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Palestinian/Israeli update 11/09\2015.. Netanyahu meets Obama to support for each other’s high crimes
Israeli-Palestinian unrest overshadows Netanyahu US visit
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Syria SITREP November 8th, 2015 by John Rambo
Israel and Palestine (Gaza and West Bank)
Because people think I’m giving Israel a pass I’ll reflect on some of their actions seen with the Palestinians today. I doubt they’ll enter the Syrian theater anytime soon (if at all). Primarily because the government is going to find it very hard to sell any adventures in foreign territory after Gaza in 2014 and Lebanon in 2006. However it does seem like that something is going to go down in Jerusalem and potentially the West Bank. Gaza right now is being suffocated by both Israel and Egypt (Western-backed dictatorships always listen) and Hamas is not strong enough to resist Israel with the strongest military and Egypt with the largest at the same time.
• Israel is no stranger to pre-emptive wars. [Source]
• However the time to attack Hezbollah has passed with the Russian arrival. Strikes on Iranian facilities have also been ruled out due to the complication of Russian jets in the air.
• The situation right now suits Israel just fine. Syria has been shattered, Iran is occupied with Iraq and Syria, and Hezbollah has been losing manpower slowly fighting other Arabs instead of Israelis.
• Internally Israel has overreacted to a series of knifing attacks by Palestinians.
• The knifing attacking are motivated by the unending and unsympathetic occupation of Palestine [Source]
• The violence is escalating. A disproportionate number of Palestinians have been killed compared to Israelis but that has always been the case [Source]
• For whatever reason the targeting of women, teenagers, and elderly by Israel never ceases to surprise me (considering its vast technological and military capabilities compared to the Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza). [Source] [Source]
• The Israeli perspective shrugs this off as “Pally-wood” in which Palestinians stage these events in some form of propaganda which would make Goebbels cream his pants.
• Unfortunately for Israel this is a hard line to sell considering how fast the world is beginning to understand the disproportionate struggle which the Palestinians must endure.
• Israel and the US enjoy a very friendly relationship. The Israeli lobby inside the US has a significant level of influence. Although all lobbies have some impact on the US government and its foreign policy, Israel by far overshadows all others. [Source]
• Of course no one claims Israel is innocent in all this with its double-speak occupation occurring in the West Bank and its systematic torture of the Gaza people (once extending to even the allotted calorie intake allowed for the population of Gaza). [Source]
• Israel has some cover in the media to initiate an operation against the Palestinians in the West Bank. Right now all eyes are on the Russian and US and the action in Syria.
• Either by luck, coincidence or operational planning Israeli military operations occur when the world is relatively distracted by some global event. Many operations or wars occurring during international events (Both the Hezbollah 2006 war and the 2014 Gaza war were around the same time as FIFA. The second intifada was overshadowed by the War on Terror the US unleashed on Afghanistan and Iraq.)
• But more accurately these incidents occur during the Israeli election season. Leaders want to project themselves as tough on Palestinians and initiate operations which instigate the population to resist. The war in Gaza in 2014 (which still allowed Netanyahu to win the early elections months later) is a good example. [Source]
• It feels like Israel is fanning the flames to the current issue issuing ridiculous charges for stone-throwing (didn’t David defeat Goliath with a stone?), storming the Al-Aqsa mosque, impressing discriminatory policies, arresting children and hunting teenagers for posting on Facebook. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
• Israel has mastered the use of deception and public relations but as the media becomes more proliferated it has become somewhat harder to maintain the narrative [Source]
• Israel has not had a war since the 2014 onslaught in Gaza.
• Russia will probably not condemn anything Israel will do right now against the Palestinians. I only can offer the fact that Israel isn’t making a stink about Russia’s direct involvement in the Syrian battlefield.
• True enough Israel hasn’t been more vocal about Russian involvement. Generally speaking Israelis like to make a fuss about any shift of power inside the Middle East. Twice is true to countries directly bordering theirs.
• They made a huge ordeal about the Saudis purchasing F-15E from the US and insisted their advanced radar features be reduced, thus creating the F-15S for Saudi export (downgraded radar features). And this is Saudi Arabia, one of the least resistant countries to Israel. [Source] [Source]
• Israel is a hyper-military power. Its projection capabilities are second to none in the region. Unfortunately the IDF soldier of today lacks the will for war, unlike the generations before them. This is reflected on their unwillingness to aggressively engage Hezbollah or militarily defeat Hamas.
