Why Israel puts on anti-ISIL mask

Qudsna, Ahmad Kazemzadeh:

For the past three years since the Syrian crisis broke out, the Zionist regime of Israel has always stood on the side of the armed opposition, including the ISIL terro group. Developments in the past few days however show an otherwise policy on the part of the regime.

The Zionist regime has been making a creepy effort in the diplomatic and propaganda stages to present itself as a victim of the ISIL group rather than a colleague or ally.

Just as the NATO summit started in the British Wales, the regime revealed that Steven Sotloff, a journalist who was recently beheaded by the ISIL was actually a Jew. The revelation gave the US President, Barack Obama a good opportunity to advance his goal of forging a so-called 'anti-ISIL' international coalition. Israeli authorities including Avigdor Lieberman say they kept Sotloff identity for security reasons however there is no reason he was killed for being a Jew.

Israel also seeks to present itself as a victim of the ISIL through the leakage of reports that Mehdi Nemush, prime suspect of assault on the Jewish museum in Brussels was a prison guard of journalists abducted by the ISIL in Syria. The leak was made by Nicolas Henin, a French journalist who was freed alongside three other colleagues recently. Henin told Le Point weekly they were supposed not to reveal the issue in order to save the life of 20 western journalists imprisoned by the ISIL in Syria. One may enquire which priority has made the western authorities to leak the issue. They have apparently considered the diplomatic need of the Zionist regime to be presented as a victim of the ISIL.

The Zionist regime seeks to use the US call for an international coalition against the ISIL as a smokescreen to dodge the international pressures for the eventual implementation of the two-state solution in the occupied Palestine. The regime has already had a positive experience as it once used the US call for an international coalition against terrorism in 2011 to sideline the peace talks with the PA and advance its settlement expansion policies in the occupied West Bank.

The touted anti-ISIL coalition then would be problematic as it allows Israel to join it and dodge criticism at time when the world must actually form a coalition against the regime to make it to end its decades-long creepy occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.