Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Gaza should be part of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state following the end of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The semi-official Anatolia news agency quoted Erdogan upon his return from Kazakhstan as saying, “After everything that happens is over, we want to see Gaza as a peaceful region and part of an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, enjoying the unity and integrity of its lands, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

He also added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot in any way be considered a counterpart to Turkey, after the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.

However, Erdogan said that there could not be a complete severing of ties, especially in international diplomacy, noting that Turkish ministers and the head of Turkish intelligence were engaging in talks with their Israeli counterparts.

The Turkish President stressed that Turkey's main goal is to bring final peace to the Palestinian-Israeli issue, noting that his country has made and will continue to make efforts in this regard.

Bishara: “As long as the American-Israeli agreement continues on the goal of the war, and as long as there are no real steps from the Arab countries, the war of annihilation against the Gaza Strip will continue.”

“Arab TV” broadcast a special interview with the Arab thinker and the Director General of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Dr. Azmi Bishara, to talk about the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip since last October 7.

Bishara pointed out during the meeting that the three conditions for Israel to stop its aggression are that the Israeli consensus on the war be violated, that the American-Israeli agreement on the goal of the aggression, i.e. eliminating the Hamas movement, be disturbed, and that the major Arab countries take real steps of the type of serious threat to sever relations with Israel. He believed that it is in the interest of everyone at the level of countries and powers in the region that Israel does not achieve its goals in the war on Gaza.

Regarding Hezbollah, Bishara said that any entry into the war would not change the situation in Gaza, but rather would increase the price paid by Israel.

Bishara pointed out that as long as there is an Israeli consensus on restoring balance, prestige and revenge through war, and as long as the American-Israeli agreement continues on the goal of the war, and as long as there are no real steps from the Arab countries, the war of annihilation against the Gaza Strip will continue. .

He stressed that “in light of the current balance of power, the decision is exclusively on the ground, because imposing a ceasefire is impossible to achieve except with a change in the level of the Israeli consensus on the war, and with a disruption in the American-Israeli agreement on the central goal of the war, i.e. eliminating Hamas, and with the Arab countries taking positions.” A real process of severing its relations with Israel or a real threat to sever them.” In conclusion, “now is not the time for political initiatives, but rather for resistance, fighting, and steadfastness,” in Bishara’s opinion.

Bishara warned that if Israel completes its plan in agreement with America, American and Israeli arrogance will double with all the countries and forces of the region, wondering, “How will these countries be dealt with, with respect when they were not even able to bring in aid and evacuate the wounded?”

He considered that Israel's failure to achieve its goal in the war was in the interest of all countries and forces in the region. In his opinion, there is a factor that may change the course of the war, which is for the Arab countries to take steps related to normalization with Israel and severing relations with it, instead of simply summoning ambassadors, for example, and this is something that would change the American calculations that are strongly concerned with an Arab-Israeli rapprochement that would reassure it to continue giving priority to its projects in the Far east, “there is no alternative to the Arabs for Washington in the region,” as Bishara put it.

In this context, Bishara described the refusal of Arab officials to discuss “the day after” the war and who will rule Gaza after “Hamas” with US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, in Amman on Saturday, and their insistence that the only issue worth discussing currently is the ceasefire, as a good thing.  Bishara also concluded that the words of Arab officials about the necessity of establishing international courts to try Israeli officials have little real value, “because the one who is tried is always the one who is defeated historically.” Instead, Bishara pointed out that “the weakest belief is that Egypt will open the Rafah crossing without coordination with Israel regarding at least aid and the wounded.”

In response to a question about the course of the aggression and its goals for Israel, Bishara reiterated his opinion that the war has one goal for Israel, not two: eliminating the Hamas movement. As for the goal of liberating Israeli prisoners, “it is subordinate to the first and is not what is important.” Indeed, the Tel Aviv rulers’ statement that the release of detained Israelis is one of the goals of the war “is talk that contradicts itself, because the bombing may kill some of these prisoners and may weaken Hamas’ desire to release them. Moreover, the Israeli leadership today rejects a truce for more than 24 hours to release civilians. This does not express any interest It has in the lives of Israeli prisoners,” according to Dr. Bishara.

Bishara recalled that the Hamas movement announced its agreement to release all Israeli prisoners in exchange for all Palestinian prisoners, these words were echoed by Israeli officials before Hamas, but this is impossible to happen because it will be portrayed as an achievement for the resistance and Israeli decision-makers will not agree to it. Bishara revealed. The problem currently does not lie in the number of people being released, but rather in two things for Israeli officials: first, they are negotiating humanitarian truces that they refuse to exceed 24 hours in exchange for the release of Israelis detained in the Gaza Strip, and second, the issue of fuel, as we are facing a country in which the situation has reached to the point that it offers to allow the entry of some fuel in exchange for the return of the hostages in the Gaza Strip, while a truce is necessary to collect the hostages if negotiations for their release progress, Bishara says.

In response to a question about the possibility of a change in the American position in absolute support of the aggression, Bishara replied that this is possible “if there is a major change in American public opinion, and this is possible if the resistance endures.” He noted that a change has already begun to appear in American and even European public opinion, despite the fact that most Western media outlets are “complicit in the war,” according to Bishara, who pointed out that there is a general feeling that people in the West are starting to get tired and see the amount of lies.

As for the recent speech by the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, he explained that Nasrallah was not expected to declare war in a speech, nor was he required to declare war, and he recalled that the majority of the Lebanese reject Lebanon’s involvement in a comprehensive war, and “Hezbollah,” after becoming more and more involved in Lebanese affairs, acted pragmatically in not blowing up a comprehensive confrontation. He said on this issue that Hezbollah is currently causing Israel to pay a price, “but the nature of the war on Gaza does not change what happens on the border with Lebanon, meaning that Hezbollah’s involvement in a comprehensive war does not change the course of what is happening in Gaza.” He stopped at the fact that what is happening on the Lebanese-Israeli border “is a change in the rules of engagement,” meaning that the losses that either party must pay before reaching a comprehensive war have become much greater than they were previously, as evidenced by the death toll on both sides in the clashes. What happened since October 8, although large, did not lead to a comprehensive war, while a much smaller toll recorded in 2006 led to a war of the size we saw that year. Bishara expressed his conviction that "there is no decision for war for Israel and Hezbollah, but things may turn towards that, and this matter may also be regional." The director of the "Arab Center" warned that "the Israeli voices calling for an attack on Hezbollah after Gaza are very numerous," and concluded that the theory of the balance of deterrence has ended for Israel because this balance can only be with countries and not with organizations and factions. Therefore, if it does not shift, Hezbollah will become a more organic part of the Lebanese political fabric, that is, if it does not become the Lebanese state, the Israeli desire to eliminate it will increase.

In a related matter, Bishara expressed his confidence that Iran has no intention of participating in the war, and described its positions in Yemen, Iraq and Syria as related to Iranian regional interests that involve calculations that have nothing to do with Israel and the Palestinian issue. He said that the targeting of American bases in Iraq, for example, is an Iranian response to the American message related to sending American aircraft carriers and military battleships to the region. Regarding the solidarity of the Syrian people, after all their suffering, with the Palestinian cause, Bishara said that it is a solidarity that is not adequately appreciated. As for the absence of the Syrian regime stance regarding the war on Gaza, Bishara expressed his belief that this is one of the results of “the end of Syria as a state” after all the war that the regime committed against its people and the mismanagement of the crisis in its country 12 years ago to the point that “Syria has returned to an arena without State,” as he put it.

On the other hand, in response to a question about the possibility of implementing the scenario of displacing the residents of Gaza to Sinai, Bishara recalled that displacement has been a systematic policy since the founding of the State of Israel, and this has been happening in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza for decades as a result of the restrictions on the lives of the residents of those areas. In his opinion, the dream of getting rid of the people of the Gaza Strip at once, although it exists in the desires of many Israeli officials, is impossible to achieve as long as the countries concerned with the issue refuse to do so, especially Egypt. Therefore, it is difficult for Israel to get rid of the Palestinians of Gaza except through extermination.

Regarding the level of Israeli popular pressure currently being exerted on Netanyahu, Bishara pointed out that there is constant doubt about his ability to lead the battle and there is no trust between him and the army leadership, so he was forced to bring former generals into the “war cabinet.” Likewise, with regard to the pressure on him against the backdrop of the Israeli prisoners, this pressure currently exists, but it has not yet reached the point of explosion, and this, according to Bishara’s assessment, is something that the Hamas movement must rely on because Netanyahu’s policy of this barbaric bombing contradicts the goal of releasing these people through some mediation.

Regarding the positions of the Palestinian Authority and its performance since the start of the aggression on Gaza and the implicit Israeli war on the West Bank, Bishara noted an absence of authority from many political aspects of the event, internally and with the Arab countries. Regarding this issue, Bishara recalled that the Authority did not sign the Oslo Accords with the settlers, wondering, “Why do its security services not confront them in the areas of the West Bank, since these people are even outside Israeli law?” Regarding the political shortcomings of the authority, Bishara touched on its failure to clearly and accurately define its demands from Arab countries such as Egypt regarding opening the Rafah crossing, for example.

The global anti-war movement had a large role in the “Arab TV” interview with Dr. Azmi Bishara, who described that massive movement in the West in particular as “the main asset of the universal moral, humanitarian dimension of the Palestine issue,” far from any ideology. Regarding the participation of many Jews in the West in the massive demonstrations against the Israeli war, he considered it the clearest evidence that the problem is not with the Jews, but with Zionism, with Israel’s policies, and with colonialism and occupation. “Therefore, it is important that we address the world with universal moral and human values,” according to his words.

Regarding the human cost of this aggression, which is almost entering its second month, Bishara stressed the necessity of not getting used to these massacres and “normalizing” them. He explained this huge number of martyrs by saying that the war was given an immoral basis from the beginning, expressed in the terms of Israeli officials such as President Isaac Herzog, who asserted that there were no innocents in Gaza, “otherwise they would revolt against the Hamas movement,” or Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant described the residents of the Gaza Strip as "Human animals" without any Western official condemning them. Bishara noted how, in the beginning, Israeli officials were trying to justify their crimes, such as what happened in the Baptist Hospital massacre, but today they no longer even have to justify it, since the bombing of hospitals and schools did not find any condemnation from world leaders.

