How Israel Is Using Hamas To Create A Greater Israel

Arafat renounced violence, so Israel had to get rid of him. Israel needs wars in order to create a Greater Israel.

Israel does not want Palestinians to be peace-loving.
Because that would prevent Israel from having more wars to create a Greater Israel.
Israel wants violent Palestinians.

On 10 January 2009, we read Writing on the wall, in the Sydney Morning Herald.
(Herald chief correspondent Paul McGeough's new book, Kill Khalid: Mossad's Failed Hit … And The Rise Of Hamas, will be published early in March by Allen & Unwin.)
Among the points made:

1. Hamas emerged from the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood.
(Reportedly, the Muslim Brotherhood has long been used by MI6 and the CIA to weaken Moslem governments - Aangirfan)

2. Israel helped build up Hamas, which became a rival to Arafat's Fatah.

3. Arafat's PLO renounced violence and recognised Israel, prior to the Oslo peace talks.
(This did not suit Israel.)
Hamas refused to end violent resistance or to acknowledge Israel's right to exist.
(This suited Israel)

4. The Israelis, in the early 1990s, deported hundreds of key Hamas figures to south Lebanon, where they began working with Hezbollah.
(Israel needs Hezbollah if it is to have an excuse to take over South Lebanon, with its valuable water supplies.)

5. In 1997, Arafat had Hamas pinned down, and Arafat was rounding up Islamists by the thousand.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, organised the bungled assassination of Khalid Mishal. This helped Hamas to revive and survive.
(This suited Israel).

6. Mossad, under Efraim Halevy, came up with a plan, agreed to by the Bush, to get rid of Arafat.
(Arafat was too much in favour of peace.)

7. Abbas was presented by the media as being a puppet of the Americans.
Hamas triumphed in the 2006 elections.
(This suited Israel)

8. Israel and its allies blockaded Gaza.
(Israel had an excuse to further weaken the Palestinians.)

9. John Bolton (and Israel) would like to give the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt.
Then there would be no more Palestine.

10. Bolton believes Jordan and Egypt can be bribed.
Egypt relies on aid from the USA.

But Egypt fears it would be weakened if it had unhappy Palestinians under its control.

Hizbollah Denies Israel Strike

Sky News

Thursday, January 8, 2009

The Hizbollah minister in Lebanon’s cabinet has denied the group is responsible for rockets fired into Israel.

Earlier, Israeli forces fired mortars on Lebanon after rockets fell on northern Israel.

The move was “a pinpoint response at the source of fire”, an Israeli military spokesman said.

Three rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel in the area near the town of Nahariya, five miles south of the Lebanese border.

Two elderly women were lightly wounded by one of the rockets, according to Israeli medical staff.

Meanwhile, the UN aid agency says it has suspended its operations in Gaza because of the danger from Israeli forces.

Full story here.

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Rockets Hit Israel from Lebanon

January 8th, 2009

Via: BBC:

Rockets have been fired into northern Israel from Lebanon, raising fears the Israeli offensive in Gaza may spread.

Israel’s army responded with artillery to a barrage of at least three rockets. No group has claimed responsibility.

Israeli media later reported a second rocket attack, but an army spokesman said this was a false alarm.

The exchanges came as Israel launched 60 air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight, targeting facilities used by the militant Hamas group.

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Hezbollah on full alert in wake of Gaza war

Press TV January 6, 2009

Hezbollah has stepped up security measures on the Lebanese border in response to the full-scale Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip.

Citing an unnamed Lebanese official, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that the Lebanese resistance is fully prepared not to allow “Israel a chance to avenge its defeat in the July 2006 war and has therefore raised its alert level for defense purposes.”

Israel is expected to take advantage of the transition in the White House “to embark on a new adventure” and change the status quo on the Lebanese border, the Al-Hayat report adds.

In a recent report, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy revealed that Israel’s determination to curb Hezbollah’s military and political prowess has strengthened the likelihood of another Israel-Lebanon war.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Lebanese army announced that at least six Israeli warplanes had flown over several regions of the country in violation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which put an end to the 33-day war in the summer of 2006.

The Israeli overflights come as Israel has called up thousands of its reserve troops and put some of them along its northern border with Lebanon earlier this week.

Author of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy report Nicholas Blanford told Press TV correspondent Ali Rizk in an October interview that UN Resolution 1701, which ended the second Israeli war on Lebanon, would never be sufficient to maintain calm.

“Yes, 1701 stopped the war obviously in 2006. It stopped the fighting. I mean it saved the Israelis, the Israelis were obviously in deep trouble as various internal investigations and reports and commissions have elaborated,” said Blanford.

“It was kind of an unfinished war in many respects. Hezbollah, for their part, recognized Israeli unease and unhappiness with the outcome of the war,” he continued.

According to Blanford, the US presidential elections as well as the upcoming elections in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran are key political developments that could easily ‘trigger a war’.

Other political analysts also believe that a third Israeli war against Lebanon may be in the offing.

“This is not the first time that the Israelis threaten Lebanon. There have been a lot of threats ever since the end of the July war in 2006 and its humiliating defeat has been a blow to the whole Israeli military institution,” says political analyst Ibrahim Moussawi.

While Israel claims it has no intention to open another front during its war on the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah has announced that the Lebanese nation must maintain vigilance and be prepared to repel any possible attack by Tel Aviv.

Hezbollah has, however, dismissed Israeli allegations that it has plans to go to war with Israel.