Israeli Knesset Member Sparks Outrage: “We Kill 100 Women and Children—Why Not More?”
With resistance, diplomacy, and negotiations all exhausted, Palestinians are left in a state of enduring helplessness as Israel advances unchallenged.
Watan-There are moments when history contracts into a single overwhelming feeling: helplessness. This is the current moment for Palestinians.
Trump’s summits with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE appeared to be the pinnacle events of modern times—hundreds of billions of dollars poured into weapons, infrastructure, and economic deals. Trump continues to play a central role in shaping a new, American-led Middle East—aimed at sidelining China and weakening Iran. Yet one issue remains conspicuously absent: there is no comprehensive plan to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The Arab League summit that opened yesterday in Baghdad is merely a continuation of the last two decades of hollow slogans and clichés. Arab representatives offer no real pressure tools, nor do they explore actionable steps against Israel. The Palestinian issue—once central to Arab political identity on the global stage—has been marginalized and buried under meaningless rhetoric.
Today’s reality reveals three strategic failures, the collapse of the three pillars on which Palestinian hope once stood:
-
Armed struggle, once framed in religious and political terms as “jihad in the name of God” and labeled “terrorism” in Israeli discourse, has lost its legitimacy both regionally and internationally. The resistance efforts of Palestinian factions have yielded no political achievements or popular support—only destruction and suffering.
-
Negotiation processes, from the Oslo Accords to the Camp David talks, the Taba committee, and Ehud Olmert’s proposals, have all failed to achieve meaningful progress. Every time the realization of a Palestinian state seemed near, a crisis—internal or external—would bury the opportunity.
-
Faith in the international community, through UN resolutions, The Hague, European diplomatic pressure, humanitarian channels, and human rights organizations, has eroded amid global polarization, shifting priorities, and competing regional interests. International justice efforts have become a theater of empty solidarity, leaving Palestinians alone on the stage.
Meanwhile, in Israel, despite attempts by leftist politicians, thinkers, and activists, no real alternative is being proposed. The ruling political leadership maintains the status quo, benefiting from regional acceptance and seeing no urgency to seek a lasting solution. The occupation has become invisible, absent from public discourse.
As MK Tzvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism) put it:“The campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is complete. A hundred deaths a day no longer bothers anyone—not even if they’re women and children.”
On the ground, Palestinians appear trapped in a political Bermuda Triangle: armed resistance has failed, negotiations have collapsed, and diplomacy has lost its bite. Every former path to a different future now seems closed. The Arab world has shifted its focus, the international community is absorbed in its own crises, and Israel is entrenching its control—deepening apartheid in the West Bank and advancing transfer plans in Gaza with no political cost or pressure to change course.
Palestinian helplessness is nothing new—but unlike before, it now feels permanent—a fixed element of reality. As with any deep crisis, this may lead to an awakening with unpredictable consequences. But for now, the Palestinian people look upon the wreckage of their strategic aspirations—no dream, no backing—and one burning question remains: Where to?
