Afrasianet - Ahmed Abd El Rahman - From an Israeli point of view, Mladenov is the right person for the position he currently holds, and through his positions he absolves the Israeli enemy of any legal liability related to undermining or violating the truce agreement.
Sometimes, political leaders have to take off their soft gloves to manage the affairs of their people, and instead resort to harsh and hurtful ones, as the continued inclination to favor and good intentions in fateful issues may lead to catastrophes with unfortunate consequences, especially if the adversaries lack the minimum levels of fulfillment of promises, or commitment to charters and consensus.
In the Palestinian case, after the lull agreement was reached on October 10 last year, the Palestinian side appeared to be at the highest level of commitment and discipline, and continued to do so for more than six and a half months, preferring to miss the opportunity against the Zionist enemy, which committed more than 3,000 violations, resulting in more than 700 martyrs, including senior leaders of the Palestinian resistance factions.
In Israel, they understood that this Palestinian discipline and the lack of any qualitative reaction as a result of the weakness of the resistance in the Gaza Strip, and that the structure of this resistance and its military capabilities had been damaged in a way that it was impossible to take any action against the occupation army, and this was directly reflected in a clear increase in the number of violations, in addition to the increase in their quantity and quality.
Regardless of whether this Israeli understanding reflects a reality or is the result of a miscalculation, the result is the same: this outcome has tempted the enemy's leaders to go too far in their aggression against the Gaza Strip, daring to commit murders, assassinations, and confiscation of more land without batting an eyelid and even without the need for justification, as was the case in the first three months of the fragile and crumbling truce agreement.
After the assassination of the commander of the martyr Al-Qassam Brigades, Ezz al-Din al-Haddad, his wife and daughter a few days ago, the reactions of the Palestinian resistance factions, led by Hamas, began to witness a remarkable change, and although it has not yet reached the level of reaction, it was distinguished by the responses that were described by many as cold and negative, as this time the matter was out of the ordinary, until it reached the resistance refusing to hold any meetings with regional mediators that were scheduled in Cairo during the past days, which was considered a matter that was considered It is a departure from the state of silence that prevailed in the past, and that things could be taken out of context at any moment as a result of the increase in the pace of violations of the occupation, which has made the resistance fed up in an unprecedented way.
In the same context, the resistance officially informed the intermediaries for the first time of its rejection of the disarmament issue in its entirety, and that the first thing to do is to force the occupation to implement its entitlements before talking about this matter, especially those commitments included in the first phase of the truce agreement, of which the occupation denies more than 70%.
The third change in the position of the resistance is the refusal to cooperate, even temporarily, with the High Representative of the Peace Council, Nickolay Mladenov, who has become an Israeli narrative regarding the obstacles that stand in the way of the continuation of the ceasefire, or the transition to the second phase of the ceasefire, especially after his briefing to the UN Security Council, in which he claimed that the biggest obstacle standing in the way of starting the reconstruction process and the real entry of aid is the refusal of the resistance to hand over its weapons. It surpasses in a strange and striking way the continuation of the Israeli aggression, or the scale of the massive violations that are taking place in the Gaza Strip around the clock.
From an Israeli point of view, Mladenov is the right person for such a position that he currently occupies, and through his positions, he absolves the Israeli enemy of any legal responsibility related to undermining or violating the truce agreement, and even contributes to inciting some countries of the world to resist the besieged and afflicted Palestinian people.
Mladenov is believed to have extensive relations with the Israeli enemy, especially after previously serving as the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process from 2015 to 2020, and led many rounds of indirect negotiations between the resistance in Gaza and the occupation "state" before the outbreak of the "Al-Aqsa Flood" battle, and this relationship was also strengthened by his close association with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which he founded in 2010 1985 Under the auspices of the U.S.-Israel Public Relations Committee (AIPAC), the largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, the Institute classifies Mladenov as a "Distinguished Visiting Fellow."
