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ROOT OF THE CONFLICT
"...a long-term
military, economic and geographic
practice (by Israel and the U.S.) whose political aim
is
nothing less than the liquidation
of the Palestinian nation."
MiddleEast.Org - MER -
Washington - 1 August 2006: The
goal of the U.S.-Israel War of 2006 in the Middle East is nothing less
than to enforce control of the region for another generation. Iran is
the main target as it represents the most powerful and determined
opposition to U.S. and Israeli designs. Provoking Iran through
attacking Syria may be the next step soon to come. If one reviews the
actual events of this year, and recent years in fact, one can find a
clear pattern of Israeli-U.S. provocation first of the Palestinians and
then in recent weeks of the Lebanese. Passions are now enflamed on all
sides. The super-dry political forest of the region now only requires
a spark to set off a much wider conflagation. This is precisely what
the Zionist Neocons who still dominate Washington affairs in the
Bush/Cheney Administration have worked overtime to bring about. Even
as the Israelis call up still more forces to expand the war possibly
much further, at the same time the Americans -- Israel's big partner in
crime -- are busy blowing obscuring political smoke while
simultaneously trying to manipulate the U.N. to send forces that would
in effect join the U.S.-Israeli side.
Opposition
to the Neocon and Israeli Lobby forces in the U.S. -- and make no
mistake about it that is where this war has come from -- is
extraordinarily weak and confused. From the bumbling Democratic Party
'opposition', to the totally failed NGO organizations and the
pathetically inept Arab and Jewish 'peace groups', there is no
effective and potent opposition.
The Neocons and the Israeli Lobby have been working for years now in
crusading fashion to bring the world to the verge of what is now a
potential slow-burn world war. That is what they have been planning for
some time largely because it fits the Israeli geopolitical design for
the Middle East region.
There are no other superpowers -- either on the world stage or in the
region to stop them. Russia and China have too much to lose by
actually involving themselves; and they also have too much to gain if
the Americans are allowed to overextend themselves as disgust and
hatred rises against them.
IIn the U.S. the Neocons and the Israel Lobby have effective control of
the Executive Branch of government and have silenced or cowered some
significant opposition that was coming from within the CIA, the
Military, and the "retired" community of former this and thats.
Furthermore they have effectively co-opted much of the corporate media;
and very importantly the Israeli Lobby is actually now more in control
of the U.S. Congress than ever.
This short letter that
follows from Noam Chomsky and others was published on July 19, 2006
while the destruction of Gaza was still top of the news and the Lebanon
war not yet dominant.
The letter gives the appearance of having been inadequately and
probably hastily written, and as usual it was grossly inadequately
promoted and then not followed-up in a sustained way as the situation
requires.
But even so this letter is signed by some significant persons of great
insight, conviction and integrity, and it does highlight what is really
the root core cause behind today's on-the-brink situation -- all too
often forgotten these days in the haze of escalating war.
From the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has flowed most of the rest of
what we are witnessing today in the Middle East. After sixty years of
building up their power -- with so much help from the U.S. and Europe
-- the Israelis now seem intent on not only vanquishing Palestinian
nationalism but on remaking the entire Middle East under a US-Israeli
cloak of modern-day Empire and imperialism.
They will enforce this 'New World Order' as long as they can through
sheer military power, covert CIA plots, worldwide NSA spying, economic
domination, and Mossad black ops, many of which have already taken
place, with many more no doubt underway.
The
latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when
Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from
Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish
press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier
prisoner - and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken
by the Israelis - there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails.
That
this "kidnapping" was considered an outrage, whereas the illegal
military occupation of the West Bank and the systematic appropriation
of its natural resources - most particularly that of water - by the
Israeli Defence (!) Forces is considered a regrettable but realistic
fact of life, is typical of the double standards repeatedly employed by
the West in face of what has befallen the Palestinians, on the land
alloted to them by international agreements, during the last seventy
years.
