‘Israel’so Weak to occupy Gaza Strip...This is why!

Zuhair Indrawos - al-Akhbar newspaper

"Israeli" Channel 2 held last Thursday a special interview with former Defense Minister and Chief of Staff during Operation "Defensive Shield" the occupation force executed on the occupied West Bank in 2002, Shaul Mofaz. Asked about his opinion on the proposal of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to reoccupy Gaza Strip to terminate Hamas, he said that he utterly refused this suggestion, confirming that "Israel" must cooperate with Egypt to besiege Gaza in order to prevent the Resistance from firing rockets towards south the occupation state.

Former Director of the Internal Security Service, Yuval Diskin, has warned on his Facebook page of reoccupying Gaza with the aim of toppling Hamas, claiming that the Islamic Movement was less important than others active in the Strip and indicating that the Movement's control of the Strip is the best of all evils. For his part, General Ouzi Robin confirmed in a study he had carried out that intercepting the Palestinian missiles was less costly than reoccupying Gaza, pointing out that there isn't and won't be any "Israeli"government capable of taking a decision to occupy Gaza because of the strategic, regional, and economic reverberations.

Amid the hysteria rattling the "Israeli Jewish society, and amid the demands of politicians and military men to deal a harsh blow to Hamas in the Strip, including occupying it, and amid the rampant fanaticism among "Israelis," especially after the three settlers' bodies were found, are the decisions makers in Tel Aviv bold enough to take this step and occupy the Strip, considering what Maariv published last Wednesday, quoting "senior" political and security instances as saying that the army does not intend to venture into wide into a military operation in Gaza, and confirming that as to firing missile from the Strip, messages were traded between Hamas and "Israel" through Egyptian mediation about both parties' wish to calm things.

Sources maintained that the aforementioned came during a meeting for the Cabinet. Therefore, despite the pressure of the public opinion, "Israel" does fear venturing into an invasion operation of Gaza, not just because of the priorities of the Hebrew state, but because of many other reasons that render occupying the Strip quasi impossible.

Nonetheless, "Israel" is capable of executing the plan owing to its military force and to its supremacy comparing to the Palestinian Resistance in the Strip on all levels. Yet, most probably, the occupation state will not occupy Gaza, but will be content with a barbarian brutal land hostility similarly to its last attack and the lone before it, in an attempt to destroy the infrastructure of Hamas's military force. "Israeli" intelligence services know well that the locals of Gaza owe all kinds of weapons; therefore, in the event of occupation, "Israeli" soldiers will become targets to the Palestinian Resistance. Mofaz wonders: If we occupy Gaza, what then? Will we provide people with food and beverages and bear expenditures? In addition, the Occupation is fully taking over the West Bank and receives backing from the security apparatuses affiliated with Oslostan. Still, whoever managed to do it did it and snatched three settlers with the Shabak failing to find the bodies before 18 days after the three went missing. Moreover, "kidnappers" are still at large. Therefore, can the "Israeli" army foil attempts to detain soldiers in the event of Gaza occupation? Just a reminder, the Islamic Resistance detained soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006 in a quality operation along the border wire and "Israel" couldn't recuperate him before a swap deal with Hamas.

Furthermore, the reoccupation of Gaza Strip will inflict upon the Hebrew state tremendous economic losses. Besides, the Resistance shall not remain cross-handed and will certainly fire missiles towards the South and paralyze the daily life of more than one million "Israeli." This is a per se a huge loss on the economic, psychological, and physical levels, especially considering that Hamas targeted Jerusalem and Tel Aviv during the recent attack. In other terms, he who thinks that Gaza occupation is a piece of cake is mistaken!

Separately, the international community refuses extensive occupation on the popular level; that is, if "Israel" occupies Gaza, the public opinion worldwide will get incensed against it, especially as many decision makers in Tel Aviv have started warn of "Israel's" isolation which has become to constitute a strategic danger that is as perilous as the Iranian nuclear dossier, considered by the "Israeli" an existentialist threat. In addition the US and Europe will find themselves in a huge trouble and embarrassed because the image that will come from Gaza in the event of its occupation will make them war crimes. It is worth-mentioning that many "Israeli" politicians and military leaders are still pursued in Europe by organizations supporting the Palestinian Cause before European courts for war crimes charges. Moreover, any "Israeli" wishing to travel abroad is bound to obtaining a special permission from judicial counselors at the competent ministries.

Even though we don't rely on Arab leaders to curb the attack on Gaza, the tactical and strategic interests play an important role in this cause. For instance, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi, shall not allow himself to leave the Palestinians in the Strip like orphans who were left to their wilderness, especially that he had shuttered to close tunnels to prevent Hamas from smugglings arms; and the supposed "Israeli" attack does not target Hamas, but nearly a million and half a million Palestinians who live in the world's biggest prison, called Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, despite the humiliation witnessed throughout the Arab nation, we do not that Arab leaders can now take a neutral position while "Israel" is perpetrating massacres against the Palestinians in Gaza; and since the Arab states are absolutely affiliates with the United States, they are as well capable of wielding influence on the US administration in Washington to prevent the Occupation state from reoccupying the Strip.

We strongly rule out the reoccupation of Gaza but we expect that this state deal painful blows to the Resistance in the Strip, more painful than before, in order to silence the public opinion, and because this state has been established upon aggressiveness, crimes, and massacres; but in counterpart, we do not rule out either that the Resistance fires missiles which, according to sources in Tel Aviv, have not been used as yet, and which are as well capable of hitting targets in the depth of the Hebrew state.