On October 7th it has never been an “act of resistance”, as still today tries to make Filo-Palestinian propaganda believe, but a massacre deliberate against defenseless civilians: children, women, the elderly, young people massacred in the Kibbutz or captured on the music festivals
Two years after the 7 October 2023the day that has marked forever the story of Israel and of the entire Middle Eastthe wounds of that morning remain open. Thousands of massacred Israelis, destroyed families, hundreds of hostages dragged into the tunnels of the Gaza Strip: It was the bloodiest attack ever immediately by the Jewish state from its foundation. But after twenty -four months, while the world recalls the victims of those massacres, Israel It is still found in the heart of a war that seems to know no respite, worn out by an international demonization campaign and by a propaganda which, especially in Europe, continues to rewrite the history for the benefit of Hamas. The October 7 not has ever been a “act of resistance“, As still today tries to make propaganda believe pro-Palestinian, But a massacre deliberated against deferred civilians: children, women, the elderly, young people massacred in the Kibbutz or captured in the music festivals. The images of Beautiful, Kfar Aza And Re’im They have become the horror symbol. Israel reacted by force, launching a large -scale military operation to dismantle the terrorist apparatus of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
But the military response, although inevitable, has opened a long season of clashes, humanitarian crises and international tensions. The leaders of Hamashidden in underground bunkers or refugees in Doha hotels, have made the sacrifice of their civilians a political tool, transforming the suffering of the population of Gaza into a global propaganda weapon. In these two years, Israel has been dragged into an unprecedented delegitimacy process. In European universities, in the western squares and even in the international media a distorted narrative has spread that erases the responsibility for Hamas And it presents Israel as an attacker. The images of Gaza In rubble are systematically decontextualized, while the terror of October 7 is gradually removed or minimized. On social networks, the disinformation devices related to Hamas and to the Muslim brotherhood they orchestrated a capillary propaganda campaign: influencers, journalists, coordinated account and square movements that invoke the “Liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea“-A slogan that in its original form is equivalent to the cancellation of Israel. In Europe, Hamas’ strategy has found fertile ground between radical groups, extreme leftist organizations and pro-Palestinian movements financed opaque. executioners and victimsmake the massacres forget, transform a terrorist organization in a “legitimate” political subject.
Today, while a Sharm El-Sheikh The interviews mediated by the American president Donald Trump began for a political solution, peace remains a distant goal. The Israeli and Palestinian delegations do not sit at the same table; The dialogue is indirect, fragmented and full of suspicions. Hamas has already placed unacceptable conditions: asks for the total end of the block without disarmament, the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli army and the liberation of hundreds of prisoners who participated in the massacres of the October 7th and at least six leaders of thejihadist organization condemned to more life sentences. Israel, for its part, reiterates that there is no negotiation until the last hostage is freed and the Brigate Qassam they will not have laid down the weapons.
Behind the diplomatic facade, the jihadist movement tries to earn time. He slowed every concrete step, has changed its representatives several times and feeds internal tensions in order not to reach an agreement that would mark the political and military end. The families of the hostages still in the hands of Hamas They have lived for two years in a limbo of anguish. The news about their loved ones come intermittently, often filtered through Doha and Cairo negotiators or intermediaries. Each release has been traded as an exchange currency to obtain political advantages, freedom for terrorists detained or ceased temporary fire. This cynical game of terror has frozen the peace process and split the international community. While the European Union tries to carve out a role in the “Board of Peace“American, Hamas continues to sabotage every step forward with the same logic that two years ago pushed it to the massacre: maintaining the conflict open, transforming destruction into consent, war into power. Remembering on October 7 means not giving in to oblivion or to the oblivion handling. It means remembering that the war did not start with the Israeli response, but with the assault of Hamas. It means recognizing that every possible peace passes through the defeat of those who have made terrorism a political strategy. Two years later, Israel remains in alert, surrounded by enemies and growing hostility even in European salons. But the memory of the victims of the October 7th It imposes a certainty: peace will not be born from hypocrisy, nor from the equation between those who have chosen to kill and those who have the right to defend themselves. Only when Hamas will be deprived of his blackmail power and his propaganda machineThe Middle East He can really start talking about peace.
