“Merhaba, take responsibility for the violence at mosque”: The message of Israel's “Intelligence” for the Arab household

<x) You've been identified by participating in violent acts in Al Assa Mosque. You will be held responsible. Israeli intelligence. ”

The woman, who lives a few minutes from the mosque, had gone to the evening prayer. Age and its behaviour were suspicious that she would have joined hundreds of young men who had fired stones and fireworks when Israeli security forces entered Haram al-Sharif. Many others received an identical message on their phones, including CNN producer Kareem Khadder, who was also in Haram al-Sharif.

I called the number from which the text was sent, and he was inactive, and it is not clear whether the sender was really Israeli intelligence or someone else”, he said.

Besides technology that tracks the movement of individual mobile phones, Israel is using fears to monitor movement within and around the Old Town, assisted by hundreds of closed-circuit television cameras. Thousands of armed police officers have been deployed there, assisted by police trucks dropping what Palestinians call “channeling”, a harmful liquid sprinkled against protesters, passersby, cars, shops and homes. Israel is boasting with domestic and external intelligent services as one of the most equipped and technically advanced forces on Earth, plus an officially denied nuclear arsenal, but no less real.

The Israelite State is fighting in Jerusalem's streets and alleys hundreds of Palestinian men, mostly young men.

Israel conquered East Jerusalem, which includes the Old Town in June 1967, whose annexation was never recognised by the International Community a little later. Almost 54 years later, the city that claims to have been reunited has never been more divided.

President Joe Biden has reaffirmed his administration's confidence in a two-state settlement, where Israel and a future Palestinian state would live side-by-side.

But this solution is a relic of an early past. In May 2018, “I covered protests in Gaza that coincided with the opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem. The firm approval of Israel's Trump administration of maximum demand was the last nail in the two-state settlement coffin of”.

Israel, under the leadership of tough Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has its technical and diplomatic advantage fully. Repeated noncompliance elections in recent years have put him in defense from an even more extreme Israeli right, for which compromise with Palestinians is a curse. Israel's gravity center is now at the right hand of what was 30 years ago.

The Palestinians are divided between an aging leadership in Ramallah, led by 85-year-old Mahmoud Abbas and the militant faction of Hamas, isolated from the international community, ruling an increasingly poor Gaza. Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority since 2005, has recently cancelled parliamentary elections and appears pleased to continue his authoritarian rule. Hamas in Gaza is increasingly unpopular for mismanagement, oppression and corruption. The shooting of raw missiles in Israel may strengthen Hamas' credibility in some neighbourhoods, but Israel's counterattacks do more likely than deepen the misery of Gaza's population.

A new generation of Palestinian youth are now revolting against this quo status, surpriseing the Palestinian Israelis and leadership. Israel has responded strongly, the Palestinian Authority with empty rhetoric, Hamas and other factions in Gaza with rockets. And none of these answers will provide anything positive.

The possibility that a strange dream seemed 20 years ago - the so - called one - state solution - could be the only way to end this century - old conflict. This would include what is right for Israel today, plus East Jerusalem, the West Coast, and possibly Gaza, becoming a country where the same laws and rights apply to all who live within its borders.

Currently, the area Israel effectively controls is divided between the citizens of Israel and the rest, living under two legal systems, with one side enjoying rights and full protection as citizens of the state, and the other side is not.