Jonathan Cook reports:
Israel secretly staged a training exercise last week to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal that calls for the forcible transfer of many Arab citizens, the Israeli media has reported.
The drill was intended to test the readiness of the civil defence units, police, army and prison service to contain large-scale riots by Israel’s Arab minority in response to such a deal.
The transfer scenario echoes a proposal by Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, for what he has called a “population exchange”. Mr Lieberman proposes land swaps that would force many of Israel’s 1.3 million Arab citizens into a future Palestinian state in return for annexation into Israel of most of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The scheme has been widely criticised as a violation of international law.
He outlined his proposal to the United Nations General Assembly last month. Although Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said he was not consulted about the speech, he did not admonish Mr Lieberman. The training exercise has fuelled fears among Israel’s Arab minority that the government might be hoping to pressure Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), to agree to land and population swaps as part of US-sponsored peace negotiations, which have stalled.
As long as zionasties keep providing us with the ammunition to use against them, all we have to do, is make sure that ammunition is not wasted. Take to the streets, leaflet, tell people outside stores that support zio – thuggery, at bus stops, and on the web about such things. While zio – nutters can be relied on to be intransigent, and blatantly manipulative, they can be relied on to paint themselves into a corner.
Gilad Atzmon as always, is spot on when discussing Mr Lieberman and ‘cleansing the land of Arabs’ so that Israel will be a single ‘ethnic’ group club —
http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/10/lieberman-and-the-jewish-political-continuum/