06/03/08 "ICH" -- --
Whenever aggressors choose to open a "dialogue of weapons," they
often discover that the rockets flying overhead make it
impossible to control the debate, or to contain the violence.
They find that they need a moderator, someone to oversee the
conversation, keeping the escalating dialogue within acceptable
parameters. The widespread availability of rockets has
cancelled-out the usual equations for power projection. No
longer is it possible to control a weaker enemy by using
overwhelming force without suffering unacceptable damages to
your own people or international image.
That's the beauty of rockets, they provide the opportunity to
gain a new perspective on things. Once you have seen things from
above, it is almost impossible for your adversaries to blind you
with the walls meant to enclose you. Model rocketry has advanced
to the point where a few hundred determined Palestinians with
rudimentary rocket building skills have become a real problem
for the Israeli Defense Forces. Their Qassam rockets rely
primarily on fertilizer-based propellants and low-grade
explosives. They are basically six foot long, thirty pound
pieces of shrapnel, falling at approximately three-hundred miles
per hour.
http://tinyurl.com/yuwbdx
It would be a simple matter for them to extend the range of the
Qassams, by using lighter materials or more reliable engines,
until they are capable of joining the ongoing "dialogue" being
conducted with Ashkelon by the occasional Grad rocket. Anyone
who doubts the potential of pissed-off or deranged rocket
builders to reach as far as they want, should check-out the al
Qaida instructional video for their own "Abeer" rocket,
allegedly capable of lobbing a twenty kilogram warhead twenty
kilometers. - http://tinyurl.com/2yobkt
No matter what Israel does to throw up its "Iron Wall" to block
Palestinian attacks, rockets will keep flying over it,
delivering a message of potential hope to the hopeless people of
Gaza, and carrying a message of defiance to the IDF. The same
thing goes for the situation in southern Lebanon, where Israeli
and American forces are preparing to roll-back Hezbollah. No
matter what size or strength of force is used to accomplish the
task, thousands of Katyusha and even larger rockets will
continue to scream overhead on their deadly ballistic descents
into Israeli homes and businesses. But, judging from the fate of
the people of Sderot, Israel, purposely placing expendable
citizens directly in harm's way seems to be an integral part of
the plan to legitimize the colonization of Palestine.
The first inhabitants of Sderot arrived in 1951 to what was then
known as the Gevim-Dorot transit camp. Its population is only
19,800 (2006). Its population doubled in the 1990s, because it
absorbed a large immigrant population from the Soviet Union. It
is 99.8% Sephardic Jewish, composed of half recent Russian
immigrants and the rest mostly Moroccan and Persian Jews.
Perhaps their Sephardic roots, in light of the way they are
treated in Israel explains the ease with which the poor targets
of Sderot are sacrificed to the god of war.
http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/Perez/entry/a_sephardi_hero_dies_posted
Sderot was first targeted by Qassams on Mar. 5, 2002. Three
thousand of the city's residents (comprised mostly of key upper
and middle class residents) left after the barrage of May began.
The average monthly wage of those remaining in Sderot is half
the national average ILS 3,845/ NIS 6,822 national average.
Not
only are the remaining poor and lower class Israelis expected to
remain in place as living targets, Olmert's government refuses
to provide a "safe room" for each house. The people of Sderot
are not helped to relocate. Prime Minister Olmert made the
following remarks:
"Throughout our history in this Land, during far more difficult
times, we have never run away from our homes. We will not lend a
hand to hasty actions that may be good for two or three days but
which are liable to have destructive long-term effects. We do
not want to take people out of their homes."
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Archive/Press+Releases/2006/11/spokesderot191106.htm
"Sderot's weakest sectors: the poor community of immigrants from
the Caucasus which makes up 35 percent of the town... Residents
say the government takes their suffering for granted, refusing
to fortify a room in each Sderot home despite the certain
knowledge that the bombardment will not end soon... Some 20% of
the town's population, mostly those who could afford it, have
left. Many of those who remain do so because they have no
choice. The value of their homes has plunged during seven years
of permanent assault, leaving them unable to move even to nearby
Negev towns like Netivot. They are trapped on Israel's front
lines."
