Netanyahu’s Likud party wins the Israeli general election held on May 29, 1996 with a promise to tear up the Oslo Peace Accords. Netanyahu, 47, the leader of Israel’s anti-peace United Front, which comprises all religious and nationalist extremist forces, became the new prime minister.
Since the declaration of Israel, the amount of US aid to Israel is 300,000 million dollars. The founder of the Oslo Peace Accords was the then US President Bill Clinton. America is Israel’s closest friend and bodyguard. Since the declaration of Israel, their existence has been confirmed by the financial aid provided by the US annually. The amount of aid America is going to give to Israel this year alone is 4000 million dollars! These are subsidies, not loans. According to the USAID, the value of the total subsidies that America has given to Israel between 1946 and 2023 is 300 billion dollars. That is 300,000 million dollars of which 81,000 million dollars for economic assistance and the remaining $219,000 million in military aid.
Netanyahu who refused to meet Yasser Arafat
Netanyahu, who came to power promising to tear up the Oslo Peace Accords, went to America to meet with President Clinton a few weeks after taking office as Prime Minister to discuss his position on the Peace Accords. At the time, Prime Minister Netanyahu had publicly stated that he had no plans to meet Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) who is the counterpart to the Oslo Peace Accords.
The Clinton-Netanyahu meeting took place at the White House and was more of a speech by the younger Israeli prime minister than a bilateral discussion. He advised US President Bill Clinton on how US foreign policy in the Middle East should be developed for about forty minutes. He also told President Clinton that he had no hope of meeting Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. At the end of this bilateral meeting after Netanyahu left, President Clinton stood up and said, “Who the f**k does he think he is?…Who’s the f**king superpower here?” Angrily and loudly told his staff, unleashing his impulse.
President Clinton explains who the world superpower is
Benjamin Netanyahu is the type of character who uses any situation for his political advantage. Netanyahu a political thug is also a political bully. But Netanyahu’s modus operandi could not deceive President Clinton. When he finished his trip to America and before he returned to his country the US president Bill Clinton has already informed the Israeli Prime Minister’s office about the message the US wanted. The message was very clear that is to meet Yasser Arafat “without playing the fool” and discuss how to advance the peace agreement. President Clinton explained to Benjamin Netanyahu in very simple words they are the world superpower.
The leverage of an American president…
On September 4, 1996, Netanyahu, who was speaking with pride, met with Yasser Arafat at the Erez border between Gaza and Israel and assured that he would work according to the Oslo Peace Accords. This incident illustrates the power of any US president’s leverage over Israel. President Clinton also showed the world the importance of talking to characters like Netanyahu in a language they can understand.
US Secretary of State James Baker bans Netanyahu…
Benjamin Netanyahu has always been a figure who struggles to be bigger than his finger was the Deputy Foreign Minister in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s government in 1990. He once criticized American foreign policy in the Middle East as “based on lies and distortions”. James Baker, who was the US Secretary of State at the time, was angry about this statement and banned Netanyahu from entering the US State Department for any diplomatic work. After that, Netanyahu was without meek for a while.
American presidents who tamed Israeli leaders
Israel is depended on US diplomatic power and financial aid since its inception. As a result, US presidents have the ability and strength to influence Israel decisively. They used that power to subdue Israel’s leaders on many occasions. In 1956, President Eisenhower forced Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion to withdraw from the Sinai. At Camp David in 1978, President Jimmy Carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to abandon the Sinai settlements and sign a peace treaty with Egypt. In June 1982, President Reagan forced Prime Minister Begin to agree to a cease-fire in Beirut, Lebanon.
George H.W Bush who suspended $10,000 million in aid to Israel
When Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refused to stop illegal settlement construction, President George H.W. Bush suspended 10,000 million dollars aid to be given to Israel. A month after that decision, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir abandoned his illegal settlement program.
Joe Biden has become a joker in from of the international community
American President Joe Biden follows a policy of turning a blind eye to the Palestinian genocide that has been taking place in Gaza for more than six months. He gives Israel the weapons needed for this genocide for free without any conditions. After attacking Gaza, Biden goes to Israel and embrace Prime Minister Netanyahu. Netanyahu, who is a political hacker knowing Biden’s weaknesses make Biden dance for his tune. Nenatanyahu who knows that President Biden is a weak and coward personality, publicly challenge him. Netanyahu, who knows that Biden cannot match the personalities of Bush and Clinton, has made Biden a joker before the international community.
13,000 children killed in Gaza in six months
It has been six months since the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict began on (7) October 2023.
During the last six months, the Gaza Strip suffered more destruction than any other conflict in recent history. 1,200 Israelis were killed in the brutal attack by Hamas on October (7). As of April 7, 33,600 people have died in Gaza due to Israeli counterattacks. The number of injured is over 75,000. The number of children killed by Israel is 13,000.
