“GAZA WAR”: At the
negotiating table, only what was won on the battlefield is agreed upon
The main Zionist-imperialist
military objective of the so-called “Gaza War”: the
destruction of Hamas, the Palestinian armed resistance and the terrorizing of
the other resistance forces in the MoA region, has not been achieved. It
remains a pending issue. The Palestinian people’s war of national
resistance can never be stopped.
According to the media, the
United States, Qatar and Egypt are acting as mediators in the conflict between
Israel and the radical Islamist Hamas. At the weekend, after the first round,
the three made a final call to all parties to the conflict to put aside
everything that prevents an agreement. The Palestinian resistance is
not taking part in the talks in the capital Doha (Qatar).
“According to these media, the talks are
not only about a ceasefire and more than 100 prisoners held by the Palestinian
resistance since October 7, 2023. But a possible agreement could also prevent
or at least lessen the scale of a punitive blow against Israel by Iran and its
allies in the region. This could prevent an escalation of the conflict.
On the latter, the Iranian
delegation to the United Nations clarified that achieving a ceasefire in the
Gaza Strip is Tehran's highest priority. “Any agreement that is acceptable to
Hamas is also acceptable to us,” the delegation said.
There are three direct
negotiators in the negotiations, while Hamas, the Palestinian resistance, Iran,
Syria, Hezbollah and Houthis are not present. Is this new in this conflict
since 1948? No. It has happened before. Where US imperialism and Israel and
others have participated as direct negotiators, and the Palestinian resistance
and its allies inside and outside the region have participated indirectly.
“Hamas declared that it was
not participating in the talks. For them, a clear plan is missing for the implementation of
the proposal for a ceasefire by US President Joe Biden, which also has the
subsequent support of the UN Security Council. Biden’s proposal is a
three-phased plan: first, a complete six-week ceasefire. During that time, a
certain group of Israeli prisoners held by the Palestinian resistance would be
released. In exchange, a group of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel would be
released. Afterwards, fighting would cease indefinitely and the remaining
Israeli prisoners would be released by the resistance. In the last phase,
reconstruction of the Gaza Strip would begin.
Diplomats from the US, France,
Britain and Germany are also seeking to prevent an escalation of the conflict
through talks” (the source of the information we are providing is the
Handelsblatt of the 18th and 19th of this month, which we have modified some
terms in our translation, for example, where the source says “hostages” we have
correctly written “prisoners”, or we have also deleted the word “terrorist”
when referring to Hamas, etc. The comments are ours and do not have quotation
marks).
As on previous occasions,
Israel's current military campaign against the Palestinian people, mainly
against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, is officially presented as
a legitimate Israeli defense against the attack (counter-campaign)
launched by the Palestinian resistance, led by Hamas, on October 7, 2023.
Since the negotiating table
only agrees on what has been won on the battlefield, based on the declarations
made by the Zionist side and the expressions of willingness to continue the
struggle for Palestinian resistance, it is necessary to draw a conclusion:
That, despite the
disproportionate use of force by the current Zionist-imperialist campaign in
its war against the Palestinian people, in man and modern means of mass
destruction and the most atrocious genocide to date used by the
Zionist-imperialist military forces against Gaza and, also, the West Bank and
countries in the region such as Iran, Syria, Lebanon, etc. The military
objective of the Zionist-imperialist front of aggression, which is aimed at
destroying Hamas and the Palestinian armed resistance as a whole and at
terrorizing the other forces mentioned above, has not been achieved. It is
pending, as can be deduced from the discussions on the military withdrawal of
the Zionists from the Gaza Strip. It remains pending, and the other objectives
that have to do with the prisoners and the future of the Gaza Strip are of
lesser importance.
The Palestinian
resistance and that of the entire region not only remains, but is strengthened
by the immense support of internal and international public opinion, which
increases the hatred of the masses of the world against imperialism and world
reaction.
The latest news is
illustrative in this regard:
Abraham Lincoln battle group
arrives in the Middle East to reinforce Israel's defence against a possible
Iranian attack
The so-called Abraham Lincoln
battle group, made up of the aircraft carrier of the same name and the entire
auxiliary fleet that accompanies it, has arrived in the Middle East, in an area
where it could support Israel's defence in the event of an Iranian attack.
Last week, US Secretary of
Defence Lloyd Austin ordered the battle group, which includes the aircraft
carrier, including its F-35 fighters, and a destroyer, to speed up its arrival
in the region to deal with a possible Iranian response to the assassination, on
31 July in Tehran, of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniya. Iran accuses Israel
of the assassination, although the Israeli government has neither recognised
nor denied its responsibility.
