21 December 2001 - Alliance of war mongers
Israel as a nation state is the last colonial enterprise of the last century. The Israelis claim that this makes them like the Americans colonising a new world. Except Palestine is not a new world, it is a very old world. Its people have lived there longer than the Jews were ever running the place. They know their rights, they know what has been stolen from them and so does the rest of the world. If Israel is not a foreign occupation and could sustain itself like the US colonies after independence, then let it be truly independent. Let us see how long the Israelis would survive without the billions of dollars in military aid and technology, without the guarantee of direct external military assistance by the USA. The Israeli government is closer to the occupying forces of the British government in America before the war of independence. If the US people should identify with anyone in this conflict, it should be the Palestinians.
It used to be that the USA was the champion of peoples who wanted to throw out their colonial masters, now it is the chief enforcer of colonial and neo-colonial rulers.
Today, the Israelis have greater confidence than ever and their hold over Capitol Hill is stronger than ever. But this power leads to arrogance, and arrogance leads to mistakes. Mistakes that expose their true attitude, mistakes that cannot be covered up. They are there for people who look into the matters but they are yet to make it into the public conscience in a big way. That may all change soon once people in the USA realise that Israel can and does act directly against their interests. The case a few years ago of the worst ever damage done to the US intelligence service was exposed as an Israeli spy handing over masses of material to the USSR in exchange for the USSR allowing Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. This didn't have too much effect on people because its discovery only happened after the cold war was over. What may well happen soon is the discovery that Israeli intelligence knew well in advance of September 11th what was going to happen but for its own reasons thought it best not to warn the US.
This reveals the alliance of the war mongers. On one side you have "Muslim freedom fighters" (or, if you don't like them, "terrorists") and on the other "democratic government armies" (or , if you don't like them, "invading imperialist armies") with both agreeing on the goal of dragging the world into a war between Western and Islamic civilisations.
What is going on in Israel now is an attempt by these same forces to provoke an all out war between Israel and the Palestinians. In this effort, the dream of Ariel Sharon is to have Hamas take control of the Palestinian Authority. In such a scenario all out war becomes almost inevitable. Indeed Hamas was set up initially with Israeli funding specifically to provide opposition to the PLO, and now its day has nearly come.