There are two neighboring realities: The new Israeli momentum toward establishing more settlements in Jerusalem and the ceremonies over reinforcing deterrent power and achieving balance of terror and becoming certain of the ultimate defeat of Israel in any upcoming war.

The Arab official regime is blamed for the Netanyahu Government’s decisions to establish millions of settlements. It is a bankrupt regime, one that colludes with the occupation and is too weak to adopt an initiative that puts an end to Israel’s arrogance. This is evident by the Arab Foreign Ministers’ approval of the resumption of indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, a few hours before the Israeli Government gave the permission for the establishment of 1600 settlement units in Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, the media-led opposition is rejoicing over the imminent destruction of Israel by various kinds of weapons possessed by the Resistance and its leaders’ statements on the gloomy fate of the Israeli airports and cities if “Tel Aviv rulers” ever go insane and attack any of the opposition countries or their soft and hard extensions.

Anyone who reads these statements and listen to the clamor of the people who were blinded by the impact of the speech-makers, is unable to see the growing Israeli settlements that are devouring what has remained of the Palestinian lands. These two realities are parallel, but they do not intersect, which justifies the belief that one of them is a concrete reality while the other is a mirage.

It is meaningless here to speak about the “choice of resistance” which proved successful, while other means revealed a profound failure. The armed resistance in particular has turned 45 years old, i.e. since the statement of the “The Storm -Fatah” on the first of January in 1965. It goes without saying that the armed conflict and the war of the people (the long-term or quick or direct one) and Jihad and other names for the same notion, only succeeded in revealing the societies’ gaps and the backwardness of various political forces.

Therefore, it is important to recall the essentials of the conflict in the region: Is it aimed at restoring the Palestinian national rights or protecting the Iranian nuclear project and providing an ideological justification for the survival of certain rulers, regimes, parties, and allies? If the answer is that the conflict focuses on the rights of the Palestinians and aims at fulfilling their aspirations in establishing an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, as well as finding a just solution to the refugees’ issue, then the speeches on the missiles do not apparently impact the Israeli policies, which continue to ignore the rights and humiliate their holders. However, if those prophesying that Israel will cease to exist and will be wiped out enjoy enough courage to acknowledge the big gap between what is going on in the West Bank and what they envision for the future in the region, then they have to explain their strategy. This strategy is not about destroying five or ten Israeli contingents in southern Lebanon’s valleys and hills, but about stopping the Israeli campaign aimed at undermining the Palestinian cause by attaching it to the “global war on terrorism” sometimes and by putting it in the framework of the religious war at other times. This is clear to whoever views the contributions of the speech-makers influential in both cases, through persisting in the suicide operations after September, 11, 2001, and insisting on the call for a third intifada after Israel added the Ibrahimi Mosque and Bilal Mosque to its heritage, as though the lessons of the second intifada and its bitter results were not enough to start looking for new work mechanisms.

Those threatening to scorch Israel and wipe it out remain silent on the construction of thousands of houses for the Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestine. For them, this is one thing, and the issue of construction is another one altogether. An eloquent person once said there is no need to bother ourselves with the settlements and their details, since the great victory is just around the corner, and that when the dust of the battles is cleared, Israel will no longer be there. This statement makes us wonder about the usefulness of dying for the sake of certain causes, as long as everyone on earth is just going to perish.