War for Peace, or a plea for real change?

The Zionist experiment in ruling over Palestine has been a summary failure

They say you need war before you can have peace. The same holds true for Palestine, sadly the hundred plus killed in the past week and thousands homeless from Gaza are the targets of this war, to build a scenario where the US, UN and its Israeli ally can manufacture an accord called “peace” which strengthens Israel’s brutal occupation and little else.

The history of this conflict is well known and sadly very one sided. Since Britain occupied Palestine in 1917 they worked diligently to create a new state at the behest of the Zionists with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, only one of many indications that they were prepared to run roughshod over the owners and inhabitants of this blessed land. Following the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948 and the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Muslims from their land, several “scenario” wars ensued, whereby the Arab regimes of principally Jordon, Egypt, Saudi, and Syria acted as though they would expel the occupier, but in reality put little forward in the way of forces or commanded that those forces withdrawal after offering token opposition to Israel. The results of the 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, and 2008 wars and intifada’s were predictable with Israel strengthening its position and taking yet more land.

Sultan Abdul Hameed the Second warned of this very scenario following his rebuff of the overture of the Zionists who wanted to buy Palestine to settle some of the Uthmani state’s debts.

His statement was as firm as the current regimes of the region are spineless:

“Please do tell Dr. Hertzel not to take any serious steps towards this issue. I cannot concede one single hand span of the Palestinian land for it is not mine to concede. Palestine belongs to the Muslim Nation (Ummah) My people have fought hard for this land and irrigated it with their blood. The Jews might as well keep their millions. If the Khilafah State one day fell then you can take Palestine without any price. But as long as I am alive, I would rather be cut to pieces than to see Palestine cut off from the Khilafah State and this shall not happen. I cannot agree to the mutilation of our bodies as long as we are alive.”

The establishment of Israel was indeed made possible in the aftermath of the destruction of the Khilafah and through the complicity of treacherous Muslim regimes who have helped create the myth of Israeli strength and invincibility bringing great shame upon the Muslims. They were in David Ben Gurion’s words “the first line of defence” for Israel and remain so.

Despite victory in these scenario wars Israel wants and needs more. Even with treacherous peace accords involving Turkey, Jordan and Egypt it is not enough. They need the whole of the region to capitulate, recognise the theft of the land they call their own and give formal legitimacy on the world stage. A legitimacy which will ensure greater obstacles for a future sincere Islamic state in returning the land to Islamic authority.

The Two State Solution?

This proposal is not “Two State” and is no “solution”. The proposed Palestinian “state” will have no foreign policy, no military to defend itself and little control over its budget. With no control over its borders as now, there would be scant opportunity to develop a functional economy, with the geographic challenges of managing what is effectively a series of refugee camps dotted around the West bank and Gaza, hardly a serious proposal for an operational state.

It is truly shameful that the international community has consistently and blindly backed Israel, a state which has ruled the region with an iron fist, rekindled the worst of apartheid as they separated Jews from Muslims with the enormous concentration camp fence scarring the centre of the land, and repeatedly boycotted (economically) and attacked (militarily) an occupied population that morally and by all norms of international law should be under their protection.

Israel’s demands can never be met. No right to return for citizens that have had their land stolen, a permanent capital of Jerusalem, protection and peace (signing away permanent rights to the land they have taken), and a weak and subservient Palestinian population with few rights or hope. But of greatest issue is that the Muslims of this region and indeed globally cannot accept such a solution in light of the Shariah injunctions.

The Prophet (saw) said:

“Whosoever gives even one hand span of Muslim Land away, Allah will grant him an equal hand span in Hellfire.”

Allah (swt) commands in Surah Mumtahana:

“Allah forbids you with regard to those that fight you for your deen, and drive you out from your homes, and support others in driving you out, from having any relation with them. And those that do so are wrongdoers”[TMQ 60:9]

The central position of Al-Aqsa Masjid in Islam is well known. The abandonment of the third most holy site in Islam can and will never be tolerated, no matter how many years it takes.

Regime change or the same old story?