Austin also announced that he
would send a submarine equipped with guided missiles to the area.
Netanyahu says Israel will not
withdraw troops from Philadelphia corridor along Egypt-Gaza border
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has said that Israel has not agreed to withdraw its troops from the
Philadelphia corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border. The Israeli prime minister's
office thus denies reports on state television. "Israel will insist on
achieving all of its war objectives, as defined by the Security Cabinet,
including ensuring that Gaza never again constitutes a threat to Israel's
security. This requires securing the southern border," Netanyahu's office
said in a statement. (Reuters)
In the news agency below, we see
the urgency of the genocidal Biden and Kamala Harris to reach an agreement
between Israel and Hamas that will help them win the next US elections.
“The vice president of the United
States and Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, has called on
Israel and Hamas to close a ceasefire in Gaza now that will allow the release
of the hostages.”
Another says:
Biden is scheduled to speak
with Netanyahu today about the Egypt-Gaza corridor, according to Axios
US President Joe Biden is
scheduled to hold a phone call later in the afternoon with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the conversation, the two leaders will
address the Israeli authority's new demand to keep forces deployed along a land
corridor between Egypt and Gaza, according to Axios, which reports that Biden
wants Netanyahu to soften Israel's position on the issue.
In the talks to stop the
fighting in Gaza, Hamas is seeking a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza,
including the so-called Philadelphia Corridor, a narrow 14.5-kilometer stretch
of land on the coastal enclave's southern border with Egypt. Israel wants to
maintain control of the corridor, which it captured in late May after
destroying dozens of tunnels beneath it that it says had served militant groups
to smuggle weapons. (Reuters)
Act. 22 Aug 2024 - 07:31 CEST
Biden urges Netanyahu to
finalize Gaza ceasefire deal
U.S. President Joe Biden has
spoken by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about ways to
move forward on a possible Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, the White House
said, adding that Vice President Kamala Harris also took part in the call.
According to the note, Biden stressed to the Israeli leader “the urgency of
finalizing the ceasefire and hostage release agreement and discussed upcoming
talks in Cairo to remove any remaining obstacles.” The talks in the
Egyptian capital, scheduled for Wednesday, were postponed.
In the call, the two leaders
also discussed US efforts to defend Israel “against all threats from Iran and
its allied terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis.”
The call came after US
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to the Middle East ended on Tuesday
without an agreement between Israel and Hamas militants on a truce in the
Palestinian enclave. Blinken and the mediators from Egypt and Qatar have pinned
their hopes on a US “bridge proposal” aimed at bridging the gaps between the
two sides. (Agencies)
The development of the campaign
and counter-campaign between the Zionist State of Israel and US imperialism
against the Palestinian resistance is the result of the sharpening of the
nation-imperialism contradiction, the main one in Palestine and in the entire
Greater Middle East region, plus the development of the inter-imperialist and
other contradictions. According to commentators, the following issues must
therefore be taken into account: internal Palestinian, Israeli, regional and
international politics.
The question is, what are the
warring parties after and why is Israel carrying out this campaign as if it
were the war of the end of the world?
The Zionist State of Israel
with the participation of US imperialism - military, political, diplomatic,
armament, financial, etc. with destruction, death and massive displacement
(genocide) exceeds all the disproportionate "responses" of its
previous military campaigns in its colonial war against the Palestinians. And,
from the beginning, the Israeli-US imperialist military action, encompasses
different countries of the OMA such as Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen,
Syria and three seas of the region, and implicates on one side or the other all
the countries of that region.
It is a military campaign that
is being waged not only in its main theater (Palestine, Gaza Strip and the West
Bank), but in a very wide war scenario, where the other countries that suffer
from the Zionist-imperialist aggression cannot give a proportionate military
response to the attack received, in order to avoid the real threat of
large-scale punitive operations by Yankee imperialism, which is why they prefer
to mainly support the guerrilla resistance forces in the region, what the imperialists
call asymmetric warfare. Thus, a regular war is configured, which uses
operations typical of the imperialist war of "low intensity" against
all those who make up the patriotic forces and the front against the aggression
in Palestine and the region, as part of a large campaign of encirclement and
annihilation with the use of all its military potential by the Zionist State of
Israel with the participation of the political, economic, military and
diplomatic force of Yankee imperialism. Who, in addition, in order to impose
its order acts as a mediating power and sets the agenda for the negotiations in
motion.
