Tel Aviv has supported and legitimized every one of Israel’s wars against the Palestinians over the years in the name of “security” and “fighting terrorism.”
Even though it was tenacious and durable, the Palestinian Resistance wasn’t really Israel’s primary threat during several of these battles. The issue has always been how Tel Aviv can murder a lot of Palestinians, including civilians, without losing its reputation as an oasis of freedom and civilization on a global scale.
Israel has been fast losing the public relations war, and it is now also losing a new sort of war.
Israel was able to shift the blame for the violence from itself to others thanks to pro-Israel western propaganda as well as deft fact- and history-rewriting by the Israelis: first, the Arabs who, it was claimed, repeatedly attacked Israel without provocation; then, Palestinian “terrorists” of all ideologies, including socialists, secularists, and, more recently, “Islamic fundamentalists.”.
Unfortunately, the Israeli hasbara was successful not because it was brilliant, but rather because the Palestinian voice was largely silenced in all spheres of life. Even today, Facebook, one of the most popular social media sites, is subject to an embargo that has spread to include them.
But the struggle for truth, intellectual honesty, and free speech continues, and Palestinian victories have now far outweighed all of Israel, its backers, and supporters’ attempts to stifle, marginalize, or silence the Palestinian voice.
Israeli crimes no longer appear to be being concealed or attributed to third parties.
There’s a reason Israeli propaganda is having its worst days. Despite the power and influence of Palestinian intellectuals, social media activists, and the multiple platforms they have available to them through their myriad networks of solidarity around the world, Israeli Hasbara itself is weak and unconvincing.
Division
Israel is a divided society. It is true that Israelis often band together in times of war, but this time the unity is vulgar and unremarkable.
Last December, the birth of a far-right, even fascist, government led by beleaguered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked mass protests that have rocked Israeli cities ever since. A trapped Netanyahu needed an outlet to rally a disaffected Israeli public behind him and appease his far-right cabinet. He decided to attack Gaza.
The decision to export Israel’s political crisis to Palestine is an old tactic. But with Palestinian resistance rising in recent years, a war in Gaza is no longer an easy option. The May 2021 war, dubbed ‘Keeper of the Wall’ by Israel and ‘Sword of Jerusalem’ by Palestinians, shows how such a silly miscalculation on Tel Aviv’s part could and could backfire.
Therefore, Netanyahu used a different model: a scaled down war that objectives one Palestinian gathering in a disconnected region, at an at once, the Lions’ Sanctum in Nablus, the Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
Netanyahu’s decision of going after Gaza and killing top forerunners in the Islamic Jihad’s tactical arm, Al-Quds Detachments, was not an erratic one. The gathering is sufficient that a particularly unequivocal and horrendous military activity can be showcased by Netanyahu and his allies as a rebuilding of ‘discouragement’, yet without including Israel in a delayed and exorbitant conflict with all Palestinian Obstruction gatherings, at the same time.
This strategy worked previously, essentially as per Israel’s own estimations. In November 2019, Israel sent off a conflict on the Islamic Jihad in Gaza. It was named “Dark Belt”. However other Opposition bunches pronounced help for the Islamic Jihad then, at that point, they didn’t take part in the battle straightforwardly. Why?