With change starting to sweep the region new hope was given that the change of regimes would mean a new determination re Israel. Would Mohamed Morsi take a strong line against Israel, use his forces to defend the Muslims of Gaza, or be promoted as “peace maker” to add weight to US/Israeli aims to fortify Israel’s position in the region?

The recently agreed ceasefire whilst welcome in ending the bloodshed, for now, has deferred the issue. And it is hardly a ceasefire when the Muslim armies are not in theatre, they have never really been available to defend the lives, honour and lands of their brothers over the past 65 years! Consequently the Muslims will never feel secure in Gaza and the West bank with Israel and its apartheid policies and politicians who are ready to wage war prior to their elections to garner electoral support. Nor will the Jews of the region feel secure with a government and system that separates citizens whether Jews from Europe or Africa, or Muslim families that have lived there for hundreds of years.

The Zionist experiment in ruling over Palestine has been a summary failure. Peace, security, rights of ownership and enjoyment of land, fair trading opportunities are but a distant dream, particularly for the Muslims of Gaza and the West bank. The only time in history in which this region functioned fairly for Jews, Christians and Muslims was under Islamic authority (Khilafah), in which all are treated as citizens and oppression of any is a crime.

This was exemplified during Umar’s Caliphate in his contract with the Christians of Jerusalem:

“This is the protection which the servant of God, ‘Umar, the Ruler of the Believers has granted to the people of Eiliya [Jerusalem]. The protection is for their lives and properties, their churches and crosses, their sick and healthy and for all their coreligionists. Their churches shall not be used for habitation, nor shall they be demolished, nor shall any injury be done to them or to their compounds, or to their crosses, nor shall their properties be injured in any way. There shall be no compulsion for these people in the matter of religion, nor shall any of them suffer any injury on account of religion… Whatever is written herein is under the covenant of God and the responsibility of His Messenger, of the Caliphs and of the believers, and shall hold good as long as they pay Jizya [the tax for their defense] imposed on them.”

Obama Supports the Zionist-Controlled Israeli Genocide & Destruction in Gaza

Susanne Posel

Communist-in-Chief and Zionist-controlled,President Barack Obama says that he is “fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself from missiles landing on people’s homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians, and we will continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself.”

This announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began to expand Israel’s “militaryoperations” to punish Hamas. Tanks became the first ground invasion in Gaza with the goal of firing positioned rockets at Gaza.

Last week, Israel assassinated Ahmed Jabari, a Hamas military commander in response to more than 10 years “of terrorist activity”, according to Israeli intelligence. Israel has targeted Palestinian leaders in self-admitted “targeted killings”; using NATO methods against terrorists in an attempt to legitimize killing Jabari.

Zionist violence against Gaza resulted in the murder of 21 people, including women and children, during a missile raid on Sunday. The headquarters of Ismail Haniyeh, Gaza Prime Minister, was attacked with a massive amount of explosions. Israel’s unabashed destruction of this civilian site shows their directive toward genocide of the Palestinian people.

These dead are added to the already 69 counted Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes, tank fire and naval targets.

During a Palestinian compliance with cease-fire efforts, Israel became even more violent, taking advantageof their chance to attack Palestine more aggressively. This attempt to get to a complete negotiation of ending the attacks was spear-headed by Mohammad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood member and US-patsy installed to be president of Egypt.

srael refuses to back down from their attack on Palestine; claiming that militant factions in Gaza would use a ceasefire as an excuse to become more violent. In this instance, the Zionists are asserting a false reality while fulfilling a self-serving prophecy by being the aggressors.

The government of India is “deeply concerned” about the killing in Gaza at the hands of Israel and would like to see leaders come together to talk about the “peace and security of that region.”

Obama believes that since Palestine is to blame for firing the first rocket into Israel, they should stand down. Ben Rhodes, deputy National Security adviser to the President remarked: “These rockets have been fired into Israeli civilian areas and territory for some time now. So Israelis have endured for too much of a threat from these rockets for far too long, and that is what led the Israelis to take action that they did in Gaza.”

Globalists at the Brookings Institute view the “escalation of the conflict” wherein Israel has been attackingPalestine in an obviously unfair military advantage as a credible defense of their land. From a tactical perspective, the Brookings Institute recommends that Israel take advantage of their position and be prepared “for a wider operation to follow.”

