It has now been 100 days since the heroic resistance operation on October 7, as well as the fascist Zionist aggression against our Palestinian people. Certainly, many – in Palestine and outside it, from fans of our people and their resistance, and from their opponents and enemies – will try to answer many questions that have been asked since October 7, such as: the legitimacy of the operation and its motives, what was accomplished and its repercussions? And about the Zionist reaction, its goals, what it achieved, and the consequences of this battle for all parties, including parties inside and outside Palestine, in the region, and at the world level.
Here in this article we try to answer some of these questions, even if this historical and pivotal station will remain a subject of discussion and study among friends and enemies for years and decades to come.
Attempts to bypass the Palestinians
First, we affirm that everyone who communicated with the leadership of the Hamas movement before the “Al-Aqsa flood” on October 7, including politicians, diplomats, mediators, and media professionals, heard clear and unambiguous words that the explosion is inevitably coming, and it is only a matter of time, if this fascist Zionist government continues its policies. , which was built on a plan approved several years ago, based on “resolving the conflict” once and for all in favor of the enemy, and that this explosion may exceed the borders of Palestine, in light of this fascist government’s insistence on transforming the conflict from a political conflict over the state, return, and self-determination, into a religious conflict. It is based on biblical and Talmudic myths regarding their right to land and holy places. The most important provisions of this government’s policy to resolve the conflict are summarized in the following:
1- Practical and accelerated steps to control Al-Aqsa Mosque by demolishing it and building the temple.
2- Judaizing the Holy City and expelling the Palestinians from their homes and land.
3- Annexing the West Bank (in whole or in part) to the entity practically and legally.
4- Continuing to abuse Palestinian prisoners in light of the policy that the terrorist Zionist Minister of Security, Ben Gvir, is trying to establish.
5- Continuing the siege and isolation of Gaza and turning it into the largest open-air prison or into a “concentration camp” (as described by some Zionist historians themselves) similar to the Nazi concentration camps.
6- The enemy’s attempts – with extended American cover – to convince everyone of the possibility of bypassing the Palestinians and their rights and going directly to normalize relations with Arab and Islamic countries, and open up to the region and re-engineer it to the Zionist-American size, without resolving the conflict, and considering the Palestinian issue as an internal Zionist matter that they will manage themselves.
A proactive step
All of this was reported to everyone, but they turned a deaf ear, either considering that these are empty threats not based on any real capabilities on the ground, or they adopted the Zionist narrative that Hamas is “deterred,” and its main concern now is to establish its rule and control in Gaza, or They were too intoxicated by the wine of Zionist power to see any threats before their eyes.
The “Al-Aqsa Flood” – led by the Hamas movement and the rest of the resistance factions – came out of awareness of the imminent danger to our national cause, as well as the state of regional and international indifference to Palestine and its people, and the enemy’s plans and their dangerous repercussions. Without this blessed pre-emptive step, the Palestinian cause would have been forgotten, and everyone would be talking about it as we are talking today. About Andalusia and the glories of the Arabs there.
Now, 100 days after the start of the battle, has the battle achieved its desired goals?
Here we can talk about two stages: The first: It began and ended on the 7th of October, and the second: the Zionist aggression against Gaza that followed and is still continuing.
As for the first phase on October 7, it fully achieved its goals, as it dropped the theory of an invincible army and long-handed intelligence, which knows everything about what is happening not only in Gaza but in the entire region and beyond, and can strike in all corners of the globe. All of this was done by a group of men with simple and limited capabilities, but they possessed solid faith and extreme courage. In addition, this operation demolished the theory that the Zionist entity is a safe place for every Jew who lacks security in his original homeland, and more importantly, it demonstrated the existential fragility of this entity and the possibility of its disappearance.
Creative and valiant resistance
As for the second stage, from the beginning of the aggression until today, our Palestinian people have paid very high prices that are beyond human ability to bear. But with his deep faith in the presence of God and his firm footing in his right to a free and dignified homeland, and in addition to that, a valiant and creative resistance that surprised all observers: friends and enemies alike, all of this thwarted the enemy’s plans and brought down his declared goals of destroying the resistance and displacing the residents of the Gaza Strip. and recovering prisoners.
Everyone sees clearly – after 100 days of aggression – that the resistance leadership is still in control of the field and managing the scene with all ability and creativity, and the enemy is still receiving painful blows from the resistance, which destroyed the image of his army on the seventh of October, and this defeat for his army deepened. Over the course of more than 100 days, despite all the horrors that he inflicted on our people, especially in the first days, he did not succeed in breaking their will and adherence to their land, and our people remained clinging to their homeland despite the pain and suffering, and provided a model of legendary resilience that astonished people all around the world.
