Bewere the Israel Honey "soldiers".. Let us turn the poisoned honey pots and Hamas page

ان لاسرائيل جنودا من عسل..فلنقلب قدور العسل وصفحة حماس.. ‏

 

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ان من يقترب من القيادات الفلسطينية - الاسلامية تحديدا - في القاهرة والدوحة هذه الأيام يستطيع أن يشم رائحة الكحول من أفواهها ومن عباراتها المغمسة بالنبيذ لأن مايقولونه لاينتمي الى عالم الصحو بل عالم السكر والثمل ..

ومن يستمع اليهم لايعتب عليهم .. فليس على الثمل والسكران من حرج .. هناك نشوة وسكر ومزاج طفولي ساذج متفائل بلا حدود .. وهناك من أقنعهم أنهم يعرفون السياسة وبهلوانياتها .. وأنهم الآن سيأكلون العسل .. ولم يسمعوا في التاريخ عبارة الخليفة الأموي الشهيرة "وان لله جنودا من عسل" عندما تخلص من خصومه السياسيين بدس السم لهم في العسل ..

 

وليست الغاية من ذكر هذه المقولة الدخول في مماحكاتها وملابساتها التاريخية أو استفزاز أحد بل التنويه الى أن دمشق التي حكمها العقل السياسي الفريد وصنع منها قلب امبراطورية هي التي تعرف أن أطباق العسل قد تكون مميتة .. وقد أعاد العقل السياسي الاسرائيلي انتاج درس من دهاء الدماشقة الأمويين وقام باعادة انتاج العبارة الأموية لتكون: وان لاسرائيل جنودا من عسل .. " والعسل الاسرائيلي هو (الاتفاقات والمعاهدات المغطسة بالعسل) ..
هناك من حقن المخدرات والهيرويين في عروق قادة حماس والجهاد الاسلامي تحديدا .. وهناك من سقاهم زجاجات كبيرة من النبيذ المعتق حتى داخوا وصاروا يسيرون مترنحين .. لايريد بعض هؤلاء القادة الفلسطينيين الاستماع الى أحد هذه الأيام .. ومن يستمع الى خالد مشعل ورمضان شلح يحس أن أجهزة الاستقبال في رأسيهما معطلة وأن مايعمل هو فقط أجهزة البث المبرمج .. وأن درجة النشوة والسكر جعلتهما بلا ذاكرة وحطمت فيهما مخازن التجربة الفلسطينية الطويلة .. ولافائدة من التذكير ولا من توجيه النصائح لأي منهما فالنبيذ تمكن منهما والمشروبات النفطية والمشروبات الروحية الاسلامية لمحمد مرسي واخوانه ..

 

وعندما يستيقظان في صبيحة يوم قادم (ستذهب السكرة وتأتي الفكرة) وسيعرفان عما نتحدث .. وسيعرفان أن دمشق الخبيرة بأطباق العسل وكشف مافيها من سموم كانت على حق دوما .. دمشق التي رمت بأطباق العسل من حلف بغداد الى كامب ديفيد الى اتفاق 17 أيار اللبناني الى رفض حرب صدام العبثية مع ايران الى رفض الجهاد في أفغانستان التي سوقها العرب والأوروبيون .. كل هذه الأطباق المسمومة تناولها كل العرب وأصيبوا بالاسهال ونزيف الأمعاء وبعضهم بالغرغرينا الوطنية.. واليوم تقلب دمشق طبقا من عسل يطلقون عليه الربيع العربي وتندلق منه السموم والقطران والغسلين .. وبعض العرب لايزالون يلعقون الأطباق بألسنتهم وألسنة مثقفيهم وكتابهم ونخبهم ..

صحيح ان لاسرائيل جنودا من عسل.. فاسرائيل تنتقل اليوم الى مرحلة جديدة في بناء نفسها وتحصين نفسها تماما كما تريد بالاتفاقات التي تريد ..فلديها كامب ديفيد (بنسختها الساداتية ثم بنسختها الاخوانية الأكثر تحصينا) وهدنة غزة والمضمونتان مصريا وأمريكيا في الجنوب .. واتفاقية وادي عربة في الشرق .. واتفاقية أوسلو في قلب فلسطين .. ولم يبق الا اغلاق ملف الحدود الشمالية عبر اتفاق رسمي يعمل عليه القادة العرب وتركيا بزعزعة استقرار سورية وابعاد ايران عن حدود فلسطين بحجة ابعاد المشروع الصفوي وتثبيت حكومة توقع اتفاق سلام حرمها اياه حكم الأسد ..

 

الحدود الشمالية وان سكتت ردحا من الزمن فانها لاتزال خارج اي اتفاق رسمي وضمانات من اي طرف ولاتزال تقف على حدود اسرئيل كاللغم الصامت الذي سينفجر ان عاجلا أو آجلا ..