At dawn on Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 46 citizens from the West Bank, including workers from the Gaza Strip.

As Washington seeks to persuade Israel to accept a humanitarian truce in Gaza, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told Israeli officials that the truce may give Israel more time regarding its ground operation, according to what was reported by the Axios website.

The website quoted an American official and three Israeli officials with direct knowledge of the talks that Blinken told his Israeli counterparts, on Friday, that agreeing to a humanitarian truce would help the United States ward off the increasing pressure it faces regarding its support for the Israeli operation in Gaza, and help Israel get more time for its operation. Wild.

The website notes that the administration of US President Joe Biden says it supports Israel's goal of dismantling Hamas' military capabilities, but it is under increasing pressure from some Democrats in Congress and its allies and partners in the Arab countries to press for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israeli officials told Axios that Blinken told his Israeli counterparts that the Biden administration is under a lot of criticism domestically and internationally, because it gives Israel its full support.

According to what an American official and two Israeli officials told the site, Blinken's message was: “We do not want to stop you, but help us to help you get more time.”

The website reported that Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of the Israeli War Council that he understands that Israel's operation against Hamas will last longer than a few days, but because of the pressure the United States is facing, a humanitarian truce will help Israel buy more time for its ground operation. , as American and Israeli officials said.

The officials said Blinken and his aides believe Israeli leaders have not closed the door on the idea of a temporary ceasefire and that they can persuade them to agree to a truce as they did when Israel agreed to allow aid trucks into Gaza.

Israeli officials say that the issue of a humanitarian truce will continue to be discussed with the United States, but they do not believe that anything will change in the next few days, according to the site.

Axios reveals that Blinken, in his talks with Israeli leaders, stressed that the increasing number of civilian casualties in Gaza and photos like those taken from the Jabalia refugee camp earlier this week do not help the Biden administration ward off the pressure the United States faces at home. And abroad.

A young man was injured and 9 citizens were arrested, at dawn on Sunday, after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Jenin.

The official news agency (Wafa) reported that a young man was shot in the leg during confrontations with the occupation forces in the eastern neighborhood of the city. They also arrested the freed prisoner, Muhammad Shehab Al-Sanori, from his home, and the young man, Majd Nasser Al-Jazra, from Jabal Abu Dhayr.

They also arrested citizen Walid Jalamna and his two sons, Suhaib and Qutaiba, and destroyed the contents of his house in the Kharouba neighborhood, and citizen Abu Uday Al-Sheikh, and beat up his son Muhammad, and arrested Ahmed Ayman Jumaa, Ahmed Walid Jalboni, and Qusay Al-Husays.

The occupation forces raided the neighborhoods of Jabal Abu Dhahir, Kharouba, Al-Marah, and Wadi Izz Al-Din in the city, and deployed snipers on the roofs of a number of houses, and special units were deployed in the neighborhoods.

The occupation bulldozers also demolished a roundabout in the city, bulldozed roads and infrastructure on the outskirts of Jenin camp, and sent in new reinforcements.

Jenin Education Department decided to delay work until nine in the morning due to the occupation forces storming the city.

The Director of Jenin Education, Salam Al-Taher, said: It was decided that the school hours in the city of Jenin and its camp, or any town surrounding the city where the occupation army is present, will be at nine o’clock in order to preserve the safety of the students and the educational staff.

At dawn on Sunday, Israeli occupation forces stormed the Shweika suburb, north of Tulkarm.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the suburb, patrolled its neighborhoods, and were stationed along its main street.

In Nablus, 3 Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in confrontations east of Nablus in the northern West Bank.

Activists said that clashes broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces during their incursion into Nablus.

Obama acknowledged the views of both sides in the conflict

Former US President Barack Obama said that "everyone is complicit to some extent" in the bloodshed in the war between Israel and Hamas, calling on Americans to "understand the full truth" related to the conflict, according to what the American newspaper "New York Times" reported.

The newspaper reported that Obama said in front of thousands of former aides: “I look at this and think back...what could I have done during my presidency.”

Obama arrived at the White House convinced that he could be the president who would resolve the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, but he left office after years of friction and mistrust with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was frustrated with the nuclear agreement with Iran, and Obama’s demands that it suspend... Israel new settlements.

In his remarks Friday, delivered at a gathering of his former staff in Chicago, Obama acknowledged the “strong emotions aroused by the war” and blamed social media for “magnifying divisions and reducing a thorny international conflict to slogans.”

He urged his former aides to "accept the whole truth," saying: "What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for that," adding at the same time that "the occupation and what is happening to the Palestinians is unbearable."

He continued: "What is also true is that there is a history of the Jewish people that you may reject unless your grandparents, uncle, or aunt tell you stories about the madness of anti-Semitism. What is true is that there are people dying now, and they have nothing to do with what Hamas did."

The war sparked divisions even within the administration of US President Joe Biden. Axios reported that the Democratic National Committee, which the US President relies on in his re-election campaign, is “in a state of turmoil and division” due to the war between Israel and Hamas.

Some aides believe that the White House is “inciting an immoral attack on the Palestinians,” while others believe that Biden is showing “moral clarity in protecting Israel from terrorists,” according to what the site reports in a report.

Thousands of people participated, on Saturday evening, in Tel Aviv, in a demonstration by families and supporters of those kidnapped by Hamas, demanding that Prime Minister Netanyahu “make more efforts to release them,” according to Agence France-Presse.

International pressure is mounting on the Israeli government, with the aim of pushing it to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

On Saturday, Biden announced “progress” in securing a humanitarian truce in the war between Israel and Hamas, at a time when his Secretary of State is working on the same issue in the Middle East.

Effects of the Israeli bombing of Gaza

When asked if any progress had been made on the issue, Biden answered “yes” as he left a church in Delaware, and gave a thumbs up before getting into his car. He did not give any other details.

So far, 9,488 people have been killed as a result of the Israeli bombing of Gaza, most of them civilians, including 3,900 children, according to a toll announced by the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

An Israeli soldier stands next to a military vehicle near the Israeli border with Gaza

At least 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since October 7, most of them civilians and including women and children. Hamas kidnapped 241 hostages, according to the army.

Israeli forces continue their military operations in the Gaza Strip, where they confront Hamas militants who move through tunnels and emerge to carry out attacks against soldiers and military equipment, in different areas of the Strip.

At a time when Israeli army soldiers were killed during the ground incursion into Gaza, according to an analysis of the British newspaper The Guardian, there are “questions in Israel about the direction the war is heading towards, and whether there is likely to be a clear and decisive end.”

The newspaper explained that "the Israeli army's ground incursion into Gaza has been continuing for a week, and Israeli tanks are facing ambushes and troop positions in destroyed buildings are being subjected to missile attacks."

The Israeli army continuously announces the killing of leaders from the Hamas movement, which is classified as a terrorist organization in the United States and other countries, in addition to revealing the killing of 24 soldiers since the ground attack.

The army also published videos of transporting wounded during ground operations in Gaza. In a video clip published on Saturday, it was stated that “Unit 669 carried out 150 transfers for about 260 wounded army personnel.”

The Guardian analysis indicated that there are “questions that represent pressure on Israel,” in light of the continuation of operations in Gaza, including “What will the end be like?”, which is a widespread question in the Israeli media, and among officials in closed meetings, and foreign analysts and diplomats. .

The newspaper pointed out that "despite Israel's continuous announcement of the success of the operation, two basic goals have not been achieved: liberating the hostages (numbering 241 people) and stopping the launching of rockets from Gaza towards Israeli cities."

On Saturday, Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy visited the forces in Gaza. According to an army statement, he was “assessing the situation with the fighters inside the Gaza Strip,” where he told them, “I am proud of you.”

During the military operation, Israel continuously announced the destruction of tunnels and the killing of leaders and members of the Hamas movement in Gaza.

However, according to “The Guardian,” there are “doubts” expressed in Israeli media, including the newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth,” where writer Nadav Eyal noted that “Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may be heading toward a position usual during previous incursions into Gaza.” “It is a campaign against Hamas, but it remains in a way incomplete.”

Eyal continued: “The government speaks from two points of view. The first promises to crush Hamas by completely destroying its military capabilities, and that it will not control the Gaza Strip again. Behind closed doors, government officials spoke more vaguely... that overthrowing Hamas has become an abstract goal that will need to be achieved.” years to achieve it.

While the newspaper "Jerusalem Post" indicated that there were "doubts that have emerged about the extent of actual progress achieved through the operation in Gaza, and whether Israel is moving with sufficient speed and skill to eliminate the Hamas threat."

In a darker assessment, Nathan Brown, in his analysis for the Carnegie Middle East Center, asked, “What is the meaning of victory (over Hamas)? Whatever the specific goals, what will Israel actually achieve?”

He continued his speech by saying, "These questions reveal why it is wrong to talk about scenarios (the day after) for the end of the war and the elimination of Hamas."

He considered that "this scenario is being dealt with as if it were a conventional war, after which room will be made for clear imposed or agreed-upon post-war arrangements," indicating that it is "not a conventional war."

According to the Guardian's analysis, "In light of these questions that remain unanswered so far, the series of deaths on both sides will continue, affecting many civilians."

On October 7, Hamas launched an attack on Israel, launching thousands of rockets and infiltrating towns and areas surrounding the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, including women and children.

Israel responded to the attack with intense bombing of Gaza and a ground incursion, causing the death of more than 9,488 Palestinians, the majority of whom were civilians, including women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

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From time to time I talk to some Israelis I know through my work in politics and writing. Those I am talking to are academics, thinkers and community activists, and they are from the camp that opposes the occupation and settlement and that supports the political solution based on the two-state solution, a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital, with a minimum land exchange agreed upon by both parties and an acceptable solution to the refugee issue. All of this is in accordance with the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. The picture I have from my conversations with them is very dark and disturbing.

