What did the "flood" do to the Palestinians?

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The “Flood” changed the reality of the Palestinians, the course of their national cause, and the conditions of their political entities, meaning that what came after the “Flood” was not the same as before it, at all levels, as they were faced with a new Nakba, in every sense of the word, perhaps no less dangerous and influential than the first established Nakba (1948), if not more severe and bitter than it.

It is not enough here to say that Israel is responsible, as it launched a brutal genocidal war against the Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip. This is a colonial, settler, racist, and genocidal state, as it has recently become known. It found in Operation Flood, initiated by Hamas, an opportunity to pass the plans of the extreme nationalist and religious right-wing, to oppress the Palestinian people, undermine their national project, break their dream of an independent state, and remove them from political equations.

This means that the Hamas movement bears responsibility for providing the opportunity, or facilitating, indirectly, for Israel to wage a brutal war against the Palestinian people, beyond its ability to bear, along with its responsibility for going towards the option of war with a knockout blow, as an army against an army, an option that has nothing to do with the concepts of a long-term people’s war, or with gradual resistance, which wins by points, which avoids confronting the might of the enemy army, and spares its people from being exhausted.

Three years changed the balance of the region

Now, three years after Operation “Flood,” there have been tremendous changes, the most important of which is that Israel is now positioned as the superpower in the Middle East, with a long arm extending to Lebanon, Syria, and even Yemen and Tehran, and that it is also trying to prove itself as an internal factor in the architecture of the countries of the region.

On the Palestinian side, the separation of the Palestinian entity between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was established, after the Strip became subject to a kind of international guardianship, with a special administration, according to Trump’s project, while about two million Palestinians now live on foreign aid, and what Israel provides through that, after it turned the Strip into an area unfit for living, as the largest ruin, the largest cemetery, and the most crowded and miserable areas in the world, with its direct military control over 70 percent of the land. Gaza.

As for the West Bank, Israel has come to dominate all aspects of life there, while keeping the Palestinian Authority as a mere form, with a president, government, embassies, and security services, but without any authority over the land, crossings, resources, or even the population.

In addition, Israel has worked to impose everything that would prevent the Palestinians from establishing a political entity for themselves, by dismembering the West Bank, with settlements, military checkpoints, and bypass roads, and with the establishment of a settler militia, which contributes to making the lives of the Palestinians difficult, sabotaging their livelihoods, and displacing them into narrow areas.

From the peak of military action to the peak of collapse

In conclusion, the "Flood" operation, which is supposed to be the culmination of the Palestinian military action against Israel, represented the culmination of the collapse of this form of conflict against Israel, which came in the form of a disaster for everything known as the axis of "resistance and resistance", from "Hezbollah" in Lebanon, through "Hamas" in Palestine, all the way to Iran. It even constituted a disaster for the Palestinian national movement and its project represented by a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, after the Trump initiative withdrew Gaza from Palestinian circulation, After Israel began to control everything in the West Bank.

There is nothing to cover up this Nakba. The unprecedented international sympathy for the Palestinians, especially in Western countries, including the Jewish circles in those countries, does not cover, and is not commensurate with, the horrors that the Palestinian people have experienced over the past three years, knowing that this sympathy came as a moral response to the brutal war of annihilation launched by Israel against the Palestinians, and not as support for the “flood,” as Hamas is trying to promote to mitigate its responsibility for that catastrophe.