Ayoon wa Azan (Sacred Israeli Terrorism)

Jihad Al Khazen      Al-Hayat     2003/08/14

When Fatah and Hamas were either secretly or openly negotiating in the months preceding the formation of Mahmoud Abbas' government, an Israeli assassination or invasion would always come to disrupt the talks every time they would get close to reaching an agreement. I once called Abbas after an Israeli crime and told him that it couldn't be possible these incidents were pure coincidence every time, and he replied that I was "a million per cent" right.

This has already been published; but I would like to continue today with Israel's terrorism, which revolves around provoking retaliations by carrying out operations and expanding, based on Livia Rokach's book called Sacred Israeli Terrorism.

The author says that Prime Minister Moshe Sharett had said in his diary that on March 12, 1955, the Americans had understood the reasons behind the Israeli terrorism; that they thought the Israelis had taken the decision to attack all fronts, so they are afraid that this would lead to a new war in the Middle East that would hinder their plans. "This is why they want us to commit not to do this again." Sharett also says that the Chief of Staff, Moshe Dayan, said that Israel "did not need a security treaty with the U.S. because it would limit their actions, and we need the freedom to move in the coming years, as the suicidal operations help us maintain a high level of tension among Israelis and in the army."

On March 26, the diary said that Dayan was hoping for a war with the Arab countries. Ben Gurion had said that it was useful to pay a million Guineas for an Arab to start a war. We all know that Israel plotted with the UK and France in the Suez war, and that President Eisenhower was upset and exerted pressures that forced the attackers to withdraw.

Rokach's book offers rare details regarding the Zionist goals in Lebanon, and she says that the Zionist leaders had asked Britain in 1918 to include the entire Litani River in the Palestinian borders, as well as Hasbani and Wazzani. However, the French won the debate at the peace convention in 1919 and the current borders of Lebanon's were announced. Ever since, the Zionists kept working against Lebanon and Sharett's diary on February 27, 1954, spoke of a meeting he had with Ben Gurion and Minister of Defense Nahas Lavon, as well as Dayan. In this meeting, Ben Gurion says that it was time to make the Maronites in Lebanon declare the country Christian, but Sharett replies that the Christians in Lebanon were "weak" and unable to start a revolution. So Ben Gurion suggests to send agents and to spend money. Once again, Sharett says that there is no money, but Ben Gurion insists on finding some or to provide it through the Jewish agency.

The diary also mentions another meeting that was held to discuss the case of Lebanon in May 1954, during which Dayan presented a plan to take over the country and says that a Lebanese officer would be needed, even a simple Major, as "Israel would help establish a Christian system then Israeli army would enter Lebanon. Hence, all territories from Litani River to the South would be joined to Israel and everything shall be fine."

I do not need to remind the reader that this almost happened, but I shall remind him of the Litani operation in 1978 and the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, not to mention the civil war and the South Lebanon Army.

Lebanon was not the only target, and Israeli information states that ever since Israel rose, it adopted a strategy of sparking confessional feuds and breaking up Arab nations. Although Lebanon was an obvious target, the Israeli strategy also worked on triggering conflicts among the Islamic confessions in Syria and Iraq, and even in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf countries, Iran, Turkey and from Morocco to India. Israeli strategic analyst, Oded Inon, wrote in 1982 regarding the provocation of ethnic and confessional problems in Syria, as well as dividing Iraq between Shiites in the South, Arab Sunnis in the center and Kurds in the North.

I shall stop here to say that I am only relating a small part of Rokach's book, as it deserves to be read again and memorized in the heart. Ronald Pleyer's study in The Link is excellent, as he refers to other authors to prove Israel's policy of expansion under the theme of "revenge" from other operations that it seeks to be carried out.

Dr. Walid Al Khalidi wrote a great study telling how Zionists carried out the first assassination, the first bombing of a civilian building, the first slaughter and the first terrorism. However, he should be mentioning that whereas Pleyer is referring to people like Norman Finkelstein, the author of Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Noam Chomsky, Oded Inon in his book Israel's Strategy In The Eighties, which was published in Hebrew, and Stephen Green's book on U.S. biasness.

The state of Israel was founded on terrorism, and used it to expand and frustrate the efforts deployed for peace. If Menachem Begin was the "first terrorist" the way he bragged to be one day, then Ariel Sharon is the "contemporary terrorist," as the Israeli political institution will always bring terrorists.

Pleyer, the American-Jewish living in New York, says that Sharon has imposed dramatic restraints on the Palestinian civil life, and used awe and the force of the Jewish lobby in the U.S. and Congress; he was not even punished for killing American peace keeper Rachel Cory who was crushed under a bulldozer. She was one of the three peacekeepers that Israelis deliberately killed. The author describes the sufferings of Palestinians that we all are acquainted with and then closes his article quoting from Rokach: "The chances for peace are minor, and getting weaker." One of the indications of the future difficulties resides in the speech of U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, which she pronounced in Tel Aviv mid May 2003 saying: "Israel's security is the key to the security of the world." The latter is way deeper than the claim of the neo-conservatives who say that American and Israeli security is the same.

I say that Israel is the greatest danger to American security interests, but the U.S. is a great mighty country. Hence, what concerns me as an Arab citizen is the Israeli danger on the security of every Arab country. In fact, I found in Israeli documents that they prove Israel was established on terrorism and that it is still practicing it. Abbas should take Sacred Israeli Terrorism, written by the daughter of a former Israeli Minister of Interior, to Bush the next time he meets with him, and insists that he read it before they speak of Israel or U.S. security and what the Palestinians are asked to do.