MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev is certain that Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip will still take place and will set off a "machine of reciprocal violence" for years to come.

"Israel keeps postponing its ground operation in Gaza. Mostly under US pressure and for fear of sparking rage worldwide. But there should be no place for delusion. The operation will eventually take place and will entail the gravest, bloodiest consequences. [The bloodthirsty Biblical figure of] Moloch always demands ever fresher victims. The machine of reciprocal violence will now be set into motion for years to come," Medvedev lamented in a comment on his Telegram channel.

Medvedev believes that the West is very tired of the Ukraine theme and, thus, has "enthusiastically shifted to supporting Israel." He pointed out that even the newly elected speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana), named support for Tel Aviv as his top priority.

"Perhaps, it might all the same still be better to resume the Middle East settlement process and try, at long last, to implement UN Security Council Resolution 242 of November 22, 1967? Or even the original Partition Plan for Palestine, adopted on November 29, 1947 by UNGA Resolution 181?" Medvedev asked rhetorically. These documents required that a settlement be achieved in the Middle East through the creation of two states in Palestine: Jewish and Arab.

Medvedev remarked that his questions were, "of course, rhetorical."

"After all, divvying up and pocketing all that cash allocated for someone else's war taking place far from American shores is a much more attractive proposition. And, so ‘The war must go on,’" he said.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas staged a surprise attack on Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its operation as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel has declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and carried out air strikes on the Palestinian enclave, as well as some areas of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also underway in the West Bank.