Although this type of campaign
in its genocidal war is not new on the part of the occupying power, it
surpasses all previous ones. Thus, it can be seen that if the objectives of
the resistance in its long and hard struggle for national liberation were to
give a new great impetus to its war of national resistance, to unite the
Palestinian national front and the anti-Zionist-imperialist front in the MOA
and to stop the recognition of Israel by the Arab states of the region, it
can be said that they have been achieved to a large extent, which is
being paid with a necessary cost, which would be very high, but fair and
correct. Israel's objective is to carry out the war to destroy
the main force of the Palestinian resistance and to crush a crushing blow to
all the armed Palestinian resistance and to teach a lesson to the resistance
forces in the region, drying up the fish tank and imposing its recognition
as such with full right to impose its occupation order and to serve to impose
the "pax americana" in the MOA, as has been said, it has not been
achieved and will not be achieved either.
The Zionist State of Israel
does not only seek recognition beyond the boundaries of the 1967 war, but
within the current boundaries of the occupation of Palestinian territory,
including its “new colonies.” This is evident from the content of all official
government statements, as well as from the statements of the ministers of the
ruling coalition in Israel and from the attacks on the West Bank, Lebanon,
Syria and Iran, as well as from the massive US military presence, as well as
the growing pressure of US imperialism and its “allies” in the other theaters,
which involve Russia and China. For the US national strategy, one campaign is
only part of a set of campaigns in a war to seek to maintain its hegemony as
the sole hegemonic imperialist superpower, in decline, which is challenged from
all sides. The campaigns that the Yankee imperialists are engaged in, according
to the national security strategy, encompass all political, military, economic,
etc. components, in order to impose their national objectives, that is, to
maintain their declining imperialist world hegemony.
If one begins by focusing on
the “Gaza war,” the observer immediately notices an unparalleled disproportion
in the military action of the Zionist armed forces. If in the 3 or 4 previous
“Gaza wars,” counted so far this century, the Zionists killed between 4,000 and
5,000 Palestinians, in these almost 11 months they have already killed more
than 40,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 100,000. The destruction caused
in the cities and towns includes what is called the air, the ground, and the
subsoil of the Gaza Strip with its buildings, houses, sidewalks, streets,
underground water and sewage installations, etc. more hospitals, schools, aid
centers, etc. The description of all the death, destruction caused and terror
they have sought to spread not only to try to subject the population to their
genocidal will but to get a large part of it displaced to Egypt, confirms the
objective of this Zionist genocidal action to annihilate Hamas and isolate the
resistance of the masses, divide the resistance front, reduce the size of the
Strip and the population. Add to this the statements of the genocidaires of the
Israeli government, who have refused to reveal the plans they have for the
administration of the Strip, but it has transpired that since the transition
period where there will still be an Israeli military presence in the Strip, a
single administration will be established.
Comments on military operations
and military campaigns by the Zionists of Israel, say that: By displaying its
conventional power, as it has been during decades of wars or attacks similar to
those carried out in recent months, Israel is trying to regain its deterrent
legitimacy, transferring its asymmetric challenges to a scenario of strategic
symmetry in which it feels it can act with much greater security.
Similarly, the constant
speculations alleged in recent years, regarding the existence of Israeli plans
to attack and destroy the main facilities that are part of the Iranian nuclear
program, obviously have the value of a deterrent act of great weight, impossible
to be ignored by Iranian strategic thinking.
The imperialist
"allies" of the US such as Norway, Spain, etc. have given their
diplomatic recognition to a Palestinian State, according to the tenor of the
news:
May 22, 2024
Spain, Ireland and Norway
recognized this Wednesday the existence of the Palestinian State, a historic
decision that has provoked the condemnation of Israel and the joy of the
Palestinian people.
"The recognition of the
State of Palestine is not only a question of historical justice with regard to
the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people; it is also an urgent
necessity to achieve peace," said Pedro Sánchez, head of the Spanish
government, in the last few hours.
"The Palestinians have a
fundamental and independent right to have their own State. Both Israelis and
Palestinians have the right to live in peace in separate States," said the
Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, when announcing the decision.
The Palestinian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, based in the West Bank, had expressed its satisfaction at
learning of the intention of the three European governments.
If one looks at the
Zionist-imperialist military campaign on the regional stage, one sees how the
aggression is delimiting the fields. On the one hand, there are the countries
that before October 7 had advanced agreements for the diplomatic recognition of
the Zionist State of Israel, plus Egypt, which had already done so in the
1970s, and on the other, those who refuse this recognition, such as Iran,
Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. These facts are eloquent in giving us an idea
of what Yankee imperialism and the representatives of its Zionist
protectorate are seeking in this military campaign, which would be nothing
other than the recognition of Israel as a legitimate State by the Arab States
of the region based on Israel's recognition of a quasi-state Palestinian
entity, representing the inhabitants of Gaza and the West Bank, with some minor
compensations regarding the "illegal" settlements. Thus, Israel will
be able to continue to maintain that it practices apartheid because the
Palestinians live in their own territory, which is subject to its authority.
