The
Mask Of Imperial Power Is Dying
By Jim Kirwan
21 June, 2007
ICH
The
charade is over in Palestine. The farce that tried to pass itself off
as a pathway to peace has clearly ended. The ‘West’ led
by Israel and the US has finally begun to show the world the duplicity
of their joint criminality as that has most recently been underscored
in “Gaza vs. The West Bank.”
After Israel illegally seized
the Palestinian taxes raised, from the starving and beleaguered Palestinians,
to deny those people the means to achieve a functioning state: now in
light of the rebellion in Gaza, Israel intends to use that money to
blackmail The West Bank, and starve survivors in Gaza. This surpasses
what the Nazis did to those they occupied by a factor of at least ten-fold:
Given that the Nazi reign lasted only twelve years – while Israel
and the US have controlled the people of Palestine for over fifty years.
Israel’s claims that
Hamas wants to destroy the State of Israel are true: yet it is equally
true that Israel wants to exterminate the Palestinian people. Unfortunately
Americans seldom hear both sides of these charges: only Israel’s
claims are routinely reported, each and every time the name of Hamas
is mentioned.
Neither is it mentioned here,
that Israel had its military severely beaten in Lebanon, which was not
supposed to happen. Israel was behind the bombing that killed the very
popular pro-Lebanese leader that was then blamed on Syria—in order
to pave the way for an Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This is the same
murder that the UN has now been coerced into holding an international
trial for. The bomb signature was the same as the bomb used on the 241
US Marines, in Beirut, during Ronnie’s reign, and the only nation
capable of making such bombs was and is Israel.
In instance after instance
the corruption that passes for the military dictatorship of Israel today
is the only group that directly profits from the escalation and destabilizations
of so many different countries in the Middle East now.
Israel is not a traditional
nation in the sense that she was not organically conceived, or home
grown, but rather ‘it’ was created out of Palestine, and
has yet to complete that process – over fifty years after her
presence was inserted into Palestine. If the headlines offer any clues,
her major exports seem to be ‘hatred & war’: which does
not seem to be reason enough for that tiny place to exist upon the world
map.
Her most powerful citizens
are mostly found living abroad, where many enjoy very good lives. There
is also no question that many Israeli’s are immensely powerful
in many of the world’s pivotal institutions and industries, as
well as throughout the world, in arts and entertainment, in politics
and power, and in virtually all the major fields of endeavor: No small
accomplishment given their very small overall numbers. But Israeli’s
are not of a single mind, or even a single religion: and their country
has been infected by an extremism that is very similar to the one that
won the coup that toppled the United States in 2000. Both systems are
as virulent as they are hated around the world.
The map of the Middle East
is far from clear even to seasoned veteran players in the region. In
fact to get an idea of just how difficult this puzzle is one would have
to somehow envision a chess board where eight players could simultaneously
oppose one another. Motives, outcomes, and movements are each composed
of several different minds, within each group that represents a single
theoretical ‘state.’ Nothing is simple. Sophistication,
in-depth intelligence and an intense knowledge of the various histories
and multiple factions are all basic to even beginning to understand
what goes on there.
Overlay upon this immensely
difficult region the fact of their resources and the importance of their
resources to the rest of the planet and you can easily see that no nation
that seeks to dominate that region can afford to be involved there,
without a great deal of diplomatic and real understanding about events
in that war-ravaged region. The military components at play are only
one arm of a vast network of seething and competing goals that are never
far from any surface; including the day-to-day realities. Add to this
the arrogance and the self-imposed blinders, of the Western would-be
rulers of that region—and it is clear that several different boogey-men
needed to be created to keep all the various factions at bay. Enter
the one-size fits all “terrorists,” many of whom are freedom
fighters, some that are just mercenaries, and a huge number of extremists
of all stripes. In this situation “Chaos” is the one logical
outcome, but it is not the only consequence.
Suffice it to say that this
region is and was the grand prize being sought by the world’s
bankers and the global corporatocracy, not to mention the puppets in
several nations that each has more than a small stake in the outcomes
from this Privateer’s Dream of global conquest. This has been
the Cheney-Bush target of our foreign policies since long before they
ascended into office.
