Repeating history in the West Bank; Merkava in narrow alleys
Eviralnews,, the occupying regime of Jerusalem has started a military operation called “Summer Tents” in the northern areas of the West Bank of the Jordan River, including the two camps of Jenin and Tulkarem, which are the centers of the formation of resistance nuclei in the Bank. This operation has been criticized by some European countries due to the clear violation of the Oslo agreement, which is the political-legal basis of the two-state solution considered by Western countries. These countries asked Tel Aviv to stop its attacks on the Palestinian areas in the West Bank.
The interesting thing to note about the summer tents operation is that this attack reminds the observers of the so-called “Defensive Shield” operation that was carried out 22 years ago, during which the armored units of the Israeli regime entered the Bank and while occupying Ramallah, the office of the self-governing organization They also completely besieged Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister of the Israeli regime, ordered this attack on the West Bank in 2002 after the martyrdom operation of Abdul Bast Oudeh, which killed 30 settlers and injured 150 of them.
Now, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Israeli regime, along with the policies of Ariel Sharon, has once again issued the order for a ground attack and occupation of the West Bank, as 22 years ago, Israel claimed to confront the core of the Palestinian resistance in this area with its tanks and armored vehicles. came into action
It is no secret that the Israels failed to compensate for their weakness in 2002 in the face of the Palestinian intifada and resistance through occupation with armored vehicles, this time they will not succeed in achieving their goals regarding the destruction of the resistance.
Another similarity between the attack of the Israeli military in recent days on the West Bank compared to the attack 22 years ago is that the Israels entered Ramallah in March 2002, while 200 kilometers away in the north, during a meeting in Beirut, the heads of the Arab League were planning to adopt a plan titled ” “Arab Peace Initiative”.
According to the above plan, which was supposed to be unveiled by King Abdullah, the deceased Saudi king, the member states of the Arab League committed themselves if Israel adheres to the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders regarding the formation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. The member countries of this organization will also take steps towards the normalization of relations with Tel Aviv.
Ariel Sharon responded to the initiative of the Saudis and other Arab countries with the entry of tanks into the streets of the West Bank and the occupation of Ramallah, which was considered the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, as well as the imprisonment of Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestinian Authority at the time, and further emphasized that the regime Israels will not settle for anything less than the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
This was while from the beginning of the 1990s, the Israels had started reconciliation negotiations with the Palestinians in Oslo and Madrid, with the mediation of the United States, in order to create the hope that the Israeli regime would finally, with the support of Washington, based on Resolution 181 in 1948 Will be willing to form an independent state of Palestine on the borders of 1967.
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