March 28, 2006
Though I agree with Jeff Blankfort in
his critique of Noam Chomsky as well-intentioned but
basically a functioning Zionist, there is one point Jeff
makes in the Chomsky/Blankfort Polemic on which
I differ.
Jeff believes as I do that the USA got into Iraq
because of Israel. Where we differ is that Jeff states as
most people do that the war is going very badly. As an
individual sympathetic with the people of Iraq, concerned
for our troops and the trillions of dollars of debt America
is liable for as a result of our misadventure, I agree.
But from the position of the Bush-NeoCon-Israeli
perspective, I disagree. When George Bush is upbeat
about the war, he should be. George works on behalf of
Israeli not American interests and from an Israeli
perspective, the war is going extremely well and as planned.
The NeoCon lies and games to get us on board (flowers in the
streets - celebrating Iraqis etc) was a honey trap. Israel
always thrives on chaos and bloodshed. It is when and how
they work best. Look at Palestine. Horror/chaos
destabilizes people and it takes generations to restabilize
and build back a civilization. Meanwhile, you can pull
anything you want using the chaos as a smokescreen - such as
securing resources for yourself. By suppressing and/or
killing academics and looting museums and destroying and
desecrating sites that the people of the region consider
holy you take away a people's history and heritage. The
purpose is to create a "blank page" on which the victor can
create "historic myths" from which the new country will be
built and manipulated. These are long-range plans. Big
destruction, big lies, big fear so later when Israel
(America) is in complete charge "stabilizing" the country,
a whole new reality for the people can be created.
Big
Brother is here. His handmaiden is AIPAC and its brother
organizations. He will tell you who you are, what you may
think, what you may do and not do. Dissidents will be
targeted for financial ruin, discredited, incarcerated and
if need be killed - as terrorists - an enemy of The New
People. The American myths are being changed too - Israel
is sacred - our new Mecca - our hope for a just future.
This morning I was listening to an NPR commentator using the
analogy of Joshua's triumphant entry into Canaan - bizarre
and somewhat off-topic, but a perfect message to drum up
Israel's take-over of the fertile lands and water resources
of Palestine. Israel also believed that in terms of its
security Saddam had to go. He was paying families of
suicide bombers in Palestine, so in many ways he was an arm
of the resistance movement, in their eyes. This might be
considered a legitimate concern, except for the fact that
Israel had created the illegal Occupation which Palestinians
under international law have a right to resist. In
addition, Israel believes that Iraq is part of Greater
Israel (from the Tigris to the Euphrates) and where they
failed in Egypt in 1967 (except for the Occupation of
Palestine) they have succeeded in Iraq and plan ultimately
for the complete subjugation of the people of the region.
If you follow this logic, though taking on Iran would be
stupid from an American perspective, it would help Israel's
"securing of the realm," by taking out a country which not
only has a wealth of resources but is in open defiance of
the Zionist agenda.
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