Israelis are Re-Starting the Cycle of Violence Again

[David2004]

Yes, the Israeli are escalating the cycle of violence once again. The Israeli Offensive Forces took military control of a Palestine prison in Jericho destroying much of the prison and killing two Palestinian prison security guards and wounding 26 Palestinian people. This happen ten minutes after the British government removed their observers form the Palestinian prison. The Israeli arrested a Palestinian prisoner who was the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmad Saadat for the assassination of the Israeli Minister of tourism, in 2001. There were five other Palestinian prisoners who were wanted by the Israeli government.

The Israeli government is on the public record saying they will take any military actions needed for the security of the State of Israel. These are the types of Israeli military actions that renew the cycle of violence in this life long conflict. Since the Israeli have turn Gaza over to Palestinian internal control the boarder crossing going in and out of Gaza have been closed most of the time. Special Envoy James Wolfensohn help to pay (out of his own pocket) the Israeli settlers for some of the greenhouses they left standing in Gaza. Otherwise, the greenhouses would have been destroyed by the Israeli Offensive Forces like everything else the Jewish settlers left standing.

The Israeli government has done almost everything it could do to escalate the violence and tensions between the people in the Holy Land. While the Israelis are giving with one hand, they are pulling the carpet from underneath the feet of the Palestinian society with the other hand. Then they wonder why there is so much hate and animosity toward them as a nation and people. The targeted assassination of Palestinian leaders by the Israeli Offence Forces must stop before the cycle of violence resumes. Any act of restraint by the Palestinian society. The Israeli try to take the credit as their policies are working.

 

[Annie]

Yes, the Israeli are escalating the cycle of violence once again. The Israeli Offensive Forces took military control of a Palestine prison in Jericho destroying much of the prison and killing two Palestinian prison security guards and wounding 26 Palestinian people. This happen ten minutes after the British government removed their observers form the Palestinian prison. The Israeli arrested a Palestinian prisoner who was the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmad Saadat for the assassination of the Israeli Minister of tourism, in 2001. There were five other Palestinian prisoners who were wanted by the Israeli government.

The Israeli government is on the public record saying they will take any military actions needed for the security of the State of Israel. These are the types of Israeli military actions that renew the cycle of violence in this life long conflict. Since the Israeli have turn Gaza over to Palestinian internal control the boarder crossing going in and out of Gaza have been closed most of the time. Special Envoy James Wolfensohn help to pay (out of his own pocket) the Israeli settlers for some of the greenhouses they left standing in Gaza. Otherwise, the greenhouses would have been destroyed by the Israeli Offensive Forces like everything else the Jewish settlers left standing.

The Israeli government has done almost everything it could do to escalate the violence and tensions between the people in the Holy Land. While the Israelis are giving with one hand, they are pulling the carpet from underneath the feet of the Palestinian society with the other hand. Then they wonder why there is so much hate and animosity toward them as a nation and people. The targeted assassination of Palestinian leaders by the Israeli Offence Forces must stop before the cycle of violence resumes. Any act of restraint by the Palestinian society. The Israeli try to take the credit as their policies are working.

David, you are not looking for 'peace' but an excuse for war:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2088486,00.html


Cigars, birds, flowers and servants — life inside Jericho jail
by Stephen Farrell
Palestinian terrorist suspects are said to have served their time in style before the bulldozers arrived

::nobreak::BRITAIN made a robust defence yesterday of its decision to pull out of Jericho prison before an Israeli raid, citing fears that its monitors would be kidnapped, and painting a portrait of a jail controlled by inmates living in luxury.

Palestinian guards confirmed yesterday that Ahmed Saadat, a leading militant captured by Israeli troops in the raid, kept birds and flowers in his quarters. Western officials said that Saadat in effect used other prisoners as “domestic staff”.

An official told The Times that Fuad Shobaki, the alleged moneyman behind a 2002 weapons shipment intercepted by Israel, smoked up to five Cuban cigars a day and was known as “The Brigadier” to inmates and staff. He was also seized.

“Saadat and Shobaki were very much in charge,” one prison source said. “These guys were running the prison. They did what they wanted, when they wanted.”

Details of how prisoners allegedly broke the rules emerged yesterday as Palestinians protested on the streets, accusing Britain and the US of colluding with Israel in the raid on Tuesday. Palestinians are furious that Israeli troops took away six wanted men in total. Saadat, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader, is suspected of ordering the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister.

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, refused to say whether he thought Britain had colluded with Israel over what he called an “unforgivable crime”. But he said that Israeli troops arrived ten minutes after the last three British monitors had left.

“I’m giving the facts,” Mr Abbas said. “They left at 9.20am, and the Israelis came in at 9.30am. How can we explain that?” Saeb Erekat, a senior Abbas aide, voiced suspicion that the monitors had left before the formation of a new government. “If the British and Americans wanted to leave because they don’t want to deal with a Hamas government in a couple of weeks then they should have done it in a different fashion,” he said.