• Israel attacks the Palestinians on multiple fronts, in the media, economically, physically in person and even on the international level. [Source]
• Israel has tried to legitimize some of its occupations, as seen with the Druze in the Golan Heights and Christian Palestinians [Source][Source]
Most Israelis Favor Killing Palestinians
by Stephen Lendman
Propaganda works. Government statements and Israeli media one-sidedly highlight Palestinian “terror” attacks, mindless of reality on the ground.
Most Israelis have no idea or concern about what’s going on inside Palestine – including longstanding occupation harshness, state-sponsored terror against an entire population, a new generation of Palestinian youths demanding freedom, justifiably resisting collective punishment and denial of their fundamental rights.
A new Tel Aviv University/Israel Democracy Institute Guttman Center for Surveys Peace Index poll shows three-fourths of Israelis don’t understand how horrifically Palestinians are persecuted – in contrast to Arabs overwhelmingly fearing it acutely.
Jews live normally. Palestinians have no control over their daily lives. Most Jews shockingly agree with the following statement: “(A)ny Palestinian who has perpetrated a terror attack against Jews (true or false) should be killed on the spot, even if he has been apprehended and no longer poses a threat.”
They support punishing family members of Palestinians accused of terrorism, including demolishing their homes – mindless that most accusations are fabricated.
In contrast, they support no action against Jews killing Palestinians, even without just cause. They feel military tribunal injustice against Palestinians accused of terrorism is too light.
Pollsters asked: “What in your opinion, should each of the following institutions or groups be given for how it has dealt with the current terror wave?”
The IDF scored highest with a 93% approval rating. Police scored 84.5%, Shin Bet (security) 72% – showing Jews don’t understand reality on the ground.
They don’t know or care about how viciously Palestinians are persecuted – including daily state-sponsored assassinations, thousands injured, along with mass arrests, imprisonments and torture.
Poll results reflect a racist Israeli society, state-sponsored indoctrination from childhood to hate Arabs, portraying them as violent gun-or-knife-toting terrorists – mindless of their humanity and international law guaranteed rights.
Former finance minister, Yesh Atid party chairman, believes Palestinians accused of threatening Israelis “should be (lethally) shot…” Numerous other fascist Israeli politicians feel the same way, especially Netanyahu and his security ministers.
Pollsters didn’t ask but likely few Israeli Jews know the extent of administrative detentions – Palestinians locked up behind bars indefinitely, uncharged and untried, entirely for political reasons, innocent victims in gulag hell, currently at least 500 including children, according to Commission of Palestinian Detainee Affairs head Issa Qaraqe.
Young children and women are treated like men, targeted for wanting justice denied them – including social web site comments Israel calls “incitement.”
On the eve of the second Intifada, Israel held 12 administrative detainees. Two years later it was over 1,000. Things appear headed in the same direction now, new administrative detentions ordered daily. Victims have no right of appeal.
Jews are urged to arm themselves. Gun license restrictions were eased. Thousands filed permit requests with the Public Security Ministry. Gun sales skyrocketed. A shoot first, ask no questions mentality threatens all Palestinians.
Speaking at an Amsterdam 77th Kristallnacht anniversary event, Arab MK Hanin Zoabi accused Israel of high crimes similar to Nazi-perpetrated ones.
“I am not an immigrant in my homeland,” she said. Scores of discriminatory laws are similar to how Hitler persecuted Jews, she explained.
“The current lesson of the Crystal Night has not been learned.” Israel’s slow-motion genocide, “ethnic cleansing” policy is modeled on how Nazis aimed to exterminate Jews. Israeli officials ‘justify the use of violence toward Palestinians.”
Zoabi quoted education minister Naftali Bennett saying “(i) is OK to kill Arabs. I have actually done so several times.” She warned of “great forces” seeking to silence pro-Palestinian voices in Europe.
State-sponsored terror rages as Netanyahu meets with Obama at the White House on Monday – their support for each other’s high crimes rock solid despite dislike for each other.
Expect nothing beneficial from the meeting for Palestinians. They remain isolated on their own, virtually ignored by the world community, mindless of their longstanding suffering at the hands of a ruthless occupier.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected].
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/11/palestinianisraeli-update-11092015.html
