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- Understanding the relationship between the US and Israel
is very complex--mostly because both countries are led by governments that
are pretending to be something they are not. Both governments have long
been controlled by forces different from those visible to the public. Just
as George W. Bush was put into office to fool conservatives with his false
Christian conservative credentials, so Obama was installed to divert the
inevitable backlash against Bush with false promises of change, which never
came--except for the worse. The Obama administration is pursuing the same
basic agenda as the previous three administrations, only under different
tactics and rhetoric. In like manner, Israelis are fooled into thinking
that Benjamin Netanyahu is a Right-wing leader, but he too is only playing
that role, just like past leaders of both the Israeli Right and Left. I
will use this latest Israeli crisis between PM Netanyahu and VP Joe Biden
to illustrate how this all works.
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- Here's the short version of the diplomatic crisis: The
Obama administration, after months of behind the scenes diplomacy, convinced
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to start peace talks with Israel without
Israel agreeing to include the issue of a divided Jerusalem (for a future
capital of a Palestinian state) as an item of negotiation. One day before
talks are supposed to begin, US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Israel
to bask in the glory of this new breakthrough and give instructions to
PM Netanyahu. Biden is embarrassed and upstaged when Israel suddenly announces
the approval of 1600 new housing units for settlers in East Jerusalem--a
direct slap in the face against US demands for no new construction, and
a sore point already of the pending negotiations with the Arabs.
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- The US has long demanded that Israel cease all new construction
of Israeli settlements on occupied Arab lands as a prelude to forcing Israel
back to its boundaries prior to the 1967 war, and giving the Palestinians
their own state. The only concession the US could get out of Netanyahu
was a 10 month moratorium on new construction and to dismantle a few unauthorized
"outpost" settlements (built by the most religious of the Jewish
sects who are discriminated against by the Israeli government). The "approved"
settlements are always big government projects done as favors for favored
contractors and settlers who "don't make waves" or oppose government
policies. It's very political. All settlers are not equal.
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- Naturally, the result of the diplomatic insult was that
the Palestinians refused to talk and the Obama administration (Sec. of
State Hillary Clinton, in particular) were made to look bad in the eyes
of the international community. Israel was charged with sabotaging the
talks, despite Israel's position that it was ready to talk anytime, anywhere.
Umbrage was expressed by Clinton and Biden as well as a host of media pundits.
Eventually, every major and minor news source weighed in on the crisis.
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell cancelled his trip to Israel, and
President Barack Obama has hinted that the he wants the head of Interior
Minister Eli Yishai to roll over this.
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- Netanyahu first claimed that the announcement was done
without his knowledge by some underling (a lie) and even launched an official
investigation (always a cover-up). Nothing happens by accident at this
level. Next, Netanyahu waxed eloquent about the wonderful and close relationship
between Israel and the US, hoping to limit the appearance of a rift (which
doesn't really exist at the levels that count). Obama also reinforced his
commitment to Israel, but Hillary Clinton was having no part of it. In
a blistering phone conversation with Netanyahu, she let him know that she
expected him to undo the construction decision and call her back within
a day with positive commitments to restart the peace talks. Netanyahu left
her hanging the next day and Clinton had to leave to meet with the Russian
foreign minister, her Quartet partner.
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- Finally, when Netanyahu did call, according to the Washington
Post, "Israel gave assurances that the new neighborhood will not be
constructed anytime soon [something that was known from the beginning];
it is, in fact, two or three years from groundbreaking. Coupled to that
would be an Israeli pledge to avoid publicizing further construction decisions
in Jerusalem. The result would not be a freeze, but something like a 'don't
ask, don't tell' policy for settlements." The Guardian added more,
indicating that Netanyahu gave more concessions, actually selling out the
settler position: "diplomats in Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem said
Netanyahu had given a private promise that there will be a temporary freeze
on any new construction. The work, while not cancelled, is to be postponed
for several years." Given the unstable future of peace in Israel,
that's as good as a cancellation. Whether or not it is enough to get Abbas
back to the table is still in doubt, given the current level of violence.
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- One theory for all this is that there is a lot of real
resentment against Obama in Israel, certain parties wanted to send America
a strong message that they weren't going to tolerate American arm-twisting
on the Peace Process. From my experience in Israel, that faction certainly
exists, especially among the legitimate Right wing. But it does not represent
the view of people like Netanyahu who are only feigning allegiance to the
settlers and Israeli interests. No politician is going to get elected in
Israel if they cross the red lines of ceding control of East Jerusalem
to the Palestinian state-to-be. And for good reason. Every territory ceded
to exclusive control of the Palestinians has turned into a base for new
attacks on Israel's citizens.
