Is it a war of liquidation or a settlement?

It is agreed that liquidating the Palestinian cause is impossible, and the evidence for this is demonstrated by the facts of a century of unequal power conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, as proven by all Arab-Israeli wars and settlements.

What is not agreed upon - until now - is that the impossibility of liquidation automatically leads to a settlement, which is why the terms no war, no peace, the stagnation of the political path, the absence of a horizon, and other terms that lead to the same meaning have appeared in many eras.
The current stage that is dated, with the wars on the southern and northern Lebanese fronts, the wars in Gaza and the West Bank, and what is usually described as the blockage of the horizon for settlement, especially after the collapse of Oslo, and the inability of the new normalization to open the horizon for settlement through negotiations.

The current stage has witnessed significant developments that have brought back to the picture the Palestinian-Israeli conflict at its peak, in parallel with the return of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with different titles, contents, and mechanisms, such as the possibilities of opening the northern front, leading to a regional war. If it does not ignite comprehensively, it is ignited by threats. As for the countries that have normalized ties with Israel, the most important of which in this regard are Egypt and Jordan, an existential threat has been imposed on them through mass displacement, which does not only change maps but also changes societies, and if even some of it occurs, it will not lead to just a crisis but rather to war.

The Arab Middle East has become an arena of conflict, perhaps having a stronger impact on the world than any war taking place on another arena, such as Ukraine. This is why the Mediterranean is crowded with American aircraft carriers and their satellites, and what distinguishes the Middle East is that it has one country that is an essential member of NATO - Turkey - while Israel, even if it is not a member, enjoys more privileges than that. In the Middle East as well, there is an old issue that fades for a while only to flare up again, and the “pragmatic and superficial” world did not believe us when we said that the Palestinian issue, if it remains unresolved, is the permanent reactor for producing wars, and it is also the producer of the motives for local, regional and international polarization, which if it calms down militarily, it will not calm down Politically and tactically, this made the entire region feel like wildfire lit by a match.

The impossibility of liquidating the Palestinian issue, and the failure of all settlement attempts has many reasons. In the matter of liquidation, there is no way to achieve it, with the presence of more than fifteen million Palestinians without a political identity and without a state, and in the matter of settlement, America and those within its orbit played the central, direct role in not achieving it. It continues to insist on remaining the godmother of the effort made for it, while at the same time it continues to sponsor the Israeli rejection of it, in a two-way performance that has so far only produced a series of wars for which Israel has not escaped paying.

We are now on the verge of the third week of the Gaza war, which Israel calls “Iron Swords,” confirming the Hebrew state’s embrace of the sword. On the other hand, we are facing American announcements that talk about the two-state solution being the surest recipe for removing the region from a state of turmoil and permanent combustion, and what not America realizes that talking a lot about solutions without actively and sincerely striving to achieve them is nothing but adding fuel to the fire and giving the Hebrew-speaking American power a wide range of movement to continue its wars against the Palestinians and those with them, because the Palestinians and all Arabs are no longer interchangeable. An ineffective currency, stamped with the term “two-state solution,” which, as President Biden once said, will not be achieved in the long or longer term.

And all the Arabs... the normalizers and the abstainers do not accept that their countries are islands of individual or collective displacement of the Palestinian people, which requires America to replace the word “farthest” with “closest,” as the luxury of time makes it difficult today and impossible tomorrow.

The Arabs have once again become involved in the danger resulting from the war, and they must use all the pressure cards available to them, which are many and heavy, not to annihilate anyone, but to achieve justice that is supported by international legitimacy and its decisions... Thus, it will be difficult for America to hold truth and falsehood in one grip. .