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With ISIS Now Controlling 35% Of Syria And Most Of Its Oil Fields, Iraq Issues An Ultimatum To The US
Remember when the extremist Al Qaeda spinoff ISIS (or, now known as Islamic State following the formation of its own caliphate in the middle of Iraq and Syria) was still a "thing" two weeks ago? In this case out of sight does not mean out of mind, and while the world has found a new story line to follow in the middle east with the war between Israel and Gaza, now in its 14th day - whenever it is not busy responding to emotional appeals about the MH 17 crash - ISIS has continued to expand and as Al Arabiya reports it "is now in control of 35 percent of the Syrian territory following a string of victories, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday."
What's more troubling is that ISIS holdings now include nearly all of Syria’s oil and gas fields. While these are hardly significant on a global scale, they certainly allow ISIS to preserve its self-sustaining and self-funding status.
One of the latest gains of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” was the seizure of the country’s biggest oil fields, in Deir el-Zour in eastern Syria, earlier in the week.
Deir Ezzor borders Homs province as well as Iraq, where the jihadist group has spearheaded a major Sunni militant offensive that has seen large swathes of territory fall out of the Baghdad government’s control.
Meanwhile, jihadists have killed 270 Syrian regime fighters, civilian security guards and employees since seizing a gas field in Homs province, the Observatory added, according to Agence France-Presse.
The London-based group described Thursday’s takeover of the Shaar field as “the biggest” anti-regime operation by the ISIS since it emerged in the Syrian conflict a year ago.
“Eleven of the dead were civilian employees, while the rest were security guards and National Defence Forces members,” he added.
A counter-attack by Bashar al-Assad’s forces on Friday left 40 ISIS militants dead, Abdel Rahman said.
The Syrian government did not officially confirm the deaths, but supporters of Assad posted photographs of the dead, and described their killings as a “massacre”.
Ironically, it only took ISIS a little over a month to take over Syria's energy infrastructure and cripple the Assad regime, something the US forces were unable to do last summer. Perhaps it is time for the Pentagon to retain them, i.e., al-Qaeda 2.0, as mercenaries?
As for ISIS in Iraq, things continue to escalate and as the Institute for the Study of War reports, ISIS has placed IEDs in places such as Mada'in, Yusifiyah, and Mahmudiyah in the southern belts of Baghdad. Iraqi Shi'a militia executions inside Baghdad may increase in response to the VBIED wave in Shi'a neighborhoods on July 19. The deployment of volunteers from southern Iraq to Kirkuk province signifies the spread of their role to protect shrines in areas where ISIS is making advances. The reallocation of Iraqi security forces from Baghdad to Dhuluiya signals the real challenge that ISIS poses there.
ISW's conclusion is that ISIS may try to draw the ISF out of Baghdad in advance of more robust attackes there.
Visually, here are the latest areas of conflict in Iraq.
Perhaps sensing the fact that the tide of war may be shifting for the worse, Iraq has become increasingly more vocal in demanding US assistance and a few hours ago went as far as to issue an ultimatum on the US - help us now or we will find another bigger borther, one who will actually help us.
Bloomberg reports that earlier today, speaking at the Atlantic Council, the Iraqi Ambassador to U.S. Lukman Faily called for US air strikes warning that Iraqis are skeptical about U.S. intent to support Iraq in its fight against Sunni terrorist groups, and implicitly threatening that "other countries will step in to fill the vacuum if greater American support isn’t forthcoming."
Faily calls for U.S. air strikes to stop influx of terrorists from Syria, to target “terrorist camps,” and precision air strikes in urban areas “occupied by ISIL terrorists”
He also said that Iraq has chosen the U.S. as its preferred strategic partner, has bought >$10b in U.S. military equipment and plans "to buy billions more."
"If Iraqis do not believe meaningful U.S. assistance is forthcoming, they will not have enough incentives to adopt political reforms. Now more than ever the United States needs to be careful not to send mixed signals about its intentions. These mixed signals will create vacuum that will be filled by others."
Such as Russia?
As for Iraq, in the future pick better "preferred strategic partners."
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Paging Putin, clean up of America's shit on isle Iraq!
>> "Perhaps it is time for the Pentagon to retain them as mercenaries?"
shouldn't it be painfully obvious that these are Pentagram mercenaries?
It's difficult to know exactly what they are. We know that internationalist jihadist mercenaries were recruited from the Libyan theater to the Syria theater via Turkey. Apparently the Gulf States were covering the bill for the recruits. Then I get confused as to all the various factions in Syria -- seems very murky all the way around. Americans are often incompetent so who knows if the Pentagon really has a handle on who they are supporting or how those "mercenaries" are simply using the naive Americans for weapons, cash and whatever. Obama has been arming the "moderates" in Syria (well, that's a joke of course) and who are they?
I really don't think anybody has a full grasp of what is developing. The Iraq Sunnis have no love for the Americans yet that is where ISIS is in control.
Nothing in the Middle East is simple or transparent.
This whole Iraq situation would be an ideal opportunity for us to practice butting the hell out of other people's business. Wanna kill eachother? Fine, just don't expect us to do it for you, help you or provide you the weapons to do it with. You want to find a new "big brother" to help you out with that, go right ahead.
