“First, a drill involving so many forces is by definition following a
plan hatched Israeli public servants and/or leaders. Second, bringing
all those crowds costs enormous amounts of money in equipment,
fuel, ammunition, and most importantly, important peoples’ time.
Third, it’s worth noting that the other scenario practiced in the drill
is that of a Hamas takeover of the West Bank – Israel’s number one
conflict scenario in that region, one which the army and the politicians
have been speaking about and preparing for to no end, ever since Hamas
pulled off the Gaza coup. … if the top brass are taking the possibility of
preparing for transfer as seriously as they take the risk of a Hamas takeover
in the West Bank, it means that what Israelis call רוח המפקד must be blowing
in that direction very hard indeed …”
Ofer Neiman commented:
“It could be added that the report serves to justify the wider scope of the
BDS campaign. After all, an official Israeli scenario indicates that the
oppression of Israel’s Palestinian citizens may even worsen as a result
of political developments involving the dismantling of settlements.”
Israeli security forces practice suppression and mass detention of Israel’s
Arab citizens, in implementation of Lieberman’s “population exchange”
program.
Gush Shalom: It seems Lieberman is Israel’s true Prime Minister
This week Israel’s security forces practiced the putting down of mass
demonstrations and protests among Israel’s Arab citizens and their
imprisonment in a large detention camp to be established at Golani Junction
in Galilee. The exercise was based on a scenario of the riots being provoked by implementation of Avigdor Lieberman’s plan for “an exchange of populations”
, i.e. massively depriving Arabs of their Israeli citizenship.
A week ago Lieberman voiced this heinous idea on the podium of the
UN Assembly General and Prime Minister Netanyahu murmured some
weak reservations. Now it turns out that the security forces are already
preparing to implement it in practice, under the responsibility of none
other than Labor Party leader Ehud Barak – the Minister of Defence.
It goes without saying that in a country having any pretense to be a
democracy it would be unacceptable and unthinkable for the security
forces to practice waging war against the country’s own citizens.
Together with the racist “Loyalty Oath Bill” which gained the support of
the government, and with the demonstrative resumption of settlement
construction in the Occupied Territories, it increasingly seems that
Lieberman is the true Prime Minister, and that the government follows
on his path, leading the State of Israel in big and rapid strides into the abyss.
