
Netanyahu Between the Illusion of Normalization and the Bomb of Isolation: How Gaza Revealed the True Face of Israel
Since Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage of normalization, he has been selling his people a polished illusion of lies, confidently proclaiming like a jester in a moment of deceit: "We have neutralized the Arabs; their cause is over, and now we only have the Palestinians left." However, he ignored that the Arabs he shook hands with in palaces are not the same as the people who chant in the streets, and the hands he shook were shackled by Washington's will, not that of the nation. He thought he had closed the Arab front, while in reality, he ignited it in the hearts of the wounded and turned Gaza into a mirror where the whole world sees Israel's ethical and political nakedness. He deceives his people just as he tries to deceive the world, but lies do not alter the course of history; they expose their makers before it.
Since signing the Abraham Accords, Netanyahu has strutted around as if opening the doors of history with his own hands, believing he had breached the wall of Arab rejection and crossed over Palestine into the hearts of Arabs at no cost and without an apology. But he was only reading the lines written for him by his allies in Washington and hearing the applause from palatial venues while ignoring the hearts of millions from around the world, the Arab and Islamic nation, and their crowds in the streets and squares that preserve the Palestinian pain just as a mother preserves her child's name. And these hearts did not and will not sign any paper of recognition.
When the genocide war on Gaza erupted, it was not just a passing chapter in the conflict's books; rather, it was a mirror in which the image of Israel, that he wanted to shine in the eyes of the West, shattered. Images of homes collapsed on their residents, and the bodies of children under the rubble, along with eyes asking the world: "Why?" emerged from Gaza to roam the world, reaching the streets of Madrid, London, and Paris and occupying university campuses in the United States. Suddenly, the image flipped, and Israel in the eyes of millions became not a state seeking peace and security but a machine that specializes in killing, and its leaders became associated with the label "war criminals."
In Europe, Palestinian flags rose in squares where they had not been raised for decades, and in America, a new generation emerged, breaking the legacy of silence—a generation that sees democracy as indivisible and believes that those who remain silent about the killing of children have no right to teach the world the values of freedom. Even the media that has long covered the occupation's crimes with justifications began to tell the story as it is, without beautification or distortion.
Yesterday, on the eve of a new battle, the Israeli occupation assassinated four journalists in a new crime that confirms the untamed recklessness of Netanyahu and his squad. The occupation was not content with bombing hospitals, schools, churches, and mosques; it targeted the journalists' tent in a desperate attempt to kill the truth and silence the voice of freedom.
All of this happens before the eyes of the world and the peoples of America and Europe, who have begun to feel the extent of the shame from the support their governments provided to Israel and the scale of the lies that were marketed to them about a state of morals and democracy or that it is a victim of "Nazism." How can one who revealed these lies now ignore that Israel has surpassed Nazism with its crimes and that every daily crime it commits parallels the Nazi Holocaust in World War II?
Netanyahu, who wanted to shortcut the path to normalization, found himself swimming against the current towards isolation, losing the bet against the peoples and depriving Israel of what remains of its image in international forums. He did not win lasting peace but bought a short time, like a night about to break before dawn, unaware that history is not written by the victors of transient wars but by the peoples who carry their memory from generation to generation until the day of reckoning comes, and then images in palaces and signatures on papers, distant from hearts, will be of no use.
Netanyahu may think he has extinguished the fire of the Arabs, but he is unaware that beneath the ashes of normalization lies embers waiting for the moment of explosion, and when it ignites, he will have no papers, no illusions, no kings or rulers to protect him or his people.

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