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War In Gaza: Why Now?
Election Politics?
It was widely reported that Israel agreed to delay any war against Iran until after U.S. elections.
A little over a week after the election, Israel launched a "targeted assassination" against the leader of Hamas (who Haaretz called Israel's subcontractor in Gaza). That is what started the current round of fighting. Rabbi Arthur Waskow agrees that Israel started the fighting.
Professor Michel Chossudovsky notes:
On November 14, Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari was murdered in a Israeli missile attack. In a bitter irony, barely a few hours before the attack, Hamas received the draft proposal of a permanent truce agreement with Israel.
“Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a flare-up between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip.”(Haaretz, November 15, 2012)
The targeted assassination of Ahmed Jabari was followed by an extensive bombing campaign under Operation Pillar of Cloud. The latter consists of a carefully planned military endeavor.
F-16 fighter planes, Apache helicopters and unmanned drones were deployed. Israeli naval forces deployed along the Gaza shoreline were involved in extensive shelling of civilian targets.
Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barack has confirmed a scenario of military escalation, blaming Palestine for having committed acts of aggression: .
“[t]he provocations we have suffered and the firing of rockets to the southern settlements within Israel have forced us to take this action. I want to make clear that Israeli citizens will not suffer such actions. The targets are to hit the rockets and to harm the organization of Hamas.”
The Israeli attacks were followed by the firing of dozens of rockets by Hamas against Israel.
Palestine’s response was known to Israeli war planners. The resulting Israeli civilian casualties are now being used to justify military escalation on humanitarian grounds.
What we are dealing with is a carefully planned operation, a clear act of provocation. The deaths of Israeli civilians (envisaged and foreseen by IDF military planners) are being used to muster the support of the Israeli public.
Meanwhile, the Israeli attack is casually portrayed by the Western media as part of a legitimate counter-terrorism agenda.
(Glenn Greenwald notes that America’s targeted assassination policy is identical to that of Israel. This could escalate quickly. Not only are Israel and Hamas exchanging rocket fire – with casualties of children on both sides - but Israel is calling up calling up 30,000 reserve soldiers ahead of a possible ground invasion of Gaza.)
Israel is holding its own elections in January. Many commentators say that the attacks on Gaza are a cynical ploy by the Israeli Prime Minister to win re-election:
Netanyahu was accused by left-wing opposition Hadash party MP Mohammed Baraka [the leader of the Israeli Hadash opposition party] of “making another round in a circle of blood for cynical political interests” and “speculating in the blood of the Palestinian people.”
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Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn denounced the regime, saying that “once again Israel has wantonly attacked the people of Gaza, bombing and killing.
“This is effectively a first world state attacking a poor and largely defenceless population. It looks like a rerun of Operation Cast Lead,” he said.
“The timing is interesting and it looks like Netanyahu is creating a crisis to ensure his re-election”, the MP added.
Leading German newspaper Spiegel reports:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping the offensive in the Gaza Strip wins his Likud party more votes in January’s election.
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“When the cannons roar, we see only Netanyahu and Barak on the screen, and all the other politicians have to applaud them,” wrote the daily Haaretz in a commentary published Thursday. “The assassination of (Hamas’ top military commander Ahmed) Jabari will go down in history as another showy military action initiated by an outgoing government on the eve of an election.”
Indeed, one can conclude that the most recent offensive against militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip– which started Wednesday with the killing of Jabari — has been conceived as more of a show fight for the Israeli public than the beginning of a decisive battle.
And Asia times writes:
So why snuff out al-Jabari? Simple. Israel goes to the polls in January. Thus emerges Bibi's political campaigning in full-action mode. Campaign motto: Let's kill Palestinians. With such thrills on offer, any other Israeli political voice - even slightly dissenting - is drowned.
Precursor to War with Iran?
The top British Rabbi – when asked by the BBC on his thoughts on what’s really going on in Gaza right now – replied:
I think it has got to do with Iran, actually.
Why Iran?
