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musaamadupembo
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 Posted - 01 Aug 2006 : 22:05:16
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ROOT OF THE CONFLICT
...a long-term military, economic and geographic practice
(by Israel and the U.S.) whose political aim is nothing less
than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation.
MiddleEast.Org - MER - Washington - 1 August 2006: The goal of the U.S.-Israel War of 2006 in the Middle East is nothing less than to enforce control of the region for another generation. Iran is the main target as it represents the most powerful and determined opposition to U.S. and Israeli designs. Provoking Iran through attacking Syria may be the next step soon to come. If one reviews the actual events of this year, and recent years in fact, one can find a clear pattern of Israeli-U.S. provocation first of the Palestinians and then in recent weeks of the Lebanese. Passions are now enflamed on all sides. The super-dry political forest of the region now only requires a spark to set off a much wider conflagation. This is precisely what the Zionist Neocons who still dominate Washington affairs in the Bush/Cheney Administration have worked overtime to bring about. Even as the Israelis call up still more forces to expand the war possibly much further, at the same time the Americans -- Israel's big partner in crime -- are busy blowing obscuring political smoke while simultaneously trying to manipulate the U.N. to send forces that would in effect join the U.S.-Israeli side.
Opposition to the Neocon and Israeli Lobby forces in the U.S. -- and make no mistake about it that is where this war has come from -- is extraordinarily weak and confused. From the bumbling Democratic Party 'opposition', to the totally failed NGO organizations and the pathetically inept Arab and Jewish 'peace groups', there is no effective and potent opposition.
The Neocons and the Israeli Lobby have been working for years now in crusading fashion to bring the world to the verge of what is now a potential slow-burn world war. That is what they have been planning for some time largely because it fits the Israeli geopolitical design for the Middle East region.
There are no other superpowers -- either on the world stage or in the region to stop them. Russia and China have too much to lose by actually involving themselves; and they also have too much to gain if the Americans are allowed to overextend themselves as disgust and hatred rises against them.
IIn the U.S. the Neocons and the Israel Lobby have effective control of the Executive Branch of government and have silenced or cowered some significant opposition that was coming from within the CIA, the Military, and the "retired" community of former this and thats. Furthermore they have effectively co-opted much of the corporate media; and very importantly the Israeli Lobby is actually now more in control of the U.S. Congress than ever.
This short letter that follows from Noam Chomsky and others was published on July 19, 2006 while the destruction of Gaza was still top of the news and the Lebanon war not yet dominant.
The letter gives the appearance of having been inadequately and probably hastily written, and as usual it was grossly inadequately promoted and then not followed-up in a sustained way as the situation requires.
But even so this letter is signed by some significant persons of great insight, conviction and integrity, and it does highlight what is really the root core cause behind today's on-the-brink situation -- all too often forgotten these days in the haze of escalating war.
From the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has flowed most of the rest of what we are witnessing today in the Middle East. After sixty years of building up their power -- with so much help from the U.S. and Europe -- the Israelis now seem intent on not only vanquishing Palestinian nationalism but on remaking the entire Middle East under a US-Israeli cloak of modern-day Empire and imperialism.
They will enforce this 'New World Order' as long as they can through sheer military power, covert CIA plots, worldwide NSA spying, economic domination, and Mossad black ops, many of which have already taken place, with many more no doubt underway.
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The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier prisoner - and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by the Israelis - there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.
That this "kidnapping" was considered an outrage, whereas the illegal military occupation of the West Bank and the systematic appropriation of its natural resources - most particularly that of water - by the Israeli Defence (!) Forces is considered a regrettable but realistic fact of life, is typical of the double standards repeatedly employed by the West in face of what has befallen the Palestinians, on the land alloted to them by international agreements, during the last seventy years.
Today outrage follows outrage; makeshift missiles cross sophisticated ones. The latter usually find their target situated where the disinherited and crowded poor live, waiting for what was once called Justice. Both categories of missile rip bodies apart horribly - who but field commanders can forget this for a moment?
Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a distraction in order to divert world attention from a long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation.
This has to be said loud and clear for the practice, only half declared and often covert, is advancing fast these days, and, in our opinion, it must be unceasingly and eternally recognised for what it is and resisted.
Tariq Ali
John Berger
Noam Chomsky
Eduardo Galeano
Naomi Klein
Harold Pinter
Arundhati Roy
Jose Saramago
Giuliana Sgrena
Howard Zinn
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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Cornelius
Sweden
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Posted - 01 Aug 2006 : 23:44:00
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Musa,
I've been reciving from that source for years and I'm wondering who's behind this MiddleEast.Org?
Pinter too.....
Pray for the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev – and Gilad Shalit to be returned safely.
As Golda Meir once observed,” We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”
I should think that Iran will be hit before Syria.
You think that Syria will come to Iran's aid ?
http://www.israellycool.com/blog
From: Zalman [mailto:zall@rogers.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 5:00 PM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: The war against Israel - Melanie Phillips (Valuable read)
July 31, 2006
The war against Israel (4)
The signs are mounting that the atrocity at Qana was not what it originally seemed. Two must-read blogs — this and this suggest the whole thing might have been staged. We have yet to discover the truth of what did actually happen, but the questions are mounting.
The Daily Telegraph — whose once principled support of Israel is now a distant memory as the paper signs up to the psychological pogrom against Israel being perpetrated by Britain’s media — entertains no such doubts. A disgusting headline this morning proclaimed:
The children went to sleep believing they were safe. And then Israel targeted them as terrorists.