Why wouldn't China be considered as a potential suitor? They have weapons too.
I believe most americans have grown ambivalent to the worlds problems, now that they're waking up to how much they've been used and abused by their current overlords.
The focus is turning inward and it ain't gonna be pretty.
If they truly want help, they should hold a fund raiser and shoot some pool with POTUS. Otherwise he's to busy playing golf to answer the phone, so please leave a message and he'll get back to you.
You could always give Valerie a call, although I understand that you have to suck her cock to get an appointment...
PS, those of you who actually pay attention to history might be interested in the little repeated fact that Ho Chi Minh approached the US for support before we entered into a proxy war with the russians and got our ass handed to us in that fine garden spot of Vietnam.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/02/when-ho-chi...
>>>The focus is turning inward and it ain't gonna be pretty.
Going forward, you can have Truth, Justice OR the American Way.
Thought Processor
you get the
LVP comment of the week award...congrats!!!
Well, I suppose real politik dictates that we help the various rival parties kill each other to the last man, and then we march in and secure the oil fields so we can sell oil to the Chinese and payback some of our debt.
China gets KSA,
Russia gets Iran,
since Iran is helping Iraq and KSA is hindering Iraq...
Russia get Iraq too
So... as I take it... We're with ISIS against Assad and against ISIS ( with Iran ) in Iraq.... and against Iran except in Iraq...
My head is going to fucking explode...... How are they selling us this shit again???
We're not exactly standing on our morals or national security here, are we???
You can just reuse this chart to help explain it. Everywhere you see the work "healthcare" substitute Al-Qaeda.
Clear enough?
http://lonelyconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obamacare_chart...
freedom
I think we can simplify alot.
IS is our proxy force tool to put pressure and move in that direction.
Digg.
The US has twice refused to attack them. 'Nuff said.
So long as you insist on seeing ISIS as a Sunni group you'll be confused. They are no such thing, these are Takfiris which is Wahhabism on steroids. The Sunnis hate them as much as anybody an they're killing Sunnis as well as Shias.They just executed 11 Sunni imams recently.They have been rejected by the Islamic community as Karajites. that is "those who have left us" and are themselves actually kafirs. They are the worst enemy Islam has and the only people we are enjoined to fight and kill at any opportunity. For other enemies we are to cease fighting as soon as they stop fighting us. We are supposed to even kill kafirs if they are prisoners. Kafirs areMuslims who have turned against their religion in violence. Not merely dropped or changed it but become enemies of Islam. These uneducated fools call everyone not a Muslim or not the same sect as their hateful abortion for kafirs which just shows they are not readers of the Quran for sure.
They're also even more dangerous than anybody in the West realises yet. They are no joke and I think whoever opened the gates of hell and let them out deserves a one way ticket back there too.
muslim ascension is a race to the bottom of civilization where the most
warped caveman will win rule. as in worse than saddam or gaddafi.
america and individual rights; to their concept of brainwashed life, is like oil and water.
this is also why islamists will never fit into a civilised first world country, ever.
This is amazing to watch. Iraq threatening military procurement as if that mattered. Nothing matters now but the endgame. Russia and China are playing long; waiting for their opponent to succumb from a 1001 wounds- any number of them lethal. Washington plays day to day. Skirmish to skirmish. Haunted by the inevitable. Reeking of desperation.
Spot on. Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts.
Virtually all 1001 self inflicted.
More like death for all if the US starts losing their ass they still have the nuke card. That's the problem with nukes. Put 2 crazy bastards in a ring with a gun and both promise not to use it. One of them will.
we dont have the balls, hopefully.
I think I'm more concerned about Israel touching off one to start it all up.
They're already cornered, so to speak and everyone in the neighborhood hates them and wants to kill them....
IF all their neighbors come at them at once yet again and they are about to lose, I'm sure they'll flatten every country coming at them..... I would. If I had a stockpile of nukes, I wouldn't lose my country until I fired every one.
All wars are against populations. You can say only military targets get engaged but, in truth populations are the real targets of war... even if you aren't shooting them, you are putting that population into a submissive position.... Once you realize that then, it's not so hard to defend an indefensable position with the ultimate weapon.
well said and kind of predictable that two very old empires would use perspective and restraint watching the two hundred year old brat destroy himself
Just since 1914, Russia and China have each seen more war, invasion, bloodshed and oppression than the combined intellects of the Obozo White House and US State Department can imagine; it's no wonder that they're showing restraint, and forethought. To the Ds and Rs of the Imperial Capital, a major foreign policy mistake means your team loses the Senate; to the Chinese and Russians, a major foreign policy mistake means your traditional culture is wiped out and 50 million people die.
Still, America may yet prevail, being indispensible, exceptional and, for the moment at least, wealthy.
Iraq should ask China, Russia and Iran for help. The USA destroyed Iraq.
Iran already is not only helping but in fact fighting.
Leave it to the experts ZH'ers. The policy of the USA toward the entire world is "all in on Gaza" and that's it.
