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" -- -- Forget
everything you've read about the “Great Escape” from
Gaza
. It's all rubbish. The whole farce was cooked up in an
Israeli think tank as way to rid Palestine of its indigenous
people. Here's an excerpt from the Israeli newspaper Arutz
Sheva which explains the real motive behind the incident:
“MK (Israeli Knesset member) Aryeh Eldad is hailing the Arab
exodus to
Egypt
as proof that voluntary transfer is indeed an option.”
“The Israeli left continues to claim that there is no such
thing as voluntary transfer, and simply ignores reality,”
Eldad said. (Arutz Sheva)
Voluntary transfer.
Bingo.
So the fleeing Palestinians just fell into a trap. Now
they've been banished to
Egypt
by their own volition. We'll have to wait and see how many
are allowed to return.
The media has played its traditional role in the
Gaza
fiasco, trying to make it look like
Hamas'
"terrorist masterminds" struck a major blow against
Israel
. It's just a way of diverting attention from
Israel
's role in the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Here's the way
Ha'aretz
summed it up:
“Hamas
chalked up a real coup. Not only did the organization
demonstrate once again that it is a disciplined, determined
entity, and an opponent that is exponentially more
sophisticated than the
Palestine Liberation
Organization.
Israel
,
Egypt
and the
Palestinian Authority
are now forced to find a new joint border control
arrangement, one that will probably depend on the good
graces of Hamas....The
Hamas
action yesterday was anything but spontaneous. It was
another stage in the campaign that began in
Gaza
's night of darkness on Sunday. As Gaza was plunged into
widely televised blackness, Palestinian children armed with
candles were brought out on a protest march and organized
into prime-time demonstrations in support of the Egyptian
and Jordanian branches of the
Muslim Brotherhood.”
(“
Gaza
border breach shows
Israel
Hamas
is in charge,
Ha'aretz)
Nonsense.
Israel
is not the victim any more than Palestinian children are
"armed" with candles. The candles are a symbol of hope;
something that is sadly lacking under Israeli rule. The
truth is that
Israel
was getting battered in the media for cutting off food,
water, energy and medical supplies to 1.5 million civilians
(some of whom died in the hospital when the power was turned
off on their respirators) so they looked for a way to do an
about-face without appearing weak.
Ha'aretz
would like us to believe that our sympathy for starving
women and children is the result of the propaganda we've
seen in the "Palestinian-owned” media.
What a laugh; the “Palestinian-owned” media.
Hamas
poses no threat to
Israel
and it controls nothing; certainly not the border. They've
even suspended all suicide attacks since they won democratic
elections a year and a half ago. But that is not enough for
Israel
whose goal is to extinguish any trace of Arab solidarity or
Palestinian nationalism. Nearly all of the 4,000 articles
now appearing on
Google News
follow this same absurd narrative about 'clever terrorists'
who've out-foxed
Israel
and liberated their people. It's just another way of
concealing the criminal brutality of the 60 year long
occupation. In truth,
Hamas
probably had nothing to do with the destruction of the wall.
It's just part of
Israel
's plans to exile more Palestinians.
According to the article in Arutz Sheva, Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak decided to follow orders from
Hamas'
chief Khaled Mashall and “ignore Israeli calls to close the
border. Mashaal seemed to indicate that
Hamas
was asserting sovereignty over northern Sinai, calling upon
the Arab world to take advantage of the Islamist group's new
stronghold to provide aid directly without Israeli
interference.”
Now, that's a stretch. In other words, US puppet
Hosni Mubarak—-who
gets $2 billion a year in aid from the United States ---has
suddenly decided to take orders from the head of a group
that is on the State Dept's list of terrorist organizations
so that he can fulfill his obligations as a “loyal Arab”?
Ridiculous.
Besides,
Hamas
has no interest in northern Sinai or any other territorial
ambitions. Its only purpose is to resist Israeli occupation.
So far an estimated 350,000 residents of
Gaza
have fled across the border since Wednesday. The Egyptian
police have done nothing to stop them from entering the
country. "A significant number have remained in
Egypt
...traveling south to Egyptian population centers.”
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on 1-24-08 that:
“Israeli officials proposed that
Egypt
take over responsibility for sustaining the Gaza Strip.
Israeli media quoted members of the Olmert government as
saying Thursday that, after Palestinians overran the
Gaza-Egypt border, there was an opportunity to demand that
Cairo
take care of the needs of the coastal territory.
"We need to understand that when Gaza is open to the other
side, we lose responsibility for it. So we want to disengage
from it," Deputy Defense Minister
Matan Vilnai
told Army Radio. "We are responsible as long as there is no
alternative." (JTA)
Are we expected to believe that in the last 24 hours
Israel
decided willy-nilly to relinquish control over parts of the
Gaza Strip?
Israel
has devoted a considerable amount of time to building
settlements in a way that removes any possibility of
creating a contiguous Palestinian state. It is highly
unlikely that their plans for
Gaza
are taken any less seriously. In fact, we are probably
seeing a manifestation of those plans right now via the
expulsion of 350,000 Palestinians.
The
Jerusalem
Post's Yaakov Katz clarifies how the destruction of the
border wall serves
Israel
's long-term policy objectives:
“Without even knowing it,
Egypt
helped Israel on Wednesday to complete the disengagement
from the
Gaza Strip.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he opened the crossing
for Gazans since they were "starving due to the Israeli
siege," what he did proved to the world that his country is
perfectly capable of caring for the Palestinians when it
comes to food and medical care.
Wednesday's events and particularly Mubarak's decision to
open a floodgate into his country for hundreds of thousands
of Palestinians, demonstrated that there are alternatives to
Israel
when it comes to being
Gaza
's provider. " ( Jerusalem Post)
That says it all, doesn't it? The Palestinians are regarded
as a mere nuisance and a drain on Israeli resources. Now
that the wall has conveniently been knocked down, the
problem appears to be solved.
Hamas
had nothing to do with blowing up the wall. And if they did,
they were just unwitting accomplices in
Israel
's masterplan to drive more Palestinians off the land and to
absolve themselves of any responsibility for the ones that
remain.
This is just another grim chapter in Bush's “New Middle
East”.
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