Many of them do not hesitate to express their sense of loss of security after the 7/10 attack, and many of them believe the stereotype that was and is still being drawn for the Hamas movement as an ISIS movement that kills civilians, beheads children, and rapes women. Some of them see the elimination of the Hamas movement as a vital matter in order to restore the Israelis’ sense of security, while there are others who believe that it is impossible to eliminate Hamas because it is not a person, but an idea, and the idea is transmitted from one person to another, and therefore it will not be possible to eliminate it.

Those who believe that it is not possible to eliminate Hamas because it is an idea are divided into two groups. The first believes that the current war must result in a military defeat for Hamas that leads directly to a political process that leads to a permanent political solution to the conflict on the basis of the two-state solution. The second is confused and waiting for the results of the ongoing war and does not rule out the idea of immigration or temporary residency outside Israel if this war does not produce decisive results.

To understand the truth of these changes, even in the camp that was against the occupation and settlement and supported the two-state solution, a camp that has diminished greatly in the past two decades, but remains present and influential among the elite of academics and intellectuals, we must know what happened on October 7 and how it was transmitted to Israeli citizen.

The truth is that we do not know what happened because we did not listen to or read any documented reports about it, and everything that reached public opinion in Israel and abroad was the work of the Israeli official body, whose story cannot in any way be accepted or trusted because it lacks any evidence to support it. The quality of credibility.

However, the matter from which we can start the analysis is the fact that the attack of October 7 inflicted a military and moral defeat on the invincible army and even an insult that the official side could not swallow, and all that it is doing now is an attempt to restore respect, restore self-confidence and raise morale. The southern colonies were invaded, hundreds were killed, hundreds were kidnapped, and some were controlled for hours, and some for days, before Israeli military control was restored over them.

This defeat and the violent shock that resulted from it prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, from day one, and his famous call with US President Joe Biden, to promote the narrative that Hamas fighters brutally beheaded children and raped women, and that what they did had no parallel since the Holocaust!

The matter did not stop at these allegations, but a campaign began to promote videos of atrocities committed during the attack. Some of these videos that have been and are still being circulated on social media relate to actions carried out by ISIS gangs in the past and are not related to the attack. There are videos that must be examined and verified for authenticity, and this cannot be done except after the end of the war and by neutral parties.

Promoting horrific stories and videos about what allegedly took place during the October 7 attack is the reason behind the change that struck the small camp that was affiliated with those who support the political solution and the two-state solution, putting it in a state of anxiety and hesitation, and it is also the reason for inciting Israeli public opinion against the Palestinians and aroused feelings of hatred against the Arabs and the desire to take revenge on them in the most horrific ways.

There is no doubt that as the war continues and deaths continue to fall among the ranks of the Israelis, this feeling of hatred and resentment will become more ferocious and the gap between them will become deeper, especially between the Jews and the Arab citizens of Israel, as we live today in a unique state of distance between the two sides, such that the Arabs do not dare to go to the Jewish areas or Jews dare to go to Arab regions. It happened two days ago that an Arab woman, eight months pregnant, and her daughter were subjected to severe beating in the town of Netanya, which led to her miscarriage, just because someone heard her speaking in Arabic.

By the way, the settlers in the West Bank have found in the atmosphere of this war an opportunity to attack the Arabs, and there is no place without settlers attacking the Arabs and their property. It has happened in more than one place that the settlers have opened fire and killed unarmed Palestinian citizens, especially villagers who are heading to their fields to pick olives, which have been harvested since the middle of last month, without these settlers being held accountable for their crimes. There are still hundreds of dunams planted with olive trees whose owners have not been able to reach them, either because of settler attacks or because the army has dismembered the West Bank, closing the entrances and exits of the villages, and isolating them from each other and from the fields around them.

The picture in general is that the Israeli mouthpieces are still promoting news and tapes about what they claim was committed by Hamas on October 7, and they are also inciting national and fascist sentiments among the Jews, the latest of which is the frenzied campaign that began yesterday by calling on the Israelis to raise Israeli flags On their homes, shops, and cars, which will lead to creating a state of polarization and separation between Arabs and Jews, citizens of Israel, and make Arabs an easy target for Jewish attacks inside Israel. This serves a plan to spread terror and displacement among Arabs, even among those who are citizens of Israel.

I lived through the wars of June 1967, 1973, and 1982, and the first and second intifadas, and I do not recall that the hatred between Arabs and Jews, whether inside Israel or in the occupied territories, reached the very disturbing level it has reached these days, which warns that it will become more ferocious with the continuation of the war on Gaza and the continuation of the war of extermination being practiced against our people In Gaza. The horrific videos and pictures circulated by the media about the brutal crimes committed against our people there are in full view of the hypocritical world that has proven its complicity with this war, whether by remaining silent about it or justifying it.
We are living in a very complex phase of this conflict and in the relationship between Arabs and Jews, and the main criterion that can restrain or unleash it remains whether this war will continue for a longer period or will it stop. There is no doubt that everyone who is concerned about the future of the relationship between Jews and Arabs in this part of the world must realize that the seeds of hatred that are being sown in great numbers these days through the current war of extermination will bear fruit in the not-too-distant future, and that the one who sows these seeds is the one who will be definitely a victim.

Everyone is in dire need of an immediate halt to the fighting and destruction and to stop matters from getting worse so that they do not reach the point of no return.
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Axios revealed that the Democratic National Committee, which US President Joe Biden relies on in his re-election campaign, is in a state of turmoil and division due to the war between Israel and Hamas.

Some aides believe that the White House is “inciting an immoral attack on the Palestinians,” while others believe that Biden is showing “moral clarity in protecting Israel from terrorists,” according to what the site reports in a report.

The report says divisions within the Democratic National Committee are mainly between older, pro-Israel Democrats and younger progressives who are more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians.

“The president has focused his 2020 campaign on a battle for the soul of the nation, but it appears as if the administration is currently in a battle for its own soul,” a senior Democratic National Committee official who requested anonymity told Axios.

"I don't know how you can not see support for the widespread killing of Palestinian civilians as something immoral," the official added.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison told Axios in a statement that Biden "continues to demonstrate unparalleled leadership and moral clarity," adding that "Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism and the continuing threat posed by Hamas."

Harrison noted that Biden, who called for a “humanitarian truce” in the fighting in Gaza, but not a ceasefire, was “a strong advocate for humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza as well as the protection of civilian lives.”

Axios reports that some committee employees were shaken by emails and phone calls from Democratic donors angry at the administration's policy, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Democratic National Committee declined to comment to Axios on any discontent among staff, supporters and donors.

On Friday, 51 of the committee’s employees, or about 17 percent of its approximately 300 employees, signed a letter to their leaders saying, “We feel it is the committee’s moral duty to urge President Biden to publicly call for a ceasefire.”

The staff also wrote that they were "shocked and saddened by the unfathomable loss of life in the brutal attack on Israeli civilians" and that they mourned "the thousands of Palestinian civilians who lost their lives during the Israeli government's military response."

Several House Democrats revealed that they expect more of their colleagues to begin speaking out about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and one pro-Israel lawmaker told the site, “It will be very difficult for Democrats, given what we see on the news, to turn a blind eye to what is happening.” in Gaza".

On October 7, Hamas launched an unprecedented attack in the history of Israel, causing the death of nearly 1,400 people, most of whom were civilians who died on the first day of the attack, according to the Israeli authorities.

Since then, Israel has responded with devastating bombing of the Gaza Strip, where 9,488 people were killed, most of them civilians, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.

The US Central Command announced, on Sunday, the arrival of the Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier fleet to the Middle East as part of strengthening its regional positioning.

The command said in a tweet on Twitter that Dwight Eisenhower's group arrived in the Middle East and the US Central Command area of responsibility as part of further strengthening its regional position.

The group consists of the aircraft carrier and guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58), the guided-missile destroyers USS Mason (DDG 87) and the destroyer squadron (DDG 107), Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 with its nine squadrons, and the Information Warfare Commander.

The aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower, along with its accompanying group of ships, will join the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford, which Washington deployed in the region following the attacks launched by Hamas on Israel on October 7.

The dispatch of the aircraft carrier, according to what US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced last month, comes within the framework of “deterring hostile actions against Israel or any efforts to expand the war in the wake of the attack launched by Hamas” on Israel.

On October 7, Hamas launched the most violent attack on Israel, and at least 1,400 people were killed in Israel, the majority of whom were civilians who died in the first days of the attacks, according to the authorities. Hamas is holding 241 hostages, according to the army.

So far, 9,488 people have been killed as a result of the Israeli bombing of Gaza, most of them civilians, including 3,900 children, according to a toll announced by the Hamas government on Saturday.

The Israeli occupation concealed the death of two Gazan workers who were arrested after their permits were canceled following Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” and did not open an investigation into the circumstances of their deaths, noting that the workers were arrested in two military facilities in the occupied West Bank under inhumane conditions.

Two workers from the besieged Gaza Strip were dead in detention camps established by the occupation in military sites belonging to the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, following the Al-Qassam attack on October 7, to arrest thousands of Gazan workers who were working in Israel under work permits before the operation. "Al-Aqsa Flood."

This came according to what the newspaper "Haaretz" reported on Saturday evening, while the newspaper did not mention the identity of the two martyrs or the circumstances and reasons that led to their death, noting that Palestinian sources indicate that the number of Gazan workers arrested by the occupation authorities reached thousands and they were subjected to torture, humiliation, and collective punishment that It violates legal and international norms.

"Haaretz" reported that one of the workers died while being detained in the occupation camp in Antout, while the other died while being detained in the "Ofer" camp, and indicated that the occupation army did not announce the martyrdom of the workers even though they were detained under its direct responsibility, and that “A file was not opened to investigate the circumstances of their deaths.”

