5/30/2024–|Last updated: 5/30/202407:21 PM (Mecca time)
Haaretz newspaper published an article by political analyst Dalia Scheindlin in which she discussed the massacre committed by the occupation army, last Sunday, in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, which led to the death and injury of dozens of Palestinian civilians.
She said that dozens of Palestinians were burned in a raid that aimed to “kill two officials of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Tel Sultan neighborhood,” while its leaders – whom it accuses of launching the October 7 attack on Israel – are still alive “and enjoying In good health, the Israeli prisoners are dying.”
About 35 Palestinians were martyred and dozens of others were injured in the Israeli raid on the displaced persons’ camp in the neighborhood northwest of Rafah, which the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip described as a full-fledged massacre that resulted in many cases of amputations and severe burns, and the victims were women and children.
Netanyahu is terrified
Scheindlin added that it is self-evident that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refrains from presenting his vision of what the “next day” will be like, because he fears the fall of his government if he hints at ending the war, noting that there are much deeper reasons than that.
The first of these reasons are questions about the future of the situation that require making decisions that will chart Israel’s path for years to come.
The second reason – in her opinion – is not related to the future, but rather to the past. “Throughout its history, Israel has achieved its most far-reaching, wrong, and ultimately self-destructive goals by obfuscating and pretending not to make a decision.”
Scheindlin considered that indecisiveness is a remarkably consistent feature in the history of Israeli policy-making, and this was evident in the failure to make a decision on Israel’s final borders, which led to expansion and the occupation of Arab lands in the wars of 1948 and 1967.
She explained that the failure to take a decision on the Israeli constitutional system or “legalization of rights” in 1949 means that Israel did not commit to equality among citizens in primary legislation, and did not provide citizens for decades with any protection for human rights and civil liberties, or against an extremely powerful and unrestrained executive authority. so far.
However, the position – which Israel considers to be the most famous writer – regarding which Israel did not take a decision was its behavior in the lands it occupied in 1967, and this situation continued until the first negotiations to establish a Palestinian state in 2000, that is, after 3 decades of consolidating settlement and infrastructure. In fact, this pattern continues. With the failure of peace negotiations.
Perpetuating the occupation
As the occupation “consolidated and sustained, the peace process faded until it finally died” with the last serious negotiations in 2014, and by then, Netanyahu had tightened his grip on the country, Scheindlin says.
In her article, the political analyst asked what Israel actually wants from the lands it occupies, claiming that this is what anxious observers, including diaspora Jews, were wondering.
“Is Netanyahu’s government moving towards one state and ceasing to be democratic through its permanent control of Palestinians deprived of their rights?” the writer wonders.
She criticized Netanyahu’s positions, and said that for most of the period from 2009 to 2019, he was not saying anything, except for his barely accepting a Palestinian state, using very urgent phrases in one speech in 2009, a position that Sheindlin considered fleeting, as he quickly nullified it with his own policies.
The next day
The latest Netanyahu government soon unveiled its positions when it unveiled its basic principles by declaring that the Jews alone own all the land, including “Judea and Samaria,” that is, from the river to the sea, according to a Haaretz article.
Sheindlin went on to ask: “Will the war end? How? What will happen next? Where should Israel and the Palestinians go in the future to ensure that this hell will never happen again?” She added that every question carries with it a choice and an answer.
She described the conversations circulating around the world about “the next day” as irrelevant if the war continues indefinitely.
The next big question is what happens next, she said, noting that Netanyahu’s only vision for Gaza the day after the war includes two “flimsy, fanciful” documents that envision an indefinite Israeli military presence without any coherent idea of governance.
She believed that the only approach was some form of international intervention. It is not a coincidence that international intervention – as a general principle – was proposed or supported by two members of the Israeli war cabinet, Defense Minister Yoav Galant and Minister in the war cabinet Benny Gantz.
Sheindlin concluded that all these paths are nothing more than pipe dreams, and may never be achieved in a satisfactory or ideal way, because the world is not perfect, but she expects that the “Netanyahu regime” will wake up one day, and therefore, plans must be made for the future. Best prepared, she said.