وهذا يفسر اصرار اسرائيل على ابرام الاتفاق مع سورية ولبنان رغم هدوء الجولان لأربعة عقود .. فالحدود التي لاتسيجها الاتفاقات والضمانات النهائية عبر التاريخ كانت دوما مرسومة بالبارود والمفاجآت ويستطيع أي لهب أن يشعلها..

في كل مرة يفاجئنا بعض القادة الفلسطينيين بخياراتهم السيئة وغير الموفقة ..

ففي الثمانينات اتفقنا مع الراحل أبو عمار أن نقاتل معا في بيروت وأن تكون معركة بيروت ملحمة لاتقل عن ملحمة طروادة أو ستالينغراد ..

ولكن فجأة ودون التنسيق مع السوريين أبلغنا الراحل ياسر عرفات قراره بقبول الخطة الأمريكية لانسحاب المقاتلين الفلسطينيين والتي حملها "فليب حبيب" .. خطة اتفاق مثقلة بالعسل وبالضمانات من الادارة الامريكية بصوابية قرار الانسحاب..

وغادر المقاتلون الفلسطينيون شواطئ بيروت الى اليمن وتونس والجزائر .. وقد التقيت يومها ضابطا سوريا عائدا من القتال في بيروت .. والعسكري غير السياسي لأنه هو من يحزن على تفويت الفرص العسكرية .. وقد بدا هذا الضابط السوري مذهولا من قرار ياسر عرفات المغادرة لأن هذا الضابط السوري في ذروة الحرب والقصف دخل مواقع الفلسطينيين المتحصنين في أنفاق وخنادق في بيروت ورأى كميات هائلة من الذخائر والمواد التموينية مايكفي لحصار يدوم سنتين وروحا معنوية عالية لدى المقاتلين وأدرك ورطة اسرائيل ان دخلت بيروت التي ستفرم لحم جيش شارون في حرب الشوارع ..

ومع هذا فاجأنا الراحل ياسر عرفات بخيار لم يكن موفقا بدليل أن ضمانات فيليب حبيب للمخيمات الفلسطينية تبخرت بعد أيام وحدثت مذابح صبرا وشاتيلا بمجرد خروج مقاتليه ..

وتم اهدار فرصة صنع ملحمة فلسطيية سورية لبنانية ولم يتم استغلال تلك الروح العالية للمقاتلين ..

ولايزال فاعل صبرا وشاتيلا مجهولا بزعم منظمات حقوق الانسان وماقاله شارون يومها: لادخل لنا .. انهم مسلمون عرب قتلهم مسيحيون عرب في حرب أهلية ..
وبعد تجربة الحرب مع القيادة الفلسطينية خضنا مرة أخرى تجربة التفاوض المشترك فذهبنا مع الراحل ياسر عرفات الى مدريد على أن نفاوض معا حتى النهاية كوفد عربي واحد لايتفكك ..

ولكن المحيطين بعرفات يومها أقنعوه بالسير سرا الى أوسلو خلف ظهر الأسد .. الذي سمعنا به بعد تقشيره وتقطيعه وطهيه وتوزيعه على الاطباق مغطسا بالعسل .. فاجأنا أوسلو كثيرا وفاجأ الرئيس الراحل حافظ الأسد الذي وصفته وسائل الاعلام الغربية يومها ودون مواربة "بالأسد الجريح في ظهره" ..

وجميعنا سمعنا يومها ماروجت القيادات الفلسطينية عن العسل الذي سيقطر من أوسلو بعد خمس سنوات وكان أحدهم يتغنى بدخول 30 ألف بندقية فلسطينية لأول مرة الى داخل فلسطين بواسطة الاتفاق الذي خدع به الاسرائيليون .. وقد قال لي سياسي سوري يومها نصف هذا السلاح سيتوجه للفلسطينيين .. وكل هذا السلاح لايساوي دبابة اسرائيلية واحدة ..

واليوم نعرف ماهو أوسلو وماذا جنى الفلسطينيون من "جنود العسل" .. وماقاله الرئيس حافظ الأسد يومها اختصر كل أوسلو بعبارة: كل نقطة في هذا الاتفاق تحتاج الى اتفاق ..

وبالفعل استفاق الفلسطينيون على مابعد من أوسلو وتبين أنهم كانوا قد شربوا الكثير من النبيذ والويسكي السياسي وهم يقرؤون بنود أوسلو بعيون (هل رأى الحب سكارى مثلنا) .. حتى أصبح الصباح وتغيرت الخرائط

وبدل العسل تقطرت المستوطنات في الأراضي وانشطر الفلسطينيون الى ضفة وغزة .. ودفنت اسرائيل كل نقاط الاتفاق نقطة نقطة مع الراحل ياسر عرفات لأن كل نقاطه توفيت .. ونجت اسرائيل بجنود من عسل ..عسل الاتفاقات والتهدئات ..

