Israel and the Jews, after Hamas what?

By: Ricardo Israel - 26/11/2023

In this column there is a search for perspective, of trying to find trends and clarity. It is not something new or original, since, since ancient times, there has been a desire to anticipate the future, be it the winner of an election or the lottery numbers. In fact, although we do not always realize it, we try to anticipate the future in everyday events, including that I wrote this column hoping to find readers, a fact that cannot be verified until it is published, that is, an attempt to anticipate the future.

However, everything is complicated by more complex situations such as economic or political events, and, by the way, even more so, by wars, so one can end up confusing the foreseeable future with personal desires.

I make this precaution, since after fulfilling the double objective of eradicating Hamas and the release of the hostages, come tasks of great importance for Israel and the Jews, not only who governs Gaza, but also what the atrocities of the 7th uncovered. October, the reappearance of the world's oldest phobia, anti-Semitism, or as I prefer to approach it, Judeophobia. The snake's egg was present even in the elite universities of the USA.

And if the Jews learned anything this month, it is that they matter less to the rest of the world than they thought, and at the same time they support each other more than they themselves thought.

Hamas is not only military power and terrorism, since it is also a financial empire, as demonstrated by the resources managed by the top leaders in Qatar, perhaps with funds that include aid from the European Union, the USA and other countries, stolen from the Gazans. In this regard, will there be a desire to seize this ill-gotten money? An issue where the participation of the United States is irreplaceable, given that it still maintains control of international transactions, at least those carried out in dollars.

Will action be taken against the origin of the current wave of Judeophobia in universities around the world? Without a doubt, in the USA they are not the usual suspects on the right and left, but rather they are found in current progressivism. Ideas that have to do with oppressors and oppressed, and that, through the so-called intersectionality, that is, different points that converge into another, where through the idea of oppressors and oppressed, Jews end up becoming “colonizers” of their original land, where they have also been the only ones who have governed it, since all the rest have been (transitory) empires.

Will the only community with the necessary support and resources be determined to take the elite universities and their authorities to court, who, when it comes to Judeophobia, are not much different from the rectors of Germany in the 1930s? I'm talking about the United States and a legal battle that ideally should end in the Supreme Court.

Israel took off the gloves with the “never again”, but have the Jews of the world woke up, even those who do not identify as such or feel part of a community? In this regard, the criterion of the Jewish Agency seems to me to be correct, that "anyone who identifies as a Jew" is a Jew, although history teaches that many ended their lives in the Holocaust or in pogroms without feeling like such, but that is how they died, since those who hated them did not notice these trifles, and in fact, there is no judicial ruling or law in Israel that defines who is or who is not, beyond following the religious disposition that comes from tribal times, that it is one who comes from a Jewish womb, however, not every Jew is religious, and clearly some are not.

What does not change is that today the Holocaust is not repeatable because the State of Israel exists, and that is the ultimate protection of every Jew, whether he wants to be one or not, as, for example, those whom Israel has rescued from military coups in Latin America or those who for religious reasons await the Messiah and therefore reject the State and accuse it of being the cause of the current misfortunes of the Jews, and shake hands with the Iranian ayatollahs or advised Arafat on Jewish issues, already in the 70s. The State also protects them, even if they do not recognize it as such, and do not even pay taxes or request a passport.

The above is part of the diversity that has always existed in the Jewish people, which many find difficult to understand, which is why the Jewish request is always only one of respect, since there is no search for faithful in religion or in political Zionism , there is no tradition of proselytism.

To begin with, not only Jews reside in Israel, since the Arabs of Palestinian origin who live there are 21.1% according to the last census (5% with other origins) and consistently represent a fifth of the electorate, which always has transformed them into one of the political groups with the greatest support in the Knesset or Parliament of Israel. By the way, it does not consider the population living in other countries or occupied territories, but the fact is that with 73.9% Jews, it is the only country where they are the majority, and where its most important religious festivals are holidays. Something not minor, considering the Judeophobia that runs through the main Western countries.

It is also the unresolved root of the conflict, since a country with a Jewish majority continues to be unacceptable for many people in the Middle East and in the world, that there is a country where Jews are not a small minority, since even in the United States They do not exceed 2.4% of the population and in the world they slightly exceed 15 million, a drop in a world ocean of eight billion, although the Jewish population has not yet recovered the numbers before the Holocaust, that is, more than 16 million in 1939.

This is a fact, as is the one that emerged from the recent negotiations to exchange hostages for prisoners, something that was only known among specialists, that Hamas is not the only group with weapons in Gaza. Known was the Islamic Jihad, a group directly created by Iran, manifested today in the fact that Hamas could only hold 100 hostages under its control, since another 130 are divided between the Jihad and other smaller groups, with hostages even in the hands of drug groups and individuals, who took advantage of kidnapping people as a way of doing a criminal business.

A warning of the chaos that could await whoever decides to take charge of Gaza.

