Biden and Netanyahu (agencies)
The Zionist-American genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has entered a sharp turn and a dangerous impasse that has become an existential threat to the three main parties in this war, namely: the Zionist Prime Minister, and behind him the Likud Party and the extremist religious parties, and the administration of US President Joe Biden, and behind him the party. Democratic Party, the Islamic Resistance Movement, and behind it the Armed Resistance Brigades and the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Will the three parties be able to overcome this turning point and get out of the dangerous impasse that threatens them? How to do that?
Netanyahu has no choice but to maintain his ruling coalition at any cost, and continue the war until achieving complete victory over Hamas, and achieving his undeclared goals that will make him a historic Zionist leader.
Netanyahu and Biden are on the verge of suicide
After about 6 months have passed since the heroism of the Palestinian resistance brigades and their bravery on the battlefield, and their destruction of the prestige of the Zionist army, and the legendary steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and their rally around the resistance despite the enormous sacrifices they are making in all fields, and the superstructure and infrastructure of the Gaza Strip that has collapsed more than 75% of it is under the Zionist-American machine of destruction. After all, both the Zionist Prime Minister Netanyahu and the US President Biden stand on the verge of political suicide. The alliance that led them to wage an insane genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip will lead them to the abyss of hell, concluding. Their political life ended with the worst ending, even if they were able to achieve the goals of this war:
Netanyahu and misguided dreams
The existential threat to Netanyahu increases day by day; It has not yet been able to achieve its three declared goals. As for its undeclared goals of emptying the Gaza Strip of its population and annexing it to the Zionist entity; It is also in turmoil, and his ruling coalition is on the verge of collapse under the pressure of two main factors:
The first: Israeli street pressure, which may turn in the coming weeks into civil disobedience, forcing the prime minister to dissolve the government and hold early elections.
Second: The law exempting members of religious groups from compulsory military service, which the opposition insists on abolishing, while religious parties insist on withdrawing from the government if Netanyahu responds to the opposition’s request. Jewish religious leaders in the Zionist entity have also announced their intention to leave the country if Netanyahu does so.
This situation makes Netanyahu forced to respond to the religious parties. Because its exit from the ruling coalition means dissolving the government and going to early elections, and he is certain that his loss in them will be huge in two ways: The first: his political loss and the evaporation of his historical political dreams, and the second: his personal loss, as he will be legally prosecuted in many major cases, most notably his responsibility for what happened in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack on the seventh of last October.
On the other hand, this situation will increase unrest in the Israeli street, and will raise more complaints, tension and protests among the army, whose leaders insist on not excluding religious people from the military service law.
Hence, Netanyahu has no choice but to maintain his ruling alliance at any cost, and continue the war until achieving complete victory over Hamas, and achieving his undeclared goals that will make him a historic Zionist leader. This means that he will not agree to Hamas' negotiating demands, especially a permanent ceasefire and withdrawal from Gaza.
Biden and the search for victory
As for President Biden, he faces a real existential threat that is ravaging his political future, and destroying his dreams of winning a second presidential term. This threat will have severe effects on the Democratic Party, which is facing a severe intellectual and moral crisis, and it will take a long period to be able to deal with its effects.
President Biden, who has exceptional historical relations with the state of the Zionist entity that was not available to other previous presidents; His need to win the war against Hamas has become greater than that of Netanyahu, whose ambitions are limited to the framework of the Zionist state. As for Biden, he needs this victory to strengthen the credibility of the United States with its allies, and its ability to achieve their goals, and to send clear messages to Russia, China, and Iran in particular, and to its partners in the Arab region, which each country understands according to the outstanding issues between it and the United States.
Therefore, we find President Biden, despite official and popular international demands, rejecting a permanent ceasefire, and insisting on the complete elimination of the Hamas movement, hoping that he will be able to achieve a victory that will improve his electoral position after the genocidal war in Gaza is about to destroy all his dreams. In winning a second presidential term.
In pursuit of victory, and to avoid the lurking existential defeat; Biden's position will continue as it is, adopting Netanyahu's stated and undeclared goals. He will continue to pursue the US House of Representatives to approve additional support for Ukraine and the Zionist entity that was approved by the Senate, while his administration will continue its tireless efforts to help Netanyahu win.
Its diplomatic roles will also continue; With the aim of gaining more time to achieve the goals of the war, while appearing as a state that objects to targeting and starving civilians, and understands the demands of the Palestinians to establish their independent state, while giving the Zionist entity complete freedom to do what it deems appropriate to maintain its security; Under the pretext that it is an independent country, the United States cannot impose its will on it.
At this stage, Hamas is facing extremely difficult existential choices. Either accept a temporary truce and the occupation will continue its war against it after it ends, or surrender and withdraw, or continue the resistance and bear its costs. Which of these options should Hamas choose?
Hamas and difficult existential choices
Since the first day of declaring war on Hamas and the start of the Zionist-American genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas movement has realized the existential challenges it faces in this war, with its Palestinian, regional and international dimensions. However, its success in steadfastness and resistance for about six months has enabled it to Inflicting massive losses on the ranks of the Zionist army and its equipment increased Netanyahu’s insistence on pursuing Hamas, rejecting a permanent ceasefire and withdrawal from Gaza, and increasing the intensity of military operations against civilians. This position led to the failure of the talks seeking a ceasefire and the entry of aid. humanity, putting Hamas facing very difficult challenges, most notably:
The Zionist entity rejected a permanent ceasefire and withdrawal from Gaza.
Violent military operations continue against civilians, especially against hospitals, places for displaced people, and humanitarian aid distribution centers.
The Zionist army turned to targeting cadres suspected of having links to the Hamas movement.
The continued destruction of buildings over the heads of civilians, and the number of dead, wounded, and missing people rising. The continued suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza, without shelter, medicine, or food.
Work continues to implement (vague) international and regional plans under the slogan of delivering humanitarian aid and feeding civilians. Continuing attempts to circumvent popular support for Hamas.
The continued Arab, Islamic, regional and international inability to take measures that obligate the Zionist entity to permanently stop the war and withdraw from Gaza.
Faced with these difficult challenges, which Hamas is unable to overcome, Hamas finds itself with three specific options:
Agreeing to a temporary truce, after which the Zionist entity will continue its war more fiercely against Hamas and civilians. Surrender and withdrawal from the Gaza Strip within regional and international arrangements. Continue the resistance until the last soldier and the last bullet, and bear its consequences on civilians.
Each of these options in itself constitutes an existential threat to the Hamas movement and the armed resistance in the Gaza Strip. Which of these options is the most appropriate for the Hamas movement to adopt in the next stage?
This is what we will discuss in the next article, God willing.
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