- 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:
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- "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.'"
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- 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).
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- But wait. It's worse.
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- "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).
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- "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).
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- "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.
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- Like I said, suit up the kids in body armor -- or move
to New Zealand.
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- "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."
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- 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.
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- "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."
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- "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.
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- It may be time to start looking for real estate in Auckland.
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- Kurt Nimmo is a photographer, multimedia artist and writer
living in New Mexico. He is author of Another Day in the Empire: Life in
Neoconservative America (Dandelion Books, 2003). To see his photo work
and read more of his essays, visit his excellent "Another Day in the
Empire" weblog.
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- http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Nimmo0614.htm
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- Kurt Nimmo is a photographer, multimedia artist and writer
living in New Mexico. He is author of Another Day in the Empire: Life in
Neoconservative America (Dandelion Books, 2003). To see his photo work
and read more of his essays, visit his excellent "Another Day in the
Empire weblog.
- http://www.kurtnimmo.com/blog/
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