- The blame for the dramatic escalation in fighting between
Israel's military ("IDF") and Hamas and against Hezbollah in
Lebanon can be laid at the feet of Israel's globalist-controlled leaders
who, masquerading as conservatives and acting against the advice of the
best military strategists, unilaterally pulled their troops out of both
southern Lebanon and the Gaza strip in the name of peace - a move that
many predicted would unleashed a swarm of suicide bombings and rocket attacks
against Israel. The critics were dead on.
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- You would think that Israel's leaders would quickly admit
their error in the recent pullouts, but no. PM Olmert, following in the
footsteps of his mentor Ariel Sharon, is still intending to withdraw from
95% of the occupied territories with no corresponding guarantees of peace
from the Hamas or Fatah leadership. Fortunately, the ongoing attacks make
his continued sellout of Israeli security impossible - for now. If it were
not for regular Palestinian attacks, the Israeli government would have
sold out their country long ago. But to maintain appearances that they
are acting in Israel's best interest, leaders are forced to do the right
thing, if only for short periods of time. Even as the present conflict
runs its course, Israel's globalist overseers are planning new ways to
turn victory into stalemate and a negotiated settlement. The policy objective
is to foment continual antagonism, not peace, and that is the way it will
continue until all nations are under the globalist New World Order of control.
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- Israel's last truly independent leader Israel was Menachem
Begin, who pursued a policy of Israeli security first. In 1978, he launched
an offensive into Lebanon to root out the PLO terrorists under Yasser Arafat
who had just killed 37 civilians in a terrorist attack in Israel. Begin
wisely set up an alliance with Lebanese Christian military forces who provided
a workable buffer in southern Lebanon to keep the Syrian-backed PLO and
Hezbollah forces at bay. It worked until Begin was set-up to take the blame
for the massacre of Palestinian refugees at the camps in Sabra and Shatila
- under the command of Begin's military commander Ariel Sharon, who had
secretly been compromised by powers opposing Begin. Sharon looked the other
way while the Lebanese Christian armies attacked the camps in retaliation
for equally egregious murders the Christians had suffered earlier. Sharon
knew beforehand what would happen if he put the Lebanese Christian Army
inside the camps.
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- By 1993, the PLO and Arafat had been successfully installed
in Gaza under the protection of the OSLO accords, and Hezbollah took control
of the fight in Lebanon against Israel. Iran was now directly backing Hezbollah
to allow Syria to play as if it were neutral. In that year, as well as
in 1996, Israel mounted major military offensives into Lebanon to attack
military positions of the Hezbollah that were continually rocketing and
shelling Israeli settlements near the border.
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- The Israeli IDF was never allowed to finish off Hezbollah.
The international community and the US would always demand Israel stop
short of victory - leaving the conflict to fester anew. Predictably, the
Israeli public began to weary of the no-win war - the same tactic US globalists
under Kennedy and Johnson used to wear down the American public over Vietnam.
In 2000, the public was convinced by the media and the government that
it was in the interests of peace for Israel to unilaterally withdraw from
Lebanon. In July of 2000, Hezbollah rushed in to fill the vacuum of the
Israeli withdrawal and began killing hundreds of Lebanese Christians who
had faithfully helped Israel protect the border from intrusions. Then in
October, 2000, Hezbollah kidnapped and killed three soldiers at the border.
They kept the bodies as hostages knowing Jewish tradition demands faithfully
burying the dead.
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- After 3 years of negotiations, Israel, despite vows not
to negotiate with terror and never to reward hostage takers, traded a whopping
430 prisoners for the 3 dead bodies and a kidnapped businessman/Israeli
agent. Now, Israel is once again reaping the results of giving in to hostage-takers.
This week, Hezbollah made a daring cross-border raid and kidnapped two
Israeli soldiers and killed eight other soldiers. Another Isreali soldier
was kidnapped in Gaza the week before, leading to that ongoing military
incursion. Despite Israel's renewed claim they will not negotiate with
hostage takers, everyone knows they will-but in secret. In fact, my sources
indicate negotiations have been ongoing since last week. The key Israeli
demand is to get the hostages released unconditionally so as to make it
appear as if they are not giving in to hostage demands--and then to release
terrorist prisoners later on as a "measure of good will." But
even that has happened before so know one will be fooled, except the American
public who are denied this bit of crucial history.
