Two weeks prior to the Hamas led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a map of the ‘New Middle East’ at the United Nations General Assembly on the 22nd of September, 2023. The New Middle East map portrays the Israeli State, with no reference to the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Immediately after the attacks, Israel begun its war on Gaza, with air, ground, and sea strikes on the city, displacing millions of civilians, kidnapping and killing thousands, and starving the entire population; resulting in one of the most aggressive genocidal wars in modern day history. For the past 12 months, the international community has watched Israel continue its aggression on the civilians by increasing its military intensity on Gaza, and actively escalating it to other parts of the occupied territories of Palestine, as well as neighboring countries such as Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.
Since October 7, 2023, it became evident that Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza is not a direct response at Hamas, and it is not to bring back the Israeli hostages that are held captive in Gaza. On the contrary, it is an attempt to enforce the plan of achieving the ‘New Middle East’. On the day of the attack, Israel deployed the Hannibal Doctrine, and ordered its troops to perform any military act that would prevent the capturing of Israeli hostages by Hamas, even if it meant killing them. Applying the Hannibal Doctrine at the initiation of the war is a deliberate indication of Israeli’s intentions to prevent itself from being pressured by the local Israeli community to engage in a hostage deal with Hamas, or to even deescalate the force of the attacks on Gaza.
Furthermore, regional players such as Qatar proposed numerous ceasefire talks and peace agreements in attempt to arrive at a ceasefire and contain the turmoil in the region. Receiving pressure on multiple fronts, the Qatari Prime Minster Shaikh Mohammed Bin Abdelrahman Al-Thani worked relentlessly with the leaders and intelligence agencies of the USA, Israel, Egypt, as well as the leaders of Hamas to contain the conflict. Instead, Israel obstructed all peace deals proposed, and assassinated a number of Hamas’s leading political figures, along with the head of the political bureau office, Ismail Haniyeh in July of 2023 in the city of Tehran.
In September 2024, while Israel was participating at the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech on his desire to achieve peace in the region, while simultaneously ordering the bombing and assassination of the leader of the Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. The strike on Nasrallah led to the killing of tens of innocent civilians in the south of Lebanon. By ignoring UN resolutions, and engaging in war while simultaneously speaking on peace at the UNGA, Israel undermined the United Nation’s agencies, as well as the International community’s efforts in ending the genocide on Gaza.
In conclusion, no mediation effort will contain Israel’s war schemes and land acquisition strategies unless one of three scenarios takes place. These scenarios would include, a. countries in the region coming together to stop the rising threats of Israel and put an end to Netanyahu’s the ‘New Middle East’ plan, b. the USA limits its financial and political support to Israel; b. a Divine intervention.