456 Palestinians are killed in the West Bank
Number of UN aid workers killed in Gaza is 224. The number of health workers killed in Gaza is 484. The number of journalists who were killed while reporting the Israeli attack in Gaza is 95. During this period, 456 Palestinians protesting in favour of the people in Gaza and against Zionists illegal settlements in the West Bank who had no connection to Hamas were killed by the Israeli army and illegal Zionist settlers.
Netanyahu plunders 2,000 acres in the West Bank
Meanwhile on March 22, the Netanyahu government illegally acquired 2000 acres in the West Bank to build new illegal Israeli settlements. This is the first time that Israel has occupied a part of the West Bank since the 1993 Oslo Accords. During the Gaza genocide, the Netanyahu government acquired another 200 acres in the West Bank. UN human rights chief Walker Turk strongly condemned the action, saying that taking over these lands is a war crime under international law. His announcement can be accessed here
UN Human Rights Chief deplores new moves to expand Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank
70 percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza is displaced
56 percent of Gaza’s total buildings have been destroyed by Israeli air strikes. 60 percent of houses and 90 percent of schools have also been destroyed. 70 percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza, or 1.7 million, have been displaced in the past six months. Palestinian children have not been attending school for the past six months. 26 of the 36 operating hospitals in Gaza have been abandoned due to Israeli attacks.
1.1 million Palestinians face famine
According to the United Nations 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza are facing famine. 31 percent of children who are under two years of age in Gaza are suffering from malnutrition. Many Palestinian children have already died of starvation. This is a famine created by Israel to take revenge targeting the entire Palestinian people against the Hamas attack.
WFP warns of famine
The World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain warned on March 18 that people in Gaza are dying of hunger and the rate at which the hunger and malnutrition crisis is spreading across Gaza is alarming. “There is a very small window left to avoid a total famine situation by immediately open the access to northern Gaza. If we wait until famine is declared, it will be too late. Thousands more may die”. The WFP famine warning can be accessed here
https://www.wfp.org/news/famine-imminent-northern-gaza-new-report-warns
Israel uses food and essential commodities as weapons
Within, hours of the Hamas attack, Israel cut off water and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip. Entry routes bringing supplies, including essential goods, to the Gaza Strip were closed. In this war, Israel is using food and essential goods as weapons which is a violation of international humanitarian law which is also a war crime. But Israel has no regard for any international laws or UN charters. The United Nations warned four months ago that a famine was only a matter of time because food and essential goods were not being allowed into the Gaza Strip. Neither Israel nor the US, which supports them, paid any attention to the dire condition.
Putin and Netanyahu following the path of Hitler
Both Putin and Netanyahu are using famine as a strategy to defeat Hamas. Prime Minister Netanyahu and the heads of his government have publicly stated that if Hamas lays down its arms and surrenders, the barriers to food and essential goods will be removed. They are holding millions of Palestinians as hostage. Adolf Hitler is the most infamous figure for achieving military victories through famine by cutting food and essential supplies for the common people affected by war. By the way, Putin used this famine ploy in Syria and it is currently being re-tested in Ukraine. Netanyahu and his fascist government are walking in the same infamous path.
Israel pulls the trigger on Security Council resolution
Israel refused to implement a ceasefire resolution passed by the UN Security Council to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza during the Ramadan fasting period. The United Nations International Court of Justice issued two orders against Israel to continue providing humanitarian aid to the helpless Palestinian people in Gaza but Israel ignored all those orders.
224 UNRWA workers killed to disrupt relief work
In addition to all this Israel is engaged in an organized military operation targeting workers engaged in relief services in the Gaza, risking their lives. Its main purpose is to prevent the Palestinian people in Gaza from receiving little or no relief and lead them to starvation. It is clear that the aim of the Israeli government is to stop the distribution of humanitarian aid, even if it is little, by killing the aid workers. 224 United Nations Relief Workers (UNRWA) have been killed in the last six months. Israel has managed to undermine the work of UNRWA, which has been engaged in relief work in Palestine for decades. Further they proceeded to destruct the operations of the aid group, whose contribution was so small compared to UNRWA.
World Central Kitchen attack
One of the main operations for that is the killing of seven relief workers, including a Palestinian translator, by launching three separate missile attacks on three vehicles of the humanitarian organization World Central Kitchen (WCK). The missile attack came while World Central Kitchen (WCK) had officially informed the Israeli army about its aid operations, the routes it would take and even the locations of its volunteer aid workers. During the attack three British, an Australian, a Polish and an American were killed
An operation to suppress the incident
Israel refused to take the responsibility for the killing of these aid workers, as well as the genocide carried out over a period of six months. Prime Minister Netanyahu laughed and said that such incidents occur in a war. His Minister of Economy and Industry, Nir Barkat, told the BBC that this was a friendly fire incident. Since more than thirty Israeli soldiers have been killed in such incidents, the World Central Kitchen incident is not a big deal.
