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Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Nukes,
and Western Logic
Kurt
Nimmo
Monday April 2, 2007
Citizens of Lebanon, beware. Arieh Eldad has it out for you. After
the scandal-ridden government of Ehud Olmert falls, probably within
the next few weeks, a new government, likely led by Binyamin “Bibi”
Netanyahu, will attack Lebanon. “We have no choice. We will
have to do it,” Eldad tells the neocon website, NewsMax. “Dr.
Eldad explained that Israel was facing a new strategic threat, caused
in part by its own failure to deal a crushing blow to Hezbollah
in Lebanon and the impression of weakness last summer’s failed
war created in the minds of Israel’s enemies.”
In fact, short of killing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, there
is no way for Israel to “deal a crushing blow to Hezbollah,”
as more than half of the population supports the Islamic organization,
created in response to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
Since Israel will certainly face defeat on the ground in Lebanon,
as it did last summer, the only option will be to shock and awe
the country into submission.
But it is simply not Hezbollah. “The Hezbollah template for
attacking Israel is being repeated in Gaza, Dr. Eldad said. ‘Hamas
is building bunkers. They are bringing missiles across the Egyptian
border, and the Egyptian government is failing to prevent it. So
I hope the next Israeli government will be courageous enough to
carry out these operations before it is too late.’”
Swap “courageous” for “psychotic” and you’ll
have a pretty good idea of what Eldad and Moledet have in mind for
the grandmothers and toddlers of Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank.
Arie Eldad, a member of the “right-wing” (that is to
say, fascist) Moledet political party, heads the Ethics committee
of the Knesset. Of course, when we talk about ethics here, we are
talking about a brand of “moral principles” alien to
the West and Christianity. According to Eldad, sanctions of the
sort to be levied against Iran are based on Western logic. “But
when states have missions that are bigger than life, they are not
obeying the basic rules of logic that Western civilization obeys.”
And what is are these “missions that are bigger than life”?
Ethnic cleansing. Moledet advocates the “voluntary transfer”
of the Palestinian population out of the West Bank and Gaza. A few
years ago, Moledet bought space on billboards around Tel Aviv, calling
for ethnically cleansing the Palestinians. “Only transfer
will bring peace,” read the billboards. Imagine this tactic
repeated here in the United States. “Only sending the Blacks
back to Africa will reduce crime.” It does not take an overactive
imagination to envision the response. But in Israel this sort of
behavior is normal, even considered mainstream politics.
Think about it this month, as you get ready to fill out your tax
forms. “Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about
$1.6 trillion. If divided by today’s population, that is more
than $5,700 per person,” reports the Christian Science Monitor.
“Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. It is
already due to get $2.04 billion in military assistance and $720
million in economic aid in fiscal 2003. It has been getting $3 billion
a year for years.”
This “military assistance” translates into “770
cluster-bomb sites” in southern Lebanon, according to the
United Nations. “And the current U.N. estimate is that Israel
dropped between 2 million and 3 million bomblets on Lebanon, of
which up to a million have yet to explode,” according to Saree
Makdisi of UCLA’s International Institute. It also translates
into 3,020 Palestinians killed since 2000, the wanton destruction
of the Palestinian health and educational infrastructure, widespread
and growing poverty and unemployment, environmental degradation,
and a large and increasing number of Palestinians interned in prisons,
well over 650,000 since 1967. Concern over such things, of course,
is an artifact of “Western logic,” as a large number
of Israelis consider Palestinians little more than “drugged
cockroaches in a bottle,” as Rafael Eitan, former Chief of
Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, characterized them.
Eldad soon moved on to Iran. “Eldad is not suggesting economic
or diplomatic ‘engagement,’ as the State Department
might use the term. He is talking about having Israel’s military
take out Iranian nuclear and missile sites if the Western nations
refuse to do the job…. Iran is behaving on a state level as
a suicide bomber behaves on the personal level, Dr. Eldad said….
Eventually, military action against Iran will become necessary.”
In other words, if AIPAC and the neocons cannot once again trick
the American people into attacking Iran, as they tricked them into
attacking Iraq in the name of Israel, the IDF will do it. Of course,
this is nonsense, Israel will not go it alone against Iran. In fact,
Eldad is simply spewing more rhetoric, as Israel has long expected
the United States to attack and slaughter its enemies. If the invasion
of Lebanon last summer demonstrated anything, it is that Hezbollah
can hold its own and Israel is impotent to change the situation
“on the ground,” in essence a result of its own unwavering
policies of aggression, be it by way of direct military confrontation
or black flag operations.
“Like most Israeli leaders, Dr. Eldad would prefer that the
United States and its partners take out Iranian nuclear and missile
sites, if for no other reason than the vastly superior conventional
firepower the U.S. could bring to bear.”
Israel has plenty of “superior conventional firepower,”
courtesy of the American tax payer, never mind what its leaders
tell the media. Point is here, Israel expects the United States
to pay for—in squandered treasure and sacrificed lives—its
long-standing effort to balkanize Arab and Muslim states, beginning
most recently with Iraq and continuing with Iran.
“Because Iran has built its nuclear plants in deeply buried,
hardened facilities, it will be difficult if not impossible.”
Translation: simple high-explosives, depleted uranium, and millions
of cluster bombs will no longer do the trick—it is time to
nuke the Arabs and Muslims, as “Western logic,” i.e.,
use of nuclear weapons is unconscionable, does not apply.
“If Israel is left alone and the point of no return [in Iran’s
nuclear weapons program] arrives, then Israel will have to do the
job. But most probably we will not be able to do it with conventional
warheads. And this is something the world should know.”
In other word, heads up. If Israel does attack Iran, they will
most certainly use nukes, as they now have around 400 of them stashed
away.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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