RINF<\/a>) – On May 7, Netanyahu announced the most lunatic fringe coalition regime in Israel’s history.<\/p>\nIt includes racist hate-mongers, over-the-top fascists and religious fundamentalist zealots – an incendiary combination threatening regional peace and stability.<\/p>\n
Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said “(t)he face of a new form of racist, discriminatory Israel has been revealed.”<\/p>\n
Netanyahu is “leading the charge to bury the two-state solution and impose a perpetual apartheid regime.”<\/p>\n
He formed a new government “of war which will be against peace and stability in our region.”<\/p>\n
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh said Netanyahu must choose between peace and a two-state solution or a “policy of aggression and arbitrary violations against our people.”<\/p>\n
The PLO negotiations department issued a statement saying:<\/p>\n
Netanyahu’s new “right-wing extremist government is not a partner for peace when the leaders call for the annexation of Palestinian land and the forcible transfer of the Palestinian population and the genocide against our people.”<\/p>\n
It’s long overdue for Israel to be held accountable for “crimes and violations against our people.”<\/p>\n
Fatah spokesman Osama Qawassmeh said the new government will increase “settlement activities and the Judaization of the West Bank, while at the same time isolating the Gaza Strip.”<\/p>\n
He said Palestinians should respond through greater resistance – “exposing Netanyahu’s racist policies before the international community.”<\/p>\n
Straightaway, his regime approved 900 new illegal East Jerusalem housing units on stolen Palestinian land – even before his new government is officially sworn in on May 11. It’s the most anti-Palestinian, pro-war, apartheid on steroids regime in Israel’s history.<\/p>\n
Washington, other major Western nations and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pay lip service only against its horrific high crimes and abuses.<\/p>\n
They yawn and do nothing to stop them. America supports all Israeli wars of aggression – longstanding rogue state partners in crime.<\/p>\n
At the same time PA officials were denouncing Israel’s new regime, it continues enforcing its ruthlessness – collaborating against their own people for special benefits they enjoy.<\/p>\n
On May 8, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused PA-controlled security forces of harassing, persecuting, arresting, interrogating and mistreating West Bank Palestinian students for political views they hold and express.<\/p>\n
HRW’s Sarah Leah Whitson called it “deeply worrying that students are being held by Palestinian forces for no apparent reason other than their (alleged) connection to Hamas or their opinions.”<\/p>\n
“Palestinians should be able to express critical political opinions without being arrested or beaten.”<\/p>\n
Following Birzeit and other university student council elections, Addameer prisoner rights group director Sahar Francis told HRW 25 students were detained or summoned for interrogations.<\/p>\n
In custody, they’re beaten and otherwise abused. It’s standard PA security force practice serving Israeli interests – operating ruthlessly against their own people.<\/p>\n
Current abuses followed numerous previous ones. Views critical of Israeli and\/or PA policies aren’t tolerated.<\/p>\n
PA security services West Bank spokesman Adnan Al-Dimiri lied saying “(w)e never arrest people for their speech or for their political affiliations.”<\/p>\n
It happens all the time – including trumped up criminal charges justifying the unjustifiable.<\/p>\n
HRW said PA authorities presented no credible evidence indicating arrested individuals committed any criminal activity – or advocated any.<\/p>\n
Jihad Salim is a Birzeit University Hamas-affiliated student representative. He said around 6:00PM on April 25, PA security forces accosted him, shoved him into a civilian car, took him to a Ramallah office, and brutalized him during interrogation about earlier Palestinian elections.<\/p>\n
Two interrogators were involved, he said. “They started cursing my mother, cursing my sisters, slapping me around.”<\/p>\n
“Then they punched me while asking questions about how Hamas won the elections.”<\/p>\n
He was forced to stand uncomfortably, arms and legs spread apart, from 11:00PM until 10:30AM the next day. Interrogation continued until 5:00PM. No food or water was supplied.<\/p>\n
Numerous other cases follow the same pattern – lawless PA security force arrests, followed by detentions, brutalizing interrogations, beatings and other abuses, denial of all fundamental rights, and at times concocted charges of nonexistent criminality.<\/p>\n
HRW said it “previously documented abuses by Palestinian security forces, including credible allegations of torture and arrests of people identified as political opponents.”<\/p>\n
US funding and training makes Washington complicit with false arrests and detentions, torture, ill treatment, and other abuses against Palestinians solely for political reasons.<\/p>\n
PA officials critical of Israel’s new regime share guilt in its crimes – serving as lawless apartheid enforcers.<\/p>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/p>\n
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