Israeli Aggression and the American Snare

While the Israeli machine of war and terror continues to massacre defenseless Palestinian women, children and elderly in Gaza, which is blockaded from all directions, America’s Secretary of State and diplomatic ambassador John Kerry is continuing his back-and-forth tours of the region. He is applying well-known American pressure in order to rescue his country’s strategic ally, the Israeli occupation, from the Gaza quagmire and to clip the claws of the Palestinian resistance. Now and again, he introduces changes into the initiative that he is putting forward between his allies — the Israeli war criminals — and the victims — the Palestinians — to embellish it and make it more alluring for the Palestinian resistance.

The Israeli media has been talking about the new changes that Kerry introduced. The changes include a seven-day ceasefire during which humanitarian aid can be provided, Israeli occupation forces staying in position to secure and destroy the tunnels, and the convening of discussions in Cairo between the tormentor and the victim, discussions attended by the Palestinian Authority and international parties, aimed at raising the blockade and disarming the resistance.

In reality, Kerry has brought nothing new with these changes. He has not stepped beyond the scope of the original task that brought him to the region: raising a ladder to Israeli President and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, one that suits the president’s whims and mood, to rescue him from the tree he has climbed. This is because Kerry’s efforts during his back-and-forth tour are focused on saving the Israeli occupying entity from the dilemma. He is scared that the Israeli entity will be affected by repercussions that it did not plan for, such as the region sliding toward total war or, at the very least, the failure of the Zionist-American plan in places beyond occupied Palestine, like Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. In other words, America fears that the benefits of what it started and labeled the “Arab Spring” will go to waste, especially given the presence of movements against Israel’s war crimes and barbaric massacring of women, children and the elderly. These terrorist crimes include the systematic destruction of general hospitals, specialized hospitals, children’s hospitals like the Muhammad al-Darra Children’s Hospital (which was targeted by the Israeli machine of war and terror), and U.N. schools in Gaza like the UNRWA school, where 15 people were killed and 200 wounded.

The true disaster for the region is that the United States does not want to change its stripes. Rather, it persists in its old ways of dealing with the region’s issues. It does not want to acknowledge that circumstances have changed; what used to be good for the United States and its strategic ally, the Israeli occupying entity, is no longer good today. The United States has witnessed this in Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Afghanistan, but unfortunately, and in spite of its experiences in this places, it persists on intervening in and managing the region’s issues in accordance with Israel’s perspective. It only looks at the region through the eyes of its Israeli ally. This is a grave error, a disaster the price of which is paid by the peoples of the region.

Thus, America’s search for a truce or ceasefire and a way to disarm the resistance and dismantle the blockade around Gaza can only be explained as a plot to quell the resistance that the Israeli occupying entity and its allies are trying so hard to decapitate in order to cleanse the Palestinian issue. Hence, the Palestinian resistance will not be fooled by snares like these.