My Friend... We Are Helpless, Gaza

I asked my friend, who returned at our weekly meeting, about the fate of Gaza after this devastating war and the prolonged suffering they endured; the destruction and killing occurred in military operations, but the suffering and death have not ended. My friend responded with a shocking phrase, "The destiny is still unknown." All local, regional, and international players want to manipulate them for their own interests; the United States has an interest in stopping military operations for internal reasons related to an "America First" policy to halt foreign spending, the personality of the American president to immortalize himself as a recipient of peace awards in his record - the Obama complex - and his dream of integrating Israel into the Middle East by expanding the Abraham Accords that he started during his first term, as well as for external reasons related to the balance of international power and the Chinese threat. Therefore, the U.S. wants to stop the war for two reasons: first, to halt the deterioration of Israel's global position and its image, and second, to ensure Israel's security by transforming the cultural and social structures of Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip, and to acquire an investment opportunity on the Mediterranean coast for Gaza.

As for the regional players, they seek to end the war for two reasons: to stop the images of shocking suffering coming from the Gaza Strip, and to maintain the security and stability of their countries. Meanwhile, European countries are concerned with stopping instability to prevent this war from extending to their lands in the form of waves of migration and insecurity. The Israeli government wants to stop internal pressure concerning the state of war and the large-scale mobilization that followed it, as well as its impact on the economy, but not to end the war; they want to maintain the "legitimacy" of their military operations in Gaza and the state of instability to ensure the continuity of the governing coalition until the end of the next year.

I told him he elaborated on the intentions and objectives of external players and did not speak about the internal players. He replied, "God bless them, they are curled up around themselves; they believe they are the center of the universe and the world revolves around them, while they are divided over their shares in power, and each one of them is waiting for the other to fade or weaken to pounce on power." I told him that this is a great injustice as efforts are ongoing to agree on restoring unity.

 My friend chuckled and said, "In times of goodness, they didn't regain it, and there is no longer time for the Palestinian people to retrieve it. Today, Palestinians need a caretaker who can provide for them and give them the basics of living, not the tricks of governance and the weaving of conspiracies.
I told my friend we are on the brink of a new year and the celebrations of the glorious Christmas, and we need hope to restore our confidence in ourselves after lean years in Palestinian politics and the disaster that befell the Gaza Strip due to the crime of genocide
perpetrated by the Israeli government. Don't you see Vice President Hussein Al-Sheikh's visit to Qatar as a glimmer of hope in moving internal relations? We are at a crossroads." He replied without hesitation, "Time has swept Palestinians away, or as they say, we are in free fall towards the depths of the abyss and the precipice," and he added, "This visit may stir the stagnant waters in the Palestinian lake, and perhaps it will open a way out of the internal political closure and contribute to alleviating the suffering of citizens in Gaza. All we have left is to pray to God because we are helpless, Gaza."