeli war in Gaza, the countries that signed the Abraham Accords - the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco - with Israel seem largely interested in securing their new relations with the Hebrew state.

The writer referred to what Elham Fakhro, a fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House, told Middle East Eye: “Saudi Arabia took a relatively strong position by suspending normalization talks with Israel. But the Arab countries that already have relations with Israel refused in "Most likely, these relationships will be jeopardized."

Tariq Kenny Shawa, a US policy fellow at the Palestinian Policy Network, says this relative inaction is not very surprising to the Palestinians.

"Most Palestinians are very frustrated with the level of response of Arab leaders across the region to what happened to them," he told Middle East Eye. "At the end of the day, Palestinians know that the Arab people and the Arab streets strongly support their cause, but they feel neglected by leaders who say things they don't do."

However, Dargham pointed out the relative pressure that came from Egypt and Jordan - the two oldest regimes that were normalized with Israel - as the Egyptian regime strongly opposed any plans to displace the population of Gaza to the Egyptian Sinai, but Cairo faces criticism due to its reluctance to open the Rafah crossing with Gaza more actively. .

Jordan recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv and withdrew from the energy-for-water agreement with Israel amid local pressure.

Despite this, Egypt and Jordan pursued and arrested citizens protesting in solidarity with Gaza.

Kenny Al-Shawa commented, “Arab leaders such as Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, King Abdullah II, and Mohammed bin Salman have influence that they can use to put pressure on Israel, such as threatening to withdraw from normalization agreements or negotiations.”

He added that these countries still prefer to maintain the support they receive from Western countries, in addition to the security and economic agreements from which they benefit.

The writer concluded his article with what Kenny Shawa said: “As long as the Arab world is run by autocrats who are interested in their own self-interest and determined to maintain their power at all costs, the Palestinians should not expect them to exert serious pressure on Israel.”

Source: Alajazeera.Net

International newspapers covered the news of the truce taking effect in the Gaza Strip and what is related to it. A Financial Times report spoke of Israel’s allies’ tendency to adopt tougher positions towards the situation in the Strip, while the New York Times said that the rate of killing of civilians in Gaza is unprecedented in decades.

On Friday morning, a humanitarian truce took effect in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which includes the exchange of 50 civilian women and children prisoners in the Strip in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian women and children detained in Israeli prisons.

A report in the Financial Times started from the diplomatic crisis between Israel on the one hand and Spain and Belgium on the other, to talk about the tendency of Israel’s allies to adopt a tougher stance towards it because of the horrific human cost of the war, according to the newspaper’s expression.

The newspaper also saw that European Union countries are divided over the amount of pressure that should be exerted on Israel to limit the consequences of its bombing and allow aid to enter Gaza.

While the New York Times said that an analysis of data from some conflicts revealed that the rate of killing of civilians in Gaza during the Israeli military campaign is unprecedented in decades.

It pointed out that the number of children and women killed in Gaza in less than two months is more than double the number of deaths of both groups in Ukraine after two years of war, pointing out that experts are astonished by Israel's excessive use of heavy weapons in a densely populated urban center.

For its part, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper believes that Israel will face the biggest dilemma when Hamas declares its readiness to negotiate regarding the other hostages in order to extend the ceasefire and make it permanent, which means a victory for it.

It pointed out that the truce may allow the Israeli army to restructure its forces, but at the same time it will allow Hamas to greatly harm Israel’s deterrence policy, the newspaper said.

In turn, Le Monde newspaper suggested - in its editorial - that Israel take advantage of the truce to assess the great destruction in Gaza, adding that the goal that Israel is trying to achieve does not seem close, even if the southern part is exposed to the same thing as the north.

The newspaper believed that maintaining the existing truce in Gaza is necessary so that those detained by Hamas can leave Gaza, and the Palestinians can also access humanitarian aid.

As for the Wall Street Journal, it highlighted that some of the displaced Palestinians in Gaza after the start of the truce had the opportunity to return to their homes and property to inspect them after the great destruction caused by the war.

The newspaper saw that the truce represented an opportunity for many Palestinians in Gaza to search for ways to check on their relatives who had no news from them due to the damage to the communications network while specialized teams were trying to repair what they could during the truce.

