- The current Israeli assault on Lebanon was stage-managed
between the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and neocons
in the Bush administration, according to well-connected sources in the
nation's capital. The Bush administration had prior knowledge of and supported
Israel's planned attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, the sources have revealed.
In addition, there was no move by the Bush administration to warn Americans
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Lebanon to leave the areas before
the Israeli invasions. No travel warnings were issued to U.S. citizens
in an attempt to mask Israeli attack plans, an action that resulted in
last-minute Dunkirk-like sea evacuations of foreigners from Lebanon.
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- The first indication that Israel pre-planned its assault
on the Palestinians came early this month when the Israelis began denying
entry to the West Bank to Palestinians holding U.S. passports. The U.S.
Embassy in Tel Aviv and the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem refused to intervene
with Israel, claiming it was the decision of a sovereign nation. The denial
of entry to Palestinian-Americans was a violation of the Oslo Accords and
the Geneva Conventions. The United States does not officially recognize
Israeli sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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- Washington insiders report that the Bush administration's
coordination with Israel in the attacks on Hamas and Hezbollah involve
the official adoption of the white paper, "A Clean Break: New Strategies
for Securing the Realm," as U.S. policy. The "Clean Break"
document, authored in 1996 by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,
Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and other neocon operatives, was written
at the same time the program for the invasion and occupation of Iraq was
drawn up by the same neocon players.
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- The current U.S.-Israeli strategy of bombing and invading
Lebanon is a follow-up to four years of covert activities by the Pentagon,
White House, and Mossad in Lebanon that involved the car bombing assassinations
of top Lebanese officials in order to clear out Syrian forces from Lebanon.
The assassinations of Elie Hobeika, George Hawi, and Rafik Hariri were
all carried out to destabilize Lebanon and force the withdrawal of Syria
from Lebanon. Syria was blamed by the Bush administration for all the car
bombing assassinations in Lebanon.
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- Israel's border exercise that saw the capture by Hezbollah
of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese side of the border and the contingency
plans involving the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Hamas in Israel,
near the Israeli-Gazan border, provided a pre-text for the Israeli attack
on Gaza and Lebanon. Similar plans have been drawn up to respond to a Syrian
"capture" of Israeli troops in Lebanon near the Syrian border
or from the Golan Heights. That will be used to justify a joint Israeli
and American attack on Syria, with Israel entering from Lebanon and the
U.S. entering from Iraq.
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- The carrying out of the joint Israeli-U.S. attack plan
for Lebanon, Syria (and eventually, Iran) is the reason why the United
States has stymied UN attempts to seek an immediate cease-fire. The intent
of the Bush administration is to see a widening of the conflict. Unconfirmed
UN ambassador to the UN John Bolton, appearing on Fox News, laid out the
future blueprint for the joint U.S.-Israeli regionalization of the war
in the Middle East when he stated, "I think that if you look at the
support that Iran and Syria have given groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian
Islamic Jihad that really the reckoning we need here is a reckoning, not
just with the terrorist groups, but with the states that finance them."
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- WMR has also learned that top Israeli and U.S. military
officers are adamantly opposed to the Clean Break policy. Many Israeli
generals, remembering Israel's bloody occupation of Lebanon in the 1980s,
favored negotiating a prisoner swap with Hezbollah. The Olmert government
is purging the last remnants of the Yitzhak Rabin elements who favored
negotiations from the Israeli military and intelligence agencies much in
the same way that opponents of the Bush regime have been purged from the
U.S. military, CIA, and State Department.
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