When is going to be Israel’s next attack on Gaza?

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Yes, the main concern of Arab nations that have gathered in Cairo to try to fund the reconstruction operations in Gaza strip, on the initiative of Egyptian military responsible for the hopeless terror situation the Palestinians are put into in Gaza by terror blockades to Gaza along with Israeli blockades, should indeed be about the Israel’s next attack schedule.

It is because, once the reconstruction work is over, both Israel and Egypt jointly plan military attacks on Gaza strip. At least Egypt could offer Israel help while Israeli military criminals attack and kill Palestinians, including children.

Egypt is essentially an anti-Islamic country in Mideast where the military removed the first ever elected president Mohammad Morsi and the powerful military general Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi assumed power and later got it regularized by a bogus poll. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is close to all anti-Islamic leaders, including in Mideast.

The one-day gathering of international donors to help Gaza rebuild after the devastating, 50-day Israel-Hamas war this summer opened in Cairo on October 12, bringing together envoys including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union negotiator Catherine Ashton. The participants are expected to pledge hundreds of millions of dollars. Egyptian military general turned president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi kicked off the conference where the prospective donors plan to funnel the aid through the Palestinian Authority that Abbas leads, and bypass Hamas. Addressing the meeting, el-Sissi suggested that Hamas would have no leading role in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, a sliver of coastal territory on the Mediterranean bordered by Israel and Egypt. The reconstruction effort, he said, hinged on a "permanent calm" between Hamas and Israel and required the exercise of "full authority" by the Palestinian Authority led by Abbas.

Egypt, which negotiated a cease-fire that ended the fighting on Aug. 27 after fueling the conflict by its tacit support to Israel, has had tense relations with Gaza's Hamas rulers since the Egyptian military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July last year and threw its weight behind the administration of Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.

Palestine leader and PLO chief Abbas told the conference that $4 billion were needed to rebuild Gaza, and that the latest war caused what he described as "tragedies that are difficult to be described by words." "Entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble and 90 families are no longer listed in the civil register," he said, pledging transparency in the way the funds will be used.

Pro-US-Israel Abbas and the Islamist Hamas group, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, recently formed a reconciliation government which held its first Cabinet meeting in Gaza last week. But a blockade of Gaza enforced by both Egypt and Israel remains in force.

The meeting of donor nations produced pledges of meager $5.4 billion for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Representatives of 50 nations and 20 regional and international organizations were in attendance. The amount exceeded the $4 billion Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had sought to fund a proposal the PA had drawn up to rebuild Gaza following 50-days of warfare between Hamas and Israel in July and August. Qatar promised $1 billion and Secretary of State John Kerry added an additional pledge of $212 million in what he termed "immediate assistance." Funds will be channeled through the Palestinian Authority.  

At one point it was believed that Israel would send a representative to the conference, but the Egyptian hosts believed its presence might keep Arab donors away so the Israelis stayed home with whiskey bottles . An official of the PA told the Ma'an news agency on Sunday that no schedule has been set for the start of the building.

The Gaza Strip or simply Gaza is an exclave region of Palestine on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt on the southwest for 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) and Israel on the east and north along a 51 km (32 mi) border. Gaza makes up part of the Palestinian territories which includes the West Bank, and in 2012 the United Nations General Assembly "accorded Palestine non-Member Observer State status in the United Nations".

Big powers wage wars to expand their boundaries and add more resources from alien nations. The entire world has always been controlled by big powers and their empires. First World war regularized borders and lands occupied by empires and big powers. British Empire was a formidable prowess, controlling the world with large number of colonies in today’s’ third world and elsewhere.  Surprisingly, USA, now the only super power of world, was also under British occupation.  Britain, which dictated its terms to the League of Nations took control Palestine too from Egypt, before gifting it to Israel as a gift in a cold blooded conspiracy against Palestinians and other Arabs. . .

