We Will Continue to Strike the Walls of the Reservoir Even If Our Hands Are Bloodied
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We Will Continue to Strike the Walls of the Reservoir Even If Our Hands Are Bloodied

After the extent of Trump’s false promises to stop wars, especially the genocide against the Gaza Strip, has been revealed, Netanyahu's illusions of achieving what he calls absolute victory have been revived. This victory means eradicating the idea of resistance, not just its weapons and infrastructure, and subjecting the Palestinian people to plans to liquidate their cause. To achieve this, the rulers of Tel Aviv have been striving for the past twenty months to destroy all the components of human life in the Gaza Strip, paving the way for the implementation of plans for collective forced displacement. This has also revived the project to resettle the Strip by the fascist settlement current led by "Smotrich and Ben-Gvir."

The Illusion of Absolute Victory: Between the Genocide of Gaza and Displacement Plans

After months of negotiations that were clearly, in Netanyahu's view, just a means to recover the largest number of prisoners held by the resistance factions, in addition to buying time—not only for Netanyahu to remain in power but also because he believes it is necessary to wear down the resistance and exhaust its ability to withstand and confront to subordinate it to his terms, and to continue genocidal actions in a gradual manner, benefiting from international and regional silence and complicity, especially from American protection, which has utilized all its energy to contain any change in international positions. This includes dismantling the capacity of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to prosecute war criminals or obstructing the international system from taking any binding decision to halt the war, in addition to all forms of military, financial, political, and media support that have not stopped for a moment.

A Double American Deception

Despite Netanyahu's blatant failure to honor the January agreement, which was overseen by the Biden and Trump administrations before he entered the White House, neither Trump nor his envoys moved a muscle. This suggests that the purpose of that agreement was to pass the deception of promises made by the new occupant of the White House and to gradually pave the way for the open and complete adoption of the Israeli plan to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

Trump's Sanctions: A Stark Hostility Against Our People

This is confirmed by the positions of the Trump administration not only regarding the Israeli conditions in dealing with the genocide but also, and perhaps more dangerously, the identical positions of Trump's envoys with the occupation government regarding the future of the West Bank and the status of the PLO and the Palestinian National Authority. This has recently culminated in the imposition of additional American sanctions on the organization and, for the first time, on the Palestinian Authority itself. This indicates a convergence with Smotrich in his punitive measures against the authority and the seizure of Palestinian people's funds, in addition to all the measures this administration has taken, including the cancellation of the symbolic "sanctions" that the Biden administration had previously imposed on some settlers for their acts classified as terrorism, which were established by the fascist Kahane and its leaders who are now at the helm of the government and control its overall policy.

The obvious question is whether there is any difference between the positions of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir and those of Trump's ambassador to Tel Aviv, Mike Huckabee? What unites them is the insistence on denying the existence of the Palestinian people and the absolute refusal to empower them to exercise their right to self-determination in this land. If that is the case, then should the officials of the authority and some businessmen explain to the bloodied people, bruised by genocide, ethnic cleansing, and annexation, the motives behind the meeting with this ambassador who has surpassed Kahane in his positions?

Unprecedented American-Israeli Convergence
 
The declared policy of the Trump administration may not differ much from the premises of the previous administration, but the current strategic alignment between the Tel Aviv government and the Trump administration is unprecedented in the history of relations between the two countries and the overall trajectory of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This policy is what stands behind and encourages the scenarios adopted by Netanyahu, including the sudden pretense of what is called a comprehensive deal, which the resistance presented at the beginning of the war, provided a comprehensive halt to it. However, Netanyahu, along with Yitzhak, in this deceptive maneuver, is redefining the conditions for total surrender, not to stop the war but to complete the realization of its objectives, as indicated at the beginning of this article. It also attempts to absorb some shifts in international positions and contain them by throwing the ball back into the court of the Palestinian resistance, as if it were responsible for the continuation of genocide and famine.

The Democratic Front has rightly done well to announce its rejection of the "National Council Elections" decree before the end of the year without dialogue and comprehensive national consensus, as well as its position regarding the decree to form the preparatory committee, and the legitimate demands contained in both positions that set a limit to proceeding with the policy of loyalty and exclusion. We hope this position will be translated into serious practical steps in this direction. The question is, what are the positions of the other silent forces until now?

National Representation Between Domestic Exclusion and Foreign Impositions

In front of this picture that places us all before a clear mirror, without any dust, that Tel Aviv, along with Washington, does not only abolish Oslo but also the authority that still insists on implementing all its obligations under that dead agreement by Israeli decree, especially its security commitments without any reciprocal obligation whatsoever; is it not right for us to ask about the implications of proceeding with the policy of exclusion and the continuing engineering of representative frameworks, while what is needed is to restore real and comprehensive representation of the components of the Palestinian people in these frameworks?! And does the revival of talk about the National Council elections contribute to restoring credit to the institutions of national unity, or is it a deepening of adaptation to external requirements that have failed even to provide water and medicine to the children of Gaza, for us to believe that they will be able to impose a two-state solution? On one hand, and on the other hand, is it not time for the political leadership of the Palestinian resistance factions to confront the Palestinian people with their vision for confronting the nefarious plots of Washington and Tel Aviv? And do they have anything that could achieve a breakthrough in this vicious cycle that is tightening around our people and national cause? Once again, this is not a call for the resistance to surrender nor to betray the leadership of the authority, but rather a cry that I think ignites the mind of every free Palestinian who cares about the future and fate of our people in this land.

Is There a Genuine Lesson to Be Learned?

Do the two sides of the Palestinian situation have a vision that can lead us not only out of the bottleneck but also from this vicious cycle that does not involve a consensus on a shared vision and transitional frameworks capable of extracting us from this catastrophic quagmire, and liberating those entrenched on both sides of the division from the absurdities of the scene and its dangers? The peoples of the world have come to see Palestine and its freedom and the dignity of its people as a symbol of human justice, not only in the struggle against unbridled unipolarity but also for justice against the savagery in the homelands of these peoples themselves. We must decide and choose our position: is it to continue chasing the mirage and the crumbs of the perpetrators of genocide and those who stand behind them? Or are we an integral part of the stream of justice and human dignity, and what that requires of intellectual, cultural, and political entitlements that go beyond what we have inherited of sins over the past decades?

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