That Harvard Graduat Zeenia Satti writes on this tragedy
Israel's 'overkill' at
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=242546The Israeli naval massacre at the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is an act of "overkill," a calculated strategic manoeuvre in a volatile environment. It has sparked outrage in the Muslim world. The US, and regional incumbents who are allied with Washington in its battles, will find themselves at the receiving end of this renewed political rage. Israel considers a showdown between the United States and the Islamic world as a strategic win for itself.
In fact it is., without that 9/11 and without US of A going in to Iraq and Afghanistan, Israel would have been in trouble. And that unfortunate deaths on high seas is NOT a an act of
"overkill" but STUPIDITY from both sides irrespective of the political activity behind these unfortunate deaths.
This scripted move must be analyzed against the larger political developments in the Middle East and elsewhere. The US Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, had succeeded in getting Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to agree to US-mediated proximity peace talks with Israel. For the talks to succeed, Israel will have to halt the construction of settlements in Jerusalem. Abbas is scheduled to travel to Washington on June 9 for the continuation of the peace talks. Although he said on Monday that there was no need for the talks to be cancelled, the outrage in Gaza will likely deprive him of the public support he would have carried to Washington had the naval massacre not taken place. The event not only complicates his political situation, it imperils the entire US effort in this direction.
All that is nothing to do with this tragedy an
d that present Turkish Govt trying to place itself a leader of Islamic world. In Yemen, meanwhile, the civil war entered a peace phase on May 24 when Sanaa, commemorating the merger of the former North and South Yemen on May 22, 1990, declared an amnesty for all imprisoned Southern separatists and Northern Houthi rebels. In a televised speech, President Ali Abdullah Saleh expressed the hope that the freed rebels will go on to being good citizens. While all sides in Yemen hailed the amnesty as the final step in ending the civil war that has rocked the country since 2004, the fragility of the Yemeni political landscape renders it highly susceptible to regional events. The renewed rage caused by the Flotilla massacre and by the predictable lukewarm US response to it could rock the Yemeni peace process once again. Given the massive US military build-up in the Arabian Peninsula, the fires stoked by Monday's naval massacre could very well envelope the area and draw the US troops further deep into the crisis there.
In Afghanistan, the Karzai government is all set to hold a peace jirga to end the conflict and discuss the shape of post-war Afghanistan. President Obama wants no such deal with the "Taliban" just yet. The Jirga is to be guarded by twelve thousand security forces, which speaks volumes for the fragility of the process. Pakistan is engaged in Orakzai agency and plans to launch an offensive in North Waziristan as well, which might be soon enough, given America's pressure. Needless to mention, the army's success depends on public support, within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular.
Israel is quite accustomed to periodic global isolation on the public level, of the kind resulting from Monday's act. But it is US support that matters most to Israel. The naval massacre is not likely to swing the pivotal American support in the opposite direction. In the long run, it is Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine that are going to be adversely affected by such acts of overkill. The region-wide public outrage will complicate the political situation. As peace processes crumble under the weight of popular fury, the US military might come to exercise even greater role as the final arbiter of all matters political. Israel hopes to gain long-term strategic benefit from such a development.
yes,... yes.. dear Zeenia Satti., Every where in Islamic world we have problems, North and South Yemen is a problem, Iran is a problem, Karzai is a problem, Taliban is problem, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a problem, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine is problem.,
But these problems come for different reasons that is nothing to do with with these boats and aids., Why mix everything in one and blame US OF A or
Juice??
What about our responsibility?? when do we grow up?? let me send you e-mail along with is link.. The writer is consultant analyst of energy geopolitics based in Washington DC. Email: zeenia.satti@post.harvard.edu
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