واليوم يعيد الفلسطينيون الاسلاميون شرب النبيذ المعتق وتعاطي الحشيش السياسي .. وكأنها حالة ادمان .. ولم يقلعوا عن هذه العادة السيئة .. لنكتشف أن الثورة الفلسطينية لاتزال تعاني من غياب السياسي الفلسطيني الفذ والذي لا تغريه أطباق العسل .. والذي يجيد العوم والسباحة وركوب الخيل في حلبات السياسة ..

وتبين من مراجعة السيرة الذاتية للقرارات الفلسطينية الكبرى أنهم يتخذون قراراتهم على شكل رهانات ومقامرات وأنهم بعيدون حتى اليوم من الدهاء السياسي .. وأنهم لايستطيعون مقاومة طعم العسل المسموم ..

من خيار استدراجهم الى معارك أيلول الى الصراع الداخلي اللبناني الى قرار اعلان موقف الى جانب الرئيس صدام حسين الى قرار أوسلو .. الى قرار كسر الحياد في أزمة سورية بل واعلان الولاء لتركيا العثمانية الى آخر قرار بقبول تسوية غزة التي تعني فيما تعني اخراجهم نهائيا من الصراع المسلح وتحويلهم الى جسم سياسي ثرثار ..

فمعادلة الصراعات الكبرى والثورات هي ذات اتجاه واحد محدد .. وهو أنك تقدر أن تفاوض بالسلاح ولكنك لاتستطيع القتال بالحقائب الديبلوماسية ..

ومن يستمع الى مقابلة خالد مشعل مع كيرستيان أمانبور في ال (سي ان ان) يرى بوضوح أنها كانت محاكمة للكفاح المسلح واذلالا شخصيا له وهو يرفع صوته معتقدا أنه لايزال ثائرا .. ويرى المشاهد بوضوح أن بندقية حماس يتم افراغها من الرصاص حتى لم تعد فيها رصاصة واحدة في نهاية المقابلة .. وفات خالد مشعل أن الثورة التي تسقيها الثروة تترهل وعليها أن ترحل ..

ماحدث منذ أيام أن غزة كانت بين قوتين .. قوة تريد تطوير المعركة واكمالها لانجاز اتفاق لاينزع من الغزاويين صفة أنهم في معظمهم لاجئون وان معركتهم ليست من أجل غزة بل من أجل العودة من غزة ..ولكن هناك قوة تحركت بسرعة واحتوت القوة الاولى وحرمتها من اكمال مشروعها الذي كان من الممكن أن يلتقي مع نار الشمال .. فتحولت حرب التحرير الى حرب تحريك ..

أي يتكرر التاريخ في الجنوب تماما .. ففي عام 1973 دارت حرب بين سورية ومصر من جهة واسرائيل من جهة أخرى وتبين أن كواليس ماقبل الحرب (هنري كيسنجر) قالت للرئيس المصري الراحل أنور السادات ان سيناء تحتاج حربا لتحرك عملية سلام مثمرة لتعود سيناء .. فتحركت الجبهة ولكن تتحرر سيناء الا باتفاقية كالحديد .. اتفاقية تقطر عسلا يسبح فيه جنود اسرائيل..

مشكلة بعض القادة الفلسطينيين أنهم حتى اللحظة لايعرفون الجغرافيا والتاريخ .. ولايسمعون حديث الأرض .. فلسطين هي قطعة من سورية .. وكلما ابتعدت فلسطين عن سورية ابتعدت عن فلسطين ..

من يقرأ كتاب "تاريخ مصر" للجبرتي منذ أكثر من قرن وبالذات عندما يتحدث عن رحلة البطل سليمان الحلبي السوري الذي سافر من حلب الى مصر لقتل نائب نابوليون بونابرت في مصر الجنرال كليبر .. عليه أن يتوقف عندما قال الجبرتي بعفوية العبارة التالية: وفي الطريق الى مصر توقف سليمان الحلبي وقضى ليلة في بيت أحد الشوام الغزاويين (في غزة) .. والعبارة صريحة أي أن غزة بلد شامية من بلاد الشام .. ولم يقل المؤرخ الشهير ان سليمان الحلبي بات عند غزاوي مصري أو غزاوي فلسطيني .. اي مهما قالت السياسة عن مصرية غزة وفلسطينيتها فان للتاريخ والجغرافيا رأيا لايتغير .. واليوم غزة ليست شامية في عيون قادة حماس بل غزة مصرية وتركية وقطرية وحتى تونسية ولاشي فيها سوري .. ولايستحقون الا أن نقول لهم: وما أوتيتم من العلم الا قليلا ..وكان الله في عونكم ..

