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An Egyptian woman victim of a triple bombing in Egypt's Sinai
resort of Dahab, 24/04/06. Thirty people were killed, twenty eight of them ordinary
Egyptian workers. Why is 'al-Qaeda', a Muslim terror organisation dedicated
to defending Middle Eastern Arabs from Western agression, attacking ordinary
Middle Eastern Arabs? Why is 'al-Qaeda' attacking and killing the traditional
enemies of the state of Israel? |
One day after Osama reminded us all that he is still a threat to the entire world (and quite possibly the known universe), as if by magic, three bombs explode in Egypt's Sinai resort of Dahab, killing 30 people and wounding dozens more.
Only two of the dead were foreigners, the rest were ordinary Egyptians workers, which is simply more proof that Osama really is a nihilist and al-Qaeda have forsaken their Islamic ideology and just want to kill. Anyone will do; Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Papua New Guineans, Americans, primates, all are fair game in al-Qaeda's struggle to destroy not just Western civilisation but ALL civilisation on the planet, it seems.
Initially, a Dubai based news agency quoting "intelligence sources" said that two suicide bombers were involved. How they came by this information is not known. Later however, Egyptian security sources said that it was unlikely that suicide bombers were involved. The simple fact is that, without a detailed forensic examination of the scene, there is no way to tell whether an explosion in a packed restaurant was the result of a bomb attached to a person or just to the table at which a person was sitting. In both cases the result is the same: body parts and fixtures strewn everywhere.
Last night's bombs were apparently packed with gunpowder and nails, exactly
the same configuration as the alleged "suicide bombing" 8 days ago in Tel Aviv. In a majority of the bombings that have occurred in Israel over the past 5 years, Israeli security forces have displayed an uncanny knack for immediate diagnosis of the attacks as a "Palestinian suicide bomb".
Yet many of these alleged suicide bombings could have involved unwitting and
unwilling bombers.
Imagine a scenario where a Palestinian youth is arrested by the IDF, interrogated and released on condition that he carry out a job for Israeli intelligence. He is told to take a package in a backpack to a man at a certain falafel stand on a certain day. The youth dutifully does so and when the security guard asks him to open his bag the
Israeli intelligence agent, watching from 50 yards across the road, pushes
a button....boom! Instant Palestinian "suicide bombing" with eyewitnesses to
testify that the youth's bag exploded.
Other likely scenarios involve the pre-placing of bombs somewhere in a restaurant
or on a bus. The restaurant or bus is staked out until a likely suspect enters
and again a button is pushed. In several purported Palestinian suicide bombings in the past few years, Israeli authorities were forced
to officially announce that they were "exploring the possibility that the bombing was the work of Palestinian suicide bombers dressed as an ultra-orthodox Jew." Why?
Because the details of the attack involved nothing but a bus full of ultra-orthodox
Jews and a bomb! But there just HAD to be Palestinian suicide bomber in there
somewhere, so they dress one up as an ultra-orthodix Jew and put him at the scene. Of course, the shadowy 'Islamic Jihad',
or some other mysterious 'Arab terror group' usually claims responsibility,
but even here we have no way of verifying the authenticity of such claims which
could easily come from some asset of the Israeli homeland intelligence agency
'Shin Bet'. Recall the many times when responsibility for an 'al-Qaeda' attack was claimed by a previously unknown group who posted the claim on a website that was then removed. Real reliable stuff.
I am not, however, suggesting that every bombing that has occurred in Israel
over the past 5 or 6 years was covertly carried out by Israeli intelligence.
I am pretty sure that the frequent deliberate murder of Palestinian children
by IDF troops has pushed a number of Palestinian men or women into the desperate
act of sacrificing their own lives to seek revenge against Israeli citizens
in the only way open to them. But such acts should be seen as a result of the
brutal genocidal war that the Israeli government and military has been waging
against Palestinian civilians and NOT as evidence that Palestinians are inhuman
terrorists, despite the obvious desire of the Israeli government to portray
them as such.
