If he wasn’t he would be analyzing the events in the region and scrambling desperately to make peace with surrounding Arab countries. Instead, since the fall of Ben Ali and Mubarak and now the impending fall of Qadhafi the world is witnessing increased brutality and cruelty by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people, in particular the last few weeks Israelis have targeted children which they are harassing and arresting at alarming rates. But, aside from this inhuman treatment of young children the pace at which Palestinians are displaced from their homes has not slowed down, see here, here and here. Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance groups that were told by the international community (including Arabs) that they would see their freedom sooner if they backed and enforced a ceasefire just witnessed the Obama administration veto the UNSC resolution to condemn Israeli settlement expansion.
It’s amazing that both U.S. and Israeli policies could be so incredibly short sighted and stupid but it does appear to be so. What could the Israelis be thinking, do they believe that they will continue to settle every inch of Palestinian land? And do they really think that they have the same options and abilities that they had say, two months ago?
It’s safe to assume that Hamas has in the last month rearmed via the tunnels in Egypt and that they are still rearming as I type this now and anyone who doesn’t believe that is happening is very delusional. It’s also safe to assume that Israel will never be able to wage a war against Gaza or Lebanon again, they will no longer have Egyptian support to do so and it’s impossible that the Jordanians will at this point, or at any point in the future offer the same kind of logistic support as they have in the past. A war against Lebanon? Israel waged its last war in collaboration with the Lebanese government, now, Hezbollah’s coalition controls the government, Iranian warships are docked in Syria and they have access to the Suez. Of course no one can predict exactly how stupid the Israeli regime is to the new facts on the ground in the Arab world, but, I would wager that if Israel ever tried to attack Gaza again that the Palestinian resistance would have military support from Turkey, Egypt and Hezbollah.
To the people complaining about the grad rocket attacks that hit Israel yesterday, I ask you, for how long did you think that Israel would be allowed to arrest and piss on Palestinian children, steal and destroy Palestinian land, enforce a barbaric siege against Gaza, murder peaceful protesters, look the other way while settlers murder Palestinians with impunity and just get away with it?
