From Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s first ambiguous words, we know what awaits us now. “It was a black day. – he said as he addressed the nation about the October 7 Hamas attack – “We will clarify everything that happened.” Everyone will have to give explanations for this attack, starting with me. But only after the war. My job now is to lead the country to victory” and again: “Every Hamas fighter is a dead man,” forgetting what this means for the Israeli hostages in the hands of the Islamist movement.
But does the Israeli wartime government really want to free the hostages or is it thinking about putting an end to the whole thing, as happened in Munich?
Of course, the Hamas fighters responsible for the bloody massacre of October 7th may eliminate them all, but it is not easy to imagine these frightened, dust and blood-stained children in the rubble of Gaza as “dialogues” without To imagine memory and anger in ten years. .
After the Israeli army’s announcement in recent days that the invasion has been “postponed”, even with the first attack – “revenge begins” – in these hours it seems to be confirmed that we do not have 300,000 Israeli soldiers with an invasion Two thousand tanks armed the strip, fighting door-to-door in an urban war that was uncertain for any army.
And that is because the “invasion” has already taken place and continues every day: it is the war of air strikes that kills and terrorizes the civilian population of more than two million people, who are relocated at will to areas that are supposedly unaffected Then they are relentlessly targeted as the cities are razed – Beit Hanoun no longer exists – and Gaza City is now a battlefield and a pile of rubble where hundreds of thousands of desperate families wander in search of food, water and medicine – Without communication, the meager, non-existent help from Rafah was also interrupted.
The editors recommend: There is deafening silence on the Strip
Who said: “Food and water as a weapon of war is a crime”? It was President Mattarella, who may still not risk ending up like Guterres. The massacre of the expected “invasion” is already before the eyes of the world: there are 7,703 civilian victims, including 3,595 children.
Is this the “proportionate and appropriate measure” to respond to the Hamas massacre, or are we, as is credible, heading towards ten thousand civilian deaths in passive silence and general chatter?
Instead, we are dealing with targeted land operations by special forces, the majority of the “revenge for the victory” is already taking place through the bombings with many “collateral losses,” comments the Almirantine Meloni, who outrageously announces in the microphones that she has the European Council on Thursday presented nothing less than the idea of “two peoples and two states” and that we must now “give support to the PNA”.
All we needed was the announcement of a “Mattei plan” for Gaza. Because if we do not say that Olso’s “two peoples, two states” perspective, which was already ambiguous in the wording of the agreements, was gradually eliminated and made impossible after the assassination of Rabin by a Jewish extremist (not Hamas). the identity decisions of Israeli governments, most notably Netanyahu with the support of the United States, who, after his 2006 election victory in both Gaza and the West Bank, initiated a policy of isolation and boycott at all levels in the Gaza Strip given the fact that there are so many in the West Bank colonial settlements, that the possibility of territorial continuity of a state no longer exists, we are at the mercy of a meaningless proclamation.
How pointless it is to “give support to the Palestinian Authority” without seeing how its authority and credibility among the Palestinians have been destroyed due to its immobility, subordination and ultimately corruption.
Above all, the longer the massacre in Gaza lasts, the less possible it will be to find moderate Palestinian interlocutors.
The catastrophe in Oslo also poses questions for us: It is now becoming increasingly clear that even there, in the midst of pogroms and massacres, revenge and rubble, it is no longer about the claim to state security, nor about Israel’s military power, which is already considered State exists and nuclear power is among the most important in the world, even for the Palestinians without a state or nation; The ray of hope that comes from the concrete assessment that Israel’s economy is spiraling out of control without Palestinian (and foreign) workers shows us that the prospect of a class struggle is emerging, a social struggle for equality and rights towards a substantive democracy , which only takes place in large spaces, beyond old and new borders and walls, even those of the Middle East. Without forgetting that the movement for democracy in Israel is destined to become radicalized.
In the meantime, however, it is paradoxical that the Israeli government-turned-war cabinet is based on this evil principle of “revenge for victory,” in the face of an Israeli public opinion that is already denouncing the responsibility of Netanyahu and the military.
Those who are there know that sooner or later they will have to give account, but “at the end of the war”: it can therefore be assumed that the war will last a long time.
In Israel, it is clear that Netanyahu will be held responsible for the role assigned to Hamas and that the army will have to answer for its negligence and acquiescence to the prime minister, who wanted to move men and equipment as well as intelligence services to the occupied West Bank to support Hamas Desires of the extreme right that protects illegal colonies.
And this apparent ambiguity, supported by public opinion and the national mood hurt by Hamas’s criminal attack, bases its credibility on the extent of the damage it can inflict on the enemy. That is, about the destruction of Gaza as an “absolute evil”, not even by Hamas, and about the siege of the Palestinians, seized due to hunger and thirst and now to be “eliminated”, but given the fact that Egypt and Jordan refuse this welcome and it is certain that they will not return to their homeland, their homes no longer exist.
A horror. At the request of the moderate Jordan, which has so far been the reference point of the “Abrahamic Pact”, the majority of the UN General Assembly is calling for at least a continuation of the ceasefire. The USA and Israel appear “isolated” and vote against, Europe is divided, France, Spain and Portugal vote for, Germany and Italy abstain; Angry Tel Aviv ambassador thunders “black day”.
The abyss of collective punishment continues, it is a war crime. But until “victory”.