وكلما استمعت الى القادة في حماس والجهاد الاسلامي أحس أن هناك عبارات مسبقة الصنع التي تشبه العلب المصمتة التي لانعرف من اين تفتح لنعرف محتواها .. من هذه العبارات المصنعة والمعلبة عبارات الشكر المديد والجزيل للرئيس المصري الرائع والفذ والعبقري والبطل والمقدام ورجل الدولة الأول .. محمد مرسي الذي صارت له الأسماء الوطنية والقومية والنضالية الحسنى .. ومن يستمع الى هذه العبارات يعتقد أن محمد مرسي يحاصر القدس أو أنه يدخلها الآن وأنه وضع نتنياهو على بغلة ويعرضه في شوارع القاهرة .. وكلما حاولت فتح علبة من هذه العلب لاأعرف من أين تفتح ولاأهتدي الى أي نافذة .. وصار البحث عن أسرار بطولات محمد مرسي يشبه أسرار رواية شيفرة دافنشي .. لاأحد يقول لنا ماذا فعل محمد مرسي .. وعلينا أن نخمن وأن نفك الشيفرة .. وكما ان دعابة "الراجل الواقف خلف عمر سليمان" أثارت الضحك عندما تساءل الناس عنه .. فان سؤال (ماذا فعل مرسي؟؟) لايزال بلا جواب..

ومما يلفت النظر في حديث قادة حماس والجهاد هو استماتتهم في تجنب الاشارة الى دور سورية وهم في اقصى حالات الضغط والاحراج يمرون بسرعة صاروخ غراد الذي أهديناهم اياه أمام عيوننا .. وكأن الاشارة الى دور سورية يعني تعرضهم لغضب السماء .. .

في حديث مع سياسي سوري مخضرم .. تحدثت طويلا عن غضبي من نكران الجميل .. وعندما سألته ماذا سيكون ردكم: ابتسم وقال: "كما في كل مرة .. اقلبوا الصفحة .. لقد قلبنا الصفحة منذ فترة" .. ولم يزد حرفا واحدا رغم الحاحي عليه بالايضاح

قلب الصفحة يعني كثيرا ..يعني أن السوريين الذين قلبوا صفحات القضية الفلسطينية قد أنهوا الفصل الحالي وأن فصلا جديدا قد يبدأ لاأحد يعرف شكله .. البعض قال أنه ميلاد صفحة جديدة لثورة فلسطينية لاتشرب النبيذ ولم تتذوق العسل ولاتحج الى بيوت الله وبيوت الغاز والبعض قال انها شيء مختلف تماما .

واذا كان لاسرائيل جنود من عسل .. فان اسرائيل تعرف وتدرك تماما أن السوريين مشهورون جدا بقدرتهم على قلب قدور العسل ورميها في البحر الأبيض المتوسط ونهر الفرات أو نهر بردى .. وكما انقلبت قدور العسل الاسرائيلية في الصراع مع سورية عدة مرات فان آخر قدور العسل المسكوب في هدنة غزة ..سينقلب كما انقلبت القدور التي سبقته ..
سنقلب الصفحة .. ونقلب قدور العسل ..ونقلب جنود العسل القادمين من الشمال ومن كل الاتجاهات .. فانتظرونا .. فسنصل مهما تطاول الطريق

( الأحد 2012/11/25 SyriaNow)

 

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Netanyahu rejects right of return, declares Jerusalem eternal Jewish capital

[ 25/05/2011 - 10:53 AM ]

WASHINGTON, (PIC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday evening in a speech to US Congress that Israel would never return to 1967 borders in any peace deal with the Palestinians.
He also declared his rejection of the Palestinian refugees' right of return and splitting Jerusalem with the Palestinians.
The Israeli premier said that any peace agreement should reflect the demographic changes that have taken place since 1967 and should include different borders than the ”indefensible” ones of 1967.
He also highlighted that the future Palestinian state should be demilitarized.
With regard to Jerusalem, Netanyahu emphasized the need that it remains unified, saying it is impossible to split it. He claimed that Israel has provided all of the divine religions the freedom to worship in Jerusalem.
He also claimed that Israel is the land of the Jews and that the Palestinians have split it with them.
He said that the dispute is not centered on the Palestinians establishing a state, but on Israel being a Jewish state that lives in peace by its side.
”It's time for President Abbas to stand before his people and say, 'I will accept a Jewish state'”, Netanyahu said.
He went on to urge Abbas to “tear up” the pact he made with Hamas, alleging that Hamas wishes to indiscriminately kill Jews and is the Palestinian version of al-Qaeda.

