باعتراف "اسرائيل": معظم فلسطينيي ال 48 يقفون مع "حزب الله"

ذكرت صحيفة «إسرائيل اليوم»، المقربة من رئيس وزراء العدو بنيامين نتنياهو، أنه رغم مرور عقد على حرب لبنان الثانية، إلا أن فلسطينيي الـ 48 يرفضون توجيه الإدانات إلى حزب الله، وأنهم بدرجة معينة يتماثلون مع أهدافه. هذه الخلاصة التي لا تسرّ إسرائيل وترفع من مستوى القلق لدى صناع القرار في تل أبيب ..

كشفتها استطلاعات رأي نشرتها الصحيفة وأكدت أن 65% من الجمهور الفلسطيني ممن يسكنون في حيفا والجليل، ما زال موقفهم بعد مرور 10 سنوات على حرب لبنان الثانية، كما كان دائماً. وخلاصته أنهم وقياداتهم يدعمون بوضوح حزب الله.

وأضافت الصحيفة أن الجمهور الفلسطيني يرفض الادعاء الإسرائيلي «بأن إسرائيل كانت محقة أخلاقياً في فتح الحرب أمام الأعمال العدائية التي شُنَّت ضدها».

وبحسب الصحيفة نفسها، فإن هذا الموقف يأتي رغم أن «مصر والسعودية والأردن ودول الخليج (...) دعمت إسرائيل علانية بسبب كرهها الشديد لحزب الله»، لكن مع ذلك، أكدت الصحيفة أن استطلاع الرأي يكشف عن أن «معظم الجمهور الفلسطيني في إسرائيل، كان ولا يزال إلى جانب حزب الله».

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'Majority of Israeli Arabs don't see Hezbollah as terror group'

Despite suffering Hezbollah rocket fire during 2006 Second Lebanon War, prominent Israeli Arab leader admits sector does not think of the Shiite organization as a terrorist group • "People are willing to pay the price in the name of pan-Arabism," he says.

Daniel Siryoti The majority of Israeli Arabs do not think of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, despite its repeated threats to strike northern Israel, which could potentially wreak havoc on the Arab communities in the area, a prominent figure within the sector told Israel Hayom on Sunday. The 2006 Second Lebanon War was the first to take a heavy toll on the Israeli Arab sector, as Hezbollah's fire on Israel's north claimed 19 lives among the community, wounded dozens and left many homes in northern Arab towns in ruins. The northern Israeli city of Haifa, which suffered daily rocket attacks during the 2006 conflict, is home to 65% of Israel's Arab community. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's belligerent rhetoric often names Haifa as a prime target during any future conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based Shiite terrorist group, but the threats, it seems, have not tempered the support Hezbollah has among the Israeli Arab sector. Israeli Arab leaders told Israel Hayom on Sunday that they and their public support the pan-Arab approach -- that is Hezbollah's assertion negating Israel's claim that it had legitimate cause to launch the 34-day military campaign in Lebanon in the wake of the abduction of IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev by the group. The Israeli Arab sector's stance on the 2006 conflict remain steadfast, seemingly oblivious to solid counterarguments, such as the fact that Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy, and therefore it is directly link to the unpopular Islamic republic; the fact that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, many of the Persian Gulf states and even some of the Sunnis in Lebanon agreed that Israel's move was justified; and the fact the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was -- and remains -- unrelated to the situation on the northern border. One source described the Israeli Arab sector's support of Hezbollah as a reflection of the rift between the Jewish and Arab communities in Israel. Perhaps the most prominent example of this situation came days after the conflict erupted: On July 19, 2006, a Hezbollah rocket hit a Nazareth home, killing two Arab children aged three and seven. In a special broadcast aired on Hezbollah's television station, Nasrallah apologized for the incident and declared the boys "martyrs." Speaking over his sons' graves, the father did not blame Hezbollah for their death. He accepted Nasrallah's apology, said he bore the operatives that fired the missile at his home no ill-will, and declared instead that the "Israeli occupation" was to blame for the situation. In another reflection of this sentiment, in 2013, a resident of the Arab Galilee town of Majd al-Krum, where several people were killed by Hezbollah rockets in 2006, was convicted of spying for the Shiite terrorist group and sentenced to seven years in prison. A senior official in the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee told Israel Hayom that while the Shiite organization is not popular among Israeli Arabs, the discrimination the community suffers "at the hand of the Israeli government" makes Hezbollah and other Palestinian terrorist organizations seem as popular resistance groups "fighting a just war against the Israeli occupier." Israeli Arabs, he said, "blame Israel for oppressing the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as for the displacement of over a million Lebanese from their homes and destroying infrastructure, entire villages sometimes, in Lebanon. "While in the wake of Israel's inception the majority of Arabs here made the strategic decision to accept Israeli rule, obey the law and avoid an armed struggle or joining the Palestinian factions, there is a tendency to blindly following nearly any form of resistance to Israel imperialism. "There is also similar support to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict only in the form of an independent Palestinian state, including restoring all occupied Arab lands in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights." The official stressed that the affiliation with Hezbollah among Israeli Arabs, which he said was, at times, "by default," was further fueled by the belief that "Hezbollah never deliberately tried to hurt them [during the 2006 war]. Accidents happen, and they are willing to pay the price in the name of pan-Arabism."

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