News of the Gaza Strip and the daily violations against Palestinians never disappear from news bulletins. However, the prominence of this news changes according to events and priorities: sometimes it tops headlines, other times it takes a secondary position. This fluctuation in the coverage of Gaza-related topics occurs even though most events in the Middle East, at least, are either the direct result of the blatant aggressions in Gaza or indirectly related to them. In other words, the Palestinian issue is the core of all manifestations of conflict in the region.

What is happening now leads us to ask the following question: why is the situation in Gaza experiencing stagnation and silence, even though everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen is an extension of the war that began in October 2023? Moreover, how do we explain the indifference to the temporality of the conflict and the rivers of blood in the Palestinian issue, as if it were condemned to eternal conflict?

Of course, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent statement that there is no place for a two-state solution, and that divisions within Israel are shrinking in favor of a near-consensus position rejecting a Palestinian state, does not represent an event or change worth building upon or even paying attention to its codes. The position is the same, nothing new. Perhaps what is new in this statement is its confident, decisive tone, given that the Palestinians have paid thousands of dead to change reality and rally the world to their side. History will not forget the protest demonstrations that swept streets and universities, expressing rejection of the trampling of humanity in Palestine. Despite everything, the people of Gaza won the war on social media.

The second new element in this statement is that it defies the growing number of countries recognizing a Palestinian state, including France, Britain, and Canada. Then the third new point in this statement is the disregard of all these developments in a rigid position far removed from politics based on reading reality in all its aspects and details. Here we are facing a refusal to listen to the world, to reality, and to the truth—a refusal born of an ideological mindset that believes only in the dream of Greater Israel, which Netanyahu has revealed in recent months without regard for any interpretations. This is a sign of ethnic ideological blindness, if the term can be used.

Netanyahu's repetition of the same idea in various ways indicates that he is in harmony with his plan: the pace of killing and the genocide that deliberately targeted children and women, in addition to destroying the Gaza Strip and turning it into tents that leak angry rain and gnawing animals that have become a nightmare for children, all the way to preventing the entry of aid... All of this is a systematic process to eliminate the Palestinian cause by exterminating as many people of Gaza as possible and bringing about demographic change through the deliberate killing of mothers and children, as they represent the future of a Palestinian state. Indeed, raising the ceiling of brutality in the war and confronting human rights advocates are evidence of a sharp determination to exterminate the people of Gaza and displace the rest.

All these major axes of the war over the past three years have been clear, and cannot be carried out by a party capable of comprehending the idea of the Palestinian right to an independent state.

From an Israeli perspective, if the outcome were acceptance of the two-state solution, it would not have embroiled itself in a brutal war of genocide and exorbitant war costs, suggesting that the goal of eliminating Gaza and its people has a blank check in the Israeli budget. The important thing is to achieve 'Greater Israel,' which has no room for a Palestinian state.

What do we understand from all this, especially if we add what the Commission of Resistance to the Wall and Settlement revealed last month about an Israeli plan to build 2,721 new settlement units?

What we understand is that relying on Israel's flexibility to adapt to reality and truth and to submit to the 1967 borders and the two-state solution is tantamount to prolonging a conflict that has already lasted longer than it should.

Therefore, the two-state solution as a Palestinian-Arab option is the responsibility of the world and the countries that have recognized a Palestinian state, whose interests are now threatened by the repercussions of the Palestinian-Arab-Israeli conflict. The world is required to protect against the violation of international standards and to pursue effective diplomacy with results in the Middle East, considering that the two-state solution is the realistic solution and that the Palestinians and Arabs' acceptance of it is evidence of adaptation to reality and exceptional flexibility, even though the right belongs to the Palestinians, and Israel is an occupying state that sees no place for a state for the rightful owners.

And when we hold the world responsible, the position of the United States is very important in taming Israel, especially since the White House currently appears to be calculating its steps in the Middle East, but on the other hand, not a single serious step shows that Gaza is on the list of priorities. Most likely, there is also no room for the world's feeling of helplessness, otherwise the scene is bleak.