Al-Aqsa Storm Showed ‘Heroic Resolve’ of Palestinians against Israeli Tyranny: US Analyst
“The Palestinian people have a moral and spiritual duty before God and the other nations of the world to show that despite the violence shown against them, they are continuing to fight for their freedom and lives,” Scott Bennett told IQNA in an interview commenting on a recent surprise operation dubbed Al-Aqsa Flood by the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli regime.
He added, “Palestine in fact has shown a heroic resolve and strength of character not seen in the history of nations, and are an example of defiance against tyranny.”
Following is the full text of the interview:
IQNA: What is your take on the ongoing operations by Palestinians against Israel? How could this change regional as well as global equations?
Bennett: The recent skirmish that we are witnessing occurring between Israel and Palestinians, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other parties has been decades in the making. Contrary to western main stream media in the United States, the Israelis are not an innocent or pure party with unclean hands in the situation. Quite the contrary, they have been initiating a genocide, an ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians. Shooting at them to cripple them and blow off limbs; starving them; cutting off electricity; dehydrating them; confiscating their homes; pushing into every inch of territory in violation of the United Nations resolutions that established [the regime of] Israel and the relationship it was to have with its neighbors in 1947. Additionally, the neutrality of Jerusalem was another condition that the Israeli Zionists have violated.
IQNA: Do you believe that Palestinians reserve a right to defend themselves and give a response to Israeli attacks?
Bennett: The Palestinian people have a moral and spiritual duty before God and the other nations of the world to show that despite the violence shown against them, they are continuing to fight for their freedom and lives. Palestine in fact has shown a heroic resolve and strength of character not seen in the history of nations, and are an example of defiance against tyranny. All of these examples show how Israel has arrogantly, recklessly and furiously disregarded all decent behavior and embarked on a strategy of constant aggression and genocide and war against the Palestinian people. At last people are rising up because they've had enough. They are pushing back they are retaliating in the way that any natural human being would fight aggressor if you were trying to kill with equal force.
IQNA: Certain governments, officials and organizations have voiced support and solidarity for Tel Aviv, calling the operation against international law. What are your thoughts on this?
Bennett: The typical Zionist supporters in the American media and government are rising up to show a hysterical and reckless support for the genocide which Israel initiated. The danger is the American-Zionist groups may try and justify a larger genocide against Gaza, where the Israeli military launches a genocide and bombing campaign similar to the Dresden fire-bombing by the Americans against Germany in World War 2.
We're seeing the American media and hard right neocon politicians like Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and even Donald Trump erupt into this mad mouth frothing furious hysteria in rabid, blind support and unquestioning servitude to Israel largely due to Christian Zionist delusion, which is religious heresy that Israel is used to brainwash America into funding, supporting, and defending it.
Israel's attempt to draw US into conflict
The danger is Israel may try to expand this war into Syria, Lebanon, and Iran, and attempt to draw the United States in. I believe the American people are not going to support any kind of war, and certainly are not going to send their sons and daughters into this kind of fight. Additionally, this may create a hysteria inside Europe and the United States of domestic terrorism, where a new police state begins to emerge.
Of course, there are other considerations coming into the analysis, such as is Netanyahu, using this for political purposes, to wager a larger war against Iran, to suppress his own people in a heightened security police state to distract against the protests that have been occurring in Israel over the last six months due to the Judicial changes was the far-right Israeli fascists were attempting to do.
The American lesson from Lebanon that President Ronald Reagan learned was that Israel and its military confrontations with its neighbors were not in the interest of the American people, or our foreign policy. As a result, Reagan quickly pulled the United States Marines out of Beirut. Of course, many believe the Israelis themselves were engaging in another false flag attack against the Americans in the hopes that it would create American support, and the Israeli Zionists could use the American military as they’ve always tried to do.
But this backfired. The American people at the time did not want their sons and daughters dying in foreign lands, and that same principle applies now, especially after the terrible bloodshed and destruction of America’s reputation, and the loss of its treasure from these failed 9/11 wars that have lasted for 20 years. Without a doubt, this Israeli genocide campaign, which they very soon will begin launching, is going to also carry with it false flag attacks that the Israelis will engage in America and Europe and try and blame on Hamas and Muslims in general but the fact is it will blow back and backfire in the majority of people understand that Israel is the genocidal maniac in this war and that the Palestinians are simply fighting for their lives, and Freedom against the tyrannical oppressor.
Scott Bennett is a US Army Special Operations Officer (11th Psychological Operations Battalion, Civil Affairs-Psychological Operations Command), and a global psychological warfare-counterterrorism analyst, formerly with defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. He received a Direct Commission as an Officer, held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security clearance, and worked in the highest levels of international counterterrorism in Washington DC and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. He has developed and managed psychological warfare theories, products, and operations for US Special Operations Command, US Central Command, the State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, and other government agencies.
His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and Spanish Minor from San Jose State University in California, a Master of Arts in International Business and Public Policy from George Mason University in Virginia, and a Ph.D. (ABD) in Political Theory from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. He currently resides in California.
The views and opinions expressed in this interview are solely those of the interviewee and do not necessarily reflect the view of the International Quran News Agency.
