[News] Why the Israelis are incapable of implementing a ceasefire

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Why the Israelis are incapable of implementing a ceasefire
Robert Inlakesh
August 16, 2024
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Despite empty ceasefire talks, the failure of the US and "Israel" reveals a
grim reality; the Zionist dream is crumbling into perpetual war and
economic collapse.
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   - Why the Israelis are incapable of implementing a ceasefire. Designed
   by: (*Al Maydeen English/ Batoul Chamas*)

A lot of value has again been placed upon useless ceasefire negotiations
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/mediators--role-to-oblige--israel--comply-with-july-2-paper>
supposedly aimed at ending the war in Gaza, despite Hamas having rejected
involvement in the hamster wheel process that the US is telling the world
represents a serious diplomatic effort. In reality, a regional conflict has
already been opened, the pre-October 7 world will never return and the
future of the Zionist Entity is to remain in a state of perpetual war.

Let’s be clear, if the US government wanted a ceasefire, it would have
already happened or will be announced suddenly. The framework is already
there for it, a deal could be implemented and every Israeli held in Gaza
would eventually be exchanged for a large sum of Palestinian detainees. We
need not go back far to demonstrate that such a ceasefire and prisoner
exchange is possible, a smaller truce and prisoner swap occurred in
November of last year which proved that Hamas would implement such an
agreement. Yet, neither the US nor their Israeli allies seek a meaningful
ceasefire and only play with this notion for political purposes.

Eventually there will need to be a ceasefire in Gaza, likely following a
large escalation across the West Asia region, but even in the event that
this takes place sooner rather than later, the war will continue elsewhere.

The level of genocidal extremism that is present at every level of Israeli
society is not ignorable. We are no longer talking about the intelligent
politicians, dog whistles and sanitized rhetoric of the past, this is raw
and brazen ethno-supremacy. Itamar Ben Gvir is the Israeli Police Minister
and Bezalel Smotrich is the entity’s finance minister, they aren’t some
kind of fringe elements of the settler movement in the West Bank, they
directly control the regime’s policy.

There are no notable Israeli political forces that oppose the war in Gaza
and no notable anti-war demonstrations at all from Jewish Israelis, even
the 98-Palestinians living in the occupied territories are often too
intimidated to dare hold demonstrations, despite their heartache at what is
happening in Gaza. The demonstrations that frequently take place against
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are motivated out of concern for
the Israeli captives held in Gaza and the soldiers dying at the hands of
the resistance, there is no concern for Palestinian civilians.

Western liberals have presented the argument that Israelis are fed up with
Netanyahu
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-protesters-rally--demand-prisoners-deal--early-elect>
and that he would be pushed out of power suddenly if there was an election,
in order to suggest that somehow there is a voice of reason opposed to the
current leadership. This is based upon outdated polls, the latest of which
now suggest that the Israeli Premier currently remains the most popular
politician and that despite projections that he couldn’t secure a
coalition, he would still outperform his opposition. Yet this is
irrelevant, as the issue that many Israelis have with Benjamin Netanyahu is
not that he is waging a genocidal war that is slaughtering tens of
thousands of children. We know this because all the polls suggest that the
overwhelming majority of the Zionist public believe that enough or not
enough force is being used in the Gaza Strip, while the number of those who
believe that too much force has been used remains in the low single digits
(percentage wise).

Why point this out? Because the Zionist dream has been broken on every
level. We are now well past the idea of an Israeli “deterrence capacity”
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/central-israeli-base-lacks-any-ballistic-protection--army-ra>,
let alone expansionism, it has become apparent to anyone with eyes that the
Zionist regime has no way of dealing with the threats posed from Lebanon,
Yemen, Syria, Iran and Iraq, besides opening up a wider regional war. The
Zionist regime’s military has failed in the Gaza Strip to defeat the
Palestinian resistance and is now left with no way out other than a wider
regional war or ceasefire.

