#GazaUnderAttack | How US and Blair Plotted ‘Ceasefire’ Scam ~ by Jonathan Cook

July 17, 2014 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Islam Times | July 17, 2014 | By Jonathan Cook
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Islam Times – We now have confirmation from the Israeli daily Haaretz of what we should have suspected: that the idea for the so-called Egyptian “ceasefire proposal” was actually hatched in Washington, the messenger boy was arch-war criminal Tony Blair, and the terms were drafted by Israel.

The intention was either to corner Hamas into surrendering – and thereby keep the savage blockade of Gaza in place – or force Hamas to reject the proposal and confirm the Israeli narrative that it is a terrorist organisation with which Israel cannot make peace.

According to Haaretz, Blair secretly initiated his “ceasefire” activity after “coordinating” with US Secretary of State John Kerry. On Saturday he headed off to Cairo to meet with the US-backed Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to persuade him to put his name to the proposal.

Immediately afterwards, he travelled to Israel to meet Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday afternoon. Sisi and Netanyahu were then supposed to thrash out the details. When they failed to do so, Blair intervened again on behalf of the Americans and the pair spoke by phone on Saturday evening.

Here’s the key paragraph from Haaretz:

Senior Israeli officials and Western diplomats said the reason the Egyptian cease-fire initiative was so short-lived is that it was prepared hastily and was not coordinated with all the relevant parties, particularly Hamas.

Wonderful that throw-away last line. In all this activity, it never occurred to the US, Blair, Sisi or Netanyahu – and no doubt Mahmoud Abbas, who is strangely absent from this account – that it might be necessary to sound out Hamas on the terms of a ceasefire it would need to abide by.

Now it seems Kerry is using US muscle to get Egypt, Qatar and Turkey to strong-arm Hamas into surrendering.

It’s depressingly predictable that the corporate media have swallowed the line of Israel accepting the “ceasefire proposal” and Hamas rejecting it. What Hamas did was reject a US-Israeli diktat to sign away the rights of the people of Gaza to end a siege that cuts them off from the rest of the world.

But there is a long pedigree to such deceptions. It is reminiscent of a hasbara favourite: that the Jews accepted the UN partition plan of 1947 while the Palestinians rejected it. The reality – then, as now – is that the colonial powers sought to strip the Palestinians of their rights and their homeland without even consulting them.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.605499

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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		Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 21, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 20, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 19, 2012
Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 18, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 17, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 16, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 15, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 14, 2012
Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 11, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 10, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 8, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Nov 5, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Oct 29, 2012
Photos Gaza Under Attack Oct 28, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Oct 24, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Oct 22, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Oct 7, 2012	Photos Gaza Under Attack Sept 29, 2012
Photos Gaza Under Attack Sept 19, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack Sept 10, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack – Sept 6, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack Aug 5, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack July 12, 2012
Photos #Gaza Under Attack June 23, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack June 1-22, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack May 17, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack April 4, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack March 14, 2012
Photos #Gaza Under Attack March 13, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack March 12, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack March 11, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack March 10, 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack March 20, 2012
Photos #Gaza Under Attack February 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack January 2012	Photos #Gaza Under Attack December 2011	Photos #Gaza Under Attack Oct & Nov 2011	Photos #Gaza Under Attack Aug-Sept 2011
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Martyred By Israeli Occupation Attacks

انّا للہ و انّا الیه راجعون

May Allah Subhana wa Ta’ ala grant the Shuhada Jannatul Firdaus, and ease it for their families, loved ones and anyone around them. Allahumma Ameen ya Rabbil Alameen. ‘ Inna Lillahi wa ‘ Inna ‘ Ilayhi Raji’un, Allahu Akbar

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* The list of shuhada does not display, the numerous victims of the zionist occupation which are undocumented by media. Nor it displays the victims of the “silent onslaught” due to restrictions of movement, ability to go to hospitals for treatment or life saving surgery, due to lack of medication because of the blockades and so on. For example: The Slow Motion Genocide by the Siege on Gaza only, killed 600 patients since Gaza got under Israeli Siege.

For an overview of All Israeli Massacres Palestinians go here

Neither does this list, display the avoidable mortality. A clear and statistical factual evidence, about the number of deaths due to indecent ruling by occupation forces. For even an occupier has obligations under International Laws, Geneva Convention and the Hague regulations, which it is neglecting. These circumstances, together with deliberate policies of the occupier to neglect and even deny every basic human right, severes avoidable mortality which is totally silenced by media or reporting organisations. While in the Holocaust, 1 on 6 Jewish people directly died of deliberate neglect, so if we believe the facts over 1 million due to avoidable mortality, neither should these same circumstances be ignores which are ongoing in Palestine. For this report displays a avoidable morality of at least 0,5 million Palestinians.

How many more dead corpses of Palestinians does the international community need to see in order to act? How many more cruelties and violations of Human Rights, Regulations and International Law will be needed to intervene so this ongoing warcrime is being stopped once and for all.