You may think that the suggestion that the Israeli government is waging a "brutual and genocidal war against the Palestinians" is excessive. If you do, then the only reason is that you are not aware of the reality of what is happening on a daily basis in the Palestinian territories. This is not surprising, since the mainstream media plays up "Palestinian suicide bombings" and severely underreports Israeli military agression and murder of Palestinians. Consider the following list of events in the Palestinian Territories for the two weeks leading up to the last "Palestinian suicide bombing" on April 17th 2006:
24 hours to 8am April 17, 2006
9 Wounded in Israeli Incursion into Jenin
Checkpoint Pedestrians Shot at & Attacked with Tear-gas Grenades
Jewellery Taken by Israeli Soldiers in Home Invasion
139 Shells Hit Northern Gaza
Shelling Knocks Out Power Grid
2 Curfews
Jerusalem Resident Beaten & Hospitalised
Settlers Stone Vehicles
24 hours to 8am April 16, 2006
Palestinian Dies from Air Raid Wounds
Villagers' Homes Under Israeli Fire
Israeli Soldiers Beat & Injure Shepherd
Boy (14) Wounded During Israelis Incursion
Man Critically Injured as Israelis Fire on Vehicle
Mentally Handicapped Man Taken Prisoner
Boy (15) Wounded as Israelis Shoot at Civilians
Settlers Beat Up Father & Daughter & Destroy Vineyard
48 hours to 8am April 15, 2006
Friday
Boy (15) Wounded by Occupation Gunfire
Settlers Assault & Expel International Journalists
No Sleep as F16s Menace Night Skies
6 Attacks
2 Houses Occupied – Many Invaded
23 Raids
Saturday
Man Wounded as Israelis Open Fire in Jerusalem
Boy (15) Taken Prisoner in Home Invasion
Settler Bikers Close Main Road
Troops Beat Up Petrol Station Attendant
Resident Wounded During Israeli Incursion
250 Shells in 23-hour Night & Day Bombardment of Northern Gaza
Israeli Navy Shelling Wounds Two Civilians
24 hours to 8am April 13, 2006
2 Palestinian Deaths
School Attacked with Stun-Grenades & Tear-Gas
Checkpoint Beating – Man Hospitalised with Internal Bleeding
Boy (17) Deliberately Run Over by Israeli Army Jeep
Israel Orders Gross Desecration of Ibrahimi Mosque
1 Air Raid – 22 Raids – 10 Attacks
24 hours to 8am April 12, 2006
Occupation claims another child's life
Checkpoint troops beat & hospitalise mentally handicapped man
3 Palestinians hospitalised in yet another checkpoint beating
Mosque worshippers stripped & forced naked into the streets
Settlers close road – raid village – set fire to vehicle
Indiscriminate Israeli fire wounds woman aged 70
231 Israeli shells slam into Gaza
25 Taken Prisoner
24 hours to 8am April 11, 2006
Shells Hit Houses 1 Death – Girl Aged 7
197 Shells Fired in Day & Night Bombardments
12 Wounded – Including Little Girl in Critical Condition
13 Attacks
27 Raids – 27 Prisoners Taken
67 Restrictions of Movement
Stolen Land to be Used for Racially Segregated Jewish Road
Israeli Shells Set Fire to Palestinian Crops
Israel Orders Destruction of 2 Palestinian Homes
24 hours to 8am April 10, 2006
3 Deaths Including Boy (17)
Israeli Special Forces Murder Palestinian National Security Officer
Taxi Driver Killed & 8 Wounded in Israeli Shelling
2 Adults & 3 Children Wounded in Day & Night Israeli Shelling
Palestinian Houses Damaged by Israeli Shells
Israeli Army Violence Helps Settlers Occupy Palestinian Home
Homes Vandalised as Israeli Troops Invade Houses
Settlers Seize More Palestinian Land
24 hours to 8am April 9, 2006
[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]
8 Dead (Total this Month: 18 Including 2 Children)
22 Wounded
2 Air Raids
23 Attacks
21 Raids
68 Restrictions of Movement
Man Hospitalised in Yet Another Checkpoint Beating
Families Forced From Their Homes
