Israeli Terror and Blackmail Tactics  

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One does not have details about how many Palestinians have been butchered by Israeli state terrorists so far. Direct terror and blackmailing tactics have been the  hallmark of Israeli policy in Palestine. Invasions, genocides, destruction are the hallmark of Israeli fascism in Palestine with thousands of innocent and defenseless Palestinians having been butchered by Israeli terror forces in Palestine. Fascist Israel kills Palestinians, expands its territories captured from Palestine with illegal settlements to house Jews. Israel is a colonizer, state terrorist, permanent schemer against Palestine, Islam and other religions. Israel never respects the truce and invaded Hamas on fictitious pretexts with US support. Recent talks between Hams and Israel, as expected, ended without results. And each side blamed the other for the collapse, but mainly because Israel had brought nothing new to the talks and used Egypt to coerce Hams to agree to Israeli conditions.

As Israeli leaders returned to Israel disappointed and quickly executed its hidden plan in Palestine. More than 30 Hamas MPs remain in prison in Israel after being arrested in the wake of Gilad Shalit's capture in 2006. Israel has detained 10 senior Hamas leaders in the West Bank two days after indirect talks between the two sides on a possible prisoner swap collapsed. The detainees include Nasser Shaer arrested in Nablus, who served as Palestinian Authority deputy prime minister when Hamas won PA legislative elections in 2006 and an academic. Three others, including an MP and a mayor were arrested in Ramallah, the birth place of PLO leader Yasser Arafat and another MP was taken in the Jenin area. As usual, an Israeli military-cum-spy spokeswoman described them as "terror operatives". Hamas has condemned the illegal arrests by Israeli regime only to appease the Jews.

Hamas has been demanding the release of more than 400 of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. However, given the track terror and fascist record of Israel, the Palestinians fate cannot be predicted to be safe. Israel could even kill them just to terrorize the Palestinians demanding their lands back from Mideastern fascist.  Daniel Friedman, the Israeli justice minister, said Hamas had wrecked a possible deal by making “unrealistic” demands. "The prime minister was prepared to make far-reaching concessions, far beyond what some other ministers were willing to do," he said. "That being said, Hamas's demands reached such proportions that we believe no Israeli government could accept them." Fascism never accepts any genuine claims of colonies under its brutal custody.

Egyptian officials said that Egypt is suggesting the US would accept a commitment from Hamas to "respect" existing Palestinian agreements with Israel. The Western powers want Hamas to accept existing Palestinian agreements with Israel, such as the Olso accords, in which the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) recognized the right of the state of Israel to exist and renounced violence. Hamas's charter calls for the redemption of lands annexed by Israel, but the group has also offered a long-term truce if Israel withdraws to its pre-5 June 1967 borders.

Talks in Cairo to end the rift between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have faltered over the issue. Factional fighting has badly shattered the PLO to the advantage for a fascist Israel. But Egypt’s intelligence chief is visiting Washington in what officials say is a push for a more flexible US stance on Hamas, to aid Palestinian unity talks.

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Israel is worried only about Jew prisoners, but ignores the Palestinians in Israeli jails. Gilad Shalit, then a corporal, was captured by Palestinians armed wing from Gaza while engaged in subversive activities in a cross-border raid in June 2006.  Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had hoped to secure the release of Sgt Shalit before the formation of a new Israeli government, which could happen within days under the authority of PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. The right-wing former premier is seen by analysts as less likely to reach a compromise than Olmert.

 Israel fools the Hamas citing the “security threat” ploy. By using hawkish prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu who is more hard-liner than himself, Olmert is threatening the Palestinians to fall in line and in fact is worried only about his skin now. Israel does not wish to deport the prisoners, fearing they would be a security risk if released in the Palestinian territories. Olmert had made the release of Sgt Shalit a major issue of his premiership. A fierce anti-Palestinian, Gilad Shalit has since been promoted to the rank of sergeant. Sgt Shalit's family and supporters have said they fear a harder-line cabinet led by Netanyahu may be less likely to do a deal. Egypt also seems to play into US-Israeli hands.

