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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (9862)	1/25/2006 7:47:26 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

George Bush Still Has an Appetite for Further Conquests By Tariq A. Al-Maeena Al-Jazeerah, January 25, 2006 The sabre-rattlings of George Bush have taken off to another round. This time it is Iran and their nuclear program. Whilst American soldiers are being felled down and killed periodically in Iraq, there still exists more appetite for further conquests. And what a better way than to drum up the same old scenario of threat to the domestic well being of America and all Americans? It worked against Afghanistan and Iraq, and George Bush figures it’s going to work again in Iran. Employing the doctrine of ‘if you can fool them once, and then twice, you can fool them all the time.’ Not content with the personal profits they have realized from their grand Iraqi adventure, George and the people around him are now actively promoting a picture of Iran as an immediate threat to the existence of mankind. The merry men are being dispatched to all corners of the globe to gather support for their cause, actively trying to build a sham of a coalition of nations against Iran. And there is another unspoken reason for all this alarm. Israel, the one nation in the region that has been universally recognized as a bigger threat with its inventory of weapons of mass destruction feels threatened. It wants no one else to share the nuclear stage with itself. It's no secret that the whole world now knows that Israel possesses enough nuclear arms to destroy the entire Middle East. Mordechai Vanunnu, the nuclear technician who first brought Israel's nuclear program to the attention of the world saw to that. And to silence him from saying anything further, the Israeli government abducted and subsequently jailed him for 18 years. Following his release Vanunnu still faces severe restrictions on his right to move freely and to communicate with others. But George Bush cannot bring that up now, could he? It would expose the fraudulent and deceptive practices his administration has so successfully sold to the American public. Iraq was no real threat to the United States and neither was Afghanistan. But the adventure in Iraq was motivated in part by greed and in a greater part by the ranting of the acknowledged war criminal Ariel Sharon to pacify the Zionist lobby in US politics. With George Bush’s administration overflowing with Zionist sympathizers and their racist doctrine, it's no wonder the lives of ordinary American soldiers are being meaninglessly thrown to wind to preserve Israel’s criminal pursuit of ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation, and divert attention away from Israel’s nuclear program. As long as they can get their constituents to focus on Iran, all should be well. Heck, for that matter, the international community has been impotent in bringing about a nuclear free Middle East, as they acknowledge that Israelis would not allow inspection of their nuclear facilities by the UN inspectors or anyone else. Censures on their activities in the past have been met with thorough disdain by the Israelis. And the countless UN Security Council resolutions that Israel has openly ignored are too numerous to count. But yet, US foreign policy continues in its hypocrisy of selling any country perceived as a threat or a challenge to Israel as one whose intentions are to target and strike US soil. While Iran’s President has openly been vocal on his disdain for Israel as a pariah among nations, it has been Israel all along who has been actively carrying out the atrocities against the rightful inhabitants of the land. The people of this region are not naïve enough to believe in George Bush’s call for alarm. They weren’t fooled during the Iraq adventure, nor will they be fooled this time around. The question remains whether George Bush’s constituents will fall for this one! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The writer is social critic and commentator, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Mr. Al-Maeena welcomes comments and can be reached at clsencounters@hotmail.com