Amer-Israeli empire strikes backJanuary 4, 2009
I have stood silent for too long. Ask any Israeli supporter, “who started the 1967 war?” and they will answer, Egypt. The Nasser government imposed a blockade of Israel’s southern Red Sea port which they considered an act of war; Israel responded with a massive air and ground assault, capturing Gaza and the Sinai from Egypt, the Golan heights from Syria and the West Bank from Jordan. More than 40 years ago, the occupation of Palestine began. For many decades there was practically no violent resistance: no Hamas, no rockets, no suicide bombers. So much for Gandhi, the global community did nothing to restrain Israel as it tightened the noose and continued to expand settlements. Before this latest conflict, Israel imposed a near total blockade of the entire Gaza strip, yet none of those same people who declared Nasser’s actions an act of war in 1967 are honest enough to also call Israel’s actions more recently an act of war. They still maintain Hamas began this conflict, as if the occupation began last week, bull shit. They will scream about rockets, crude home-made unguided symbols of resistance that rarely do any damage to anything other than Israel’s ego, but never say a word about dropping 1000 pound bombs on apartment buildings in densely populated neighborhoods. The hypocrisy is stunning and would be embarrassing, if it weren’t so disingenuous. The reality is that Israeli supporters are more likely to be racist than honest, they just don’t value Palestinian life. I’m so tired of hearing people use “unbearable” Hamas rocket fire landing in open fields to justify Israel’s right to do whatever it wants, as the people of Gaza languish in poverty, darkness, misery, terror and death. Do the Palestinians not also have a right to self defence? Or does that only apply to people sufficiently white enough to earn it? Israel chose to capture that territory and keep it under its influence for so long, nobody forced them to this point. The elite are trying to create a climate of fear, preventing us from speaking the truth, enough is enough. It’s time to tell it like it is — Israel is an apartheid state, worse than South Africa, maintaining an illegal and immoral occupation of the West Bank and siege of Gaza. They’re only able to continue these policies, in defiance of world opinion, with American diplomatic, financial and military support. As the American tax base disappears in the near future so will Israeli aid, and history will not be kind to those of us who stood by and did nothing as war crimes were being perpetrated right in front of our eyes. Israel will be condemned by good people everywhere for generations. America, through Israel, is trying to show strength, but instead these actions will give the world yet another reason to let the American empire fall to the dustbin of history. Where the hell is Obama? Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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oh yeah, Brzezinski.
He’s a great one to lecture us about how to achieve peace. His idea of a good solution was to fund the Taliban.
There is no clear cut villian in any of this. They’re all to blame.
Maybe when the people wake up as they did in Ireland, they won’t put up with it any more.
Where’s that Richard Holbrook, anyway?
Both sides have done awful things, if that’s what you mean by both sides are too blame, but definitely the reason peace has been so elusive is as a result of Israeli policy for decades. The racism, the settlements, the apartheid policies, the murders, the imprisonments, the torture, the humiliation, etc for so many decades has worn people’s patience. It’s not surprising Palestinians are lashing out like this, it’s only surprising it took 60 years in refugee camps and 40 years of occupation, if this happened in Texas it would have taken 40 minutes.
I agree that the Isrealis have behaved badly. But given their location and their experience during the 1930s and 40s, it isn’t surprising they refuse to take any crap from anyone.
It’s a huge mess, not unlike the Irish/English conflict. It seems that an honest broker could do some good.
Who will it be?
oops! I meant George Mitchell
Here is how the events playing out in the middle east fit into Israel’s plans:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11606
1. The assassination in November 2004 of Yaser Arafat. It was intended to destroy the Palestinian Authority, foment divisions within Fatah as well as between Fatah and Hamas.
2. The removal of all Jewish settlements in Gaza. It was part of the overall covert operation, which consisted in transforming Gaza into a concentration camp. As long as Jewish settlers were living inside Gaza, the objective of sustaining a large barricaded prison territory could not be achieved.
3. The building of the infamous Apartheid Wall.
4. The Hamas election victory in January 2006. With Hamas in charge of the Palestinian authority, using the pretext that Hamas is a terrorist organization, Israel would carry out the process of “cantonization” (i.e., the West Bank and Gaza would be totally cut off from one another).
