Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government and demand his resignation and early elections (Anatolia)
No one would have expected that Israel, with all its power and might, with unlimited American and Western support, and official Islamic and Arab complicity, or if it believed well of official Arab disappointment, would stand helpless, helpless, even defeated, in crisis in the face of Gaza’s resistance and the steadfastness of its people and their legendary sacrifices after nearly half a year of continuous brutal bombing and siege. Unparalleled criminality, cutting off all lifelines, destroying infrastructure, and using weapons to kill through starvation and thirst, which affected the most vulnerable groups, including children and the elderly.
When Israel declared war on Gaza, it paved the way for it with feverish propaganda that carried many inaccuracies, lies, and exaggerations, such as: raping women and beheading children.
This campaign - whose echoes were deliberately and systematically echoed by Biden and other Western officials - was aimed at covering up the occupation’s transgressions and expected violations.
When Netanyahu and his government declared war on Gaza and their goals of eradicating resistance and liberating prisoners, it was expected that Gaza would not last more than a month. At that time, the world held its breath, and Gaza was left to face its fate.
Amazing valor and abilities
Everyone moved away from Gaza, even the so-called resistance axis distanced itself from it almost completely in the beginning, and its figures declared that the “Al-Aqsa Flood” decision was a purely Palestinian decision.
As for the official Arab and Islamic regime, it announced the holding of the emergency Gaza summit more than a month after the beginning of the war of extermination, as if expectations indicated that the end of the Gaza issue would be before the date of holding the summit, and as if the real and undeclared goal of that summit was to contribute to the preparation for what the Zionists called Arrangements for the next day.
The valor of the resistance, its methods, skills, high capabilities, and exceptional media, in addition to the steadfastness of the popular support despite the endless brutality and criminality of the occupation, radically changed the picture and changed the data, so that the impact of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle extended from Palestine and the region to the global scene, reformulating many concepts, and pushing for changes. It is significant in world opinion, increasing in depth and influence with the passage of time, and the inability of the Zionists to achieve even one of their many goals that they announced at the beginning of the aggression.
More than one Zionist official spoke - after weeks of failure, setbacks and mounting military losses - that the Gaza battle for the entity is a fateful and existential battle.
The occupying state took off all its gloves and dropped all its masks, and increased the pace of its crimes and violations against the Gaza Strip and its people, especially women and children, and crossed all red lines.
The lies seemed to collapse and the false propaganda was falling, and the dealings of Hamas and the resistance with the Israeli prisoners was a milestone that changed to some extent the image of the resistance fighters internationally, and showed part of their sublime humanity which the occupation tried - and still is - to strip them from them, especially at the level of international opinion.
Even Biden - who still adopted the Israeli narrative - felt embarrassed. He retreated, for example, in his questioning of the numbers of martyrs and victims, only to return recently and mention the numbers mentioned by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Allegations and blackmail
Israel built its presence in Palestine - after the Jewish myths - on the injustices inflicted on the Jews in Europe, especially at the hands of the Nazis, and the Holocaust file remained a tool of blackmail and a sword pointed at those who opposed the occupation under allegations of anti-Semitism.
Media professionals, intellectuals and academics in the West were prohibited from any scientific discussion of the Holocaust, such as the number of victims, for example, or from raising any academic questions that were inconsistent with the Israeli narrative. Many of them were prosecuted and criminalized, such as the late French philosopher Raja Garudi, who wrote a book entitled: “The Founding Myths of Israeli Policy.”
Although the news of the Jewish Holocaust has reached us through transmission and through historical sources, the Gaza Holocaust is broadcast live, and the world watches its images daily and for months, hears the groans and cries of its children, sees the remains of some of them mixed with the rubble, and the bones of others that have appeared from hunger and distress.
Netanyahu, who is in political crisis, is avoiding entering into serious negotiations that would lead to a ceasefire.
Fearing for his political future, and fearing that he would be tried on previous corruption charges.
Netanyahu is pursuing a policy of brinkmanship, rushing with unparalleled arrogance and stupidity in his deceit, crime, and massacres in Gaza.
Hoping that the popular incubator will collapse, and that the resistance will raise the white flag, after which the world and the international community will accept the victor’s justifications, even if they are trivial, and will understand his explanations, even if they are false.
Great pressure
Netanyahu did not leave a crime against humanity in Gaza without committing it inside history as one of its most prominent tyrants and criminals.
It destroyed homes, infrastructure, and schools, targeted hospitals, mosques, churches, and shelter camps, used internationally banned weapons, starved Gaza’s children, and caused many of them to die from starvation and dehydration.
The global Zionist deception - with its media tools, lobbies and influence that dominated minds in the West - was dismantled by the Gaza Holocaust, and those who claimed to be the descendants of those who were historically subjected to injustice, persecution and extermination, committed the worst crimes in a continuous and documented manner and were even broadcast on the air.
If the “Al-Aqsa Flood” brought down the myth of the invincible army, and the resistance later proved, with its modest capabilities, the weakness of this army and the weakness of its morale, values, and capabilities, then the actions and behaviors of the occupying state against Gaza and its children have undermined the moral values that the Israelis were boasting about and the deceptive talk that they The only democratic state in the region.