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- ACT OF WAR: As I pointed out last week, what is strange
about the Israeli reaction is the degree to which Israeli leaders have
decided to attack Arab civilian targets. PM Olmert declared the Hezbollah
kidnapping and the firing of dozens of rockets into the northern Israeli
town of Nahariya an "act of war" and then proceeded to rocket
the new civilian airport in Beirut as retaliation. If Israel really intended
to heavily damage the runway, they would have used bombs. This way, they
were simply paralyzing the Lebanon airport with minimum damage and sending
a message to the Lebanese government that "we're going to make you
pay" for not disarming Hezbollah. This is similar to the provoking
act of bombing the civilian electric power plant in Gaza, presumably to
make the civilian supporters of the Hamas government pay a personal price
for these ongoing rocket attacks into Israel. But it is clear that these
kinds of acts only embitter the Arab people against Israel. The Israeli
government knows this all too well, which brings into question why they
are knowingly provoking the Arab people in both Gaza and Lebanon to hatred.
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- In Lebanon, Israel continues to target the economic infrastructure.
According to Reuters, "Dozens of Israeli air strikes hit at least
12 bridges and suspected Hizbollah posts on Wednesday, killing two Lebanese
civilians and a Hizbollah fighter as well as disrupting fixed-line communications
between Beirut and south Lebanon. Bombardment by land and sea added devastation
to south Lebanon's road network. The Israeli retaliation is set to increase
domestic pressure on Hizbollah, which has refused to disarm in line with
a 2004 U.N. resolution, and boost international pressure on the Lebanese
government, led by an anti-Syrian coalition, to take action." Israel
also target the fuel storage tanks of a Beirut power station, which will
cause power outages within days.
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- The BBC published this reaction of educated citizens
in Lebanon. Gaby Bayram, 30, consultant: "I think Hezbollah's action
are completely out of line. They are acting independently of the Lebanese
government and have no right to incite this violence against Israel. Initially,
I thought Israel's reactions in destroying Hezbollah positions and escape
routes were appropriate. But the killing of civilians and the bombing of
civilian installations, including the airport, is completely unjustified
and excessive. I expect it to get worse. Hezbollah's demands are ridiculous
and I don't think they will be met. Lebanon will be reduced to rubble before
these prisoners are returned."
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- He's right. Hezbollah won't give up the fight ever, and
they will only release the prisoners with some kind of massive prisoner
exchange. Since Israel gave up over 400 prisoners for two dead soldiers
bodies, think what Hezbollah is expecting for live soldiers.
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- Edmond Khoury, 52, an educator, expressed the frustration
of all normal Lebanese at being made the battleground for warring radical
groups: "The public is utterly fed up with this. We thought this violence
was behind us. [Indeed, Beirut had long returned to normalcy after years
of war in the 1980s]. When the situation gets tough between Israel and
the Palestinians, we pay the price. We pay for all the mishaps and bad
policies in the Middle East. This country is carrying the pains of the
entire Arab world. Worse still, it looks like a group of people are getting
their commands from outside the country. We have a president who is fully
behind Hezbollah, a puppet for Syria. [True. No president can serve or
survive an assassination if he turns against Hezbollah]. In just two years
this conflict will be 60 years old. Why doesn't the international community
step in and find a serious solution?"
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- The reason is because the international community (UN
and Anglo-American globalists) don't want a solution based upon the normal
exercise of a nation's military sovereignty. They use and foment continued
conflict in order to maneuver still-sovereign nations into a corner that
will justify an internationally-imposed "solution" ala Kosovo
and the Balkans. No nation would voluntary except such imposition (which
never reverts to independence), and that is why they get continual warfare
until they have no choice but to accept international control. Most often,
the globalists target nations that have racial and ethnic competing minorities
(natural source of conflict), and for nations that don't, they foment ethnic
migrations (false free trade gimmicks) in order to induce future conflict.
That is what has been happening in Europe and the US over the past 20-30
years. Even Arab and Persian nations, despite their anti-democratic regimes,
still want to be free from international control.
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- So do the people of Israel, who don't realize their own
leaders are negotiating away their security in order to force an international
settlement upon them. But the Israelis are also pampered by periods of
peace, and have a short span of tolerance for the hardships of the reserve
call-ups and mounting military deaths that these escalations impose. The
Israeli globalists know that within a month of wartime hardships, the Israeli
public will be ready to accept another "victory" that always
falls short of eradicating the problem - thus, setting the stage for more
conflict later on when change is not forthcoming by political maneuvers.