Even though no government funds have been made available for
Sderot safe rooms, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Deputy
Defense Minister Matan Vilna'I have recently approved the
transfer of NIS 300 million to improve the state and
availability of bomb shelters for Ashkelon's 120,000 residents,
after two Grad rockets hit the city.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204473062896&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The people of Sderot are hostages of the Israeli government, as
is the entire population of Gaza. The depiction in the
controlled press of both Jewish and Palestinian people as
victims of the Hamas government, not the Israeli government, is
meant to fuel international outrage against Hamas. Their
portrayal as monsters is necessary to justify monstrous plans to
eradicate them. Israel is openly courting world opinion, trying
to seduce the eager audience of international leaders into
embracing the planned "Shoah" (holocaust) that it is beginning
to unleash first in Gaza.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=52996#cooliris
The name of the game is to bring international troops in to
relieve the IDF in Gaza, so that everything can be brought to
bear upon Hezbollah in Lebanon, and hopefully upon Iran and
Syria as well. Well-paid "cry-babies," who serve an important
function in Israel's plans for everyone, like Abe Foxman, reveal
the preferred solutions, that the world is being blackmailed
into supporting -
"Where are proposals for international forces -- UN, NATO, the
Quartet -- to intervene and place themselves in Gaza to prevent
the rocket attacks and make it unnecessary for Israel to have to
consider reentering Gaza as the only way to change the dynamic
and protect its citizens."
http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/foxman/entry/world_leaders_need_to_act
Olmert and company are clearly following the Likudist line,
which forbids negotiations in favor of forced capitulation. The
"Iron Wall" doctrine of militant right-wing Israeli politics
holds that negotiations with a people whose land has been
brutally stolen is impossible. The only solution that will
enable the colonization of all Palestine (and all of Greater
Israel) is to apply irresistible force to the local population
until it submits out of fears of extinction. They must believe
that further resistance will cause the death or forced removal
of all Palestinians, so that they will agree to all of Israel's
terms of surrender. In this line of thinking, international
support of any kind for the dieing Palestinians gives them hope,
thus delaying the undetermined point in time when the
Palestinian resistance becomes hopeless and surrenders to the
irresistable Iron Wall.
The deadly dialogue of violence that Israel has initiated with
its neighbors cannot be wished away, or dealt with militarily by
non-genocidal means. If Olmert is serious about wanting
political discussions with the Fatah faction of the
Palestinians, then he will not continue the devastation of Hamas
controlled Gaza. If Israel chooses to use the big stick, instead
of offering the carrot, then it risks re-uniting the two
factions which it has worked so hard for so long to divide. They
cannot risk upsetting the gambit that began with Israel's
creation of Hamas to divide popular support for Arafat's Fatah
faction.
The brutal Nazi-like violence directed at the innocent people of
Gaza and the democratically-elected Hamas government is
reversing all the gains made by Israel and the US in dividing
the Palestinian people. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/959882.html
Ironically, the Fatah faction of Abbas was separated from the
people of Palestine, to serve as a foil to use against Hamas,
which had originally been created by Israel to use against Fatah.
Israel's gambit has come full circle.
"Hamas is considered one of Israel's greatest threats, but the
Islamic terrorist organization found its beginnings in the
misguided Israeli effort [Menachem Begin] to encourage the rise
of a religious alternative [humanitarian organization, the
Islamic Association] that would undermine the popularity of the
Palestine Liberation Organization and Yasir Arafat...
There is a natural affinity that exists in a limited way between
the policies and goals of Hamas and the political objectives of
the Likud Bloc that has brought them together...Every time
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators appeared ready to take a
major step toward achieving peace, an act of Hamas terrorism has
scuttled the peace process and has pushed the two sides apart...
undermining the peace process has always been the real target of
Hamas and has played into the political ambitions of the Likud....
Hamas launched another wave of suicide bombings in the week
after Sharon's election. Sharon used these attacks as the
pretext to launch a massive invasion of PNA controlled areas of
the West Bank and decimating Arafat's government
infrastructure..
Arafat and the PLO agreed in 1988 to accept the "two state"
solution based on "land for peace" negotiations... Reacting
angrily to Arafat's decision to recognize Israel, and seeking to
play to Palestinian emotions during the Intifada, the new
organization, Hamas, openly embraced armed struggle against
Israel."
Since its beginning, Hamas has served as a tool for Likud plans
for upsetting peace negotiations and scuttling all talk of a
"two-state solution." But Hamas and Likud came up against the
secret plans of a known idiot, George Bush. The convergence of
Likud's plan to remake the Middle East and Bush's plan to force
democracy upon the Muslim world gave Hamas power that Israel
never intended for its Islamic proxy to acquire.
"Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since
corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay
bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security
Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The
plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons
supplied at America's behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed
to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from
power...
But the secret plan backfired, resulting in a further setback
for American foreign policy under Bush. Instead of driving its
enemies out of power, the U.S.-backed Fatah fighters
inadvertently provoked Hamas to seize total control of Gaza...
Rice initiated several rounds of phone calls and personal
meetings with leaders of four Arab nations—Egypt, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. She asked them to bolster
Fatah by providing military training and by pledging funds to
buy its forces lethal weapons...
On June 7 Haaretz reported that Abbas and Dayton had asked
Israel to authorize the biggest Egyptian arms shipment yet—to
include dozens of armored cars, hundreds of armor-piercing
rockets, thousands of hand grenades, and millions of rounds of
ammunition. A few days later, just before the next batch of
Fatah recruits was due to leave for training in Egypt, the coup
began in earnest." [It was over within a week.]
Hamas could not bear the final treachery, that of seeing Israeli
sponsored fighters of Fatah receiving similar training to that
which two-hundred of their own forces had once received in
preparations for a confrontation with Arafat's Fatah. http://www.jps.org/hanania01182003.html
With the break-out of open fighting between Hamas and Fatah came
an accompanying escalation of the rocket attack on Sderot and
the settlements around the Gaza Strip.
Rocket attack: Daily distribution of identified hits (May 15-31)
2007
When Olmert and Bush have pushed Abbas as far as they dare to
go, they will turn they murderous gazes upon Lebanon, once
again. An Executive Order (similar to the one outlawing protest
against Iraq) has already been issued, to limit public outcry
when the bombing commences.
American interference with Arab League negotiators has ended
their outside intervention to spare Lebanon from American and
Israeli wrath. http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=89441
Diplomats and their families were yesterday given 48 hours to
evacuate the country.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/24F4810C-61CB-4284-AB2B-CCA786434016.htm
The assassination of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah in Syria
was intended to be the catalyst for the renewed war, but the
Shiite militia has so far failed to take the bait.
This is Olmert and Bush calling Ahmadinejad out into the streets
of Lebanon, before he is ousted in the March 14 elections,
because this may be their last best chance to have their "wet
dream" of a war with Iran. This is their last chance to preserve
the ideology of the war state. If they cannot manage to escalate
the cycle of violence by provoking Iranian missteps in Iraq,
then perhaps Hamas or Hezbollah can be induced to cause massive
Israeli casualties. So far, the Israelis held as hostages by
their own government in Sderot to the daily barrages of homemade
rockets, have not provided the quantity of Israeli deaths needed
to justify a "berserker" response from the IDF. The 4000 rockets
fired by Hizballah the last time managed to kill 40 Israelis.
Olmert and Bush will have to play their hands more aggressively
this time, making sure that 40 or so Israeli martyrs is enough
to bring American forces into play, in particular, heavy bombers
and missiles.
The same ideology that drives the anti-Palestinian war, drives
American/Israeli plans for Lebanon. The problem with trying this
in Lebanon against the Shiite resistance forces (Hezbollah) is
the quantity and quality of armaments accumulated over the years
by the defenders of southern Lebanon against repeated Israeli
incursions. Olmert and Bush learned a hard lesson in the 2006
invasion; Israel's "Iron Wall" is not big enough to frighten the
fighters of Hezbollah into submitting to invading Zionist
forces. The United States must openly demonstrate that its own
forces are part of the wall. The demonstration is about to
begin.
This is the unfolding drama of two failing states, one of them a
superpower, the other, the fifth most powerful military power.
They are in collusion to generate a world war, where their
overwhelming military investments will bring them their greatest
returns. The poor innocent people who are unfortunate enough to
live in the neighborhoods chosen by Israel for its forced
colonization are the intended victims, their homes the locations
of the planned aggression. (Qana video)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14276.htm
For their part in supporting this course of action and urging
military actions, the Israeli people are destined to provide
many new martyrs of their own, in order to make the outposts of
the colony safe from raining rockets. All of this will happen
even if Iran refuses to take the bait attached to the tripwire
of world war. It's going to be a rough ride.
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