Fascist Israel would play old tricks with Palestinians

By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

On 2009 April 08, on instructions form Tel Aviv, Israeli soldiers along with the Jewish settlers arrived in Safa, a nearby Palestinian village in West Bank, firing tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and live ammunition, injuring fifteen Palestinians, one seriously, last week. The usual provocative invasion of Israel when the settlers tried to enter the village, while locals tried to stop them, is yet to be criticized by the US-led international community. The violence comes amid concerns over a clash of opinion between the new government and Barack Obama's US administration.

Unveiling a new course in Mideast, though without clarity, President Obama has stressed his commitment to a two-state solution, but Netanyahu does not back the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state. Israeli militant foreign minister, far-right politician Avigdor Lieberman, quickly announced last week that peace talks with the Palestinians had reached a "dead end". Protesting against international pressure, he said: "We have never interfered with other people's affairs and we expect of others not stand with a stopwatch in hand." Lieberman, who leads the extremist right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, has dismissed past peace initiatives by US administrations. He has also said the previous Israeli government's acceptance of Palestinian statehood was not binding.

Israel does not want to change its Zionist policy of aggression, holocaust and expansion in Palestine. The new right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu said it would take a tough line on security in the West Bank and elsewhere. Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. In 2002, three residents of the settlement were given long jail terms for trying to blow up a Palestinian girls' school in Jerusalem.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who took office on 31 March, has told Palestinian (Fatah) leader Mahmoud Abbas that he intends to resume talks and co-operation to promote peace. Abbas initiated the telephone call following the anti-Palestine rhetoric from Jewish leaders following the latest clash. Netanyahu "recalled their past co-operation and conversations, and how he intended to resume this in the future in order to advance peace".

The chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat reiterated his administration's position that that for peace talks to resume, Israel must declare its support for a two-state solution. During his campaign, Netanyahu said he was willing to negotiate with the Palestinians but that it was premature to talk of statehood. Instead, he offered Palestinians "economic peace", in place of economic terrorism as part of Jewish fascist terrorism. The new hawkish Israeli leader, who leads a right-leaning coalition, which combines the centre-right, centre-left and far-right parties however, has not publicly endorsed the creation of a fully independent Palestinian state - a fundamental demand of the Palestinians. He would rather wait for the appropriate time to do so.

Now with a extremist face of the new regime in Tel Aviv meticulously put in place by hawkish president Peres, both Hamas and Fatah have to come together to form a unity government quickly to face Jewish fascist trends. They can play mutual wars only when a free Palestine state emerges, because that nation needs both ruling and opposition parties to play politics, but for now, the divisive politics would harm their cause badly, assuming they fight for a Palestine state and not to get innocent Palestinians killed by the Zionist fascists on a regular basis. 

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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.