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"In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence
officers was that the key to defeating the Palestinian Liberation Organisation
was to assassinate its then-leader Yasser Arafat.
The elimination of Arafat, the Shin Bet commander Yehuda Arbel wrote in his
diary, was “a precondition to finding a solution to the Palestinian problem.”
For other, even more radical Israelis – such as the ultra-nationalist assassin
Yigal Amir – the answer lay elsewhere. They sought the assassination of Israeli
leaders such as Yitzak Rabin who wanted peace with the Palestinians.
Despite Rabin’s long personal history as a famed and often ruthless military
commander in the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli Wars, Amir stalked and shot Rabin
dead in 1995. He believed Rabin had betrayed Israel by signing the Oslo Accords
peace deal with Arafat.
It’s been 20 years since Arafat died as possibly the victim of polonium
poisoning, and 30 years after the shooting of Rabin. Peace between Israelis and
the Palestinians has never been further away.
What Amnesty International and a United Nations Special Committee have called
genocidal attacks on Palestinians in Gaza have spilled over into Israeli
attacks on the prominent leaders of its enemies in Lebanon and, most recently,
Iran.
Since its attacks on Iran began on Friday, Israel has killed numerous military
and intelligence leaders, including Iran’s intelligence chief, Mohammad Kazemi;
the chief of the armed forces, Mohammad Bagheri; and the commander of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami. At least nine Iranian
nuclear scientists have also been killed.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said:
We got their chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran.
Iran, predictably, has responded with deadly missile attacks on Israel.
Far from having solved the issue of Middle East peace, assassinations continue
to pour oil on the flames."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
