Hamas’s eternal goal (and not only that) is to wipe out Israel
Those who follow – for work or driven by simple curiosity – the main social networks , immediately notice that, parallel to the bloody battle for Gaza, another is in full swing. This time it is a media battle, in which individual visitors to the Net, journalistic agencies more or less lined up and sites of sympathizers from both camps take part.
Well, it is easy to see that the disproportion is truly enormous. The messages in favor of Israel's reasons are outclassed by pro-Palestinian ones to such an extent that it is even difficult to quantify. And in the latter there is never the slightest hint of the dynamics that led to the tragic events still in progress.
Nobody intends to deny that the Israelis have made some political mistakes in recent decades. I cite only the most sensational example. Was it really necessary to inaugurate the settlement policy, with settlers living in isolated villages (like blockhouses) within the Palestinian territories? It certainly wasn't. It is a policy which, supported by Jewish extremism, has inevitably led to the strengthening of the opposite extremism. And now the consequences are being seen.
In the case of Gaza, however, I think the picture needs some more clarification. I happened to read an article in an online newspaper in which Hamas is surprisingly portrayed as a kind of Islamic Saint Vincent (or Salvation Army), all dedicated to caring for the poor and the sick.
In reality it is an organization that has conquered the Gaza Strip after a fierce and bloody struggle with the militiamen of the Palestinian National Authority, which in fact has been totally eliminated from those territories. Not only. Even more important is to remember that in the preamble of its founding statute the mission of the movement is identified with the destruction of the Jewish state. It states, in fact, that "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until the moment in which Islam cancels it".
There can therefore be no mediations of any kind, since the adversary is unequivocally denied the same right to existence. The chronicles then showed that Gaza was transformed into a fortress, concealing the missile ramps in civilian settlements and equipping it with a system of underground tunnels of such width that the famous tunnels built by the Vietcong in the Vietnamese war seem child's play.
And the ramps, despite the tremendous pressure from the Israeli army, continue to strike. The Iron Dome shield, however effective, fails to block everything, so much so that in recent days dozens of rockets have hit Jewish cities and civilian settlements.
With this Israel risks isolation from the rest of the world. As Fiamma Nirenstein and others wrote, Israel is now alone, both psychologically and physically. And this is one of the main objectives that Hamas aims to achieve by launching thousands of rockets on the territory of the Jewish state.
At this point it matters little whether the Israeli army will truly succeed in destroying all the ramps and closing all the tunnels. As things stand, it seems very difficult that military intervention could achieve such complete results.
More important is another finding. With the widespread diffusion of Islamic radicalism, the picture has regressed by several decades. Despite the promises of "Abraham's peace", no negotiation and no mediation is possible for Hamas , even if something can be conceded on the spot to ease military pressure.
Israel is considered a foreign body to the region, imposed by the West. Not being able to wage large pitched battles against regular armies, as happened in the past (for example in the "Six Day War"), he has to face the trickle of a thousand small battles with enemies who are on the doorstep and, often, inside. of its own territory.
Thus the old idea, dear to anti-Semites from all over the world, of "throwing Jews back into the sea" spreads, forcing them to another exodus to avoid a new Holocaust. Except that the Israelis do not seem at all willing to suffer (they have, as is well known, also equipped with nuclear weapons). In the absence of credible and authoritative external mediators, the clock of history is found with the hands that inexorably go back.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Atlantico Quotidiano at the URL http://www.atlanticoquotidiano.it/quotidiano/leterno-obiettivo-di-hamas-e-non-solo-e-cancellare-israele/ on Sat, 15 May 2021 03:53:00 +0000.