A PALESTINIAN STATE IS POSSIBLE

Despite all Zionist attempts to appropriate their territories and erase the identity of the Palestinian nation, the perseverance in resistance seen with the operation “Al Aqsa Flood” and the treachery of the extremist Jewish regime in Tel Aviv against the population of the Gaza Strip, mark a point of no return to the construction of a Palestinian nation state

By Sidney Hey

Perhaps I need reminding again, but Israel has already lost the war in which it sought to push the Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip into the Sinai desert. While the merciless bombardment of Gaza's remaining rubble continues, the IDF has not succeeded in securing the ground and already hundreds of its troops have been killed and thousands of wounded populate its hospitals.

On the border with Lebanon, things are no better. In recent weeks, attacks by the Shiite resistance group “Hesbollah” have not only caused heavy casualties and the displacement of its settlers, but also caused extensive damage to the military communications and electronic intelligence infrastructure that it has deployed from the high points of the border. Israel has limited itself to bombing southern Lebanese villages, killing civilians. In response to this was the devastating strike a few days ago on the Air Command Centre base on Mount Meron.

The big loser is Netanyahu and his ultra-right wing Zionist associates aligned mainly with the settlers in the illegal settlements who are seeing their American benefactors letting go of their hand. Another loser is the administration of the duplicitous and ambiguous Joe Biden who emptied virtually the treasury to provide all the weapons, bombs and extra funding Israel needed for what his advisors believed would be a crushing campaign against “Hamas”.

As for the role of the US, Biden, like every president who has occupied the White House, has done nothing but play the ambiguous role of false mediator with the Palestinians, and today, faced with the evidence of the grave situation in which his partner Netanyahu finds himself, he pretends to play the role of peacemaker when in reality he has never been one.

Netanyahu and his general staff led by the lunatic Yoav Gallant believed that by causing an exemplary massacre on the civilian population he would lower the morale of the fighters of the “Ezzedin Al Qassam” Brigades, “Al Quds” and the Marxists of the PFLP, opening the way for an easy entry of their soldiers who in turn would push the Palestinians into Egypt. But, bad news. After 109 days of attempts and systematically blowing up every Palestinian building and house, the resistance persists and to make matters worse, it is spreading from other points.

Perhaps what marks this failure most is how, despite the systematic campaign of assassinations against journalists covering indiscriminate Israeli attacks in Gaza, the world has been able to see and witness the twisted “morality” boasted about in Tel Aviv and by its supporters elsewhere in the world. Netanyahu has many things to explain to his people (among them who financed Hamas) and a very specific one that is linked to the so-called “Operation Jericho Walls” and its link to the bizarre permission for the Palestinian resistance to penetrate on the morning of 7 October 2023 over every one of its fortifications.

In an effort to clean up these inconsistencies and eliminate eyewitnesses to what was done and is still being done in the strip, Netanyahu and his supporters believed that as before, by buying the silence of the media in the West and conditioning governments, there would be no questioning.

But what was carried out by the IDF is so unjustifiable and humanly repudiatory that international political pressure is very difficult to handle for the Zionist lobbies that have influence over the media in the West, including within the US Congress. This irrationality has even caused the death of several hostages, and this has exceeded the patience of the Israelis, who can take no more.

This has undoubtedly encouraged Tel Aviv to offer a ceasefire plan. At the same time, the United Nations has made an urgent appeal to address the issue of a Palestinian state. It was in this context that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterrez announced that the Palestinians have the right to a state of their own, an announcement that fell like a stalactite shower not only on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his “kosher” supporters on the Jewish ultra-right but also on Zionist militants and pro-Israeli supporters around the globe.

Another impact that Israel undoubtedly felt is that the Palestinians are not alone in the struggle and this is something that “Hesbollah” from Lebanon and “Ansar Allah” from Yemen and the Iraqis have brought home to them.

As was to be expected, the claims and accusations came in an attempt to explain this strategic-political catastrophe and, of course, Washington pointed the finger at Iran as the alleged backer of “Hamas”, a simplistic conclusion devoid of evidence that we have heard before and which is followed to the letter by all the obsequious governments in the hemisphere and fed with false reports by the Zionists who operate from the media and the intelligentsia in each of these countries. 

Another US failure lies in the failed attempt to intimidate the Yemenis into stopping their actions against ships transporting goods to Israeli ports. Not only do the bombings fail to intimidate the “Huties”, but the disinformation used to manipulate global public opinion is not convincing. The captains of ships of various nationalities who cross the Red Sea without being harassed know this all too well.

In addition to all this and Israel's unsustainability in its veiled plan to exterminate the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip, both Washington and Brussels have dramatically changed their position by suggesting to a Netanyahu committed to Zionist extremism the need to recognise the Palestinians as a state. Will he pay the political costs for the war crimes and crimes against humanity they are proven to be committing?

For the time being, South Africa's presentations, joined in South America by Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela, do not contain the ambiguity and shades of grey with which other states tend to express themselves. The case of Argentina is emblematic in this respect, and although today the existence of an openly Zionist government in Buenos Aires should put state policy on a predictable and lasting track.

Equally and beyond this, the possibility of an Arab-Palestinian state has never been closer.