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Now that IDF tanks and infantry are advancing into Gaza, some analysts assume that the solution of 41 years ago also represents a solution for the Strip....
Olive green uniforms in order, Kalashnikovs slung over shoulders, red and white keffiyehs on heads. Palestinian militias arrive at the port of Beirut in vans, from there they board Greek and Cypriot ferries and shoot in the air. It feels like embarking on a cruise, but it's a tug. From the rooftops, Mossad and military intelligence agents watch the movements with binoculars and take pictures: they want to make sure that Yasser Arafat and all his men are leaving Lebanon, heading for Tunis.
We are talking about Operation Peace for the Galilee, which began on June 6, 1982 with a more limited objective, to push Palestinian positions northward, at least thirty kilometers, away from Israeli villages targeted by rockets and fedayeen infiltration. This is the order given by Prime Minister Menachem Begin, while Ariel Sharon, his Minister of Defense, decides to push the invasion much deeper, to the point of securing the western part of the Lebanese capital, where the leader and his men are installed.
Arafat threatens to turn that area of Beirut into his "Stalingrad", as Hamas leaders now repeat from their safe havens abroad, all of Gaza - with a population of 2.3 million - must hold out for them, exposed to massive bombings. The siege of the man who would become the first Palestinian president - from 1996 until his death in 2004 - lasted 10 weeks, 5,000 Palestinians and Lebanese died, mostly civilians, and 360 Israeli soldiers fell.
Now that IDF tanks and infantry are advancing into Gaza, some analysts assume that the solution of 41 years ago also represents a solution for the Strip. "The boss of Hamas can stop the war. All they have to do is declare: We will release all the hostages and evacuate Gaza, as Arafat did in 1982," commented Amos Yadlin, former head of military intelligence and head of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. for 12 years.
However, in the interview for the magazine "Politico" he adds that "Israel cannot return to the same demarcation line marked by its withdrawal from the Strip in 2005. And as with the Palestinian terrorists after the massacre at the Munich Olympics in 1972 , the hunt for those responsible for the October 7 massacres will not end until their end." Also in the case of Arafat, the Israelis try to kill him in Tunis.
He was the last to leave Lebanon on August 30. For 10 days, a multinational force made up of Italians, French and Americans overseeing the movements of the militias must fill the void left by the Palestinians.
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has spoken in recent days of international troops verifying the disarmament of Hamas and supporting an interim government, before the full return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza.
Al Sharq Al Awsat, a Saudi newspaper published in London, directly addresses Yaha Sinwar, the head of Hamas, and urges him to leave as Arafat did: "Today your head may be the price for extinguishing the flames. For the Israelis, your arrest would be a trophy, and even leaving the Strip could be a solution. The question is: Are you ready to sacrifice yourself for Gaza and the Palestinian cause?». / Pamphlet
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