ISRAEL'S TWO WARS

When the Palestinian Hamas movement committed a terrorist act on Jewish territory on October 7, it was known that Israel's response would be very harsh. It was extremely harsh and disproportionate, and it did not take long to turn into an open war, in which the Netanyahu government would reach the red line of genocide. And a peace agreement has still not been reached, despite the efforts of the mediators.

It has not only been the bombings that have destroyed more than 50 percent of Gaza and caused more than 41,000 Palestinian deaths. The Mossad has dedicated itself to assassinating senior Hamas leaders. Its political chief, Ismael Haniyeh, was eliminated when he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of the new Iranian president.

This endless war has been the subject of resolutions by the UN Security Council; from other international organizations and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to reach a truce that, among other things, would allow the release of the captives still held by Hamas. The number is unknown because some have died either from Israeli attacks or from the launching of missiles and bombs by the Jewish armed forces.

Although the Gaza conflict is still unresolved, the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and Israel began to attack each other, turning the south of the country of the cedars into a scene of another war. At this point it can be said that Netanyahu and his government are facing two wars, with the risk that they will spread to destabilize the Middle East region.

In this second war there is still no international mediation in search of peace, but this is not of great importance when it is known that Israel is in favor of permanent armed conflicts. Netanyahu has said that he is in favor of wars that seem more important to him than trying to negotiate the release of the captives. The prime minister is a man who makes no concessions.

This second war, as expected, also has its brutal side with the assassinations of Hezbollah leaders. It is a specialty of the Mossad that has already killed several of them. The most recent has been the elimination of Ibrahim Aqil, head of an elite military unit of the Lebanese radical movement. He died last Friday in Beirut. Previously, Fuad Shukr, the commander in chief of the military wing of that movement, lost his life at the hands of the Mossad.

This alarming situation has motivated the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to launch an appeal, through an Arab newspaper, for southern Lebanon not to become a second Gaza. Guterres has grown tired of appealing for peace in the Palestinian enclave, and has finally realized that Israel is not going to stop the war.

Militarily, Israel can face two wars. It already demonstrated this in 1967 when it faced the Arab environment. This was the great defeat of the mythical Nasser, idol of the Arab nation in those turbulent years. And if the Jewish state is so strong, it is due to the unlimited assistance of the United States and the support of other Western countries. It is enough to know that if Israel has nuclear weapons, it is due to a decision by France.

We have thus entered into a spiral of violence whose beginning is known but its end and outcome unknown. War is not a solution to anything.