The occupation authorities had canceled the work permits of about 18,000 Gazans working in Israel after the outbreak of the war, leaving thousands of them stranded outside the Gaza Strip, while sources in the Palestinian Authority indicated that about 5,850 workers were expelled or arrived in the West Bank after last October 7 while the occupation forces arrested more than 3,200 workers.

Throughout the period of detention, the occupation forces prevented the detainees from meeting with lawyers, and they also refused to cooperate with human rights organizations that demanded a list of the names of the detainees and the whereabouts of all the people they are detaining, as well as the legal reasons for their arrest.

"Haaretz" said that the occupation army "did not publish a statement about their deaths, as is customary in the case of the death of detainees or prisoners in Israel, despite the fact that about three weeks had passed since the death of one of them who was detained in the Antoat camp," and it reported that the worker had complained about being ill and confirmed that he needed health care and demanded that he be seen by a doctor.

Haaretz stressed that, exceptionally, “the military police did not open an investigation (into the two deaths),” and the newspaper quoted an Israeli army spokesman as saying, “The circumstances of the death are being investigated, and the army is still holding the bodies” of the two martyrs in the besieged Gaza Strip.

"Haaretz" said that the Israeli army returned most of the Gazan workers to the besieged Strip, yesterday, Friday, while "Yedioth Ahronoth" newspaper indicated that the occupation released 3,200 workers and deported them to the Gaza Strip, while "Kan 11" said that 3,000 workers were released. This is in the wake of the decision issued by the Ministerial Council for Security and Political Affairs (Extended Cabinet).

Participants in the demonstration called by the Indonesian People's Alliance to Support Palestine raised slogans demanding the lifting of the siege on the Gaza Strip, the entry of humanitarian aid and an end to the war.

The Indonesian capital, Jakarta, witnessed massive demonstrations denouncing the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip and demanding a ceasefire. The American capital, Washington, also witnessed the largest demonstration in its history to demand an end to the Israeli war on Gaza.

Government ministers, party leaders, parliamentarians and leaders of Indonesian Islamic organizations participated in the demonstration.

The organizers estimated the number of participants in the demonstration at more than one million people, noting that Indonesia had witnessed many demonstrations in support of Gaza and denouncing the Israeli war on it during the past weeks.

Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto said that his country's government is ready to send its medical ship to the waters near Gaza to provide medical treatment to victims of Israeli attacks, the Indonesian news agency "Antara" reported.

Subianto revealed that the Indonesian government plans to coordinate with countries neighboring the Gaza Strip, including Egypt, to obtain approval to send the medical ship.

He said during his visit to the Halim Perdana Kusuma Air Base in Jakarta, yesterday, Saturday, "The Indonesian Defense Forces are ready to send a medical ship, and will be ready there to provide more assistance."

The popular movement in support of Gaza is escalating around the world, as thousands participated in a massive demonstration in the American capital, Washington, to demand an end to the Israeli war on Gaza, denouncing the policies supporting Israel and the role of President Joe Biden, whom demonstrators described as “an accomplice in genocide.”

The demonstrators marched through the streets of Washington, waving Palestinian flags, and chanting slogans including: “Biden, Biden, you cannot hide. You participated in genocide.” Then they gathered at Freedom Square, steps away from the White House.

According to what was reported by Agence France-Presse, this demonstration is the largest demonstration in the American capital since the start of the war on Gaza. Many supporters spent long hours arriving in Washington to participate.

Armed confrontations and clashes broke out in more than one area in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, at dawn on Sunday, coinciding with the occupation forces storming a number of cities, villages and camps, which witnessed violent confrontations in response to the invading forces.

4 young Palestinians were killed this Sunday morning, by Israeli army. The young man, Ahmed Habis Dababsa, was martyred by occupation bullets in the town of Nuba, Hebron district, while in the town of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, 3 young men were killed  by Israeli army. They are: Nabil Halabiya, Muhannad Afaneh, and Musa Zaarour. 

This Sunday morning, three citizens, one of whom was killed, and six others were injured, three of them in critical condition, by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the towns of Abu Dis and Al-Eizariya, east of occupied Jerusalem.

Eyewitnesses said that large forces from the occupation army stormed the town of Abu Dis, surrounded a house, and violent confrontations broke out in the place.

They added that the occupation forces brought a military bulldozer and demolished parts of the besieged house, before firing an “Energa” shell at it, which led to the death of the young man trapped inside the house, Nabil Abdel Raouf Halabiya (20 years old).

A video clip showed the occupation forces carrying the body of the martyr Halabiya, who was killed inside the besieged house, using a bulldozer.

Later, the Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of the two young men, Musa Diya Musa Zaarour (22 years old) and Muhannad Ahmed Afana (20 years old), as a result of their wounds sustained during confrontations with the occupation forces in the town, while six others were injured, including three with critical injuries. Two were transferred to Beit Jala Governmental Hospital.

The child Rami Ezz Musa Odeh (17 years old) also died from his wounds shot by the Israeli occupation, in the town of Al-Eizariya a few days ago.

The Abu Dis girls’ schools and the Arab Institute announced the suspension of face-to-face work in the town and its conversion to remote work, in order to ensure the safety of the students and to mourn the souls of the two martyrs.

In Hebron, a young man died as a result of his wounds, and his brother was injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets during their storming of the town of Nuba, northwest of Hebron.

Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Nuba, and as a result, confrontations broke out, during which live bullets and poison gas bombs were fired at the citizens, which led to the injury of the young man, Ahmed Habes Dababsa (22 years old), with a bullet in the abdomen, and his brother Mahmoud, and they were taken to the hospital. Ahmed's martyrdom was later announced.

Not an escape of talking about the Gaza crisis and its dangerous war, its beginnings and developments, but there is an aspect in which there is ambiguity: how will it end, who will surrender, and in exchange for what? The ongoing Israeli military attack, which did not exclude civilians and services, is in fact greater than a reaction to Hamas attacks. Its size confirms that it is a project to change the political reality.

At the beginning of the attack, Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, had previously said: The region after October 7 will not be the same as before? Its echo was echoed in Western capitals, which clearly supported it and declared that the goal was to remove Hamas from Gaza.

We are facing a terrible humanitarian crisis, the middle of a military battle, and the beginning of a different political project. The Israelis may succeed in achieving their goal, which will mean the end of the armed organization as we know it, but the departure of Hamas from the equation will not eliminate the Palestinian cause and its rights, nor will it stop the danger to Israel, as evidenced by the October attacks themselves, which were larger than all previous operations, despite the fact that Israel besieged Gaza and has monitored Hamas' activities for years.

The irony is that the two enemies, Hamas and Netanyahu, are the two groups most closely allied against the peace project, and they worked to obstruct it. The second paradox is that Hamas and Netanyahu are the losers in the war. Hamas may lose Gaza, and Netanyahu, due to the defeat of the October attack, will lose the presidency of the government, and may end up in prison on pre-war corruption charges. The third paradox is that it is the deadly war that will breathe life into the train of peace, and not the other way around.

We remember how the expulsion of Yasser Arafat and his fighters from Lebanon at that time actually ended Fatah as a military organization, but Arafat positioned himself politically and succeeded in returning to Palestine as an authority, through the Oslo Accords. History may repeat itself, even in light of this humanitarian catastrophe, the worst in the history of the Israeli conflict in half a century.

The war will stop after a few weeks, and everyone will be forced to activate political action. Ismail Haniyeh surprised everyone. At the height of the fighting, he expressed Hamas' readiness to accept peace based on a two-state solution, because he was aware of the possibilities following war. Hamas is not strong enough to repel US-backed Israel, especially since it has been left to fight alone by its allies. Haniyeh wants the movement to have a political face, not just a military one, and a role in reaping the fruits of the October 7 attacks. The problem facing Haniyeh and Meshaal is that Hamas inside does not recognize any role for its leaders abroad, and it was leaked that their men were removed from leadership positions in 2017. The movement has been managed since then by its military leaders, specifically Yahya Sinwar. Because of the movement's besieged situation and what will follow, its leaders abroad may have a seat at the table for possible peace negotiations later, which they launched their attacks to crush.

Among the challenges is that the Americans have previously classified Hamas as a terrorist organization, and they will be forced to back down at the next moment if they adopt the peace project. They banned Arafat from entering the United States, prevented US officials from meeting him, and sought to invent alternative leaders for him, Abdel Shafi and Ashrawi, to negotiate at the Madrid Conference. Then the Americans later agreed to sit with Arafat because it was not possible to negotiate and make peace without him. The extremist Hamas is not Fatah. However, it remains a difficult number that cannot be ignored. If it agrees, it will strengthen the position of the Palestinian Authority in potential negotiations.

Until then, there is a road map full of traps. Hamas has a force of 35 thousand, and Israel considers getting rid of them a goal, and this is an almost impossible task militarily without massive losses on both sides and horrific civilians losses. Will Hamas accept the exit in order to reduce losses among civilians and its members? If it agrees to give up its weapons, the second challenge is that no Arab country is ready to host them for fear of the accompanying dangers. In this impasse, the warring parties may be convinced of a compromise solution. Here comes the role of the Palestinian Authority in managing Gaza. Here we see a light in Gaza's dark tunnels.

The talk continues on options of peace and weapons.

Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat

Kuwaiti National Assembly (Parliament) adopted a recommendation to refer Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his country’s military and political leaders as “war criminals” in international forums, the International Criminal Court and in the world’s parliaments, and to assign the Parliamentary Division to lead legal, political and media efforts in this regard.

The Council also called on Arab and Muslim governments and parliaments “to take steps to break the siege and reject normalization,” and called on chambers of commerce and businessmen to activate the boycott of Israel.

The National Assembly approved a set of recommendations, most notably the prosecution of Israel’s leaders as “war criminals” in international forums, and the establishment of “Kuwait Humanitarian City” in Gaza. The recommendations called on the Kuwaiti government, the private sector, and development funds to establish a "Gaza Reconstruction Fund and to support  its steadfastness."

It called for 13 recommendations; To close Kuwaiti airspace and its lands to any use in any operation against the Palestinians, and to pursue any cases of communication with the occupation.

