WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #177: The noose around his neck (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

The horror that arises from the Hamas attack on Israel tells us that the

two parties have abolished the distinction between the civilian
population and the military and that the Islamist organization has
become a state, making a leap in its offensive capabilities. We will
have to deal with this fact from now on: it will not be easy to
eradicate Hamas from Gaza, as Netanyahu says he wants to do. On the
other hand, Hamas is an Islamic fundamentalist organization that the
Jewish state has favored and fueled in order to delegitimize, downsize
and destroy the secular and progressive Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO). Since Hamas took power in Gaza in 2005 until the
criminal raid on October 7, 2023, Israelis killed around 7,000
Palestinians on the Gaza front and around 400 Israeli soldiers and
citizens were killed.

Palestinians on the Gaza front and around 400 Israeli soldiers and
citizens were killed.
Not only that, but Israel has conducted a policy of constant repression,
occupation and forced colonization of the West Bank, i.e. the West Bank,
a territory inhabited by Palestinians, "occupied by Israel", following
the six-day war of 1976. The territory was subjected to Israeli
sovereignty, supporting the progressive expansion of Jewish settlements
on its territory, supported by an increasingly widespread military
presence which has led to arrests, expropriations, demolitions of
Palestinian homes, establishment of military courts, even for children
aged 14 to 16 years.
According to data provided by Israel, 96% of those who appeared before
these courts were convicted. This situation discredited the PLO,
delegitimizing it, and made it clearly impossible to implement the Camp
David agreements, signed by Egyptian President Anwar al Sadat and
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, which
envisaged implementation within five years of signature of two states,
the Israeli one and the Palestinian one.
Thirty years have passed since then and the situation of the
Palestinians has become increasingly serious. Repression has steadily
increased and the many intifadas called by the Palestinians in response
to the Israeli crackdown have been to no avail. The Israeli right has
had the opportunity to effectively disavow that agreement with a policy
of occupation and ever-increasing expansion conducted by armed
fundamentalist Jewish settlers in the Arab territories (more than
800,000 settlers distributed in more than 300 fortified settlements), in
order to interrupt territorial continuity and thus prevent the formation
of an autonomous Palestinian state entity.
Starting from June 18, 1996, the date of establishment of the first
Netanyahu government, the Jewish settlements in the West Bank have
constantly grown, ordered by increasingly vast laws of expropriation and
acquisition of territory with the aim of rooting the Jewish presence in
the territory by expelling every possible way the Palestinian and Arab
one with constant pressure. If, in some way, the PLO survived in the
occupied West Bank, progressively losing its representativeness, it was
easier for Islamist movements to gain a foothold in the occupied Gaza
Strip, where more than 2,500,000 Palestinians live in an open-air prison
in situations of absolute poverty, overcrowding, total dependence on
Israel for the supply of water, electricity, fuel and food. With the
withdrawal from Gaza in 2006, the Jewish State let the situation fester,
pretending that the problem was now solved by a wall that contained a
mass of desperate people that no one wants, including the Arab countries
surrounding Israel, perhaps deluding themselves that diseases , poverty
and desperation would have provided over time a mass of people who
continued to grow, digging tunnels and reproducing: a concentration camp
from which Israel drew cheap labor, selecting and filtering it. All this
has fueled hatred and created agreement with what is contained in the
Hamas statute: the destruction of Israel.

The politics of the two states

We must therefore have the honesty to admit that both parties did not
want the creation of two states: the Palestinians deluding themselves
into thinking they would be able to eliminate the Israeli presence, the
Israelis locking up the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, making this
territory a open-air prison, and at the same time infiltrating and
gutting the West Bank - occupied territory - with strategic settlements
of settlers positioned in such a way as to make the formation of a
homogeneous state on those territories impossible. Thirty years of this
policy have progressively changed the state of the places and the
balance of forces on the field and Israel has focused on the time factor
to turn the situation to its advantage. Indeed, it can be said, without
being contradicted, that the very policies implemented to achieve this
second objective have induced/forced the Israeli Government, in fact
dominated by religious parties, to move the army to garrison this
region, to carry out repression and police tasks, applying martial law,
but leaving the Gaza border undefended and therefore making the attack
planned by Hamas possible. On the other hand, it is precisely this that
the reservists and military circles of Israel today reproach the
Netanyahu government, holding it responsible for the first real
historical defeat of Israel since its birth: just read the comment in
the newspaper of 7 October after the events of the newspaper Ha'aretz.

