Babak Esmaeili English Weblog

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution says those who advocate a “pragmatic” approach toward Israel should have learned to think twice.

“By now those who advocated a pragmatic approach under the illusion of the invincibility of the Zionist regime and who succumbed to surrender and compromise with the usurpers should have realized their mistake,” Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday.

Addressing an international conference in support of the Palestinians in Tehran, the Leader was referring to “those who entertained hopes of a peaceful coexistence with the Zionist”.

Some Arab leaders provoked outrage among the people of the Middle East by either remaining silent on the plight of the Palestinians or aiding and abetting Israel in its 60-year oppression of the Palestinian population.

Israel’s blockade of Gaza and the atrocities committed during its recent war on the territory “proved that the savage and criminal instincts of the fake Zionist state have not changed in the least since that early decades of the of the disaster in Palestine,” Ayatollah Khamenei explained.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in 1948 when leaders of the Zionist movement won the support of colonial European countries and the US to establish a ‘pure Jewish state’ under the Zionist slogan of a ‘land without a people and a people without a land’.

European leaders and Zionist officials justified the colonization of Palestine as the only way out of the massive wave of anti-Semitism that hit the Europe in the early 20th century.

Zionists benefited by gaining power over the native land of the Palestinians, but the establishment and the subsequent terror attacks against the Palestinian population gave rise to the philosophy of resistance and in recent years armed retaliation.

Israel’s December and January operations in the Gaza Strip killed nearly 1,350 Palestinians and injured around 5,450 others.

Tel Aviv carried out its operations using white phosphorous bombs, classified as a ‘chemical weapon’ by the US intelligence.

According to Ayatollah Khamenei, the Israeli aggression was in line with the “same policies and predatory and ruthless motives which created such tragedies as those of Deir Yasin, Sabra and Shatilla.” — operations in which Israel systematically massacred the Palestinians and intensified its grip on the land.

Although Tel Aviv has ended its major operations in Gaza, it continues to stage air strikes on the strip and to enforce a 20-month blockade on the sliver of land.