Source: Al Jazeera

A prisoner exchange agreement was agreed upon and implemented between Israel and the Hamas movement, and young Palestinian men, women and men returned to their homes, families, which had a positive impact on the Palestinian public opinion. Israel tried to procrastinate, but that had no effect, and the deal and prisoner exchange was completed, and this had a positive impact on national public opinion, in addition to, of course, the family, relatives and friends of those who were liberated and returned to their homes.
It was noticeable that there were young men among these liberated people, which increased the joy of the family and the public, because closing the doors to the future for these young men through captivity, imprisonment, and life behind bars negatively affects them, their families, and the national community in general.
Various news sources confirmed that Qatar had a major positive role in achieving this deal, just as Egypt had its positive role in this field, and our people appreciate Egypt and Qatar for these clear and positive positions. If it had not been for them, the matter might have been different and these prisoners who were liberated would not have tasted the flavor of freedom without these efforts.
Extending the truce and repairing the massive damage in the Gaza Strip
The pictures that were broadcast during the short truce in the Gaza Strip showed the extent of the massive destruction, devastation, that befell many buildings, streets, institutions, and in general the life and livelihood of the people in that small-sized and densely populated area.
We support a long-term cessation of these Israeli attacks and the war with Hamas and its institutions, and we call on all honest Arab, Islamic and international countries to provide all necessary funds and various assistance to rebuild what the occupation destroyed and create humane conditions for the lives of people in that region.

What is required is not just statements or declarations of solidarity and support, but rather the provision of effective financial support and the necessary economic aid to rebuild what was destroyed by the occupation’s missiles so that the necessary living conditions are available for the families, including children, women, the elderly and others, and so that a simple life becomes possible and its conditions are available.
Hence, we call once again for a long extension of the truce and for the provision of the necessary international aid, including money and other things, so that the Gaza Strip and its steadfast and patient people can regain their lives and future aspirations. 

It is not wise to write about a moving issue such as the war taking place in Gaza today, as many conclusions necessarily follow from the events of the field. But if this happens for certain considerations, it is very important that the writer does not submit to the desire of the public, which often demands that he turn into a “prophet” who tells him the outcome of the war, and relieves him of the anxious question that bothers him all the time.

He must also address those dimensions and aspects that have become clear, and which the continuation of the war will not change except by making it more clear, which applies to the complete moral defeat of Israel, and of the Western regime in general.
There is no doubt that the strategic dimension of any war is the most important and influential. However, it is still early to delve into it with regard to the war on Gaza, even though many of its features have become clear. It requires waiting for the final results of the interactions on the ground. 

As for the moral and ethical dimension of this war, it also gains extreme and exceptional importance, given that its implications go beyond the conflict currently taking place in Gaza and “Envelopes”, to reach the major questions related, without the slightest exaggeration, to the nature of the hoped-for global order, and to the present and future realities of humanity in general.
What is happening in Gaza now takes things back to their beginnings and to their basic and major questions, not only with regard to Palestine and its cause, and Israel and its “circumstances,” but mainly with the West, its system, its values, and even its “achievements,” even in matters that seemed to the world, for a long time, to be humanitarian such as human rights and international law. 

What is happening raises all question marks, and in fact removes all those marks, about the moral aspect of Western civilization, revealing it for its naked truth, that truth that almost disappeared behind the “dust” of progress, technology and globalization.
Gaza now stimulates in us not only the desire, but the necessity to reconsider everything related to the West and its civilization, from the issue of “Renaissance” to the “New” world, colonial wars, slavery, and the concepts of right, justice, morality, humanity, and even peace.
Morally, Gaza showed the “free world” as its mother gave birth to it, revealed its crisis, and highlighted the dangers to humanity in its civilization. It is “understandable” that the West supports Israel politically, but its justification for all these crimes it committed in Gaza against thousands of children, women and the elderly, and even its encouragement of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians, exceeds all logic. The West's support for Israel nullified its ability to camouflage and represent, and made it lose its "keenness" to direct the scenes in a way that demonstrated its moral "superiority."
Western leaders wanted to make October 7 appear as if it was a day outside of history, nothing had happened before it, and nothing had happened after it. They flocked to Israel, from the eldest, Biden, to the youngest (it is difficult to identify) to show their solidarity with it, and to affirm its right to “self-defense” (exterminate the Palestinians), and to meet with the families of the “kidnapped” to show solidarity and gain blessing, as if a million Palestinians had entered Israeli detention centers since 1967, (There is no need now to mention what happened before that), about six thousand of them were still in prison on the seventh day of October, and more than three thousand were added to them after that, and they are not human.
Saying that the Western system is without morals does not represent the entire truth. The problem is that in addition to being so, it is selective, racist, and “useful” in its “moral” positions. In Ukraine, for example, it claimed that its morals only allow him to stand with Ukraine, which is subjected to Russian “aggression.” 

