Netanyahu and the Statistics!

Author: عبد المجيد سويلم

Before I decide to stop counting behind the Prime Minister of extermination, Benjamin Netanyahu, regarding the last battle that will settle the barbaric war once and for all, or the final step before its resolution, or just days away from a crushing victory, or the final phase for the complete extermination of "Hamas" forces, or the last meters, the last battalion, the last tunnels, and the last remaining leaders... Before all of that and after it, I think Netanyahu needs someone to refresh his memory, not just personally, but also all those surrounding him from political, military, and security leaders, in addition to dozens of journalists from Israeli channels, and columnists who have repeated these sentences and paragraphs verbatim to the Israeli audience every single time, with just a few days apart. It was truly astonishing how forgetful they were when I decided to stop counting, as the last battles, the last meters, the last phase before the final resolution, and the absolute victory had reached 16 announcements. I now remember how some of us almost believed Netanyahu about the imminent hour of resolution, achieving the decisive victory and ending the war in this manner. Large media apparatuses participated in promoting this illusion and managed to blind vast Israeli sectors in the early months of the bloody war on the Gaza Strip, and this illusion infiltrated significant sectors within the Arab street, let alone promoting this illusion and others in the Arab media, and in "Western" media as well. We now recall the lie of the Shifa Hospital, then the rest of the hospitals, and we remember the Beit Hanoun brigade, then the Jabalia brigades, then the Shuja'iyya battalions, then Khan Younis, its east and south, then Rafah as the last remaining stronghold, then returning to Khan Younis, and even returning to northern Gaza... and so on for more than 22 months of "resolution" battles and "resolution" meters, and "resolution" tunnels, without any resolution being achieved except for one matter, which has been completely resolved: that there is no room for any resolution. According to Netanyahu, the resolution will be through "occupying" what remains of the Gaza Strip, especially the complete occupation of the city of Gaza and the central camps. If a person is mentally and emotionally balanced, they should ask themselves the following question: Does Netanyahu have a specific definition for resolution? Resolution of what exactly? The occupation by itself has not been resolved, is not being resolved now, and will not be resolved in the future. On the contrary, what I see here is that the occupation of what remains of the Gaza Strip is the direct entry point for non-resolution. The occupation army will need thousands of soldiers fighting in the alleys, or what remains of them, facing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of fighters who excel in this type of combat and know how to pounce on the occupation forces, relying on their "geographical" knowledge of the area, its entrances, its corridors, and its tunnels, supported by a high combat spirit compared to the soldiers of the occupation army. And the occupation that Netanyahu threatens to impose does not solve any problem for him nor achieves real military gains. And because the leadership of the oppressive army is well aware, more than any party, of this fact, the goal of "occupation" cannot be resolution, and the danger of "entrapment" here is much greater than the danger of reaching a deal, and sufficing with pressure through more siege being more beneficial, important, and less adventurous. When matters reached a point in Doha where a decision was to be made, Steve Witkoff suddenly jumped up and announced the failure to complete it, because his president Donald Trump himself has come to the conviction that the deal is nothing but the beginning of a much larger Israeli collapse than his and Netanyahu's ability to bear, not because of Hamas's rigidity at all, but due to its "lack" of rigidity, and because of the flexibility that nullified all the arguments and excuses that they had been betting on. And they had only left the option of exploding the dialogues and negotiations at the last moments. Witkoff, the real estate man who became part of American politics and diplomacy in this dire era realized with his deep real estate sense that the deal would mean a substantial retreat in the resettlement project, possibly reduced to marginal bets, and that it would mean entering into a phase of regional settlements that would strip the American administration of essential elements and winning cards in the context of these arrangements. Trump and Netanyahu understood that the continuation of the war is the only solution, and that the continued threat with it in Lebanon, and against Iran is the available means until this moment, and opening the file of the "Popular Mobilization" in Iraq has become on the agenda. We have said dozens of times that the failure to resolve any of the region's files, no matter how great and important the field and intelligence gains achieved by the American-Israeli alliance are, means only one thing: that these achievements do not make for a victory, and that the losses of the resistance factions do not constitute a defeat, as long as the war is ultimately not equitable, and that NATO, and the "West" all, led by America, and all its weight on every level and aspect when they fail to settle the war and succeed in it, this is the essence of the existing equation today. The truth is that Netanyahu has nothing to resolve, and the plan of his army, as publicly announced and on the lips of his chief of staff himself is to "improve" the conditions of his entity in the deal, because the "resolution" that the Prime Minister of extermination boasts about is the greatest threat to his army, his role, and his future. If the army of oppression commits itself and adheres to the battle of "resolution" by occupying what remains of the Gaza Strip for legal and constitutional reasons, internal matters will explode according to new, unprecedented metrics, and it is not inconceivable that we may witness significant acts of rebellion and disintegration in some of the advanced units, and major collapses in the entire political structure of the occupying state. If Netanyahu decides to militarily occupy the entire Gaza Strip, he will become directly responsible for more than two million Palestinians, and the responsibility of "Hamas" for the political front will dissipate, and "Hamas" and the factions will have no direct political role, and their task will be limited to fighting as much as they can, and the occupying state will become increasingly entangled regionally and internationally, exposing the region to dangers greater than all previous dangers, and all its bets on the forces that are sheltered under its wings in Lebanon and Iraq will collapse, and the entire Syrian situation may explode in its face. The Battle of Shifa Hospital was a battle of "life or death", then the battle of Khan Younis, then Rafah, then the "Philadelphia Axis", and today Gaza, and tomorrow a new battle, and the day after tomorrow a decisive battle, and the day that follows a battle that must take place, and after several months "resolution" will return to new headlines of extermination, starvation, and displacement, and so on indefinitely. This is the only fixed strategy in the norms of this extermination government and the norms of this "fascist coalition". I assure you that Netanyahu is the only one who knows the extent of the Israeli crisis, and he knows it better than the leaders of his fascist army, and much more than the leaders of the "opposition", and he knows it more than Trump, especially since the latter no longer has the mental capacities necessary to adequately comprehend this crisis, and therefore his ability to embroil the entire region, all Israeli internal parties, and even embroil the whole world is a high and astonishing ability because all the others in the Israeli interior and in the international and regional surroundings do not have the precise data regarding the size of the Israeli crisis in terms of internal explosion prospects, in terms of the cracks and fragmentation that seem to have become inevitable, and in terms of the ideology that now has lethal tools it will resort to in the decisive moments of this crisis. Netanyahu lies when he goes to "occupation and resolution", he lies if he retracts, and he lies when he speaks to the public, and when he talks to world leaders, but he is sincere to the core on one matter: his refusal to stop his bloody war. Statistics confirm all the lies, and confirm that he is persistent in the war of extermination. Here is "Hamas" announcing that it is not interested in being in power in the strip, and its weapon no longer poses any real threat if the occupation state stops its aggressive war, lifts the siege, and withdraws from the strip. This means that all elements of the deal that the occupation state was talking about are available after more than 22 months of the genocide war on the strip, the occupation state is approaching a new phase of crime regardless of the decision that will emerge from the meeting of this extermination and crime government tonight. And the decision is the continuation of extermination and starvation in hopes that this will give it a picture allowing it to go to a deal as if it had "resolved" the criminal war with a big victory in its favor. By bad luck for Netanyahu, and for this government, there is no one in the strip who is willing to help the occupation state achieve what it aims to reach. And by the ill fate of the entire occupation state, the final battle of "resolution" will be the longest battle it will fight, and the most difficult, and the heaviest in terms of costs from every side, in every direction and field.