Israel’s open secrets

Are Arab nations normalising their relation with Israel…?

Is Israel a nuclear power? In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli former nuclear technician, revealed to the British media details of Israel’s nuclear power programme and was eventually jailed for 18 years – he spent more than 10 of those years in solitary confinement. He later converted to Christianity and took the name John Crossman.

Israel has carried out thousands of assassinations since its creation and continually denied them. The Israeli writer and journalist, Ronen Bergman, author of “Rise and Kill First,” a revelatory history of Israeli strikes on individual enemies, has told how the Israeli heavy-handed military censorship makes him and other Israeli journalists write the phrase, “according to foreign reports,” before the conclusions they reach, although they reach their conclusions based on first-hand knowledge, especially pertaining to nuclear weapons.

Israel forced a whole people out of their homeland yet the official Israeli narrative claims that they chose to leave their homes of their own free will. UN agencies and resolutions called for the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes. Established Israeli historians, many of the old generation who are still alive, contradict this laughable claim. Still, the official rhetoric clings to it and astonishingly the young Israeli generation deal with this propaganda as indisputable fact.

One of these open secrets is Israel’s relationship with Arab leaders which goes back to before the creation of Israel. They never stopped, they had only to be kept a secret, because the undemocratically installed regimes always feared public backlash. This drama has been going for about a century now. These leaders used to pay Palestinians lip service, negligible support as a smoke screen, and enjoy the benefits of this forbidden relation – ruling their countries permanently.

Whoever follows the wave of Israeli normalisation with Arab and Muslim countries would feel as if as a whole iceberg is melting so fast that it would soon turn into a torrent that would wash away the Palestinian conflict. Two people are very happy about this – Netanyahu and Trump. These two leaders are so self-centred they will cause their people unprecedented harm. Both of them are reckless and cannot really understand the consequences of damaging the credibility of their Arab and Muslim allies by exposing their illicit alliance with Israel.