Occupation Troops Beat Up Shopkeeper – Vandalise Shop
Settlers Plant Olive Trees on Stolen Palestinian Land
48 hours to 8am April 8, 2006
Friday
1 Death - 3 Wounded in Same Attack
4 Air raids – 22 Attacks – 26 Raids
20 Taken Prisoner
Total Wounded – 16 {Including 2 Children}
Refugee Boy (17) Critically Wounded
318 Shells Fired Into Northern Gaza
Call to Prayer Still Silenced
61 Restrictions of Movement
Settler Gunmen Shoot Up Village
Israeli Soldiers Beat Up & Hospitalise Hebron Resident
Saturday
4 Dead in Missile Strike 1 Child Aged 7 Among the Dead & 15 Wounded
20 Wounded in Total
2 Air Raids
19 Attacks
23 Raids
65 Restrictions of Movement
1 House Demolished
24 hours to 8am April 6, 2006
9 Wounded (6 of them Children) During Israeli Incursion
112 Shells Fired into Northern Gaza
Israel Silences Call to Prayer from Ibrahimi Mosque
Another Home Demolished
39 Taken Prisoner Including Palestinian Minister
18 Attacks
29 Raids
61 Restrictions of Movement
24 hours to 8am April 5, 2006
Israeli Shelling Kills Palestinian
152 Shells Fired on Northern Gaza
House Shelled – Baby (6 Months) & 3 Others Wounded
3 Air raids – 2 Wounded
16 Attacks
34 Raids – 2 Children Wounded
64 Restrictions of Movement
Man Suffers Fractures in Another Checkpoint Beating
Residents Beaten & Confined in 4-hour Home Invasion
Shelling Wounds Man & Damages Sewage Works
24 hours to 8am April 3, 2006
1 Death & 5 Wounded
10 Attacks
24 Raids
61 Restrictions of Movement
Homes Invaded – 7 Residents Tear-gassed
Settlement of Ariel Deliberately Pollutes Salfit Water Supply
Israeli Shelling Wounds Child (7) & Adult
139 Shells Fired from Israel into Northern Gaza
Remember that this activity has been going on, every day, for the past 6 years. In that time, 3,218 Palestinians have been murdered by the IDF, the vast majority of them innocent civilians, and several hundred of them children.
In the same time period 444 Israeli citizens have been murdered by Palestinians, many in "suicide bombings".
As I have said often in the past, the Israeli government NEEDS the threat of "Palestinian terrorism" in order to justify its current existence, its continuing land grab and to avoid ever having to sit down at a negotiating table with the Palestinian political leadership. (Anyone familiar with the politics of Northern Ireland will recognise this need for a terrorist threat in the actions of Unionist politicians and their MI5 handlers over the last 10 years.) It is my contention therefore that, given the high stakes, the Israeli government long ago decided that the best way to achieve its long term goals was to take full control of the "terrorist threat" posed by Palestinian militants. "Taking full control" involved a process of depriving actual Palestinian militants of the means to mount any serious attacks on Israel (reference the repeated impotency of 'Qassam rockets" fired into Israel), and instead to employ Israeli intelligence agencies to periodically stage fake Palestinian terror attacks against the Israeli population, where and when it is deeemed to be most effective in furthering the political goals of the state of Israel.
From a political strategy point of view, it makes perfect sense, with the only theoretical impediment being considerations of conscience provoked by the idea of attacking ones own citizens. Such considerations, however, are only relevant to normal people - you and I. To those political elite who happen to lack any ability to feel empathy for another human being i.e. a conscience, and who, due to this very trait, have risen to the top of the global power structure, there is nothing to consider. If it works, it is done, and a lie is sold to the people to keep them in their place.
