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I would suggest the author of your link, Jonathan Cook is not really a unbiased reporter. He has authored three books, all along the same lines of how bad the Israeli's are on all aspects of their dealings with the Palestinians, and nothing on what and how the Palestinians feel and deal with the Israeli's, their real agenda toward the State.
A bit suspicious to me as far as being a non partial observer, a bit like you in your outlook on the issue and topic in a way. Very one sided as you stated , "Israel Sucks", in a earlier post of yours.
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"BooksCook authored three books between 2006 and 2008. In Blood and Religion (2006), published by Pluto Press, the central thesis is that, "Israel is beginning a long, slow process of ethnic cleansing both of Palestinian non-citizens from parts of the occupied territories that it has long coveted for its expanded Jewish state, and of Palestinian citizens from inside its internationally recognized borders." Cook links this strategy to the Israeli perception of two threats: the physical threat of terrorism and the demographic threat of a Palestinian majority potentialized by high Palestinian birth rates and the continued demand for a Palestinian right of return.[7] The Israeli leadership is also said by Cook to view the idea of a "state for all its citizens" as a threat.[8] Rami George Khouri describes the short book as, "important but disturbing."[7]
In 2008, Cook authored Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran and the plan to remake the Middle East, published by Pluto Press.[9] Of the book, Antony Loewenstein wrote that, "Cook bravely skewers the mainstream narrative of a Jewish state constantly striving for peace with the Palestinians." According to Lowenstein, Cook argues that Israel "pursues policies that lead to civil war and partition," and that this idea of dissolving many of the nations of the Middle East, shared by the neocons and the Bush administration, was developed by Israel's security establishment in the 1980s.[10] Cook discusses an essay authored by Oded Yinon and published by the World Zionist Organisation in 1982 which advocated for Israel's transformation into a regional imperial power via the fragmentation of the Arab world, "into a mosaic of ethnic and confessional groupings that could be more easily manipulated" (p. 107). A review of the book in The Jordan Times called it, "well-researched and very readable."[11]
Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair was published in 2008 by Zed Books.[12] The book is in two parts, with the second half consisting of reprints of articles written by Cook as a journalist.[13] The first half of the book, according to a review in Electronic Intifada, explores the thesis that, "the goal of Israeli policy is to make Palestine and the Palestinians disappear for good."[13] Helena Cobban in the Boston Review says Cook argues that to encourage voluntary emigration, Israel has made life unbearable for Palestinians, primarily via "the ever more sophisticated systems of curfews, checkpoints, walls, permits and land grabs."
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If "Brute Force " is what it is going to take to defend the State, their people, their borders, their soverignity, then "Brute Force it will be.
Debka, I posted the article earlier, put out a article that the Mossad, Israel security service , had put out a world wide warning of possible major disruptions against Israel, Israeli's abroad, yet hadn't pinned it down in specifics. I wonder if these actions are the beginning of them, those attacks, disruptions.
You have Hamas, Hezballah, Syria in trying to take the attention away from their slaughter of their own people, almost 1000 citizens are dead, who knows the wounded and the arrested in the 1000's, Iran active with Hezballah in Lebonan, in Syria helping and advising Assad in the putting down the demonstrates, active with Hamas in Gaza, and now the Egyptian military after many years of not participating, putting Gaza under their protection against Israel.
A lot happening and while the Israeli's may have been taken by surprise, I am sure they are formulating strategy's that will keep their State safe and protected.
Once civiliens break down fences and trespass on soverign territory of a soverign State, in the hundreds and more, they are no longer civiliens, they are combatents.
It is not unknown for young people to use suicide vests to kill those they don't care for,and that they don't care for israeli's, any and all, age is no barrier, whether soldiers or civiliens, is a fact of life, regrettable but true.{That it is returned by many Israeli's, especially many of the young who have experienced combat and the loss of friends, I would say that too}
It was just a few weeks ago a family of five, including infant, toddlers were hacked to death as they slept, by two young Palastinians, under 20 years old, so as I said, break down fences, advance on young sioldiers, you become combatents, and if it takes "Brute force " to stop them, then "Brute Force" will be used In am sure of.
The blood will be on the hands of those who instigate these actions, who will make sure they are no where around or in the line of fire, but safely in the rear, as they manipulate these young people in their actions.
Better if they would sit down and realistically try to work it out.