 A senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan suggested the Israelis appeared to believe Hamas would accept any offer ahead of the formation of a more hard-line government in Israel by right-wing prime minister-designate Netanyahu.

Olmert sent two senior envoys to Cairo at the weekend hoping to seal a deal to swap Sgt Shalit for hundreds of Palestinian detainees, but they returned empty handed. Israel accused the Palestinian freedom group Hamas of hardening its position on the proposed prisoner exchange. The talks were part of a final push by the outgoing Israeli prime minister to secure a deal before he left office. Like the kith and kin of Palestinians who are now under Israeli custody, the young soldier's father, Noam Shalit, acknowledge he would not see his son again. Egypt has been brokering the indirect talks. In a television address, Olmert accused Hamas of making additional demands. "We will not agree to the release of additional prisoners from Hamas's list above and beyond the hundreds that we have already agreed upon," he said. "We have red lines, and we will not cross them. We are not a defeated nation."

When the world was eagerly awaiting good news about actual establishment of Palestine from the talks brokered by Egypt between Palestinians and Israel, Zionist continues to work on destructive politics in Palestine. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that Hamas's terms for swapping captured soldier Gilad Shalit for Palestinian prisoners are unacceptable. He spoke after senior Israeli envoys returned from indirect talks with Hamas in Cairo without a deal. One of his ministers accused Hamas of raising its demands to a level no Israeli government could accept. Hamas played down suggestions a deal had been close and said it had not changed its conditions. Hamas has been demanding the release of more than 400 of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. But Israel has rejected the Palestinian plea.

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While the Arabs failed to make Israel to agree for creation of Palestine state and US-led West are playing their own games in the Mideast, Egypt is also mediating peace between the Palestinians and Israelis, but recent talk failed as Israel was stubborn, as usual, on its demands, ignoring similar ones from Hamas. Egypt revived the call for Palestinian reconciliation talks in November. However, Hamas withdrew from the talks, as Fatah continued to arrest Hamas members in the West Bank. A fresh push for reconciliation was launched after Israel’s three-week military offensive in Gaza, which ended on 18 January.

Israeli fascism has got just one goal in Arab world: expansion of its illegal territories beyond Palestine by forcibly evicting the Arab inhabitants with support from US-led western powers that is responsible for the occupation of Palestine. The latest installment of holocaust in Palestine clearly exposed the hollowness of Islamic and Arab world. The Arab blood thirsty Jews keep hatching deceptive tactics to terrorize the Palestinians.. In order to divert the global attention of its genocides in Palestine, Israel quickly creates domestic turmoil and then all of a sudden invades Palestine to resume holocaust drive. The advice is offered on a regular basis form Washington where Jewish lobbyists operate with CIA concurrence. With the USA and UK and their allies supporting every ting Israel doe sand does in Palestine, Israel no reason to change its terror goals. For decades Tel-Aviv has pursued fascist objectives in Palestine in a sustained manner first by invasion and genocides and terrorization of innocent Palestinians to run away leaving the lands for Jews to occupy. Thus Israel keeps expanding the Palestine territories and extent the illegal settlements activities without any hindrance form the world.

For USA, Israel occupies the top priority in the Mideast and the polices and actions so far taken by the USA under different presidencies always helped Israel advance its fascist ambitions and badly weakened the Palestinians, where as the  Washington should have in fact done the other way round. USA & UK are the prime external cause for the pathetic existence of the Palestinians and their division along with agents of USA and Israel. The modus operandi of U.S. foreign policy persists. The so - called peace process is sustained by Washington as crisis management diplomacy for one merit only, i.e. to reign in violent Palestinian reaction to the sixty – year old dispossession and displacement and the forty – one year old Israeli occupation.