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- As regular as clockwork, the international pressures
keep mounting for a cease fire and a "peaceful resolution." They
always claim there is "no military solution." But that is because
they always have globalist leaders in command that make sure a military
campaign is never allowed to fully succeed. Military leaders who see the
problem are either cowed into silence by the reigning concept of "civilian
control" or they are ousted from military command.
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- Now that Israel has responded to Hezbollah's "act
of war," Hezbollah has decided to launch its arsenal of medium range
rockets into Haifa. So, now it really is war. Meanwhile, it is Lebanon's
moderates that are suffering huge economic damage from Israel's naval blockade
from the sea and the shutting down of Beirut's only airport. Lebanon, with
its moderate coastal climate on the Mediterranean Sea and its permissiveness
of worldly moral conduct has always been a vacation haven for Arabs trying
to avoid the fanaticism of their own country's Islamic standards. Beirut
was in full recovery and had a booming tourist business until this week.
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- The government ministries in Lebanon ostensibly have
a majority that are anti-Syrian, but none of them have dared stand up to
either Syria or Hezbollah. Even the military in Lebanon is composed primarily
of Shiites-Hezbollah's base of support. As the BBC correctly observed,
"The Lebanese Army, largely reconstructed under Syrian patronage in
the 1990s, has a heavy preponderance of Hezbollah's fellow Shias. If the
government sent it in to battle against Hezbollah, there is a strong chance
that it would fragment, as happened in the 1970s. That would also raise
the specter of another civil war, this time with Shias pitted against Druze,
Christians and Sunni Muslims."
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- How far this escalation will go is unknown, but there
may be political machinations behind the escalations on both sides. Here
are a couple of the possibilities I see:
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- (1) On the Palestinian side, it is possible that Iran
and Syria decided to unleash Hezbollah upon Israel to create a second front
- not only to act in solidarity with Hamas in its battle with Israel in
Gaza, but to divert world attention at the G-8 from concentrating on Iran's
nuclear ambitions and focus instead on the new war in Israel. If the world
wants the Israeli-Palestinian-Hezbollah conflict to ease, they'll have
to ask Iran and Syria to intervene-who will demand some quid pro quo.
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- (2) On the other hand, it is equally possible that Israel,
acting in concert with secret US instructions, has purposely escalated
the conflict against civilians in order to provoke a reaction from Hezbollah,
Iran, and Syria, thus helping the US and Israel to justify a military intervention
against both. Both scenarios could be playing out simultaneous and both
point to a widening conflict and could easily trigger a US or Israeli bombing
campaign in Iran and Syria.
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- Debka.com, with highly placed sources within Israeli
intelligence, confirms this as it reports: "Iran's national security
adviser Ali Larijani flies to Damascus aboard special military plane Wednesday
night as war tension builds up around Hizbollah's kidnapping of 2 Israeli
soldiers ... Larijani is also Iran's senior nuclear negotiator. He will
remain in Damascus for the duration of the crisis in line with the recent
Iranian-Syrian mutual defense pact. His presence affirms that an Israeli
attack on Syria will be deemed an assault on Iran. It also links the Israeli
hostage crisis to Iran's nuclear standoff with the West. The White House
released a statement holding Syria and Iran responsible for the Hizbollah
abduction and demanded an immediate and unconditional release. The Syrian
army has been put in state of preparedness."
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- "DEBKA's Iranian sources report Tehran's rationale
as composed of three parts: (1) Iran shows the flag as a champion and defender
of its ally, Hamas. (2) Sending Hizbollah to open a war-front against Israel
is the logical tactical complement to its latest order to go into action
against American and British forces in southern Iraq. (3) Tehran hopes
to hijack the agenda before the G-8 summit opening in St. Peterburg, Russia
on July 15. Instead of discussing Iran's nuclear case and the situation
in Iraq along the lines set by President George W. Bush, the leaders of
the industrial nations will be forced to address the Middle East flare-up.
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- "Our sources also report that immediately after
Nasrallah's [Hamas leader in Damascus] statement to the media, Hizbollah's
leaders went into hiding, their bases were evacuated and their fighting
strength transferred to pre-planned places of concealment. Ahead of the
abduction, Hizbollah ordnance and missile stocks were transferred to the
Palestinian Ahmed Jibril's tunnel system at Naama, 30 km south of Beirut,
which was built in the 1980s by East German engineers. The Israel navy
has long tried to smash this coastal underground fortress from the sea
without success." It appears that both sides are preparing for a major
conflict.
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