I suggest that this scenario for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is entirely plausible because the very same strategy was used on September 11th 2001 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvannia, and has been used countless times by political leaders throughout history.
Finally, consider the following report from the last such bombings the Sinai
resort in 2004:
Israel
To Benefit From Sinai Bombings: Experts
October 8 2004
Abdul-Raheem Ali, IOL Staff
CAIRO, October 8 – A cohort of Egyptian security,
political and diplomatic experts have concluded that Israel is the only party
to benefit from the blasts that rocked tourist resorts in the Egyptian Sinai
peninsula on Thursday, October7 , ruling out any possible Egyptian involvement.
Former Egyptian Assistant Interior Minister Mohammad Omar Abdel-Fattah said
that while analyzing any such operation security experts should always seek
an answer to the basic question of who stands to benefit.
"Israel is the only party to gain from this operation," the international
security expert told IslamOnline.net.
He pointed out that the Israelis and their agents are the only people who
have free access to the targeted area.
Abdel-Fattah said the booby-trapped vehicles used in the bombings do not carry
the trademark of terrorist groups who usually resort to suicide bombers instead.
He stressed that the Israeli right has been cornered due to mounting pressures
from the US on Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon after Washington had to wield its
veto power to kill a resolution condemning Israel for the onslaught on the
Gaza Strip.
Israel needed something to dodge such American pressures and throw the ball
at the American court till the end of the elections, said the expert.
Targeting Egypt
Former Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Ashaal also agreed
that several indications suggest an Israeli foul play.
"Israel’s ultimate goal to undermine Egypt’s regional role
and force it on its knees," he told IOL.
"All indicators suggest an Israeli involvement, especially
that the area is very close to the Israeli borders."
He also recalled the recent Israeli travel warning against visiting the Sinai
peninsula.
Al-Ashaal said that by jumbling to heap the blame on Al-Qeada, Israel
wanted to embroil Egypt in Washington’s so-called war on terror.
The Egyptian tourism sector, a main foreign currency earner, would bear the
brunt of the bombings, he added.
Diaa Rashwan, an expect in the Islamic movements affairs in Al-Ahram Center
for Strategic Studies, an Egyptian think-tank, also agreed that Al-Qaeda was
not a likely culprit.
According to American intelligence 70 percent of Al-Qeada leaders have been
either killed or kidnapped while the rest are taking shelter on Afghanistan’s
borders with Pakistan, he said.
"Sinai bombings carry the trademark of careful planning which
means those involved had a hand-on experience on the area, which is already
under tight security."
The expert suggested that "foreign intelligence" are
directly or indirectly involved in such "dirty attacks."
Rashwan agreed with the other experts that Israel would be the only part to
make gains from the attacks, especially that Israel would exploit them to associate
itself with Washington in its so-called war on terror.
He also expected the Sharon’s Likud party to use the blasts to undermine
the Egyptian role in the Palestinian cause.
Palestinians Suspected
Another group of expects did not rule out a possible involvement by Palestinian
factions in the bombings and that they refrained from claiming responsibility
to avoid a face-off with Egypt.
Political analyst Al-Sayed Yassin said the operation came in retaliation for
the unparalleled state terrorism practiced by Israel against unarmed citizens
in Gaza Strip.
He ruled out the involvement of Al-Qaeda in such bombings, as the network
has no experience in working in the region.
The expert also undermined suggestions that the operation would be exploited
to attack Egypt over security lapses.
"Egypt can not be accused of security lapses because those groups penetrate
Israeli security on daily basis through operations committed not far from Sharon's
residence," he said.
He also recalled that similar attacks have been mounted against targets inside
New York and Washington.
Perhaps it's time we all woke up and smelled the Israeli, American and British
military-grade cordite that is undoubtedly present at the scene of such attacks.
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