Therefore, it will not be an
independent Palestinian State that definitively responds to the legitimate
aspirations of the Palestinian people. It will not be able to end the
occupation of Palestine, nor will it allow the return of the displaced people,
and therefore it will not be able to put an end to the Palestinian resistance movement,
and the Palestinian armed resistance and the Arab peoples will continue their
fight to the death against imperialism and Zionism, will adopt
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, will form their Communist Parties as
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist militarized parties, and will transform their armed
resistance struggle into a people's war of resistance, and will put an end to
imperialism, Zionism, semi-feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, culminating
in the democratic revolution and immediately stopping the socialist revolution.
ABOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS IN DOHA
(QATAR)
The news, about the
negotiations that are taking place in Doha, after the first round held last
Thursday and Friday, the second round is scheduled for last Wednesday and which
have been postponed, are:
Hamas rejects new ceasefire
proposal
The ceasefire proposal
according to Hamas is too close to Israel's demands. There will be further
discussions later in the week.
Updated on August 19, 2024
according to Reuters, dpa,
Negotiations on a ceasefire will
continue this week.
The Palestinian resistance
organization Hamas has rejected the proposals of the latest round of indirect
negotiations with Israel on a ceasefire in the Gaza war. "After listening
to the mediators what was discussed in the last round of talks in Doha, we are
once again convinced that Netanyahu continues to put obstacles in the way of
the agreement," Hamas said on Sunday, referring to Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.
On Friday, mediators from
Qatar, Egypt and the United States reached a new compromise. Hamas did not
participate, but was informed of the results. The core of the compromise is the
release of Israeli hostages and, in return, the handover of Palestinian
prisoners and an end to fighting. The individual steps toward these goals are
controversial. Netanyahu also insists on the complete destruction of Hamas as a
prerequisite for a permanent ceasefire.
Hamas said the American
proposals were too close to the demands of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu. Among other things, Hamas will not accept a permanent presence of
Israeli troops in strategic locations in the Gaza Strip, as Netanyahu demands.
This is mainly about the so-called Philadelphia Corridor, a narrow strip of
land running in southern Gaza along the border with Egypt. Israel suspects that
Hamas has been supplying itself with weapons via this border.
Hamas rejects Israel's
proposals for a ceasefire in Gaza
Updated: 19/08/2024 source.dpa
A ceasefire in Gaza is still
not in sight. Hamas does not want to accept Israel's conditions.
- Hamas rejects the conditions
imposed and accuses Netanyahu of wanting to prolong the war.
- Hamas in the Gaza Strip
rejects the proposals of the latest round of indirect negotiations with Israel
for a ceasefire in the Gaza war. "After listening to the mediators'
discussions in the last round of talks in Doha, we are once again convinced
that (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu continues to put obstacles in
the way of an agreement," the Palestinian resistance group said in a
statement from the organization.
It was the first statement by
Hamas since the latest round of talks, which took place on Thursday and Friday
in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Hamas did not participate, so the mediators
informed it of the results. So far, Israel and Hamas have only negotiated
indirectly.
Hamas further claimed that
Netanyahu would “impose new conditions and demands to torpedo the efforts of
mediators and prolong the war.” Egypt, Qatar and the United States are
mediating the talks, which are also intended to lead to the release of Israeli
hostages held by Hamas.
Indirect talks must continue
The new proposals, according to
Hamas, are in line with Netanyahu’s conditions and deviate from the negotiating
framework presented by US President Joe Biden in May and accepted by the
parties. Among other things, Hamas will not accept a permanent presence of
Israeli troops in strategic locations in the Gaza Strip, as Netanyahu now
persistently demands. This primarily concerns the so-called Philadelphia
Corridor, a narrow strip of territory running in southern Gaza along the border
with Egypt. Israel suspects that Hamas has been supplying itself with weapons
via this border.
Indirect discussions are
expected to continue at various levels and lead to a potentially decisive phase
in the second half of the week. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
arrived in Israel on Monday to meet with Netanyahu. The Israeli head of government
has yet to give any signs of budging.
According to Israeli media
reports, the meeting between Netanyahu and his negotiators on Sunday morning
was extremely stormy. The negotiators strongly warned that insisting on the
Philadelphia Corridor would derail the desired deal. The prime minister said
that evening through his office that he continued to insist “that we remain in
the Philadelphia Corridor to prevent terrorist elements from rearming.”