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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (25029)	7/1/2003 4:56:36 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 25898

Hostages of the empire Andrew Murray Tuesday July 1, 2003 The Guardian The words of Paul Bremer, Washington's overlord in Iraq, need no "sexing up". "We are going to fight them and impose our will on them and we will capture or... kill them until we have imposed law and order on this country," he declared at the weekend. "We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country." Neither General Dyer at Amritsar nor General Westmoreland in Vietnam could have put it any clearer. Welcome to the new colonialism. Bremer's words are not just bluster. US forces are now engaged in massive search-and-destroy sweeps in central and northern Iraq against forces opposing their rule. While the Westminster village remains riveted by the Campbell-BBC pillow fight, it is the real war on the ground in Iraq that should be commanding our attention. The six British soldiers killed last week, like the US servicemen under daily attack, are victims of an overbearing and inept occupation policy that is alienating ordinary Iraqis of all persuasions. Civilian deaths, particularly of demonstrators, are mounting. Basic services and basic rights are in scant supply, with neither democracy nor a reliable water supply on offer to Iraqis. The only advanced programme is for the privatisation of state industry. This occupation, which has no modern precedent, should be at the centre of political attention. Ending it needs to be at the heart of public activity. Tony Blair has placed Britain at the service of the first major post-1991 attempt to fasten foreign domination by force on a sovereign country, an endeavour as unlawful as it is unwise. And there is no easy way out for the government. British troops in Iraq are now hostages to the Middle East policy of the Bush administration and its boundless appetite for domination. [snip] guardian.co.uk Ron, that article gave me a flash of foresight... Here's my tentative theory: about 50 years ago, the world entered the so-called stage of decolonization. Seemingly, it only concerned Europe's colonial powers (UK, France, Belgium,...) that, somehow, were compelled to grant independence to their colonies in Africa, Asia and the Mideast. However, that's only half the picture --what I call "geographic decolonization". But the US itself, through its infamous Jim Crow regime, practiced another kind of colonialism --"domestic colonialism"... And, likewise, while Europe engaged a process of (geographic) decolonizing abroad, the US underwent a similar decolonization at home (the Civil Rights mayhem). Of course, those two decolonizing patterns overlapped each other. For instance, while France was fighting the FLN guerilla in Algeria, she also had to cope with a hundred thousand Algerian migrant workers in metropolitan France. And the US was also involved in colonial warfare abroad --in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba,... Granted, those US interventions were branded as anti-Communist (ideological) ventures, not as American neo-colonialism. Today, we're witnessing a second stage of decolonization, a stage that is the mirror-image of the first one. Europe's Arab and Muslim minorities, increasingly kicked around by Judeofascist hatemongers, will soon bring about a "domestic decolonization" in Europe --similar to America's in the 1960s-- whereas the US will find itself struggling with "pockets of resistance" all along the faultline between Islam and Judeo-Christianity.... Gus

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (25029)	7/6/2003 2:33:07 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Yitzhak Shamir (former Prime Minister of Israel) sending letter bombs to civilians: <<< Ya'akov Eliav, who claims to have been the first to use letter-bombs when he served as a commander of the terrorist group headed by the current [c. 1991] prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir (Lehi, the "Stern gang"). Working from Paris in 1946, he arranged to have 70 such bombs sent in official British government envelopes to all members of the British cabinet, the heads of the Tory opposition, and several military commanders. In June 1947, he and an accomplice were caught by Belgian police while attempting to send these letter-bombs, and all were intercepted. >>> Shamir explains the philosophy behind his terrorist organization: <<< In 1943, current Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir wrote an article entitled "Terror" for the journal of the terrorist organization he headed (Lehi) in which he proposed to "dismiss all the 'phobia' and babble against terror with simple, obvious arguments." "Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war," he wrote, and "We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle." "First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today, and its task is a major one: it demonstrates in the clearest language, heard throughout the world including by our unfortunate brethren outside the gates of this country, our war against the occupier." As has been widely observed in Israel, the British occupation was far less repressive than Israel's rule in the occupied territories and faced a much more violent resistance. >>> monkeyfist.com Tom