The news that has dominated the covered the news in the past week is the brutal massacre that has been waged by Israel against the people of Gaza and Hamas movement that controls the Gaza strip. Officially Israel says that the military campaign that is launched is intended to stop Hamas from firing rockets into Israel. But it does not take much intelligence and IQ to figure out what the motive behind the attack is. Israel has initiated this military campaign to alter the geopolitical factors on the ground, geopolitical factors which were not in favor of Israel. After the war in Lebanon and the humiliating defeat that Israel witness in the war the geopolitical factors began to change against Israel and in favor of the resistance movements in the region. So Israel did not have any option but to try and change the realities on the ground.
Now a god question that can be asked is “ what is the relation between this war and the election that happened in the US? Does the new administration is the US support the military campaign?
The Israeli authorities saw the transition till the handover of power to the new administration in the US as an opportune time in attacking Hamas. By doing this they would they would in fact put the new administration on the US in front of a done deal. Furthermore even months before and during the presidential campaigns in the US and Obama’s message of change, the Israeli authorities had expressed concern over Obama’s willingness to talk to Iran and had stated that Obama’s change would harm Israel. Therefore by attacking Hamas, which was one of the Resistance links in the region, they want to change the reality on the ground. A few weeks ago, Shemon Perez, the Israeli president had asked Obama to postpone talks with Iran for a year. This also indicates the plan that Israel has had since quite a long time to put the new US administration into a more offensive stance vis-à-vis Iran. If these attacks succeed and Israel manages to defeat Hamas, the new US administration would have an easier task in implementing its middle east policies. A part of those policies are related to Iran. Therefore one can say that the current attacks are also aimed at putting more pressure on Iran.