This is not the Netanyahu we know, with his cunning and arrogance, his lies and deceit, his snares and pretexts. Yesterday, he seemed like an AI-generated version, stripped of his will, submitting to the American demand to open the Rafah crossing, after his pretext of finding the last body was withdrawn. He could only remove the yellow pin from his coat and stop shedding crocodile tears over the remaining body.
Removing the yellow pin was the first soft step of taming, to be followed by steps that contradict his previous statements, with Turkey and Qatar joining the anticipated stabilization force, and what will follow from Shaath and his team entering the Strip after he almost swore the strongest oaths not to allow them to enter, and that the crossing would only be for exit, and that he had no partner in sovereignty over it, and that the authority would not return to the crossing, only to discover that his 'no's were not to be spent.
The sudden discovery of the body and the convening of the mini-council two days prior were not mere coincidences; rather, they seem like an "emergency exit" prepared by the black rooms to bring down the Likud wolf from the high escalation tree without breaking his political neck, and so that there would be no "atonement" for his oath, which he uttered in a moment of fleeting euphoria.
When Dr. Ali Shaath announced the date for opening the Rafah crossing, I felt sorry for the man for his haste, fearing that the date would come and he would lose his bet against the evasions of the wolf, whose tricks he could not match. We then discovered that Netanyahu's summoning of the mini-council was not for opposition or discussion, but to ratify a decision that had been taken in "Washington" in advance. That meeting was merely a protocol "solution" to save face and implement what Trump wanted in the language of deals that brook no delay.
Perhaps the lesson that emerges from the folds of this drama is that whenever American will is available, everything proceeds smoothly and without procrastination, and that the "Likud wolf" who rebelled against international decisions and escaped criminal prosecution only needed a "tamer" who knew where to pull out the yellow pins.
الثّلاثاء 27 يناير 2026 9:41 صباحًا - بتوقيت القدس





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