If we look at the state of the Israeli economy
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-shekel-loses-1-2--of-its-value-following-haniyeh-s-m>,
tourism is dead, 46,000 businesses have declared bankruptcy
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/46-000-businesses-closed-in--israel--since-october-7--israel>,
imports and exports have plummeted, investors are withdrawing,
multi-billion dollar projects are falling through, the Port of Eilat has
gone bust, the value of the Shekel has fallen and the list goes on. In the
north of occupied Palestine, industry is dead, settlements have been
evacuated and were/are pummeled with missiles, drones and rockets, while
over 100,000 displaced have nowhere to turn.

The Israeli military is exhausted and has scattered its soldiers across the
fronts in Gaza, the West Bank and northern occupied Palestine, while they
deal with a lack of tanks and armored personnel carriers in the event that
war in the north opens up. Their ill-trained, ill-disciplined and
overworked soldiers are clearly incapable of fighting the likes of
Hezbollah.

All of this is obvious and this weakness has brought out the very worst in
Israelis that had already adopted an apartheid ideology. Deep down, they
all would like to return to the delusional racist bubble world in which
they lived prior to October 7, but it isn’t possible. The world will never
forget what has been done and the survivors will never abandon their
struggle for self-determination.

The idea that their racist settler colony can exist in prosperity at the
expense of the entire region is under threat, an existential threat, and
with this, so too is American hegemony. This is why neither Washington nor
Tel Aviv will back down from their position of pursuing “victory”. For
Benjamin Netanyahu personally, he is surrounded by a coalition of extremist
nut jobs that he helped nurture into power, a project that began in 2005.
Behind him also is an Israeli public that wants their captives returned and
may apply some pressure in that regard, but also wants to see Gaza wiped
off of the map for good. So there is no incentive for him to end the war in
Gaza from the US or domestically, since the resistance forces across the
region are the only ones that can apply real pressure.

If you want a good indication of how the Israeli society thinks, following
the declaration by International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor,
Karim Khan, that he was calling for an arrest warrant against the Israeli
premier
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/icc-files-application-for-arrest-warrants-against-netanyahu>,
Netanyahu’s support surged in the polls at the time. Or, look at the fact
that it was completely acceptable for the issue of gang-raping a
defenseless Palestinian prisoner, who died from his wounds and was held
without a charge, to be debated in the Israeli Knesset, with a member of
Netanyahu’s Likud Party passionately defending the gang-rapists. One of the
gang-rapists was even invited on Israeli television to advocate for the
actions committed by him and follow soldiers, despite there being a video
that showed the horrifying incident. There were even protests that broke
out in favor of 10 soldiers accused of involvement in the case of
gang-rape, who Ben-Gvir called heroes, and an Israeli legal representative
organisation for four of the accused argued that the gang-rape occurred in
self defense.

Whether we look at the Israeli political elite, military
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gantz-attacks-netanyahu---be-brave-for-once>,
police, intelligence, society or media, we see genocidal mania. This is
because their narcissistic supremacist ideology is collapsing before their
very eyes, they are beginning to realize that maintaining apartheid is no
longer viable.

The opportunity for the Israelis to implement the only solution that would
have enabled them to continue their existence has passed. If the Zionist
regime was actually serious about the Oslo Accords and simply accepted
international law as the consensus for a so-called two-state solution, they
could have perhaps proceeded and actually maintained their regime. However,
allowing the Palestinian people to gain access to basic human rights in
only 22% of historic Palestine was not possible for them under their racist
expansionist ideology.

We are now reaching the final phase of this settler colonial project and
the Israelis have come to the realization that maintaining their
ethno-supremacist regime of absolute privilege will mean exterminating and
ethnically cleansing everyone in their way. They are so immersed in their
own collective form of narcissism, in which they view themselves as both
the victim and hero of the story, that stopping now is impossible. This is
also why Israeli society is split down the middle on the question of what
kind of ethno-supremacist regime they seek: whether that will be a secular
or religious regime going forward.

Therefore, with full US backing they are slowly committing national
suicide. This may be a process that is somewhat delayed if a ceasefire is
reached in Gaza that prevents the immediate end of the regime by military
means, but the war will continue in other ways. The West Bank will likely
end up becoming their punching bag until they can again escalate elsewhere
and the only promise that can be made to their own people is a future of
perpetual war.
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