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2021-04-29T15:38:44.294Z


| Security The State of Israel is leaving the corona, our opening conditions are improving, and it is time to use them and collapse what has been threatening us here for more than two decades • Opinion A chariot tank on the Gaza border The sequence of security events unfolding in recent months, especially in the context of strategic change in the United States and political instability in Israel, should co


The State of Israel is leaving the corona, our opening conditions are improving, and it is time to use them and collapse what has been threatening us here for more than two decades • Opinion

  • A chariot tank on the Gaza border

The sequence of security events unfolding in recent months, especially in the context of strategic change in the United States and political instability in Israel, should come as no surprise.

In the reality of these days all the "players" in the geo-strategic field are being re-arranged, and everyone is trying to take the most correct position towards the next stage, which may be a flare-up, or an arrangement.

First of all, the deputies, you will be surprised, are not in the conflict between Netanyahu and Saar, or between Lapid and Netanyahu - in a global context this is a minor conflict. We are in the world of farm shaking and in instability. Part of the difficulty stems from the consequences of the corona, which is known in most parts of the world to challenge regimes and intensify instability, but the change of government in America, including a sharp strategic change - shakes all environments, and the Middle East, of course, more so.

See for example the accumulation of Russian army forces on the Ukrainian border, which is all about Putin's muscle lifting as an attempt to embarrass the Biden administration, and waiting to see what will happen one day is enough to understand that we are secondary players in this game. However, when it comes to Israel, the reality is more complex - the change of government in America between Trump, who was a president who undoubtedly supported Israel in an unprecedented way, and the Biden administration, which naturally gives a cold shoulder, but these days even more so. America wants to flee the Middle East, and to that end it is trying to stabilize the conflict with Iran through an agreement - whatever its consequences. What will Israel say in this context? It seems that Biden is not really interesting. I would expect the American president to sit down with the Israeli prime minister and summarize with him lines of progress vis-à-vis the Iranians - but this is not happening, and he who understands will understand.

America will close with Iran deal. Iranian hegemony in the Middle East will continue to be established, and we are required to continue to struggle. This event has consequences. The Iranian plot holds its thin hand, part of which leads to a wave of shattering in Lebanon, part in Syria and part in Gaza. Syria, for now, is out of the game in the context of sovereign actions against us, largely due to Putin's interest in maintaining stability there, but the northern and northern fronts of Israel signal to us exactly what the Iranians want. One signal stems from the actions attributed to Israel around the shipping space and oil tankers, a second signal around the attack attributed to Israel on nuclear infrastructure, and a third signal is to America around the terms of negotiations leading up to the agreement.

In the current situation, all the arenas are bubbling, especially the Gaza arena.

In the last two years we have had a lot of quiet in this arena - part of it stems from the challenges of the Corona, part of the regulation efforts, but the status quo in the south is quite well maintained.

But Hamas is not quiet in the face of the reality described, certainly when Israeli politics bleeds, when Israeli Arabs may for the first time be part of a coalition political coalition, and certainly when Abu Mazen withdrew from elections in which Hamas was expected to win - here Hamas finds an opportunity to signal to Israel.

Documentation of the launch from the Gaza Strip towards the Negev Gate // Photo: Dedi Fuld

We have seen Hamas' signal in recent days - they have been careful to maintain short-range fire, have not intensified the launches, and the incident so far has been limited and has not taken a toll.

Much of this as a result of the Israeli non-response, which may have prevented the entry into a "strategic ambush" for which we were dragged into an escalation under less favorable conditions for us under the contexts described.

When you are in a political quarrel, and your ally's support is more subject to Shiite hegemony - you are not challenging yourself.

Hence the derived tactics.

Israel is not interested in escalation.

It does not just happen - reality as it is these days is dictated by all the happenings that unfold here.

The world is at a significant crossroads, the government in Israel is at a significant crossroads, and a security escalation may devour everyone's cards.

Hence, for now everyone prefers quiet.

In Hamas, too, apparently.

Perhaps the recent launches were a sign of things to come, perhaps a defiance, perhaps an attempt to create a connection to the Arab street, especially in Jerusalem.

In any case, Hamas is not escalating beyond.

They, too, are probably interested in quiet at the moment.

And the question being asked is does silence really serve us?

And maybe now is the time to shuffle the cards and act with all our might against Hamas, and against all the bubbling factors here - Israel is coming out of the corona, our opening conditions are much better, the IDF is ready, and now maybe it's time to act and drop the same cards that all plots including Iran play with us in them.

Israel does not run the world, but Israel is clearly a factor, and as an object of life we ​​may be in a position where the initiative must be in our hands.

Maybe this is the time to remove some of the threats that are on the agenda - because right now, when everything is bubbling and unstable, maybe now is the time to give another blow or a push, and collapse what has been threatening us here for more than two decades.

The writer is a former commander of an armored brigade, currently a military-social relations researcher

Source: israelhayom

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