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2021-05-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Blinken and a Repeat of 'Eyeless in Gaza' Saga
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Amir Taheri
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] "The advanced bunker of the Resistance® Front". This is how official media in Tehran describe the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip as it emerges from its latest mini-war against "The Zionist enemy". Needless to say, regrading itself as leader of the "Resistance® Front" is already looking forward to the next round of this sordid duel. In messages to Ismail Heniyah of Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and Ziad Nakhalah of the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
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for the liberation of Paleostine, "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
asserts that he has received "a divine pledge that total victory is on the way", and demands that the two groups continue the fight until "our holy land is cleansed of the existence of the usurper".
Tehran media claim that "the great victory" supposedly achieved by Hamas and Islamic Jihad is, to a large extent, due to financial, material and training support from the Islamic Theocratic Republic .
The daily Kayhan, reputed to reflect Khamenei’s views claims that Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets and missiles could now reach 75 percent of the Israeli territory. The aim now is to increase that to 100 percent which, if combined with the Lebanese Hezbollah’s rocket and missile arsenals, could pave the way for the "total victory" that Khamenei demands.
Last January, the "Supreme Guide" ordered the allocation of an extra $200 million to the Quds Force, the body in charge of "exporting revolution". And last week, the Islamic Majlis, Tehran’s ersatz parliament increased the budget of the Revolutionary Guard Corps by over 60 percent. Khamenei’s spending spree is premised on the hoped of a quick lifting of US and other sanctions which have produced the worst cash flow problem the 41-year-old regime has ever seen.
To sell this mad project to the average Iranian, who is facing economic meltdown, double-digit inflation, mass unemployment, Covid-19 chaos and unbridled corruption at all levels, Tehran propagandists have developed a narrative of victimhood with Hamas and Islamic Jihad as the "good ones" and the "Zionist enemy" as the "evil party." According to this narrative, the Gaza twins were victims of Israeli occupation and then blockade that made life miserable for the 1.8 million inhabitants of the strip.
Several key points are left out, however, including the facts that, under the Oslo Accords, Gaza was put under the suzerainty of the Paleostinian Authority and that Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005. In 2007, Hamas and its smaller partners staged a coup against the Paleostinian Authority to establish an authoritarian one-party system which regards Gaza as a base for radical pan-Islamism only incidentally related to the Paleostinian issue.
That move led the Paleostinian Authority, a de facto embryonic government dominated by Fatah, to demand a blockade of Gaza and the continued disbursement of customs’ proceeds from Gaza to Ramallah.
The blockade was not a solitary move by Israel as Egypt, too, joined it as a gesture of support for the Paleostinian Authority. Since then, the PA has never formally demanded that Israel and Egypt end the blockade. In other words, at least part of the misery that Gazooks suffer is due to the no-holds-bar civil war between Fatah and Islamist Jihadis led by Hamas.
The daily Kayhan talks of "the urgent need for more and more effective missiles and rockets" for Gaza.
But is that a priority as far as Gazooks are concerned?
A United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
report in 2019 gave a different version of "urgent needs in Gaza": at least 800 more hospital beds, 1,000 more doctors, 2,000 more nurses, 250 more schools, hundreds of housing units to shelter multigenerational refugees, and, last but not least projects to supply fresh water and reliable electricity.
The "urgent aid package" that Khamenei promises includes none of those things. The "Supreme Guide" couldn’t care less how Gazooks live or die; he is only interested in how many rockets and missiles they can launch against Israel providing him with a bunker to boast about and hide the fundamental weakness of his shaky regime.
What if Gazooks don’t want their tiny chunk of God’s earth to be a bunker for foreign potentates in search of cut-price glory, potentates from Gamal Abdul-Nasser to Saddam Hussein to Ramallah Khomeini and latecomers like Khamenei and His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...?
Gazooks could imagine a different future for their land. They own 41 kilometres of prime real estate on the Mediterranean coast that could be developed to rival any beach, from the French Riviera to Tel Aviv. The recent discovery of off-shore oil and gas resources could open the money faucet for Gaza as it has for others in the region and beyond.
A stable Gaza that rejects the suicidal policies of Hamas and its changing masters could attract massive investment if only from scores of Paleostinians who have succeeded all over the world. Compared to the average levels in the so-called "developing world" Gaza has a better-educated and skilled work force that could play a role in developing a modern, even high-tech economy close to major markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
During their long struggle for independence the political elites of Timor Island, a former Portuguese colony that had fallen under Indonesian occupation, wasted decades usurping the forlorn aim of destroying the Indonesian state. They ended up realising that the reality of securing an independent state only in the eastern half of their island was a better option that fighting, killing and dying, for "total victory" of the kind Khamenei now promises to Gazooks.
The new US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, is repeating the "two-state" mantra as appetiser for his maiden visit to the region. That amounts to a new version of the "Eyeless in Gaza" saga. Blinken might want to think about the Gaza first option, enabling Gazooks to move towards statehood, even though as the first of a Paleostinian twin the second of which may have a more difficult and delayed birth.
Kayhan says Gazooks are "thirsty for martyrdom". I doubt that even Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders, who have property and bank accounts abroad, are keen to die for a lost cause. Rather than chest-beating for "suffering Gazooks" the outside world should help depict an alternative vision for them, a vision based on life and dignity rather than terror and tragedy.
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Moslems are deceitfully represented by 'moderate' representatives of islam as just people being controlled by madmen and ayatollahs, people capable of better. They're not. They'll pull down democracy and upend functional economies to install their deities in power and will gladly march to their word. They'll wallow in shit and feed on crow feathers if they can somehow get to hear a dying scream from a jew or christian.