A missed opportunity

The policy of creating two states has no alternative today, even if it
becomes increasingly unrealistic, because it has been made
impracticable. In fact, Israel would have to evict 800,000 settlers from
the West Bank, risking civil war and this is unthinkable and this was
what the religious fundamentalists wanted to achieve and achieved with
the complacent cover of the Government.
A different solution could have been found only on the condition that in
the first twenty years of the century, when the colonization of
Palestine began by the Zionist movement and the establishment of the
kibbutzim began, the settlers, instead of allowing only Jews to be part
of the experience of the kibbutzim, had also admitted the Arab
populations to take part in the experiment, creating a structure which,
precisely because of its solidarity configuration, had another capacity
for integration and education for coexistence.
The kibbutz is in fact a structure based on solidarity in which each
individual undertakes to work for all the others, receiving in exchange,
instead of money, only the fruits of common labor, thus avoiding the
community from falling into the hands of a corporation consumerist and
mercantile. It is not secondary that this structure was established in
an area where agriculture was at pure subsistence levels and that,
thanks to the technologies and knowledge adopted and introduced by the
promoters of the initiative, it produced a business structure
characterized by high productivity, obtaining a good economic result.
The ideological influence in the construction of this model of social
and productive organization is evident and has its roots in the
communist and anarchist creations of libertarian municipalities that had
arisen in previous years almost everywhere in the world, but above all
in Latin America, in territories considered on the margins of capitalist
control, as attempts to build a productive and social fabric alternative
to the capitalist one. These experiences had been repeatedly, widely
reported and publicized in newspapers and propaganda pamphlets in
Yiddish, produced by the social left, to the point of becoming the
common heritage of entire populations. In the kibbuz libertarian
pedagogy was applied and children grew and still grow together because
they have shared motherhood and fatherhood, they are educated in
solidarity, they integrate, they represent the future of a cohesive
community.
But this was not the case because within the kibbutzim movement the
liberal/capitalist and confessional wing prevailed and imposed the
discriminatory factor of ethnic-confessional belonging, considered the
necessary cement of homogeneity and cohesion capable of allowing the
success of the experiment. It was believed that the community
experiences previously attempted had failed precisely because of the
heterogeneity and different cultural ancestry of the people who had
chosen to be part of them. Thus non-Jews were excluded from the
structure and Arabs and Christians became wage workers, thus undermining
the very ideal roots of the egalitarian structure, distorting it. In our
opinion, that was the moment in which the possibility of making the
inhabitants of the Palestinian territories a single people, which they
actually are, really disappeared.
 From then on, the two communities became increasingly distant and
opposed each other also because their economic and living conditions
were not equal.