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Barak: Army to remain on alert at Egypt borders

[ 03/03/2011 - 10:24 AM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Israeli war minister Ehud Barak has said the Israeli army will stay on alert along borders with Egypt until the security situation during the revolution there stabilizes.

He added the army will also boost efforts to raise the security fence along the border.

The Israeli army has allowed Egyptian armed forces to deploy in the Sinai peninsula since the turn of events in Egypt, but those forces are due to withdraw when the unrest calms.

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Israel Concerned: Cairo Might Follow Ankara’s Example!

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Following the collapse of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak’s regime, the Israeli enemy seems to be concerned over the path that could be adopted by the Egyptian President’s successor.

In this context, Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post quoted former Foreign Ministry director-general Alon Liel as saying that Israelis must not lose sight of the importance of neighboring Egypt.

But Liel, who also served as ambassador to Turkey, warned that the successor to the Hosni Mubarak regime could well be expected to follow Ankara’s lead and pull its own envoy to Israel.

“I don’t think the events in Libya or Tunisia will affect Israel in any meaningful way,” Liel told the Post by phone. “Libya and Tunisia were in the outer circle when it came to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Egypt is a very different story.”

Liel, now chairman of the Israel-Syria Peace Society, said the continued adherence to the 1979 Israel-Egyptian peace treaty is of far greater significance to Israel than the fate of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. “The question of whether this agreement will survive and diplomatic relations remain intact are critical, critical questions for Israel’s standing in the region,” he said.

According to Liel, a Moussa presidency would bode ill for the Zionist entity. He was referring to Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General, who announced on Sunday that he intends to run for Egyptian president. “I met him personally, and his attitude to Israel over the past two decades has been very hostile, very different from Mubarak’s,” Liel said. “I don’t think he will renounce the agreement between the two countries as null and void; I don’t even think he will break diplomatic relations. But I’m almost sure he will pull the Egyptian ambassador out, and he will be very, very critical in his statements.”

The former envoy to Turkey predicted a downgrade in relations similar to one Turkey has implemented since the 2003 election of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “If Amr Moussa is the next president of Egypt, I think we’re headed toward a kind of Turkish-Israeli situation.”

Turkey pulled its ambassador in Tel Aviv after May’s Mavi Marmara incident in which nine Turkish citizens were martyred by Israeli fire on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

“Turkey doesn’t have an ambassador here, and it doesn’t intend to send an ambassador. Also, they won’t allow us to send a new ambassador. So Turkey in fact downgraded the level of representation between the two countries. Jordan, by the way, did the same thing – in the last six months you don’t have the Jordanian ambassador anymore,” he said.

Following Turkey’s removal of its envoy, Jordanian Ambassador Ali al-Ayed was quietly removed from the embassy in Ramat Gan and returned to Jordan to serve as minister for media affairs and communication. Liel said a caretaker ambassador had taken al-Ayed’s place.

“So the only ambassador from a Muslim country in Israel is the Egyptian ambassador,” he said. “After we see the new or newly elected Egyptian government, I don’t believe they will leave the Egyptian ambassador here as the only Muslim ambassador.”

With diplomacy stalled on both the Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Syrian tracks, Liel said, the mood in the region is more hostile to Israel than at any time in recent memory. “What we used to call the moderate camp – by which we mean accepting of Israel and ready to live in peace with it – is shrinking. So I see what happened in Egypt as a double blow. One, on security issues, because we have nothing really meaningful economically or culturally,” he said. “The level of coordination on Palestinian issues was very high. But on top of that, it’s a blow on the regional level. I think that what happened to Egypt, and the fact that Egypt will have to focus on internal affairs, is causing a situation in which Turkey is becoming the leader of the region. I don’t think it’s Iran, I think it’s Turkey. And Turkey has the ability to cause us a lot of problems if we don’t have a breakthrough with the peace process, either with the Palestinians or the Syrians.”

Liel said that prospects for Israeli-Egyptian relations could be brighter if Israel can find a way to kick-start the peace process. “Recently there have been more and more rumors that Syria is indicating it wants to resume talks,” he said. “I don’t think the hostility or hatred toward Israel will remain as is if the impression in the Middle East is that Israel is being engaged in serious talks with the Palestinians, or the Syrians, or both.”

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JAMES PETRAS : American Zionism against the Egyptian Pro-Democracy Movement

- 21. Feb, 2011

The leading Zionist official in the Obama Administration and AIPAC point man, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg traveled to Israel to assure the Netanyahu/Lieberman regime  that the Israeli-Egyptian Treaty would remain unchanged.

