2007/01/28, Tehran Times Editorial Column
By Parviz Esmaeili
The first state-sponsored terrorist groups were born after the first global congress on Zionism in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland.
Global Zionism was seeking to establish a government and even cooperated with the Nazis and fascists to reach this goal.
In the early twentieth century, Zionist terrorist groups like the Irgun, the Stern Gang, Palmach, Haganah, and Betar -- many of the Israeli leaders were the leaders of these groups -- started ethnic cleansing campaigns based on the Kabbalah ideology and authorized the killing of not only armed people but also ordinary civilians who were not in the military.
The assassination of Palestinian and Lebanese figures like cartoonist Naji al-Ali, political activists Salah Khalaf (Abu 'Iyad), Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad), Fathi Shaqaqi, Kamal Adwan, former Hezbollah secretary general Seyyed Abbas Musawi, and Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin are just a few examples of Israel stated-sponsored terrorism about which international organizations remain silent.
Last year, the daily Haaretz quoted Israeli security official Amir Oren as saying that the Israeli security services had put Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on their assassination hit list because of their animosity toward Israel.
When international organizations do not condemn such blatant plans for state terrorism, the stance of the United States is clear.
Jewish anti-Zionist Israel Shahak once wrote that Americans have lost their belief in human rights and that is why they keep mum about Zionist terrorism and Jewish racism in Israel.
Contemporary U.S. governments have a record of kidnapping people, like Manuel Noriega, president of Panama from 1983 to 1989, killing people, and attacking other countries, but the administration of George W. Bush has also been attempting to justify state-sponsored terrorism, especially since the suspicious incidents of September 11, 2001. Thus, the Bush administration could be called the terror administration.
This scheme is an obvious emulation of the Zionist terrorist style. This new approach began with maneuvering on the perceived enemies Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, based on a preemptive war strategy, according to which the U.S. announced to the world that it would strike any country before it is seriously threatened.
Then U.S. citizens witnessed two wars happening tens of thousands of kilometers away which have cost them 700 billion dollars and the lives of 6000 U.S. soldiers.
Bush’s approach was supported in the West. In summer 2006, following the London bombings, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who slavishly follows Bush’s policies, gave Scotland Yard permission to shoot suspected terrorists on sight.
Scotland Yard did so and shot a Brazilian electrician to death in a London underground station. But later it issued a statement saying that the man was "not connected" to the bombings and called the incident "a tragedy".
Blair’s move was a more inhumane imitation of the barbaric theory of preemptive war, i.e., preemptive killing.
It seems that the last stage of Bush’s defeated plan will be the transformation of the strategy of preemptive strikes against governments into the strategy of preemptive killing of certain nationalities, a shameful move which overtly violates international law.
Maybe the raid on an Iranian consulate in Iraq by U.S. forces and the arrest of five diplomats was the beginning of such a strategy.
The United Nations should respond to such evil measures so that other countries will not be encouraged to attempt to wipe out their domestic, regional, and international rivals through assassinations and the targeted killing of certain groups.
Meanwhile, Bush has staunchly defended a tough new administration policy on Iran that is drawing criticism at home and causing anxiety abroad, insisting on Friday that it is completely understandable for U.S. troops to capture or kill Iranians who they believe are endangering them in Iraq.
This plan is a passive response to the rise in Iran’s popularity in the region which is also meant to divert attention from Washington’s defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.
The order to kill the nationals of one country in a third country is Bush’s most disgraceful measure of stated-sponsored terrorism and will be recorded on the list of his crimes, despite the fact that Time magazine’s headline on July 17, 2006 was: “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy”.
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