The decay of the dream of a new society

The Zionist nature of the new state was the price paid to the
international Zionist movement which financed the experiment. The
openness to the emigration of Jews who survived the Holocaust to Israel
was the way to silence the bad conscience of the persecutors of the
Jewish people, who, in order to be forgiven for the sins of the Schoah
and the anti-Semitism common to many peoples, unloading the burden on
indigenous populations of Palestine.
On another occasion we will retrace the stages of Israel's gradual
transformation into a nation-state, its choices to position itself as an
outpost of Western culture in an Islamized context in order to survive
and impose its presence, but it is clear that its diversity explains the
continuous attempt to destroy it, with the result that every crisis,
every assault standardized Israel with other states and imposed a
politics of power.
The progressive twisting of the country's democratic and participatory
institutions, imposed by Netanyahu with the recent justice reform as its
final act, which sparked protests from reservists and the historic
population of Israel, is only the latest act of a progressive
transformation of the State of Israel. Over time, the continuous
tendency to acquire territory without having an adequate demographic
increase has pushed Israel to incorporate diaspora Jews from North
African and Eastern countries into its population, thus accentuating the
religious-based component of its population, with a political and
institutional culture very distant from that of the original population,
thus introducing strong elements of division into Israeli society, which
ended up undermining the constitutive foundations of the nation, marking
a definitive distance from the ideal reasons that had inspired a
significant part of Israeli society to become a state.
Netanyahu's intention to make Israel a "normal" Middle Eastern country,
capable of coexisting with the ocean of Arab populations that surround
it, thanks to the strength of commercial and economic relations,
culminating in the stipulation of the Abrahamic pacts, has made
precipitate the crisis. These agreements were constructed regardless of
the existence of Palestinians who were removed from existence and this
led Hamas to undertake a criminal terrorist operation. of unspeakable
ferocity, which should have, as is in fact happening, dug a furrow of
blood between Israel and the Palestinians, making it impracticable for
Arab governments willing to collaborate to continue with the strategy of
the agreements and nullifying the cohesion force of interests and money,
replaced from an ocean of pain capable of submerging everyone.
Of course, Hamas did not do everything alone and was supported by Iran,
also through relations with Hezbollah but also with the unhidden support
of Turkey and Egypt itself, proof of which is that the Sinai desert was
the place where Hamas commandos trained. How the Israeli secret services
were able to ignore this preparation remains to be clarified and,
according to numerous analysts, the cause can be found in the excessive
trust in electronic espionage systems and in the sterilization of
sources of information among the Palestinians. Two years of meticulous
and silent preparation
were necessary for the Islamic political/military organization to
prepare its own assault by taking advantage of the experiences
accumulated by the many terrorist organizations of Wahabi origin which,
experimenting with the effectiveness of terror also conveyed through the
communication tools of mass, have shown how effective it can be to sow
hatred and terror and make the most bestial violence an extreme
political instrument to be used without saving and with sure effect.
Hostage taking is part of this strategy.
If we take into account the fact that war is only one of the ways in
which politics is conducted, it must be said that both sides in the
field had no hesitations in eliminating the differences between
civilians and military, Israel necessarily militarizing the entire
population and the By doing the same, the Palestinian side has produced
the ongoing genocide which threatens to continue without end.
The announced invasion of Gaza by the Israeli army, the absence of any
idea about its future management of Gaza, risks only worsening the
situation with permanent guerrilla warfare, in an area where the
population is held hostage by the fighters , now forced to live in an
even smaller space with a
frightening density in the area, in the lack of water, energy and food,
while winter approaches and the bombings are continuous.
In all this tragedy, what is striking is the profiteering of a
bovine-faced, unscrupulous politician who, in order to gather some
votes, rediscovers the rantings of a psychopath now buried in oblivion,
calling a demonstration in his name to incite hatred.

On the possible developments of the crisis

At the time of writing, the crisis is constantly evolving and the
conflict risks spreading and the outcomes of what is happening are
absolutely unpredictable. However, some things have already happened:

what happened in the Middle East has opened another front of crisis
which diverts resources and attention from the Ukrainian public opinion
but pushes the USA to allocate 1,000 billion dollars in armaments;
the current crisis marks China's entry into the field as a player of
primary importance in conflict mediation and Russia's return to the
field as one of the main actors: it is the way the multipolar world
manifests itself, breaking its relative isolation;
forces the United States to return militarily to the Middle East,
increasing its commitment to conflict areas;
marks the emergence of an intra-NATO conflict between Israel and Turkey,
supporter and sponsor of Hamas;
teaches, once again, that ethnic and religious conflicts generate
terrorism and destabilization;
increases the causes of deterioration of the economic situation and
growth of inflation due to the increase in the price of energy and raw
materials;
sees the economic and political difficulties of the European Union
increasing;
the ongoing "piecemeal war" receives confirmation.
In this situation the USA advises Israel to contain its response even if
its government, very weak and discredited, intends to revive the figure
of "Israel mad dog", theorized by Mosche Dayan, reducing the territory
of Gaza by about half, in the belief thus limiting its role as a base
for Hamas operations, impossible to eradicate. The creation of an Arab
interposition force led by Egypt and/or other Arab countries appears
unlikely, also because the certain result would be to increase anger and
desperation, especially since Israel considers the progressive
occupation of the West Bank irreversible.

Gianni Cimbalo

https://www.ucadi.org/2023/10/21/il-cappio-al-collo/
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