The Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouti, did not rule out that the situation in the Palestinian Territories would head towards a full-fledged popular uprising as a result of the Israeli wave of escalation, which Joel Rubin, the former US Assistant Deputy Secretary of State, said was worrying Washington.
6 Palestinians were killed and 16 others were wounded by the Israeli occupation bullets in a military operation carried out in the Jenin camp, which was condemned by the National Liberation Movements (Fatah), the Islamic Resistance Movements (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad, stressing that it will not succeed in breaking the will of the Palestinian people, and that it will increase the resistance action in all its aspects. areas of the West Bank.
According to Barghouti, the Israeli escalation reflects the frustration of the Israeli government and its despair in breaking the Palestinian resistance, and that the Palestinians are in a deep and violent struggle with the occupation and with the Zionist movement insisting on Judaization, annexation, and the imposition of a system of slavery and apartheid, a struggle that can only be confronted with Palestinian unity and unified leadership on the strategy of resistance. By abandoning the approach of negotiations and compromise.
Al-Barghouti added - in his interview with the episode (3/7/2023) of the "Beyond the News" program - that the Palestinian National Authority's going to the last Aqaba meeting was a mistake, and it should not repeat it in Sharm el-Sheikh, because such meetings give cover to what he called fascist criminals. .
For his part, the researcher specialized in Israeli affairs, Ihab Jabarin, saw that the Israeli wave of escalation aims through which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aims to cover up his abject failure on 5 fronts;
The most prominent of which is security, and he is betting on the entire Israeli establishment and the Palestinian scene for personal ambitions related to the judicial prosecutions he is exposed to.
He believed that Netanyahu, despite the current escalation, fears entering into a comprehensive confrontation with the Palestinian resistance.
Washington is trying to calm down
As for the former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, he spoke about the US administration's concern about the current wave of escalation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and said that it seeks calm through the Aqaba meeting and the upcoming meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and he did not hide his country's fear of the situation getting out of control, and described the situation that it is on the brink of explosion, and that the parties to the obstacle must agree on "concrete steps" to calm the situation.
The Palestinian and Israeli sides agreed at the Aqaba meeting - which was held last month, in the presence of representatives of the United States, Jordan and Egypt - to support confidence-building steps to address outstanding issues through direct dialogue, while more than one Israeli official confirmed after the meeting that there would be no settlement freeze in the West Bank. Occupied West.
On the other hand, the American guest acknowledged that the leadership of the Israeli government is extremist, and that the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, is making a more hostile response, but he also described the actions of the Palestinian resistance as "terrorism", which made Barghouti object to his words and respond to him by saying that the occupation and what Israel practices It is terrorism, as well as what the US army did in Iraq.