Sadness for people who are in Israel

Sadness for people who are in Israel!
Supply this writer Sobhi Ghandour July 12, 2008

These days will be an occasion "for the grief and humiliation" in Israel, also described the Israeli government after the approval of an agreement to exchange prisoners with "Hezbollah" in Lebanon, and that means it appropriate "for joy and dignity" with the Lebanese resistance and the general. Synchronization of the second anniversary of the Israeli war on Lebanon with the Convention on prisoner exchange confirms the failure of the Israeli aggression and Israel's surrender to the terms of resistance, which announced after the detention of two Israeli soldiers on July 12, 2006.

The military operation at the site of a border between two state of war between them remain, and there was a Lebanese detainees in Israeli prisons, there are still Lebanese land occupied, and there were networks of Israeli sabotage and terrorism have been announced by the Lebanese authorities a few weeks before the summer 2006.

So, what he did "Hezbollah" was then in the context of open conflict between Lebanon and Israel since the mid-seventies of the last century has not come to an Israeli withdrawal that has occurred in 2000.

Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, as its withdrawal from Gaza, was a decision unilaterally without any agreement with the Party under occupation, this means the continuation of freedom of movement of the enemy occupier wherever God, when and how he wishes.

But what the payment of "Hamas" in Gaza and the "Hezbollah" in Lebanon, the summer of 2006, to decide military operations and the families of Israeli soldiers despite the two organizations realize the possibilities of the Israeli reaction?

Inter-"Hamas" and "Hezbollah" is not just a way of armed resistance and special relations with Damascus and Tehran, but also the difficult circumstances in which the American administration decided to put it.

U.S. administration embraced Israeli concept of terrorism which sets no armed resistance to Israeli occupation in the field of terrorist acts, and thus become "Hamas" movement in the occupied Palestinian territories and "Hezbollah" in Lebanon classification American terrorist organizations.

Also, the double standards adopted by Washington and a number of major countries appeared clear in saying that Israel has the right to defend themselves against (terrorism), while condemning these attitudes what happened in Gaza and southern Lebanon from the military operations of the resistance against Israeli soldiers and the families of only one, and then The Israeli response to the Palestinians in Gaza and on the Lebanese and the whole land of Lebanon exactly identical to the definition of international terrorism in terms of targeting of civilians and civilian installations!

Israel had the right to destroy Gaza and Lebanon to release prisoners while the soldiers are not entitled to Palestinian militants, Lebanese right over a military operation against the forces occupying their lands for the release of thousands of detained Palestinians and Lebanese civilians!.

Were not necessarily the Arab parties, which took more than the necessary steps in the relationship and normalization with Israel despite the lack of a comprehensive settlement, is responsible for all this military escalation in the region .. Primary responsibility for this is the current American administration, which selected priority since coming war on Iraq and then the use of extremist groups and indiscriminate violence excuses appropriate to start first, hostilities in the whole world ..

The marginalization of the current American administration the issue of the Arab / Israeli conflict, as a green light for the rule of another fundamentalist group in Israel in March ugliest forms of aggression against the Palestinian people taking advantage of the world's attention to "the war on terror" and America's preoccupation with Iraq's priority ..

The priorities of Washington's policy in Lebanon, inciting the international, Arab and Lebanese implementation of resolution 1559 in terms of insisting on disarming "Hezbollah." The Israeli-backed U.S. betting that this will lead to Lebanon to the Lebanese internal conflict with "Hezbollah" Even if passed by this conflict in the maze of sectarian sedition am Lebanese and risks involved parties to act to avoid paying the political crisis to security chaos.

Sedition was needed before these developments, as was required during and after. Sedition among the Palestinians themselves, and between the Lebanese themselves, and between all Arabs .. Sedition end any resistance to occupation and make any enemy is "the other Arab citizens."

I bet Israel, along with the American administration, to make the image of the war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 as a war against Iranian influence in Lebanon and the region, and therefore the possibility of pooling forces and ranks of Lebanese and Arab and international behind this aggression. Washington had been successful in attracting Europe to its side on how to deal with "Hamas" after their arrival to the Palestinian Authority, and pressure on many Arab parties to halt their support for the Gaza Strip. Prior to this and that, Washington has succeeded in establishing an American NATO / French Lebanon on the decision-making resolution 1559 then 1680, and established a coalition of Lebanese forces in support of these two resolutions and two clear of the targeting of weapons of the resistance and the Lebanese Syrian relations / Lebanese.

Washington also has encouraged a climate of belief sharply in Iraq in the Arab region increased talk about Iranian role in Iraq's bloody events in Iraq's future developments.

Thus wanted Washington and Tel Aviv portray the war in summer 2006 as a war on Iran and its influence in Beirut and Damascus and Gaza, and not on the Lebanese and the Palestinians and Arabs.

So the American war / Israel against Iran in form, but practically a war on Arab land to end any armed Arab resistance to Israeli occupation, war leads to impose normalization of relations between Arabs and Israel regardless of the failure of the political settlement of the conflict and the fate of the Palestinian question and the occupied Arab territories.

Was a battle in Washington and Tel Aviv with Tehran, but implicit is a battle to bring the whole of the country, including from Arab governments and their peoples and organizations ..

But the aggression on Lebanon, as the test of peoples everywhere, defeated himself.

When the triumph of resistance in Lebanon, a victory for all of Lebanon and the Palestinian issue and just solution to it. And Washington will be forced, sooner or later, as the government was forced to Alasrilih, to realize their error and accounts of the horse, and a sound vision of the causes of the crises of the area: the problem of Israeli occupation and American support him.

* Director of "the Arab Centre for dialogue" in Washington

alhewar@alhewar.com