ISRAEL-U.S. Relations
On the one hand, Israel is happy to spread silly lies about Iran's purported weapons systems (gosh, can the American public be dumb enough to swallow a new fake WMD story?), and on the other hand, secrets of the Greater Zionist criminal cabal must be maintained, even in their own journals. Here's some interesting reading about America's so-called ally in the Middle East. Hold you nose!
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Daniel Pipes seems to have decided to make his career as the Savaronola of American academia, effectively a book-burner of anything which criticizes, even vaguely, the Likudnik project for the creation of Greater Israel. It must be difficult for Pipes, the son of a famous academic following in his father's footsteps, all the while hearing the muffled jeers that his whole academic career is based on nepotism, and he is getting his revenge by systematically attacking freedom of speech in American universities. This has all been on the guise that such free speech is anti-Semitic, or supports 'terrorism', but his real goal is obviously to suppress any talk that might interfere with the Likudnik goal. He has finally given himself away in a bizarre attack on the Israel Insider, putting pressure on it to stop publishing the writings of Barry Chamish. This was supposed to be a secret - a conspiracy, if you will, to surreptitiously repress free speech, and ironically one of the few occasions when the conspiracy referred to by Chamish comes to light - but the honesty of the Israel Insider let the cat out of the bag.
The Israel Insider is obviously ultra-Zionist and completely supportive of the most extreme Likudnik positions. Their editorial rants are scary, but they do attempt to cover the news accurately (I think it is fair to say that Israeli news sources on the Middle East and Israel are always considerably more accurate than the lying and/or incompetent efforts of the disgusting American press). They also publish the writings of Barry Chamish. Chamish is also a Zionist, but more importantly, a truth-seeker. He is one of the few who dares criticize the inner workings of the Israeli state, and in particular one of the few who criticizes the obviously sanitized story of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, an assassination with obvious conspiracy ties to the highest levels of the Israeli establishment. Rabin was killed by people who wanted to stop the peace process, as peace would end their deranged dream of Greater Israel. These same people are still in power in Israel.
There is a long history of connecting the Jewish people with conspiracies and secret societies, with the accompanying suggestion that the minority Jewish population is secretly undermining the societies in which they live in the accomplishment of their covert goals. Unfortunately, there is a tendency amongst supporters of Israel to substantiate these fears, with the clear suppression of any talk which might give 'outsiders' any leverage over the Jewish state. The Jews have to hang together over Israel, no matter what it does, or hang apart in a new Holocaust. Jewish liberals are as aghast at what is going on as the rest of us, but repress their misgivings for fear of giving a weapon to enemies of Israel. The fact that the latest faked rocket attack on Israel was revealed by members of the IDF itself is a welcome development, and may indicate that Israel is finally reaching a state of maturity and comfort with itself that the truth, however unpleasant, can be told.
Pipes completely gives himself away in his insistence that the Israel Insider stop publishing Chamish. Chamish's writings can't possibly be called anti-Semitic, or anti-Zionist, or anti-Israeli, or pro-terrorist. Chamish thinks that Israel is the victim of a larger anti-Zionist conspiracy involving the highest levels of the American establishment. He may be wrong in this, but there is no obvious reason to suppress his right to express his point of view. By connecting the leaders of Israel to the Council on Foreign Relations, he expressly attacks the self-righteous nature of the stated goals of the Israeli leadership. The only thing Chamish undermines - and I note that I doubt Chamish would support my characterization - is the reputation of Israeli leadership, and in particular the unholy alliance of the most crazed religious nuts with the leaders of the Likud party and the Israeli military, a combination which may be employed by the CFR to destroy Israel in its long-term goal of American control over Middle Eastern oil. Pipes has finally gone too far and has revealed that he is not trying to stop anti-Semitism, or hateful speech. He is trying to repress talk of the darkest of Zionist secrets, as he and those he works for are afraid that the truth will stop the crazy religious goal of the creation of Greater Israel.
Reuven Koret of the Israel Insider, to his great credit, is refusing to buckle under to Pipes' considerable pressure. Regardless of what your political position, agreeing to the terms of censors and book-burners is simply wrong. Pipes has gone one step too far, and has revealed what he is really up to. He really ought to see a psychiatrist about these issues with his father.
posted at 10:46 PM permanent link
Eric Margolis throws some cold water on all the optimism about peace in Palestine:
"While Sharon and Abbas talk peace, Israel continues to expand settlements and expropriate Arab land. There are now 450,000 Jewish settlers on the West Bank, 200,000 of them in the illegally enlarged boundaries of Jerusalem.
Sharon's vision of a Palestinian 'entity' is three of four separate cantons, or apartheid-style Bantustans, isolated by Jewish-only security roads and checkpoints, all surrounded by a high 'security wall.'
