Zionists Cross Red Line at Al-Aqsa Mosque Palestinians Retaliate

The slow-motion genocide of Palestinians generated anticipated blowback.

The situation in Occupied Palestine has been escalating for the last two years as the Zionist Final Solution has expanded. Many of Alastair Crooke’s al-Mayadeen columns earlier this year were devoted to informing readers of events there that Western BigLie Media refuses to provide. His October 4 item was entitled “October War, 1973: Much has changed; a lot hasn’t” and focused more on the bigger regional picture but closed with this:

What would not be changed however, is the situation of al-Aqsa and the Palestinians. Should the so-called "Temple Mount Movement" radicals in the Netanyahu government light the fuse leading to the Israeli takeover of al-Aqsa, then all of Washington’s "normalization" will count for "zilch". Whilst Christianity may have become supine, Islam has not (entirely) become so.

More information was provided in his now month-old “Netanyahu Coalition Goes Full Provocation -- As the US Escalates in Syria” as shown in this long citation:

"Israel’s" governing coalition, led by Netanyahu, is moving aggressively to establish political and security structures in the West Bank that will foreclose on the possibility of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

The strategic goal is to reshape the Israeli state, so as to assert Jewish primacy over all of "Israel" and over the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. This would mean attenuation, or even elimination, of Palestinian civil rights.

Finance Minister Smotrich has taken to referring to the two-state solution as a ‘fantasy’ -- one that must be crushed "willingly or by force (i.e. ‘with deeds’: through a massive increase in settlements)." Thus, to "make it clear to all, … [he underlines] the Arab dream of a state in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] - is no longer viable."

Co-minister Ben-Gvir has amplified, "My right, the right of my wife and my children to move around Judea and Samaria is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs."  This is the consolidation of apartheid in occupied Palestine.

To further make his point, Ben-Gvir provocatively invited ministers to oversee the demolition of houses in an impromptu Bedouin village in the Negev: "They should understand that we govern here - and that this country has a landlord." (There are 100,000 Bedouins in Negev – there, from the days before Turkish or British rule).

Again, to underline the point about ‘who governs,’ Smotrich has moved quickly to urge government agencies to prepare for an additional 500,000 settlers in the West Bank - which would bring the current estimated population of 700,000 settlers up to more than 1 million within the next decade.

Just to be clear, these are not disparate utterances by a couple of ‘hothead’ ministers. The comments reflect a concerted Coalition stance. These utterances clearly are intended to provoke -- and not just the Palestinians. They are provocative too towards that liberal Israeli constituency that has been protesting en masse against the Netanyahu government for months.

That it represents a concerted government position is fully evidenced by the Israeli cabinet holding its 21 May 2023 meeting in the tunnel excavated directly under the Al-Aqsa mosque, in an attempt to spotlight "Israel’s" claim to sovereignty over the site on which stands Islam’s Third Holiest Site.

So, the big provocation that just occurred over the last several days at Al-Aqsa is part of the Zionist plan to defeat tow enemies—the Palestinians and those who oppose the Fascist Netanyahu government (although the opposition isn’t much better in relation to the native Palestinians and Arabs generally). Those who follow the Occupied Palestine situation know that Hezbollah has stated many times that Al-Aqsa is a Red Line, as have several Arab states, plus Iran.

Digging further into Crooke’s al-Mayadeen archive we find this from last June, almost exactly four months ago, “Actuating an Israeli ‘Solution’ – via an al-Aqsa Emergency.” Here’s the last half of that article:

The point here is that the Budget effectively endows Settlers with much more political power that they already have. As Zvi Barel writes: 

“If today they can dictate the division of the budget, set security goals and use the military as a private defence force, once their power has doubled they will determine the content for the educational system, dictate the national narrative, empty out towns unable to cope with their lack of funding - as more worthwhile alternatives are offered instead - on the hills of the West Bank, and turn Israel inside the Green Line into their printer of money”.

Gideon Levy trenchantly lays out the longer-term implication of these events: Netanyahu, in “removing the entire Palestinian issue from the public agenda in Israel… [where] no one is interested in it anymore, other than paying it lip service - is a tremendous achievement” (at least in the eyes of the Right).

This act thus distills Israeli options down to two -- and no more: A unitary (one democratic state for the two peoples) between the River Jordan and the Sea; or, secondly a second Nakba (cleansing of Palestinians from the ‘Land of Israel’).