The great two–state solution vision is faulty and meant only to fool the Arabs. The great "vision” is pursued by the US presidents more to shield Israel from any possible “enemy” attack and to help Zionism survive a demographic threat and live on as a purely Jewish ghetto in an ocean of ethnic, national, cultural and religious pluralistic societies coexisting in a globalized world than to solve a one hundred year old conflict on the basis of ending military occupation, colonial settlement and territorial expansion. Nowhere international law and UN legitimacy are more violated and challenged for so long, and nowhere this violation and challenge was protected by the U.S., than in the Israeli – occupied Palestinian territories, where Washington continues to rule out any role for the world community and where it insists on disarming the Palestinian victims while at the same time it uses American tax payers money lavishly to arm the fascist Israeli occupying power to teeth to be unequivocally the regional military and nuclear super power. Main US policy for Mideast is to make Israel the super military power of the region.

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The original US-EU-Israel plan was to make Fatah and Hamas separate tiny states that would fight each other destroy themselves eventually, but that has not materialized so far. The US, EU and UN do not deal with elected Hamas, the so-called the “militant” rulers of Gaza, unless they reject violence and recognize Israel.  In actual terms, it means the Palestinians would surrender their lives to Israel and would not object to holocaust.  Israeli forces and the rival West Bank Fatah Palestinian leadership have clamped down on the Hamas freedom group since 2007 following Hamas taking sole control of Gaza, which is blockaded by Israel.

Israel and its western allies crudely played Hamas against Fatah and kept the rift alive, killing innocent Palestinian Muslims on a regular basis, thereby reducing Muslim population the world over, the agenda of the anti-Islamic world led by USA-Israel-India, etc. In January 2006, Hamas won Palestinian Authority legislative election annoying all anti-Palestine nations, including Israel and USA, in March 2006, Hamas government sworn in. USA and EU suspend ties with the newly elected government and these countries along with Israel successfully applied pressure on PLO chief and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas to dismiss Hamas government and replace it with Fatah people. February-March 2007 - Fatah and Hamas agree to form coalition to end growing factional warfare, but the same gang-up thwarted the attempts by the factions to unite. A war broke out between the Fatah and Hamas factions, while Israel and allies aided Fatah. In June 2007, finally the elected Hamas seized control of Gaza from Fatah West Bank after continued fighting. Unity government was dissolved by PLO chief, Israel tightened blockade of Gaza Strip, further making the life of Palestinians more miserable.

Israel collects taxes and uses it to blackmail Hamas. Regular blockades around Gaza Strip and West bank have crippled the life patterns of Palestinians. By using Mossad agents in Palestine, Israel is mutilating the economy of the region. Gaza pounding by Israel has done enormous devastations in Gaza. Arab nations and others have agreed to spend money to reconstruct Gaza strip destroyed by the recent Israeli devastating air-strikes to boost the image of the Olmert regime. Israel and its anti-Islamic allies in the West and elsewhere want reconstruction money to be funneled through the Palestinian Authority (PA) and not through the elected Hamas government. However the term of PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas ended recently and only Hamas remains the elected government.

Israel wants to get its jobs done by Palestinians and it uses the outposts, blockades, tax-collections, air-strikes, genocides and is seeking the release of one of its terrorist leader Gilad Shalit. Israel sued the meeting with Egyptian leaders only to get the release of one of Jewish terrorists. The hurried detentions appear to be an Israeli attempt to pressure Hamas after the failure of recent efforts to win the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit, who is being held by Hamas in Gaza, but failed. The fascist Israeli spokeswoman said these men have been the leaders of the ongoing effort to restore the administrative branch of the Hamas organization in the region, while attempting to strengthen the power and influence of Hamas.

A previous unity agreement fell apart after Israel and its international backers refused to deal with Hamas. Inter-factional fighting in Gaza came to a head in the summer of 2007 when Hamas fighters ousted the pro-Fatah security forces and overthrew PA control.. As well as continued tension, both sides have been accused of conducting politically motivated arrests and the torture of rival faction members.