The International Criminal Court, as one of the tools of the Western regime, issued a decision to arrest President Putin on charges of illegal deportation of the Ukrainian population and children, while the court does not seem to see a deportation of the population. In Gaza, not even a quote from them, or perhaps you consider that deportation by air, land and sea “carpet” bombing and their extermination falls within the scope of the law.
It is clear that the Western regime, whose racism and “moral” bullying has reached the point of being keen to “refrain” from committing its own crimes, except when absolutely necessary, has begun to manufacture its “criminal” tools from the oppressed peoples themselves, or from those whose fate it does not care about as long as it is in its ultimate interest. 

This applies to its use of ISIS and security companies, as well as its use of affiliated systems, as is the case in Ukraine and many Eastern countries. It found that matters needed “personal” and direct intervention when it came to Israel, so its battleships and forces arrived even before the battles began.
In order for this hideous image of the Western system not to distance us from the great positive image of millions of people in the West, increasing numbers of those people, especially the youth, are discovering the truth of their systems and the truth of Israel, and are adhering to their humanitarian position in support of the Palestinians’ salvation from this “nightmare,” which has represented the role of victim for most. 

A century ago, the recent events in Gaza came to show this with all clarity that leaves no room for any doubt. This solidarity, which was carried out by individuals in the past (Rachel Corrie, for example), is being carried out by millions in America, Europe, and various countries of the world these days.

Israel...moral fall
As soon as the events of October 7 occurred, the Israelis lost their minds. They are no longer keen on “embellishing” their reactions and the way they reach the world. They revealed their true selves, and this only happened to them on rare occasions, the most notable of which was October 7th. These rare times have proven that the terrified Israel is the real Israel.
On that day, the Israelis returned to their roots: a racist, colonial entity based on getting rid of the Palestinian people through displacement or extermination, and saw the presence of the Palestinian as a negation of its own existence.
Immediately after that day, Netanyahu declared that those in Gaza were not human, and Israeli Defense Minister Gallant described them as human monsters. He said that he would cut off water, food, and electricity from them, and he did. The Israeli Heritage Minister also threatened to strike Gaza with nuclear bombs.
This is at the level of statements, but at the level of procedures, Israel has denied freedom of expression, as it has long been keen to project its image as a representative of the “free world” in the region. It killed dozens of journalists within days, closed the Al-Mayadeen channel office, threatened Al Jazeera, and began disrupting social media, monitoring it and limiting its effectiveness. 

Soldiers began asking about Palestinians’ phones at checkpoints before asking for their IDs in order to search them. Many Israelis were punished, including two members of parliament who sympathized with the victims of the aggression in Gaza, and deducted their salaries, just as the authorities of some Third World countries do, which do not differentiate between the state and the regime, or between citizenship and political position.

