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Israel’s cynical new strategy: Reframe Palestine debate as a religious battle, when it is really about civil rights
Despite a recent Kerry visit, the US has washed its hands of Israel/Palestine talks. After Paris, that's bad news
Nadia Hijab and Alaa Tartir
With
the focus on Syria, in part due to ISIS and in part to the massive
refugee crisis, the threats to world peace because of the Israeli
occupation of Palestine have been put on the back burner. Indeed, the
U.S. administration has seemingly washed its hands of its efforts to
broker peace, despite U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Palestine-Israel last month to discuss confidence-building measures, once again.
Yet there is a dire need to end the Israeli occupation, because Israel’s actions could rapidly and suddenly escalate the situation beyond the occupied territory to encompass Israel itself. Within days of the ISIS terror attacks on Paris, Israel moved to ban the northern branch of the Islamic Movement — despite the objections of its own intelligence chief Yoram Cohen, who had said there was no evidence to link it to terror, and Shin Bet reservations about the ban.
By so doing, Israel amplified Palestinian fears since the clashes began at the Noble Sanctuary compound in East Jerusalem two months ago, that it is seeking to reframe the conflict as a religious war instead of what it really is: A Palestinian struggle for civil and political rights within Israel and freedom from Israel’s nearly 50-year military occupation in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.http://www.salon.com/2015/12/07/israels_cynical_new_strategy_reframe_palestine_debate_as_a_religious_battle_when_it_is_really_about_civil_rights/?utm_source=Media&utm_campaign=010d33fa51-Media_Announcement+12_7_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_95709baeed-010d33fa51-285454914
Yet there is a dire need to end the Israeli occupation, because Israel’s actions could rapidly and suddenly escalate the situation beyond the occupied territory to encompass Israel itself. Within days of the ISIS terror attacks on Paris, Israel moved to ban the northern branch of the Islamic Movement — despite the objections of its own intelligence chief Yoram Cohen, who had said there was no evidence to link it to terror, and Shin Bet reservations about the ban.
By so doing, Israel amplified Palestinian fears since the clashes began at the Noble Sanctuary compound in East Jerusalem two months ago, that it is seeking to reframe the conflict as a religious war instead of what it really is: A Palestinian struggle for civil and political rights within Israel and freedom from Israel’s nearly 50-year military occupation in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.http://www.salon.com/2015/12/07/israels_cynical_new_strategy_reframe_palestine_debate_as_a_religious_battle_when_it_is_really_about_civil_rights/?utm_source=Media&utm_campaign=010d33fa51-Media_Announcement+12_7_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_95709baeed-010d33fa51-285454914
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