The recommendations also called on the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health to arrange the reception of infected people, especially children and women to treat them in Kuwait.

Parliamentary condemnation

During the session devoted to discussing Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip, representatives of the Kuwaiti National Assembly affirmed their condemnation of the Israeli practices in the Gaza Strip for weeks, which resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, most of them civilian children and women.

While they affirmed their rejection of normalization with Israel, the representatives noted Kuwait’s official position “in support of the Palestinian cause, which expresses the popular position towards the genocide and massacres practiced by the occupation against the Palestinian people, calling on government agencies to continue humanitarian support for Gaza.”

The representatives denounced “the international silence that revealed the contradictions of Western countries and their reversal of human rights principles and the failure of the United Nations agreements that claimed to implement justice and support the oppressed.”

The representatives stressed “the importance of initiative and coordination to launch international campaigns to implement the United Nations General Assembly’s decision to cease fire and allow the entry of humanitarian relief into the Gaza Strip.”

On Saturday, on the sidelines of the Arab-American meeting in the Jordanian capital, Amman, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Saudi Foreign Minister, discussed with his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken, ways to support efforts aimed at stopping the escalation of military operations in Gaza and its environs, in addition to the efforts made towards introducing humanitarian and relief aid. And medical, in order to prevent the worsening of the humanitarian crisis.

During the meeting, Prince Faisal bin Farhan stressed the Kingdom’s categorical rejection of the forced displacement of Gaza’s residents, stressing the Kingdom’s condemnation of targeting civilians in any way, or disrupting infrastructure and vital interests that affect their daily lives.

The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) said that an Israeli bombing of the Maghazi camp in central Gaza City had claimed the lives of 51 people, after a new announcement of the arrival of nearly 20 more bodies.

The agency reported that the bombing targeted the home of the Semaan family in the camp, and that the majority of those killed were women and children. And added that Israeli air strikes and ground and sea shelling targeted various areas of the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, according to what the Arab World News Agency reported.

A spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Saturday evening that the death toll from Israeli attacks on the Strip had risen to 9,488, including 3,900 children, since October 7.

Spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra added that 70 percent of the victims of the Israeli bombing are children, women and the elderly, and that there were more than a thousand massacres committed against Palestinian families.

In turn, the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday that it had received 30 trucks loaded with aid through the Rafah crossing, raising the number of aid that had arrived in the Gaza Strip since October 21 to 451 trucks.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement that the International Committee of the Red Cross received three trucks sent to it, while 19 trucks went to the UN agency UNRWA, in addition to eight trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

The statement said that the new batch of aid contains four trucks containing medical supplies and medicines, while the rest of the trucks carried food, water, and relief aid.

The American website "Axios" revealed that Israel has a detailed plan to allow fuel into Gaza, which it reported to the United States.

The plan, according to Axios, says that this can be done under international monitoring and in the event that hospitals run out of more fuel, as two Israeli officials told the site.

Humanitarian organizations have been demanding for weeks to allow fuel to enter the Strip, noting that hospitals that have closed their doors or are at risk have done so due to the severe fuel shortage.

The Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, General Herzi Halevy, said yesterday that Israel will transport fuel to hospitals, with monitoring, when needed.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday, Friday, after his meeting with Secretary of State Tony Blinken, that Israel will not allow any fuel to enter Gaza.

However, the sources said that the Israeli Office for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories is preparing to find a way to provide fuel to Gaza if Israel deems it needed.

Israeli officials, in cooperation with experts from international relief organizations, calculated the amount of fuel required to operate hospitals and other vital facilities.

According to the plan submitted to the United States, which requires Cabinet approval, fuel tankers from Egypt will enter the Gaza Strip with a specific amount of fuel sufficient to operate hospitals and other humanitarian facilities for a specific period of time. Each fuel tanker will be accompanied by a United Nations team that will closely monitor it and ensure that the fuel is delivered to hospitals for its intended purpose.

Israeli officials said that when fuel runs out again, the operation will take place again for another short and limited period of time.

A spokesman for the Office for Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories declined to comment. The United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Israeli officials claim that there is currently enough fuel in Gaza to run generators in hospitals and other humanitarian facilities.

The Al-Qassam Brigades announced in a statement today that, “Since October 7 until now, the barbaric Zionist bombing of Gaza has caused the loss of more than 60 enemy prisoners in Gaza.”

The statement added, "After the search operations, 23 bodies of them are still missing under the rubble until now, and it seems that we will never be able to reach them due to the continued brutal aggression of the occupation against Gaza."

While Israel says that the ceasefire can only be in exchange for the release of the kidnapped people, Hamas refuses to cooperate, and continues to prevent visits to prisoners even after a month has passed since the war.

The Hebrew channel "Kan" reported today that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken informed Israeli officials that the ceasefire is "important for the sake of world public opinion."

Other media outlets also quoted Blinken as saying in the “cabinet” war council that “there is great damage to those not involved in the war,” and that “Israel must move more to prevent such damage.”

Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy responded to Blinken, according to two sources who commented on the details of the discussion: “If we had listened to the generals you sent here, our plans would have been more aggressive.”

A number of demonstrators gathered in front of Netanyahu’s residence and on Shaul HaMelech Street in Tel Aviv, and demanded his “immediate” resignation.

The families of the prisoners held by Hamas also joined them and clashed with the police and chanted slogans demanding the "immediate return" of the prisoners.

Suspension of the evacuation of foreigners and holders of dual citizenship

In addition, the Hamas government suspended the evacuation of foreigners and those holding dual citizenship to Egypt due to Israel’s refusal to facilitate the transfer of wounded Palestinians to Egyptian hospitals.

The government source told the French press: “No foreign passport holders will travel from the Gaza Strip until the wounded are coordinated and exited from hospitals in Gaza and the north towards the Rafah crossing between the besieged Strip and Egyptian territory.”

An Egyptian security source confirmed to Agence France-Presse that “no injured person or holder of a foreign passport arrived at the Egyptian Rafah crossing” on Saturday.

He added that the movement stopped "after the bombing of ambulances that were transporting the injured to the crossing."

Hamas sources indicated that Israel refused to allow the departure of many of the wounded to Egypt, whose names were included in the list sent to the Egyptian authorities.

Since Wednesday, hundreds of foreigners and dual nationals have been evacuated from Gaza, which has been subjected to relentless Israeli bombing since the attack carried out by Hamas on October 7, which left more than 1,400 dead, most of them civilians, according to the Israeli authorities.

A march was launched in downtown Ramallah this Saturday evening, denouncing the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

The march moved through the streets of the city, amid chanting of slogans demanding that the occupation stop its aggression against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and that the occupation be held accountable for the crimes it commits against our people.

Earlier, a vigil and march was organized for children in the center of the city, in which they raised banners calling for the protection of their peers in Gaza and all of our people from the crimes committed by the occupation against them, and for the occupation to be held accountable for its crimes and for an end to its continuing aggression for the 29th day in a row.

American and Israeli interests in the conflict in the Middle East differ in the short and long term, which hinders the path to ending the war in the Gaza Strip, according to the American newspaper “The Wall Street Journal”.

In the first place, Israel views the Hamas movement as an existential threat and sees its elimination as a decisive goal. If it does not achieve this, it will have failed in its war.

The United States has committed to helping Israel defeat Hamas, but for US President Joe Biden, the threat goes beyond Hamas. His administration is trying to keep its allies united against Iran, Russia and China. Israel and the United States want to avoid a larger regional war, but Israel is willing to face more risks as it seeks to defeat Hamas.

Cease-fire

Following the movement's October 7 attack on Israel, Biden made clear his strong support for Israel, embracing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a rare visit to Tel Aviv for a war zone. But in the days that followed, Biden repeatedly stressed in phone calls with Netanyahu, under pressure from critics in his own party, that Israel must conduct its military campaign in accordance with international humanitarian law. The United States is increasingly calling for a halt to the fighting to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza and remove the hostages safely, despite resisting calls for a complete ceasefire.

At a fundraiser on Wednesday, one attendee shouted: “As a rabbi, I want you to call for an immediate ceasefire.” “I think we need to,” Biden responded.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he discussed the issue and logistics of the truce with Netanyahu and the Israeli war cabinet at a meeting in Tel Aviv on Friday.

In response to these pressures, Netanyahu said on Friday that he opposes a temporary ceasefire that is not matched by the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. American officials say that Israel previously stopped the fighting when two American hostages were released. Israel did not admit that it had agreed to a truce at that time.

The Biden administration is also pressuring Israel to reduce civilian casualties and launch strikes targeting Hamas leaders. But even as the number of casualties in Gaza rose and the humanitarian crisis worsened, Israel continued its massive strikes, targeting the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

The White House declined to comment on whether the strike was appropriate, but administration officials were frustrated by the widespread casualties.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that only Israel can manage its operations, noting that Washington's role is to ensure that Israel obtains the tools and capabilities.

Netanyahu said on Friday that he would continue his military campaign in Gaza, adding that he would not allow fuel, which the United States and humanitarian groups say is needed to run electricity generators for hospitals and water facilities, into the Gaza Strip.

An unknown future in Gaza

In the longer term, Biden calls for a two-state solution, and Blinken has consulted with the Israeli government about what comes after the military campaign for Israel and Gaza.

“We continue to have discussions with partners across the region and beyond about what should happen once Hamas is defeated... and the best path, or perhaps the only path, is a two-state solution,” Blinken said on Friday.

The Israelis have no clear idea about Gaza's future. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that the goal is to destroy Hamas' military capabilities and ability to rule, but he added that Israel has no interest in reoccupying Gaza permanently.

Some on the Israeli far right have supported the long-term occupation of Gaza or pushing Gazans into Egypt's Sinai region, which Egyptian leaders oppose.

Israeli internal pressures

As the conflict continues without a clear end, Biden and Netanyahu face increasing political pressure at home.

Today, Biden faces criticism from members of his party, especially from young voters, Muslims and Arab Americans, who are concerned about the increasing death toll in Gaza and are urging the administration to call a ceasefire.