Militarily, Israel attacked Gaza with all its facilities in front of the cameras and without the slightest ambiguity. Residential towers, houses, hospitals, universities, schools, most of which belong to the UNRWA, the infrastructure and everything... there was nothing left or a sanctified place in Gaza, and thousands of victims fell, children, women and the elderly, in scenes that no human being, no matter how hard-hearted, could bear.
This is what the Israeli regime is doing now in Gaza. Its “superiority” in killing increases in severity and “efficiency” whenever it fails in the fight. From what we see, it seems that Israel deceived us by convincing us that its army is fighting, as its history does not go beyond killing and committing crimes. This regime wants everyone to be convinced of its story and its superiority, and whoever does not do so will be subject to “demonization” by Israel, the West, and their “minions.”
What deepens the issue of moral decadence in Israel, and perhaps what is unique among the countries of the world, is that this does not apply to the political system alone, but rather includes many of the elites and most of society, given the special situation in which that society is formed. Perhaps the most prominent evidence of this, in addition to the crimes of settlers in the West Bank, is the petition signed by a thousand Israeli doctors demanding that Gaza hospitals be attacked under the pretext of being used by “terrorists.”
It is unfortunate that the Zionist forces that usurped Palestine and represented it as the State of Israel after its establishment, also usurped the representation of many non-Zionist Jews, who were innocent of it, its racism, and its colonial goals. A part of them began to realize what the reality of this state poses politically and morally, not only for the Palestinians and neighboring peoples, but even for the Jews themselves, as was shown in the demonstrations in which many of them participated in denouncing the crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.
With these actions, Israel constitutes a burden on the Palestinians, the Arabs, and all of humanity, including the Jews themselves. It creates a crisis for the Jews, which they must address by openly and clearly refusing to represent it to them, and by disavowing all the crimes it commits. The Jews' failure to recognize the danger of Israel and its actions towards them may pave the way for reactions of which they may be victims in the future.
A quick review of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict is sufficient to show that Israel does not “give up” anything except by force. This is what happened when it withdrew from the lands it occupied in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, and this is what appeared in all cases of prisoner exchange. This explains why it released thousands of prisoners when the opposing party had the means of force to pressure it, while it did not release even a single prisoner for humanitarian reasons, or as a reward for its “friends” on the other side.
A state that is only deterred by force, and does not take lessons from its moments of weakness when it is at the height of its power, like Israel, means that it is a state without morals and without conscience, and it means that it is a burden on the world. It is not easy to predict what crimes may come from it, and the danger of this increases when we know that it is a nuclear state, and it feels absolute support from the major Western powers.

Palestine... a shortcut to morals
In contrast, Palestine's cause embodies all human rights, as well as the true concept of morality. Despite everything Zionism committed against them, the Palestinians never once acted as avengers. When they had the opportunity to fight, they did so ethically. They were never killers like their enemies, but rather they were real fighters, and when they were captured by their enemies, they dealt with them ethically. Even the captivity itself did not have a goal in itself, but rather to liberate their captives.
If there is any criticism of the moral dimension of the Palestinians on their path to liberation, it is the extent of “naivety” they reach when they bet on the morals of their enemy. Anyone who thinks carefully about the Oslo process, for example, which was the biggest step for the Palestinians towards finding some solution to their issue, will find that the biggest problem was in assuming that their behavior in good faith assumed their enemy would act as well, which is what the Palestinians have suffered from and are still suffering from.

Palestine and the new moral order
The future world order must be reasonable and acceptable... This means that it must be moral. Palestine, with its moral superiority that has recently become so apparent, just as the immoral clarity of its enemies has done, has dealt a devastating blow to the moral “superiority” of the West. This refers not only to Palestine's role in reshaping the East "morally", but also to its role in reshaping the world.
What happened in Gaza and Palestine recently, and what Israel and America did, and the positions taken by Western European countries in support of the occupation and its crimes, and even those positions against the ceasefire, which was taken by the West as well as the United Nations itself, which is supposed to be its most important goals, presented a great service to China, Russia and all countries seeking to create a different world order, which should be more just and ethical.
The Palestinian issue has proven that justice is the basis of peace. Justice is what eliminates injustice, not abstract peace. The West and Israel’s talk about peace without removing the injustice imposed on peoples, especially the Palestinian people, is nothing but the consecration of an unreasonable world order.
The peoples of the world have also demonstrated, through their solidarity with Gaza and Palestine, their desire for a world order in which morals prevail. This was demonstrated by the demonstrations of Britain, Spain, Indonesia, Washington, and students at Harvard and other universities. These peoples will not accept a system in which the United States morally controls the fate of the world, and they will not accept that Israel continues to impose its occupation, racism, and hegemony on Palestine and the region... This is as it should be after all the blood shed by Israel in Gaza.

The Hebrew newspaper "Haaretz" reported on Monday that the Israeli occupation army does not feel an urgent need to resume fighting in the Gaza Strip, and that it supports extending the truce in exchange for the release of more Israeli detainees.

The newspaper pointed out that the Hamas movement succeeded in showing that it had not been defeated in the northern Gaza Strip, even if its control there had been damaged.

