New Regime in Israel for Old tactics

-by Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

  ------------------------

After a prolonged horse trading efforts by him, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the right-of-centre Likud party, has been asked to form Israel's next government. His position was bolstered on 19 February when Avigdor Lieberman, head of Yisrael Beiteinu, which favors tightening the Israeli blockade on Gaza, said it wanted him to be prime minister. The decision to choose Netanyahu marks the beginning of a period of serious horse-trading. The Likud chief said he would try to form a unity government with his political rivals. "I call on Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni and Labour Party chairman Ehud Barak and I say to them - let's unite to secure the future of the State of Israel." Netanyahu said Israel faced "great challenges" including the global economic crisis and what he said was Iran's wish to obtain nuclear weapons. His agenda is to silence the Palestinians and woo the Obama administration to invade Iran, among others. Like all other so-called democracies, Israel is also known for hidden strategies.

But Tzipi Livni, leader of the centrist Kadima (28 seats), has suggested she would rather be in opposition than join a government led by Netanyahu. Kadima narrowly defeated Likud (27 seats) in the election held on 10 February, but Netanyahu has the support of religious and right-wing parties in the Israeli parliament. Dejected by the Kadima's outright rejection of his offer, Netanyahu has the other alternative to reconcile the differences among the various factions on the right to form a regime to pursue the terrorist campaigns in Palestine and other neighborhoods.

Minutes before the news came out that the Likud leader would be asked to form a government, Ms Livni said what was being proposed was a government "without political vision, a government with no values". Livni stuck to her guns, as before, stating that she opposes pressure tactics and will not be a pawn in a government that would be against our ideals. By saying so Livni has disowned the Israel's Haaretz newspaper report on 19 February that Ms Livni said she would consider a coalition which included Likud, Kadima, and Yisrael Beiteinu. One of the main points of contention between the Kadima and Likud parties is how to handle the Palestinian territories. Ms Livni favors more talks and the creation of a separate state for the Palestinians. Netanyahu says, rather bluffs, he does not want Israel to rule the Palestinians, but says they should not be allowed things he considers a threat to Israeli security, such as an army, or control of airspace or the Jordan Valley. Israel does not think Palestinians also require adequate security against Jewish recurrent holocaust measures.

Likud's 1999 charter "flatly rejects" a sovereign Palestinian state, but backs Palestinian self rule. Israel has taken the support and weapons from US-led state terror states for granted. Basically anti-Palestine, both President Shimon Peres and Netanyahu decided to form another regime that would further step in genocide drive in Palestine and swindle more Palestinian lands. Both held a news conference to officially announce that the Likud leader now has six weeks to put together a coalition. President Peres who is also a former premier doing the same terror activities in Palestine, told the news conference he wanted to open talks with his political rivals to form a "broad national unity government for the good of the people and the state".

Committed to holocaust in Palestine, Netanyahu, like every other Jewish leader, is opposed to Iran or any other nation supporting the Palestinians to defend themselves from Israeli state terrorism and holocaust. Netanyahu returned to a key campaign theme on Iran, suggesting that Tehran had emerged as Israel's greatest security threat. The Islamic Republic of Iran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons, he said, as well as sponsoring the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups in Lebanon and Gaza. Israel considers its prerogative to be the only (illegal) nuclear power and can own nukes, but no Arab nation should go nuclear to threat Tel Aviv. Israel also wants the Hamas to fire toy rockets to some corners of Israel but incapable of reaching Tel Aviv, so that it could continue to kill the innocent Palestinians and the US-led West could condemn the Palestinians as terrorists. 

Israel meticulously plans future strategies to terrorize Palestinians. Netanyahu regime cannot be expected to stop the massacre in Palestine and illegal settlements, so long as Israel managed the US support.  Palestinian officials reacted with caution to the news of Netanyahu's appointment. Saeb Erekat, a senior aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been negotiating with Israel's outgoing Kadima-led coalition, said Israel needed a government committed to peace. "We will not be in the negotiations with an Israeli government that continues settlement activities, that refuses the two-state solution, and that doesn't accept agreements signed," he said.

Under the prevailing circumstances, like the new regime in Washington, a new regime in Tel Aviv cannot be a pro-Palestine one to resole the crisis and seek reliable peace in the region. In fact, no matter who rules Israel the Zionist ideology cannot change so easily, just as who rules the USA the state terror ideology mooted by the militant Neocons cannot vanish just like that. If, however, any significant reform takes place in Israeli terror mindset, that would benefit the innocent Palestinians fighting for a sovereign nation of their own on their on lands, now under Israeli terror occupation and supported by its strategic partners in the West and East, like India. 

-----------------------

Yours Sincerely,

DR.ABDUL RUFF Colachal

Columnist & Independent Researcher in World Affairs, The only Indian to have gone through entire India

South Asia.