Muhannad Abdel Hamid – Palestinian writer
Important conclusions in the article of the Palestinian writer Muhannad Abdel Hamid: “Resistance without a minimum ingredient, and without a libertarian project that is applicable in a near and medium period of time and has the support of the camp of friends, countries and peoples.” Can a new Palestinian Nakba be blocked? https://t.co/xkaxKcFgf2
The camp of resistance and resistance calls for generalisation of the moment of October 7 and taking it to victory. This camp is far from reality and has a heavy price paid by the Palestinian people, especially after the failure of the unity of the squares. Oppose to Israel’s fear: “There is no need for peace, the army of Israel can protect the State of Israel without it, and forever the Palestinian people can be controlled and persecuted while Israel thrives by their side…and the settlements also guard and protect Israel
October 7 was an unprecedented event summarised by Israeli journalist Nahum Bernia in Yedioth Ahronoth by saying: “There was a great insult like no other witnessed by the Israeli army, an intelligence insult, an insult in the ease of entry of Hamas, an insult in the ease of return in the company of prisoners and hostages, and an insult in the slowness with which the army responded to the incursions.”
In addition, the failure of the Iron Dome and the latest and most expensive spy systems in the world, the penetration of the huge and expensive wall from below and above the ground, and the emergence of high Palestinian capabilities in planning, implementation and coordination between various units, as happens in modern armies.
The invincible army, the invincible, and the intelligence that foresees the danger from all parties and equipped with the latest spy devices, did not foresee anything. A wall that is protected from above and below the ground, equipped with electronic sensors, cameras and guard towers, does not protect. The Iron Dome, which destroys the missiles before they reached their targets, let the missiles cross the atmosphere and beyond down to the Israeli depth. The capture of soldiers and officers is mass-checked, including the capture of high military ranks as opposed to the “Hanibal protocol.” This shocking and sudden change that caused Israel to come down from its tops, happened for hours, for a day or a few days, then the wounded genie came out of the bottle, and the Israeli security and political institutions woke up from their slumber to begin the most heinous killing in the Gaza Strip.
What happened on October 7 has a symbolic and moral meaning that far exceeds what has been achieved in practice against an institution that is proud of a surplus of enormous and decisive deterrence force. What made a military organisation – Hamas – defies Israeli deterrence from within a tight siege, and penetrates the security system and inflicts great losses on it, can hold the countries that have accepted the superiority and the absolute strength of Israeli deterrence until they recalculate, why not a country with the weight of Egypt does not offer to reconsider the provisions of the unjust peace treaties at the least, and return to compete for a regional role!
The most dangerous meaning of the “flood” was to question the saying that Israel is “the safest place for Jews around the world.” Touching this saying would bring about a shift in an essential component of the Zionist strategy, entitled the preponding of immigration and departure on the scale of immigration in the short and perhaps medium term, and the indication is that most of the Ukrainian refugees who fled the war in their country to Israel have returned to Ukraine.
The flood has another meaning narrated by Ehud Barak saying: “On October 7, the state’s contract with its citizens collapsed, which is at its centre the duty of the state to ensure their security. The hypothesis that Hamas was an asset was backed up by $1.5 billion, and that power was a burden collapsed. And the hypothesis that the path of peace is open with the Arab world and closed with the Palestinians has collapsed.”
What happened on October 7 realistically and symbolically does not pose an existential threat to a militarily superior state with a nuclear arsenal, protected by American fleets. The contrived and amplified existential threat is related to the Israeli public’s confidence in the dominant institutional roles in Israeli psychology. And perhaps the shake-up of American and European confidence in the Israeli career role. Amplifying the existential threat comes to justify the war of extermination against 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the threat of the presence of the Palestinian people in their homeland.
In response to the shake-up of the doctrine of superiority and deterrence, the Israeli security and political establishment shred away from its toes, and invoked all elements of power, anger, punishment, revenge, revenge and destruction to rebuild the power of deterrence and the arrogance of power. From the first day, Netanyahu and the staff of his army declared a state of emergency and war, and the hellish war machine began to invade the Gaza Strip, and warplanes have not stopped dropping bombs and missiles with hundreds of tons of explosives to destroy towers, homes and markets since October 7, leaving
More than 16,000 dead before the truce ends. More than 45 percent of urban areas in the Gaza Strip were destroyed and 1.7 million citizens were displaced from the north to the south of the Strip, and hospitals, Red Crescent buildings and cars, civil Defence equipment as well as government schools, UNRWA, communications and the banking system were not delivered. The war machine has decommissioned all infrastructure and is unable to perform its humanitarian and service functions, threatening to collapse the structure of society.
Netanyahu invoked everything in his arsenal against the Palestinian people, starting with his 2.3 million citizens calling to leave their homes, in an explicit call for displacement. Passing through the announcement of Israeli Defence Minister Yoaf Galant of collective punishments against citizens, when he said: We impose a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip, no electricity, no food, no water and no fuel, everything is closed, and he described the Palestinians as “human monsters” and we act accordingly.” This is how the highest military official derogates from the rules of war set out in the Geneva Conventions IV and their Protocols. Others called for “returning the Gaza Strip to the Stone Age.”
An existential danger letter
Netanyahu’s government portrayed Hamas as an existential threat that threatens Israel through its policies, ideology and practice on October 7, likened it to the Islamic State (ISIS), and other times likened it to the Nazis, and this came in conjunction with waging the most brutal and destructive wars. It is remarkable that the Netanyahu government integrated the people in the Gaza Strip with the existential threat that threatens Israel and considered him responsible for the actions of Hamas.
