{"id":2550,"date":"2023-10-17T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2023-10-17T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T13:48:04","slug":"the-great-gaza-jailbreak-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2023\/10\/17\/the-great-gaza-jailbreak-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Gaza Jailbreak of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 9th<\/sup> 2023 a senior Hamas official announced it had \u2018achieved all of its targets\u2019 in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, and was open to negotiations to end the conflict. Yet the conflict continues. In this 2nd<\/sup> part of our examination of Al-Aqsa Flood, we will look at the causes for the current operations (there have been many, and on both sides) and what this will mean for Israel going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would appear there has been a paradigm shift in Israeli, Palestinian and greater geopolitical relations relative to the eastern Mediterranean region<\/a><\/span>. Bibi Netanyahu was correct when he stated this conflict and impending normalization with the Saudis would change the security arrangements in the region<\/span>,<\/a> but he was wrong in his assumption it would be in Israel\u2019s favour. Since the violence erupted it has become clearer just what the Israelis hope to achieve now that they have their mistaken belief of their own 9\/11-like event. We have the following scenario:<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a bitter irony in what is taking place in Israel at the moment for anyone who knows the history of the founding of Israel and the history of Palestine. The ruling coalition in Tel Aviv sees the present conflict as a means toward a \u2018final solution\u2019 (re: the other \u2018final solution<\/a><\/span>\u2019) to their \u2018Palestinian question\u2019. There is something to contemplate. Therein, the strategy is to remove the Palestinians from the 1947 Palestine borders or kill them off, thus establishing a single Israeli state. The tactic is to use the present conflict as a catalyst to garner the support of the West, and if things get really rough, to involve the United States directly in the conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an aside, if we want further irony, aside from the comparison between the Israeli strategy and the Nazi final solution, is that Jews have been living continuously in Palestine since before the Roman Empire, peacefully, alongside other West Asian groups, Arabs included<\/a><\/span>. To put it another way, for many centuries indigenous Jews of the region have been Palestinian, of the Jewish families who have lived on that land for many centuries. Zionism has ruined that legacy, at least for the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Further than that, the ultimate goal of the Zionists is to remove Iran as a threat. With the recent rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and now the induction of the Saudis into the BRICS group, the hard line Israelis saw that time to finish their project was getting very short. Reports from Hamas claim that Israel was planning on attacking Gaza in the days after Sukkot<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there is another prong to the plan of the Zionists, which is that with the removal of the Palestinians, the refugees would be forced into the neighboring countries, notably Egypt and Jordan, with lesser numbers to Lebanon and Syria, thus further destabilizing those nations, who are all enduring financial and social hardships at the moment. All four states share the border with Israel. But Egypt is the preferred destination for Palestinians (in the plans for the Israelis)<\/a><\/span>, while Jordan would likewise be the destination for the Palestinians of the West Bank. So, rather than the Biblical Jews wandering in the Sinai desert, it would be the Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n

This displacement of Palestinians from Palestine is called by another name: ethnic cleansing, and it is a war crime<\/a><\/span>. There is now armed Palestinian resistance in the West Bank, with clashes reported<\/a><\/span>. And those million or so Gazans who were told to flee to the south of Gaza? \u2013 they are being bombed as they try to flee. That, too, is a war crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, if Hamas has \u2018achieved its targets\u2019, what might those be? They were to pre-emp the Israeli actions, to attack the southern Israeli military posts and disarm them (those posts are at the border of Gaza), to show the weaknesses in the IDF and Israeli security apparatus and to show the Israeli public they are not safe and to give them a sense of what Palestinians experience on a daily basis. And finally, the Operation has shown the Israeli public that the Palestinians are a force to be reckoned with, and that they are not going away, at least peacefully. Hamas sees the ongoing conflict as a war of liberation. Without understanding the context and a bit of history leading to the present events, though, it is not really possible to get a sense of outcomes. Some background is in order.<\/span><\/p>\n

The situation in Palestine and West Asia is not cut-and-dried. This is not a simple black-and-white matter of an alleged terrorist group (Hamas) attacking innocent civilians in an allegedly peaceful democracy (The Narrative re: Israel). Instead what we are seeing is a combination of victim blaming (the Israelis and the West) blaming the Palestinians (Hamas and other more militant Palestinian factions)<\/a><\/span>, conflating various groups (Hamas\/Iran, Hamas\/Palestinians, Zionists\/Jews, and so forth), corrupt and divided politics<\/a><\/span>, geopolitics and so forth. In short, this conflict has been in the works and has grown over many decades, in fact for over a century<\/a><\/span> (video, must see).<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the factors involved in this present conflict, then? We have the following (and thumbnail) elements:<\/span><\/p>\n