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Bill Kristol and Israel Want to Draft Your Kids
by Kurt Nimmo
06/14/05
- - Are
you ready to suit up or suit up your kids (and the kids of your
kids) in body armor and die for Israel? Before you dismiss me as
an anti-Semitic crank, consider the following:
“Ephraim
Halevy, the former chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service
and the current national security adviser to Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon, says plans have been made for a substantial
U.S. military presence in the Middle East lasting decades,” al-Jazeera
reports. “High-ranking U.S. policymakers have ‘raised the idea
of establishing an American trusteeship regime in the areas of the
Palestinian Authority, if it should turn out that the Palestinians
are not ripe for self-rule. That arrangement would require an
American operational military presence along Israel’s border
with the Palestinian territories.’”
Of
course, if Israel has its way, the Palestinians will never be
“ripe for self-rule” (many Israelis even refuse to consider
the word “Palestinian” and believe most Arabs are recent
immigrants to Palestine, or instead of Palestine Judea and
Samaria, the Hebrew biblical names for the land stolen from the
non-Palestinians) and since the Arab demographic trend is against
the Israelis (Arabs have more kids than Israelis) and there is no
way the Israelis will ever have enough soldiers to muster an
“operational military presence” on the so-called border, it
will be up to your kids and your kids’ kids (since Halevy says
this will last decades) to keep the Arabs in check (and suffering
from malnutrition
and disease).
But
wait. It’s worse.
“U.S.
entanglement in the Middle East in the name of ‘democracy’ has
further destabilized the region and made more likely violent
revolutions to occur, especially in countries such as Saudi
Arabia,” notes al-Jazeera. “In [an early April] visit
to the United States,” remarked Halevy, “I was told by several
well-informed observers that should one of the more severe
scenarios come to pass, the United States will have no choice but
to deepen its presence in the Middle East. To that end, it
will have to renew the draft, to ensure that there are enough
forces to deal with developing situations in countries like Saudi
Arabia” (emphasis added).
“Speaking
in a semi-closed forum during a visit to Israel a few months
ago,” continued Halevy, “Bill Kristol, one of the most
influential ‘neocons’ in the United States, noted in this
connection that the American presence in Europe after World War II
lasted for nearly 60 years. Israelis who are trying to
promote a role for NATO in the region, in one form or another, are
actually promoting a generation-long American presence”
(emphasis added).
“The
war-strained all-volunteer U.S. military has a growing manpower
problem and a cross-section of Washington policymakers has
proposed a solution -- increase the size of the regular military
by 30,000, 40,000 or even 100, 000 or more,” the San
Francisco Chronicle opined in April. “The military draft,
which coughed up its last conscript in 1973, could make a comeback
if recruiting doesn’t pick up and if America’s commitments in
Iraq and Afghanistan turn into long-term occupations or if the
Bush administration’s tough-minded foreign policy means military
action in places like Iran or North Korea,” or Saudi Arabia and
“Israel’s border with the Palestinian territories,” as
indicated by the straight talking Ephraim Halevy. In January, Bill
Kristol signed a
Project for the New American Century letter addressed to Congress
demanding the government takes “steps necessary to increase
substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine
Corps,” in other words a return to the draft since dangling
paltry bonuses and go-to-college-free tickets in the faces of high
school students does not do the trick. The PNAC, of course, are
the folks who brought us the invasion and occupation of Iraq,
predicated on lies and dissembling.
Like
I said, suit up the kids in body armor -- or move to New Zealand.
“Stratfor
accurately predicted in October 2002 that a war in Saudi Arabia
would erupt between al Qaeda and the ruling House of Saud. That
war is under way. Al Qaeda’s tactics have become all too clear,
with killings and kidnappings of Westerners having become a common
event…. Al Qaeda’s endgame is simple: complete control of the
oil-rich kingdom. It hopes to establish a transnational empire. At
the heart of this pan-Islamic Ummah (nation) would be Saudi
Arabia, the home of Islam’s two holiest cities, Mecca and
Medina, and the world’s top oil exporter. This pan-Islamic state
-- with the Arabian Peninsula as the seat of sovereign authority
-- would serve as both the political and the religious leader of
the Islamic world.”
It
would also make it a prime target since no way will the United
States allow the world’s largest pool of oil to be controlled by
al-Qaeda -- even an intel op al-Qaeda.
“On
December 15, 2004, in an audio recording, bin Laden said ‘oil
prices should be at least $100 a barrel,’ and called upon
Persian Gulf militants to exert themselves to prevent the West
from getting Arab oil by attacking oil facilities all over the
region. This was the first time that al-Qaeda’s leadership had
openly divulged its strategy of hitting the Western economy by
disrupting oil supplies and causing prices to skyrocket. The
following day, NYMEX crude spiked by 5 percent to $46.28 a
barrel,” writes Mordechai
Abir for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an Israeli
think tank headed by Israel’s former UN ambassador Dore Gold.
“Bin Laden’s call for an ‘oil jihad’ was followed by a web
site message from the Arabian Peninsula al-Qaeda to all the
mujahidin in Arabia, wherever they are, to focus on oil targets in
their struggle against the infidels and their Saudi allies.”
Bill
Kristol and the neocons have Saudi Arabia in their gun sights --
and have for some time now. According to veteran investigative
reporter Bob
Dreyfuss, the neocons are using al-Qaeda (or what passes for
al-Qaeda) as a blunderbuss to buckshot through their anti-Islam,
pro-Israel agenda. “Before the war in Iraq, a former ambassador
to Saudi Arabia, James Akins, told me that by invading Iraq the
Bush administration would accelerate the spread of Al Qaeda-style
movements in Saudi Arabia, and it’s happening. The country is
said to be in a state of incipient civil war, and the royal family
is apparently unable to stem the spread of the bin Ladenite
poison. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States has
called on the kingdom to conduct an all-out war against the
terrorists, but it could be too little, too late. Make no mistake,
however: if Saudi Arabia falls to radicals, U.S. forces will
occupy that country’s oil fields faster than you can say
‘imperialism’. And if that happens, it will be Phase 2 of the
neocons’ expanded plans for the Middle East: first topple Saddam
and ‘flatten Iraq,’ as another former ambassador to Saudi
Arabia described the essence of the neocon Iraq strategy, and then
move on to Saudi Arabia.”
“In
sum, we should not be attempting to preserve our past relationship
with Saudi Arabia but rather forging a new approach to the greater
Middle East,” Kristol
told the House Committee on International Relations. In 2003,
Kristol wrote The
Neoconservative Persuasion, where he declared “it [is]
necessary to defend Israel today, when its survival is threatened.
No complicated geopolitical calculations of national interest are
necessary.” Of course, Israel’s survival is not threatened --
but the survival of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the lives
of your kids (or your life if you are 20-something) are at risk.
It may
be time to start looking for real estate in Auckland.
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