Convincing Americans to support the genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel when Zionist-controlledmedia displays children killed in Israel during air raids while intentionally directing the emotional response of US citizens to sympathize with this murderous agenda. In reality, Palestine cannot properly defend itself against the military and technological advancement of Israel’s arsenal.

Israel possesses intelligent and newly developed weaponry thanks to their friendship with the Zionist-controlled patsies seated in the executive branch of the US government. Their missile campaign against Gaza will surely cause more civilian casualties without regard for innocent lives they take.

Israel is also able to use drones for aerial surveillance to set precisemilitary targets and assume greater coordination between intelligence operations and on-the-spot decision making.

Using covert operations, the CIA-sponsored Anonymous took down websites in Israel in response to the destruction of Palestine. Called #OpIsrael, more than 700 websites including Israeli media, the Ministry of Defense and other governmental digital infrastructure were rendered useless by the cyber-attack facilitated by the US government-trained hackers.

Yuval Steinitz, Israeli Finance Minister explained that the cyber-attacks were a war being “waged . . . on a second front . . . against Israel.” This disruption was not causing a serious disruption or other damage because the Israeli government had thwarted most of the attacks. One target was the Central Bank of Jerusalem.

War In Gaza: Why Now?

It was widely reported that Israel agreed to delay any war against Iran until after U.S. elections.

A little over a week after the election, Israel launched a “targeted assassination” against the leader of Hamas (who Haaretz called Israel’s subcontractor in Gaza). That is what started the current round of fighting.

Professor Michel Chossudovsky notes:

On November 14,  Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari was murdered in a Israeli missile attack. In a bitter irony,  barely a few hours before the attack, Hamas received the draft proposal of a permanent truce agreement with Israel.

“Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a flare-up between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip.”(Haaretz, November 15, 2012)

The targeted assassination  of  Ahmed Jabari was followed by an extensive bombing campaign under Operation Pillar of Cloud.  The latter consists of a carefully planned military endeavor.

F-16 fighter planes, Apache helicopters and unmanned drones were deployed. Israeli naval forces deployed along the Gaza shoreline were  involved in extensive shelling of civilian targets.

Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barack has confirmed a scenario of military escalation, blaming Palestine for having committed acts of aggression: .

“[t]he provocations we have suffered and the firing of rockets to the southern settlements within Israel have forced us to take this action. I want to make clear that Israeli citizens will not suffer such actions. The targets are to hit the rockets and to harm the organization of Hamas.”

The Israeli attacks were followed by the firing of dozens of rockets by Hamas against Israel.

Palestine’s response was known to Israeli war planners. The resulting Israeli civilian casualties are now being used to justify military escalation on humanitarian grounds.

What we are dealing with is a carefully planned operation, a clear act of provocation. The deaths of Israeli civilians (envisaged and foreseen by IDF military planners) are being used to muster the support of the Israeli  public.

Meanwhile, the Israeli attack is casually portrayed by the Western media as part of a legitimate counter-terrorism agenda.

(Rabbi Arthur Waskow agrees that Israel started the fighting. Glenn Greenwald notes that America’s targeted assassination policy is identical to that of Israel.  This could escalate quickly.  Not only are Israel and Hamas exchanging rocket fire – with casualties of children on both sides -  but Israel is calling up75,000 reserve soldiers ahead of a possible ground invasion of Gaza.)

Israel is holding its own elections in January.  Many commentators say that the attacks on Gaza are a cynical ploy by the Israeli Prime Minister to win re-election:

Netanyahu was accused by left-wing opposition Hadash party MP Mohammed Baraka [the leader of the Israeli Hadash opposition party] of “making another round in a circle of blood for cynical political interests” and “speculating in the blood of the Palestinian people.”

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Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn denounced the regime, saying that “once again Israel has wantonly attacked the people of Gaza, bombing and killing.

“This is effectively a first world state attacking a poor and largely defenceless population. It looks like a rerun of Operation Cast Lead,” he said.

“The timing is interesting and it looks like Netanyahu is creating a crisis to ensure his re-election”, the MP added.

Leading German newspaper Spiegel reports:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping the offensive in the Gaza Strip wins his Likud party more votes in January’s election.

