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22 Jan 2026
https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/georges-ibrahim-abdallah---together--and-only-together--do-w

"We must understand the nature of the Israeli entity. Up until the 1970s, Israel
did not own individual financial institutions; banks, insurance companies, and
major financial organizations were still public property. In the late 1980s,
approximately one million settlers from the Soviet Union arrived in Palestine,
bringing a massive influx of millions of dollars. These millions arrived through
means deemed "illegal" even by capitalist standards - that is, outside the legal
framework of the capitalist mode of production - stemming from prostitution,
smuggling, and illicit trade. This vast sum of capital, combined with a settler
population possessing the scientific capabilities acquired during Soviet times,
created a qualitative leap that allowed Israel to construct its so-called
"Silicon Valley." October 7th struck this "Silicon Valley" and the institutions
built since the 1970s in their entirety: not because it destroyed them
physically, but because Capital cannot flow safely in a theater of armed
conflict. This was unforeseen. This is why Israel is now living out its final
chapters; without "Silicon Valley," Netanyahu's vision of a "Greater Israel" was
an unrealistic project. This tech-hub not only paves the way for a classic
military occupation, but also the economic and administrative domination of the
entire region, similar to that exercised over the so-called Gulf States. The
plan was for the entire Arab Mashreq to fall under Israeli hegemony; October 7th
liquidated this project without necessarily being conscious of this specific
dimension. This is the fundamental dimension of the October 7th operation.

Of course, October 7th also prevented Saudi Arabia from normalizing with
Israel. We must not forget that Gaza is a massive prison. The plan at the time
was to expand this prison, but October 7th was the very explosion of that
prison, altering Zionist plans for the entire region. The imperialist West
emptied everything it had from its reservoir of barbarism and criminality, but
the people of Palestine stood tall despite their wounds and did not
surrender. They presented a model of sumoud the likes of which humanity has
never seen: not at Dien Bien Phu, nor at Stalingrad, nor anywhere else has a
people fought for their existence as the heroes of Gaza have."