Ayoon wa Azan (State Terrorism)

Jihad Al Khazen     Al-Hayat     2003/08/13

A series of news:

* Ali Hussein Saleh, member of Hezbollah, was killed in a car explosion on August 2, and Israeli Hafif Dadun was killed and five others were injured in cross-border fire on the 10^th.

* The Israelis invaded a military camp near Nablus, killing four civilians; one of them is married to a 17-year-old pregnant wife, with two daughters.

* Chief of the Israeli army Staff, Moshe Yaalon, declared that Israel would not start implementing the Roadmap unless the Palestinians fulfill their commitments in dismantling the infrastructure of "terrorism."

Israel is molded in terrorism, the most dangerous form of it might I add, meaning state terrorism, as it kills to push its protagonist to a conflict. I shall write today and tomorrow to inform the resistance and all the Arab countries. But I shall start with an introduction.

I fell upon an old book, the most relevant one I have ever read regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict today, and I ask all the Arab leaders to insist that George W. Bush read this book whenever they meet with him, and that before they start any negotiations.

The book is written by Livia Rokach, daughter of Israel Rokach, the Minister of Interior in Moshe Sharett's government in the 1950s. She emigrated to Italy where she became known as an "Italian author of Palestinian origin," and issued her book called The Sacred Israeli Terrorism: A Study Based On Moshe Sharett's Personal Notebook and Other Documents. The Foreign Ministry threatened of suing the author and the publishers, but the book was translated into English and the Association of Arab-American University Graduates published it.

I remembered the book because of a study about it that The Link published along with other books in its current July/August edition. I think that writer Ronald Pleyer, a Jewish-American who supports the peace movement, addressed the book in all its aspects, and since The Link allows others to use its material, I shall write what Rokach and Pleyer mentioned, asking the reader to remember that they are both Jewish; hence, if he is mad at Israel, he should not implicate all the Israelis, because some of them wash their hands clean of its practices. I will be writing a brief review regarding the many topics of the book, and then focus on the author's subject, which is the fact that Israel leads the Palestinians and Arabs on to respond to it as to implement a policy it had already planned for before it was even created, and it is a policy it is still adopting today, to expand its territories by "provoking and avenging."

Israel rose at the expense of 750,000 Palestinians who left their territories in 1947-1948, destroyed 400 Palestinian villages and perpetrated more than 30 massacres, namely that of Deir Yassin. In 1967, 350,000 additional Palestinians were deported, as well as 147,000 Syrians from the Golan. The Israeli policy refuses to accept the right of return and all UN international resolutions.

Terrorism in all its forms emerged from Israel, and the international mediator, Count Bernadotte, was assassinated in September 17, 1948, after that Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett accused him of being against Israel and supporting the Arabs; the Stern gang was accused of the crime, whereas the Israeli government was behind it, and managed to quickly send the criminals to Czechoslovakia. As for those who were arrested, none of them was prosecuted and they all left with a general amnesty the following year.

Moreover, the Zionist and their gangs were the first ones to bomb civil buildings. In fact, the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946, killed 91 people, including 28 British, 41 Arabs, 17 Jews and five others.

The author points out that terrorism was not carried out by famous terrorist organizations such as the Stern gang or Irgun, knowing that international Zionist organizations and organizations participated in the assassination and bombing operations. In fact, Menachem Begin, who was head of Irgun at the time, boasted about it in his book The Revolution about being "Terrorist number one."

Rokach draws his information from Sharett's diary. He was the first Israeli Foreign Minister from 1948 to 1956, then the second Prime Minister from 1954 to 1955, as he occupied both positions for a while. The diary was published in Hebrew in 1979, but received no high interest, had it not been for Rokach who got hold of it and added some information, not to mention that she explained the background of the incidents through her experience with her father, the Minister of Interior.

Rokach says that Israel has always deliberately used military power, with cold blood, claiming it was for security purposes, to take control over the region. She mentions that the Israeli leaders did not welcome the truce in 1949, although it offered them 78% of the Palestinian territories instead of 65% of the division resolution, as they wanted to build a regional force that would control the region and hence planned to occupy Palestine as well as other neighboring countries.  

To that end, the Zionist leaders were ready to sacrifice the lives of Jews in the preplanned operations to incite the Palestinians to retaliate, and then respond to their retaliation. Rukach says: Lives of Jews were sacrificed to provide a provocation that would justify the following revenge. The daily promotion that was censored would give Israelis an image of the brutality of their enemy.

The book also contains two clear examples about the criminal Zionist thinking. A bomb was thrown on an Israeli settlement East of Tel Aviv on October 12, 1953, so Ariel Sharon led an attack against a village on the borders with Jordan, where 60 people were killed, including women and children. A stranger thing happened in March 1954, when anonymous people attacked a bus on the road between Eliyat and Ber Sheebah, killing ten passengers, leaving only four survivors. Right until today, no one knows who attacked the bus, and the head of the Jordanian-Israeli truce committee, U.S. Colonel Richardson, insisted that the survivors did not prove the attackers were Arabs. This is when Sharett banned the Israeli army from carrying out any "revenge" operation, but this didn't stop them from perpetrating the Nahalin massacre.

Does the reader remember the Lavon scandal, when Egyptian Jews and Israeli intelligence services tried to bomb British and American buildings, as well as Egyptian public buildings in Cairo and Alexandria? Members of the gang were arrested in July 1954, and Rokach says that the Israeli investigation proved that the Chief of Staff and the general director of the Ministry of Defense, Shimon Peres, as well as the head of intelligence Benjamin Svili were behind the operation. I hope that the reader thinks with me if two "moderates" like Dahan and Peres were capable of terrorist actions in other countries, then what are Sharon, Mofaz and Yaalon capable of?

Steven Green offers in his book another reason for the scandal involving Minister of Defense Nahas Lavon, which is far more important; it is the abortion of smooth talks between Sharett and Jamal Abdel Nasser, as this operation and the Israeli terrorism the following year in Gaza that killed 39 Egyptians made the Egyptian president decide there was no use in dealing with Israel, and that it posed a threat to his country, so he asked for weapons from the socialist camp. I shall continue tomorrow.