Arab
Connivance
In The Gaza Massacre
By Alberto Cruz
31 December,
2008
CEPRID
With the connivance, acquiescence
and approval of the United Nations, Europe the United States and reactionary
Arab governments, Israel is engaged in a campaign of extermination,
a holocaust against the Palestinians. Israel has never wanted peace,
only surrender. The Israeli vision of any peace process is based on
a list of "no's" : no to the right of return, no to a recognition
of the historic and political rights of the Palestinians in Jerusalem,
no to the dismantling of settlements, no to a sovereign Palestinian
State.
With the
final objective of dictating its own vision of peace, Israel is fully
prepared to degrade the lives of Palestinians, limiting their freedom
of movement by means of murders and arrests, blockades, destruction
of homes, universities, mosques, hospitals and agricultural and fishery
resources. The siege of Gaza is self-evident proof of the behaviour
of 21st century nazis : the Zionists. The massacre of Gaza is self-evident
proof of the new SS : Zionist soldiers. The alternatives to the Palestinians
are clear : abandon Hamas or die, either by military means or by "civil"
means like blockade and siege. A lesson in democracy in the purest
form by the "Middle Eastern democracy" par excellence
For that purpose it can count on its best allies, who are not, despite
appearances, the United States or the European Union, but the reactionary
Arab regimes. Saudi Arabia and Egypt were informed in advance of the
attack, as the daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported in its edition of Sunday
December 28th. As proof that they could hardly care less: one hour
before the attack started, Saudi communications media were already
blaming Hamas for what happened while their London newspaper Al-Sharq
Al-Awsat published an interview with Shimon Perez saying that Israel
was not going to attack Gaza and that the Israelis were "ready
for peace". Obviously, an interview that has to be regarded as
one of the Zionist decoy manoeuvres so as to allow the massacre to
be as complete as possible, a measure clearly explained by the reporter
for Ha'aretz, the Israeli daily, in its edition that Sunday.
For days, Israeli newspapers had been reporting the "green light"
given by reactionary Arab regimes for the elimination of the main
leaders of Hamas. Just as they did during the Lebanon war in the summer
of 2006, the reactionary Arab regimes feel a cold chill along their
spine when political -military movements like Hizbollah defeat the
omnipotent Zionist army or when political military movements like
Hamas win democratic elections and are able to resist a siege lasting
over a year and a half. The reactionary Arab régimes can endure
one defeat (which Hizbollah dealt them, since one should not forget
that thanks to that defeat they dusted off the Peace Plan approved
by the inoperative and inefficient Arab League in 2002) but not two.
And Hamas is not Hizbollah. It is much weaker and that fact has permitted
and encouraged this massacre. The most obvious case is Egypt, which
reinforced the closure of the Rafah crossing just a week prior to
the Zionist massacre.
Hizbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallá is right when
he accuses these regimes of collaboration and of acting in this way
so as to defeat "the least glimmer of resistance" to the
neo-colonial project advanced by imperialism in the Middle East. He
knows what he is talking about because it had already been done to
them in 2006. And so that no one forgets that Israeli arrogance has
no limits and that the UN lets the Zionist regime do what it likes,
on Sunday December 28th, while the Gaza massacre was in progress,
five Zionist war planes again violated Lebanese air space, flying
over Nabatiye, Marjaoun, Jiam and Arqoub. What did the UNIFIL troops
do? As usual : nothing. They are there to protect the Israelis, not
the Lebanese.
The reactionary Arab regimes are there to protect themselves, not
the Palestinians. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have managed to put back
until December 31st the "urgent meeting" of the inoperative
and inefficient Arab League. Just as they did in Lebanon, they prefer
to make time for Israel to finish off or weaken Hamas. For them that
political military organization is the problem, not the Zionist regime.
Egypt has never forgotten that Hamas refused to accept bringing forward
elections as Egypt had suggested so as to reinforce Abbas. Nor was
it pleased when Hamas withdrew from the "national dialogue"
talks overseen by Cairo until the Mubarak regime opened the Rafah
frontier crossing. Egypt could not accept that and it has been the
reason for its approval of the massacre carried out by Israel.
But the most wretched of all the Arab leaders is Mahmoud Abbas, who
styles himself, "President of the Palestinian Authority"
at the same time as he accuses Hamas of responsibility for the massacre
for refusing to give in, as he himself has done, to Zionist and Western
designs. Taking advantage of the bloodletting, he has already said
he will take over the administration of Gaza if Hamas is defeated.
We are faced with a Vichy-style West Bank regime, with Abbas as its
Pétain, serving the 21st Century nazis, Israel.
Dumping such individuals into history's dustbin is a duty. Overthrowing
the reactionary Arab regimes is a right. Solidarity with Arab people's
movements and especially with Egyptian trades unionists (1) ought
to be a leading priority for the world anti-imperialist movement.
And the same could be said as regards the European and United States
governments. The Greek flame, like the Olympic one, should not just
be allowed to go out but rather spread in the cause of peace and social
justice. Capitalism offers only one kind of peace, the truly democratic
one of the cemetery.
Notas:
(1) Hossam El-Hamalawy: "La resistencia en Egipto" http://www.nodo50.org/ceprid/spip.php?article265
Centro de Estudios Políticos para las Relaciones Internacionales
y el Desarrollo (www.nodo50.org/ceprid)
Alberto
Cruz is a journalist, political analyst and writer, specializing
in international relations - [email protected]
