Why Do They Want Blood?

The Middle East again reeks of blood. The reason is simple: Soon the U.N. General Assembly will meet to consider the issue of recognizing the independence of a Palestinian state. The United States is against this motion, and Israel is in hysterics, but the regulations of the General Assembly will prevent a veto. For that reason, whether you like it or not, a majority of the votes will allow the Palestinian state to become a political reality.

The vast majority of humanity (to which Russia belongs, thank God) has no objection to the Palestinian people, who have suffered for so long, joining the United Nations as a full member of the international community.

All Palestinian parties — Hamas, Fatah, the Popular Front, Islamic Jihad and others — agree on the importance of recognizing the sovereignty of Palestine. The exceptions are the few Wahhabi groups that, on principle, do not recognize the right of Muslims to build a democratic, parliamentary state and insist on something like a Caliphate. The existing political parties, however, consider that a terrible sin.

Surprisingly, the position of the radical fringe coincides with the position of those on the Israeli right like the Likud party (as well as left-wing centrists in the Labor party), for they are prepared to prevent the establishment of an independent Palestine at all costs. However, without exception, all the Palestinian parties are acceptable insofar as they kiss the hands and lick the heels of Tel Aviv’s politicians. But because of Palestine’s factions, as it turned out after the Fatah’s clarification of its position, the Palestinian state still does not exist for Israel does not recognize any political organizations in Palestine.

In fact, even the word “Palestine” conjures up horror and disgust in Israel. In Israel, because they want to deny the Palestinians right to exist, they want to call them “Arabs” and subsume them, like serfs, into the neighboring “Arab” states.

The ideological fusion of radical Palestinian Wahhabis and Israeli political society regarding the impossibility of the rise of a Palestinian state leads to natural consequences. Both sides, each of which will be spat on as they speak about one another, pursue the same goal: To disrupt the vote of the UN General Assembly.

As is well known, if the goals of terrorists and states coincide, then the intelligence agencies of these states will without fail begin to work with these terrorists. Recent developments on the Israeli-Egyptian border, such as a group of unidentified terrorists, killed during the battle while leaving Egyptian territory, attacked an Israeli bus and its escort, confirm this axiom.

All Palestinian parties, with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the forefront, have condemned this mysterious act of terrorism. Despite this, Israel immediately carried out a bomb strike in Gaza (20 killed, including a five-year-old child and an adolescent) and turned off Gaza’s electricity (no big loss — so far from Israel and such a small amount), telephone and Internet. This act of terrorism was mysterious in many ways. How, through such a fantastically well protected border, was an armed group able to enter? To whom did this group answer, if all the major Palestinian parties condemned its actions? Why is the feeling arising that the Israeli army knew about the site of the attack on the convoy, and yet there was the ambush?

Now, based on the principle of “collective guilt,” according to which the whole community is responsible for the actions of one person, Israel began to push the Palestinians towards active resistance, to the Intifada. If this happens (and after all, people’s patience is not infinite), then Tel Aviv will begin full-scale war against Palestine. Or rather yet another mass killing of Palestinian civilians.

Why is this so important for Russia? Because we are connected with Israel and with Palestine. The overwhelming majority of Russian citizens sympathize with the Palestinians. The Russian-speaking population of Israel, through its own media resources, especially the Internet, is trying to change these sympathies to its own side, directing Russian public hatred toward Muslims, which in Russia make up about 20 percent of the population. In other words, it is broadcasting this nightmare of long standing Middle Eastern conflict onto our multi-ethnic federation.

That is why Russia should not succumb to blackmail and provocation, despite the radical Wahhabis, despite their allies from the Israeli establishment, and recognize an independent Palestinian state no matter what.