Today outrage follows outrage; makeshift missiles
cross sophisticated ones. The latter usually find their target situated
where the disinherited and crowded poor live, waiting for what was once
called Justice. Both categories of missile rip bodies apart horribly -
who but field commanders can forget this for a moment?
Each
provocation and counter-provocation is contested and preached over. But
the subsequent arguments, accusations and vows, all serve as a
distraction in order to divert world attention from a long-term
military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is
nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation.
This
has to be said loud and clear for the practice, only half declared and
often covert, is advancing fast these days, and, in our opinion, it
must be unceasingly and eternally recognised for what it is and
resisted.
Tariq Ali
John Berger
Noam Chomsky
Eduardo Galeano
Naomi Klein
Harold Pinter
Arundhati Roy
Jose Saramago
Giuliana Sgrena
Howard Zinn
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August 2006
BUSH = CRAP - So Says Tony Blair's Deputy Prime Minister!
(August 17, 2006)
BUSH = CRAP Did You Say? OK, apparently the "Crap" reference had specifically to do with the so-called U.S. "Roadmap" and promises to the Brits and others regarding the disastrous Iraqi War. But you'll pardon us for expanding the context and suggesting it applies quite generally across the board. We think the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, would agree, if he could.
Pakistan's Musharaf Blackmailed by US?
(August 16, 2006)
Target Musharraf after years of blackmail? None of us can know for sure -- such things are closely held national secrets that few even in the intelligence services have access to. But there is a great deal of circumstantial 'evidence' that lends considerable possible veracity to what is discussed in this article which is written by an enterprising Pakistani journalist now exiled in Canada. And some years ago there was the demise of another strong-man Pakistani General, Zia al-Haq.
The Rise of Hezbollah in 'The New Middle East'
(August 13, 2006)
Just look at opinion polls around the world where even ordinary people are asked about the policies of the U.S. and Israel -- never ever so dangerously off the charts. Here is the origin of the disgust, the hatred, and the desire for revenge that is propelling so many to decide that they must themselves find ways to fight, to defend, to revenge. This substantial cover story comes from India, from the well-known magazine Frontline published by The Hindu.
SHAMEFUL, SCANDALOUS, PREPOSTEROUS - The Arab 'Leaders'
(August 9, 2006)
So much for the far-too-late far-too-little Arab Foreign Ministers Summit a few days ago. Even as they pontificated in a 'safe' part of Beirut not far away the Israelis bombed away reducing the Arab States to a rag-tag collection of pathetically weak pseudo- governments and American-sponsored 'client regimes' going through the rituals and crying crocodile tears.
Damascus and Tehran - Next Stops on the Crusading Express
(August 7, 2006)
"...the neoconservative dream of making George W. Bush a modern-day Alexander conquering the major cities of the Middle East, one after another."
Hezbollah's al-Manar
(August 6, 2006)
Meanwhile the battle for Iran is still in the early phases, the war in Iraq is going very badly for the Americans, Lebanon has been destroyed again, the Palestinians are suffering far worse than apartheid, the credibility and resources of the American Empire are draining away at an accelerating pace, and the hatred for Israel is bubbling over.
Target IRAN!
(August 5, 2006)
And so the largely Jewish cabal of Neocons who so dominate Washington affairs in coordination with the Jewish/Israel Lobby -- and the new Evangelical/Israel Lobby which the Jewish one has greatly encouraged and helped -- now have the big target in sight: IRAN!
UN To Fight For Israel and US Against Arabs and Muslims!
(August 3, 2006)
Now the Christian Evangelical President, in tandem with the Zionist Neocon 'cabal' and the Israel Lobby in Washington, is actually attempting to manipulate the U.N. to send an armed 'multinational' force -- NOT a blue-helmet 'peace keeper' force mind you --' to take over the area of southern Lebanon nearest to Israel's northern border!
ON THE BRINK... At The Root...
(August 1, 2006)
The Neocons and the Israeli Lobby have been working for years now in crusading fashion to bring the world to the verge of what is now a potential slow-burn world war. That is what they have been planning for some time largely because it fits the Israeli geopolitical design for the Middle East region.
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