About a year after the May riots in the mixed cities, a new axis of cooperation is emerging between Hamas Gaza and extremists among Bedouin and Israeli Arabs in the Negev.
This alarming event, which was revealed after the two attacks carried out by ISIS members in Be'er Sheva and Hadera, is still in its infancy, but here, at the tip of the fork, is the chain of events so far.
Shooting in every direction on the street: documentation from the scene of the attack in Hadera // Photo: Security cameras
In January, Sheikh Akrama Tsabari, the man of Erdogan and Hamas in East Jerusalem, paid an unusual visit to Bedouin localities in the Negev.
The chairman of the Supreme Muslim Council of the Temple Mount, a former Mufti of Jerusalem and who had previously expressed indirect support for suicide bombings, came to identify with the Bedouin struggle against planting in the Negev. In al-Aqsa, he also shared with his interlocutors the moves that led to the transformation of Jerusalem, and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in particular, into the focus of a struggle against "occupation."
Almost simultaneously, Hamas issued a statement, also unconventional, condemning "attempts to Judaize the occupied Negev."
Hamas called on Israeli Arabs "to act against the policy of Judaization of the Israeli occupier," and "to establish the Arab-Palestinian identity in the occupied land."
This was the first swallow that marked a change of direction on the part of Hamas: no longer only "Magen Yerushalayim", now also Magen Hanegev.
The terrorist organization has taken several actions involving the fermentation of Israeli Arabs, and the Bedouin in the Negev in particular, in an attempt to encourage them to launch a violent campaign.
This incitement, according to security sources, occurred in collaboration with Islamic elements in Israel, such as Sheikh Akrama Tsabari, members of the northern (illegal) faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel, as well as hostile elements in the Bedouin tribes.
"Struggle for the Homeland"
In recent weeks, as Earth Day approached, incitement "went up a notch."
Two weeks ago, Hamas announced the establishment of the "National Authority for the Protection of the Palestinian People in the Occupied 48 'Areas."
Spokesmen for the new organization focused on the Negev.
The head of the PA, Muhsan Abu Ramadan, clarified that "the Gaza Strip will be mobilized to support the struggle of the residents of the Negev in a series of actions that will begin on Earth Day. All activities are coordinated between Palestinian organizations in Gaza and Israeli-led elements."
Encouraging the Bedouin to take violent action.
The scene of the attack in the "Big" shopping center,
This "partner" for coordination did not remain a mystery for too long: Atiya al-'Atzem, a resident of the Bedouin village of Abu Talul and head of the regional council of the unrecognized villages in the Negev, explained a few days later that the feeling in the Negev is that "the Palestinian brothers stand by us morally. And strengthen our determination to continue our struggle for the homeland ... "
The "coordination" was also done at higher levels: first it was the chairman of the High Steering Committee of the Negev Arabs, former MK Jamaa Zabarka (Balad), who welcomed the establishment of the Gaza committee. Zabarka clarified that Israel launched a comprehensive offensive On the Negev; approved the establishment of two new cities there; and intends to break the opposition of the Arabs of the Negev to Israeli deportation plans, all with the support of Arab votes, especially votes from the Negev (referring to RAAM members who are partners in the Bennett-Lapid government;
Later came the words of former MK Muhammad Bracha, chairman of the High Monitoring Committee of Israeli Arabs, who praised the establishment of the "National Authority for the Protection of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Territories in 1948" and said that it came "at the right time."
Bracha also talked about the Negev, but in fact closed a circle that opened in May, about a year ago.
"Appropriate timing."
Bracha,
Bracha made it clear a few months ago, in things that slipped under the media radar, that "in the last intifada," as he puts it (events of May 2021, N.S.), Distort and remove from the map of Palestine.
They revolted and said: This is Palestine.
It was called Palestine in the past, and it is called Palestine once again. "
A sharp and clear trend
The trend, therefore, is clear and difficult to mistake: the recent events in the Negev, and in particular the recent terrorist attacks, similar to the May riots, are accompanied by a joint nationalist awakening of Palestinians and Arabs on both sides of the Green Line.
The declared common denominator of the "inner Palestinians" (Israeli Arabs) and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria and Gaza rests on three foundations: the Nakba (the catastrophe of the establishment of the State of Israel, for the Palestinians), the right of return ("to be realized") and the one Palestinian identity.
What was a stream of depth is now coming out of the closet: some Westerners in Israel are moving away from Israel.
Many of them identify with the Palestinian enemy and his false narratives, and their commitment to the state is weakened.
The Hamas-Negev axis, added to the Hamas-Jerusalem axis, is another symptom of this.
In Turkey, it turned out this week, another axis is operating.
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