By James Petras / My Catbird Seat

One of the least analyzed aspects of the Egyptian pro-democracy movement and US policy toward it, is the role of the influential Zionist power configuration (ZPC) including the leading umbrella organization – the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) – Congressional Middle East committee members, officials occupying strategic positions in the Obama Administration’s Middle East bureaus, as well as prominent editors, publicists and journalists who play a major role in the prestigious newspapers and popular weekly magazines.

This essay is based on a survey of every issue of the Daily Alert (propaganda bulletin of the CPMAJO), the  NY Times and the Washington Post between January 25 – February 17, 2011.

From the very beginning of the Egyptian pro-democracy movement, the ZPC,  called into question the legitimacy of the anti-dictatorial demands by focusing on the “Islamic threat”.  In particular the ultra-Zionist Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Alert harped on the “threat” of a “Islamic takeover” by the Muslim Brotherhood even as the overwhelming number of non-Zionist experts and reporters in Egypt demonstrated that the vast majority of protestors were not members of any Islamic political movement, but largely advocates of a secular democratic republic (see the Financial Times 1/26/11-2/17/11).

Once their initial propaganda ploy failed, the ZPC developed several new propaganda lines:  the most prominent of which was a sustained defense of the Mubarak dictatorship as a bulwark of Israel’s ‘security’ and guardian of the so-called “Peace Accord” of 1979.  In other words the ZPC pressured the US administration, via Congressional hearings, the press and AIPAC to support Mubarak as a key guarantor and collaborator of Israel’s supremacy in the Middle East; although it meant that the Obama regime would have to openly oppose the million-member Egyptian freedom movement.  Israeli journalists, officials and their US Zionist counterparts willingly admitted that although the Mubarak regime was a bloody, corrupt tyranny, he should be supported because a democratic government in Cairo might end Egypt’s decades-old collaboration with the brutal Israeli colonization of Palestine.

Once it became clear that uncritical support for Mubarak was no longer a viable position and the Obama Administration was appealing to the democratic movement to “dialogue” and negotiate with the dictator, the ZPC demanded caution in backing a “dialogue” and assurance that the dialogue did not lead to any abrupt changes in the Mubarak-Israeli treaty.  The ZPC and its scribes in the Washington Post presented Mubarak’s hand picked “Vice President” Omar Suleiman, a notorious torturer and long-term collaborator of Israel’s Mossad, as the legitimate interlocutor for the dialogue – even as he was unanimously rejected by the entire pro-democracy movement.

As the demonstrators grew in number and engulfed the major public squares throughout the country and extended beyond the first week, Israel and the ZPC promoted a possible alternative solution, which would keep Mubarak in power, during a nine month ‘transition’ period.  Caught off guard by the rapid growth of Egypt’s pro-democracy movement, Israel’s willing accomplices in the US administration and media conceded that an end to the dictatorship would be a good thing… if it was managed appropriately; namely, if it excluded or minimized the role of the Muslim Brotherhood and maximized the role of the pro-Israel military high command and intelligence services as overseers of the “transition”.  The ZPC contemptuously rejected Egypt’s independent pro-democracy movement and its leaders and sought to undermine the Egyptian people’s movement by inflating the role of the “best organized” Islamic Brotherhood and warned of a future Islamist “seizure of power”.

U.S. DEPUTY SECRETARY OF
STATE JAMES STEINBERG

The leading Zionist official in the Obama Administration and AIPAC point man, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg traveled to Israel to assure the Netanyahu/Lieberman regime that the US was in contact with the Egyptian military high command and sectors of the civilian opposition (ElBaradei) and that Washington’s support of the democracy movement was conditioned by their assurance that the Israeli-Egyptian Treaty would remain unchanged.

When Mubarak was finally forced to resign, handing power to a military junta, the ZPC congratulated the coup-makers, supported its demobilization of the movement and more important, celebrated the Egyptian generals’ endorsement of the “Peace Agreement of 1979”.  Now the Israeli propaganda machine began to harshly criticize Mubarak and portrayed the military coup as a positive step toward an “orderly and peaceful transition”.  By ‘orderly’ the Zionist think tankers meant a ‘regime change’ that did nothing to change the blockade of Gaza, the regular shipment of fuel to Israel, or the hotline of collaboration between Tel Aviv and Cairo.   Israeli and American Zionists rejected early elections and promoted a prolonged process in which the Egyptian military, the US Administration and the ZPC could handpick members of the ‘transitional constitutional and electoral commissions’ committed to continuing Mubarak’s policy of unconditional submission to Israel. By “peaceful” the pro-Israel diplomats in the Obama Administration meant clearing the streets of the masses of pro-democracy activists and demonstrators so that decisions could be controlled by the small circle of Mubarak military and civilian holdovers behind closed doors.  By “transition”, the circles of Zionists propagandists, US/Israeli policy makers and Egyptian generals meant that nothing would change but the face of Mubarak.