As for the prisoners, he tried with all means of intelligence and technological support from the East and West to find out where they were being held in order to rescue them, but he failed in all his attempts. Rather, he killed the prisoners and those who came to rescue them, and none of the prisoners returned to their families except under the conditions of the resistance and according to its agenda.
So, our people and their resistance, up until this moment, have achieved a resounding defeat of the Zionist enemy on October 7th and the days that followed were filled with heroism, steadfastness and redemption, and they wrote epics that will be narrated by generations. So that peoples can learn from them how to create glories, how to achieve freedom, and how to achieve dignity.
Restoring the national struggle
The fundamental question now: After 100 days of battle, what comes next?
We are still in the midst of a fierce battle at all levels, and it may be too early to draw conclusions, but all indicators point in one direction, that what comes after October 7 will not be what it was before October 7, according to the strategic criteria of the conflict, for the benefit of our Palestinian people and their just cause, whether At the national, regional or international level, as well as at the level of the enemy and its future.
At the national level, our people have regained their health in the sense of national struggle, and their confidence in their ability to overcome the shameful reality of Oslo and its disastrous repercussions. Most importantly, the possibility of liberation, return, defeating the enemy, and dismantling its project has become possible, even very possible, and October 7 presented in this context a miniature model of the final liberation battle and the demise of the enemy. Zionist occupation.
In this context, October 7 put a dividing line between two leadership phases of the Palestinian national project. After October 7, it is no longer acceptable for a leadership – (people and subjects) whose political project has failed and par excellence and which bequeathed us national disasters and epidemics – to remain at the forefront and claim legitimacy, as if it is the fate of the Palestinian people that does not Flee from him. I believe that our Palestinian people – in all their locations, especially in Gaza – expressed their opinion with all force and clarity, and baptized this position with blood and body parts, that their only option is to resist until liberation and return, and all the opinion polls that were conducted after the aggression proved this fact, and in unprecedented proportions. In the history of the conflict.
Substantial implications
Therefore, we need to open a new page at the level of national relations, building on the outcomes of the battle and rebuilding the Palestinian home in light of the values and equations that this battle has established. The most important step in this direction is building the Palestinian political institution and writing the Palestinian national project. To reflect the changes that have occurred in recent decades, so that it becomes a true representative of our people’s aspirations, ambitions, sacrifices and political experience, especially the disastrous Oslo experience.
As for the regional level, the battle of “Al-Aqsa Flood” had fundamental and strategic repercussions in this area, perhaps the most important of which is that it disrupted the disastrous “normalization” project, which would have definitely ended with the erasure of the Palestinian issue, and confirmed to everyone who imagined that they would seek help from this entity to support and protect it, that Too fragile and weak to protect itself, this battle built high walls, of blood and body parts, between the region and its people on the one hand, and this entity and the possibilities of integrating it into the region on the other hand, even if some tried to repeat the matter again.
The second dimension is at the regional level. This blessed tour revived among the peoples what had almost died due to the lean years that the region went through, in which it revived great hope for the possibilities of liberation and return and the return of the sacred to the embrace of the nation.
We toured a number of Arab and Islamic countries during this period after the aggression, and we met many peoples and groups, and we saw how the sons and daughters of the nation were filled with pride and pride in what the Mujahideen had done on the seventh of October, and we saw eyes shedding tears of joy. Because they lived this day in which the nation’s glories and ability to act were renewed, after the nation had given up on that after decades of successive defeats.
As for the second matter with regard to the region, Gaza provided an exceptional model of initiative and action, and even of creating the impossible, despite the challenges and obstacles. If besieged Gaza was able to do that, why can’t we – in all parts of this great nation – do it and repeat the experience?
Certainly, this glorious battle in Palestine will have fundamental repercussions on the people’s view of themselves, their ability to act, and the potential for change, after the resistance, its men, and its actions have become icons for all components of the nation, regardless of their political orientations or geographical locations. The nation today is searching for how it can become a direct partner in the liberation battle and not just a passive supporter or supporter. Unfortunately, the official performance in this bloody and fierce confrontation was very far from the emotions and aspirations of the nation and its people, and far from the level of historical responsibility towards the nation’s central issue. Palestine issue.
