A Palestinian in East Jerusalem protests
Israel's latest military
assault into Gaza. At least 120
Palestinians have been killed.
Le Quotidien d'Oran,
Algeria
Palestinians Abandoned By
Arabs, America and World
"Everything suggests that Israel and the U.S. are creating
the conditions for a new war in the region, after which they will finally
establish 'peace' on their terms. ... And although they don't openly say it,
even Arab forces in the region are pushing for this Israeli-American plan. That
includes the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, who is counting on
regaining control of the Gaza strip."
By
Kharroubi Habib
Translated
By Sandrine Ageorges
March
2, 2008
Algeria
- Le Quotidian - Original Article (French)
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Algeria is a North African nation with a population
of about 34 million. It has a relatively free-wheeling press, according
to the BBC.
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Since Wednesday, the Israeli air force has
been conducting raid after raid over the Gaza strip. These are no longer
“targeted” strikes, but are operations meant to claim the largest possible
number of victims in a population that has been declared a "hostile
entity," and to which the principle of "collective Punishment"
applies.
In just a few days, hundreds of
Palestinian men, women and children have perished, having been engulfed in
fire. But the worst is unfortunately still to come for the people of Gaza, as
the Israeli government prepares for a major operation against their territory.
It is this that the air raids are preparing, with the aim of “breaking” the
morale and capabilities of the popular resistance in Gaza.
One should not view the ongoing aggression
against Gaza as a response to rockets being fired on the Israeli village of
Sderot. It is rather, in our view, the prelude to a much larger operation,
planned jointly by Israel and the United States to reconfigure the balance of
power in the Middle-East and enable them to achieve their political agenda in
the region.
It is by no means fortuitous that just as
Israel launched its raids over Gaza and warned of plans to begin ground
operations, the United States announced the presence along the Lebanese coast
of one of its warships, the USS Cole.
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The USS Cole,
which was struck by an al-Qaeda bomb in Oct. 2000 killing 17 sailors, has
arrived off the coast of Lebanon.
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In our view the two facts are connected
and stem from a concerted program by which Tel-Aviv and Washington are attempting
to settle accounts with their enemies in the region, first and foremost of
course is Palestinian Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip, and Lebanese
Hezbullah, which frustrates their grip on the land of the Cedar [Lebanon].
Everything suggests that Israel and the
United-States are creating the conditions for a new war in the region, after
which they will finally establish "peace" on their terms. And
although they don't openly say it, even Arab forces in the region are pushing
for this Israeli-American plan. That includes the Palestinian Authority of
Mahmoud Abbas, who is counting on regaining control of the Gaza strip.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
The criminal indifference of the
international community and its institutions, in regard to the “collective
punishment” being imposed on the population of Gaza, implies that they have
chosen allow it to happen, just as it turned a blind eye on the Israeli
aggression in Lebanon and to the expansion of Zionist settlements in Palestine.
This is all being done by invoking the fiction of combat under the guise of
fighting terrorism, and by repeating that Palestinians haven't provided the
necessary guarantees for a peace agreement to be signed.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
This conflagration in the Middle-East
could be the ultimate “gift” that George W. Bush has decided to offer the world
before leaving the White House.
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