Events have shown and proven that those who rule Israel are a gang of barbaric killers who do not give any value or weight to human rights and dignity.
Western public opinion - especially the younger generation - has expressed, through its massive demonstrations that have not stopped and are increasing in momentum, its great opposition to the behavior and crimes of the occupying state, and its rejection of Zionist hegemony over political decision-making in their countries.
Even the Western politicians who stood fiercely with the occupation at the beginning of its aggression against Gaza found themselves embarrassed in the face of a public opinion that was overwhelming in its anger and unanimous in its rejection, so they were forced either to make a tactical retreat from supporting the occupation and its crimes, or to change the tone of their statements and the appearance of their positions.
British Prime Minister Sunak, for example, stressed during his meeting with Israeli War Council member Benny Gantz during his recent visit to London that there is great pressure from the British street and parliament regarding what is happening in the Gaza Strip.
One of the manifestations of Western and British popular anger was the victory of British politician George Galloway for a seat in the by-elections for the British House of Commons, winning 40% of the votes in the city of Rochdale, following an election campaign that focused on the Gaza Strip and his support in the face of the Israeli war.
Black record
What remains for the occupying state, and what remains of it, if its military image is shaken, the morale of its soldiers collapses, its moral record becomes black, it is pursued by human rights and humanitarian issues in international courts, the Western public position takes negative positions on it, its internal disputes deepen, and many military commanders object to the actions of the occupying state. Netanyahu and his government, and the pressure on religious people to serve in the military has intensified, while the chief Sephardic rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, threatens to send religious people out of the country if they are forced to serve in the military.
Feeling the danger of Netanyahu's policies and his government to the Jewish state and its future prompted about 550 former senior Israeli officials - who form a group calling itself "Leaders for Israel's Security" - to send a message to the war government, warning that Israel's security and strategic interests are in danger, despite Background of the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
The letter spoke of the cumulative damage to Israel's security and strategic interests.
Because of the government's policy on humanitarian aid to more than two million civilians in Gaza.
The letter stated that beyond the moral aspects, the crisis in the Gaza Strip, which is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, constitutes a threat to vital national interests, and that the harm resulting from the policy of humanitarian miserliness - such as the scandalous and irresponsible statements of ministers and members of the Knesset - undermines the foundations of security support. Israel's diplomats emanate from the capitals most important to our security.
The changes taking place in world public opinion have prompted many Jews to distance themselves from and denounce what is happening in Gaza.
Fearing for the future of Jewish communities around the world, with the spread of global anger over the crimes of the Zionists in Gaza, the rise of the right-wing movement globally, and fatigue with the lies of the Zionist narrative, which may push many to question the Zionist and Jewish historical narratives.
Fear for the future of the Jews prompted reasonable people to denounce what was happening in Gaza, and many Jewish youth even went out in demonstrations in New York and elsewhere.
In solidarity with the suffering of Gaza and Gazans.
One of the clearest images in this context is British Jewish director Jonathan Glazer’s condemnation of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, recalling during his Oscar-winning speech for the film “Area of Concern” what happened in the Holocaust, saying: “All of our choices were made to confront us in the present. We do not say: Look What they did in the past, but look at what we are doing now,” he said, adding: “We stand here now as men refuting their Judaism, and the Holocaust was kidnapped by an occupation, which led to the death of many innocent people.”
Strong Latino attitudes
The positions of countries in Latin America are strongly critical of Zionist crimes, including the harsh statements of the President of Brazil about the government of Israel, describing it as a genocidal government, while the President of Colombia indicated that what is happening in Gaza is genocide, reminiscent of the Holocaust, and it, Chile, and Brazil recalled their ambassadors from Israel, and even Bolivia went so far as to sever relations with the occupying state.
Likening what is happening in Gaza to the Holocaust - something that has been repeated even by some Western politicians - greatly disturbs the occupying state and negatively affects the historical Zionist narrative.
Arab and Islamic popular anger at Zionist crimes and at the positions of Arab and Islamic governments, which the street sees as complicit, negligent, or incapable. This anger - in addition to the difficult economic conditions in Arab countries - may ignite waves of Arab revolutions, which are expected to be characterized by violence and perhaps bloodiness.
This affects the path of normalization and peace with the occupation, if it does not threaten it existentially, especially since the positions of many Arab countries regarding the Gaza Holocaust have strengthened the convictions of many that these regimes and their armies constitute a barrier that hinders their countries from following the path of freedom, scientific progress and prosperity, and that one of the most prominent tasks of these regimes is And its armies are to protect the occupation and its leadership position in the region through declared and hidden cooperation with it, and also through suppressing peoples and depriving them of their basic rights to political participation and expressing their opinions and convictions.
The continuation of the war of extermination on Gaza, the steadfastness of the resistance, the heavy prices incurred by the Gazans, and the images of human suffering are things that are morally, politically, and militarily draining on Israel, and are expected to deepen the internal disputes between religious and secularists, and between the multiple currents within the entity.
In my estimation, Gaza, with its tremendous sacrifices and legendary steadfastness, will not only change the Palestinian scene with great strides towards liberating Palestine, but its effects and repercussions will extend to spread across the globe, marking the beginning of the decline of an entity that was based on crimes and massacres, and was founded from its first days on lies and false myths.
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