Remembering Abu Jihad and why, really, the Israelis killed him
When the first intifada started Israelis had a choice of two options. One was to continue living by the sword. The other was to say to themselves something like: “If we are not to find ourselves in a nightmare situation of our own making, we had better negotiate our way out of occupation.” There were rational Israelis who did say such things. But gut-Zionism prevailed. It was congenitally incapable of responding to the Palestinian cry for even a minimum of justice with anything but the iron fist. Greater Israel was to be strengthened and consolidated, not dismantled, even at the price of there being no peace, ever.
It was then that some of those who had done most to make a reality of Zionism’s mad dream did a most foolish thing. In the hope of weakening support for Arafat’s PLO in the Occupied Territories, they encouraged the growth of Hamas. The extent to which Israel assisted the development of Islamic fundamentalism (Palestinian style) is still a well kept secret.
In retrospect it can be said that if Israel had been willing to accept Arafat’s PLO as a negotiating partner in the mid to late 1980s, Hamas in particular, and Islamic fundamentalism in general, could not and would not have emerged as an unmanageable threat to anybody in the context of the struggle for Palestine. In that context the real recruiting sergeant of Islamic fundamentalism (Palestinian style) for resistance was Zionism’s arrogance of power and insufferable self-righteousness.
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ontogram:
November 3rd, 2012 at 2:33 am
At some point, Israel crossed the line from possible negotiations to outright theft of 100% of Palestine and the destruction of the Palestinian people. Of course, you are right: Israel will never have “peace” which means, to Israelis, complete surrender of the native peoples to the Zionists.
JACK DRESSER:
November 3rd, 2012 at 4:40 am
But why publish this now? It would seem that the presumably reluctant Israeli confession serves to resurrect the stereotypical image of the fearsome Palestinian terrorist at a time when the Palestinian resistance has long remained non-violent and they are embattled by the BDS and Free Gaza movements and trying to justify an attack against the current Islamic Demon, Iran.
Mohamed Salem:
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:36 am
Israel is 64 years old today. By their political myopia, during his 64 years, its politicians and milataries have been constantly weaving the rope with which their country will be hanged.
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Chris Edwards:
November 3rd, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Another factor in the decline of the secular nationalist PLO was Gorbachev’s late 1980s rapprochement with the West. The subsequent dismantlement of the Berlin Wall and in 1991 the collapse of the Soviet Union itself meant that the alternative economic model to capitalism represented by the Eastern bloc was no longer seen as tenable. This affected not just the PLO but every other secular nationalist movement and regime in the underdeveloped world.
David King:
November 3rd, 2012 at 9:33 pm
You know; I have always wondered; why it is; that Middle Eastern people oppressed by the zionists do not use the same strategies. Why doesn’t for example; the Iranians have an assassination program? We know the Obama and the CIA have a kill lists and we know the zionists assassinate people all of the time. Why not hire people of every nationality to assassinate all israel government and military personnel that travel overseas?
Rehmat:
November 3rd, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Fatah, PLO and Abbas are all creation of Israel and its western poodle – to keep a lid over the emergence of a true Islamic Resistance like Lebanese Hizballah.
http://rehmat1.com/2009/03/19/fatah-plo-and-abbas/
Davey Wavey:
November 4th, 2012 at 7:10 am
re: King’s remarks
I have wondered much the same. Israeli agents pick off Iranian scientists seemingly at will. Why aren’t Israeli scientists murdered by motorcycle drive by?
Rehmat:
November 4th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Davey Wavey – Iran is 5000-old civilization. It was never based on culture of terrorism especially under the current Shri’ah-based government. In fact it were the European Jewish terrorist groups which introduced terrorism and anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the 1940s.
“Our task is to recruit a barrier and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the area,” – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli defense Minister (later prime minister of Israel).
“Israeli interogators routinely ill-treat and torture Arab prisoners. Prisoners are hooded or blind-folded and hung by their wrists for long periods. Most are struck in the gentals or in other way sexually abused. Most are sexually assualted. Others are administered electric shocks,” – Ralph Schoeman, Sunday Times, June 19, 1977.
“There is no country in the world in which use of official and sustained torture is an established and documented as is in the case of Israel,” – Amnesty International.
