Here is a totally different take on the Mideast and oil as seen by the most right wing Jewish circles. Absolute nonesense in my view, but the thread should find it interesting:
The Clinton-Barak-Arafat Great Oil Swindle
Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator
September 19, 2000
You may have been wondering why Prime Minister Barak was so anxious to make
extraordinary concessions of Israeli land, water, Jewish Holy Sites, Jerusalem, et al
and on such an accelerated time-table, regardless of risk. Perhaps you thought he
was merely doing the Clintons a favor for the assistance they rendered during his
elections. But, what leader would ever consider giving up half his capital city, let
alone the Holy Jewish Capital, Jerusalem. There is an answer, one that should be
addressed both in a Congressional inquiry in the U.S. and a similar inquiry by the
Israeli Knesset.
When Clinton promised Barak upwards of $50 to 70 Billion of American
tax-payers' dollars for withdrawing from irreplaceable water and defensive territory
- with another $40 Billion of American money directly to Arafat, he needed deep pockets. Someone had to pay for Clinton's "Grand
Gesture". Clinton needed even deeper pockets to pay for Israel's withdrawal from the Golan Heights - having to evict 17,000 Israeli
citizens from their homes, factories, farms, vineyards, and famous wineries. He also had to pay for the redeployment of a complete
Israeli Army and all its installations which faced the Syrian Army, positioned there in the Heights to keep Syria from moving down
on Israel. Here the cost estimates ranged from $70 to $100 Billion to move all of that plus another $40 Billion of American money
to pay Syria merely to accept this grand gift. (The money to Syria would enable them to buy U.S. high tech weapons that would
give Syria overwhelming military superiority over the Israelis as well as the strategic Heights and water.) The total amounts
promised to Barak and Arafat by President Clinton, an out-going President, were staggering. (1)
Where was all this vast treasure to come from? The U.S. Congress was certainly not going to simply foot the bill, even when
Clinton threatened to blame them for standing in the way of his peace plan. How would Congress explain its actions to its
constituents, the American public, that it would raid the U.S. Treasury of American paid-in tax dollars while cutting all sorts of
American entitlement programs, like Social Security, Education, Medicare, etc. that are essential for the American people?
The scheme was quite simple. It could be called "Clinton's Foreign Oil Policy". (2)
Work with OPEC via a covert program to keep the price of oil at an all time high level and OPEC would accumulate a slush fund
which would, in part, pay for Bill Clinton's promises. Keep in mind that this scheme is merely a direct transfer of dollars as a free
gift from the pockets of unsuspecting American and Europeans without having to go through either Congress or the European
Parliaments.
Rape & Reap
This was to be the swindle that topped all other swindles. Each gallon of gas, fuel oil, diesel would carry a de facto hidden tax
through the current manipulated price hike which would transfer the elevated cost of crude directly to the consuming public. They
would, of course, complain bitterly about the cost of finished refined products but would go ballistic if they knew the REAL reason
for the oil price manipulation. Keep in mind that in addition to this slush fund, the oil producers and the oil company processors
were raking in excess profits in the hundreds of billions. This is a Rape & Reap Process.
When Bill Clinton sent Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy to Saudi Arabia when the price of crude dropped to $10 a barrel, as a
result of the oil glut the reason for his mission was astonishing. Clinton wanted Saudi Arabia to lead OPEC members into cutting
production in order to raise crude oil prices. Several reasons existed for Clinton's pressure - in addition to this slush fund from
excess profits.
When crude dropped to $10 a barrel, Arab countries began to cancel their weapons orders and demanded to re-negotiate prior
contracts. Clinton, who was using higher oil prices for his foreign policy, needed those profits pouring into OPEC from American
pockets so weapons sales worth billions would continue. (Note! The recent Saudi plan to purchase $3 Billions in U.S. weapons,
used higher crude prices to buy these high tech arms - directly out of the pockets of American consumers.) (3)
Also, Clinton needed to transfer American wealth to Russia via oil - without re-payable loans to first Boris Yeltsin and now Vladimir
Putin. This was one facet of Clinton's foreign policy wherein he bribed the Russians to collaborate. They took the money but, they
didn't play ball. Remember, Russia is a large exporter of crude. That scheme of transfer of capital without having to go through
Congress worked so well, he decided to apply it to his exit strategy from the White House. If he could get OPEC to set aside part of
the profits being squeezed out of the American and European public for his Middle East promises, he could polish his tarnished
record by being the great peace maker of all times.
