Divining the News (DTN)

Boys will be boys. The war games charge forth. Whether it is the civil war in resource rich Congo or dividing Sudan or undermining Mugabe or stealing Iraq’s oil. There is a whole ant army making designs and calculations. The sights are also on Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Russia.

America inseparable from Israel has so many weapons systems spawning all the continents. One wonders how aware they are of their adversaries? Hizbollah and Russia were badly miscalculated. Probably Hamas too.

What next? Iran? Pakistan? Syria?

The warmongers must feel this is their last chance. Soon Obama, and the rising tide of anti Israeliness which was well underway long before this Gaza conflict. All suggest, ‘Now is the time to act’.

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Hizbollah could intervene. It did in 2006 after about a month of an Israeli onslaught on Gaza. Debka is reporting that Meshaal’s refusal to accept an Egyptian truce offer (with israelis in Gaza) has the Israeli leadership thinking that Hizbollah and Iran have given Hamas assurances. Uri Avnery points out that no Arab country came to the rescue of Hizbollah in 2006 and therefore the probability of a wider war is minimal.

Israel could find some internal blowback for the campaign. The bulk of Israelis follow a, ‘my country right or wrong attitude’ particularly in time of war. But when the war is over they can feel shame for the scorn the world has shown, and indeed for the atrocities committed. Maybe the population will want to rid itself of the hawks, the settler movement, and all apartheid leaning groups. The financial crisis has already hit some of their major backers: Madoff and Adelson and most of the Wall Street banksters. It would also be a good propaganda ploy to appease an increasingly antagonistic world public opinion, just as in the course of this war the state has chosen to prosecute a soldier who fired a lot of bullets into a Palestinian girl at close range more than a year ago. The country is anyway polarising, and without a prospect for violence, there can still be a kind of civil war. So this scenario suggests an effort to remove the settlers from the West Bank. No doubt championioning puppet Abbas. Even though he too has now lost Palestinian support.

The Israelis are probably a little proud of the total disgust shown by the diaspora jews. Perhaps they are wondering why they have only attracted supremacists. And they can be enlightened to realize that a Jew can befriend a Palestinian even if they are a Fundamentalist, or a supporter of Hamas. Maybe the Israelis would welcome a different type of immigrant. They must realize that they have dug themselves a hole in Gaza. They have concreted themselves into apartheidniks.

Will the Israelis annihilate Hamas? Avnery suggests the Israelis will incur many casualties and this will turn public opinion against the war. It is a lose lose situation. Masterminded by offshoots of the terrorists that freed Palestine from the British. Hopelessly out of date.

The Egyptian Regime has lost whatever popular support it did have. The Jordanians are also now in a precarious place, they have not broken diplomatic relations with Israel, although they have withdrawn their Ambassador. Maybe Mubarak will fall, maybe Jordan become more distant. And turkey seems all but lost.

Finally Avnery thinks in the end Israel will accept a truce rather like the one it accepted six months ago. But this time it will need to honour the open border and not create a blockade.

The problem as always is the Military Industrial complex, owning the media, supporting Rabbis of superiority and needing endless wars.

Time is on the side of Israels enemies. Now Syria knows the US would attack it if it entered the war. But in six months time that might not be true.

To be continued…

Diary Entry by GLloyd Rowsey

Mary said in a comment to Dissident Voice yesterday: “This e-mail just in from Free Gaza with an update if I might prevail upon the Editors for space here:”::::::::

Here are some newsworthy items out of Gaza that are unlikely to be making it to the Western presses. I received this information directly from one of the staff of the Mezan Center for Human Rights about twenty minutes ago.

1. Israel has begun a new policy in Gaza in the past two days called the “roof knock”. This is when a “small” rocket is fired from Israeli military aircraft that is strong enough to blast open the roof of a targeted building. It is sent as a “warning message” to the building’s inhabitants giving them between 2 and 3 minutes to evacuate before the building is completely destroyed. A number of cases of this new technique have been reported recently.

