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The Mask of Imperial Power is Dying
By Jim Kirwan
06/20/07 "ICH"
-- -- The charade is over in Palestine. The farce that tried
to pass itself off as a pathway to peace has clearly ended. The
‘West’ led by Israel and the US has finally begun to show the
world the duplicity of their joint criminality as that has most
recently been underscored in “Gaza vs. The West Bank.”
After Israel illegally seized the Palestinian taxes raised, from
the starving and beleaguered Palestinians, to deny those people
the means to achieve a functioning state: now in light of the
rebellion in Gaza, Israel intends to use that money to blackmail
The West Bank, and starve survivors in Gaza. This surpasses what
the Nazis did to those they occupied by a factor of at least
ten-fold: Given that the Nazi reign lasted only twelve years –
while Israel and the US have controlled the people of Palestine
for over fifty years.
Israel’s claims that Hamas wants to destroy the State of Israel
are true: yet it is equally true that Israel wants to
exterminate the Palestinian people. Unfortunately Americans
seldom hear both sides of these charges: only Israel’s claims
are routinely reported, each and every time the name of Hamas is
mentioned.
Neither is it mentioned here, that Israel had its military
severely beaten in Lebanon, which was not supposed to happen.
Israel was behind the bombing that killed the very popular
pro-Lebanese leader that was then blamed on Syria—in order to
pave the way for an Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This is the
same murder that the UN has now been coerced into holding an
international trial for. The bomb signature was the same as the
bomb used on the 241 US Marines, in Beirut, during Ronnie’s
reign, and the only nation capable of making such bombs was and
is Israel.
In instance after instance the corruption that passes for the
military dictatorship of Israel today is the only group that
directly profits from the escalation and destabilizations of so
many different countries in the Middle East now.
Israel is not a traditional nation in the sense that she was not
organically conceived, or home grown, but rather ‘it’ was
created out of Palestine, and has yet to complete that process –
over fifty years after her presence was inserted into Palestine.
If the headlines offer any clues, her major exports seem to be
‘hatred & war’: which does not seem to be reason enough for that
tiny place to exist upon the world map.
Her most powerful citizens are mostly found living abroad, where
many enjoy very good lives. There is also no question that many
Israeli’s are immensely powerful in many of the world’s pivotal
institutions and industries, as well as throughout the world, in
arts and entertainment, in politics and power, and in virtually
all the major fields of endeavor: No small accomplishment given
their very small overall numbers. But Israeli’s are not of a
single mind, or even a single religion: and their country has
been infected by an extremism that is very similar to the one
that won the coup that toppled the United States in 2000. Both
systems are as virulent as they are hated around the world.
The map of the Middle East is far from clear even to seasoned
veteran players in the region. In fact to get an idea of just
how difficult this puzzle is one would have to somehow envision
a chess board where eight players could simultaneously oppose
one another. Motives, outcomes, and movements are each composed
of several different minds, within each group that represents a
single theoretical ‘state.’ Nothing is simple. Sophistication,
in-depth intelligence and an intense knowledge of the various
histories and multiple factions are all basic to even beginning
to understand what goes on there.
Overlay upon this immensely difficult region the fact of their
resources and the importance of their resources to the rest of
the planet and you can easily see that no nation that seeks to
dominate that region can afford to be involved there, without a
great deal of diplomatic and real understanding about events in
that war-ravaged region. The military components at play are
only one arm of a vast network of seething and competing goals
that are never far from any surface; including the day-to-day
realities. Add to this the arrogance and the self-imposed
blinders, of the Western would-be rulers of that region—and it
is clear that several different boogey-men needed to be created
to keep all the various factions at bay. Enter the one-size fits
all “terrorists,” many of whom are freedom fighters, some that
are just mercenaries, and a huge number of extremists of all
stripes. In this situation “Chaos” is the one logical outcome,
but it is not the only consequence.
Suffice it to say that this region is and was the grand prize
being sought by the world’s bankers and the global
corporatocracy, not to mention the puppets in several nations
that each has more than a small stake in the outcomes from this
Privateer’s Dream of global conquest. This has been the
Cheney-Bush target of our foreign policies since long before
they ascended into office.