5. The current ground attack. The invasion of Palestinian-controlled territory by 30,000 Israeli soldiers was planned in 2001 as part of the Dagan Plan.
As you probably know, the mainstream media usually only shows Israel’s side of the story.
I think Israel’s corrupt leaders are hoping for retaliation from Iran and Jordan. This whole little war is simply bait Arab nations in order to get US more involve (i.e. send money to said politicians) The US has too many problems of her own to fully support Israel.
Unfortunately, the Israeli government has been hijacked by greedy George W. Bush type politicians. They care nothing for the Israeli people. They care only for their own power and wealth.
The US needs to do absolutely nothing . . .
But she will.
It is hard to say the US should do nothing. Regardless of whether or not their current silence (and therefore support) of Israel’s actions is justified (which it isn’t), the fact that the US has been financially supporting Israel for years tells us they are already involved. The destruction and death has already began, and before it began the US had already dirtied its hands in the region, so clearly the damage has already been done. At this point, simply continuing to ignore the issue and ‘doing nothing’ is only going to make the situation worse.I don’t know what the best thing to do would be, but at the very least the US should discontinue any support for Israel (financial, political, moral, etc.), as well as publicly announce that we stand in opposition to Israel’s aggressive actions and they should cease immediately.
call them what you will but Hamas own charter stands for the destruction of Israel. That is unaccaptable in any country. They must be dealt with in the only way they understand. dont think for a second that if Hamas got a hold of more powerfull weapons they would not use them on civilians. Collateral damage is horrible but when they hide behind innocents who is to blame? You don’t see many Arab countries lining up and offering sanctuary to Palistinians who want to leave Gaza but they can’t wait to get thier hands on war footage to brodcast hatred. No one cares about the Palistinians, they are using this as a platform for anti-semetism.
Clearly both sides have kindled the fire. Neither one is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. But none-the-less, I think we can all agree the ‘eye for an eye’ mentality is severely outdated. At this point if everyone continues to try to solve their issues with violence (which is exactly what is being done across the world), we will never see and end to it. violence will continue to write our future history as it has written the past. To make progress, there must be a turning point, and why not start here? it seems as good as any of a place and time.
And the simple fact that other Arab nations (or any nations for that matter) are not calling for an end to violence, or supplying aid to the best of their abilities to a people in need, does not justify it. And that does not simply go for what is happening in Gaza. If a collective moral obligation to mankind in general existed, this world would be a lot different. But of course, people of all walks of life continue to remain indifferent to the suffering of others. The ideal of humanity is ceasing to exist (if it ever did to begin with), and it is being replaced by individualised greed, ignorance and personal superiority.
About those crude Hamas rockets harmlessly falling in vacant lots. Well, now they have better rockets that can reach deeper into Israel. But that’s ok, because the Israelis kill some civilians when Hamas uses them a human shields. And if Hamas could somehow go nuclear, it would still be Israel’s fault. Right?
There is no occupation, no peace process, and no Palestinians. It’s all a fiction. The “Palestinians†are merely a tool – the point of the spear if you will – for various interest groups; the welfare/graft industry that thrives on billions in “humanitarian assistanceâ€, the arms dealers, the people that want to finish what Hitler’s started (which I think is most of Europe), The Arab thugocracies that need an enemy and excuse to blame for their abject failure, and on and on.
If Israel went away tomorrow, would everthing be right in that part of the world? Would anything?. No
And you know who would then the the cause of all the “Palestinians “ problem? Right – the good old USA. Be forewarned; Israel represents America’s future.
So I was watching CSPAN last night, after having sickened of MSNBC’s sycophantic coverage of the new president and there was Obama’s first address to the State Department.
At his side were none other than Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell who respectively will be the “envoys?” to Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine.
Wow! Gerald Celente move over, I can predict pretty well, too. (see above posts)
Actually, I was pretty impressed with Obama’s tone. But compared President Bush, he would sound pretty good, wouldn’t he?