Why Is Israel Obsessed with Disarming the Resistance? A Smokescreen for Expansionist Ambitions

The Israeli occupation continues to insist on disarming the Palestinian resistance in Gaza as a precondition for any ceasefire negotiations—a demand that raises critical questions about the real motives behind this push. With a long record of violating agreements, both inside and outside Palestine, Israel’s current strategy appears less about peace and more about paving the way for regional domination.

Statements from Israeli officials, alongside a decade of aggressive military actions beyond Gaza, reveal a wider expansionist agenda that stretches from the Palestinian territories to Syria, Lebanon, and even beyond.

This underscores a critical truth: disarming the resistance won’t end the conflict—it will simply clear the path for Israel’s broader regional ambitions.

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A Familiar Demand, a New Context

The call to disarm the Palestinian resistance is not new. However, it resurfaced with intensity after Israel violated the last ceasefire in Gaza and resumed its genocidal assault on the besieged enclave.

Although Palestinian factions categorically reject disarmament, Israel now seeks to link it directly to the cessation of aggression—a move many see as an attempt to neutralise resistance capabilities without addressing the root causes of the conflict, namely:

 

• • Military occupation

• • Settlement expansion

• • The blockade on Gaza

• • Systematic denial of Palestinian rights

A recent Egyptian-mediated proposal reportedly included—for the first time—a clause explicitly demanding disarmament as a condition for ending the war.

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Beyond Gaza: A Broader Zionist Map

Israeli aggression has long transcended Palestinian borders. In Syria, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes over the past decade, targeting military airports, research centres, and infrastructure deep inside Syrian territory.

While Tel Aviv justifies its actions as responses to “Iranian influence,” analysts agree this is part of a broader Israeli strategy to destroy any Arab military capability that could challenge its hegemony.

In Lebanon, Israel has violated the November ceasefire more than 1,000 times, killing and injuring hundreds of civilians. Although it was required to withdraw from southern Lebanon by January 26, Israel extended its stay and continues to occupy five key hilltops along the Blue Line, with no timeline for withdrawal.

These ongoing violations demonstrate that Israel’s goals are neither defensive nor limited to Gaza.

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Zionist Ambitions Reach into the Gulf

The true extent of Israel’s ambitions was revealed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who in February declared:

“I have no problem with a Palestinian state—if it’s established in Saudi Arabia.”

The statement triggered outrage from Saudi officials, especially as it came just after a White House meeting with Donald Trump, who himself has floated ideas about relocating Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan.

Trump had previously stated:

“Israel looks small on the map… I’ve always thought about how we can make it bigger.”

These comments suggest a shared Zionist-American vision for redrawing the region’s map—by force, displacement, and demographic engineering.

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Greater Israel: A Political Doctrine, Not Just Rhetoric

Such views are not isolated opinions—they reflect a growing political doctrine within the Israeli establishment. Netanyahu has repeatedly invoked the phrase “changing the face of the Middle East” since October 7.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich went further, calling for:

 

• • Annexation of the West Bank

• • Dissolution of the Palestinian Authority

• • And establishing “Greater Israel” from the river to the sea… and beyond to Damascus”

This vision is being operationalised through:

 

• • Aggressive settlement expansion

• • Escalating settler violence

• • Persistent occupation of southern Lebanon

• • And the recent seizure of additional Syrian territory, in violation of the 1974 disengagement accord with Damascus

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Disarmament as a Trap, Not a Solution

In the occupied West Bank, Israel has already disarmed all resistance, dismantled militant factions, and rebuilt Palestinian security forces under full Israeli control.

Yet what followed?

 

• • More settlement construction

• • Land confiscation

• • Tightened restrictions

• • And even economic strangulation of the Palestinian Authority itself

This exposes the falsehood behind the “disarmament = peace” narrative.

As Palestinian researcher Salah Al-Awawdeh explains:

“The issue is not the weapons of resistance—the issue is the occupation itself.”

He notes that in the West Bank:

 

• • Armed resistance has been eliminated

• • Yet oppression has intensified

• • Proving that Israel’s goal is total domination—not peace

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The Oslo Trap Revisited

Al-Awawdeh warns that entering talks about “disarmament” opens the same dangerous doors as the Oslo Accords, where Palestinians were pressured to abandon “violence”—only to be met with continued colonisation.

“Israel uses vague terms like ‘disarmament’ and redefines them however it wants.

Once you enter that tunnel, you never come out.”

Disarmament, in Israel’s hands, becomes a tool of manipulation—a means of dismantling resistance and then shifting the goalposts to demand even more.

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The Bottom Line: Disarming the People, Not Just the Fighters

The ultimate goal isn’t just removing weapons—it’s removing the will to resist, and by extension, removing the people themselves.

By pushing for disarmament while expanding its reach into:

 

• • Lebanon

• • Syria

• • And even making territorial references to Saudi Arabia and Jordan
    Israel reveals its true intent:
    To erase Palestinian resistance as a first step toward redrawing the map of the entire region.