MK Riftal Gotlev called for the use of a nuclear bomb on Gaza. “Gaza will be levelled with the ground and turned into a city of tents,” an Israeli army official told Channel 13. Alon Ben-David said in Maariv, “We are at war on existence, if we do not win and decide in it, we will not be able to exist in this place.”
Removing the existential threat means resolving the battle, by annihilating the infrastructure, that is, destroying most of the built-built area in the north of the Gaza Strip – Shujaiya, all of Gaza City, Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and expelling Hamas along with many. When troops intervene, there will be no buildings or civilians on the ground, Ben-David explains.
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyaho reiterated the call for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on the Gaza Strip, and former General Giora Island, former head of the National Security Council, stressed the displacement of all Gazans to Egypt or to the Gulf. For this to happen, every building, including the schools and hospitals under which Hamas headquarters is located, must be considered a military target, and every vehicle in the sector must be considered a military vehicle to transport fighters and it does not matter if the vehicles are to transport water or other vital supplies.
The above, to name a number of threats and threats of hatred and incitement to ethnic cleansing of 2.3 million citizens first and later for most Palestinians, and the practice of collective punishment in the form of genocide classified as crimes against humanity. And the threat is starting to translate horrible. A war of extermination that undermines the existence of a people on their homeland, launched under the item “Israel’s right to defend itself”, a right echoed by the countries of America, Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Canada and others, and although it links this right to respect for international law, but it overlooks the practical Israeli translation of that right against international law, and continues to secure the political cover of “Israel’s right” to turn the Gaza Strip into ruin over the heads of its citizens.
Why did the explosion happen
Israel, the Biden administration, the circles of the West and all those concerned with the file of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict were surprised by what happened on October 7, which came as the culmination of shifts in the Palestinian popular position, and the increasing change in political polarisation, due to Israel’s insistence on excluding the resolution of this conflict from all existing and potential Arab-Israeli agreements and treaties. Netanyahu was boasting of the generalisation of agreements with other Arab and Islamic countries, while a premeditated refusal to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as the core of the conflict in the Middle East. Therefore, other regional understandings between Israel and Turkey, the negotiation of the Iranian nuclear, as well as the agreement on the demarkation of the Lebanese maritime borders, are devoid of reference to the resolution of this conflict.
Israeli governments, especially the Netanyahu government, since 2009, have promoted the saying that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is unsolvable and the maximum that can be done is to reduce tension and improve the conditions of economic life of the population, with the support or complicity of the American and European Union administrations who stopped putting forward a political process, and left Netanyahu as the only player for Netanyahu, while the systematic Israeli action continues to undermine the elements of the Palestinian political entity by writing off any political solution to the conflict and the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, settler invasion, the practice of “ethnic cleansing” in Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and the province of Hebron, the piracy of mosque clearing funds and the practice of a financial blockade in which Arab countries participate, and the abuse of sanctities, especially Al-Aqsa, as well as attempts Frantic to break the will of the captives. All powers of the Palestinian Authority were removed, except for “security coordination.”
All this has created a crisis of confidence and an increasing popular dissociation from the authority, the organisation and the Fatah movement, a break that led to more political and representative disintegration, and opened the doors to international and regional interventions in Palestinian affairs and destiny. In the end, Israel and the Biden administration wanted to turn the Palestinian cause from a cause of national liberation and self-determination to “securing better living conditions for the Palestinians” by words alone. In the absence of a democratic national movement – within the framework of Palestinian legitimacy, the Palestine Liberation Organisation – has the initiative, and answers thorny questions in the political, economic and militant field, a growing political vacuum occurred, so Hamas and Islamic Jihad moved to fill it by offering the option of “resistance” in the West Bank, with political and financial support from the Iranian regional axis that captured the oppression of the Palestinian people, independently of supporting the liberation of the Palestinian people and their salvation from the occupation, only claiming the ability to “destroy of Israel”, which intersects with the inevitability of Israel’s demise according to political Islam, and both of them know that destruction and extinction belong to the world of imagination.
The Iranian undeclared goal is to use the geopolitically precious Palestinian paper to pressure and improve the positions and shares of the Iranian regime in the region in the direct and medium term in isolation from Palestinian achievements that lead to salvation from occupation and self-determination.
Iran’s use of Palestinian resistance for reasons of strengthening its influence and regional position intersects with the unbridled popular Palestinian desire to seek a saviour – that is, a saviour – in the terms of Israeli oppression, humiliation and oppression of the vast majority of the Palestinian people.
In the trade-off between the choice of resistance with its symbolism and charm – despite its randomness and primitiveness and its transformation of the Palestinian public into a fan instead of a participant in other forms of resistance, and between the choice of the authority and the political organisation that no longer convinces anyone, and accompanied by a clear economic deficit, the social elites and the general mood sided with the resistance, and its choice in the West Bank after the sector won with Iranian support, resistance without the minimum ingredients, and without an emancipatory project that is applicable in a near and medium time frame and has the support of a camp of friends, countries and peoples.
The option of resistance in the West Bank was put forward in an improvised manner that is floating in its goals and encased in a religious ideology that is in harmony with the populist mood. Hamas had no choice but to seize power, representation and the official decision, that was…