Israel's Existential War

Countries and international organizations, along with Palestinian factions, expressed their (surprise) and (condemnation) over Israel's decision to return to war forcefully to gain control over the Gaza Strip. This surprise and condemnation exceeded by far their reactions and concerns regarding the Knesset's recent decision to annex the West Bank, and prior to that, the annexation of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. It seems as though they believed the Zionist narrative that the aim of the war is to free hostages and eliminate the military capabilities of Hamas, despite Netanyahu and his war council stating that the actual goal of controlling the Strip is to ensure that the Palestinian Authority and Hamas do not regain power over the territory, while concealing the true objective of the war from the start, which is known to all Western and Arab countries, as well as Hamas and all factions.

We find it surprising to see the astonishment of those who condemn the decision to restore full Israeli control over the Gaza Strip, as these countries are well aware of Israel's actual goals from the war, and they know that Israel will not halt its actions until it achieves its primary objective, which is to displace the population of Gaza and continue its plan for decisive action in the West Bank following the annexation decision.

The continuation of the war for 22 months is not as Hamas and Al Jazeera, along with their hired political and military analysts, claimed. They asserted that Israel cannot conduct a ground invasion or enter cities and neighborhoods due to the strength of the resistance. However, after the occupation army destroyed 80% of Gaza and occupied about 75% of its lands from cities, villages, and camps, with around a quarter of a million casualties, including martyrs, missing persons, and prisoners, not to mention the wounded and disabled due to starvation, they still cling to their beliefs and claim that Hamas has emerged victorious, and that Israel will not be able to occupy the city of Gaza. Meanwhile, it is Israel that prolongs the war and hampers ceasefire negotiations until it completes its plans and reaches a stage of displacement, as it treats this war as an existential conflict rather than just a battle like its previous wars.

The planning for this war did not begin with Hamas's surge on October 7, but rather Israel has employed this act, which can only be described as reckless, to serve its premeditated plans. Years before, when deep state actors in Israel and global Zionism realized— and let me point out that the deep state does not only exist in Israel, but also in Washington—that there is an existential threat threatening their state, not from neighboring countries, Iranian missiles, or Palestinian resistance, but from the presence of around 7 million Palestinians on Palestinian land between the river and the sea, whose numbers are increasing daily beyond the number of Jews. Despite Israel's practices of embattling Palestinians in the West Bank through settlement expansions, settler violence, land confiscation, checkpoints, destruction of camps, and killings of innocents on mere suspicion, along with the financial siege on the authority and aggression against Al-Aqsa Mosque and all holy sites, and despite the repeated wars and the starvation of citizens in the Gaza Strip, and despite Israel being the strongest military power in the region with nuclear capabilities, and despite the increasing number of Arab countries normalizing relations with it publicly and engaging with it secretly—despite all that, Palestinians continue to rebuild what has been destroyed by the occupation, resisting on their land, excelling in all fields, alongside a growing number of international recognitions of their right to an independent state based on the 1967 borders.

This reality terrifies Israelis and global Zionism and makes them realize that an existential threat endangers their unfinished project, which has been in place for over a century since its declaration: the establishment of a purely Jewish state on all of Palestine. If the demographic map continues to prevail (the Palestinian demographic bomb), strategic thinking thus necessitated devising or instigating a major war in Palestine and the region that would lead to the displacement of as many Palestinians as possible. This is in accordance with the previous plans of the Zionist movement and Britain, in collusion with Arab regimes, for the farce of the 1948 war, which resulted in the displacement of around 80% of Palestinians and the establishment of the state of Israel. Had it not been for that war, their state would not have been established at that time, nor would the partition plan have been implemented. We wrote about this years ago.

Therefore, Israel will not stop in this current war halfway after all the crimes it has committed, which exceed those of the Nazis, leading to global popular and international reactions: and leave 7 million Palestinians on Palestinian land surrounded by growing international sympathy for the justice of their cause. Otherwise, it will have to face the threat that jeopardizes its existence as the war and confrontation will shift inward, among its political and social components.

This does not mean that Israel has lost the war and that the Palestinian state is within reach, but it is certain that the escalation of the use of force and the threats of occupying the Gaza Strip and displacement, and threats to neighboring countries... all of that conceals a genuine Zionist fear for the future of this racist terrorist entity. We also reiterate what we previously stated: the ball is now in the Palestinian national court and the free people of the world to utilize Israel's predicament and the transformations in public opinion as a leverage that increases their strength before Israel can absorb the shock, and before Washington, international Zionism, and the colonial West manage to sidestep this condition and effect a reversal in favor of Israel. And it is important not to settle for the increasing accolades for recognizing a Palestinian state, as some of these recognitions serve merely to relieve their conscience and evade responsibility for the suffering inflicted on the Palestinian people, and some are ambiguous and conditional on matters that diminish the value of the recognition, all of which acknowledge a Palestinian state under occupation! Even if all UN General Assembly member states, except Washington and Tel Aviv, recognize the state, the question remains: who will compel Israel to withdraw from the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip? And how and when?