Mark Regev, an Israeli government spokesman, said that Israel had asked for the monitors to remain. “There was an Israeli request last week to the British and Americans that the monitors stay on. We wanted the status quo to be maintained.”

But British sources spoke of a “credible and specific” warning this year that the PFLP had planned to free its prisoners, “possibly taking the monitors hostage”. They also cited warnings last year that militant groups planned to kidnap monitors. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has released a letter to Mr Abbas from John Jenkins, the British Consul-General, and his American counterpart giving final warning that the monitoring would end unless the Palestinian Authority ensured “full compliance” with the monitoring agreements and improved the security of the US and British personnel.

It followed reports by monitors that the six prisoners had access to computers, mobile phones and were not “locked down” at night. The monitors said that they were forbidden to search cells and that mobile phone jammers were switched off.

Israeli newspapers yesterday reacted with glee to the seizure, trumpeting “We Got Them” and “The score is settled”. Ehud Olmert, the acting Israeli Prime Minister, said that the six would be put on trial over the death of Mr Zeevi, who was killed by the PFLP in 2001 in retaliation for Israel’s assassination of its leader, Abu Ali Mustafa.

Yesterday UN offices across the West Bank and Gaza remained closed as a precaution after the mayhem on Tuesday when offices were attacked and international staff kidnapped. But Sami Musallam, the Palestinian governor of Jericho and the Jordan Valley, dismissed concerns over the monitors’ safety as “bullshit”.

He said that in four years the six inmates had not left jail except to go to the mosque, dentist and hospital. He added that Shobaki was not allowed visits from his wife. “We have always depended on the British and Americans to be the guarantors of agreements between us and the Israelis,” he said. “We put a lot of trust in them, and now they have lost our confidence.”
PRISON PERKS

# Monitors complained that Saadat, Shobaki and the four other “special” prisoners were given the run of the compound by Palestinian guards

# They were not “locked down” at night

# They were never separated from the 300 other prisoners

# They had mobile phones and computers; Shobaki ordered the monitors’ phone jammers to be turned off

# They had up to 90 visitors a week and used other prisoners “as domestic staff”

# Saadat kept birds and had a big book collection

# Inmates and guards referred to Shobaki as “brigadier”. He smoked up to five Cuban cigars a day

 

[Annie]

Then again, there are the Palis 'friends':


http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/694562.html

Last update - 16:26 15/03/2006
Aznar: Khamenei said in 2001 Iran aimed to 'set Israel alight'
By Yossi Verter, Haaretz Correspondent

Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar said Tuesday that Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told him five years ago that "setting Israel on fire" was the first order of business on the Iranian agenda.

Aznar, in Israel as the guest of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, related the story to Major General (Res.) Professor Yitzhak Ben-Israel, who later confirmed to Haaretz that the remarks had been made.

Aznar's aides refused to give Haaretz the exact quote, but mentioned an article Aznar has written in the past on his meeting with Khamenei.

"He received me politely," Aznar wrote, "and at the beginning of the meeting he explained to me why Iran must declare war on Israel and the United States until they are completely destroyed. I made only one request of him: that he tell me the time of the planned attack."

Professor Ben-Israel, the former head of the Israel Defense Force's Weapon Systems Development Authority, is today No. 31 on Kadima's list of Knesset candidates.

Aznar was to deliver a lecture at the Interdisciplinary Center on Wednesday evening on "Dealing with the challenged of fundamental Islam and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."

Khamenei still holds the post of Iranian spiritual leader, and considered to be the powerful man in the country.

 

[Annie]

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6286

Iran’s Ahmadinejad: West opposes our nukes to let Israel live on
Wed. 15 Mar 2006

Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Mar. 15 – Iran’s radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the circumstances were ripe for the “collapse of the Zionist regime” and that the West was highlighting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in the world arena in order to “divert attention away from the issue of Palestine”.

“The regime occupying Qods (Jerusalem) was set up to create insecurity and confrontation in our region. If one day tranquillity came about, it would mean the death of this regime”, Ahmadinejad said in the northern town of Ramyan during a speech broadcast live on state television.

“Our enemies on the one hand oppose our nation’s acquisition of nuclear energy and on the other hand want to divert the attention of other nations from the key issue of Palestine to give an opportunity to the Zionist regime to prolong its existence”, he said.

“One of the main reasons why the big powers oppose Iran on the nuclear issue is for the sake of the Zionist regime, so as to let this regime live on. But they are unaware that not only will the Iranian nation continue in the path of obtaining nuclear energy till the end, it will not even for one instant divert its attention from the issue of Palestine”.

“The regime occupying Qods [Israel] is the key to [Western] countries’ domination in Muslim lands, and with every blow at this occupying regime, it’s the pillars of the Global Arrogance (the West) that are targeted”.

 

[BATMAN]

Well David, I guess she told you. :bat: