“We want to destroy what remains from the Strip … so as not to remain a stone on a stone … Gaza residents will move to the southern Gaza Strip, and from there to a third country,” with these words, the Israeli Finance Minister summarizes the goals of the war after 19 months of brutality, starvation, killing and systematic destruction.
After him, on May 21, occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out in a vibrant media outlet, to determine the goals of the war on Gaza; By handing the prisoners, removing Hamas, Hamas exit from the Strip, and then implementing the Trump plan, which means the displacement of Palestinians outside the Strip.
This means clearly and in the words of the highest official in the government; Occupied Israel does not want to reach a ceasefire agreement, and what negotiations in Doha and Cairo are only a form of war management. The Netanyahu structure affirmed that if the prisoners were handed over as one of the results of the negotiations with Hamas, the war will be resumed after the end of the temporary truce, until the goals of the war referred to.
Netanyahu’s position means sustaining war, with a time horizon approaching the Israeli elections in the middle of 2026.
In order for Netanyahu to provide himself with a continuous American cover and support for this war, he announced his response to the request of Israel’s friends in the US Congress, to introduce aid to avoid famine in Gaza, as he claimed, until they provide him with a cover for all the requirements of the political and material war to resolve the battle in Gaza.
In this context, the Israeli occupation entered 92 trucks, out of 45,000 trucks needed by the Gaza Strip urgently and a continuous flow to overcome the famine resulting from the complete closure and the siege applied to more than 80 days, prompting the European Union’s foreign policy commissioner Kaya Kayas to describe that; A drop in the vicinity of human needs.
The lesson of deeds
Washington, although it seems to stop the war in the Gaza Strip and the peace industry in the Arab region, as it was stated by President Trump, but its behavior does not indicate that, but rather creates doubts about the credibility of its position calling for stopping the war, which has turned into a collective genocide of the Palestinians, Israel is still killing without borders, and the Palestinians are unlimited, Washington- realistic and practical- supported without borders.
Washington, if it is concerned with stopping the war, can, with a real political decision, not a media administration, then American President Eisenhower and with direct contact with Britain, France, and Israel were able to stop the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, which led to the exit of Britain, France from the Suez Canal, and the withdrawal of Israel from Sinai and the Gaza Strip.
The European Union and many Western countries- especially Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada and others- called officially and in the words of the highest officials to stop the war and enter aid immediately and without restrictions, and threatened to punish Israel for its behavior, if it does not respond to their calls.
This position, and if it comes very late, constituted a qualitative shift in the speech, but at the same time it is in front of a real test, then the lesson is with deeds and not the sayings.
Many European peoples and American segments are witnessed by their historical position rejecting the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, after the Israeli occupation was exposed for its brutal reality, which was an important reason for changing the positions of their political and moral governments in front of their peoples that could be punished through the polls in the earliest time.
The ruling on the positions of Western countries, which has always claimed and claimed to protect international and humanitarian law, depends on its practical steps and procedures against Israel in the form of sanctions that prevent its aggression against Gaza, the European Union has taken against Russia about 17 packages of accumulated sanctions to prevent its war on Ukraine, and this is an argument for the European Union and its credibility, which is the most commercial and cultural system With occupied Israel.
Hamas is not the primary goal
If talking about the United States of America and the European Union is essential by virtue of their most influential position on the international system and in particular, this matter does not exempt the League of Arab States and Arab countries from its moral, national and political responsibility, which is the closest and is affected by the repercussions of bloody events in the Gaza Strip, and it is the most influential on Israel if it wants to use its strengths to stop the genocide and displace the Palestinians from their land.
The Arab countries can stop normalization with occupied Israel, stop all economic and security partnerships with them, and activate the comprehensive boycott against the occupation, until this murderer is stopped against the Palestinians and humanity, as silence encourages the occupation to commit more foolishness and madness that will affect everyone Palestinian and Arabs.
It is not necessary to say that the battle of Israel is not with Hamas and the Palestinian resistance mainly, but rather with the Palestinian people and their national aspirations, and with Palestinian children, women and youth; The occupation believes that Palestinian demography, Palestinian violence, and Palestinian scientific competencies are a historical challenge for it. They are the owners of the indigenous land and refuse to abandon it, and this was what was over 77 years of occupation based on killing and displacement.
Israel’s battle with everyone and targeting everyone. The Hamas movement is one of the struggle episodes, and if it melted and cursed, the struggle will not be destroyed, and the Palestinian revolution will not retreat from liberation and return to the 15 million boat people, half of them inside Palestine, and the other half is displaced, most of which lives in the Arab cordon countries.
The beholder sees the level of the brutality of the occupation, its hatred and its revenge on Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the majority of the martyrs are civilians, and a third of the martyrs numbering about 54 thousand to the moment of children.
The occupation, since the first months of this battle, has sought to destroy universities and schools; Because it is the source of education and knowledge, as he sought to kill doctors, engineers, teachers, academics, journalists, public sector employees and civil society activists; Because he sees them as a stubborn, solid enemy in confronting it as a brutal, brutal occupation.
The occupation was and still sees in the Palestinian an enemy that must be disposed of; Whoever destroyed more than 500 towns and villages and abandoned two -thirds of the Palestinian people in 1948, still works with the same mentality and on the same approach and politics.
If some Arabs see in the Hamas movement and the Palestinian resistance an unwanted party to its Islamic background, then this is not a justification for silence on killing children and the destruction of life features in the Gaza Strip.
Moreover, the displacement of the Palestinians will restore the national struggle from the inside to the outside, and this is not in the interest of the Palestinians and the Arabs alike, according to the experience of the Palestinian revolution; Israel seeks to transfer its crisis as an occupation to the Arab countries, so that the problem between the Palestinians seeking liberation and return, and between the Arab countries that will be in the position of defending Israel by virtue of the normalization agreements.
The Hamas movement did well for Palestine and the Arab countries when it transferred the struggle from the outside to the interior, and did not interfere in the affairs of the Arab states under the pretext of resisting the occupation, and this requires the least support to the Palestinians if it is not standing with the Hamas movement and the Palestinian resistance in the face of the occupation, which constitutes a strategic threat to the entire Arab nation and the entire humanity, and which today is more clear than ever.
The catastrophic reality that the Palestinian lives in in the Gaza Strip, and like it in the West Bank and Jerusalem, due to the Israeli occupation, puts the Arabs and humanity in front of a historical exam; The world is either to continue in its shameful silence and lose its humanity, or it moves to save mankind, which has become one of the most important titles of Gaza.
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