But is Abu Mazen credible?
Is a Gaza rebuilt and liberated by Hamas , but entrusted to the almost ninety-year-old and already discredited president of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen, a desirable scenario? Damato's Scratches
It is the right and/or duty of the news, for goodness sake, the daily spectacle offered by newspapers and televisions of the rubble of Gaza and the columns of Palestinians fleeing from what were once their homes, their schools, their churches, their their hospitals, their squares, their alleys. It is less so, both as a right and as a duty, to negatively connect these images to the Israelis who, except for a few hours-long humanitarian pauses, do not give up continuing their military operations. And therefore make it a reason, one more reason to contest the line of defense of the Jewish State after the pogrom of 7 October last, just over a month ago, which cost the lives on Israeli soil of 1,400 men, women and children beheaded in the cradles, or killed with parents who tried to protect them. And freedom for hundreds of people who have become hostages in the hands of Hamas terrorists like the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians under whose homes missile batteries aimed at Israel, depots of other weapons and ammunition, operational commands have been built for years etc.
Linking rubble and poor people fleeing only to Israel, its troops, their commanders, its government and its allies, and building on it street demonstrations to equate the Star of David with the Nazi swastika or nominally partisan pacifist appeals it means – as Giuliano Ferrara rightly wrote in the Foglio – ending up “below reality”. Where, moreover, in recent years the declared haters of the Jews had already made themselves safe by transforming the bowels of Gaza – I repeat – into arsenals and remaining there obstinately, and not at all idle, even after the destruction began due to their presence. the visible part of the unfortunate Gaza. Which was evicted at the time by the Israelis, forcibly driving away even the so-called settlers, so that the Palestinians could live there in peace. A peace unfortunately violated first by those who dishonestly and cynically propose to be their defenders and protectors, or "liberators", as President Erdogan, incredibly still a participant in the Atlantic Alliance, defined them with no less dishonesty and cynicism in front of the Turkish Parliament . Where no dissenting voice appears to have been raised.
IS ABU MAZEN REALLY THE SOLUTION?
There is only one thing perhaps worse than this show. It is the scenario that the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken is working so consistently on – also below reality, one would like to write – in his travels from one part of the Middle East to the other: a rebuilt Gaza, and hopefully cleared out even in the basement, entrusted to the almost ninety-year-old and already quite discredited president of the so-called Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen, or what remains of it.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/abu-mazen-gaza/ on Fri, 10 Nov 2023 06:41:07 +0000.