Even Israeli human rights groups have criticized the military for failing to properly investigate violations of the laws of war in Gaza despite plenty of evidence of possible war crimes. Israel troops admit Gaza abuses An Israeli military college has printed damning soldiers' accounts of the killing of civilians and vandalism during recent operations in Gaza. One account tells of a sniper killing a mother and children at close range whom troops had told to leave their home. Another speaker at the seminar described what he saw as the "cold blooded murder" of a Palestinian woman. The army has defended its conduct during the Gaza offensive but said it would investigate the testimonies. Heavy civilian casualties during the three-week operation which ended in the blockaded coastal strip on 18 January provoked an international outcry. The testimonies undermine Israel's claims that troops took care to protect non-combatants and accusations that Hamas militants were responsible for putting civilians into harm's way. The Palestinian woman and two of her children were allegedly shot after they misunderstood instructions about which way to walk having been ordered out of their home by troops. In another cited case, a commander ordered troops to kill an elderly woman walking on a road, even though she was easily identifiable and clearly not a threat.

An unusually high intervention by military has been detected which circulated pamphlets describing the war in religious terminology. “All the articles had one clear message," one soldier said. "We are the people of Israel; we arrived in the country almost by miracle, now we need to fight to uproot the gentiles who interfere with re-conquering the Holy Land." Defence Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio that the findings would be examined seriously.

Post-script

Fascist Israel, by using the emerging regime-making scenario in Israel with a hawkish anti-Palestine leader, tries to coerce and blackmail the Hamas to get its talks done and immediately release the Jewish terrorist. Obviously, Israel and its western partners are at their old tricks of tracking the Palestinians in all possible ways because they now don’t worry about any punishment for the holocausts and detestations in Palestine. A tricky and deceptive Israel is used to open up trivial issues to make talks fail. Now they have done for non-settlement return of terrorist from Gaza to Israel.

Israelis are insincere about a Palestine state and what it wants is recognition of Israel established on lands stolen from the Palestinians with the support from anti-Islamic forces led by USA-UK. Israel makes truce only to be violated and also wants the PA under Abbas involved in any agreement to open the crossings into Gaza, which Israel has kept closed to all but basic aid since Hamas consolidated its control of Gaza by force in 2007.  

Western powers play their own destructive politics in Mideast to control the energy resources of the region by keeping Israel as a monstrous nuclear state and unless they denounce Israeli fascism, there is absolutely nothing that Palestinians could achieve, chiefly because many Islamic nations, Arab countries inclusive, are also under their control. Palestinians must stick to the Arab nations, however, and seek the intervention of both Turkey and Iran for a possible and early resolution of establishment of an independent Palestine state.

As a single Palestinian organization, PLO under Yasser Arafat could not achieve the goal of the Palestine state, but now there two groups fighting each other as the immediate enemy, while Israeli fascists drink their blood continually. The division between Hamas and PA President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction is deep, including many other issues such as reform of the Palestinian security services and the PLO, and the timing of fresh Palestinian elections. Animosity between the factions is the major barrier to unification for the factions and forming a Unity government and this factor is exploited by USA, EU and Israel to the maximum extent. The reconstruction in Gaza after Israel’s offensive is suffering due to this factor too. The US has said it will only deal with a national unity government that does not include Hamas, unless it accepts the US-Israeli conditions. Cairo’s influential head of intelligence, Omar Suleiman, is the chief Egyptian mediator in the talks aimed at forging a Palestinian national unity government and met US Middle East envoy George Mitchell and met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. One has to wait for the US response.

Instead of resolving the lands for Palestine and the punishment for Israel, the fundamentalist Jews have made Hamas to discuss the issue of their own concern. Palestinians, both Fatah and Hamas, must come together to have full view of their own problem with Israel around along with anti-Islamic nations and forces. There is no other way they could face the Israeli fascists  and pressure the world legal bodies to try the Jewish criminals for their genocides in Palestine and elsewhere (Israeli forces also help Indian state terrorists to kill innocent Kashmiris). The negotiations would go on, meanwhile.

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Yours Sincerely,

DR. ABDUL RUFF Colachal

Columnist & Independent Researcher in World Affairs,

The only Indian to have gone through entire India
South Asia.