Jewish settlements may occupy up to 58% of the West Bank. Palestine's air, land, sea and telecommunications contacts with the outside world will be entirely controlled by Israel. This is not peace. It's a penitentiary."
It is completely implausible to conclude that Zionist Arik Sharon and Christian Zionist Condi Rice woke up one morning and decided to allow the Palestinians to have a state sufficiently robust that it would block the establishment of Greater Israel. No, the Likudnik plan - to put the Palestinians in a series of what are effectively concentration camps, completely surrounded by constantly hounding and encroaching settlers and without any economic or political viability, give the camps a flag and call them a 'state', and wait for the inhabitants of the camps to slowly but steadily leave in despair - remains in full effect. The goal is to entice the Palestinians to agree to this trick with a combination of rhetoric and relief from some of the worst breaches of international law imposed on them by the state of Israel, and have the Palestinian leadership fall into the trap of collaborating in their own destruction. There are elements of the Jewish collaboration with the Nazis here - an irony not lost on the Holocaust-obsessed Zionists - where Jewish leaders participated in the eventual destruction of Jews, all on the hopes that cooperation would lead to an acceptable compromise, never realizing that compromise wasn't on the agenda of the Nazis. Compromise is also impossible for the Zionists, and you will notice that with the 'concessions' by Israel we have not seen one attempt to comply with the terms of the 'road map'. All the real concessions have been by the Palestinians, particularly the decision by Abbas to take over the destructive job of policing his own freedom fighters (a mistake that Arafat also made, which led to the intifada). The proposed withdrawal from Gaza, much touted as part of the peace process, is simply another tactical way for Israel to isolate the Palestinians in separated settlements, and allow the misery imposed by the uninhabitable nature of the settlements to take its course. Israel has just announced it would be building a new settlement in the West Bank to house some of the current inhabitants of Gaza, an announcement so utterly incompatible with the 'road map' that it is almost surreal, and reveals the true plans of the Likudniks. There will be no peace in the Middle East until there is sane leadership in Washington.
posted at 10:14 PM permanent link
I keep reading that the Americans suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Iraqi election, with the results now effectively establishing a Shi'ite theocracy controlled by Iran. This is certainly a further blow to American prestige, and demonstrates the hollowness of Bush's talk about 'freedom', but is it really a blow for the neocons? Their interests are definitely not the same as the interests of the United States. The neocons have but two goals, not necessarily in this order:
* gain control of all the Middle Eastern oil fields so that they may use such control to dominate the world (and in particular to blackmail the rest of the world into continuing to fund American profligacy); and
* establish Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.
The neocons could care less about the type of government in Iraq, as the oil fields will continue to be guarded by a huge contingent of American troops. Actually, they would prefer a dictatorial theocracy, as it would further fuel their arguments that the Arab mind isn't capable of understanding democracy, and thus that the Middle East should continue to be run by 'strong men' compliant with the interests of the American empire. Of course, Greater Israel cannot occur until the country of Iraq is broken up. As Oded Yinon wrote in 1982 (italics in the original):
"Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi'ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization."
As I wrote a while ago (see also here and here):
"The Iraqi-Iranian war failed to accomplish the dissolution of Iraq, so the Americans were tricked by the neocons into the attack on Iraq, largely through the efforts of Douglas Feith feeding erroneous Israeli-prepared intelligence into the American political system. Feith will no doubt someday be honored by a statue in Israel. Israeli or American agents provocateurs currently operating in Iraq are finishing the job proposed by Yinon, as part of a similar ongoing operation against all the Arab states, of breaking the country up into small, unthreatening ethnic enclaves. Everything that we see going on in Iraq today has to be seen in the light of the long-standing Zionist plans for the Middle East."
Now we're supposed to believe that this phony election, staged by the neocons and run by the Pentagon, with the votes counted without any effective international monitoring, represents a defeat for the neocons? I don't think so. Those who do the counting get exactly the result they want. With the Sunnis effectively completely powerless, and at the mercy of their historic enemies, the Shi'ites, and the Kurds feeling overly powerful due to their relatively strong showing, we have all the elements set up for a complete break-up of the country into three parts, all burdened by ongoing wars and violence. Once the Kurds form their own state Turkey will have to become involved, and the war will ruin relations with Turkey's Kurdish population, thus permanently queering Turkey's chances of getting into the EU (once Turkey is part of Europe, with Turkey's enormous population of consumers and producers, it's game over for the American Hegemon). The Sunnis will never accept Shi'ite rule, and the continuing resistance will eventually lead to civil war. The neocons will be able to use alleged Iranian meddling in Iraq as one of their excuses for the new war on Iran, and the Great Game will again be afoot. The big danger that we're hearing about, that there will be an Iranian-dominated Shi'ite empire from Iran across central Iraq and into Lebanon, won't be a problem for the neocons once Iran is smoldering under American and Israeli nukes. Who won the Iraqi elections? The neocons!
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