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Murder Inc.

For the first time in its history, Israel is seen as a genocidal war-mongering entity by the people in the West.

By Mir Adnan Aziz | November 2024


Israel occupies a land that was inhabited by and belonged to the Palestinians. Confining the Palestinians to genocidal and inhuman conditions, Israel has, since its inception, invaded almost all its neighbours and still occupies their lands. In 1981, it destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. Morphing into a Murder Inc., it has sent assassins around the globe with a never-diminishing hit list.

Nurtured, protected and encouraged by the Washington-led West, Israel is the only nuclear power in the Middle East. It refuses inspection of its nuclear program. Estimates put its nuclear arsenal at 400 bombs. With a population of .9 million, the equation comes to one nuclear bomb to defend 2250 Israelis.

Despite this massive power, Israel’s myth of invincibility lay shattered with Hamas’s October 7 assault. Eminent Israeli historian Illian Pappe describes this reversal in his recent article “The Collapse of Zionism.” He likens the Hamas assault to an earthquake that strikes an old building with the already present cracks reaching the foundations.

Netanyahu termed the assassination of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah as the “key to restoring power balance and recovering the hostages.” Despite decades of brutal subjugation and subterfuge, the acceptance of lacking in the power balance and Hamas holding Israeli hostages is in itself an acknowledgement of defeat.

It is also a proven fact that Israel’s assassination spree has failed miserably to quell the resistance. It has instead proved counterproductive. It was only after Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and his successor Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi were assassinated in 2004 that the group developed close ties with Iran.

Just like its mentor’s humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of occupation, a rejuvenated Hezbollah forced an equally chastened Israel to end its two-decade occupation of Southern Lebanon. This period also entailed the gruesome Sabra and Shatila massacres.

In March 2019, veteran diplomat William Burns, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, dubbed Trump’s Iran Policy untethered to history. He declared that the “false assumptions about how a muscular, unilateralist US approach can produce the capitulation or implosion of the Iranian regime is an assumption untethered to history.”

Today, the peacenik William Burns, who advocated caution, is the Direct CIA of the Biden administration as Washington seeks the capitulation of Iran through Israel. Narcissism and hegemonic hubris are a lethal concoction that soothes the mind ever whispering that history is for losers. It never is.
With the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, a moderate political operator, the Hamas leadership mantle went to Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of Hamas’s October 7 attack. Sinwar spent 22 years in Israeli prisons. In 2011, he was released in a prisoner exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who remained in Hamas custody for five years.


Despite IDF’s claims of Sinwar hiding in an underground tunnel with Israeli hostages as human shields, Sinwar was actually engaged in ground combat alongside other Hamas fighters. He lived and embraced martyrdom in Gaza.

Time has proved that come what may, Israel cannot quash the Palestinian cause.

In his book ‘Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations,’ Israeli author Ronen Bergman affirms that Israel has assassinated more than 2,700 people throughout its history. He describes it as Israel seeking to stop history without engaging in diplomacy and statesmanship. He also writes how some Israeli military figures opposed the assassination plan of Hezbollah leader Abbas al-Musawi, warning that he “would be replaced by someone more radical.”

In 1992, Abbas al-Musawi, along with his wife and five-year-old son, were killed in an Israeli helicopter gunship strike in south Lebanon. His successor, Hassan Nasrallah, transformed Hezbollah into a formidable military force with long-range rockets and precision-guided missiles.

Yahya Ayyash, a 29-year Hamas operative, was on Mossad’s most-wanted list. In 1996, on receiving a call from his father, he asked, “How are you, father?” With his last words, the rigged phone exploded, killing him on the spot. This was almost three decades before the pagers and walkie-talkies started exploding in Beirut. Ayyash’s assassination was deeply unsettling for Hamas as it exposed the extent to which Israeli intelligence had penetrated its ranks. Time proved it a temporary setback.

Experts and polls hold the view that Israel has played right into Hamas’s hands. For the first time in its history, Israel is seen as a genocidal war-mongering entity by the people in the West. Pro-Palestinian news and views are at the forefront of the international media, universities, and streets.

Israel’s forever war is not tenable because of economic considerations. Rakefet Aminoach, former CEO of Israel’s Bank Leumi, says that having spent over $67.3 billion to date, the Gaza war (alone) further drains the Israeli economy of $260 million daily.

Netanyahu’s persistent stonewalling of the peace negotiations is his fear that releasing hostages could lead to a ceasefire and a rekindled political process. His own political survival, as that of his Zionist coterie, lies in extending the war theater to Iran.

Instead of reining in this insanity, Washington, an enabler of the Gaza genocide, threatens anyone who dares stand up to Israel. Continuously arming and encouraging it, Washington feigns ignorance of Israel’s provocations and atrocities.

Apart from arming Israel, Washington’s partner in crime status lies proven with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaked documents. They show that Israel has direct and complete access to the highly classified information shared by America’s spy agencies.

Time has proved that come what may, Israel cannot quash the Palestinian cause. “To say that we are going to make Hamas disappear is to throw sand in people’s eyes. Hamas is an ideology - we cannot eliminate an ideology.” These were the comments made recently by the IDF spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, in an interview with Israel’s Channel 13.

One can feel Ghassan Kanafani smiling. He was as accomplished an artist as he was a man of letters. One of the most prominent Arab novelists and resistance writers, he was assassinated by Mossad in July 1972 along with his niece Lamees in Beirut. An obituary in Lebanon’s Daily Star described him as a (Palestinian) commando who never fired a gun and whose weapon was a pen.

Celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish eulogized Kanafani in a poignant elegy: “They blew you up, as they blow up a front, a base, a mountain, a capital, and they fought you, as they fight an army; because you are a symbol of a wounded civilization.”

A few walls still remain standing defiantly in a devastated Gaza. Spray painted on them is Kanafani’s sublime quote symbolizing Palestine’s valiant generational struggle: “Bodies fall, but ideas endure.”

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