The Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, said that Gaza has brought down every Israeli political figure that launched aggression against it, indicating that the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will join those who preceded him.
Barghouti explained – in his speech to the program “Gaza… What Next?” – that Gaza overthrew Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, indicating that some of them fell because they failed and others fell because they became deterred, and he stressed that Netanyahu is on the same path. .
Barghouti’s comment came in light of the questioning of the realism of the goals of the Israeli war on Gaza, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of the promise to end the threat of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the 2008 war.
He pointed out that Gaza is a chronic knot and a major dilemma for Israel, after the latter launched wars against it in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2021 and 2023, stressing that the resistance of the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem and their insistence on achieving freedom is the major knot for Tel Aviv.
He stressed that Israeli leaders did not succeed in achieving their goals in previous wars, and their failure was repeated because they “did not understand the will of a Palestinian people determined to live, and the will of a fighter willing to make sacrifices to surrender.”
He added, “They did not uproot the resistance and failed to extend their control previously. They are now unable to recover the prisoners by force, and they failed with the ethnic cleansing plan because of the steadfastness of the Palestinians.”
He pointed out that Israel is in a state of confusion and failure in light of the great human and economic losses and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Israelis from the southern and northern fronts, in addition to the global transformation that has placed Tel Aviv and Washington in a state of isolation.
“Leadership crisis”
For his part, Israeli affairs expert Ihab Jabareen said that Israel had entered the Gaza war in late 2008 “to achieve security calm, harm Hamas’ military capacity, and return the captured soldier Gilad Shalit.”
He noted that Israel does not believe that the aggression against Gaza makes the security situation more tense, but it is trying to win the votes of the Israeli street. “The electoral consideration was present in every aggression, just as Olmert was conducting the 2008-2009 war under retaliatory conditions following his resignation shortly before the aggression.”
In the current war, Jabareen believes that the Israeli military security level is more realistic than the political one, recalling the statements of Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy compared to what Netanyahu always says and repeats.
It is believed that the leadership crisis in Israel has existed since 2009, as no personality has been able to provide any solutions or achieve achievements since Hamas was nascent in its control of the Gaza Strip and its missiles did not exceed 30 kilometers.