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Embrace the orchestra of death’ that tends to glorify symphony of destruction
Behold the gaze of silent spectator that yells for collusion and connivance
Cherish the spiteful soul that corroborates crusades of termination
Foster the conjunction with the flock of vile hordes
Welcome to the statute of New Year of a new century
Welcome to the creed of the apex of civilization!
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(Cont: Dance with the Wolves) The all-powerful Israel wreaks havoc on Gaza, killing innumerable civilians in guise of pursuing and eradicating Hamas. World watches in disbelief, Security Council stands in non-conviction’ abortive enough not to assert mere proclamation of sorrow or apprehension, Arab World as always in the state of shock and awe but incapacitated to put an end to this endless carnage, United States in a usually show of defiance stands to guard the continuance of unbridled malefaction. Though the Promised Land is tainted with myriad of conflicts from medieval ages till today but what caused a sudden death to a relative peaceful truce, is the eruption impetuous or there’s something shady?
Starting off’ no matter how strong and bold Israel has become in the last half a century and how ruggedly it preserves the state of its security, still it does not possess the leverage to act against the will and backing of the Unites States. Whether there be threats of unilateral strikes on the Iranian Nuclear facilities, undertaking operations against Beirut, razing the suspected nuclear facility of Damascus or the cleansing of Gaza. This has been the United States that has provided the cover and space to this atomic state in achieving its objectives, thus these are the Americans that absorb and shields Israel form the worldwide rebuff lest condemnation. But why such a massive operation at the brink of changing US administration, why at this particular juncture, there are several explanations to it…
Beginning with…the outgoing Bush Administration’ that is tainted with a charge sheet of disrupting this world peace in an attempt to securing the US interests in critical regions. This President is already departing with the lowest public rating ever in the US history, thus staining the already tarnished administrating when they have noting to lose further is the best chance Israelis can get in the current decade. They know that the Democrates cant afford to gulp Arab’s fury when Obama speaks of mending the US image abroad, the upcoming administration would act as rational players as there’s lot of hope being pinned upon to patch up the wounded relations, they would not be giving a blank cheque or be ready to take the blames for the misadventures of Tel Aviv, thus its better to act swiftly and decisively today then be a source of embarrassment for their new mentors. This somehow leads to a hint that apart form what Hamas was thinking of extracting gains form a limited conflict, this was Israel too that needed this, off course Mossad has always proved to be instrumental in flaring up conflicts. Could this be called a temptating incitement on the hands of Israelis themselves to invite their fury, off course every conflict needs an excuse to conflagrate in today’s world, whether it be spontaneous or self-triggered. But what they have to achieve form all this mess?
First, they have not been at ease in dealing with the Hamas government. They can not sit and talk to a bunch of people whom they call terrorist. This is the reason why, there has not been a single direct contact through out the past several years between Israel and the elected Palestenian government, who boasts of being the first elected legislature ever in the Arab history but those who were greeted by sanctions and starvation by the enlightened democratic world. Also the Israelis are not comfortable with growing popularity and approval rating amongst Palestinians of Hamas that is seen non-corrupt and more people centric then Fatah. Thus the only way left for Israel is to wreak such great a pain that people should start thinking Hamas more of a threat then protector. And this is exactly the reason that civilian casualties today surpasses any previous Israeli invasion. Instead of targeting the Hamas leadership, they are continuously destroying populated schools and refugee shelters. Precision weapons are deliberately being used against people to warn them of their next choice, they are being told not to elect a leadership that do not come to terms with Israel. Thus it might be taken as a bloody exhortation, forced compulsion of Israeli will on people for the next elected choice. Would Palestine be deterred remains to be seen in coming months…
Second, they want to destroy and eradicate Hamas Leadership once for all, by destroying all possible shelters and suspected targets’ enough to drag them back decade or so. They want them weaken and maimed. This in a sense would pave way for the ‘moderates’ to come back, who are flexible enough to make Israelis comfortable.
Now the subject that conspire Israeli involvement in triggering this crisis. The very notion of Shin Bet existence is the infiltration of Palestinian Authority and Population. With the world’s best surveillance systems and self defense capabilities, even the very conviction of Israel caught off-guard is flawed form the very core. How could they not see and identify Kasaams (that triggered the whole conflict) and preempt them form location of a size of large zoo! If we for a moment overlook this unedifying reality then on what grounds the IDF can protect this tiny state form foreign missile attack? Thus the locations were known with cent percent certainty, it was just that they needed these attacks to pave way for a pre-planned retaliation as had happened in past. Every step that Israel takes is prefabricated and calculated, they make plans, select targets, churns diplomatic concessions, load aircrafts, prepares the ground forces and waits for the ‘exact’ moment for showdown, and every time they incite the victim to pull the trigger themselves. Here you go, the whole episode is ready to show the well rehearsed orchestra under the auspicious of terrorism and the right of self defense with the United States on its back and well composed media on its front.
Secondly, the IDF is still feeling the pain of wounds Hezbollah inflicted on them, the mighty military Inc. was embarrassed and had since been figuring ways to wheeze their frustration.
Lastly and the most convincing motive is the Israeli election. Years of violence tribulation has transformed the landscapes of democracies on both the sides of divide, the electorate on either side just can not grasp even a hint of concession given by any leadership given to the other side and this is the reason why Hamas and Olmert are flexing all their options to delineate their respective picture as uncompromising as possible. Though Israel being a highly educated society but years of war and terrorist hysteria has transfigured their psyche to be security centric, thus the threat of any kind be it real or imaginary is bought with absolute blindness. All parties in Israel thus has got the security module as their corner stone, they sell all of their tenants attached with this threat and as the elections await right on corner, the Israeli Democracy is using its fist to determine the next premier, they need to white wash the gross effect of corruption scandal by showcasing their fury against their test subjects, a proven tactic to divert attention form domestic issues by magnifying the threat of Kasaam fireworks, plus they also need the approval of ultra orthodox sect of their society. Unfortunately we have learned to ignore the mistakes, forget blunders and forgive rascals
Muhammad Shafqat
Dec 2008
