Re: Don't the israelis have a similar situation with snipers picking of random people?
Yes, they do.... The situation in Washington DC replicates what happened in Belgium from 1982 to 1985. At that time, Israeli paratroopers terrorized a whole area --the Brabant Wallon-- in an attempt to compel Belgium to change her policy towards Israel and the Mideast. 29 innocent Belgians were brutally killed and, about 20 years later, we still don't know who were the so-called "mad killers". By the way, the crime precincts were similar: all 29 victims were shot on parking lots belonging to popular shopping malls (Delhaize, Colruyt). Of course, the conspiracy reached the highest levels of the state (Belgium's Justice Minister at the time was Mr Jean Gol, a Belgian Jew, who insisted that the killings were neither terrorist nor political blackmail).
The media's pet theory was that it was a coup d'etat attempt by far-right elements and that the Belgian gendarmerie was involved.... They also pointed to the CIA and its "strategy of tension" devised to "harden" leftist European regimes. However, that theory doesn't hold water in the case of Belgium since the Belgian Communist party, and the Belgian far-left in general, was never in a position to enter any government coalition. So, there was no point for the CIA to lump Belgium together with Italy, France and Germany --all countries where the Communists and the Greens/Pacifists used to enjoy huge constituencies post-1945.
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