The newspaper reported that the fourth and final installment within the framework of the deal is expected to be implemented today. However, the truce is likely to continue for at least a few more days.

The newspaper's military analyst, Amos Harel, believes that Hamas is very interested in prolonging the truce, and that it has informed Qatar that it will try to find more Israelis of the same category stipulated in the deal.

The writer also referred to reports that stated, yesterday, Sunday, that “Hamas” is interested in two more days and even four days of ceasefire, beyond what was agreed upon in the first phase, and this depends on the release of more detainees.

The writer added that, contrary to what appears in some Israeli statements, there is no pressing feeling in the army that there must be an immediate return to war with the end of the truce, adding that the summary reached in the government speaks of a maximum period of time of up to another week before the fighting resumes, in If it is possible during this period to return more detainees.

The other thing that the writer pointed out is that although not resuming the fighting entails some risks, including Hamas reorganizing its ranks and making changes in the army’s readiness, the army also needs a period of time in order to revive its forces and prepare it for the next step.

The writer believes that Hamas is exploiting the days of the ceasefire in order to display its strength in the northern part of the Gaza Strip as well, pointing out that such matters are important for the Hamas leadership, to show that the movement has not been defeated in the northern Gaza Strip, and that it can send its members there immediately despite the presence of Israeli army forces near the place.

Source: Alaraby Aljadeed

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said: “Settlement building has nothing to do with self-defense and will not make Israel safer.”

Borrell pointed out that “Israel’s allocation of new funds to build more illegal settlements during the war is horrific.”

According to Israeli Channel 12, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich seeks to increase the budget of the Ministry of Settlement and National Missions by an amount of more than 375 million shekels, including a budget allocated to encourage the migration of extremist Israelis to “mixed cities,” such as Lod, Ramle, and Acre.

It is expected that the Israeli government will hold deliberations on changes to the budget for the current year 2023, during a meeting held today, Monday, claiming that the changes come in the wake of the needs of the war on Gaza.

Smotrich's plan for changes in the current year's budget stipulates an increase of hundreds of millions of shekels in the budget of the Israeli Ministry of Education, with the aim of "strengthening Jewish identity and culture."

The budget changes plan also allocates 200 million shekels to expand the colonies in the occupied West Bank, and 35 million shekels to establish preparatory colleges for military service in the colonies, establish random colonial outposts, and budgets to prevent Palestinian construction in areas classified as “C.”

The Intercept website said that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and its supporters have promoted a narrative that the Palestinian prisoners it proposes to release under the truce are all hardened terrorists who have committed violent crimes. The truth is that more than two-thirds of these prisoners have not been convicted of any crimes, and most of them have been arrested while they were children.

The website explained - in a report written by Jeremy Scahill - that the Israeli government’s narrative regarding the release of prisoners is a deceptive and dishonest narrative, and it is accompanied by Interior Minister Itamar Ben Gvir preventing them and their families from celebrating their release, as he said, “My instructions are clear. There is no expression of joy. The expression “Joy is equivalent to supporting terrorism,” and he asked the Israeli police to use an “iron fist” to implement his decree.

Israel issued a list of the names of the alleged crimes committed by these prisoners, even though the vast majority of the 300 prisoners whom Israel proposes to release are teenage boys, 124 of whom are under 18 years of age, and even of those who are 18 years old, 146 of them reached the age of Prison, which means that these Palestinians were children when they were arrested by Israel, according to the definitions set forth in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The website indicated that 233 of the 300 names that Israel proposed to release have not been convicted of any crimes, and are simply classified as “under arrest,” but the Israeli narrative promotes that they are under fair judicial procedures, and will ultimately be tried fairly and impartially, noting that this is nothing but a farce - according to the site's words - because Palestinians are tried before military courts, often denied access to lawyers, detained in isolation for long periods, and subjected to other forms of violations.

Although Israel is the only country that routinely tries children in military courts - and its system has been repeatedly criticized and condemned by major international human rights organizations and institutions - it asks the world to believe that these prisoners are all dangerous terrorists.

The newspaper concluded that the Palestinians included in this list are all from the occupied West Bank, and lived their entire lives under the apartheid regime, and although some of them committed acts of violence, it is ridiculous and unfair to pretend that the context of this violence has no relation to the reality of their lives, especially with the impunity of violent Israeli settlers, even though they mercilessly target Palestinians in an attempt to expel them from their homes.