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- For Netanyahu to keep up the facade as the champion of
the Right, he has to play to his constituent demands, and assert time and
again that he will not cross those red lines (no divided Jerusalem, no
right of return, and no abandonment of Israeli settlements). Little do
Israelis know that former administrations in Israel have already signed
secret agreements to abandon many settlements and give up Jerusalem to
international control and cede almost all of the occupied territories back
to Palestinian control, according to Barry Chamish who has more whistleblower
contacts in Israel than anyone.
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- That then is the real cause of the fake rift. Netanyahu
needs a crisis to have an excuse to betray his red line commitments, just
as he did when he signed the Wye agreements with President Clinton during
his first tenure as Prime Minister. But, he can't do it all at once. He
has to move carefully, and appear to "have no choice." The media
is promoting the notion that Netanyahu has to knuckle under to US demands
or lose the protection of its prime benefactor. This allows Netanyahu,
in turn, to convince his Right wing allies that they have to support him
in making "painful" compromises.
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- Even today certain pundits are warning Netanyahu that
he lost his first premiership because he resisted American influence, but
that is not true at all. He lost his coalition because he gave in to American
pressure and the more ideological parties on the Right abandoned him after
he abandoned the settlers. Netanyahu will have to move even more slowly
this time around. As in America, the Right always resists against a Leftist
threat like Obama, but they are suckers for a phony Right wing leader who
will convince them that compromise is necessary.
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- This week the Palestinians themselves are increasing
the pressure of a crisis by incited violent demonstrations. With another
Kassam rocket attack, a new Intifada (uprising) has begun and as Israeli
police crack down on Palestinian demonstrators, more violence will erupt.
The more harsh Israel's response, the less likely anyone will be able to
salvage the talks for a long time to come. Hatred is strong in this falsely
named "Land of Peace" which is anything but holy! Given the current
levels of violence, I think these talks are dead for now and won't recover
soon. Even if they meet to satisfy international pressure, nothing will
be agreed upon that will satisfy both parties.
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- What is crucial for my readers to understand about the
globalist agenda in Israel is that the so-called Peace Process is a vehicle
intended to bring more conflict, not less. The Peace Process is all about
shrinking Israel's borders in exchange for "peace" that will
never come. That equates to Israel losing almost all the strategic military
high ground of the Golan and most of its water rights. That would be suicide.
Besides, the Palestinian state can never be self-sustaining. It will always
be beholding to Israel for its jobs, innovation, industry, oil and electricity.
It will always be a welfare state of the international community, and it
will always be a haven for terrorists because of the eternal hatred between
Arab leaders and the Jews--and increasingly between common Arabs who have
been caught in the crossfire between Israeli soldiers and Hamas radicals.
Every time you give autonomy to the Palestinians (Oslo accords on down)
you end up with more terror and more violence--never less.
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- Certainly, there is blame on both sides. The Jewish leaders
themselves (belonging to the globalist clique) have fomented and provoked
violence, and aided and abetted terror through black operations of the
Mossad or Shin Bet. Most Americans don't know that it was the Israelis
(using money laundering king Mark Rich--who Clinton pardoned) that set
up the secret bank account for terror leader Yasser Arafat in Switzerland--into
which Arafat poured some $300 million dollars diverted from international
aid payments intended for his people. The US also played a role in saving
Arafat from destruction on several occasions. Sure, there are always superficial
excuses our leaders use to explain away these actions that save terror
for another day --but the real reason is that the so-calledPeace Process
is a process of conflict creation. There never will be peace between Arab
and Jews as long as their respective leaders are controlled by this agenda
using war to build a New World Order.
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- Part of the reason for the angst over this setback to
the Peace talks is that US negotiators know that they only have a few months
at most before the Iran attack comes. They were hoping to get a breakthrough
on the two-state solution before war comes to the region--when the process
will be permanently damaged.
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- Permit me to finish this analysis by giving you the rest
of the background on how corruption of modern leaders, both in Israel and
elsewhere happened. In general, all modern presidents and Prime Ministers
are controlled entities, though it is often not by direct means. This isn't
to say that everyone in government is part of one unified conspiracy--far
from it. Conspiracies on a broad scale operate by keeping the overall agenda
within a very small group at the top which almost never includes a puppet
president or Prime Minister. As much as possible, bright people with predictable
philosophies and compromised morals are selected to staff the higher positions
in government so that they can be easily manipulated and influenced without
being told too much.
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