Even members of Congress who were supportive of Israel and supported giving it military aid said this week that they wanted more restraint in its military campaign against Hamas.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee's Middle East Subcommittee, said on Thursday that the current rate of civilian deaths inside Gaza is unacceptable, calling on Israel to immediately reconsider its approach and shift to a targeted campaign.

Indeed, Netanyahu, who is unpopular among Israelis due to his pursuit of controversial judicial reform, is today dealing with criticism over how the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation was carried out, his refusal to take responsibility, as well as questions about whether he should resign.

It seems that Netanyahu's internal crisis and Biden's internal crisis, in addition to the hostage issue and the heavy losses incurred by the Israeli army during its advance into the heart of Gaza, constitute decisive factors in getting off the tree of impossible goals set by the Israeli and American leaderships for the war.

Whenever the war progresses or comes closer to achieving a military solution, as they imagine, the political question that stands behind it becomes the issue of a people who were displaced, killed, uprooted, and whose national entity was destroyed and torn apart for 75 years. The destruction in Gaza becomes clear as part and continuation of the war of extermination to which the Palestinian people are subjected, with the aim of concealing it from the eyes of the Palestinian people. The geopolitical map as a condition for expanding and stabilizing the Zionist colonial project in Palestine, as well as the organic relationship that links it to the colonial West, which has lined up its leaders and fleets, and whose generals are even leading a war of extermination against this “rebellious” part of the Palestinian people with the aim of subjugating it.

In an article published by Haaretz, Abraham Burg sheds light on the official and popular Israeli discourse accompanying the war. He says that victory in the past was represented by bringing the enemy’s severed head and displaying it in the squares, or bringing the king in chains in a procession of humiliation and rape of his women in front of the people and the sale of his subjects in the slave market. As long as we listen to the voice of the Israeli public and its echo in the government, we do not find it far from the ancient Torah, “Erase the mention of Amalek - the Palestinian, from under the sky,” “Raising Gaza to the ground and turning its ruins into parks,” “Next year in level Gaza,” “Let us expel the Palestinians and settle.” “In their place,” “to cauterize their consciousness with rivers of blood,” all of this in a way of completing the tasks of the Nakba that we were unable to complete in 1948, as he put it.

Burg says that this discourse, which ignores the Palestinians, began with the saying “a people without a land for a land without a people,” and was continued by the majority of prime ministers, all the way to Ariel Sharon and the unilateral exit from Gaza, and the bypass street network and the walls separating the Israelis from reality, but all of that did not change From the reality and fact that they are here.

It is clear that with all the Israeli aggressions and wars against the Palestinians, especially those that ended with a military victory over them, who are the majority, Israel was unable to erase their existence and their political cause, so they would bury their dead and rise from under the rubble of war, so that the banner of their cause would rise again and become louder. This is what happened after The Lebanon War, the siege of Beirut, after the Second Intifada, the “Defensive Wall” War, and the repeated aggressions against the Gaza Strip, which Rabin wished would sink into the sea, and which Sharon was unable to erase from existence, so he was forced to withdraw from it, but it continued to resist to regain a homeland that constitutes 1% of its area.

Poll: An Israeli majority holds Netanyahu responsible for the security failure and demands that he resign

We say this regardless of the results of the “global war” that Israel is waging against Gaza, knowing that Israeli military analysts themselves talk about valiant resistance and fierce battles that hinder the progress of the Israeli army and are likely to prevent it from achieving its military goals as well, as military analyst Alon Ben David says, “Hamas fighters show a stubborn fighting spirit. They did not surrender in any location and fought to the death, which means that the challenge facing our forces will be more difficult in the heart of Gaza,” he said.

Despite his reference to the difficulty of ending the battle by eliminating the military and political leadership of Hamas, the weakest link on the Israeli front is represented, in the opinion of the political analyst in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Nahum Barnea, by Benjamin Netanyahu, who does not want a resolution in Gaza because after him the investigation committee will come. The process of dismissing him, and for this reason he prefers a long and inconclusive process that will be halted by the Americans at a certain stage.

In the meantime, talking about the next day after the war, in Israeli terms, is too early because Hamas is very far from surrender, says military analyst Amir Rappaport, who believes that the idea of removing Hamas leaders from the Gaza Strip in exchange for the liberation of the Israeli hostages is nothing more than a desire. Israeli, because the end of the war does not seem to be on the horizon, while Israel loses on the three important criteria: time, money and credibility, according to Nahum Barnea, who believes that the first stage of the war required freedom from the shock and the rain of fire on top of Gaza from the air, land and sea, while it was The ground operation in Gaza is the second stage, and the third stage is supposed to be settling the issue of authority in Gaza, for which the Israeli government does not have a crystallized plan, nor is it able to explain the path by which the second stage leads to the third stage.

This is despite the emergence of many indicators indicating that the duration of the green light that America and the West are giving to Israel to end its military operation to eliminate Hamas at any cost is approaching exhaustion, especially since the Jewish communities in the world are concerned that the spread of images of Israeli killing and destruction from Gaza has begun to take on the character of genocide. Collectively, it will make Jewish community centers legitimate targets, says journalist Orly Azoulay of Yedioth Ahronoth.

Azoulay points to a decline in Biden's popularity within his party, after the liberal left wing became angry at him because of his absolute support for Israel and his disregard for Gaza's distress, which prompted the White House to prepare a political plan in cooperation with Europe and with the participation of Saudi Arabia, which seeks to conclude a joint defense treaty with the United States.

This plan, according to the Israeli journalist, includes in its first phase a ceasefire to facilitate a prisoner exchange, after which comes the phase of a temporary political solution in which the administration of Gaza will transfer to a multi-factional Palestinian body, as Washington hopes, which constitutes the basis for a future solution based on two states and being implemented. Within its framework, Gaza will be linked by air bridge to the West Bank.

In summary, it appears that Netanyahu's internal crisis and Biden's internal crisis, in addition to the hostage issue and the heavy losses incurred by the Israeli army during its advance into the heart of Gaza, constitute decisive factors in getting off the tree of impossible goals set by the Israeli and American leaderships for the war.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did not come to the meeting with Arab foreign ministers, in Amman on Saturday, with “decisive American commitments” towards stopping the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and bringing in urgent relief aid.

Blinken’s statements from Amman reflected what could be described as “disappointment,” despite Jordan’s attempts officially and in Arab partnership to pressure by raising the ceiling on positions during the seven-party meeting of foreign ministers, according to informed Jordanian political sources who told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Jordanian king King Abdullah II “held the responsibility of the Arab ministers for unifying Arab demands to immediately stop the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip,” to obtain an American commitment.

Al-Safadi

During a press conference, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi spoke about the discrepancy between the Arab and American positions. He said: “Our conversation today was frank and in-depth, reflecting different Arab and American positions regarding what must be done immediately to end this disaster,” but he also stressed “the keenness to continue engaging intensively to stop what we can only describe as a disaster whose effects will haunt the region for generations, and that We want a just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution as a way to guarantee the security of the region and all its peoples.”

Al-Safadi summarized the meeting points during the meetings, which “included the necessity of delivering adequate, immediate and sustainable humanitarian support to Gaza, resuming the provision of basic services, protecting civilians, the necessity of adhering to international law and international humanitarian law, releasing civilians, and rejecting the displacement of Palestinians from their homeland,” stressing that “any Attempting to do so, for Jordan, Egypt and all Arab countries, is another war crime that we will confront with all our capabilities.”

He stressed the necessity of “an immediate ceasefire and an end to this war,” rejecting “the characterization of the war as self-defense,” noting that Arab positions emphasized the necessity of immediately delivering adequate aid to the Gaza Strip and stopping the displacement of Palestinians.

Al-Safadi expressed his concern about the situation in the West Bank, where settlers are allowed to kill innocent Palestinians. He said, "Everyone must stop this madness and put an end to the loss of millions of lives."

He stressed that “murder and war crimes must stop, and Israel’s protection from international law must end... This war will not bring security to Israel and will not bring stability to the region.”

Al-Safadi stressed that the killing of children and women must stop, the war crimes committed by Israel must stop, and that Israel’s immunity from international law must end.

Blinken

Blinken, who came from Israel carrying a rejection of American proposals for a humanitarian truce, provided only brief indications regarding the existence of reasons calling for a temporary halt to military actions to deliver aid, saying: “We agreed with Israel on how to achieve this.”

The US Secretary of State pointed out that joint efforts are necessary to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, but at the same time he pointed out that “reaching a ceasefire now will enable the Hamas movement to gather its forces and repeat what it did on October 7.” the past".

Blinken insisted on saying that “the need to protect Palestinian civilians will not come at the expense of Washington’s support for Israel’s right to defend itself against the Hamas movement,” but “Israel must take every precaution to reduce the number of civilian casualties and conveyed to the Israelis on Friday additional steps to take in this regard.”

While Blinken spoke about the focus on providing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and the need for a temporary halt to military actions to deliver relief materials, he said that he spent a lot of time consulting with the Israeli government, Egypt, and the United Nations to develop a channel to deliver aid to Gaza, and noted that 100 trucks are entering daily to the Gaza Strip, and that is not enough, stressing the work to expand access to humanitarian aid and ensure that it reaches those who need it and establish the necessary infrastructure to absorb, use and distribute aid.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said, “The unfortunate killing events we are witnessing in the Gaza Strip cannot be justified, and we will not accept entering into a useless controversy to justify the condemned practices as self-defense.”

He called for an immediate ceasefire and for Israel to stop obstructing the entry of humanitarian aid and ensure safe and rapid access to it, calling on the international community to reach a ceasefire and prevent the continuation of violence.

Extended meeting

On Saturday, the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, held a meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in which they discussed the repercussions and ways to end the dangerous deterioration in Gaza, which threatens the security of the entire region.

During the meeting, the ministers affirmed the Arab position calling for an immediate ceasefire and the immediate and urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, and the necessity of intensifying targeted efforts to launch immediate and effective international action to stop the war, ensure the protection of civilians, respect the rules of international law and international humanitarian law, and ensure the delivery of immediate humanitarian aid. And urgently for the Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip.