Anti War lays out one theory:
This escalation occurs just days after widespread reports about newly reelected Obama mulling a grand bargain with Iran over its disputed nuclear program. Barbara Slavin and Laura Rozen at Al-Monitor reported on Monday that US officials told them Washington was considering offering a “more for more” deal with Iran, based on the fuel swap deal from Obama’s first term.
So what does Israel’s impending war on defenseless Gaza have to do with Iran diplomacy? Here’s a tweet from the Tehran bureau chief for the New York Times, Thomas Erdbrink:
Forget ANY #Iran-US talks if conflict in Gaza escalates
— Thomas Erdbrink (@ThomasErdbrink) November 14, 2012
And here:
#Iran leaders can never be seen as talking to US, while its “eternal” ally Israel assassinates Iran’s ideological allies
— Thomas Erdbrink (@ThomasErdbrink) November 14, 2012
I suspect this point was not lost on the Israeli leadership, either. So, is Netanyahu knowingly escalating military tensions in order to avoid a successful diplomatic overture? I’m speculating, but it isn’t far fetched. We know from extensive reporting, mainly in Israeli media, that in 2010 – just as President Obama requested a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank with the aim of resuming peace talks – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to provoke Iran into a war with Israel that would eventually drag in the United States.
It reminds me of what former CIA Middle East analyst Paul Pillar referred to this week as “Netanyahu’s tension-stoking brinksmanship: to divert attention from continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and inaction on the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” “[T]he Iran issue,” Pillar has previously written, provides a “distraction” from international “attention to the Palestinians’ lack of popular sovereignty.” Now the situation seems reversed: Israel is escalating war with Gaza to maintain deadlock with their favorite scapegoat, Iran.
Israel, lest we forget, instigated this resumption of missile exchanges last week when two Palestinian civilians were shot and killed and
Israeli tanks intruded into Gaza, prompting Gaza militants to respond by targeting Israeli soldiers, which then gave Israel an excuse to unleash successive airstrikes. And Israel had numerous chances to pacify the situation, considering Hamas publicly offered to establish a total ceasefire and Egypt appeared about to broker a truce between the two. Israel has intentionally inched towards escalation from the beginning. Are we to believe this isn’t strategic?
A second theory is that this is a prelude to an Israeli attack on Iran. Specifically, some theorize that Israeli is trying to assassinate top Hamas militants before hitting Iran … so that Iran’s proxy Hamas cannot retaliate.
A third theory is that Israel is trying to drag Iran into a war. Given that Israeli treatment of Palestinians is perhaps the key source of hostility towards the current Israeli administration in the Arab world, starting a war in Gaza may be an attempt by Israeli to drag Iran into war.
After all, Iran backs Hamas, and Israel just assassinated a top Hamas leader after making an overture of peace to him. So some believe that Israel is attempting to poke the hornet’s nest in an attempt to justify wider war.
By provoking Hamas into attacking, Israel might point to Hamas-backer Iran. Specifically, Israel may claim that pre-emptive strikes on Iran are "necessary" to undermine Hamas and make sure it doesn't obtain "weapons of mass destruction".
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wrt this:
look it up where? i wouldnt put much faith in anything written by men. if i remember correctly, bible was written about 60 year after jesus died. i mean ... no in camera testaments, no photos, no viva voce recordings, no affidavit, no under oath statements, no exhibits, no schedule A - just bunch of guys, probably smoking hash, and making shit up about something that happened when they were still pooping in their diapers. how would john 3:9 know about anything? bible, talmud, koran, etc. - just little stories to keep the sheeple content. and fearful.
Here man, this will twist yer noodle, lol.
