Gaza – Special to Safa
What the Middle East region is witnessing today in terms of Israeli escalation goes beyond a mere passing military confrontation, to an expression of a consistent Israeli methodology of killing, destruction and the use of excessive force, which is its latest experience in Gaza that it is replicating in revenge against Lebanon, after entering the line of defense of Iran.
A prominent political analyst believes that the methodology of killing and destruction is deeply rooted in “Israel” since the Nakba of 1948, repeatedly in 1967 and up to the present day.
Suleiman Bisharat confirms during an interview with the Safa news agency that the policies of extermination, targeting the incubating environment, infrastructure, and society, and even targeting medical teams and service facilities, are tools that have never left the Israeli security doctrine, but the dangerous change today is the state of “tyranny” in the use of this method.
He says, “Israel has exceeded all the limits and stages to which it previously adhered, and it no longer cares about international criticism or legal and human rights standards. Rather, it now deals with its crimes as an acquired right, not as an act that warrants criminalization.”
In his reading of the scene, he explains that the war on the Gaza Strip was a “breaking of international standards,” adding that “through the war of extermination in Gaza, it was able to make the world accept what is less than it, which explains the lack of an international reaction comparable to what is happening in Lebanon.”
He adds, “What is happening in Lebanon appears to the international community to be less severe than what happened in Gaza, and indicates that this Israeli approach seeks to establish an equation that the price to be paid for confronting Israel will be very high and destructive to any arena that dares to do so.”
Transition from management to decision
In his analysis of the systematic shift in the Israeli leadership mindset, Bisharat argues that “Israel has moved from a stage of managing and containing the conflict to a stage of resolving the conflict and the issues definitively.”
From Bisharat’s point of view, the occupation leadership is driven by the trends of the Israeli street and society, which has become supportive of extreme right-wing policies.
“The decision-maker in Tel Aviv has come to believe that resolving the issues by force is a response to a popular demand, to the point that the Israeli public has shown a willingness to sacrifice prisoners in order to achieve this resolution, which is the principle that is now being applied in Gaza and Lebanon, and any other arena that the occupation sees as a future danger that must be completely removed.”
Regarding the major strategic goals, Bisharat believes that “Israel aspires to move beyond its narrow geographical borders to become an influential regional power that reshapes the region according to Netanyahu’s vision of the ‘New Middle East’.”
According to Israel, this requires the use of force to change the geographical and demographic features of pivotal countries such as Lebanon, says Bisharat.
He adds that the goal is to “transfer the model,” that is, to turn Lebanese cities into copies of “Khan Yunis,” as the occupation leaders have stated, in order to create a comprehensive deterrent by destroying the resistance model.
The essence of the conflict
Basharat emphasizes that the essence of the conflict in Lebanon is not only related to Hezbollah’s weapons, but also to Israel’s historical and ideological ambitions.
He explains that “Israel” had a pre-planned confrontation even if the party did not enter the confrontation line.
This points to a dangerous Torah-based ideological dimension, as the extreme right and Israeli society consider southern Lebanon to be part of the “Land of Israel” according to their beliefs, making the current confrontation a means to fulfill geographical and religious ambitions that transcend known political boundaries.#Israel is replicating the killing in the Gaza Strip
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