The ministers stressed the need for Israel to adhere to international legitimacy resolutions, especially the resolution presented by Jordan on behalf of the Arab Group, and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, last week, which calls for stopping the war, ensuring the protection of civilians, and adhering to legal and humanitarian obligations.

The Ministers condemned the irresponsible actions committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, which constitute war crimes that violate all human and moral values and international laws, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention.

King Abdullah

For his part, during his meeting with Blinken on Saturday evening, Jordanian King Abdullah II stressed the need to stop the war on Gaza and impose a humanitarian truce to sustain the arrival of aid to the Strip and ensure that the work of international humanitarian organizations is not obstructed.

King Abdullah II called for intensifying international efforts to deliver food, water, medicine and fuel to Gaza without interruption, and to support relief organizations working in the Strip, noting that the only way to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is to work towards a political horizon to achieve a just and comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution, warning. That military or security solutions will not succeed.

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat

On Saturday, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman described Turkey’s decision to recall its ambassador as “another step by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stand alongside the Hamas movement.” According to Haaretz newspaper.

Today (Saturday), the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the recall of its ambassador to Israel in protest against the current bombing of the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Foreign Ministry added that the Turkish ambassador in Tel Aviv was summoned to Ankara “to hold consultations” amid “a humanitarian tragedy in Gaza resulting from continued attacks by Israel on civilians” in the Strip.

In the statement, the ministry cited “Israel’s refusal” to listen to “calls for a ceasefire and the continuous and smooth flow of humanitarian aid” to justify its decision.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that maternal and newborn deaths in the Gaza Strip are likely to rise due to “lack of access to adequate care.”

UNRWA said in a series of posts on its account on the “X” platform, today, Saturday, that “women, children and newborns across Gaza bear the disproportionate burden of the escalation of hostilities.”

It added: We expect maternal and newborn deaths in Gaza to rise due to “lack of access to adequate care.”

UNRWA stressed that the number of Palestinian martyrs in Gaza "has become staggering, while the tragedy continues."

It pointed out that the lack of supplies, the ongoing Israeli bombing, and the interruption of communications make humanitarian relief very difficult.

UNRWA confirmed that "queuing up to get bread has become worrying and unsafe after the Israeli occupation bombed" about 10 bakeries in Gaza.

The Russian newspaper Pravda said in a report that Israel's brutal response to Hamas' attacks shocked the Islamic world and public opinion around the world, as thousands of civilian casualties and the targeting of residential buildings prompted people to ask the question: Is such destruction possible in this country? Time?

The report added that the number of victims of Israeli attacks has so far exceeded 8,000 people as a result of the Israeli army’s strikes on Gaza, half of whom are children, highlighting that the indifference shown by the Israeli side toward the fate of ordinary civilians has inflamed public opinion within Islamic countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and in Germany, France, and Britain. .

This is evident in the organization of marches and demonstrations in which thousands participated, even in Russia.

Dim picture

The report asked: Do the Israeli authorities realize that, through their indiscriminate attacks on residential areas in Gaza, they create a negative image of Israel and turn a large part of the global community against it?

It stated that Tel Aviv is working to recreate the old ideological foundation on which the ideology of hatred of Jews was formed for centuries. While anti-Semitism in ancient times was formed on the basis of tales and legends, today it captures clear images from the scene of events.

The report explains that from ancient times until the end of the 19th century, any suspicious death of a Christian child near the Jewish community became grounds for prosecution or even Jewish pogroms.

It added that against the backdrop of the massive human losses of Gaza children due to the Israeli bombing, the idea of “child killers” is gaining great momentum. In light of this situation, the instigators do not need to invent new stories to oppose Israel.

Biblical dimensions

A vivid example of this is the events that took place at Makhachkala Airport, when an angry crowd boarded a plane from Israel, raising slogans: “Child killers have no place in Dagestan,” knowing that most of these people do not care about ancient myths and tales and are familiar with the horrific images of children’s corpses. Their number is approximately thousands.

Pravda concluded its report by saying that there is no need today to invent frightening stories about the torture of a Christian child on the cross for ritual purposes, because the image of exploding high-rise residential buildings in Gaza dispenses with that and reflects a disaster of biblical proportions. According to the newspaper, Israel commits these massacres on its own initiative, which serves its opponents.

Palestinian human rights organizations have condemned, in the strongest terms, the Israeli occupation forces’ deliberate targeting of hospitals, ambulances, and shelter centers, and the systematic destruction of what remains of the necessities of life in the Gaza Strip, as part of the crime of genocide, which is entering its twenty-ninth consecutive day, amid the inability of the international community to put an end to it. military or even mitigate its effects.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Al Mezan Center, and Al-Haq said in a joint statement: They view with very serious seriousness the direction taken by the military attacks launched by the occupation forces in recent hours, which clearly demonstrated Israel’s intention to destroy what remains of the basics of survival throughout the Gaza Strip. With a focus on northern Gaza and Gaza City, these are unprecedented crimes that devastate humanity.

It confirmed that the occupation forces deliberately bombed and targeted hospitals, the shelter center, medical staff, and electricity generators, which exacerbates the catastrophic situation 29 days after the military attack on the Gaza Strip.

It referred to the crimes of bombing the entrance to Al-Nasr Hospital and the electricity generator of Al-Wafa Hospital, after bombing the entrance to Al-Shifa Medical Complex and targeting ambulances, and the vicinity of Al-Quds and Indonesian Hospitals.

Human rights organizations expressed their concern about the Israeli bombing focusing on solar energy projects and electricity generators supplying institutions or residents’ homes, especially in Gaza City, by targeting the roofs of buildings and residential buildings, as well as above the Al Amal Institute for Orphans and other civil institutions.

It pointed out that the targeted places were contributing to securing the minimum requirements for survival after the complete blackout of electricity in the Strip, which indicates the occupation’s attempt to kill thousands, whether by bombing or the lack of the necessities of life, such as food, water, and health, and to force those who remain to be forcibly displaced along a specific path that it controls. Those forces are upon him.

It also indicated that the occupation forces continue to commit mass murders, without any prohibitions, and to destroy homes and shelter centers on the heads of their residents, most notably in the last hours, the bombing by occupation aircraft on the morning of November 4, 2023, of Al-Fakhoura School in northern Gaza, which houses thousands of displaced people. Which led to the death and injury of at least 150 Palestinians.

On the evening of November 3, 2023, occupation aircraft also bombed the Osama Bin Zaid School yard in the middle of the Al-Saftawi neighborhood in Jabalia, a shelter center where hundreds of residents took refuge. This resulted in the death of 15 Palestinians, the injury of 54 others, and severe damage to the school.

It stressed that the ongoing crime of genocide requires immediate intervention to stop the military attack on the Gaza Strip, reach a ceasefire, prevent any Israeli attempt to displace Palestinians, and put an end to the grave violations committed by Israel.

It called for taking serious steps to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and to impose political and economic sanctions.

It stressed that this urgent international intervention must be accompanied by the unimpeded entry of fuel and humanitarian aid, including water, food and medical supplies, to be distributed throughout the entire Gaza Strip to mitigate the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe resulting from Israel’s policy of collective punishment against the civilian population in Gaza.

It said: We affirm our position that these crimes and atrocities must end immediately and not be repeated, and that the international community must ensure the dismantling of the Israeli settler-colonial apartheid system.

By Muhammad Al-Awdat

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to reshape the Middle East after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched by the Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas - on October 7.

Netanyahu's statements indicate that Israel wants to exploit American and Western support and support to the maximum possible extent in order to preserve and maximize its gains from the war.

The events of October 7th have consequences, as they will reshape the Middle East in the future, according to the rules of conflict between the major projects in the region, the American-Western-Israeli project, the Iranian project, and the Turkish project.

Operation quality

The same planning used by the late Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat in the October 6 War of 1973. On Yom Kippur or Yom Kippur, “the day of purification from sins,” the Egyptian forces surprised the Israeli army and achieved a major victory in which they regained the occupied Egyptian land.

On the same days of Yom Kippur, on the 7th of last October, the Hamas movement repeated the same sudden qualitative attack on Israeli settlements and military sites around the Gaza Strip.

The quality of this resistance operation comes from several aspects:

- The size of the great loss inflicted on Israel: It is the second largest loss inflicted on the Israeli forces after the 1973 war, as the Palestinian resistance killed more than 1,400, wounded more than 5,132 others, and captured more than 250, most of them military personnel, some of whom were high-ranking officers in the army.

- The resistance operation struck Jewish immigration with a death toll: The promises of security, well-being, and comfortable living that were promoted to immigrants to Israel were dissipated after the operation, and there is no security after the resistance succeeded in storming the settlements and military sites in this way that the whole world witnessed.

The operation constituted a major blow to Israel's intelligence image: After the operation took Israel by surprise without any leak or prior expectation, the operation was a witness to a miserable failure of Israeli intelligence.

- The operation demonstrated Israel's military fragility. The country that offered itself to normalize relations with the Arab regimes through security and military superiority showed that it was incapable of protecting itself, and that when it sensed the real danger, it turned to the Western ally to protect it in the region. Whoever presented himself as the protector of the region and the allied regimes today is asking for protection from America and the West.

- The operation restored confidence in the idea of resistance and its usefulness in the Palestinian liberation process. This confidence had collapsed due to the Naksa War and the perpetuation of the idea of an invincible Israeli army for more than half a century, especially after the settlement option that the Palestinian Authority had followed for 30 years had failed to achieve anything. Mention of the Palestinians.

Current war scenarios

First scenario:

An overwhelming Israeli victory over the Palestinian resistance: The victory that Israel wants is to completely eradicate Hamas, make Gaza demilitarized, and recover the prisoners. Any talk about Hamas staying or keeping weapons in Gaza and negotiating over the prisoners means for Israel an abject defeat. The victory that Israel wants is a zero-sum victory and that the opponent It must surrender and end completely, and this is the declared Israeli and American goal.