Britain confront with Netanyahu
When the American President Biden was displaying his usual timidity for this incident, the British Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister strongly criticized the Israeli government and diplomatically informed that an official explanation was needed for the killing of its three citizens. Realizing that the World Central Kitchen incident could not be suppressed like how 33000 Palestinians had been massacred and escaped, Netanyahu agreed to conduct an investigation into the incident.
More bombs for Palestinian genocide from Biden for free
To avoid embarrassment, President Biden also made a phone call to Netanyahu. The final result of that conversation was a promise to donate another large stock of weapons to Israel to exterminate the Palestinian people. Netanyahu has agreed to allow more subsidies to be brought to the Gaza Strip which is another device. Meanwhile, the investigation into the related incident revealed that the World Central Kitchen employees did not commit any wrongdoing.
Israeli investigations cannot be trusted
However World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés (José Andrés) says the Israeli investigations seeking advice from the thief’s mother. His assessment is that these missile attacks were deliberately aimed at the vehicles of his organization.
This is a war against humanity
“This is not limited to killing the seven members of our volunteer organization. For the last six months anything that moves has been targeted and attacked. This is no longer seen as a war on terror. This is no longer seen as a war to defend Israel. This is, in fact, a war against humanity,” Jose Andres told the media. He strongly criticized Israel’s bombing of Gaza, saying by the name of destroying Hamas, Israel cannot destroy innocent people, every building, every hospital, every school, every university in the Gaza.
Putin’s destruction in Ukraine
“José Andrés notes that Israel cannot destroy the future of over two million Palestinians by starving them or denying them water. “I saw first-hand how Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin completely wiped out the cities of Ukraine. Prime Minister Netanyahu is doing the same thing.”
Double standards of world powers
According to Jose Andres, the double opportunistic policies of the world powers were wonderfully displayed in the last six months. Russia accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, while invading Ukraine and targeting civilians and infrastructure. US are supporting Israel’s genocide by pointing the finger at Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. The US vetoed six Security Council resolutions to establish a ceasefire in Gaza to provide humanitarian aid.
Netanyahu is trying to extend the war to Iran
Israeli people are now realizing the reality that President Biden and what western Israel sympathizers do not understand. They allege that Netanyahu’s Gaza attacks are not for the welfare of the Israeli people but a long-term strategy to maintain his political power. Family members of Israeli people kidnapped by Hamas say Netanyahu is trying to prolong the war rather than broker a ceasefire. Recently, he bombed the Iranian consular office in Damascus, Syria and killed several Iranian military leaders. This is clearly an attempt to spread the war in Gaza to Iran and create a regional conflict. Any time Iran retaliates against Israel, the war in the Middle East will be ignited. This is clearly a trap by Netanyahu to join the Western camp, including the US, Britain, in a war against Iran through Netanyahu will be able to secure his political future.
Did the Netanyahu government know about the Hamas attack in advance?
Some Israeli political analysts point out that Netanyahu’s only goal is to avoid the two bribery cases pending against him and to spend the rest of his life without a prison sentence. He is accused of failing to prevent the attack on October 7. A month before the Hamas attack, Netanyahu sent the head of his Mossad intelligence service to Qatar to request the continuation of financial aid to Hamas. Also, a year before the Hamas attack, an intelligence service report called the “Jerico” paper has been submitted to Netanyahu’s government. Three months before the attack, Israeli intelligence officials managed to obtain a video showing Hamas members training for the attack. But Netanyahu’s government did not pay attention any attention. Some Israeli political analysts doubt and question whether the Netanyahu government, providing financial support to Hamas and ignoring warnings about the attack, is part of a political coup.
Hundreds of thousands take to the streets demanding Netanyahu’s resignation
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis are now protesting in the streets, demanding that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government resign and immediately agree to a ceasefire that would allow the release of Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza. But the extremist fascist parties in the Netanyahu government are clearly against a ceasefire. They threaten to quit the government if such a ceasefire is agreed to. If they leave the government, Netanyahu will lose his majority and he will have to call a new general election. If a new general election is held, Netanyahu’s defeat is certain. So he is ready for any political stunt at this time to sustain his power. Netanyahu, who is well aware of the uncertain situation he may find himself in politically, has begun to beat the war drums louder.
Netanyahu caress Biden’s ear!
Netanyahu announced last Tuesday (9) that he is ready to invade the Rafah where more than 1.5 million Palestinians live. President Biden repeatedly pleaded with Netanyahu not to invade Rafah. Prime Minister Netanyahu has responded to those requests.
“No power in the world can prevent Israel from invading Rafah. “We will start our journey to Rafah soon,” he caressed Biden’s ear. In the face of this reaction, it will be seen in the next few weeks whether President Biden has the personality to show himself as the world’s most powerful leader as well as a world power. But in the end we have to ask the same question that Bill Clinton asked two decades ago: Who’s the f**king superpower here?”
Azgar Nuhman – Freelance journalist and Sufi author