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“When the cannons roar, we see only Netanyahu and Barak on the screen, and all the other politicians have to applaud them,” wrote the daily Haaretz in a commentary published Thursday. “The assassination of (Hamas’ top military commander Ahmed) Jabari will go down in history as another showy military action initiated by an outgoing government on the eve of an election.”

Indeed, one can conclude that the most recent offensive against militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip– which started Wednesday with the killing of Jabari — has been conceived as more of a show fight for the Israeli public than the beginning of a decisive battle.

And Asia times writes:

So why snuff out al-Jabari? Simple. Israel goes to the polls in January. Thus emerges Bibi’s political campaigning in full-action mode. Campaign motto: Let’s kill Palestinians. With such thrills on offer, any other Israeli political voice – even slightly dissenting – is drowned.

Precursor to War with Iran?

The top British Rabbi – when asked by the BBC on his thoughts on what’s really going on in Gaza right now – replied:

I think it has got to do with Iran, actually.

 Why Iran?

Anti War lays out one theory:

This escalation occurs just days after widespread reports about newly reelected Obama mulling a grand bargain with Iran over its disputed nuclear program. Barbara Slavin and Laura Rozen at Al-Monitor reported on Monday that US officials told them Washington was considering offering a “more for more” deal with Iran, based on the fuel swap deal from Obama’s first term.

So what does Israel’s impending war on defenseless Gaza have to do with Iran diplomacy? Here’s a tweet from the Tehran bureau chief for the New York Times, Thomas Erdbrink:

Forget ANY #Iran-US talks if conflict in Gaza escalates

— Thomas Erdbrink (@ThomasErdbrink) November 14, 2012

And here:

#Iran leaders can never be seen as talking to US, while its “eternal” ally Israel assassinates Iran’s ideological allies

— Thomas Erdbrink (@ThomasErdbrink) November 14, 2012

I suspect this point was not lost on the Israeli leadership, either. So, is Netanyahu knowingly escalating military tensions in order to avoid a successful diplomatic overture? I’m speculating, but it isn’t far fetched. We know from extensive reporting, mainly in Israeli media, that in 2010 – just as President Obama requested a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank with the aim of resuming peace talks – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to provoke Iran into a war with Israel that would eventually drag in the United States.

It reminds me of what former CIA Middle East analyst Paul Pillar referred to this week as “Netanyahu’s tension-stoking brinksmanship: to divert attention from continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and inaction on the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” “[T]he Iran issue,” Pillar has previously written, provides a “distraction” from international “attention to the Palestinians’ lack of popular sovereignty.” Now the situation seems reversed: Israel is escalating war with Gaza to maintain deadlock with their favorite scapegoat, Iran.

Israel, lest we forget, instigated this resumption of missile exchanges last week when two Palestinian civilians were shot and killed and Israeli tanks intruded into Gaza, prompting Gaza militants to respond by targeting Israeli soldiers, which then gave Israel an excuse to unleash successive airstrikes. And Israel had numerous chances to pacify the situation, considering Hamas publicly offered to establish a total ceasefire and Egypt appeared about to broker a truce between the two. Israel has intentionally inched towards escalation from the beginning. Are we to believe this isn’t strategic?

A second theory is that this is a prelude to an Israeli attack on Iran.   Specifically, some theorize that Israeli is trying to assassinate top Hamas militants before hitting Iran … so that Iran’s proxy Hamas cannot retaliate.

A third theory is that Israel is trying to drag Iran into a war.  Given that Israeli treatment of Palestinians is perhaps the key source of hostility towards the current Israeli administration in the Arab world, starting a war in Gaza may be an attempt by Israeli to drag Iran into war.

After all, Iran backs Hamas, and Israel just assassinated a top Hamas leader after making an overture of peace to him.  So some believe that Israel is attempting to poke the hornet’s nest in an attempt to justify wider war.

By provoking Hamas into attacking, Israel might point to Hamas-backer Iran. Specifically, Israel may claim that pre-emptive strikes on Iran are “necessary” to undermine Hamas and make sure it doesn’t obtain “weapons of mass destruction”.