Rasem Obeidat: Jerusalemite writer and analyst


It seems that the boiling of the Palestinian cauldron will reach the point of explosion, as the entity state, with its extreme right-wing government and its Jewish fascism, believes that the circumstances and the regional, international and local environment are favorable for it to resolve the conflict with our Palestinian people by force, and therefore it is escalating its comprehensive war on our people, annexation, Judaization and a settlement “tsunami”. And unleash all the herds of settlers, so that they can practice all forms of their bullying, orgies, and attacks on the villages and towns of our Palestinian people, and that orgy, bullying, and arrogance, receive care and protection from the influential people in the right-wing government from Jewish fascism, and so that they are praised and applauded, and their arrest and trial are prevented, as happened. In the crime committed by two settlers against a resident of the village of Burqa - Nablus, the young man Qusay Mutaan, last August, these crimes are expanding and continuing, and these herds of extremist and fascist groups will baptize the Temple groups, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, Yitzhak Varslav, Shuli Muallem, Yehuda Glick and other leaders of extremism and fascism. To employ them in the upcoming Al-Aqsa battles, which the entity’s state policy towards is based on converting it into a Jewish place of worship. This policy is represented by Jewish fascism, at the forefront of which is the fascist Ben Gvir, the minister of what is known as “Israeli” National Security, who has stormed Al-Aqsa three times since the formation of this government. January, May and July of the current year, and the upcoming Jewish holidays are expected in the months of September, the Hebrew New Year (16 and 17) of the current September, Yom Kippur on the 25th of the same month, and the Feast of Sukkot, extending from 1- Next October 7, these three holidays will be used by all followers of Jewish fascism, in order to create a fundamental breakthrough in the status and status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, enabling the imposition of Jewish sovereignty and hegemony over it, and the transition from the Islamic era to the Jewish era through policies of religious replacement. And exploiting every religious and “national” occasion, to realize the dream of establishing the alleged temple in place of the Dome of the Rock Mosque. Waiting for the coming of the Messiah the Savior to build the temple, and consecrate Al-Aqsa as a place of Jewish worship.


These intense symbolic meanings are what make the Zionist right, in its various positions in government, security, courts, and Temple groups, see it as a goal worth insisting on.


It is expected that in the next three Jewish holidays, the Talmudic and Torah groups will not only strive to blow the trumpet inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, practice the rituals of epic prostration, enter most of the intruders wearing the white robes of priests, and bring in Easter plant offerings of palm fronds, willow branches, and dried citrus fruits, but also These incursions will focus on carrying out incursions from several of Al-Aqsa’s gates, especially at Al-Isbat Gate, the main controlling entrance to Al-Aqsa and the Old City, as it is the backbone of its trade and economy. Most of their goods are entered by Jerusalemites through it, so when it is controlled, this means Killing the commercial and economic movements there. The other door that will be focused on in the raids is Bab Hatta. Controlling it allows the settlers to communicate with the settlement outpost, “Beit al-Muadhamiyah,” which was seized in the deal to leak the properties of Bab al-Khalil, the Petra and Imperial Hotels, in the year 2004.


The other explosive factor in the situation on the Palestinian level is the continuous targeting of the prisoners of our people in the prisons of the entity, where the fascist Ben Gvir sought and is seeking to turn their lives in the prisons of his entity state into hell, especially after the “Freedom Tunnel” operation, in which six of the heroic prisoners of our people were able to free themselves, with an operation that penetrated all security and electronic oversight devices, to damage the entity’s security system in its central nerve, and to confirm that the will and determination of the Palestinian fighter is stronger than all security, electronic and construction precautions and fortifications, an operation that reflected itself positively on the morale and psychology of our heroic prisoners, and as a response to this operation. And besieging its repercussions on the captive movement, the fascist Ben Gvir launched a comprehensive war on our heroic prisoners. Every day a new law is introduced and enacted or a new decision is taken to tighten the noose on them. From enacting a law and approving it on the first reading in the “Knesset” imposing the death penalty on the prisoner who kills soldiers and settlers. To withdraw many of the achievements and gains that were made with blood, sacrifices, and martyrs, by making the prisoner visit to residents of the West Bank once every two months, instead of once a month, and setting the shower hours for prisoners in the section to one hour, as well as the times for hot water, and preventing the mixing of Fatah and Hamas prisoners in the cell. Prison departments, charging prisoners with the costs of treatment and surgical operations, reducing the period of respite, preventing prisoners from cooking in the rooms, reducing the types and quantities of goods in the prison “cantina”, practicing policies of oppression, abuse, provocation and continuous inspections day and night, and expanding the policy of isolation and continuous transfers. Against the prisoners on a large scale, as well as the policy of medical neglect, and the attempt to break the prisoners’ “strategic” weapon of open hunger strikes, by not accepting the demands of the prisoners, and leaving them on strike to death without providing them with treatment, as happened with the prisoner, the martyr leader, Khader Adnan, who was left to die. The last time in his cells after 86 days of open hunger strike last May. Ben Ghafir also sought to dismantle the organizational structures of the factions.


Ben Gvir and the government of the extremist right-wing and the Jewish fascism will escalate their targeting of the captive movement and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. These are among the issues in which they are in a hurry to resolve the conflict, because they have great value in the depth of the conscience and conscience of our people. These issues directly affect every Palestinian home, as they are the focus of consensus among all components. The components are political, religious, societal and popular, and therefore the escalation of targeting by the entity state and its extremist thugs will push towards an explosion of the situation, an explosion in its repercussions that will go beyond the borders of the two issues, affecting all Palestinian arenas, and perhaps if things get out of control, the entity will find itself facing On multiple fronts, especially in the issue of Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Jerusalem axis said after the “Saif Al-Quds” battle, May 2021, and after the ten-hour battle last April, against the backdrop of the attack on the men and women stationed in Al-Aqsa, and the continuous incursions into it in the holy month of Ramadan, that it is absurd. The fate of Al-Aqsa is equivalent to a regional war, and with the approaching of the Jewish holidays, for which Talmudic groups are mobilizing and continue to incite their groups and supporters to carry out the largest storming operations into Al-Aqsa, under the slogan “Return to the Temple Mount,” things are likely to explode in a large and widespread manner, especially if the storming operations take place from More than one chapter, and these groups succeeded in imposing the facts of temporal and spatial division, and transferring Al-Aqsa Mosque from a purely Islamic mosque to a shared holy place through religious replacement policies.


The battle is coming and the Palestinian cauldron will explode, and neither all forms of normalization with the official Arab regime nor the continuation of security summits will succeed in preventing this cauldron from exploding. The entity’s government and its political vehicles have nothing to offer our people except to legitimize and perpetuate the occupation, and economic and financial aid in exchange for security services and calm.

Palestine - Occupied Jerusalem
8/9/2023