War - The Final
Solution
Friday, March 21 2003 @ 08:28 AM GMT
By Dean Thomas
(PalestineChronicle) - The continuing escalation of the
never-ending Israeli war against the entire non-Jewish
population of mandated Palestine has become the model
for the Bush administration's never-ending war against
all those who stand in the way of U.S. economic and
military hegemony around the world.
With the passive
support of the majority
of its non-Arab citizens,
the Israeli state
continues to tag along
behind the simple logic
of its incredibly deadly
military forces. Given its
bloated military
capability to carry out
increasingly vicious campaigns of mass harassment,
impoverishment, imprisonment, torture and murder of
the Palestinian pulation, there islittle motivation for
Israelis to even consider other approaches to the
Palestinian resistance. Especially considering the
protection provided by its partner in repression, the
United States, from the threat of enforcement of any
U.N. resolutions.
Moron that he is, George Bush (with the continuing
coaching of his handlers) still remains highly aware that
the "success" of the Israeli military escalations depends
upon a combination of its overwhelming superiority in
weapons (including "weapons of mass destruction"), its
ability to circumvent any threats of international
intervention, and its massive international propaganda
campaigns. The Bush administration has made these
three planks the center of its own terrorist war on
(non-US-backed forms of) "Terrorism."
With its "Death Star" military programs, its neutering of
the U.N., and its increasingly well-orchestrated
Hollywood-PR-intelligence/psywar-military complex, the
U.S. state can afford to sink its own economy, while
intensifying the exploitation of international resources,
and sowing mass social destruction around the world-all
in the pursuit of short-trm oil and armament industry
profits, even shorter-term Republican Party political
gains, and a likely chimerical longer-term plan of Russian
and Chinese encirclement and neutralization. As long as
the Israelis-with massive U.S.help-continue to get away
with murder, the U.S. won't be far behind.
It doesn't matter much that even arch-ally Britain's
ambassador to Israel recently angered Israelis by
describing the Palestinian territories as "the largest
detention camp in the world" (according to Alan Philips in
the October 15th Telegraph in England). It doesn't
matter that Israel is only able to pursue its never-ending
war against an entire population through the generous
funding of the U.S. government-at a current total rate of
as much as $5.5 billion per year according to a recent
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs report
($5,525,800,000 for 1997). It doesn't matter that this
never-ending war requires the creation of an
ever-widening list of civilian targets for assassination
("targeted killings" of civilian "suspects" in U.S./Israeli
propaganda-speak.)
It doesn't seem to
matter that these
never-ending wars
require the day-by-day,
increasing Nazification of
both the Israeli and the
U.S. states. The
semi-racist,
semi-religious, apartheid
state of Israel has been
compared with Nazi Germany for years for a variety of
reasons confirmed over and over in its brutally
devastating invasions, annexations, expulsions and
occupations over the last half century. The U.S. state
has also earned its own comparisons to the Nazis-from
the invasion, defoliation and genocidal bombings in
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to its seemingly
insuppressible penchant for terrorizing and invading tiny
countries, including the repeated organization and
funding of proxy death squads to torture, assassinate
and "disappear" its opponents, including teachers, union
organizers, students and health-care workers.
This increasing Nazification can be seen in the
prospective US-planned massacre in Iraq ("war" is a
gross misnomer) which promises to reach new levels of
carnage, depravity and brutality with a proposed "Shock
and Awe" strategy. It calls for the launching of 3000
precision-guided bombs and missiles during the first 48
hours of attack to produce a Hiroshima-style effect on
the Iraqi civilian population. According to military
strategist Harlan Ullman: "There will not be a safe place
in Baghdad. The sheer size of this has never been seen
before, never been contemplated before."
The population of Iraq is still enduring the effects of the
1991 Gulf massacre where water treatment facilities and
sewage plants were deliberately destroyed in order to
create "favorable conditions for disease outbreaks,
particularly in major urban areas" (according to a 1991
US Defense Intelligence Agency document). This was
followed by a deliberate US policy of blocking
humanitarian supplies to deny necessary repairs,
medicines and medical equipment resulting in 1 to 1.5
million deaths, many of them children-a US-enforced
embargo declared "genocidal" by Denis Halliday, former
Deputy Under Secretary of the UN.
This increasing Nazification can also be seen in the
methods used by Israel in the occupied Palestinian
territories, including the Israeli military adopting the
tactics used by the Nazis against the Warsaw ghettos.
This intensified campaign of torture, illegal detentions,
deportations, assassinations, house demolitions,
economic strangulation, and mass starvation-carried out
with the unconditional support of the US-is creating a
major health crisis and a silent famine as severe hunger
grips ever larger
portions of the Palestinian population in the
Israeli-imposed "detention camps" of the West Bank and
Gaza.
When wars are fought against vastly outgunned
enemies, when civilian populations are their primary
target, and when no peace is considered possible short
of total annihilation of the enemy, the level of barbarism
which must eventually take shape increasingly
resembles those carried out by Nazi Germany against its
enemies in the 1930s and 1940s. Both the US and Israel
have committed and continue to engage in terrorist
atrocities and war crimes of immense proportions. And
the vast majority of the corporate media is complicit in
this effort serving as willing propagandists and
enthusiastic cheerleaders for the war criminals in the
United States and Israel.
Dean Thomas is an editor with the Alternative Press
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