Madam, – Regarding the article by the Israeli ambassador to Ireland (“Iran threat makes any Israeli concessions fraught with risk”, Opinion, February 21st). Can evading international obligation and the crime of Gaza be justified by Iranophobia? It is public knowledge that the Islamic revolution in Iran and the fall of the Shah – a close ally of the US and Israel – in February 1979 upset the global balance of power and initiated the awakening of people in the Middle East. The main thrust of all these uprisings was to achieve sovereignty, freedom, democracy, and rejection of dependency and foreign interference and most important of all abhorrence of Zionism.
This is well understood by the Zionist regime, which has been unable to conceal its fear of the democratic process in the Middle East to the detriment of the Israeli regime. Responding to hundreds of millions of people who are not prepared to accept the oppressive policies of the Israeli regime and the continuation of Gaza’s siege would be a much heavier price to pay by Israel.
But is the threat real? The Israeli regime has been able to deceive the international community for six decades by exaggerating the threats from its opponents on one hand and playing the victim on the other. This is to not only justify its crimes but also renege on international commitments.
Why is it that all the US administrations whether Republican or Democrat have always used their veto power to support the Israeli regime ? Will the recent US veto of the Security Council’s resolution in condemning the continued settlements in the occupied territories – despite the public pretence by US officials to ask Israel to stop settlement activities – leave any room for Israel to play victim and shed crocodile tears? The Zionist regime has endangered not only the Palestinian people but the whole region. This regime has more than 200 nuclear warheads and is the biggest threat in the Middle East. It has ridiculed the international community by refusing to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty and other international conventions on biological and chemical weapons.
Israeli state terrorism is not a phenomenon that even the leaders of this regime would attempt to conceal. There is no need to show documents about Israel’s assassination of Palestinian leaders with the support of its powerful lobby by some western countries. Hence the activities of the agents of Israel in using fake Irish passports to murder a Palestinian leader in Dubai to implicate innocent Irish people in this terror.
The assassination of Iranian scientists and university lecturers were yet another sign of Israeli state terrorism. The confessions made by the agents revealed that they were trained in Tel Aviv before being dispatched to Iran to carry out their cowardly act of terror.
The Zionist regime’s refusal to comply with international obligations has no logical connection with developments in Iran or even the Middle East. The present extremist Israeli regime is pressing the Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish entity by demolishing Palestinian homes, evicting East Jerusalem residents from their homes and attacking the Palestinian village of Umm Al-fahm.
The Israeli regime has never looked for the resolution of the Palestinian issue. The most desirable solution for that regime is to have an abnormal critical condition or the state of no war, no peace.
In this way, it is always looking for new excuses and if necessary creating incidents to achieve the necessary pretext to advance its policy of evading international obligations as in the past. – Yours, etc,