BY FR. SHAY CULLEN
HAMAS had practiced and rehearsed their attack “hidden in plain sight” in Northern Gaza for two years and were ignored by Israeli intelligence. They united and trained the Islamic Jihad groups in Gaza for the coordinated attack on Israel.
Media reports say outsiders had known of the pending attack because there was a rush of short selling on the stock market of Israeli shares days before the attack. They knew what Benjamin Netanyahu did not and should have.
Now he hopes his war will end the threat and redeem himself. Despite previous attacks in the past, they were not wiped out by Israel and left in power, a useful tool for Israel.
Hamas would never negotiate a two-nation solution and that is just fine with Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Zionists that don’t want a two-nation solution either. They want a one-nation solution and to remove the Palestinians and occupy the whole of Palestine. They are doing that at present with as many as 17,000 or more Palestinians dead, most of them women and children.
The latest plan of Netanyahu is to divide Gaza and occupy the northern half and possibly build a bigger wall to contain and imprison the 2.2 million Palestinians. The United States is against it and Turkey, too. So, who will rule in Gaza after the war? No one knows.
The two-nation solution is seemingly the only feasible, long-term solution for these implacable enemies. World opinion is apparently turning against Israel. The latest bill in the US Congress to give more billions to Israel and Ukraine is blocked by Republicans.
The support by Joe Biden for the military action by Israel no matter how many Palestinians die is linked to his prospects of reelection next year. He will be looking for the US Jewish communities’ donation money for his reelection campaign.
He also has to be mindful of the votes of the US Evangelical Christians. Christians United for Israel claim they are 10 million strong. (They voted for Trump) They believe that the State of Israel has to be fully established before the Second Coming of Christ, the end-of-time event when the dead and the living will experience the “rapture” and ascend bodily into heaven and meet the Lord.
Most European countries are still burdened with guilt for allowing or supporting the Holocaust when Hitler and his SS massacred six million Jews. The German nation is totally in support of Israel.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, told the Bundestag, Germany’s Parliament, “At this moment, there is only one place for Germany. That is the side of Israel. That’s what we mean when we say, ‘Israel’s security is German ‘reason of state.”
Ireland is outspoken on behalf of the Palestinians and voted to fly the Palestinian flag for seven days over Dublin City Hall in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Politicians have spoken strongly in support of the people of Gaza.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter last Wednesday. This is an official warning to the Security Council that there is a wider global threat because of the war on Gaza.
He has called for an immediate cease fire for humanitarian reasons. The Security Council has not called for a cease-fire and motions have been vetoed.
The needs of the people in Gaza are dire and he said, “We are simply unable to meet those in need inside Gaza. The entire humanitarian system is on the edge of total breakdown. Such an outcome must be avoided at all cost.” (preda.org)/PN
