In Cairo, the Harakat al-Muqāwma al-ʾIslāmiyya (Islamic resistance movement) known by the acronym Ḥamās (fervor, zeal), accepted the permanent peace plan proposed by the United States. The leaders of al-Muqāwma considered the guarantees received from Washington to be sincere and reliable, which include: the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip and a total and permanent ceasefire to create a relaxed climate for peace negotiations. In exchange, al-Muqāwma undertakes to free all the Israeli hostages still in his hands and in turn ceases the military operations which since last October have put the Israeli army in serious difficulty, which has failed in its military objectives, losing the gold of invulnerability achieved during the famous “6-day war” of June 1967.
According to some Arab sources, the Jomhuriye Eslâmiye Irân (Islamic Republic of Iran) supported the American proposal while the Quaat Almuqawamat al’Iislamia (Islamic Resistance Forces) coalition declared themselves willing to interrupt the attacks on Israel and on American bases in the Middle Orient.
The Biden administration was fully committed to reaching the ceasefire as unconditional support for Israel is a political boomerang that could compromise the electoral campaign of the “Nice Old Man”, as well as forcing the European Vassassi states into the untenable position of defending a far-right theocratic regime that is carrying out genocide. A regime held hostage by fanatical religious extremists who intend to forcibly prevent the profession of Christian and Muslim faith. Let us remember the violence of April 23rd when Israeli forces blocked the roads near the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem to prevent access to Palestinian Christian faithful.
Unfortunately, the laudable American mediation was nullified by the intransigence of Netanyahu and the fanatical extremists following him. The Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq reports that the Israeli government has intentionally boycotted the American initiative with the aim of preventing any dialogue that could interrupt the ongoing genocide. The news was confirmed by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, forcing the Tel Aviv government to make the matter official by stating that it will not accept an agreement with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) regarding a ceasefire that would allow the continued detention of hostages in Gaza , or that Hamas remains in power in the country.
The refusal of the Tel Aviv regime is worsening the situation and putting the American godfather in great difficulty, who also has to manage a national student protest that has all the potential to trigger a new American ’68 during the election campaign.
While Netanyahu seems intent on continuing the genocide by preparing to attack Rafah despite Washington’s ban, the Israeli people are rising up with the intention of putting an end to the genocide and making Peace triumph. On Saturday evening, over 100 thousand Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to ask the far-right reactionary government to reach a peace agreement that would allow the release of the hostages held in Gaza. The protesters are also calling for the resignation of Netanyahu and his extremist government, and new elections.
The extremist positions taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have fueled protesters’ fury at what they claim is the prime minister’s refusal to reach an agreement to save more than 130 hostages, preferring instead to preserve political power and the support of his coalition partners far-right and religious fanatics, who insist that Israel carry out plans to invade the city of Rafah in southern Gaza and eliminate the Palestinian people in the West Bank as well.
“We will not be silent, and you will not silence us until the hostages return,” Tom Barkai, organizer of the Forum on Hostages and Missing Families, told a crowd in Jerusalem. “And this is the time to act, the time to stop counting the days and bring them back now.” The release of the hostages is closely linked to the end of the genocide and Peace.
Saturday’s demonstration is part of a tough struggle that the Israeli people have been waging for two months, even if this struggle is ignored by European journalists and politicians servile to the Tel Aviv regime. A just fight since a people who are victims of the Holocaust certainly cannot allow their leaders to carry out another one in their turn.
As the American, German, French and Italian governments attempted, the Israeli government also responded with blind violence to the Peace demonstrations of its people, highlighting the madness of the West which has embraced the cause of Total War against Dialogue, Coexistence between Peoples and Nations and Civilization. Heavy clashes between protesters and police in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem have led to a series of arrests, including a former aide to Labor MP Naama Lazimi, who was present at the demonstration after accusing the police of excessive use of force.
Carrying posters reading “Stop the war” and calling for an immediate agreement with the Hamas political movement to free the hostages, demonstrators in Jerusalem initially set out together from the main protest center of Paris Square, but eventually split in several groups heading in different directions across the city center as police rushed to contain the crowd.
One group managed to block the city’s light rail on Jaffa Street, while another stood outside the YMCA, after police formed a human barrier in front of the unauthorized march. Protesters then gathered in Paris Square, clashing with police as they unsuccessfully attempted to block a major road intersection that bordered the small public space.
Similar scenes occurred in the Israeli capital Tel Aviv, when groups of protesters marched through the city with families held hostage and attempted to block streets following a demonstration calling for new elections in the recently renamed “Democracy Square.” ” outside Kirya military headquarters.
We need a different government, a government that is not busy all day inciting and dividing,” said Uri and Bar Hefetz, father and daughter of Nirim who have been displaced from their homes since October 7. “We want to go home, and in order to go home, the entire government must go now.”
Civilian people cannot help but express solidarity and unconditional support to the Israeli brothers who want Peace and to the Palestinian brothers who resist the violence of an extremist and criminal government that carries out the most horrible act of blasphemy: misrepresenting the Word of God and the Holy Text of the Torah to justify the genocide in Gaza.
In this confused and dangerous time where financial capitalism tries to survive by shedding hatred and the blood of innocents, there is no longer room for indecision. Either we are with the Israeli and Palestinian people in favor of Peace or with the monsters who want to continue the war and with their pasdaran of crazy fringes of the political world and the media in Europe. The last genocide in the history of humanity was supposed to be the one carried out in Rwanda with the active complicity of France in 1994. The Rwandan Holocaust was supposed to remain the last… It didn’t go that way, evil took over once again.
Aurelio Tarquini
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