Ironically, these Outlaws
approached this situation just as they have always approached everything
else – they chose to begin with intimidation and what they thought
of as overwhelming force: and they failed repeatedly. Did they learn
anything at all – no! Instead they have chosen to compound their
initial blunders with the threat of even more wars, and an expanded
presence by both US military personnel and a sharp new spike in the
accompanying mercenary forces as well. Death, death and lots more death,
all to maintain the false air of some faint idea of a ‘victory’
in the war over the oil field contracts. How pathetically lame this
so-called “leadership” has been!
In addition to that folly
the Israeli’s have taken pages from our own bloody past, and began
to treat the Palestinians much like we treated our native population
when they still stood between the American colonies and the Western
shore of what finally became the United States.
In addition to partitioning
Palestine and stealing the lands of the inhabitants, Israel went further
establishing camps and policies that made a horror out of daily life
for any Palestinian caught up in that nightmare. The goal was to get
the Palestinians to leave. This did not succeed, as for the most part
the Palestinians have stayed and they continue to fight to this day,
just as almost any people will fight tenaciously for their own lands
and countries.
However, the Empire has no
use for other people’s patriots, we call them terrorists. In fact
the still unfinished state of Israel initially used the Irgun, (their
own terrorists when they were seeking independence from the Brits).
Many of their early leaders were drawn directly from the ranks of their
own former “terrorists.” This is probably why the current
Israeli leadership is so incensed by Hamas, and what their leadership
of the Palestinians might be able to accomplish, should Hamas ever succeed
in uniting a real Palestinian state.
This brings us to the current
tactics being employed by both the US and Israel inside Iraq and elsewhere
today, and indeed throughout these long and ugly years of a war that
is not a war but an illegal slaughter of helpless people. Rumsfeld and
Cheney and Gonzalez and Bush came up with the idea that torture could
both justify their wars and keep the fear alive in so many millions
of people everywhere – and who knew – maybe they might actually
gain some information from the exercise. So we created Gitmo and revoked
Habeas Corpus for all Americans, if the Decider decided that whoever
it was might just possibly be involved in something anti-American, at
least according to his interpretation of that definition. But now—years
after this obscenity was put in place—the truth is beginning to
leak out as it always will. And Seymour Hersh has written about it in
a major article in The New Yorker Magazine entitled: The General’s
Report. (1)
This series of crimes and
cover-ups could lead to major destruction within those at the top of
this extremely vicious treachery against all that the world had outlawed
so very long ago.
Cheney-Bush has created so
many ways by-pass the once sovereign laws of this country: Like the
1100 signing statements, the spying on American citizens at will, the
upending of everything needed to run even a third class country, much
less the United States of America. We have become a country without
an infrastructure, without real jobs, with no real say about our own
defense, or even how our borders should be maintained. We have no culture
unless one counts consumerism (our major disease – without which
we’d already be in the worst depression the world has ever known).
Most of our industries are run from overseas, our goods and services
are outsourced and then imported and now we’ve been reduced to
selling off our national highways and public lands to satisfy our government’s
addiction to unsubstantiated loans to fight the wars we’re already
lost in the name of major corporations like Halliburton that fled this
country to avoid taxes and the legal responsibilities that their contracts
will entangle them in—once the investigations finally get underway.
(2)
So much criminality, so much
treason, and so few outcomes that stand even a chance of making a real
difference: It’s obvious that Americans need a new mantra!
"NO" is the only
thing this government should hear, to everything they are proposing,
from the majority of the people they want to rule. If all of us just
did this in both thought and deed, then this government could not continue,
and we could begin again.
The entire fabric of what
was 'government' is rotten to the core, because each one of almost all
of the elected members continues to make decisions based solely on their
own personal gains that have nothing to do with their offices, or with
the public's welfare. They have in essence "sold their reputations
for a song" and in that bargain condemned us all to an inferno
of slavery, death and taxes that will crush us into oblivion - NO -
is the only cry that we can still make.
If that battle-cry is loud
enough and often enough it would begin to take hold - to the point that
things would have to change. Imagine 100,000 people in front of the
Tarnished House, the Congress & the Supreme Court - in three demonstrations
ALL chanting that one simple word, simultaneously - if that reached
the airwaves maybe we could find a new beginning?
Remember - They need us far
more than we "need" them.
NOTES
1) The General’s Report – Seymour Hersh, in the New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/
2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh
2) Foreign Companies Buying
US Roads and Bridges – USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/
2006-07-15-u.s.-highways_x.htm?POE=click-refer
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