- By: Motasem A Dalloul
At last, after 15 months of brutal attacks and committing unprecedented crimes, Israeli Occupation state agreed on a ceasefire without achieving any of its goals declared at the beginning of the genocide —destroying Hamas, liberating Israeli prisoners in Gaza and securing safe return for Zionist settlers to the settlements in the Gaza periphery.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his fanatic entourage exerted their utmost efforts to destroy Gaza and kill its inhabitants in front of the whole world, using the most developed lethal weapons and threatening to even force them out of Gaza or exterminate them.
The United States and many other countries, including Western, Arab and Muslim countries such as Germany, France, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia clearly backed the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Many of them took direct part in the war crimes.
After all of this, Netanyahu’s immoral army could not free except few number of Israeli prisoners. After 54 days of the genocide, he freed tens of them only through a deal with the Palestinian Resistance. Had Hamas insisted not to offer a goodwill gesture, they would not have been released.
This night, after 467 days of committing“livestream genocide”, Netanyahu got down on his knees and agreed to strike a deal with Hamas that guarantees the release of Israeli prisoners.
Referring to the text of the deal, it is clear that it met almost completely all the demands put by Hamas during the war, and it is very clear that even a single demand from Netanyahu’s has not been met. In addition to this, the Israeli Occupation plunged into swamps it did not expect at all. At the same time, a prediction by late Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Al Sinwar, was realised.
Netanyahu agreed to strike the ceasefire deal with Hamas. This point explodes Netanyahu’s goals as he had pledged to destroy Hamas but, in the end he found himself striking a deal with it. Even he, during the last 24 hours before Hamas’ announcement, his office along with the Americans were reported saying they were waiting for Hamas’ response.
All the Israeli politics along with Israel’s genocide sponsor were waiting for Hamas to decide. All their power and influence could not oblige Hamas to surrender and retreat.
The release of Israeli prisoners also is not the result of Netanyahu’s pogroms, but the result of Hamas’ agreement, and based on its own demands —the release of Palestinian prisoners, including those who have been in prison for decades and are convicted for life terms. The Israeli Occupation wanted these prisoners to die in prison, but they will be free, thanks to Hamas resilience.
Regarding Netanyahu’s third goal, it would not have been also realised without Hamas’ consent.
In addition to Netanyahu’s failure to achieve the goals of his genocide, he made of Israel a pariah state as its name has become synonymous with criminal and immoral people. Despite the unprecedented crackdown on hundreds of thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators in the largest Western and American cities, people continued their demonstrations.
Under popular pressure of financial and academic institutions have cut or promised to cut their relations with Israel. Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza has opened the eyes of the American and Western people who recognised how much Zionists are deeply rooted in their political systems.
In an old recorded speech for Al Sinwar, he predicted that Israel is to become an isolated state. It seems that Netanyahu’s war crimes in Gaza fulfilled Al Sinwar’s prediction. Its PM and FM are wanted by the ICC, and Israeli soldiers are legally chased everywhere, mainly in the West. Many have, so far, fled secretly from different countries after they became wanted for detention.
Regardless of the number of deaths, wounded and the large scale destruction, what more is needed to prove that Hamas won the war? The indications of victory are not measured by the scale of sacrifices, but measured by which side accepts the conditions of the other. I see Israel’s Netanyahu has accepted Hamas conditions.
Some say that both Hamas and Netanyahu came under the pressure of the US President-elect, Donald Trump. I say: no, because Trump is Netanyahu’s friend and Netanyahu used Trump as leverage to his defeat when he told his partners, who had been against the deal, that they are going to get much strategic gains through Trump.
What pushed Netanyahu to accept the ceasefire deal is the miraculous Palestinian Resistance. Israeli soldiers on the ground said several times that they were fighting ghosts in Gaza.
Will Netanyahu respect the terms of the deal? I don’t know, but the Zionists, in general, are used to breaching every deal and the Americans are not a trusted party to be a guarantor of the deal, but if they returned to the war, the Palestinian Resistance is ready to be there.
- Courtesy: Middle East Monitor