"The first act of Operation Pillar of Defense was to murder Ahmed Jabari. Aluf Benn, editor of the newspaper Haaretz, describes him as Israel’s “subcontractor” and “border guard” in Gaza, who enforced relative quiet there for more than five years.
The pretext for the assassination was that during these five years Jabari had been creating a Hamas military force, with missiles from Iran. A more credible reason was provided by Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin, who had been involved in direct negotiations with Jabari for years, including plans for the eventual release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Baskin reports that hours before he was assassinated, Jabari “received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a flare-up between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip.”
A truce was then in place, called by Hamas on Nov. 12. Israel apparently exploited the truce, Reuters reports, directing attention to the Syrian border in the hope that Hamas leaders would relax their guard and be easier to assassinate."
Courtesy Noam Chomsky and Alternet (and thank you Mound of Sound).
The Israeli right-wing want things unstable. It's by design. Keep them (the Palestinians) barely alive till they eventually die off or give up and leave.
Of course the problem the Israeli right wing has is that the rest of world knows that they (and not the residence of Gaza) are the bullies. Those nasty videos and photos of dead males and females (old, young, and in-between) they cannot censor or block on the Internet.
Genocide. Apartheid. Terror. War. They are all the same in their drive for destruction based on hate, revenge, bloodlust, you name it.
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