How does Israel leverage the Washington Museum Operation for coercion?

Will this signify the commencement of more extensive operations? What prompted Netanyahu to vehemently criticise Israel’s closest allies and attribute blame to them?

Abdel Bari Atwan
An American citizen from Chicago executed a shooting operation against Israeli embassy personnel outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., marking the initial response to the genocide and ethnic cleansing conducted by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip over the past 19 months. This has led to the martyrdom of over sixty thousand individuals, over fifty percent of whom are children, along with the harm and loss of more than 150 thousand others. This operation is a warning and a caution that similar activities may proliferate to other regions in America and globally if this war does not cease quickly and without delay.
The Zionist strategy was apparent during the perilous demonstration when both Benjamin Netanyahu and his ally Donald Trump hastened to leverage this operation to perpetuate and escalate the genocide, asserting that it was “anti-Semitic” and indicative of the threats and vulnerabilities encountered by Jews globally.
The foremost adversary of anti-Semitism, regardless of whether it originates from Jewish, Arab, or Middle Eastern Islamic sources, is an individual who proudly claims to kill children as a “hobby” in the Gaza Strip, particularly if this individual holds a ministerial position in Benjamin Netanyahu’s current administration, including Netanyahu himself and his notable coalition allies, Bezalel Smotrich (Minister of Finance) and Itamar Ben Gvir (Minister of National Security).

This campaign orchestrated by Netanyahu, several of his ministers, and government spokespersons will fail to divert attention from the atrocities and the starvation war in the Gaza Strip, as well as to resurrect the myth of anti-Semitism they have employed to manipulate global governments and populations, thereby obscuring their occupation and massacres, their extermination campaign, and undermining the core values and foundational principles of Western civilisation, namely democracy, human rights, freedom of thought and expression, and a free press. The world has become entirely aware of the realities that have unveiled the Zionist agenda, dismantling all the facades it employed to conceal its violent, repugnant nature and its discriminatory objectives.
What do they anticipate from American youth when they exclude them from universities, inhibit their expression of humanitarian sentiments towards the victims of the genocidal conflict among their peers in Gaza, and suppress solidarity with them under the influence of Zionist lobbies? Furthermore, they terminate all assistance and financial contributions to these esteemed universities, known for their rigorous academic standards, such as Harvard and Columbia, and deploy police dogs to assault them and violently disperse their nonviolent sit-ins. What do they anticipate that these youths will remain mute and hoist white flags of capitulation instead of Palestinian flags and abandon the chants of resistance against the genocidal conflict and the liberation of occupied territory, like their forebears during the Vietnam War? What of the Arab and Islamic young who awaken and retire beside the open graves of children in Gaza? Who can prevent them from disseminating the conflict globally if the genocidal war does not cease forthwith?
Gideon Sa’ar, the Israeli Foreign Minister and a steadfast ally of Netanyahu, attributes the height of distortion to the leaders of nations and organisations opposing the Gaza conflict, alleging that they incite anti-Semitism and animosity towards Jews. He explicitly mentions the three Western leaders: Emmanuel Macron (France), Keir Starmer (Britain), and Jagmeet Singh (Canada), who upheld their principles and released a joint statement calling for an immediate cessation of the genocide and blockade in the Gaza Strip, as well as the initiation of a diplomatic process towards the establishment of a Palestinian state.
These three figures, who abruptly became proponents of anti-Semitism, were previously among the most ardent advocates for Israel’s right to self-defence following the October 7, 2023 attack, and supporters of Israel within the United Nations Security Council. They approached this stance sincerely, as a concerned friend, aiming to safeguard Israel from its own leadership, which has exceeded Nazism in its atrocities by conducting a genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. This campaign persists without fulfilling any objectives, resulting solely in the deaths of children and women, the destruction of hospitals, and the obliteration of homes in the Strip with American munitions.
The resistance orchestrated by Hamas persists, and its popularity is increasing. The twenty captives remain in the tunnels, as Ben Gurion Airport remains predominantly shuttered and largely deserted by most global airlines. The ports of Haifa, Ashdod, and Ashkelon are en route, and the American aircraft carriers have retreated due to the formidable Yemeni rockets.
Netanyahu seeks to leverage the assassination of personnel at his Washington embassy to rationalise his campaign of extermination and atrocities in the Gaza Strip, perpetuate these actions, and alleviate “Israel” from its current isolation and global animosity. Nevertheless, we reiterate for the umpteenth time that he will not prevail. The situation has reversed, and his employment of the “anti-Semitism” tactic is producing counterproductive outcomes, undermining his racist Zionist agenda, with further adverse consequences anticipated.
Elias Rodriguez, the young man who executed the Jewish Museum operation, proclaimed the liberation of Palestine and surrendered to the police without resistance; he is not anti-Semitic but rather opposed to Israel’s crimes and massacres, as well as the coercion of its leaders to the world under this deceptive slogan. Regardless of dissent regarding his method of articulating his perspectives and the underlying fury, his discharge of ten bullets at the Israeli embassy personnel may act as a harbinger for imminent, more perilous assaults aimed at numerous Israeli embassies and interests globally, should the genocide in Gaza persist and prompt action be undertaken in response to the pronouncement by the three European leaders advocating for a lasting resolution that culminates in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and the repatriation of all refugees.