While Israel and the bulk of Zionist scribes and propagandists in the US opposed or questioned the pro-democracy movements against pro-Israeli rulers in the Middle East, they embraced and publicized the social movements opposing the Iranian regime.  In every print and electronic outlet, the pro-Israel journalists emphasized the repressive, brutal nature of the Iranian regime, called for regime change and raised the specter of a military confrontation if Iranian warships traversed the Suez Canal, Iran’s right by international maritime law.  Israeli security, the threat of ‘radical Islam’ and Iran were cited to place narrow limits on all discussions and debates over US policy regarding the enormous and growing mass pro-democracy movements throughout the Arab world.

The same prominent US Zionist scribes who, at first, defended US support for the dictatorial Mubarak regime and then supported the military takeover in Cairo, have now become born-again backers of anti-regime democrats in Iran.  This is not inconsistent:  the issue for US Zionists is how might pro-democracy movements affect Israel’s colonial policies in Palestine and Israel’s expanding power in the Middle East?  In other words, the ZPC in Congress and the White House are not concerned about promoting democracy through American foreign policy, but only about harnessing US diplomacy and military leverage to serve Israel.

What is striking about Obama’s twist and turns in policy toward the mass popular struggles in Egypt is how closely it repeats and implements the policy positions of the US Zionist power configuration clearly presented in the ‘52 organizations’ propaganda organ, the Daily Alert.

AUTHOR James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Journal of Peasant Studies.  He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet.   His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Life Time Career Award, Marxist Section, of the American Sociology Association, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968. Some recent titles include  Unmasking Globalization: Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century (2001); co-author The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (2000), A System in Crisis (2003), co-author Social Movements and State Power (2003), co-author Empire With Imperialism (2005), co-author, Multinationals on Trial (2006).  His most recent titles are The Power of Israel in the United States and Rulers and Ruled in the United States, (acquired for Japanese, German, Italian, Indonesian, Czech and Arabic editions), Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power, and Global Depression & Regional Wars. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. Previously, he wrote a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, Le Jornada, and  the Spanish daily, El Mundo.  He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. View Clarity titles at  Middle East, Clear Day Books and Amazon.com

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Egypt-Israel "peace treaty" brought more war than peace

Richard Irvine, The Electronic Intifada, 21 February 2011

Without its ally Hosni Mubarak in power in Egypt, Israel will have to think twice before it wages attacks in the region. (Pete Souza/White House Photo)

As the Egyptian revolution approached its climax the first priority of Israel and the West was that the so-called cornerstone of Middle East peace and security remain in place -- the much-fabled 1979 Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated the almost sacred truth that the "longstanding peace treaty between Israel and Egypt has greatly contributed to both countries and is the cornerstone for peace and stability in the entire Middle East." Going further, military expert Amos Harel warned that any break in the treaty could have dire consequences for Israel and so consequently the Egyptian revolution represented "a nightmare to Israeli intelligence leaders and planners" ("Cairo Tremors Will Be Felt Here, Haaretz, 30 January 2011).

This certainly would be understandable if an Egyptian abrogation of the treaty would be likely to lead to war, or if Israel had implemented the peace accords in good faith. The truth however is that Israel absolutely ignored its obligations under Part 1 of the treaty -- to allow representative self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip leading to independence -- while using the sure knowledge of Egypt's neutrality to launch a series of devastating wars. Indeed, when one looks at the historical record there can surely be few treaties that have brought so little peace and so much war.

That Israel always viewed the Camp David Accords as a blank check is evident both in its behavior and in Western and Israeli commentators' fears that the abrogation of the treaty might mean Israel will have to curtail its military interventions.

Writing in Israel's Haaretz on 14 February, Aluf Benn declared, "Israel will find it difficult to take action far to the east when it cannot rely on the tacit agreement to its actions on its western border. Without Mubarak there is no Israeli attack on Iran." Thus Benn concludes that Mubarak's departure has actually prevented a new Israeli war.

Certainly Israel has used the absence of any significant Arab counterweight to pursue policies that have either repeatedly brought war, or in the case of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, presented "serious obstruction[s] to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East" as UN Security Council resolutions 446 and 478 put it.

What is evident from the record is that Israel wasted no time putting the treaty to the test. In 1980 it illegally annexed East Jerusalem, and the following year the Syrian Golan Heights. In 1981 it launched an illegal attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor.

More significantly Israel also used the accords as a means to continue the destruction and dispossession of Palestinian society. Under Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israel developed a twin track approach with regard to the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip: a collaborationist "village league" form of governance was established, although due to Palestinian resistance it failed to take root, while simultaneously the number of illegal colonists in the West Bank and Gaza more than quadrupled (according to data published by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, and collated by Peace Now, the number of settlers in the West Bank grew from 5,000 in the early 1970s to more than 20,000 in 1983).