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11 January 2009, Sunday
A Palestinian carries belongings near her destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday.

Israel is spreading seeds of hatred both on a regional and global scale, experts observe. The seeds of hatred have already been plowed as the number of anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic attacks in Europe multiplied by a factor no less than four only two weeks after Israeli operation Cast Lead began.

But experts think that the long-term consequences of the operation will influence not only Israelis and Palestinians but also the whole of human civilization.

The immediate consequence of the carnage in Gaza was nonviolent but aggressive demonstrations throughout Europe organized by Muslims, left-wing activists and concerned others, reflecting the soaring anger and disapproval of Israel’s policies in Gaza. As international public pressure failed to be reflected in the policies of political leaders and international political bodies, such as the United Nations and the European Union, the despair felt among disturbed people turned into a more violent reaction toward Israel, even in the remotest countries of the world.

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London 10-1-09

Also see:    http://www.gazaprotest.org/

and: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417698.html

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34222695@N06/3188195324/

And pictures of the dead from gaza – from rense – http://portail.islamboutique.fr/gaza2008/

There is currently a telephone interview with this authour in the yellow box on top right hand side of this web page.

NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called – the Red Army – held the millions of the town – s inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. The Germans had no alternative but to bomb and shell the population and to impose a total blockade, which caused the death of hundreds of thousands.

Some time before that, a similar crime was committed in England. The Churchill gang hid among the population of London, misusing the millions of citizens as a human shield. The Germans were compelled to send their Luftwaffe and reluctantly reduce the city to ruins. They called it the Blitz.

This is the description that would now appear in the history books – if the Germans had won the war.

Absurd? No more than the daily descriptions in our media, which are being repeated ad nauseam: the Hamas terrorists use the inhabitants of Gaza as – hostages – and exploit the women and children as – human shields – , they leave us no alternative but to carry out massive bombardments, in which, to our deep sorrow, thousands of women, children and unarmed men are killed and injured.

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Bombers, fighters, guns, artillery, chemical weapons, cluster bombs, missiles, electronic jamming devices, and grenades. I won’t go on.

The Israelis need to be trained in using them, and then to use them, they need to know that when they are in school, that that is what awaits them.

The psyche needs to be prepared, to kill without remorse. A Jew’s life is worth so much more. They might need to invade Lebanon, Gaza or even Iran. Besides they can be hired out as advisors, to such friends as Ukraine and Georgia.

Israel needs more weapons, to be displayed to Isaelis and to the refugees. Finally is needed leadership, both political and religious to ensure the souls of the fighters that they are doing the right thing.

More weapons for Israel, ya. And a need to be security conscioius. To allow security concerns to pervade each and evvery person and each and every decision.

It must have the highest ratio of weapons per population in the world, and still it is not enough, so many wars to be fought! Enemies everywhere, all for no reason. Countless wars so far. and in the past they were all docile farmers. Slowly the enemies were reared. Now they are more formidable.

Maybe, just maybe, its the policies that are all screwed up. And that means looking at the top. A nation raised on the fear of the holocaust, all ready to fight. Winning votes by being victorious in war crimes.

U.S. seeks ship to move arms to Israel
The U.S. is seeking to hire a merchant ship to deliver hundreds of tons of arms to Israel from Greece later this month, tender documents seen by Reuters show.

The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) said the ship was to carry 325 standard 20-foot containers of what is listed as “ammunition” on two separate journeys from the Greek port of Astakos to the Israeli port of Ashdod in mid-to-late January.
A “hazardous material” designation on the manifest mentions explosive substances and detonators, but no other details were given.

“Shipping 3,000-odd tons of ammunition in one go is a lot,” one broker said, on condition of anonymity.

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And YOU are paying for all this stuff, at a time when 11 million of you have lost your jobs, and one out of every ten of you will lose your homes this year.

Posted on Jan 10, 2009 at 08:40

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