This goal has what supports it and serves its realization on the ground, including the presence of an American and Western green light to use force against Gaza without any red lines, the airlift of advanced American weapons, the deterrent battleships that prevent the expansion of the war in the region, and the large financial support that the West provides to Israel until it reaches... In US President Joe Biden's latest calls for Congress to agree to allocate $14 billion in military support to Israel.

Behind this is a Western media machine that is sympathetic and supportive of Israel, conditions that the Israeli political and military leadership will not leave without seeking to end Hamas, the resistance, and Gaza’s weapons forever. This is an opportunity that will not be repeated for Israel from the point of view of the Israeli leadership.

Second scenario:

The survival of the resistance, the leadership of the resistance, the weapons of the resistance, and the survival of the prisoners under the hands of the resistance, whether they are alive or dead. The mere survival of the resistance, whether with or without Israeli ground losses, will represent a failure and defeat for the Israeli campaign. Everything short of uprooting the resistance and its weapons is a Palestinian victory.

This scenario is supported by previous experiences in Israel's ground wars. The 2006 war in Lebanon surprised everyone, Hezbollah withstood, and Israel eventually submitted to a prisoner exchange deal and suffered losses it had not expected.

The Lebanese model can be repeated in the ground war on Gaza, but this depends on how much the Palestinian resistance has prepared for the ground war, and this is what the first weeks of the ground war will be judged on.

Post-war

If Israel achieves the first scenario and achieves an overwhelming victory and is able to occupy Gaza again and end the presence of the resistance and disarm it, the military and political scene in favor of Israel in the region will be as follows:

- Netanyahu emerging victorious from the war means tightening the grip of the Israeli right on the reins of government in any future elections and for many years.

- Netanyahu will intend to capitalize on the victory and seek another war and repeat the same victory in southern Lebanon over Hezbollah, benefiting from unlimited Western and American support, especially after southern Lebanon entered the war, albeit in a limited way so far.

- Consolidating and deepening Israel's policy of deterrence and the policy of managing military brutality that it has pursued in its wars with the Arab armies and Palestinian resistance movements throughout the history of the Palestinian cause.

- Weakening any chance for a third Palestinian intifada in the West Bank, and going to the most important plan of the Israeli right by dividing the spatial location of Al-Aqsa Mosque, expanding the temporal division of Jewish extremists, and accelerating the plan to Judaize Al-Aqsa Mosque.

- Israel's victory will most likely mean handing over Gaza to the Palestinian Authority and working quickly to implement the provisions of the Deal of the Century by force and by imposing a fait accompli, by annexing the Jordan Valley and the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which occupy more than 43% of the West Bank's lands for Israel, and establishing Palestinian self-rule with geographically unlimited cantons. Connected with work to start a soft displacement policy.

- A leaked study revealed the Israeli plan to settle two million Palestinians in Egypt at a value of $8 billion, to build cities for Palestinians in Sinai, and to pay compensation that could reach $30 billion to the Egyptian state, provided that Gaza is completely bulldozed and Israeli settlements are built on it.

- The Iranian project in the region has declined, the so-called axis of resistance has declined, and the American-Western-Israeli project has advanced and excelled. This means accelerating the rotation of the wheel of Arab normalization with the Zionist entity, making Israel the major power in the region, and returning the Turkish project to the square of understandings with the American-Israeli project, not contradicting and competing with it.

However, if a victory is achieved for the resistance, and by victory I mean “the resistance and its weapons remaining in Gaza and negotiating over the prisoners,” the political scene in the region will be completely different, as follows:

- The victory of the resistance means entrenching Hamas to be the primary force in the Palestinian cause, and the international community and Israel must deal with it as the most important player in determining the fate of the Palestinian cause and the decline of the role of the Palestinian Authority, which has become a structure without substance or content.

- The decline of the Israeli right and the end of Netanyahu’s political career, forcing the United States of America and the less right-wing movement in Israel to re-engage with the Jordanian story, narrative and perception, which is still adhering to and defending the option of the Arab initiative for a two-state solution and reproducing the idea of establishing a viable Palestinian state on the June 7 borders. In 1967, a Palestinian state was established on the entire territory of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the Jordan Valley.

- The rearrangement of the Middle East and the stronger rise of Iran in many issues in the region, which will create Arab-Iranian understandings and expand the trend opposing the American project, with the possibility of a greater Turkish-Iranian rapprochement supported by Russia, a rapprochement that will strengthen Russia’s position and influence in the region.

- Greater satisfaction for the encirclement countries, especially Jordan and Egypt, by getting rid of the displacement project, even if those countries accept that political Islam will benefit temporarily as a symptom of the victory of the resistance in Gaza, with their ability to keep political Islam under control and weakening in exchange for getting rid of the obsession with displacement and resettlement in Egypt and Jordan, with what it represents. A strategic threat to the national security of the cordon countries.

- The wave of Arab-Israeli normalization has receded, as normalization was driven by the motivation of Israeli military and security superiority. The Israeli loss will show Israel’s strength in its true size, far from what Israel promotes itself as a strong and superior security and military ally, with whom the Arab countries can cooperate in confronting the Iranian project.

A different war

No one can predict the results of the war. American-Western support for Israel is unlimited and unconditional, and no time limit has been set for it, and there is no Western popular pressure yet sufficient to stop it, which makes this war completely different from its counterparts from 2008 to 2023 on Gaza.

At the same time, no one can estimate the strength of the ground resistance, as Hamas is a highly secretive organization and the size and quality of weapons flowing to it cannot be estimated by anyone, which makes all possibilities of war open.

It is certain that before October 7th is not like what comes after it, and that we are heading towards major political events and developments that will make all parties affected by the Palestinian issue vigilant, anxious and fearful and do not want the solution of the Palestinian issue to be in Israel’s favor at their expense.

Everything that has happened so far in the Israeli war and the aerial bombardment does not change anything on the ground, and only the results of the ground war will reshape the region, strengthen axes, weaken others, advance projects and retreat others. The Al-Aqsa Flood land war may be the biggest event of the twenty-first century in the Middle East and the Palestinian issue.

Source: Al Jazeera

The writer considered that the leaders of the United States showed that they lack the wisdom and objectivity to achieve positive results (French)

An article in the American magazine Foreign Policy criticized the United States as a major cause of the war currently taking place between Israel and Palestine. Writer Stephen Walt began his article by saying that at a time when Israelis and Palestinians are mourning their dead and awaiting news of the missing now, the tendency to search for someone to blame is impossible for many to resist.

The Israelis and their supporters want to blame the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) for everything. Those sympathetic to the Palestinian cause see the tragedy as the inevitable result of Israel's decades of occupation and prolonged cruel treatment of Palestinians. Others insist that there is too much blame, and that anyone who sees one side as completely innocent and the other solely responsible has lost any capacity for fair judgment.

The writer Walt believes that it is inevitable that the debate over which of the direct parties is most responsible will obscure other important causes that are not closely related to the long conflict between Zionist Israelis and Palestinian Arabs. However, we should not lose sight of these other factors even during the current crisis, because their effects may continue to reverberate long after the current fighting has stopped.

Walt focused on 5 of the critical events that he believed helped lead to the tragic events of the past two weeks.

Gulf War

He considered the Gulf War in 1991 to be the beginning, in addition to its repercussions represented by the Madrid Peace Conference, when the United States emerged as an undisputed external power in the affairs of the Middle East, and began trying to build a regional system that served its interests.

Although Madrid did not produce tangible results, let alone a final peace agreement, it laid the foundation for a serious attempt to build a peaceful regional order. But it also contained an ominous flaw that sowed the seeds of much trouble in the future.

Iran was not invited to participate in the conference, and responded to its exclusion by organizing a meeting of “rejection” forces and communicating with Palestinian groups - including Hamas and Islamic Jihad - that it had previously ignored. This is what I consider a strategic response on Tehran’s part, not an ideological one, meaning that it sought to prove to the United States and others that it can obstruct their efforts to create a new regional order, if its interests are not taken into account.

The second critical event was the fateful combination of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the subsequent US invasion of Iraq in 2003, where the decision to invade was only tangentially related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, despite Baath Party-era Iraq supporting the Palestinian cause in several ways.

The “Abraham” normalization agreement was signed in the White House Government Press Office and circulated to the media for publication

The writer saw that the signing of the “Abraham” normalization agreement in the White House had unfortunate effects (Al Jazeera)

What resulted, unfortunately, was a costly quagmire in Iraq and a significant improvement in Iran's strategic position. This shift in the balance of power in the Gulf alarmed Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, and perceptions of the shared threat from Iran began to reshape regional relations in important ways, including by changing the relations of some Arab countries with Israel.

In hindsight, the third major event at the time was US President Donald Trump's fateful abandonment of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the nuclear issue with Iran and his adoption of a "maximum pressure" policy instead.

Abraham Accords

This foolish decision, according to the writer, had many unfortunate effects, as abandoning the Joint Plan of Action allowed Iran to restart its nuclear program, and the “maximum pressure” campaign led to Iran attacking oil shipments and facilities in the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, which exacerbated the problem.

The fourth development was what was called the “Abraham Accords,” which critics pointed out did relatively little to advance the cause of peace because none of the participating Arab governments were hostile to Israel or capable of harming it. Others warned that regional peace would remain elusive as long as the fate of 7 million Palestinians living under Israeli control remained unresolved.

The fifth factor is not a single event, but rather the constant failure of the United States to successfully end the so-called “peace process.” Washington has monopolized oversight of the peace process since the Oslo Accords, and its various efforts have led nowhere in the end.

The writer commented that, unfortunately for the United States, these five events and their impact on the region provide powerful ammunition for an opportunist stance (as Russian President Vladimir Putin was quick to point out last week).

He concluded his article by saying that there is no security for Israel and no security or justice for the Palestinians. This is what we gain when we let Washington run everything. Whatever their intentions, US leaders have shown us time and again that they lack the wisdom and objectivity to achieve positive results, not even for themselves.