-------- Original Message -------- Subject: (en) THE REST OF THE NEWS - This war is being fought for Israel! Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:37:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorenzo Ervin <komboa at yahoo.com> Reply-To: a-infos-en at ainfos.ca To: a-infos-en at ainfos.ca
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(an occasional article on race, class and the struggle) Most times, government officials use doublespeak to mask their real intentions about an impending war. They say it is being fought for ?freedom?, ?to restore democracy?, or to ?safeguard lives?, but the leaders of Israel have been upfront in saying that they want a war between America and Iraq for their own benefit. Why?
Because Israel is really the only government in the world which would directly benefit from a weakened Iraq. It would still be the only country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. It would intimidate other Arab countries from seeking weapons parity with Israel, which has nuclear, chemical and biological weaponry. It would mean that Israel could hit any country in the Middle East with an attack, and none of them could defend themselves. It would also mean that the United States would sink even deeper as a combatant in the Middle East, and that the Arabs would see it as the primary enemy, instead of Israel itself.
For years, Israel has been jumping at the bit for this war. It tried to get Bill Clinton, when he was President, to wage an all out war with Iraq, but he rebuked, even began to talk ?nonsense? about Israel releasing Modehai Vanunu, the imprisoned nuclear scientist, and that Israel subject itself to United Nations weapons monitoring. This was very frustrating, if not alarming, to Israel?s leadership. Yet, they have continued to press hard for an attack on Iraq.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks it has tried to claim that Iraq?s Saddam Hussein was a ?state terrorist? who financed and made the attacks possible. But they have not been able to come up with credible evidence to sway world opinion to justify an invasion, even though Clinton?s successor, George W. Bush, is fully supportive of such an American attack. Bush has been stymied because none of his allies are going along, and some are even asking for weapons inspections for Israel and demanding that it sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement of 1970 and its successor agreements.
An American attack on Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would rid Israel of one of its worst enemies, and yet leave it with ?clean hands? ostensibly. They could publicly claim that they had nothing to do with such an attack, that it was all Bush?s idea. But not only are they egging on such an attack, but they are making preparations to join in with the invading American troops, and with Iraqi opposition forces.
They are purportedly stockpiling a huge American ammo and arms cache for use by American troops when they arrive. And Israel is allowing use of its military bases as a staging ground for the attacks by American ships, soldiers and aircraft. All of this is the plan according to Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer.
Evidence is also surfacing that Israel?s Ariel Sharon is pushing hard at the Bush administration for even more regime changes in several Middle Eastern countries which it sees as anti-American and anti-Israeli: Libya, Iran, Syria, and even Saudi Arabia. All of this would also benefit Israel, since none of these Arab countries could unite against it. They would be puppet governments of America, from which it had nothing to fear, very similar to its relations to the now-deposed Shah of Iran during the 1960?s and 70?s.
Just like their major partner America, Israel has already threatened nuclear war against Iran and other countries, and against North Korea, whom Bush claims is allegedly willing to supply nuclear weapons to Iran and other Middle East Arab countries. Israel has almost 400 nuclear weapons of every type, and even has the ability to launch such weapons from submarines and by space-based satellites. It could launch a ballistic missile to hit any country in the world.
Israel believes that by aiding it to attack Iraq, this will bring the U.S. even closer to Israel, even insuring more American money and arms than ever. But the big bonus is that instead of using Israel Defense Forces as a proxy military force in the past, the Americans would do their own fighting, and would need Israeli support more than ever to do it. This is an arrangement that Israel feels that it cannot lose with.
It will maintain its military arsenal, it will weaken its enemies, and it will draw America deeper into the Middle East conflict on its side. But what will America itself get from this arrangement? According to an article in the Palestine Monitor: ?Israel is the most expensive ally in the history of the human race. Depending on whose numbers you use, American aid to Israel totals $81 billion to $90 billion.?
Further aid will only lead to yet even more taxation of the American people, and an attack on Iraq will incite intense hatred throughout the Middle East against Americans and U.S. interests, and likely to an even more massive retaliation than September 11th. With friends like this, who needs enemies?
Again, the Palestine Chronicle: ?America?s blind support of Israel?s gross violations of human rights and international law will not only cost billions of tax dollars, but eventually American lives as well. No lobby for any foreign country should be allowed to jeopardize American interests and American lives just to serve the selfish interest of a foreign power. America?s government has only one justification for existence? It?s time to start asking Americans, including our elected officials: which country are you loyal to?? This war is not being fought to defend American soil or the American people, but to protect the state of Israel and ensure the flow of Middle East oil for the greedy oil companies. Don't be fooled.
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