Gaza: Scavengers prepare to share their prey before finishing it off
The war of extermination waged by the Israeli occupation army in Gaza has just entered its twelfth month. 50,000 dead and missing, two-thirds of whom are women and children, have not been enough to quench the thirst for archaic vengeance that drives the leaders of the State that the mainstream media presents as the only “democratic” fortress in a barbaric Middle East.
Calls for a ceasefire to allow the exchange of prisoners launched by the international community have remained unanswered, as the impunity enjoyed by the State of Israel appears to be an encouragement to continue a murderous war, the strategic and political relevance of which in the medium term is doubted by most Israeli analysts themselves, including former heads of the Mossad and the Shabak.
The Biden Administration, anxious to save the campaign of the Democratic candidate for the American elections next November, Kamala Harris, has visibly sought to impose a temporary ceasefire on conditions very favorable to Israel seems to have thrown in the towel and no longer has any illusions about the possibility of stopping the war before the American election. Worse, the Biden Administration knows full well that Netanyahu is trying to gain time by hoping for the arrival in power of the Republican candidate Donald Trump, who is considered to be more favorable to the position of the Israeli extremists who no longer hide their desire to expel as many Palestinians as possible from Gaza and the West Bank to give substance to the old Zionist dream of a greater Israel. But it can do nothing against the Netanyahu government, which in turn cannot disappoint its far-right ministers.
For the time being, the Americans do not hide the fact that their only concern remains to avoid the regional extension of the war. They are throwing all their weight to prevent the deterioration of relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors (Egypt, Jordan) from leading to the collapse of the Separate Peace Accords following the appearance of warning signs of a mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, which constitutes a serious cause for concern for the Egyptian and Jordanian regimes.
To save their latest ceasefire plan presented to the Israelis and the Egyptian and Qatari mediators, the Americans are seeking to reassure both sides by proposing that the Philadelphia Corridor that separates Egypt from the Gaza Strip, and which is currently occupied by the Israeli army, in violation of the Camp David Accords, be “managed” by an international force under the leadership of the Emiratis. This plan coincides with the American desire to replace the Hamas government in Gaza with a puppet Palestinian Authority composed of 3,000 men led by the sulphurous Mohamed Dahlan who currently lives in Dubai and who could have the approval of the Israeli occupier. The international “peacekeeping” force that would come to support this new order in Gaza will be composed of soldiers from several Arab countries (having normalized their relations with Israel) and European countries (most likely Eastern European countries at the mercy of NATO and Israel).
These diabolical plans, which constitute a political and diplomatic extension of the ongoing war of extermination in Gaza, have been disrupted by a new situation that the Israelis and their American protectors did not expect and which is beginning to seriously worry them: the awakening of the Palestinians in the West Bank, which is causing fears of a new intifada that would in fact constitute a new front that would be added to the Gaza front and would thus create difficulties for the Israeli occupation army, which must also take into account the Lebanese front. This explains the intensity with which the Israeli army has been suppressing, for more than two weeks, the first signs of an armed popular insurrection in the West Bank.
While the military balance of power in Gaza and the West Bank is not in doubt, as the Israeli occupation army can count on the unconditional support of the world’s leading military power, and while nothing should be expected from other international powers and states in the region, which are torn between treachery and Realpolitik, the fact remains that the explosive contradictions that the policy of extermination of a state that has now fallen under the influence of extremist and supremacist parties are developing risk transforming the regional order, of which the Palestinian people are the main victim, into a veritable powder keg.
Today, the greatest paradox of this terrible war that is taking place with the tacit complicity of the entire international community can only be stopped by the Israelis themselves and more particularly by an Israeli civil society – as evidenced by the latest demonstration in favor of a ceasefire in which nearly 500,000 Israelis participated – worried about its future and which seems to benefit from the active support of part of the army general staff, the Mossad and the Shabak and their allies within the American administration.
But in any case, the Palestinians can only count on their unity and their determination to thwart the post-war plans concocted by the Americans, with the complicity of their Israeli and Arab allies, which are only the political continuation of the current war.