http://defenderpublishing.blogspot.com/2012/04/petrus-romanus-false-prop...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-govt-open-for-business/2011...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9grmWQjCN8M&feature=related
http://www.watchmanscry.com/article_babylon_arrives.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvPhSUZgzxo&feature=related
You better get yourself, lol, ''squared'' away troop. Your dusty ass has seen a lot of bad weather, major earthquakes all over the place, tornados, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, mass fish kills, drought, fires, beached whales, dolphins, sea lions, birds falling out of the sky, massive hail storms etc... at the same time the nations around Israel are blowing up, in the middle of the biggest global economic meltdown in the U.S. and Europe and it's 2012. AND Are you kidding? You really think these nutballs built there stupid obelisks, pyramids etc.. because they are joking around? Do you really think all these cultures all over the planet; talking about the same things like what is now going on, are all full of crap and this is all normal ''ironic'' stuff? LMAO. Lets not forget that old ''human sacrifice' to their (g)od either there bud. I mean what kinda nutballs are these assholes, that would even think to paint some Aztec (g)od of Sirius inside the Capitol to begin with and map out the Capital city like an Occult theme park?? The question ain't, are Christians nuts for accepting the risen image of sustaining Mercy, the question is, what the hell are you doing accepting the Federal Reserve Debt Note image of their (g)od, with their stinking pyramid on it, in the first place? Wake up bud. Get a clue. Snap out of it man. LMAO. You did not come from ''nothing'' and it's not as if you have not been told where you come from. You just just refuse to accept it. Things are going to get real bad for all of us in the coming years, much worse than now. This is all prophetic. Israel is the key and Jerusalem is the capstone. That's just a fact and there is nothing that you or anyone else can try to come up and explain away all this. You are going to accept the principle offer of Mercy and not do anything stupid, or you will remain in contempt. The time for you to realize if you are going to remain in contempt or not is now.
John 8:44
""You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.""
Question- who is Jesus referring to?
Hint: one of them sold the ol' boy out for 30 pieces of silver
He was speaking directly to the Pharisees, and to those who chose to follow their Talmudic teachings, which were not put on paper until 150 AD.
Nov 12, 2012
"Jews should “rejoice” at the fact that Christian Europe is losing its identity in favor of Islam as “punishment” for its “wickedness” and “corruption,” a leading Israeli settler rabbi has announced."
http://www.davidduke.com/?p=37020
Since when any stupid thing uttered by some nuthead, Israeli or not, is subject for debate... (he must feel good, though).
That being said, Europe does change in front of our eyes - and fast.
The Christian population of Europe is indeed on the decline - as they don't make kids anymore, and the European establishment is exceedingly corrupt (regretably).
The Jews purposely changed the white-European ethnic composition of the United States using the 1965 Immigration Law because, according to Sociologist Stephen Klineberg, America’s old immigration “law was just unbelievable in its clarity of racism. It declared that Northern Europeans are a superior subspecies of the white race.”
Similar Jewish influence also is changing the demographics of Europe’s ethnic majorities..
Why? Because, say spokesmen for the Jews, only in a culture where there is no strong ethnic majority are the Jews “safe.”
In the words of Charles Silberman in 1985, “Jews are safe only in a society acceptant of a wide range of attitudes and behaviors, as well as a diversity of religious and ethnic groups.”
Jewish activist Earl Raab in the Jewish Bulletin in 1993 explains that by changing the Northwestern bias of American immigration policy the Jews “were inhibiting anti-Semitism" by making “it even more difficult for a political party or mass movement of bigotry to develop.”
Thus, the Jewish support of Third World immigration, gay rights, abortion, Marxism, feminism, the destruction of America’s traditional family unit with its role of the white male, and the breakdown of America’s Christian culture.
It is the Jewish belief in religious and ethnic diversity and cultural tolerance, says Kevin MacDonald in Jewish Involvement in Shaping American Immigration Policy, 1881-1965,” not necessarily their personal approval that leads them to “endorse ‘gay rights’ and to take a liberal stance on most other ‘social issues.’”
Neo-Conservatives Julian Simon and Ben Wattenberg, who for years have pushed for high immigration of Hispanics and other Third World peoples into the United States, do so in the hopes, they say, of making the U.S. into the world’s first “Universal Nation.”
Thus, it is the hopes of the founder of the Neo-Conservative movement, Norman Podhoretz, and of Raab, also associated with the ADL, that a United States dominated by diverse immigrants will create a pluralistic culture in America that makes bigotry “irreversible.”
This explains the pro-diversity bias of the MSM and its exceptional support for “people of color.”
The missles hitting Tel Aviv are of Iranian origin if reports are to believed.
No one likes sancitions and blockades but how tight were they Hamas as was clearly able to smuggle in Iranian rockets?
