Afrasianet – Oraieb Al-Rantawi - The "European Awakening", despite its faults, opens a window of hope for the imminent "breakthrough" of Gaza, while the Arab "nap" was, and still is, a factor in encouraging Israel to persist in its arrogance.
Estimates differed in the interpretation of the sudden "awakening", which swept Western capitals about what is happening in Gaza of slaughter and uprooting, starvation and displacement, and it seemed that the governments that blew giraffes and loneliness to "Tel Aviv" after the seventh of October to provide help and provide "verses" of support and sympathy, and some of them entered into a "partnership" with the "state" of occupation in confronting the crimes of genocide and Arab cleansing, it seemed that they had developed a rotation in their positions, and kept themselves "safe distance", keeping them away from "Israel".
From "condemnation" and "denunciation" to the threat of recognition of a Palestinian state, to the greatest common denominator: the "two-state solution", almost no European state has left to make its contribution in the contexts of this coordinated and simultaneous "awakening", which seemed not to be completely independent of the wishes of the "American maestro", and that it did not emanate exclusively from European insides... However, no reasonable observer can underestimate it, regardless of its underlying and apparent causes and motives, in terms of the reactions it has created within the apartheid entity, most of which expressed fear of "isolation" and widespread perception of Israel by its historical incubators as a "rogue and outcast state".
It goes without saying that this official "awakening" would not have jumped to the surface had it not been for the distress of the world and the international community with the Israeli war on Gaza, which prolonged and prolonged, and caused all these disasters to the people of the Gaza Strip, including civilians, men, women and children, and if it were not for the fact that European public opinion has reacted to the chapters of extermination and cleansing, in an unprecedented manner, throughout the twentieth months of the war, especially recently, when European cities recorded unprecedented numbers of demonstrations and demonstrators.
An explanation can usually be taken that belongs to a "conspiracy theory", such as an American-inspired "awakening" and in the context of the "exchange of roles" between the Old Continent and the New World... This has happened before in other times and places, and it may have happened now, always with the aim of containing the fascist right in Tel Aviv and preventing it from penetrating further into Palestinian blood and sanctities.
In any case, neither underestimating the impact of this "awakening" is a correct approach, nor is "intimidation" a correct approach either... The "awakening" came too late, after the rise of nearly sixty thousand martyrs, and the destruction of the Gaza Strip on the heads of its people... The "awakening" also came as an "incomplete pedal" that did not reach the level of "criminalizing Israel" and "prohibiting" the Palestinian blood shed in unprecedented abundance, with the exception of a handful of Western capitals, numbering no more than the fingers of one hand.
There is ample evidence that the European awakening came "to little... to late", including the continued flow of European weapons to the Israeli killing machine, as the new German Chancellor pledged a few days ago, and reports that Paris may be in the process of placing its decision to recognize an independent Palestinian state, in a context that empties it of its content, such as burdened with conditions that the Palestinians must meet, or as if it is placed in the context of "mutual recognition", which includes "all Palestinians", including resistance factions, and not only the authority in the PLO or PLO... We do not yet know what President Emmanuel Macron has in mind, but the leaks on this subject do not seem very convenient, although the idea of recognizing a Palestinian state, which does not exist on the ground, and without mechanisms to transfer it into existence, is of symbolic and semantic importance, and has little real impact.
The revision of the EU-Israel partnership agreements, and the suspension by some countries of prior agreements or the postponement of their negotiations with them on new agreements to be concluded, are all steps that fall within the right context, even if they are not completely sufficient to isolate Israel and pay for its crimes, especially if we take into account that Europe is an indispensable partner from the Israeli point of view, and it is the owner of the project to plant it in the region (the Balfour Declaration), and the guarantor of its superiority and its entry into the nuclear club (Dimona reactor) under French auspices, in the sense that Europe is capable of doing What's much more.
However, we will still be governed by the logic of "comparison" between European positions, official and popular, and the corresponding Arab positions, official and popular as well. Here the comparison and "comparison" end, in favor of the "West", and the "Arabs" lose the match, at both the official and popular levels.
Officially, we have not heard of an Arab government that has made peace with Israel or established Abrahamic normalization with it, that it has canceled a concluded agreement, or that it has suspended or frozen negotiations on possible agreements... Military and security coordination and "joint exercises" have been ongoing, with the participation of Israeli soldiers and officers stained from head to toe with Palestinian blood. The arteries of trade continued to supply the "veins" of the Israeli economy with the inputs it needs, and it was a help to the Israeli consumer when his government was unable to secure his needs through air and sea ports... In cases where there was some kind of "stumbling" in the paths of exchange and normalization, the cause was Israeli.
At the popular level, with a few exceptions, which confirm the rule and not deny it, the European, and even American, streets were more active than most Arab streets, some of which did not lift a finger at all, and others, began to feel tired and bored, given the length of the war... The Arab street was imprinted with images of body parts, destruction and spilled blood, while the Western street did not face such a thing.
The Western street rose up against genocide, despite repression, extortion, intimidation, and the sword of "anti-Semitism" spread over the necks of its sons and daughters... While the Arab street remained governed by a "culture of fear", Arab countries indulged in competing media campaigns, to prove that they were "the most" than the aid provided to Gaza and its people, without bothering to ask: What is the fate of this aid, and has it reached its final station, or has it stopped at crossings and borders?... Nor is it asked whether the "relief diplomacy" adopted by several Arab countries, regardless of its effectiveness, can replace "relief with diplomacy", even out of the weakest faith. The "Arab regime" fell in Gaza, most likely without a second chance to try its chances of success, while the "European system" failed the same test, but the chances of overcoming it fail still exist, and may develop under the impact of massacres and public pressure.
The Arab and European regimes are not friends with the Palestinian resistance, and they lurk for it at every turn and corner. But the testimony of truth must be said, as the Arab regime seems to be the most effective in "encircling" this resistance and cutting its lifelines... There is systematic and systematic targeting of them, not only in their Palestinian stronghold, but also in neighboring countries and the diaspora, always under pretexts and pretexts, in which there is mercy and suffering in it, in which the words of truth appear to be, and in which falsehood is "settled".
We have witnessed this in the campaign to "extinguish" the Palestinian leadership, adopted by the new Syrian administration, following the campaigns of confiscation of weapons and the closure of camps and many offices, and we followed it in an ill-fated visit by the Palestinian president to Lebanon, during which he did not "bother" to have mercy on thousands of martyrs from the Lebanese resistance, including senior leaders, and acted as if he were a presidential envoy to the "Arab regime", which senses that the moment has condemned to exert "maximum pressure" on the Palestinian and Lebanese resistances, to embarrass them and remove them. From the scene, it is as if we are in front of one of the tours of Morgan Ortagus of Lebanon, and before that of the tours of Amos Hochstein.
In conclusion, the "European awakening" with its defects and shortcomings, opens a window, albeit small, for hope that a "breakthrough" for Gaza is imminent, while the Arab "nap" was, and still is, a decisive factor in encouraging "Israel" to persist in its arrogance and brutality, without fear of consequences and sanctions, although the Arabs are the ones who said in the past: "From the security of punishment offended literature", they accepted that "Israel" secure punishment and escape it, so it was only that it misbehaved politely and behaved, not with Arab resistances. And its incubators, but also with the Arab capitals of moderation as well.