Kassioun Editorial 1210: Gaza, Our Eye a Nail and Fang!

The above phrase was not said by “Israel haters”. It appeared in an article published by the Hebrew newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth” last Saturday, January 18, 2025, after it became clear that the ceasefire agreement was moving toward implementation, despite objections by the Zionist entity and the extremist coalition led by Netanyahu, who was forced by Trump’s envoy to work on Saturday, contrary to Jewish rituals, to complete the agreement.

This is not the only Hebrew article that sees the Zionist entity as defeated after all the crimes and destruction it has committed (see the Kassioun Research Unit article in this issue). Rather, public opinion regarding the Zionist entity almost unanimously agrees that what happened is a defeat for it, because none of the goals set by the Netanyahu government have been achieved, including eliminating Hamas, the Palestinian people’s will to resist, or continuing the military occupation of the Gaza Strip, or even controlling the West Bank, or signing normalization agreements with Saudi Arabia and others under threat, not to mention “redrawing the Middle East” in the “Israeli” fragmentation way, and implicitly dividing and ending Syria. All of that has gone down the drain, and it has become clear that the sequence of events starting with the ceasefire in Lebanon, then the collapse of the Assad regime that did its utmost to reach an agreement from under and above the table with the West, and lastly the ceasefire in Gaza, are all interconnected, and are part of a larger agreement whose features will emerge successively, in our region and in the entire world, including Ukraine, of course.

The essence of the matter – apart from the foolishness of those who bet on the victory of the Zionist entity and the defeat of the peoples – is that the economic and political decline of the Western camp is still ongoing and escalating, and the new Trump-led American administration has begun taking practical steps towards withdrawing into the American interior on the one hand, and on the other hand towards reformulating international relations in the hope of separating China and Russia in the manner of Kissinger in the twentieth century, but this time by trying to reach an agreement with Russia and not with China.

This process of retreat and withdrawal affects the largest American military base in our region, namely “Israel”, and practically opens the door, for the first time in many decades, to a real and just solution to the Palestinian issue, based on which the Palestinian state is established and the occupation forces withdraw from all the areas they occupied in 1967, and with it ends the aggressive and destructive function of the Zionist entity within a not-too-distant timeframe.

In the same context, it is not a coincidence that the commander of the military administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, demanded a few days ago that “Israel” withdraw to the 1974 disengagement lines, and that the international separation forces return to the buffer zone. This is a step in the right direction that should be bolstered and strengthened, because it expresses, on the one hand, the true attitude of the Syrian people, and on the other hand, it is consistent with the new international situation whose general features have begun to take shape and emerge more clearly.

Kassioun’s editorial on December 3, 2023, published more than a year ago and titled “Gaza Redraws the Region”, said: “Despite the pain, tragedies, and massive sacrifices, Palestinian victory has become clear to everyone. One of the positive things due to this victory, albeit not yet final, and due to the Palestinian people and the men of its resistance, is that they accelerated and are accelerating global transformations in the required and appropriate direction for the interests of the peoples of the world. As for our region, they are accelerating the redrawing of the entire regional political map and contributing to putting it on the right track towards complete political and economic independence, which is imminent”.

Today, too, the words of our great writer Omar Fakhoury apply to Gaza: “Yes, the eye resists the awl, and the eye always grows a nail and a fang”. It is also true to say that Gaza, which Netanyahu was betting would be a starting point for a “new Middle East”, has itself been transformed, with the help of its heroes, into a launching pad for the new liberated East.

(النسخة العربية)