Hamas won't recognize Israel and calls for its destruction so it becomes rather hard for Israel not to respond when Hamas starts lobbing rockets into Israel.
Not going to be pretty for either side.
If Iran is supplying rockets, don't you think it would have supplied some longer range and more lethal rockets to the Palestinians?
Sort of reminds me of the bottle rockets I would shoot off as a kid.
Maybe they only want them armed enough to irritate Israel so Israel retaliates and Iran gets Muslim support from their aggression.
You would think so. And when it was claimed that Iran supplied Iraqis with IEDs I asked, woudn't Iran supply real munitions rather than improvised devices which the Iraqis could have cobbled together on their own?
Arthur, let's go through your comments/statements one at a time:
... er ... 'cha!, that is a check. Pussy junkstaz have no clue where they come from, anyway.
Nyet, tovarich, I like sanctions and blockades! Especially when they are effective towards correct U.S. outcomes. But Da, they were loose. Iranian rockets? Da. Where else did they come from? And how the fuck did they get there? Evidently an ineffective blockade.
WTF do you mean "won't", they are explicit that they are nyet the existence of Isreal. Many followers of real-politik call this a "Kein Gehirn" situation from Isreal's perspective. Other objective followers call this complicit suicide for the Isrealiz. Zahal disagree.
No Shit, tovarich.
So, I observe the pussy junkstaz' doing their horseshit reddiez on ya and I'm a thinkin' that they are all Obama voters and have Obama Phonez.
don't cha' know
- Ned
Can't decipher the code.
It's like people that use acronyms that only the "texters" in their immediate circle of friends know.
It says, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
I think Netanyahu's goal in this is elimination of the longer range Iranian-supplied rockets. This would remove one of the Iranian options for retaliation for a strike on their nuclear facilities. But with cynical assholes in power it might just be electioneering.
Really? Not the elusive Iraqi WMD?
Surely you’re familiar with the bumper sticker: Guns don’t kill people: People kill people!
The heavy tanks, attack helicopters with night vision, the jet bombers, are not really killing Palestinians. It’s the Israeli people who are killing Palestinians.
And it’s not Iran that’s sending rockets into Israel; it’s the Palestinian people, and well they should.
What kind of people would allow the harassment, imprisonment, bulldozing of their homes and murder of their families - with a refused peace offer on the table - and cower in the corner or hide under the table?
So those friendly little peace loving muslims who slaughter those in Nigeria, Sudan, Mali, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Somalia, Kenaya, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Palistine, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Gaza, Pakistan, Thailand, Russia, and Kenya. Time to exterminate the insects spreading disease and plague. Cancer is cured by cuting out the heart of the tumor. Time to pick your side. Free and peace. Or death and war. Choose wisely...... Peace will work after the cancer is removed.
There always seems to be another cancer popping up to replace the last one... Vietnam (surgeon was eventually excised, not tumour... but the predicted metastisis did not occur). Various hearts of tumours like Noriega, Saddam, Bin Laden, The Taliban, Warsaw Pact, Yellow peril, Noriega, Castro, Sandanistas attacked with various degrees of success, but tumours remain. Peace never replaces these surgeries... only the need for a new patient. Surgeon now about to go broke.
Israel is in its right to defend itself from the rocket attacks by Gaza <period>.
All the rest is just politics and PR war.
The balestinians got countless opportunities to live in peace and prosper.
Considering the mess in Syria this is not surprising. It is the same culture and value system.
So, stop blaming the MidEast mess on Israel.
Just observe the simple fact that 30,000 if not more were killed in Syria, driving distance from Gaza.
100,000 were killed in Iraw (if not more).
Many thousands were killed in Egypt and Libya.
And, you are blaming Israel ... ???
Germany 1940 is Israel 2012? you decide:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/GazaHolo/index.html
Mein Kampf (in Arabic) is a Middle East Best Seller. And guess who the Muslims allied with in WW2?
That is a powerful assembly of images. Few will dare look at it...even fewer will have anything to say because, quite simply...what can be said about it but: yes...they are the same monster.
cuts through the noise, doesn't it...
