Gangster Israeli regime disregards international law: Analyst

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Israel has conducted four military incursions on the Gaza Strip in the course of last week and illegally intercepted a Finnish-flagged ship carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza.

Press TV has interviewed Mr. Mark Glenn, Crescent & Cross Solidarity Movement, inIdaho about Israeli violations; the lack of progress toward an improvement in Palestinian lives and livelihood; and the Israeli government’s long term objectives.

Also interviewed in this news analysis are Mr. Adie Mormech, human rights activist in Gaza, and Mr. Stewart Stogel, UN Correspondent with the Washington Times.

What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: According to our guest Mr. Stogel, the Israelis have offered to sit down for peace talks with the Palestinians and that the reason talks have not taken place is because the Palestinian Authority does not want any talks. Do you agree with that statement?

Glenn: The man is delusional. He is just part of the propaganda machinery of the West and in particular in Washington and New York that is out to always make Israel the victim in everything.

The fact of the matter is that Israel is a very abnormal player in all of this and she has to... as Mordecai Venunu once stated to me personally, Israel has to be in a constant state of warfare with her neighboring countries lest she fall apart from her own intrinsic and organic frailties as a nation.

So, these talking points that the individual there (Press TV guest) about Israel wanting to talk, the only kind of discussion that Israel engages in is violence.

When there have been offers in the past to mediate things in a peaceful way, Israel doesn’t want to have anything to do with that because there is no way to grab more land and dehumanize people through the process of negotiation, it has to be done with violence and as much violence as possible.

Press TV: Our guest Mr. Stogel says as long as the PA with its acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas refuses to come to the negotiating table it gives a right for Israel to continue what they’re doing.

Glenn: It wouldn’t make any difference. If the Palestinians came to the negotiating table as they have now for the last 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years, Israel would find some reason in order to impose stipulations on this meeting so that either it did not take place or so that it would be like a car with four flat tires so it wouldn’t go anywhere.

So this is just more theatrics, this is more playing with words again to make Israel out to be the reasonable player in all of this when this isn’t the case at all. The fact of the matter is that we have a nation that is founded on a very backwards religious and political ideology that wants all of the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers.

And so all of this talk of peace and negotiations, this is just a smokescreen so that Israel can be given more time to situate herself in the region so that she can create more instability and so that she can grab more land.

When Netanyahu talks about Jerusalem being the capital - the undivided capital of Israel, he is saying this from a religious view point because it is within their old testament teachings that the Jews are supposed to seize control and occupy all of the land between the Nile and the Euphrates rivers and Jerusalem just happens to be one of those locales.

And this is the kind of thing that really should, especially at this period in history, should steer the rest of the world... because Israel is not simply talking about occupying some little sliver of land the size of Rhode Island, but rather a sizeable territory that is four times the land mass of Texas.

What Benjamin Netanyahu and others like him are saying here in coded language and which he has said explicitly actually in a recent interview is that we’re going to be at war like this for the next 100 years in order to bring about this thing known as Greater Israel.

Press TV: Our guest Mr. Stogel has raised questions that I would like your comment on- firstly he says that between 1948 and 1967, Gaza and the West Bank were occupied by Egypt, Jordon and by Syria to a degree - Why weren’t complaints lodged against those nations when they had control of the contested areas?

And Secondly, with regards to humanitarian goods getting into Gaza, Valerie Amos is the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs, the flotillas could have routed their humanitarian goods through Ms. Amos and if the Israelis tried to stop that progress it would force a confrontation between the US and Israel, which would have raised the issue to a higher level - why didn’t they do that?

Glenn: The reason why there were no complaints when Egypt and Syria occupied these lands was because they were not butchering these people simply for the fact that they were non-Arabs or non-Muslims.

What is going on here is that Benjamin Netanyahu and the entire Israeli project from the beginning has been about robbing the Arabs of their land and pushing them out to bring about this thing known as greater Israel and what we’ve just heard here on the part of this journalist is nothing but more typical Zionist obfuscation and confusion so that the world cannot get an accurate picture as to what is taking place.

It is very simple here, we are dealing with a gangster regime who does not have any regard for international law or any other law other that what they have written themselves.

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