Gideon Rachman, senior commentator in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Financial Times, said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strategy to secure Israel's future and bring it out of its isolation by establishing diplomatic relations with the Gulf states and marginalizing the Palestinian cause has proven its failure, and it has proven not a substitute for reaching a fair settlement. With the Palestinians.
Rachman pointed out that Netanyahu has achieved a historic achievement in Israel's relations with the Arab world, as the "Abraham Agreements" helped to normalize relations between it and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and it seemed that Israel during his era lived in peace and prospered and emerged from its international isolation.
Rushman says that Netanyahu's strategy to secure the future of Israel collapsed last week, with the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontations that began in Jerusalem, the firing of rockets at Israeli cities, the Israeli bombing of Gaza, and the outbreak of violent clashes between Palestinians and Jews in many Israeli cities, and it turned out that the Israeli Prime Minister's hope is to marginalize the issue. The Palestinian is just an illusion.
The writer believed that, with the encouragement of the Trump administration, the Netanyahu government pursued what some have called a strategy to solve the conflict "from the outside in," which is the idea that Israel should seek to conclude agreements with the outside world, especially the Arab world, to help solve Its internal conflict with the Palestinians.
According to the writer, this strategy contradicts the traditional approach to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which is based on the belief that Israel must first secure a settlement with the Palestinians before achieving a lasting peace with neighboring countries and the international community accepting it.
According to the writer, the Netanyahu administration was hoping that denying the Palestinians Arab and international support would weaken the will of the Palestinian resistance, and thus lead to the world's forgetting of the issue, allowing Israel to impose its conditions on the weak and divided Palestinian people.
He said that the Gaza rockets raining down on Israeli cities inflicted massive damage not only on property and citizens, but also on Netanyahu's strategy, as the hope now that his policies will succeed in marginalizing the Palestinian cause seems absurd.
International condemnations of Israeli practices have been renewed, due to the fall of large numbers of civilians in Gaza, including many children, and it is unlikely that Israel will achieve further diplomatic successes in light of the current situation, according to the author.
Rachman pointed to the brutal clashes between the Jews and the Palestinians of the interior, who make up 20% of the population of Israel, and which led to the transfer of the conflict to within the borders of Israel itself, amid fears of the possibility of civil war.
He explained that the main flaw in Netanyahu's strategy is that it is based on the assumption that Palestinian despair will lead to achieving calm, and the truth is that the increasing boldness of the extreme Israeli right, and his determination to move forward with annexing more Palestinian lands and property, provided the spark that ignited the last war.
The writer concluded that Netanyahu's supporters were proud of that his diplomatic strategy provides a way out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which does not require painful concessions by Israel on the land and the rights of the Palestinians, but Netanyahu's way out of the conflict now appears deadlocked and dangerous.