Malicious project
At the international level, the breakthrough was significant and strategic. My appreciation is irrevocable. First, the Palestinian issue – after attempts to write it off and bury it by the Zionists and their allies – became the issue of hundreds of millions of people around the world, and personally for many of them.
Millions of people around the world discovered how they were misled regarding the narrative about the conflict, and the Zionist myth collapsed resoundingly, and the world saw directly the reality of this racist, fascist project, contrary to what it claims to represent the West and its values related to freedom, democracy, and respect for human rights, and then it A ferocious, bloody monster that plays the victim and blackmails humanity for decades under different names.
The importance of this transformation in the novel and narrative appears in the fact that the entity relies for its survival on two main reasons: The first: its material power, in its various forms on the ground, is supported by the Western imperialist alliance, and the second: is international support for the entity’s legitimacy and survival based on playing the role of the exclusive historical victim, and representing the values and civilization of the West. As for the first element, our people and their resistance took care of it, but the second collapsed resoundingly after the glorious battle of October 7.
As for the official international level, the battle is still in its infancy, especially since those who founded this malicious project, built it, and sponsored it for decades – within the framework of mutual interests between the Zionist movement and the imperialist powers – came to the rescue, when they felt that they were about to collapse under the blows of the resistance and were unable to respond to the threat. The strategy surrounding him.
Escape forward
But at least in this space, we can observe important transformations, as many countries have realized that the possibility of erasing the Palestinian issue and bypassing the Palestinians is not possible, and that no one will enjoy security and stability in the region and beyond without resolving the conflict and achieving authentic Palestinian rights.
As for the enemy and its entity, this blessed battle – in addition to all the repercussions that we mentioned in the course of this article in other spaces, which will have direct repercussions on it – has deepened the severe state of division that the entity has experienced in recent years, whether on the political, social or ideological level. To the point that one of the most important reasons for the continuation of the battle is the leadership’s attempts to escape forward. Fearing the day after the battle and the possibility of a major collapse.
Most importantly, this strategic strike caused the public to lose confidence in its political, security and military leadership, and their ability to lead the state and provide security or protection for their citizens, in addition to the entity’s strategic exposure on both the individual and collective levels.
The resistance and its leadership still hold the reins of managing the battle and are well aware of the entitlements of this, whether on the field or political levels. At the field level, we still have a way to go to break the nose of this occupation and force it to stop the aggression and leave our beloved sector, dragging the tails of defeat and shame, and at the same time working with all effort and energy to provide relief to our people and mitigate the repercussions of the human tragedy.
On the political level, some are trying to return us to the political contexts of before October 7, and the resistance will certainly not accept and our people will not accept pre-battle equations and contexts, or outcomes that do not befit the sacrifices of our people and the great and dear prices they paid, as well as in the context of the blows the enemy was subjected to. A strong force that disturbed its entity, made it lose its balance, and fundamentally weakened its international reach.
Here it may be useful to point out that the vision of the resistance at this stage – in which it speaks to countries and mediators – its main goal is to stop the aggression immediately and comprehensively, withdraw the occupation forces from all of the Gaza Strip and provide relief to our people in a way that stops this humanitarian catastrophe created by the aggression, and any proposals or projects If you do not achieve these two goals immediately as a first step, it will not be accepted and will not be successful.
After that, a medium- and long-term political field process could be launched, which might begin with an exchange of prisoners and go through the lifting of the siege and the reconstruction of what the occupation destroyed, and then rearrange the Palestinian house on new foundations that restore respect to the authentic national project, and end with a political process that leads to getting rid of the Zionist occupation and enforcing it. The right to self-determination for the Palestinian people, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of refugees in accordance with relevant international resolutions.
Take back the initiative
The “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation represented a defining moment and a strategic opportunity, not only for our people, but also for our Arab and Islamic nation, to rise from its slump and regain the civilized initiative, and to present a different model for managing humanitarian affairs in general, after the West, its leadership and its systems failed to protect humanity from fascism and racism and their disastrous repercussions on humanity. Humanity. This opportunity must not escape from our hands, otherwise we may – God forbid – wait decades for a similar moment to occur again.
This battle must be transformed into a new starting platform for our people and their just cause, and for our nation and its future, in light of the major international transformations that we are witnessing, with the decline of the unipolar system to a multipolar system or actors, in which the “global South” – and we are a part of it – advances to occupy its rightful place. With its peoples after they were colonized, enslaved, plundered and excluded for centuries.