“You know perfectly well what the US would do. It would cross the border, create a security zone, eliminate the terrorists and protect its people until the threat disappeared,” with these words, the Israeli prime minister has defended the . In both territories, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) maintain occupations of the territory delimited by a kind of yellow lines that displace the local population from their homes. But Benjamin Netanyahu’s words, with that allusion to the great military ally on which they depend, are neither coincidental nor come at any given moment.
These statements land in the midst of a tension that continues to grow and translates into strong discomfort in American public opinion. The same one that continues to see how the constant Israeli attacks ruin it, culminating in a prolonged reopening of maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and that translates into a drop in prices that calms the inflationary spiral. About five months before the first major electoral event that the Trump Administration will face, the midterm or midterm elections.
Netanyahu has already made it clear that while the advance in southern Lebanon already means having militarily seized a third of the land of said neighboring country, specifically, one of the most fertile areas with abundant water resources that turn it into a kind of orchard of the Middle East. But this Monday has also made something else clear. They’re not going to leave.
Don’t call it ‘occupied zones’, call it “safety zones”
They have referred to as “security zones” the occupation of southern Lebanon, but also the one they maintain over the devastated Gaza Strip – where they continue to talk about expelling the Gazans – and even over Syria, where, taking advantage of the overthrow of the dictator Baschar Al-Assad, they have also increased the space they control from the Six Day War in the Golan Heights.
“And we will maintain it as long as necessary to protect our people,” Netanyahu said, within the framework of a forum of the Israeli agency JNS. [Jerusalem News Syndicate]and then defended that “no country would be obliged to do otherwise.” Then, he alluded that that would be exactly what Washington would do, to slip that “that is precisely what we are doing.” In reference to the attacks on Lebanon, which already leave a death toll approaching 4,000 murdered Lebanese.
Netanyahu talks about a change in “security doctrine”: “We assassinate them first”
Faithful to the bellicose discourse that characterizes him and echoing the one that sustains the Likud in power, Netanyahu has also taken pride in having modified what he has called Israel’s “security doctrine.”
“We kill them first”
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
“We change Israel’s security doctrine. We initiate. We attack. We surprise. And we attack the enemies who seek our destruction, who seek to kill us,” he said, in fact, of an issue that they have been doing practically since the history of the founding of the Jewish State. “We attack them before they have the opportunity to do so,” he continued, to summarize, directly: “We kill them first.”