It makes me think that the human race is irredeemable crap.
did u know that the Bill Gates foundation is funding a project to make energy from poop, and it works. Poop toilets now are like nuclear reactors.
To go long poop you have to go long on what creates it; people!
Iredeemable did ya say?
not even compost - - shit
There's nothing wrong with the human race that a little anarchy can't solve.
I agree with you George. Netanjahu wants the US to continue the confrontation with Iran. This has to go on because then the Obama can not withdraw from Afghanistan
sueprmax, you are off.
How comes the US is also confronting North Korea? Is that related to Israel, too?
What do Iran and North Korea have in common?
Refresh you memory with Wikileaks' info that hte gulf states are worried about iran's nukes and asking the US to take action...
no Rothschild controlled central bank. picture getting clear yet?
fuck this Ron Paul guy.... i mean, where are the indistinguishably similar NWO puppet candidates like obamaney and rombama to just read us scripts poorly written in Langley, Virginia amirite? i need a free phone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3vF6Vcjr0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8GWTljMw_M
gosh i cant wait to elect jeb bush to the POTUS in 2016, by then the ballot will just say: ELETROLYTES? DO THEY HAVE WHAT PLANTS CRAVE? check either YES or FUCK YES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vw2CrY9Igs
Joey the Plugs gonna get the nod in 2016.
Already being "groomed"
(get it? hair transplants, groomed? giggle giggle snort snort)
i wouldn't be so sure... Hitlary Clinton oversaw a lot evil deeds done... seems like she is up next for a peace prize followed by the presidency.
N.B. Nobel Prize Cmte. Dirty deeds done cheap.
Exactly! The Clintons didn't eat all that shit for nothing. Hill & Billy get another bite at the apple with B-Rock in their pocket. They ain't gonna let no Joey da Clown gets to lose.
FORWARD ARMAGEDDON!
The word Armageddon appears only once in the Greek New Testament, namely in Revelation 16:16. The word may come from Hebrew har m?giddô (?? ?????), meaning "Mountain of Megiddo". "Mount" Megiddo is a tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia. Megiddo was the location of various ancient battles, including one in the 15th century BC and one in 609 BC. Modern Megiddo is a town approximately 25 miles (40 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee in the Kishon River area.[
The word Armageddon appears only once in the Greek New Testament, namely in Revelation 16:16. The word may come from Hebrew har m?giddô (?? ?????), meaning "Mountain of Megiddo". "Mount" Megiddo is a tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia. Megiddo was the location of various ancient battles, including one in the 15th century BC and one in 609 BC. Modern Megiddo is a town approximately 25 miles (40 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee in the Kishon River area.[
And in 2016, she will only be 142 years old.
leave britney alone [click-bait warning: it's a non-publicity photo [click-bait warning: see above re: it's a non-publicity photo]]
She would look good in an orange jump suit....
After what the next 4 years does to the US the dems won't see power again for 16 years.
its just the need to create a pretext for Iran action, after all Hamas is a puppet of (and created by) the Israeli State
then again we have the son of an Irgun terrorist running Chicago and... oh nm.
we need any kind of pretext to legitimize theatre warfare and this will help reify
we need any kind of pretext to legitimize theatre warfare and this will help reify it via the Hamas meme (as well as the endless other engineered scuttlebutt &etc.)
gotta make it look good though so we can sell the violence
financial terrorists and political jihadis and bernanks, oh my.
its a cavalcade of hatchet men front running the global agenda- as Celente says about the war cycle emergence and essentially we are in WW3
Sure, it could be a real pretext, or maybe just a pretext for a pretext. But I think it's a real, bleedin', flippin, full-on pretext. But then it could be a pretext for a pretext that preceeds the actual pretext, which will come later.
Those who want to know won't listen, but will watch for things like the peace overture which is accompanied by bombs.
Correctomundo ...
forgot to tell you George excellent piece
I guess U.S., Israel and Iran are NOT going to be like "three little Fonzi's"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuCDwg3v8B8
for great justice
its not time to read the script on air Verbatim yet!...
such an amateur lol.