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Tue 03 Feb 2026 10:04 am - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu.. The soul that commands displacement!

Dr. Ibrahim Melhem

Editor-in-Chief

The least that can be said

He is skilled at mixing cards, circumventing any agreement, and playing on the ropes of balances. He creates tricks and drowns negotiators in the finest details, to find among their folds a door to escape from obligations he dislikes, and maps he does not like to retreat from.

The "old man of the Likud" could not implement what he wanted, despite attempts to delay the implementation of the second phase's provisions. He reluctantly responded to implement obligations that had been held captive by his pretexts. He tried in vain to circumvent the opening of the Rafah crossing for exit only, only to later succumb, despite the blackmail of his allies, to open it in both directions. However, he tried to be clever in negotiating with Cairo, to make a clearance between those leaving and those returning in a balance he wants to be skewed; so that the scale of those leaving outweighs the scale of those returning. His first trick was to allow only 5 out of 50 injured people to travel on the first day of the crossing's opening, which indicates bad intentions and anticipates more tricks in the coming days. 

As much as the opening of the crossing carries a glimmer of hope, it is not without the dangers of explosion, dictated by the soul of the "wolf" that commands displacement, and is haunted by the obsessions of returning to war. It is the strategy of "total attrition" whose features were revealed by the Israeli writer Gideon Levy, when he quoted the Minister of Defense as saying that he would work in Gaza as he works in Lebanon, which means that the crossing in the "wolf's" doctrine is not a bridge to life, but rather a new "trap."

Netanyahu's insistence on "clearance" between those leaving and returning is not a regulatory measure, but rather a quiet demographic engineering, through which he seeks to sort Gazans between those who leave and do not return, and those who remain to face the unknown, in a desperate attempt to achieve "soft displacement."

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