Did no-one at the Telegraph ask himself how the families in the building in question could have believed the children were safe, when the Israelis had leafleted the area telling everyone to get out because they were about to bomb it? And even if the victims were indeed killed by an Israeli strike, what is the evidence that Israel deliberately targeted innocent children as terrorists? Absolutely none. Israel has said it had no idea there were civilians in this building.
The malice of the media’s coverage of this war is beyond anything I have ever seen or could ever have imagined, even by the standards of the obsessional irrationality, prejudice and libels normally directed against Israel. People say they are hearing outright lies being asserted on ITN news, with claims, for example, that Israel started the hostilities – thus ignoring the rocket attacks on Israel and the murder and kidnap of its soldiers on its own soil which actually prompted Israel’s response.
Dan Hannan, however, also in the Telegraph, at least got this key point right:
The Iranian Hydra has many heads. The mullahs sponsor militias and political movements across the Muslim world, in the old Silk Road Khanates and as far afield as Bosnia. You can lop off the head called Hizbollah. You can even cauterise the wound, by demilitarising southern Lebanon. But, as long as the monster’s heart continues to beat in Teheran, the head will grow back.
Others with rather more personal knowledge of Hezbollah than the lazy bigots of the British media understand all too well what is actually going on. A Lebanese Shia, Dr. Mounir Herzallah, recounts how Hezbollah uses civilians as human shields and how the Israelis will be damned if they do and damned if they don’t:
I lived until 2002 in a small southern village near Mardshajund that is inhabited by a majority of Shias like me. After Israel left Lebanon, it did not take long for Hezbollah to take have its say in other towns. Received as successful resistance fighters and armed to the teeth, they stored rockets in bunkers in our town as well. The social work of the Party of God consisted in building a school and a residence over these bunkers! A local sheikh explained to me laughing that the Jews would lose in any event because the rockets would either be fired at them or if they attacked the rockets depots, they would be condemned by world opinion on account of the dead civilians. These people do not care about the Lebanese population, they use them as shields, and, once dead, as propaganda. As long as they continue existing there, there will be no tranquility and peace.
The ever-prescient Spengler mordantly observes how, while Iran perceives correctly how Israel’s response to Hezbollah’s attacks could end the stability of Middle East terror and imperil Iran’s objectives, both America and Israel are so lacking in confidence that they cannot grasp the strength of their own hand and so are likely to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory:
Despite the vehemence of Israel’s initial response to the July 12 incidents, Jerusalem remains squeamish about casualties both among Israeli soldiers and Lebanese civilians. If the enemy employs civilian sites as artillery platforms, and civilians decline to leave after due warning, they are subject to attack. The three-score deaths at Qana are sad, but so were the 180,000 deaths during Lebanon’s civil war of 1976-80 and the million deaths during the Iran-Iraq War, including perhaps 100,000 12-to-14-year-old children sent by the Khomeinists into the Iraqi minefields. The political-religious current to which Hezbollah adheres holds the region’s record for civilian deaths, despite British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s crocodile tears.
Israel’s strongest move on the chessboard would be a massive armored incursion into Lebanon to crush Hezbollah combined with limited strikes against Syria. These would be costly in terms of human life, but that is the bill due the devil for fleeing Lebanon six years ago. The Israeli population longs for normalcy, and is loath to sacrifice its young men, a fact with which Hezbollah taunts them. It is far from clear whether Israel will convert a subtle but fundamental change in the regional balance into a strategic breakthrough.
Washington’s best move would be an ultimatum to Tehran with a deadline for dismantling its nuclear-weapons program, followed by aerial attacks in the event of non-compliance. Rather than engage the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Washington should take the opportunity to destabilize it. Rather than attempt to hold together its Frankenstein monster in Iraq, it should partition the country. Sunnis and Shi’ites already are fleeing mixed neighborhoods and agglomerating into sectarian strongholds, and a broader population exchange is the best formula to suppress bloodshed.
In other words, in pursuit of its own best interests, Washington should do precisely what the Iranian regime fears that it may do. Tehran’s paranoia, of course, runs far ahead of Washington’s limited imagination. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is skating in tighter and tighter little circles attempting to limit the war. The US demand for a 48-hour halt in Israeli bombing runs in Lebanon to which Israel acquiesced expresses the delusional hope that Sunni Arab states can be enlisted to oppose Iran and Hezbollah.
Israel, in summary, remains in denial about the failure of its withdrawal policy since 2000, and Washington remains in denial about the absurdity of its plan to stabilize the Middle East through democracy. That gives Iran considerable wiggle room to press ahead from an inherently weakened position.
Meanwhile, hardly anyone appears to be bothered by Robert Spencer’s observation on Jihad Watch that Ahmadinejad is obsessed by August 22, the day after Mohammed is said to have ascended to heaven from Temple Mount when a ‘great light lit up the night sky’ over Jerusalem. The date that Ahmadinejad has said he will respond to the EU’s ultimatum over his nuclear programme is… August 22. Will his reponse be to light up the sky over Jerusalem?
No doubt to prevent such a horror would be condemned as a disproportionate response.
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Newfy
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Posted - 01 Aug 2006 : 23:54:48
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Heres another progressive magazine Mother Jones
which has another perspective on present situation..
http://www.motherjones.com/ |
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