Source: Aljazeera.net

We knew what the Americans and Israelis wanted; What must the Palestinians do to escape the fatal fate of their eternal dream? Freedom and independence.

If the wind is opposite; What can be done effectively to preserve the dream and provide better conditions for its realization?

We must make it clear that the Palestinian Authority is one thing and the Palestinians are another.

Politically, morally, and nationally, those who agree with Abbas and those who disagree with him and on him among the Palestinians should not allow any party other than themselves to determine Abbas’s status, even if their issue is intertwined with all the issues of the universe, and for the Palestinians to remove this card from the hands of those who work to arrange their affairs according to their own agendas; there is no escape from them putting the way out of all their crises into their own hands.

There is no harm in asking their brothers and friends to support them in whatever they decide for themselves, and all that I have mentioned, some of it starts from the moment, and some of it after the war has ended.

First: From the moment, a way must be found to end the division, and the matter does not need to enter into new dialogues after the millions of hours of dialogue that have been conducted from its beginning until now. The matter needs a joint declaration that the decision to unite has been taken, and that the incubator for national action is the “PLO,” and that It will be repaired from within.

Second: It is also announced that the general presidential and legislative elections and the “PLO” will be the priority for national action, according to what was agreed upon in May of 2021, specifically after the war has ended, and this time it has become necessary to emphasize that Jerusalem is at the heart of the electoral process, with or without Israel's approval, and we have the means to conduct it, and we call on the world to stand with the ballot box in the face of the occupation's rifle.

Third: Whether a political horizon for a solution opens, or remains closed, the Palestinians are in dire need of a comprehensive reform of their internal situation, as the imbalance in it has gone beyond the catastrophic division, paralyzing all aspects of life. This is a process that should take place from within the national institutions and not from outside them, without preconditions on the part of any party, and no “veto” right for any faction. The decision should be taken democratically and from within the elected parliamentary institution.

The prolongation of the division and the resulting deadly paralysis are essentially caused by isolating the people from their natural role in national decision-making, and replicating failure and its tools time after time. This has led to the weakening of all components of national action, and opened the doors wide for deep and determined external intervention in Palestinian affairs, from the very least. Its levels reached their highest levels, and this is what encouraged many to impose guardianship over the Palestinian people, now and in the future. From “How is Gaza run?” to “Who should be president?” and everything in between.

Returning to the issue of President Mahmoud Abbas, whose status the Americans propose to designate as an honorary president. This means that the president who succeeds him is the one they are satisfied with, and does not deviate from the text written for him.

Abbas's fate must be determined by the Palestinians; If he emerges victorious from the ballot box through free and fair elections, he has that right, and if the Palestinians decide to relieve him and send him home, then they have that right.

Those who talk about the Authority and its president with the logic of their monopoly on determining what it should or should not be must first explicitly acknowledge the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and establish their independent state, and explicitly acknowledge the inevitability of resolving the refugee issue in accordance with the relevant international resolutions.

Instead of exercising their pressure and conditions on the Palestinians, let them exert them on the Israeli occupier, which is committing the most horrific crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, and it is the only occupation that still exists in the entire world.

This is the basis. As for them continuing their support for the annihilation of the Palestinian people, falsifying their rights by abolishing them, and distracting the world with the story of who rules and who does not rule, this is something that should not be accepted by the Palestinians and their friends and brothers.

What is right and just... is for these people to come to their senses and set the first priority in their policies and behavior, which is to adopt the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination first, and to support them in embodying this right, and to obtain all the rights specified and guaranteed by international legitimacy. The Palestinian people do not ask for more or less. Thus, the balance of truth and justice is balanced, and this is what the world can do if it wants.

US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed issues related to the release of prisoners and humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.

During a phone conversation, Biden welcomed the release of prisoners held by Hamas over the past three days, and the two leaders agreed to continue to support the release of all prisoners held by Hamas.

The White House said in a statement, "The two leaders agreed that the work is not over yet, and agreed that they will continue to work to ensure the release of all prisoners, as well as to remain in close contact over the coming days."

They also discussed stopping the fighting and providing much-needed additional humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to the White House statement.

Israel and the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), completed the third phase of the exchange of prisoners and detainees, while international efforts continued to extend the temporary truce that expires today, Monday.

