The Palestinian resistance may
have lost the battle, but it won the war and changed the rules of the game in
the Middle East, and the internal policies of both Biden and Netanyahu as well,
just as happened in Vietnam more than sixty years ago. Since the morning of
October 7, everything has changed. The Palestinian resistance opened the doors
of the Great Gaza Prison. They broke all the restrictions, demolished the
walls, and fled towards freedom. That freedom, which for Palestinians means
resistance until the liberation of complete Palestine, means that the
Palestinians become the difficult number in any Middle Eastern equation. They
are neither prisoners nor spectators. They are free and fierce fighters who
will not stand idly by.
Accordingly, the Palestinian
resistance launched a surprise attack on the positions of the Israeli
occupation state around the Gaza Strip. The resistance took control of Israeli
military sites and was able to capture hundreds of Israeli soldiers, and to this
day it still controls the areas it regained from the occupied territories,
expanding the scope of confrontations with the enemy within its borders, and
creating multiple arenas of confrontation in the West Bank and in northern
Israel on the Lebanese border. It inflicted great economic and military losses
despite the fierce attack on the Gaza Strip and the genocidal policies it
pursued against defenseless Palestinian civilians.
The Israeli occupation state will
try to restore its prestige first, and secondly eliminate the Hamas and Jihad
movements, or at least limit their military combat forces. Therefore, it is
very likely that it will storm the Gaza Strip, to liquidate the cadres of Hamas
and Jihad and their popular bases, as Netanyahu and the pillars of his
extremist racist government say.
The United States hastened to
send the Ford aircraft carrier with its accompanying warships and nuclear
submarines, in anticipation of the spread of the war, because Hezbollah's entry
into the war would mean the collapse of Israel. Therefore, who would have
thought that Israel, which offered to help Arab regimes to protect it
militarily, would request American assistance in confronting a movement, not an
army, and only after 24 hours of confrontation?
This development, if it happens,
is likely to happen, because all evidence points to it, first, such as the
Israeli Knesset granting Netanyahu the authority to declare war on the Gaza
Strip. Secondly, the American announcement of the establishment of an air
bridge to supply the Israeli occupation state with all the ammunition and
weapons it needs. Third, Biden's statement that America will never leave Israel
alone. Fourth, moving an American aircraft carrier to the eastern
Mediterranean. Fifth, evacuate Israeli settlements. Sixth, Biden and his
administration staff’s contacts with officials in Arab countries influential in
the Arab and Palestinian scene.
This development will lead, or
result in, other, more dangerous developments, due to the expansion of bloody
confrontations. The Israeli incursion will have a heavy price paid by the
Israeli occupying state, not in the losses that its forces will inevitably
suffer, whether human or its criminal war machine, which was manufactured by
the finest, most accurate, and most lethal factories of the American military
industrial complex.
The war may expand to include
Lebanon and Syria, in addition to specific military operations, such as
assassinations that will affect Prince Kane and Zionists all over the world,
like what happened in the sixties and seventies of the last century. Netanyahu
will also try to get out of his internal dilemma by escaping forward and
attacking Iran. His destruction of the Gaza Strip as a response to his loss of
the war may lead to his being held accountable internationally.
That war demonstrated the
illusion and failure of American diplomacy, which declared many times that calm
in the Middle East had reached reassuring stages, but those illusions put
everyone in a dilemma, and by everyone I mean the Western countries and America,
just as it implicated the European continent in the Ukraine war to redraw the
old map again, Unconditional American support for Israel will be read as
support for Israel's continued oppression, ethnic cleansing, and massacres
against the Palestinians.
Napoleon says, “If you want
something good, do it yourself,” and thus the Palestinian resistance is
determined to continue the path of liberation. Liberating all of Palestine,
stopping racist occupation policies, stopping settlement and land confiscation,
that is, stopping all forms of apartheid committed against the Palestinian
people.
All of this may not be achieved
in this battle, as the matter requires a long-term policy in confronting the
last stronghold of settler-colonial colonialism in modern history, but Hamas
won the new war and declared itself the sole legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people. At a time when any legitimacy was dropped from the
government of Mahmoud Abbas and his men in the Palestinian Authority. That is,
it threw the settlement agreements into the dustbin of history.
Hamas and the Palestinian
resistance have also gained credibility and public support in both the Arab and
Islamic worlds and the Palestinian diaspora. Thus, it highlighted the inability
of the Arab governments, especially Egypt, Jordan, and other normalizers and
collaborators with the Israeli occupation, to withdraw any cover or legitimacy
or justifications they give for tyrannizing their people, oppressing them,
starving them, and impoverishing them. It also gave hope to the people who are
against normalization and stopping the normalization train and the Abraham
Accords, not only on the political level, but also on the economic and military
levels, which is considered the real reason behind this.
Something has changed in the
Middle East region. The events of October 7 confirmed a profound change in the
culture of war, and even confirmed a profound change in international
relations. Just as Vietnam did and its resistance to Washington in the 1960s,
the Palestinian resistance is doing so now, and the coming days are enough for
us to witness that...
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