Here is the ‘rub’, as Gideon Levy puts it: The present situation which he calls ‘apartheid’ is but a stop-gap. “Its’ end will come”. And if the government goes on entrenching Occupation … “Not that there’s much more to entrench: the occupation is deep, consolidated, strong and irreversible. But if you can consolidate it further … this will enable an official declaration of the death of the two-state solution, decades after it died de facto”.

In killing this as a ‘Palestinian solution’, Netanyahu has left us with only two possible solutions, Levy avers: 

“How will it play out: One is preferred by the extreme Right, and horrifically, perhaps by almost all Israelis – a second Nakba. If things come to a head, and Israel is faced with a choice of one democratic state for two peoples, or a mass expulsion of Palestinians in order to maintain the existence of a Jewish state - the choice will be clear for almost every Israeli Jew [i.e. they would choose Nakba]. The moment a two-state solution was taken off the table, they were left with no other choice” (emphasis added).

So how can Ben-Gvir, Yariv Levy, and  Smotrich crystalise this plan? Through al-Aqsa. The holding of the Cabinet on "Jerusalem Day", immediately below al-Aqsa in the western wall tunnel, is an obvious telltale. Both Netayahu and Ben-Gvir declared that al-Aqsa “is ours”.

The best way to consolidate the occupation into the ‘binary option’ is the consolidation of al-Aqsa as ‘theirs’. The crisis (and possible war that ensues) is the Emergency that could put the ‘binary solution choice’ starkly on the table before every Israeli.

So, it’s clear that the current event was being formulated for quite some time. It seems rather clear that the Zionists have turned every non-Arab within Palestine into a backer, enabler of Genocide, for that’s always been the Zionist plan—its own “Plan Ost” taken from the Nazis. Those wanting to read more by Crooke on the Palestinian issue can go here to the al-Mayadeen archive. The publication also has a page of ongoing developments here. One of those has this announcement:

Hezbollah: Operation al-Aqsa Flood is a message to the Arab and Islamic worlds, as well as the entire international community, especially those seeking normalization.

Nasrallah is clearly addressing the Saudis. Netanyahu is calling the response to his provocations a “surprise attack,” which is bullshit as he and every Zionist know that Al-Aqsa is a Red Line and is seen as such throughout the Arab world, as well as most other nations. Given the reality of what’s been ongoing in Occupied Palestine, Russia’s statement by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs seems rather disconnected from that reality:

Moscow expresses its most serious concern over the sharp aggravation of the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone. In this regard, we reaffirm our principled and consistent position that this conflict, which has been dragging on for 75 years, has no military solution and can be resolved only by political and diplomatic means, through the establishment of a full-fledged negotiation process on the well-known international legal basis, providing for the creation of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living in peace and security with Israel.

We regard the current large-scale escalation of the situation as yet another extremely dangerous manifestation of a vicious circle of violence, which is a direct consequence of the chronic non-compliance with the relevant UN and Security Council resolutions and the West's de facto blocking of the work of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators consisting of Russia, the United States, the EU and the UN.

We call on the Palestinian and Israeli sides to cease fire immediately, to renounce violence, to exercise the necessary restraint and to establish, with the assistance of the international community, a negotiation process aimed at establishing a comprehensive, lasting and long-awaited peace in the Middle East.

Having several million former and current Soviet/Russian citizens residing there compromises Russia’s position, although it’s seen as an Honest Broker by most of the region, although how the Zionists actually view Russia is unknown. More:

Mohammad Deif, Commander-in-Chief of al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, has announced the launching of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood following a barrage of rockets fired and an infiltration operation into Gaza Envelope settlements.

Deif has called upon all Palestinians to rise and fight for their freedom as well as asking for international support. Hezbollah so far has remained inactive aside from cheerleading, same with Syria. Reports show Palestinian emphasis on capturing Zionist outposts in lightly defended areas along the border with Egypt. Zionist settlers so accustomed to facing no resistance from Palestinians are shocked and scared now that their genocidal actions are facing determined resistance. Given the Zionist plan of extermination and its decades-long actions, there’s no way a political solution will be found as there’s clearly no way to reason with Zionist zealots. The big question is whether this will escalate to involve Hezbollah and then Syria. And what of the West Bank? So far this appears to be a Gaza only operation. The situation is very fluid. Will this be the Big Confrontation many have anticipated? We shall see.

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