The Palestine Mandate was based on the principles contained in Article 22 of the draft Covenant of the League of Nations and the San Remo Resolution of 25 April 1920 by the principal Allied and associated powers after the First World War. The mandate formalized British rule in the southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923–1948. In 1994, Israel granted the right of self-governance to Gaza through the Palestinian Authority. Prior to this, Gaza had been subject to military occupation, most recently by Israel (1967–94) and by Egypt (1948–67), and earlier by Great Britain (1918–48) and Turkey when Gaza had been part of the Ottoman Empire. Gaza has, just like Palestine, never been a sovereign state or territory. Since 2007, the Gaza Strip has been de facto governed by Hamas, a Palestinian group claiming to be the representatives of the Palestinian National Authority and the Palestinian people. Gaza forms a part of the Palestinian territory defined in the Oslo Agreements and UNSC Resolution 1860.

The Gaza Strip acquired its current northern and eastern boundaries at the cessation of fighting in the 1948 war, confirmed by the Israel–Egypt Armistice Agreement on 24 February 1949. Article V of the Agreement declared that the demarcation line was not to be an international border. At first the Gaza Strip was officially administered by the All-Palestine Government, established by the Arab League in September 1948. All-Palestine in the Gaza Strip was managed under the military authority of Egypt, functioning as puppet state, until it officially merged into the United Arab Republic and dissolved in 1959. From the time of the dissolution of the All-Palestine Government until 1967, the Gaza Strip was directly administered by an Egyptian military governor. Israel captured the Gaza Strip from Egypt in the Six-Day War in 1967.

Pursuant to the Oslo Accords signed in 1993, the Palestinian Authority became the administrative body that governed Palestinian population centers while Israel maintained control of the airspace, territorial waters and border crossings with the exception of the land border with Egypt. In 2005, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip under their unilateral disengagement plan. In July 2007, after winning the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, Hamas became the elected government. In 2007 the rival party Fatah took up arms against this government, and was expelled by Hamas. This broke the Unity Government between Gaza Strip and the West Bank, creating two separate governments for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

In 2014, following reconciliation talks, Hamas and Fatah formed a Palestinian unity government within the State of Palestine. Rami Hamdallah became the coalition's Prime Minister and has planned for elections in Gaza and the West Bank. This angered USA-Israel terror twins that sought permanent rift between Fatah and Hamas to kill and destroy each other.  In July 2014,  Israel once against  invaded Gaza strip  to remove the unity government  in Gaza strip, killed thousands of Palestinians, destroyed property worth trillions but could not succeed in  remove the  government led by Hamas.

One of the major reasons for Israeli genocides in Gaza strip to reduce the Muslim populations that seek to commit themselves to Islam.  Hamas is committed to Islamist way of life.  Hence Israeli criminal Jews target Hamas Palestinians.

Expansionist policy of Zionist criminal regime makes life difficult for Palestine even during the somewhat clam times without Israeli wars but  during the  Israeli fascist attacks,  life become  intolerable.  Gaza has an annual population growth rate of 2.91% (2014 est.) and is overcrowded. There is a limited capability to construct new homes and facilities for this growth. The territory is 41 kilometers (25 mi) long, and from 6 to 12 kilometers (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, with a total area of 365 square kilometers (141 sq mi). As of 2014, Palestinians of the Gaza Strip numbered around 1.82 million people. Sunni Muslims make up the predominant part of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.

The latest conflict in Gaza was the most ruinous of three wars between Hamas and Israel since 2008, leaving more than 2,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians killed. Another 11,000 were wounded, and some 100,000 people remain homeless. Both Abbas and el-Sissi said an Arab peace plan adopted in 2002 provided a basis for settling the Palestinian-Israel conflict. The plan envisages Israel's withdrawal from Arab territories it occupied in the 1967 Middle East war in return for normalized relations with all Arab nations.

Even while the reconstruction of Gaza strip,  dislocated by  Israeli criminal army in perfection,  is being planned by Arab nations, as usual, Israel must also be busy planning for its next attack with US weapons and  UNSC veto support;  Israel is capable  of a set of lethal incidents  to cause  fight  between Hamas and Israel , leading to the Israeli military launching the 2014 Israel–Gaza type conflict any time in future.

Expansionist ideology of Zionist fascist regime seeks Palestinian blood and lands.

Egypt knows that. Other Arab nations also know that!

Who does not know then?