Ironically, these Outlaws approached this situation just as they
have always approached everything else – they chose to begin
with intimidation and what they thought of as overwhelming
force: and they failed repeatedly. Did they learn anything at
all – no! Instead they have chosen to compound their initial
blunders with the threat of even more wars, and an expanded
presence by both US military personnel and a sharp new spike in
the accompanying mercenary forces as well. Death, death and lots
more death, all to maintain the false air of some faint idea of
a ‘victory’ in the war over the oil field contracts. How
pathetically lame this so-called “leadership” has been!
In addition to that folly the Israeli’s have taken pages from
our own bloody past, and began to treat the Palestinians much
like we treated our native population when they still stood
between the American colonies and the Western shore of what
finally became the United States.
In addition to partitioning Palestine and stealing the lands of
the inhabitants, Israel went further establishing camps and
policies that made a horror out of daily life for any
Palestinian caught up in that nightmare. The goal was to get the
Palestinians to leave. This did not succeed, as for the most
part the Palestinians have stayed and they continue to fight to
this day, just as almost any people will fight tenaciously for
their own lands and countries.
However, the Empire has no use for other people’s patriots, we
call them terrorists. In fact the still unfinished state of
Israel initially used the Irgun, (their own terrorists when they
were seeking independence from the Brits). Many of their early
leaders were drawn directly from the ranks of their own former
“terrorists.” This is probably why the current Israeli
leadership is so incensed by Hamas, and what their leadership of
the Palestinians might be able to accomplish, should Hamas ever
succeed in uniting a real Palestinian state.
This brings us to the current tactics being employed by both the
US and Israel inside Iraq and elsewhere today, and indeed
throughout these long and ugly years of a war that is not a war
but an illegal slaughter of helpless people. Rumsfeld and Cheney
and Gonzalez and Bush came up with the idea that torture could
both justify their wars and keep the fear alive in so many
millions of people everywhere – and who knew – maybe they might
actually gain some information from the exercise. So we created
Gitmo and revoked Habeas Corpus for all Americans, if the
Decider decided that whoever it was might just possibly be
involved in something anti-American, at least according to his
interpretation of that definition. But now—years after this
obscenity was put in place—the truth is beginning to leak out as
it always will. And Seymour Hersh has written about it in a
major article in The New Yorker Magazine entitled: The General’s
Report. (1)
This series of crimes and cover-ups could lead to major
destruction within those at the top of this extremely vicious
treachery against all that the world had outlawed so very long
ago.
Cheney-Bush has created so many ways by-pass the once sovereign
laws of this country: Like the 1100 signing statements, the
spying on American citizens at will, the upending of everything
needed to run even a third class country, much less the United
States of America. We have become a country without an
infrastructure, without real jobs, with no real say about our
own defense, or even how our borders should be maintained. We
have no culture unless one counts consumerism (our major disease
– without which we’d already be in the worst depression the
world has ever known). Most of our industries are run from
overseas, our goods and services are outsourced and then
imported and now we’ve been reduced to selling off our national
highways and public lands to satisfy our government’s addiction
to unsubstantiated loans to fight the wars we’re already lost in
the name of major corporations like Halliburton that fled this
country to avoid taxes and the legal responsibilities that their
contracts will entangle them in—once the investigations finally
get underway. (2)
So much criminality, so much treason, and so few outcomes that
stand even a chance of making a real difference: It’s obvious
that Americans need a new mantra!
"NO" is the only thing this government should hear, to
everything they are proposing, from the majority of the people
they want to rule. If all of us just did this in both thought
and deed, then this government could not continue, and we could
begin again.
The entire fabric of what was 'government' is rotten to the
core, because each one of almost all of the elected members
continues to make decisions based solely on their own personal
gains that have nothing to do with their offices, or with the
public's welfare. They have in essence "sold their reputations
for a song" and in that bargain condemned us all to an inferno
of slavery, death and taxes that will crush us into oblivion -
NO - is the only cry that we can still make.
If that battle-cry is loud enough and often enough it would
begin to take hold - to the point that things would have to
change. Imagine 100,000 people in front of the Tarnished House,
the Congress & the Supreme Court - in three demonstrations ALL
chanting that one simple word, simultaneously - if that reached
the airwaves maybe we could find a new beginning?
Remember - They need us far more than we "need" them.
NOTES
1) The General’s Report – Seymour Hersh, in the New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh
2)
Foreign Companies Buying US Roads and Bridges – USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-15-u.s.-highways_x.htm?POE=click-refer
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