Israel is awaiting Hamas' response regarding extending the truce

Israeli Radio said that Tel Aviv is awaiting the response of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) regarding extending the truce for an additional day in exchange for the release of 10 detainees.

Earlier, Israeli media reported that Tel Aviv received a list of detainees expected to be released today in the fourth and final phase of the exchange deal with Hamas.

Israel: Qatar is working to solve a problem related to the exchange deal

The official Israeli radio said that Qatar is working to solve a problem related to the names of the Israelis who will be released in the fourth installment of the prisoner and detainee exchange deal with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The fourth batch of Israeli detainees and Palestinian prisoners is scheduled to be released today in accordance with the humanitarian truce agreement that was brokered by Qatari-Egypt and with American support.

Israel receives a list of detainees expected to be released today

Israeli media reported that Tel Aviv received a list of detainees expected to be released in the fourth phase of the exchange deal with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Hamas movement, announced that it handed over 13 Israeli detainees and 3 Thai and Russian detainees to the Red Cross yesterday evening, Sunday, as part of the third phase of the prisoner exchange on the third day of the humanitarian truce, which continues until Monday.

James Elder, spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), said on Sunday that children's injuries as a result of the war in the Gaza Strip are "horrific."

This came in a video clip from a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, which the organization published on its account on the “X” platform.

The video clip showed the conditions of many injured Gazan children who were transferred from the "Al-Shifa" Medical Complex in Gaza City to the "Nasser" Hospital in southern Gaza.

Elder said during the video clip: “I apologize for showing these horrific images of wounded children in Gaza, but since children have to endure this, it is necessary for the world to see what the children of Gaza are exposed to.”

He continued, "I spoke to one of the health workers about the challenges they face in treating the wounded."

He stressed that “UNICEF and other United Nations agencies, in cooperation with the Palestinian and Egyptian Red Crescent Societies, are delivering emergency medical supplies, food and water to local communities in Gaza.”

On Friday, a temporary humanitarian truce for 4 days, subject to extension, entered into force between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, with Qatari-Egyptian-American mediation.

For 48 days, until November 23, the Israeli army launched a devastating war on Gaza that left 14,854 Palestinian dead, including 6,150 children and more than 4,000 women, in addition to more than 36,000 wounded, including more than 75 Percent of children and women, according to the government media office in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he informed US President Joe Biden that Israel will resume its campaign in Gaza with full force as soon as the temporary truce ends.

Netanyahu added that he would welcome the extension of the truce if it facilitated the release of 10 additional hostages every day, as agreed upon under the original agreement brokered by Qatar, according to Reuters.

The White House reported that "Biden and Netanyahu agreed in a phone call to continue working to secure the release of all hostages."

According to the statement, Netanyahu and Biden discussed “stopping the fighting and increasing additional much-needed humanitarian aid in Gaza.” According to the statement, Biden welcomed “the release of hostages by Hamas over the past three days.”

The Israeli authorities say that the Hamas attack resulted in about 1,200 deaths, most of them civilians, during which about 240 people were detained and taken to the Gaza Strip.

Since then, Israel has launched intensive bombardment on the Gaza Strip and began ground operations since October 27, resulting in the killing of approximately 15,000 people, including more than six thousand children, according to Hamas.

Under Qatari and Egyptian sponsorship, Israel and Hamas reached an agreement on a four-day humanitarian truce during which the movement’s hostages will be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog told CNN that Israel will extend the truce in Gaza if Hamas releases more Israeli detainees.

Herzog added that the truce will be extended for an additional day for every 10 Israeli detainees that Hamas releases.

Source: Aljazeera

Michael Clarke, visiting professor of defense studies at King's College, University of London, and fellow at the Royal United Institute of Studies, argued in an article for The Sunday Times that Israel has lost control of the war in Gaza, and the longer the ceasefire lasts, the greater the pressure on the Israeli war government continues to exchange hostages with Hamas.

The writer said that the temporary ceasefire and the release of hostages and prisoners was a relief for both parties in the Gaza conflict after 50 fierce days.

Despite the positive news, the way Israel handled the hostage crisis indicates the risks of losing the war. On the second day of the conflict, Israel activated Section 40 of its Basic Law and officially declared that it was in a state of war with Hamas, allowing it to call up reserve forces.

