The Lebanese weekly, Monday Morning has solved the mystery of who is behind the terrorist attack in Gaza last week that took the lives of three American diplomatic corps employees. The journal rhetorically asks, “Who can doubt that the incident at Beit Hanoun, in which three American security personnel died, was the work of Israel?”
The evidence, according to Monday Morning? “The whole area is completely under the control of the Israeli army and the operation could not have been staged without the knowledge and consent of the Israel security services,” the editorial declares. Furthermore, the editorial claims, “When operations take place against the Israelis, one or more factions invariably takes responsibility and Palestinian people know why the operations take place. But never before in the Intifada had any American national been targeted in the territories, and there is universal bewilderment among Palestinians as to why it should have happened. Moreover, the technical expertise of the explosive device used was beyond that available to Palestinians. The device is reportedly similar to those used by the army.”
And why would Israel have attacked the American convoy? The journal answers, “To stoke still further the fires of American prejudice against the Palestinian Authority and, beyond it, against Palestinians in general.” And the Gaza attack “must be seen together with the pro-Israeli lobby’s efforts to push the Syria Accountability Bill through the two houses of Congress and onto the president’s desk. Israel applauded the fact that the bill has been approved by a committee of the House of Representatives, as it also welcomed the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning the barrier Sharon is building on Palestinian territory to tighten Israel’s grip on occupied land.”
The Beirut weekly claims to find it hard to fathom that Arabs would have carried out an attack such as that on the Americans in Gaza, as it is “in no way in the Palestinians’ interest to antagonize the only party capable of curbing Israeli excesses and, in the absence of an international observer force, keeping track of what Tel Aviv does in the occupied territories.”
This brings the Monday Morning editors to review a bit of history: “It is not only Palestinians who are the victims of ‘targeted’ killings. We recall the assassination in 1948 of Count Bernadotte, who was just a little too troublesome, and just a little too keen to see that the Palestinians were justly treated, for the liking of the Stern Group and other gangs of that ilk.”
Lastly, Monday Morning includes the “Geneva Understandings” among the Zionist plots - even though they were drafted in collusion with PLO senior figures. “And what about the document adopted by Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals in Switzerland? This is no more than a clone of the Camp David Agreement and is aimed at nothing more than making it more difficult for the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, in accordance with UN resolutions,” according to the Beirut weekly.
The evidence, according to Monday Morning? “The whole area is completely under the control of the Israeli army and the operation could not have been staged without the knowledge and consent of the Israel security services,” the editorial declares. Furthermore, the editorial claims, “When operations take place against the Israelis, one or more factions invariably takes responsibility and Palestinian people know why the operations take place. But never before in the Intifada had any American national been targeted in the territories, and there is universal bewilderment among Palestinians as to why it should have happened. Moreover, the technical expertise of the explosive device used was beyond that available to Palestinians. The device is reportedly similar to those used by the army.”
And why would Israel have attacked the American convoy? The journal answers, “To stoke still further the fires of American prejudice against the Palestinian Authority and, beyond it, against Palestinians in general.” And the Gaza attack “must be seen together with the pro-Israeli lobby’s efforts to push the Syria Accountability Bill through the two houses of Congress and onto the president’s desk. Israel applauded the fact that the bill has been approved by a committee of the House of Representatives, as it also welcomed the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning the barrier Sharon is building on Palestinian territory to tighten Israel’s grip on occupied land.”
The Beirut weekly claims to find it hard to fathom that Arabs would have carried out an attack such as that on the Americans in Gaza, as it is “in no way in the Palestinians’ interest to antagonize the only party capable of curbing Israeli excesses and, in the absence of an international observer force, keeping track of what Tel Aviv does in the occupied territories.”
This brings the Monday Morning editors to review a bit of history: “It is not only Palestinians who are the victims of ‘targeted’ killings. We recall the assassination in 1948 of Count Bernadotte, who was just a little too troublesome, and just a little too keen to see that the Palestinians were justly treated, for the liking of the Stern Group and other gangs of that ilk.”
Lastly, Monday Morning includes the “Geneva Understandings” among the Zionist plots - even though they were drafted in collusion with PLO senior figures. “And what about the document adopted by Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals in Switzerland? This is no more than a clone of the Camp David Agreement and is aimed at nothing more than making it more difficult for the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, in accordance with UN resolutions,” according to the Beirut weekly.