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I would say that Netanyahu is using the situation in the Middle East (if not the rest of the world) to his own advantage
The
threat is growing of a new, wider war against the Palestinian people
Vicious
repression in the West Bank and Gaza
3
July, 2014
In
the midst of heightened Israeli repression and bombing raids, the
threat is growing of a new, wider war against the Palestinian people.
On
June 12, three Israeli settler youth disappeared near the city of
Hebron, a case which has received nearly non-stop coverage in the
U.S. mainstream media. On Monday, June 30 their bodies were found
near the village of Halhoul in the southern occupied West Bank. The
same day, a 17-year-old Palestinian was kidnapped, tortured and
killed.
Israeli
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seized on the kidnapping of the
Israeli youth to press his agenda of smashing the April unity
agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the
Hamas party. At the same time, massive repression was unleashed on
the Palestinian population in the West Bank, and an intensified
bombing campaign targeting Gaza has caused major damage and
suffering.
While
presenting no evidence to support his claim, Netanyahu immediately
blamed Hamas for the kidnapping, an allegation denied by the Hamas
leadership.
His
June 16 statement that “the international community must call on
[Palestinian Authority] President Abbas to end his pact with Hamas”
was the theme repeated endlessly in the ensuing three weeks.
Palestinian
unity is viewed as a great danger by the Israeli leadership.
Netanyahu’s government and leaders in the United States reacted
with great hostility to the agreement when it was announced on April
23, 2014.
Netanyahu
announced at that time that he was “canceling negotiations.” But
the reality is that there have been no real negotiations for years
because the Israeli aim is not actually a “two-state” solution of
any kind, even one that would result in an extremely weak Palestinian
entity. Instead, the Israeli goal is to drive the Palestinians out
through repression, starvation, humiliation, lack of opportunities,
etc.
Since
the bodies of the three settler youth were found, evidence has
emerged that the Israeli authorities knew of their fate almost
immediately after their disappearance. The evidence was concealed for
two reasons: 1) to justify the protracted “search” operation
dubbed “Operation Brothers Keeper” targeting particularly Hamas
supporters in the West Bank, and 2) to allow Netanyahu and other top
Israeli officials to prolong their campaign of racist incitement
against the Palestinians.
Massive
repression in West Bank, bombing of Gaza
In
the course of the massive Israeli military operation in the West Bank
searching for them, at least nine Palestinians, several of them
teenagers, were killed by the Israeli occupation forces, a fact that
has somehow escaped the attention of the corporate media here.
At
least 640 people have been detained – and doubtless suffered
physical abuse – 11 of them elected members of the Palestine
Legislative Council, the Palestinian parliament. More than 50
recently released prisoners have been re-imprisoned. Over 1,000
homes, universities and other facilities have been raided. In
addition, Israel has carried out air strikes on at least 34 targets
in Gaza, which remains blockaded and economically strangled by
Israel.
Rebelling
against the heightened repression, Palestinians have taken to the
streets in many areas, confronting heavily armed occupation forces.
On July 2, more than 170 Palestinians were wounded with
plastic-coated steel ammunition – so-called “rubber bullets.”
There
is now a very real threat of another large-scale Israeli invasion of
Gaza, which has come under increasingly heavy bombardment in an
attempt to weaken the resistance forces operating there. Additional
Israeli ground forces are also being mobilized near the border as
extreme right-wing politicians in Netanyahu's government call for a
dramatic escalation of the assault.
On
July 1 in Idhna, a village near Hebron, the Israeli army responded
with live ammunition and other weaponry to a protest against the
demolition of a house that was home to 13 people, including eight
children. Six young people were wounded by live fire ammunition and
four more by so-called rubber bullets.
The
murder of Palestinian youth and children has been a regular feature
of the Israeli occupation, another reality that the mainstream media
in the United States has studiously ignored.
From
2000 to the present, 1,405 Palestinian children have been killed by
Israeli forces, on average about 100 per year. To break that down:
Age 8 and under—263; Age 9-12—232; Age 13-15—449; Age
16-17—461. (Source: Defense of Children International-Palestine)
Since
1967, more than 500,000 Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank have
been arrested and imprisoned by the Israelis. Today, there are more
than 5,200 Palestinians in prisons inside the 1948 borders of Israel.
Of those, about 190 are minors and 27 are under the age of 16. All of
them are held in violation of international law, which prohibits an
occupying power from transferring residents of the occupied territory
into the territory of the occupier.
Put
a different way: All of the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza
held in Israel jails are kidnap victims.
Every
time the West needs to give their Persian Gulf despots a boost, they
have Israel carry out a little war with Gaza. This war will be an
exercise in vulgar brutality intentionally to inflame the hearts of
the Muslim World and then portray the humiliating defeat of Israel as
a heroic victory for Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and their backers
in Riyadh and Doha.
This grotesque "theater" played out once already during the current Syrian conflict:
#Gaza
is under attack now and children and civilians in fear and horror
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