segunda-feira, 26 de novembro de 2012

British Expert: Israel Forced to Drop Invasion Plans due to Palestinians' Unexpected Reaction

11 Muharram 1434 / Monday 26 Nov 2012 / 6 Azar 1391, Fars News Agency http://english.farsnews.com (Iran)

TEHRAN (FNA)- Palestinians' unexpectedly powerful response to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip made Tel Aviv drop its war plans, a British expert said.

"My analysis of events and this short (Israeli) aggression is that things did not go on as Israelis had planned," Lauren Booth told FNA on Monday.

She further said the Israeli war on Gaza might even push Egypt to new stances against Tel Aviv. She reminded that Israeli Ambassador to Cairo Yaakov Amitai was summoned at the order of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi after the start of the Gaza invasion, and said such political interaction might even lead to the expulsion of the Israeli envoy.

"In such a case, (expulsion of the Israeli envoy) we will witness a new Egypt which will be confronting Israel."

Mursi summoned the Israeli ambassador to Cairo right after the aggression against Gaza to show protest against Israel's large-scale strike on the Gaza Strip.

Egypt also recalled its Ambassador to Israel Atef Mohamed Salem after Tel Aviv started bombing Gaza.

Cairo also ordered Egypt's UN representative to call for an emergency meeting over Israel's intensifying military operations against the Gazans.

Israel triggered an 8-day fighting by assassinating the military chief of the ruling Hamas group on November 14 followed by dozens of airstrikes on Gaza.

In response, Palestinian groups fired over 1,500 missiles and rockets at Israel.

Palestinian resistance groups targeted Tel Aviv and areas near Jerusalem for the first time in the history of confrontations between the two sides, launching a rocket attack in a major escalation of hostilities as Israel pressed forward with relentless airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

Israel called up thousands of reservists and massed troops along the border with Gaza, signaling a ground invasion of the densely populated seaside strip could be imminent.

But the attack on the Israeli settlement, along with an earlier strike on Zionists' capital Tel Aviv, frightened the Israeli regime, made it drop its aggression plans and ask for third party mediation.

Eventually, a Cairo-mediated ceasefire agreement, which took effect on Wednesday November 21, ended the Israeli attacks, which killed more than 165 Palestinians and injured about 1,269 others.

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