Gaza, November 01: Israel has stepped up its aggression against Palestinians by highlighting the need for targeted killings.
This comes as Israeli fighter jets keep pounding the Gaza Strip.
What follows is the transcription of a Press TV interview with Nada Hashwi, political scientist in Beirut, to further explore the issue.
Press TV: Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statement of kill or be killed, is this not an act of state terrorism towards Palestinians?
Hashwi: That is definitely terrorism and this is what terrorism is all about but the problem is what really is so outrageous is all the European community, the UN and practically all the West have a blind eye on what has been happening there for decades now. Israel has been using killings as their only weapon. This is their self defense.
They think they cannot exist without killing all the babies and all people and they have nothing to … I have got to say something and what I think. In my opinion, what has been happening today is the hostages and what has happened and this did not make Israel, the Zionist regime, happy at all and especially the extremists in that regime.
So Netanyahu thought, ‘well, I will do some killings, maybe I will make them happy a little bit’. You see, they are based on cold blooded regime and they cannot exist without that. So by killing, by threatening to kill Hamas’s leaders right now and making the resistance weak — that is what they think — that will make Hamas get back at them as well. So then they are going to use the media against Hamas and they are going to make Hamas the terrorist.
Meanwhile, what they have been doing is killing and what we are seeing right now is outrageous like where are the UN; where are the European community. Everybody is being killed in cold blood and nobody is saying anything. This kill policy has to stop and somebody has to do something against this brutal regime.
Press TV: How is it that the UN would allow such bold statements from Israel?
Hashwi: How? I do not think they can hear what Israel has been saying. They have a blind eye and a blind ear. They can hear anything but it is like exactly what has been happening in the US as well. It is whenever they are ruling them, the UN is nothing to them.
So with all the violations that they have been doing and the killings that they have been doing, do you think they think about what the UN is going to say or do? Now they go in public and say we want to kill; they have to be eliminated as if they are talking about something that is not … they are not talking about human beings. I cannot believe they can get away with things like that.
Israel is going down the hill and they must do something to put themselves back in the picture and by doing this killing policy, this is what they think they are going to bring back. But the old time is gone; it is not going to be like the old days where they go and kill and nothing is going to happen. This time, if Hamas is going to kill back and this is what they must do, it is not going to be the same as the old days.
They have to know something. The Zionist regime has to know that the old days are gone; they have to know that they are not dealing with the same resistance anymore. So they have to talk peace or else nothing else is going to work.
Press TV: Could this have a possible negative effect on the second part of the prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Tel Aviv?
Hashwi: Of course. Like I said, that is exactly what is going to happen because the extremist Netanyahu, I mean they are all extremists there, it was really a slap on their face and they are not really happy about these hostages’ deal. So this is what they want to do.
They want to do something to say, ‘well, you see, we cannot give you the rest of the hostages’. They do not care about any deals that they sign. They only think about themselves. The Zionists think about what really is best for them and it is definitely going to affect it.
——Courtesy: Press Tv