This was a negation of the accords that led Israeli cabinet minister Ezer Weizman to resign after declaring that no one in the cabinet was interested in peace. Begin however was undeterred, which was not at all surprising as after the 1978 establishment of the illegal colony of Elon Moreh outside Nablus he had boasted that there would be "many more Elon Morehs to come" -- a prophecy that has become only too true, as today there are over half a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

However Begin's primary use of the accords was as a means to wage war. In the first instance this meant the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the war against the Palestine Liberation Organization -- a war launched without provocation and in the midst of what Noam Chomsky has described as a PLO "peace offensive." During the course of this war Israel not only devastated the Palestinian and Lebanese populations of Lebanon but also systematically trashed the country and trounced the Syrian army when it sought to defend itself. At its end the International Committee of the Red Cross estimated that 17,825 civilians had been killed. Would this have been possible without Israel knowing that Egypt was permanently out of the conflict?

The same of course holds true for subsequent Israeli military actions, whether it was the brutal crushing of unarmed resistance during the first Intifada from 1987 to 1993, or the 1996 and 2006 reinvasions of Lebanon, or the mass casualties of the second intifada and the 2008-09 invasion of Gaza. In every case knowledge that Egypt would either stand idly by or indeed approve has made Israel confident that it could act with impunity.

Yet this was not always the case. For many years leading up to the Camp David Accords the Arab League had insisted that a final peace agreement must be a comprehensive one involving all parties to the conflict. Tragically Egypt under Sadat chose to break that consensus and by putting its own interests first effectively undermined the negotiating positions of all other Arab parties whilst giving Israel a free hand to militarily enforce its vision on the Middle East. If then the Camp David Accords do breakdown this should not be read as a sign that peace is further away than ever, but rather that perhaps at long last an all-embracing peace amongst equals may be possible.

Speaking at the time of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty signing, the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat commented, "Let them sign what they like. False peace will not last." For Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese and indeed Israelis, he has been proven only too correct.

Richard Irvine teaches a course at Queen's University Belfast entitled "The Battle for Palestine" which explores the entire history of the conflict. Irvine has also worked voluntarily in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and taken part in olive planting and harvesting in the West Bank.

Israel Okays Extra Egypt Troops in Sinai to Protect its Gas Pipeline

Author: WebsiteTeam Network

Israel has agreed to let Egypt deploy hundreds more troops in Sinai in order to protect gas pipelines as the country undergoes sweeping political unrest, Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported on Wednesday.

It was not immediately clear how many more troops would be permitted into the Sinai Peninsula, where the number of Egyptian forces is limited by the terms of the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty.

The move, which comes just days after the overthrow of autocratic Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, was rubber stamped several days ago in response to a request from Cairo's new military regime.

Neither the defense ministry nor the prime minister's office would confirm the report, which said the troops would be stationed in Sinai for a limited period of time "until the situation on the ground calms down."

This move comes 11 days after an Egyptian gas pipeline to Jordan in northern Sinai was attacked, forcing Cairo to switch off gas supplies to the kingdom as well as to Israel, which is supplied via a twin pipeline.

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Day Three......Israel or Democracy

Frustrated Arab's Diary

have a Coffee....
and then..... forget Democracy !!


Have you considered that even if (or even when )
the whole Middle-East turns into a democratic and a free area
there will not be any guarantee, at all,
that the State of Israel would be then accepted ??.


On the contrary ,
those leaders who did sign a so-called " Peace-agreement"
with the Zionist state, were not at all democratic,
by any known standards.....
nor did this "Peace-agreement" produce any peace.

The first leader who signed for the Peace was an army-general 
and the second was a monarch .

Both were bribed , one way or another ,
into signing a worthless treaty,
which never has had any genuine-popular-support.

Democracy (or Freedom) is not the wish of a single leader
and surely not the wish of non-elected-single-leaders.......

I bet you that if and when the Middle East countries
shall all convert to Democracy , the State of Zion shall then tremble !!

The last really-democratically-elected Palestinian-government, Hamas ,
has even completely rejected the State of Israel,  from its roots !!

We ,Arabs, have to choose  to live with Democracy or with  Israel
while Israel will have to choose to live in Palestine or in Peace.


Raja ChemayelI first worship God, . .....and then Democracy ,
and therefore, I fundamentally reject the Zionist state.




NB :
The West wanted to keep Mubarak
regardless whether he is a democrat or a dictator,
as long as he accepted Israel .
The Palestinian Authority has just resigned yesterday
because it wanted unsucessfully  to marry Democracy with Israel

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