Who is Driving This
War Against Iraq?
Thursday, February 27 2003 @ 08:05 AM GMT
By Anver Suliman*
Thirty Palestinians have been killed in six days including
unarmed civilians, one a medic trying to reach a sick
patient, and this was not a response to "suicide
bombing" or an attack by Palestinian gunmen in Israel.
Inside Israel (1948 Palestine) the situation has been its
calmest for months.
Sergio Vieira de Mello,
the UN commissioner for
Human Rights
responded by saying
that "such indiscriminate
use of force in civilian
areas can never be
justified".
Such are the atrocities
by the Israelis and yet
they say they want
peace.
While on the subject of peace and war, Pat Buchanan
alleged that it is Israel who is driving this rush to war in
Iraq. He goes on to say that "Israel and a powerful
'cabal' of its American supporters who have
manufactured the present crisis with Iraq has become
canonical", and that "George Bush has become a 'client'
of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon".
Paul Schroeder, a history professor at University of
Illinois deemed it self-evident that the plan for an
invasion "is being promoted in the interests of Israel".
Yet another, Georgie Anne Geyer whose column appears
weekly in the Washington Times, revealed how "the
neo-conservatives around the administration, the rabid
Israeli supporters in the White House and the
Pentagon", plan to wage war in Iraq and then to
'democratize' the entire Middle East, including Syria and
Saudi Arabia if necessary by military means, in order to
secure Ariel Sharon's Israel.
Writing in The Nation, Jason Vest reports that the Bush
team's "attack Iraq chorus", working in tandem with
far-right American Zionists, subscribes to "articles of faith
that effectively hold there is no difference between US
and Israeli national security interests".
Chris Matthews, the talk show host, thinks that Sharon
is "writing Bush's speeches and that Sharon's cabinet
ministers are "in bed with the vice-president's office and
the defence department".
If Muslims said all of this, here in South Africa or
elsewhere, the Zionists would cry once again
"anti-Semitism", and hysteria and emotionalism. But Ian
Buruma, the respected liberal intellectual has managed
to locate the reason for a US war against Iraq in "Jewish
American hysteria."
If anyone still has doubt as to who writes Bush's
speeches or who controls America, listen to the
comments on Bush's Middle East speech to remove
Arafat on 25/06/2002, and Israel's political commentator
Mahum Burmea in Yediot Ahromat, Israel's largest
newspaper, who says:
"The mouth was President Bush's, but the hand that
wrote the speech was Ariel Sharon's. The last two years
killed the Oslo Accords; President Bush's speech buried it
in the annals, of history."
In the Israeli Hebrew radio, Kol Yisrael on 3rd October
2001, it was reported that Sharon told Peres: "Every
time we do something you tell me America will do this
and will do that. I want to tell you something very
clearly: don't worry about American pressure on the
Zionist state, we, the Jewish people, control America,
and the Americans know it."
*Anver Suliman is an Executive member of the Media
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