“Liar, son of a liar.” This is how Tel Aviv hawk Benyamin Netanyahu is described by his detractors in the Knesset and by his close associates. And with good reason. Since the start of the war on Ghaza, the Israeli Prime Minister has used and abused lies to the point of exacerbating the Israeli street and his own allies, notably the United States. President Joe Biden knows all about it. For him, “this troublesome friend” has turned this practice into a formidable weapon to ensure his political survival. These observations are recorded in behind-the-scenes chronicles by veteran journalist Bob Woodward and relayed by the American media. This mania - for it is indeed one - for saying one thing and its opposite, rendered the diplomacy of the outgoing American administration powerless in the face of the genocide taking place in the Palestinian enclave. Even the leader of the Religious Zionism party, Bezalel Smotrich, was not spared. According to him, Netanyahu “desperately wanted” to ally himself with the Islamist Ra'am party after the 2021 elections, and called him “a liar among liars” for denying it. Smotrich's verdict is without appeal, adding: “There's no doubt that Netanyahu is a problem. But we have to choose between problems.” The same procedure is used in the decision by the head of the War Cabinet to block the entry of all goods and supplies into the Ghaza Strip. An unspeakable and unjustified reneging on the agreement reached with the mediators. Netanyahu is once again failing to honor any of his commitments, and everyone knows it. This decision comes, it should be remembered, after the Gulf states, Egypt and Jordan held a conclave in Riyadh to counter Donald Trump's plan for the future of the Ghaza Strip. A move that looks like a takeover bid on the future of the Palestinian cause, if not of Palestine. The eight have, de facto, taken a strange step, to say the least, devising a strategy in which the fait accompli will already have been tied up behind the scenes and will constitute the agenda for today's Arab League summit. According to some observers, the mini-summit is merely a reflection of the differences between Arab countries over the “post-Ghaza” situation and the fate of Hamas as a political force and resistance movement. Most of the region's leaders are eager to see Hamas disappear. Some are even proposing formulas such as confiscating the resistance's weapons and placing them in sealed warehouses until a Palestinian state is created. The reconstruction of Ghaza was also conditional on the departure of the Palestinian movement. A certain death for the cause and deep divisions among the Arab nation. The old lady of Cairo no longer has any reason to exist as the world reconfigures itself. The end of a cycle has been announced, and the failure is devastating. Every man for himself has dissolved the sacred union. Playing on these divisions, Netanyahu is pursuing his plans for a greater Israel, relentlessly phagocytizing new swathes of land and dangling a dream in front of his fellow citizens, thousands of whom beat the pavements every day to shake this mythomaniac, whom only the region's leaders continue to believe.
El Moudjahid
