The world has been transformed by Bush’s war strategy into a very unstable swirling cauldron of pent-up fear and hatred. The decision that he has made to escalate the wars (when his version of diplomacy visibly fails), seeking vindication through the total destruction of all opposition, is a suicidal decision. Those who push our government to take this fatal step will, at minimum, push us into the waiting police state and the accompanying economic depression.
Those in Israel who are pushing America to wage war against Iran are trying to bring about actions that will cause massive death in Israel and possibly its collapse as a free state. These Americans and Israelis are doing their best to bind the US government to actions that will endanger our existence. Why? Is it possible that our leaders believe that is more important to sow disorder than to seek lasting peace?
The American neocons have used the New Right to bind America to Israel’s extremist Likud policies. These three elements have been the loudest voices on both sides of the Atlantic, trying to force the violent resolution of the mutual hatred between Israelis and Iranians. These are the same strident voices that are brashly denouncing the upcoming peace talks at Annapolis, claiming that they will lead to war. <click here >
The most notable of the neocons (many of whom have dual American/Israeli citizenship) are ardent supporters of Ariel Sharon and his Likudists. They proudly carried-on the positions that Sharon championed, by opposing all negotiations with the Arabs and following policies which aggressively encouraged the Palestinians to leave Palestine. These policies, which amounted to an official program of state harassment, were meant to inflict low levels of terror on the Palestinian people, designed for the purpose of de-populating Palestine. The infamous “Koenig Memorandum” (an Israeli government document) details these harassment policies. http://www.themaz.net/ss/back_koenig.html From the organized brutality directed at the Palestinian people since then, there can be little doubt, that the policies described in the Koenig Report did in fact become official Israeli policy for dealing with the “Intifada.” Many of the official policies of harassment mentioned in the report became the actual policies used to disenfranchise the Palestinians from the land taken from them.
In the Zionist interpretation of events, it is the peace process that makes peace impossible. Movement leaders have always understood (yet kept carefully hidden) the eventual necessity of driving all the Arabs out of the land of Greater Israel. It has always been a key part of the Zionist plan to empty the land of its rightful inhabitants, in the most subtle manner possible:
"spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment...Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried away discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.
In this view, those who even suggest to the Arabs that peace through negotiations is possible are considered to be traitors, for undermining the only possible path to peace, which is to terrorize the Palestinians until they either submit to Israel’s terms, or become refugees. This is the Israeli “Iron Wall” strategy, formulated by quasi folk hero Wolf Jabotinsky – There are to be no negotiations, but instead, the liberal application of enough force to make life unbearable. The Palestinians must be made to fear the consequences of not giving in to Israeli demands more than they hate giving up their homeland.
"A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out of the question either now or in the future. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find some rich man or benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else-or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not difficult, not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!... Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important... to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot - or else I am through with playing at colonizing." Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism (precursor of Likud), The Iron Wall, 1923. http://www.cactus48.com/verses.html
Because the Israeli leaders have been true to the tenets of Zionism, the “Peace Process” has never had a chance to succeed. If negotiations begin to show promise they will do everything that they can to derail any conceivable peace agreement. This is how it has always been. This is the same with America’s radical right wing, which has always staked its fortunes on destroying arms control treaties.
Entering into peace talks which you intend to make fail is hypocrisy, even though pretending to negotiate in good faith does bring immediate rewards, if the negotiator is careful not to give anything away in the process. The political parties in the Israeli government play separate parts in the ongoing psycho-drama called “The Peace Talks,” with one hand taking charge of the negotiations at Annapolis, playing the role of reasonable Israelis, while the other hand prepares to defend Israel by demolishing whatever the talks produce and finishing the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
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