A pause may favor the possibility that the Hamas leadership evades the siege that Israel has on them, and was only accepted by Jerusalem because of the success it has had in what appears to be a military triumph over Hamas, and in this regard, it is useful to remember all the opinions coming from Europe and the United States, that Israel should not enter because it was going into a "trap", which was also the opinion of Hamas, that after October 7 Israel would thoughtlessly follow the murderers and their hostages.

Although since 1948 there have been eight wars in the Middle East and Israel has not started any, and although it has won all of them militarily, it has not achieved peace and, rather, has lost the subsequent narrative.

Despite the announcements of a disaster, Israel did not listen to the doomsayers and imposed its times and its strategy, with known results, very negative for the terrorists. Although Hamas is not going to disappear, nor have Al Qaeda or the Islamic State, its power to control a territory like Gaza, impose a totalitarian religious dictatorship on its inhabitants, and repeatedly attack Israeli, Jewish or Arab civilians can be diminished. His defeat may be achieved, but it will not disappear, since he has supporters, as demonstrated by the way in which the indiscriminate killings of October 7 were applauded and his electoral victory in Gaza 17 years ago, where there have been no new elections as nor where the Palestinian Authority governs.

It can continue as a social, religious or political group: as a terrorist group, but not as a military and government power, with the use, as has been demonstrated, even of hospitals and schools for the jihadist cause, as well as the use of Palestinian civilians as shields. human rights, in clear violation of what is established in the four Geneva conventions (and their additional protocols) that have regulated wars since the 19th century, and where the Hamas leadership has violated legal provisions, and therefore, can be sanctioned, detained and tried, in accordance with international law.

Israel announced the military operation on Gaza pointing out the dual purpose of its never again: to remove Hamas from power and free the hostages, but, once both are fulfilled, other duties stand out, with a clarity that is not always evident in conflicts of this type. . And although it is not always true that Israel and the Jews have common interests, this time the coincidence is complete.

The first issue for Israel after the military defeat of Hamas must be who takes charge of the government of Gaza, which, by the way, includes its reconstruction. This step is related to the dehamasification of Gaza, the equivalent of what was the denazification of Germany. For its part, Israel's “Never Again” is going to take shape in those Arab countries where the overwhelming majority took to the streets to say that Hamas (and for some, Hitler) was right. It will become flesh, when the victim stops being blamed and not the perpetrator of October 7, equivalent to what was observed in the West, where crowds explained the aberrations that took place by the "context", in which in the end the Jews would have been deserved, what happened to them.

Israel left Gaza in 2005 expecting not to return and nothing indicates that this has changed, so for no reason, Israel should be in charge of the subsequent stage, even though no Arab or Islamic country has offered refuge to the Palestinians of Gaza. , even if it is as a temporary relief to their sufferings, caused by Hamas, as well as the one who ordered the October 7 invasion, and if it was Iran, its objective for now seems achieved, since it prevented peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which was moving towards its signature in the White House.

I would not propose the UN to take charge of Gaza, since it is an organization that today is deeply anti-Israeli, and it is enough to listen to the opinions full of Judeophobia of Antonio Guterres, its secretary general or the routine condemnations of the General Assembly and the Commission Human Rights, where half of its resolutions are dedicated to condemning Israel, a situation between unjust and absurd, which is repeated in the refugee agency, UNESCO and Unicef.

If the UN is out of the race, I would not like to see the European Union with that mixture of do-goodism, inefficiency and authorities that, without being elected by anyone, seek to “discipline” the member countries, with the result that each time, the result has been, a growing irrelevance, to which is added a contempt for the State of Israel and tolerance for Judeophobia, which, together with its “moral superiority”, would be a negative presence for the cause of peace.

Who do I prefer? Clearly to Sunni Arab countries, those like Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Morocco, and others, who are also aware that they would be next on the list, if jihadism manages to win this hand. Unlike those who parade in the streets of New York and Paris, they not only know and have suffered from these groups, but they also fear the ayatollahs, and they know that Iran is behind Hamas and current international terrorism. For the rest, I think they have fewer complexes than Western countries, and would accept Israel having a security presence in Gaza.

Of course, I do not see them participating if there is not a real political, technological and economic commitment from the United States and also from China, to give sufficient support to what should be the jewel in the crown of this initiative, which is ideally a solution definitive. They know better than anyone that Hamas buried the two-state solution for a long time, which I still believe is the best, since all the others are worse. Furthermore, on November 17, a poll by the Arab World for Research and Development appeared with the finding that 75% of Palestinians supported Hamas on October 7, which would further explain that no voices have been heard from political representatives who dared to condemn or at least criticize the savagery of October 7.

It is the kind of clarity that ethics and the moral compass provide.

Ah, I stand corrected, as there are Arabs and Palestinians brave enough to condemn what happened. They are Israeli Arabs, citizens of Israel who have always had rights, unlike Palestinian exiles from 1948 who live in Arab League countries and who, even today, continue to be second-class citizens.

