In the context of extreme tension in which the far-right government in Israel has put the region on the brink of a comprehensive regional war, a joint Qatari-Egyptian-American statement was issued calling for the resumption of negotiations in mid-August.
The tripartite statement by the Qatari Emiri Diwan, the White House and the Egyptian Presidency added that the time has come to put an immediate end to the ongoing suffering of the people of Gaza Strip And for the martyrs and their families.
In his interview with the program “Gaza… What Next?”, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, linked the statement of the three countries to the developments taking place in the region, and said that something has changed in the equation, as Hezbollah Lebanese, Iran and Ansar Allah group (Houthis) are about to respond to Israel, meaning that they are moving from supporting Gaza to participating in the war.
He believed that the move by the three countries could give new impetus to matters if the United States of America exerted real pressure on Israel to force it to stop the war on the Gaza Strip instead of continuing to support it.
Barghouti added that the strategic options currently on the table are: either an immediate agreement to stop the war on Gaza or a regional war, indicating that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He wants a regional war to break out on the condition that the United States fights it on behalf of Israel.
Despite Netanyahu’s stubbornness and evasions, Barghouti says that there are factors pushing in the opposite direction to what he wants, including that the world is tired of the war on Gaza, and that there are measures expected against Israel from the two courts. International Justice andInternational Criminal Court.
Regarding whether the parties supporting Gaza (Hezbollah and Iran) are prepared to accept the resumption of negotiations, Barghouti explained that there is coordination and consultation between these parties and the Palestinian resistance, and any cessation of the war will not be isolated from them.
From the point of view of the professor of political science at Kuwait University, Dr. Abdullah Al-Shaiji, Netanyahu is clinging to escalation, and the occupation has assassinated the leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitationSamer Al-Hajj was killed today when his vehicle was bombed at the entrance to the city of Sidon, south of Lebanon.
Al-Shaiji expected that there would be no significant breakthrough in the negotiations between the Palestinian resistance and Israel as long as Netanyahu continues the policy of assassinations and manipulates everyone in order to obstruct the negotiation process, pointing out that the Americans do not criticize his position, and if they do, it will be in a gentle and soft manner.
The Israeli Prime Minister is betting, according to the same spokesman, on the president’s departure. Joe Biden And losing a candidate Democratic Party Kamala Harrisreturn candidate Republican Party Donald Trump To power.
It is noteworthy that the Associated Press had previously quoted American diplomats as saying that negotiations on the exchange deal were close to achieving a breakthrough shortly before Israel assassinated the head of the political bureau of Hamas. Ismail Haniyeh And the leader in Hezbollah Fouad Shukr.