To accomplish this, he needed a compliant Prime Minister in control of Israel. He helped buy the election of a person who was such
a dedicated Socialist that the re-partitioning of Israel was consistent with the man's entire upbringing. Ehud Barak was raised in a
pro-Soviet kibbutz and nurtured by the Leftist political Party into the PM's office. Barak was the perfect Manchurian Candidate -
brainwashed - (as in the movie where the repatriated GI prisoner-of-war was brainwashed by the Chinese Communists and trained
to kill on subliminal command.)
It is clear why Barak is in a panic to complete the Faustian bargain he has made with Clinton and Arafat. The manipulated transfer
of money must occur while Bill Clinton is still in office because the next President may not continue to carry forward a plan that
carries the risk of impeachment. The oil price manipulation must continue for as long as possible in order to create the slush fund to
buy what Barak must give up. It must also pay Arafat to establish and people his neo-State of Palestine. Then there is the purchase
of the Golan for Syria. All of this could amount to $150 to $200 Billion dollars.
Oh, Yes! I forgot to include the cost of the U.S. Military Base planned for the Golan Heights.
This swindle may be the greatest transfer of American and European wealth that has ever occurred. It is so massive that it cannot be
seen in all of its parts at a glance. Therein lies its brilliance and ruthlessness.
Ehud Barak must close his end of the deal quickly before he's forced out of office by an angry electorate. He must make
proclamations using the authority of office he does not really have but has now claimed. He is to make these concessions
irreversible by having Clinton, the leaders of the European Union nations and Egypt immediately sign on the White House lawn
before any debate or confirmation by the Knesset (Israel's Parliament) due to reconvene in October. Every effort is being made to
achieve this monumental swindle very quickly. Note the swarming of the State Department team and Clinton's continuous
intercession, pleading with Arafat to accept Barak's concessions.
There is yet critical another component to the swindle. U.S. based Multi-National companies have blamed the shortage of crude oil
for their high prices. They are using this so-called shortage which they caused to evolve in order to demand suspension of laws that
prohibit drilling in ecologically sensitive areas like estuaries, fish breeding grounds, etc. In addition to drilling in these prohibited
areas, they are also lobbying for Congressional tax concessions, despite their excess profits. And, as we saw in the brief hearings
earlier this year, the oil magnates are begging for this money "to benefit the poor, small and wild-cat drilling companies". However,
under this manipulated oil price blackmail, IF Congress granted these financial benefits, it is the huge Multi-nationals who will reap
the greatest windfall profits.
So, dear fellow American taxpayers and European citizens, you are being royally cheated by your leaders. The result is high gas
prices for gasoline, diesel fuel for trucks and ships, jet fuel, home heating oil at extraordinary prices - all leading to tremendous price
rises in consumer goods. This is the covert foreign oil policy of Clinton: one massive swindle and we all are the suckers paying for
it.
Please do not blame the Israeli people because they will pay for this through the loss of lives and possibly their nation
and probably a heavy financial burden that will bankrupt this vibrant nation for years. You can, however, blame the
Leftist Government of Israel - so consumed with their plan to absorb Israel into the Arab nations that any trick or
swindle is acceptable to them.
You can also specifically blame what may be most corrupt and invidious President so consumed with his personal self that he would
easily cheat the American public IF it will polish his tarnished legacy. Fuel strikes in France, England and now Germany due to
soaring oil prices are spontaneous eruptions by angry farmers, truckers, factory owners. Undoubtedly, American Unions will soon
tie up U.S. roads in similar protests. Let their anger be properly directed against Clinton, Barak and Arafat, (the notorious gang of
three) as well as OPEC which aiding the Clinton foreign oil policy. The victims of this Rape and Reap policy are the American and
European public, plus the Israeli people who are losing their land, water, holy Jewish sites and will probably also have their taxes
raised to pay for Barak's folly.
There are many pigs feeding at the oil trough, including the U.S. government which has a 25% tax on gas - with the European
Governments taxing gas at a 70% rate. (4)
Clinton has just stated on CNN News that he doesn't thinks high oil prices will lead to a world wide recession.(5) Many nations and
many companies have been walking a financial tightrope. All they needed was a slight tip in the global economy to push them into a
default on debt. Take a hard look at Japan and China - followed by the rest of Asia. Will Bill Clinton's manipulation of oil lead to
his final legacy of global depression? Bill Clinton has just told us not to worry about a global recession. Take that to mean he has
just looked over the horizon at what his manipulations have started. Telegram arrives: "Start worrying; letter to follow."
Finally, the nay-sayers will pop up with their verbal obfuscation stating there are no conspiracies in government, only conspiracy
theories. Well, folks, the fact is that every scintilla of planning in government is a plan to undercut some nation or some competitor.
There is no other description except "conspiracy". Whether Iran-Contra or Oslo, be assured conspiracies are the rule and not the
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