Regarding responsibilities, in the case of Israel, before the “Me Too” of Hollywood, an Arab judge of the Supreme Court of Israel drafted and signed the sentence that in 2011 sentenced Moshe Katsav to seven years for raping his assistant , when he was none other than president of Israel. “When a woman says no, she means no,” reads the sentence, a phrase that would become a cry throughout the world, although few know about what is mentioned here.

There are impressive scenes of Israeli Arabs rescuing Israeli Jews that day and afterwards. It's not a perfect relationship, but you rarely hear of clashes between these two groups of Israelis. It is not perfect, but it works the same or better than between whites and African Americans in the USA or in Latin American countries, between power groups and their native peoples.

There I would also highlight an Israeli, one of those who build bridges for now and the future, one of those who understand that October 7 was not a war between Jews and Arabs, but between civilization and barbarism, exactly what the universities have not understood. elite is that the Israel-Palestinians conflict is complicated, but the horror of October 7 is not, where there can only be condemnation of what happened in the kibbutzim near Gaza, something that European Judeophobia simply cannot understand.

That Israeli I was thinking of is Muslim and leader of the United Arab List party, without whom the Bennet government, prior to Netanyahu's current one, could not have assumed office. His name is Mansour Abbas. His ideas are those of the Muslim Brotherhood, that is, the same stock from which Hamas comes, but he has spoken, despite the threats to his person, against the horror as well as, by the way, against the Israeli response. In his words, this deputy has said that as an “Israeli Arab he feels the pain twice, once as an Arab and once as an Israeli”, in addition to highlighting the Druze and Bedouins, and as an explanation I add that they are two groups that excel in service. to the Army, including the current war.

This is a reality as powerful as the other, that of terror. Another additional reason to prefer over the West, a Gaza without Hamas, but with the presence of Arab states in the future government, which hopefully has the presence of the Palestinian Authority, and I pray that a Palestinian leader who wants to make peace finally appears. with Israel, accepting it as a Jewish state, alongside their own, without wanting it to disappear, which happens every time it is asked to be from the “river to the sea”, and whose absence has made peace impossible, perhaps, since before 1948.

To do this, the Palestinian Authority must act according to its Oslo commitments, that is, be a government, and not passively accept being expelled from Gaza by a terrorist movement; Not only that, but hundreds of deaths from their ranks, since the first victims of Hamas were them, “infidel” Palestinians according to the coup plotters' speech in 2007. And, secondly, committing that, from the territory under their control , there will be no attacks on other places, that is, Israel. Since, if they complied with this, there would be no reason for the entry of troops, as is increasingly the case in the West Bank, where they continue to be the government, and pay the families of the terrorists who kill Israelis, Jews and Arabs in their attacks. . And in a recent forum with a Palestinian Ambassador on France 24, I was impressed by his refusal to accept any form of responsibility for what is happening today.

There does not seem to be a regional war, not even with Hezbollah in Lebanon. The truth is that the major puppet master that is Iran does not want to endanger its own government. And they are cowards, who did not even react when the USA eliminated the head of global terrorism, General Soleimani, in 2020. Furthermore, he had limited confrontations with Israel for years in Syria and lost them all.

Israel took off its gloves. Now it is up to the North American Jewish community to take them out, to attack the hate speech that has taken over the streets of the United States. I think the way is to take the elite universities to court, including those from which the chains of Jew-hatred have been loosened, that is, Harvard (whose Nazism went unpunished in the 1930s), Cornell, Columbia, others. . Rich institutions, and where their authorities have allowed Judeophobia in a similar way to that of rectors of German universities in the 30s. And I offer to participate in this task, since I believe I have the knowledge and experience to be able to collaborate.

The task is to act against such powerful institutions and personally against their authorities, while at the same time doing so against media outlets, where those like CNN or the New York Times have little to be proud of, despite the awards they routinely give each other. others every year.

In the USA, almost US$800 million was awarded to Dominion as reparation for Fox News for having stated that its voting machines had collaborated in Trump's defeat; equal or greater amounts could be given to these plaintiffs, especially if the press and universities They allow the repetition of hateful arguments used by Nazism and even before, by the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a tsarist creation to justify their pogroms. Even worse, that in universities the lies developed by the Soviet KGB about “racism” and Israeli “Apartheid” are repeated, even today in force in new generations.

Israel has already acted against Hamas. It is up to the US Jewish community to do so against the elite universities, with the idea of reaching the Supreme Court, a ruling that would be the best way to reduce, and ideally remove, anti-Semitism from the streets, and to impoverish well-known anti-Semitism activists hatred of jews. I conclude with words from the US special envoy for the fight against anti-Semitism: “You can be a PhD and an HDP at the same time”

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-PhD in Political Science (Essex), Lawyer (U de Chile, Barcelona), presidential candidate (Chile, 2013)

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