Mladenov, who previously served as Bulgarian Foreign Minister and Minister of Defense, in addition to being a member of the European Parliament, does not hide his vision of the current situation in the Gaza Strip in his statements or official briefings, and he believes that the problem lies in the existence of what he describes as the Palestinian "rebellion", in which he refers to the Palestinian resistance factions, and that it is this "rebellion" that prevents the transition to the second phase of the truce agreement, and that the countries of the world, especially the American side, must exert more pressure In order to force the "rebels" to surrender their weapons in full, and to refrain from playing any role in the future administration of the affairs of the Gaza Strip, in addition to calling for the need to expedite the formation of the "International Stabilization Force" to extend its control over the territories of the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to replicate the experience of the UNIFIL forces operating in southern Lebanon, which could not protect its soldiers from the aggression of the occupation, let alone provide security for the civilian population that the enemy kills with its rockets and shells in the morning and evening.
The Bulgarian diplomat is also seen in Israel as having a special relationship with US President Donald Trump, which is that this relationship helps President Trump to fully embrace the Israeli narrative, even with some public criticisms that seek to throw ashes in the eyes, and that such a relationship will undoubtedly benefit from relieving the Israeli enemy of any responsibility that most countries of the world may see as the main reason for the deterioration of the humanitarian and security conditions in the Gaza Strip, as well as the possibility of a return The war has turned again, which is what the enemy's prime minister, who is criminally prosecuted at home and abroad, is desperately seeking to delay a fate that is inevitably coming, which could throw him behind bars for the rest of his life.
In any case, we can believe that what Nickolay Mladenov is doing in holding the resistance in Gaza responsible for the deterioration of the situation, and the repeated call to withdraw its weapons so that the situation does not deteriorate, we can believe that this request comes within the framework of the preparation for the return of the military aggression on Gaza again, which can be felt through the increase in the frequency of daily Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians, which reached during the past week to target large civilian squares after warning their residents, which is what The specter of forced internal displacement has brought back the specter of forced displacement, at the very least, which many believe will widen in the coming days.
Although this development, which is disturbing hundreds of thousands of residents of the Gaza Strip, most of whom want the situation to continue as it is despite suffering from a severe shortage of humanitarian and relief needs, preferring this to the return of the genocidal war that destroyed the green and the dry and turned the small and besieged Gaza into an uninhabitable area, some believe that the situation as it is will give the enemy an opportunity to continue its crimes, which are expanding every day without being subjected to any international criticism, and without its extremist leaders being crammed into the corner of international prosecution, which, although it did not deter him from committing all crimes and punishments in the past, made him a pariah and a persecutor in many countries of the world.
Accordingly, there is a vision that has matured over the past two weeks, and it is centered on bringing about a qualitative change in the reactions of the resistance in Gaza, which may lead in some of its results to increase the level of intervention of the guarantor and intermediary countries, especially in the event that the October 10 agreement is on the verge of collapse, which is indeed what happened, as this agreement is left with only its name, while the essence of this agreement has been emptied of all its contents, and has made it a mere title with which to cover what it is committing of crimes.
On June 22, 2021, the martyr Yahya Sinwar, may God be pleased with him, came out of a meeting with Tor Wennesland, the United Nations envoy to the Middle East, describing the meeting at the time as "very bad", stressing his failure to find implementable solutions to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, and accusing the occupation of trying to blackmail the resistance.
This statement, which seemed shocking to many at the time, led to the dismantling of some crises and a relative change in the international institution's cooperation with the events in the Gaza Strip, which was reflected in the actions of the occupation at the time.
This time, despite the fact that the situation is different from what it was five years ago, the resistance seeks to raise the level of challenge in order to get out of the state of volatility in the Gaza Strip, especially at the level of the humanitarian situation, and in order to push the enemy to show some flexibility with regard to many files.
It is true that this change may push the enemy to further escalate its aggression and violations, and it is true that the situation in Gaza cannot tolerate further deterioration and collapse, but resorting to such an option may seem justified and understandable, so that things do not remain the same, and until the enemy is deprived of one of its most important cards with which it maneuvers, which achieves distinctive tactical successes for it, and in return, avoids any legal and political accountability or prosecution.
The coming days may be decisive in terms of a relative breakthrough in the overall humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, or a move towards a major Israeli escalation that may plunge the entire region into a state of instability and go into the unknown.