According to Israeli figures, it has mobilized a force of 550,000 soldiers, which is many times greater than the 25,000 Hamas fighters in Gaza.

Despite this, Israel has lost control of events. The hostages have given Hamas a whip, which it is skilled at using. The Israeli war government gave priority to recovering the hostages rather than achieving the goals of the war.

Hamas is expected to manipulate the emotions of every Israeli, argue over every detail, delay, obfuscate and pressure in order to gain a political advantage, according to the writer. Hamas leaders, like the rest of the world, will view the Israeli war government as having yielded to American pressure.

When Joe Biden visited Israel on October 18 and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he was skeptical that the hostages would be freed through the use of excessive force against Hamas. When the latter released two American hostages on October 25, the United States agreed to the Qatari proposal to negotiate with Hamas to release a larger number of hostages and bring in relief convoys if a temporary ceasefire was agreed upon.

The US envoy for Middle East affairs, Brett McGuirk, established a cell in Washington that coordinated extensively with the Qatari Prime Minister’s office in Doha, to advance an exchange deal that began on Friday. Israel was not the most important player in pushing for the deal, and Netanyahu, under pressure from the hostages' families, tried to gain influence through a five-day truce in exchange for the release of 50 hostages.

Israel published the names of another number of Palestinians who could be released if the deal was extended, hoping to bring in another number of hostages and put pressure on Hamas leaders. If 100 of the 230 hostages were released within nine days of the ceasefire, this might ease public anger in Israel against Netanyahu, whose security policy over the 14 years of his rule has become a wreck.

At the time of the truce, Israel will attempt to redeploy its forces in Gaza, increase military supplies and collect security information for the next phase, and Hamas will do the same. The longer the ceasefire lasts, the greater the pressure on the war government in Tel Aviv to extend it in order to continue the exchange, and Israel will undoubtedly be a prisoner of its hostages held by Hamas, as well as the exchange of soldiers, who will be the last to be released.

It is believed that Hamas has 20 American hostages, and will continue to put Biden in the same trap and work to delay the second phase of the Israeli military operation.

Israel claimed that it killed 4,000 Hamas fighters, in addition to the 1,000 fighters the movement lost in its first attack on October 7. This means 5,000 elite fighters out of 25,000 fighters, according to the writer.

It can be assumed that the rest of them, which did not fight much in the north, withdrew towards the south. The Israeli army will not be able to advance with three or four armored divisions into the south, where more than two million people are concentrated, in the same way as it did in the north.

The writer believes that the improvised responses of the Israeli army when it arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza were evidence of poor planning for operations in civilian centers.

Without a political plan from the war government, the army was acting blind. Its problems in the south will be greater.

Last week, the army advised residents of the southern Gaza Strip to move towards Al-Mawasib, an area in the far south, with an area not exceeding 14 square kilometers, as a step towards Khan Yunis and Rafah. United Nations organizations said that this is not only not desirable, but impossible.

Faced with a population density in the Gaza Valley of 9,000 people per kilometre, 40% higher than Greater London, it is unlikely that Israeli forces will be able to repeat the infantry thrust they did in the north. If combat operations resume, the Israeli army will most likely engage in an indirect campaign, special forces operations, rapid incursions to target Hamas facilities, and other attempts to assassinate the movement’s leaders such as Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad al-Deif.

The new air strikes will lead to international outrage, especially after the temporary truce that eased the conditions of civilians and led to the release of the hostages.

The harsh reality in Tel Aviv is that the war it declared is going wrong in many ways. It is true that the war government has weakened Hamas's ability, but it has not yet destroyed it. The Hamas fighters it wants to kill have also mixed with civilians in the south, and most of them will survive, as will Hamas.

The Israeli army knows that the operation will be long, but the war government knows that the pendulum of public opinion will move in sympathy with the suffering of Gaza, and the horror of October 7 will become a distant memory.

Netanyahu's priorities changed due to external forces. Instead of advancing the military operation, the focus became on releasing the hostages and alleviating human suffering. It may turn out that transferring the residents of Gaza to the south to destroy the north was a strategic mistake, and Netanyahu may reach the end of his blind alley such that he will not be able to achieve his first military goal.

Source: Sama News