’Israel’ Attempts to Alter Focus of World Attention Elsewhere
Fatima Rida
In an article on the Haaretz website whose title read, ""Israel" is No Longer the Center of the Mideast Story" on Wednesday, it attempted to alter the focus of attention away from "Israel" and focus it somewhere else to its advantage.
In order to shift the attention elsewhere, Haaretz wrote that Iran, Hamas, and so-called "Daesh" [ISIL] were all one and the same.
"And all of them, together and separately, are determined to fight the West and its spearhead, "Israel", Haaretz added.
By labelling Iran as the 'enemy', Haaretz said that, "As far as "Israel" is concerned, Iran is an immeasurably more sophisticated and problematic enemy."
""Israel", according to this approach, is not the center of the regional story," Haaretz wrote.
It said: "Not just because the solution to the conflict with the Palestinians is no longer considered the key with which all the problems of the Middle East could be solved, but because what has been going on outside "Israel's" borders for the past year or two...has for a long time been a much greater story, on which "Israel" has had only a marginal effect so far."
Speaking about Daesh now to change the focus once again away from "Israel's" own questionable existance and acts in occupied Palestine, Haaretz said, "This [Daesh] is a historic struggle of broad scope, whose end is not in sight."
From the "Israeli" viewpoint, Haaretz wrote, "the aerial attacks against ISIL have borne their first results and harbor the possibility of an even better outcome."
""Israel" hopes the bombings herald a change in the American approach, as a result of which they will...provide much more significant aid in funding and weapons to organizations such as the [so-called] "Free Syrian Army"," it said.
Meanwhile on the "Israeli"-occupied Golan Heights, Haaretz further said that, "The more [so-called] "moderate" militias have remained faithful to what can be construed as indirect commitments to "Israel" and in most of these areas have prevented access to the border itself" from other extremist groups.
At the end of the article, Haaretz asks: "What is "Israel's" place in all these struggles?
Various war officials are displaying unity of opinion, it added: ""Israel" must be careful not to be dragged into the center of conflicts not its own."
""Israel" must continue to act responsibly, to broadcast resoluteness toward attempts to attack "its territory" - but also understand it does not dictate regional developments," Haaretz wrote.
Source: "Israeli" Haaretz, Edited by website team
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