Shyam Chand, a former minister of Haryana state (India) and author of “Saffron Fascism” – in his article Terrorism Inc.: Nexus between CIA and Mossad, published in Mainstream Weekly, November 16, 2008 – stated: “How is that Zionist Americans and Israeli Jews are connected to so many things involving murders, single and plural? How is that the same Israeli security firm was incharge of all 9/11 airports as well as the London Tube and Madrid train station at the time of attack? Informed research points the finger of accusation to the same group of people. It turns out that the number of people murdered makes the Holocaust Industry victims bigger killers than victims……. Fone Fakers were invented by CIA and Mossad before 9/11 which was an inside job of both of them. The same Fone Fakers are used in India. Innocent people are arrested on the basis of calls made through these Fone Fakers…… Not only the nexus between the RSS and Mossad worth investigation, our defence co-operation with Israel needs reconsideration before the ominous shadow of Mossad falls on our defence forces.”
http://rehmat1.com/2009/08/10/terrorism-theirs-and-ours/
Brad Brzezinski:
November 5th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Davey Wavey: Iran’s preferred methodology is to go after civilians. Most of their attacks are prevented, like the New York plot, but there was a success e.g. in the killing of Israeli/Jewish civilians in Bulgaria this year. Syrian proxies Syria and Hizb’Allah are famous for the use of bombs and other violence to control political outcomes in Lebanon.
Iran also kidnaps foreign civilians in Iran to use as bargaining chips and the current regime famously got its start via the totally illegal sacking of the US embassy.
ontogram:
November 5th, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Brezinski – That doesn’t rise to the level to which I am referring…true targeted assassinations. I consider the response disingenuous. As for the “totally illegal” capture of the US Embassy (ancient history at that), it’s rather like say that the Boston Tea Party was “totally illegal” which it was.
Why aren’t Dimoni scientists shot by motorcycle drive by? Zionism has been distinguished from at the 1930′s as a bloody assassination conspiracy involving very key diplomats and nowadays scientists etc. Yet the opposition, such as it is, has no such reputation: It’s terrorism is pathetic by any measure compared to IDF lethality.
ontogram:
November 5th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Brezinscki says they kill civilians, as in Bulgaria. If so, it is a pathetic response to the key question. The truth is that Zionists reach into any state, kidnap anyone they cares to, spirits them out of the country to torture in Israel or elsewhere. Likewise, Zionists kill whoever they can reach that is valuable to their enemies and for which crime they can escape censure, the very minimum pr problem. Anyone inside Iran is fair game now as is virtually any Gazan they wish such as Dirar Abusisi,now kidnapped in Ukraine and spirited to Israel for no goddamn reason that could possibly matter given the incommensurate war against Gazan life. Israel has targeted and killed targets, high level individuals, for a long time. It is outright policy (talk about illegal!) Israel, the “national security state” without peer, must be seriously disciplined, whatever it takes.
Brad Brzezinski:
November 5th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
angrotom: “Zionists kill whoever they can reach that is valuable to their enemies …”
“(Iran)… kill civilians, as in Bulgaria …”
onto believes that killing civilians is better than killing/kidnapping specific, dangerous targets.
So be it.
William Smart:
November 6th, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Brad Brzezinski – Iran is not squeaky clean, they called for Salman Rushdie to be murdered. A freelance bomber acting on their behalf blew himself up in a rented room in London.
However, that bears no relation to the systematic terrorism inflicted by the Zionists on nations all over the world. Israel has killed more Americans (two in the last 10 years) than Iran has been doing. Israel has killed many more British, Turkish etc than have the Palestinans, Iranians etc.
Israel is not our friend and behaves like a terrorist nation far more than any other.
Brad Brzezinski:
November 6th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
William Smart: You are obviously consumed with hate for Israel and hence unable to argue rationally. As such I’ll just (for fun) point out that Obama, by targeting Americans who are fighting for the jihadis, has killed far more Americans than has Israel.
Also the core of your argument means that Germany was the good side in WWII because the Allies killed more people than did the Axis.
ontogram:
November 6th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Brezez “Consumed with hate for Israel” eh? A shoddy effort to make Smart appear irrational. Israel certainly inspires strong feelings, but the matter remains the targeted terrorist program of the Zionists, its reach and historic record. No terrorist entity comes close, not even the US. Zionism is tribal savagery in cosmopolitan dressing. Besides — Israel can not justify its record by pointing to the other guys. For all its Western “values,” it behaves like the Czar’s secret police.
William Smart:
November 12th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Brad Brzezinski – when Israel hands over the 15 or more assassins who stole the identities of British people, and stops murdering British people and stops attacking cruise ships in the Med then maybe Israel could be our friend.
Until that time, Israel is a rogue nation and an enemy of my country a great deal worse than is Iran.
Meanwhile, your “consumed with hatred” jybe simply makes you look twisted and treasonous.
Brad Brzezinski:
November 19th, 2012 at 12:30 am
Just William: I remind of the beginning of the Libya afffair when several British SAS were found with multiple foreign passports. It seems that Israel is not the only country to indulge in this behaviour and Britain had a lot of nerve criticising Israel for it at the time.