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Delusion & contradiction over 'how to get out of the pit' in 'Israel'

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  • Source: Israeli media
  • 9 Jan 2024 13:07
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The Israeli occupation government has failed to achieve its goals in the Gaza Strip, leaving Israeli settlers disillusioned about life in a post-October 7 world.

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  • Palestinians wave their national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the southern Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis, occupied Palestine, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP)
    Palestinians wave their national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the southern Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis, occupied Palestine, on Saturday, October 7, 2023. (AP)

Yedioth Ahronoth titled the first article on its front page, "How do we get out of the hole into which we fell?" highlighting the high costs of war in the Gaza Strip and wondering if a compromise will be worth it, or if a continuation of the war is more righteous.

The article criticized the Israeli occupation's government, saying "after three months of news of death [of Israeli occupation soldiers] that drips on our heads every day, like Chinese torture, all they know how to promise us is more and more war."

Sticking to the false narrative that war started on October 7, ignoring 75 years of occupation, forced displacement, and oppression, the article noted that "Israel fell into a deep pit" when the Palestinian Resistance launched Operation Al Aqsa Flood.

With a sense of clear defeatism, given that the Israeli occupation has not witnessed this much loss of life and property since 1948, the article asked the question "how do we get out of the pit."

How do we get out of the pit?

"Getting out" meant "returning the kidnapped, restoring the destroyed settlements and the security and sense of security of the residents in the south and north, releasing the reservists home and trying to end the war," according to the article which also emphasized that all the talks about "the destruction of Hamas" by the occupation government "do not reflect reality."

To that end the article also stressed that the Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has created expectations with "no way to realize them" and thus "condemning us [Israel] to an endless war."

This shows a contradiction between what it means to "get out of the pit," which entails realizing a sense of "security" for settlements bordering the Gaza Strip, and being deluded that the status quo that existed prior to October 7, which was enforced by deterrence established upon the occupation of Palestine, is something that the occupation, "Israel", could return to.

The article also underscored that "the October 7th strike requires rethinking not only in relation to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority," but also "regarding Iran," noting that "there, in Iran, the big failure begins."

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The article most significantly noted that "the reckoning with Hamas will have to be postponed until the moment Sinwar violates the agreement that will be reached" because despite the "difficult to digest" offer of Hamas to end the war and return Israeli captives, the "all for Hamas" deal is the way.

Thus, the defeat of "Israel" is to come because the occupation, predominantly, is "not currently prepared to open a front in the north," and the occupation will have to pay a very high price for now.

This comes after this morning the Israeli occupation claimed that 514 occupation soldiers have been killed since October 7, including 180 killed since the start of ground maneuvers in Gaza.

‘We are fighting an axis, not a single enemy’: Gallant

The Wall Street Journal quoted Monday the Israeli Minister of Security in the Israeli occupation government, Yoav Gallant, saying that his point of view is that "Israel is fighting an axis, not a single enemy." 

Gallant added that Iran is "building its military power to use it against Israel."

The Minister of Security in the Israeli government stated that his immediate source of concern is the "northern border," emphasizing that the current priority is "not to engage in a war with Hezbollah."

Gallant emphasized that the safe return of 80,000 settlers to their homes must be ensured, pointing out that if an agreement is not negotiated to make this possible, "Israel will not back down from military action."

His statement comes amid the ongoing operations by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon against occupation positions, soldiers, and settlements in northern occupied Palestine.

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It is noteworthy that "Israel" had earlier initiated the escalation against Hezbollah by targeting Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in the southern suburb of Beirut, violating the rules of engagement.

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