The peacock mask he wore at the U.S. Congress didn’t match yesterday's speech; he should have donned the mask of humility, hoping to ease the pressure from the street. The cheering crowd is not the same as the questioning one, and the whiner is not the same as the already bereaved.
SubhanAllah! After all the arrogance he displayed there, he emerged with a yellow face and faltering, emotional sentences, full of religious rhetoric, as if using such discourse for the first time.
“We are at the peak of a decisive war, a war of light against darkness! The fundamental reason for victory in this existential war is to remain united! Hamas threatens your existence and you are America's largest base in the region.” What a humiliation indeed!
Netanyahu, for the first time since October 7th, says, “We failed.” Even the intelligence failure that the deceased Eden taunted him with right after his speech in a video broadcast by Al-Qassam, he did not acknowledge. “We were close to free them alive, but we didn’t succeed... May God avenge their blood!” As if to say: the solutions of the earth are exhausted, and the matter is left to the heavens—the heavens that curse him and his army every day!
All these slaps were not enough for Abu Ubaida to tweet a message stating: “Do not look for the hostages and you will not take a single hostage without a deal. Orders have been given to the guards to return the hostages in coffins if you choose the military solution,” thus settling the debate, confirming the inevitable, and undermining the press conference efforts just minutes later.
More than that, the Philadelphia Corridor, which was a newly established pressure tool—the corridor he occupied only two months ago, the corridor he did not mention even once in his famous speech at Congress—has today become a key target for continuing this war, despite Egypt playing a pivotal role in pressuring the resistance, and not failing Netanyahu in any way. Here, the Israeli people will ask before anyone else: What happened to the real goals of the war? Or is eradicating Hamas just a slogan, akin to Bush's slogans during the invasion of Baghdad?
He knows very well that he will emerge from Philadelphia defeated and humiliated. He also knows that this corridor is not the only deadly path in Gaza.
Speaking of America, we can say: September 2nd is a day of blows par excellence. The heat of the field in Gaza and the occupation street is no less intense than the heat of the election battle in Washington! The Democratic Party, which promised its audience the return of the American hostage alive, sent a message to Netanyahu after the announcement of the killing of the six hostages and hours before the press conference. The message, through Biden, was: “Netanyahu is not doing what he should to protect the hostages,” an announcement that would pour fuel on an already blazing street.
On a side note, we mention Netanyahu's personal vendetta with Sinwar, the head of Hamas' political bureau, whom he addressed like a reckless boy complaining about his bullying peers: “You will not divide us.” Here we also ask on the sidelines: Is this really Israel? How did we allow it to terrify us all these years? Just a hollow image of power that Hamas continuously shatters.
In short, it seems clear that Netanyahu is still stuck in the failure of October 7th. He has not achieved a single progress to alleviate the street’s anger. He is in a crisis without a plan and all he needs is a little time until his deal with Trump is completed and he can finally return to Miami where he will spend his retirement years with Sarah and his spoiled son. Even these rosy moments seem far-fetched, increasing his tension and sense of threat to him and his family. Yes, folks, the real crisis of this sick man is that he knows everyone knows this war is his alone, but he was the curse that ended this occupation.
Yes, it ended the occupation, and its fall is just a matter of time... just a matter of time!
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