Netanyahu is Israel’s existential threat; stop using Hamas as a pretext

By Hassan Asfour
There are no longer any “security puzzles” or “political secrets” at the heart of the aggressive war started by the Jewish fascist state against Palestinian existence, after it managed to penetrate Hamas and present it with a “historic gift” to break the backbone of the Palestinian national entity — completing what it had offered when it laid the foundation stone of the first authority in May 1994 as a result of the Declaration of Principles (Oslo), after being used by multiple parties.

The October 7, 2023 operation, objectively, was a joint U.S.–Israeli plan that used Hamas — which has long deviated from Palestinian national interests and is steeped in an “Ikhwani ideological-political” orientation — and to recall some of its main objectives from the outset, many of which became clear later:

* Stop the locomotive of civil war inside the entity (Israel) resulting from what was called the “judicial revolution” carried out by Netanyahu’s government, described at the time as leading to the demolition of what they call the “Third Temple”. It was no coincidence that one of the most prominent Jewish American journalists, Thomas Friedman, directed in his New York Times column a message to President Biden to save Israel from Netanyahu’s government.

* Netanyahu’s declaration on October 9, 2023, i.e., 48 hours after Hamas’s foolish and conspiratorial act, that “the change in the Middle East has now begun,” an explicit admission that there was a store of pre-prepared targets and that this is a compensatory response to the defeat of the Ikhwani-Islamization project under U.S. President Obama.

* The arrival of Biden and Blinken to Tel Aviv within 48 hours, the provision of $6.5 billion in financial aid, and their participation in meetings of a “mini Security Council” to discuss a plan to invade the Gaza Strip — a precedent not seen since the establishment of the entity.

* Kushner’s revealed plan calling for the destruction of the Gaza Strip and the displacement of its population to build a “Greater New Gaza,” February 2024.

* Former President Trump’s announcement upon his immediate return to the White House in February 2025 of a plan to displace Gaza residents to build a “Gaza Riviera,” a project fundamentally inconsistent with any genuine security rationale and which indicates it was discussed before October 2023.

* The return of the hostages was never a goal of Netanyahu’s government, a matter that Hamas leadership failed to realize and which some parties manipulated to use as cover to pass the large Judaization project on Palestinian land according to UN resolution 19/67 in 2012. Its breaking came with the Doha deal in March 2025, the unmistakable message that the hostages had no value except to remain in Hamas’s hands, since that served as the main pretext to complete the project of destruction and Judaization.

* Netanyahu’s government refused to proceed with the amended Witkoff proposal after Hamas had agreed to it, and arrangements were made with the Trump administration to move from talk of a partial deal to a comprehensive one, without clarity as to its final objective.

* Remarks by the Emir of Qatar on September 8, 2025 — 24 hours before the “film of the assassination of Hamas leaders” in Doha on September 9, 2025 — when he urged the movement’s leadership to accept the American amendment without conditions, warning of severe punishment otherwise.

* The move toward the overt annexation and Judaization of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, before and after the E1 plan, is not linked to any security action but is an ideological-political Judaizing dimension.

* Although most of the opposition within the entity holds hostile positions against Palestinian nationhood, they nonetheless acknowledge that Netanyahu’s government is “the real danger” to Israel.

There are many details indicating that “the real danger to the existence of the state of Israel” is not the State of Palestine but rather the Netanyahu–Ben Gvir–Smotrich government, which begins with settler apartheid in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

And because the matter is no longer complicated, and Hamas will achieve nothing — indeed the safety of its own leadership is no longer guaranteed after the Doha message, either through killing or chasing them so that many secrets go with them — it should declare the end of its use as a tool to pass the large destructive project and be content with the destruction it has already caused.

To confirm the equation that Netanyahu’s government is the existential danger to the state of Israel and not the State of Palestine, Hamas should immediately announce total surrender and request the transfer of the hostages to a U.S.–Egyptian security team. Otherwise it will remain used until that moment, which is not far off.

Note: There is a race by some private and public websites to publish news about the formation of “security militias” in the Gaza Strip. Publishing ranges between warning about them and portraying them as saviors against Hamas militias — both are incorrect. The correct view is that both are a danger to the unity of the people because they are a tool used to cause fighting between Gazans and Gazans, not between Gazans and the occupier. Young people must be very cautious.

Special note: It seems that Arab channels in general, and Gulf channels in particular, want to make up for the defeat of the Jewish narrative of victimhood, so they opened the air to voices of hatred, annihilation and ethnic cleansing that pollute the hearing, sight and culture of every decent person — do not normalize, do not naturalize.