And get raped again, these are all the same bunch of assholes........nothing changes
Putin? No, try CHINA.
They would LOVE to get their troops blooded against Islamics while securing a nation full of oil and getting permanent bases in the Middle East.
That's what I thought.
Uh And if they had Bases what would they Park There ?
Tanks (with blinding lasers), Fighters, Bombers and surface to surface missiles and a SHITLOAD of infantry.
Makes sense since they already get most of the oil
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/06/04/china-gets-iraqs-oil/
Once again, a brilliant passive war (on the dollar) strategy by China
Iraq will need this buyer, and their capital, and support
China can then dictate the terms (and currency)
When will the US learn its history books
A miitary is not an economy and it usually takes its own down
Instead of relying on 'Big Borther', Iraqis should rely more on "Big Bertha!"
Ok so who thinks ISIS is a cover for alphabet agencies and zionists to infiltrate and subdue the middel east? Iran next?
Great reporting zerohedge. ISIS controls mainly desert and oil and gas production in syria is at best a small fraction of what it could be... but hey, keep giving them more press than they deserve. Who the fuck do you guys answer to?
THE TRUTH.... FUCKWIT.
YOUR TIME IS UP. NO ONE BELIEVES YOUR ZIONIST MSM DAILY HATE INJECTION ANYMORE....
downvoters can get fucked I love zerohedge but watching them report this is embarrassing.
Quoting the Syrian Lavatory for human waste? A 1 man propaganda machine from england who reports on Syria?
FRom the article you'd swear ISIS had a coherent infrastructure, when they have principly a couple of cities, desert and some oil fields which aren't producing save some smuggling to turkey. MEanwhile their what 15k strong man army is at war with 2 countries and every other jihadi brigade.
Give your fucking head a shake.
IS is selling oil to the Assad regime. Both are at war with the tiny number of "moderate" rebels who remain, mainly around Aleppo. Syrian Kurds getting wiped out, escaping to Iraqi Kurdistan or Turkey.
Most Syrian Christians are dead or fled to Lebanon. Many had already fled once from Iraq to Syria.
Your comment is utter nonsense. You are an obvious Shia hating bigot because your points are straight out of the ignorant Shia hating handbook. These are what people like you become when their hatred and ignorance gets the better of them.
Syrian KUrds are like other kurds (my friends) fierce and effective fighters and have been caning ISIS as a matter of fact. Again your points are the lies told by the real supporters of hatred who have given these animals their chance. I can't tell you how much true Muslims loathe your hateful divisive kind without using words which would have me banned probably but we do loathe you fakes who never read Quran and only listen to hateful men's lies.
Ridiculous. Isis is at war with everyone who does not toe their exact line. Just as the iraqi shia are apostates worthy of death so is the assad government inclusively made up of alawite, sunni at al. Syrian christians are under fire just like every one of the 20 or so minorities there because of isis, jabhat al nusra and all other western backed islamist hordes. The foreign hordes are being expunged from urban areas in syria and the momentum is against them. Isis is being dealt with in iraq.
There are no moderate rebels anymore. Most have either taken part in the amnesty program and are fighting for the national defense force or have become modern day highwaymen.
The kurds are doing fine via the ypg / pershmerga ignoring their pursuit of their own interests.
Sum total. ISIS et al is losing and will lose. Save the west using air power this will fizzle into a protracted terror campaign. The majority sunni saa is taking back aleppo then deir el zor and raqqa is next. Then its done.
The west and isis / al quaeda are set to either lose or start ww3.
i agree, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is pure rubbish...
12 years later and they still haven't figured out the US was never there to "help"?
sure we are. he "help" them make sure they are only selling oil for dollars.
taking the Russian energy market from them
how do the planners figure on replacing the 60% of NG that Russia supplies to Europe? if your of the camp that energy is a FINITE resource then how can Russia really be ever isolated? If Russia started playing in Cuba, let alone Mexico, would they still be the enemy?
First off, track and disrupt the logistics trail for any oil sold by ISIS.
Secondly, let another big brother step in and fill the vacuum.
Hahahaha. ISIS will sell at below market so fat chance anyone is going to disrupt the flow.
Where do you take delivery? You must be one of the dumbest people here.
ISRAEL IS THE NEW BUYER OF KURDISTAN OIL.
ISRAEL WILL BE BUYING ISIS OIL WITHIN MONTHS..IF NOT ALREADY BY PROXIES
Sadly true. Kurds have made a fatal error by allying themselves with Israel and ISIS are solidly in bed with the Israelis too. There are over 1500 of their scum in Israeli hospitals. KUrds have never been too smart or sophisticated, and I say this with best friends who are Kurds, but their simplicity makes them easy marks always. This is why they have never had a state of their own, despite being the oldest race in the Middle East
At least the Kurds proved themselves to be highly skilled at killing unarmed Armenians. Everybody in the Middle East has an abundance of blood on their collective hands.
Speaking as an outsider, I can only share my impression that the Iranians are the only civilized nation between India and Greece... and I'm not so sure about Greece.
Big Borther.
the u.s will help kill maliki and destroy baghdad. it's that simple. the idea that he is asking for help is a joke.
i say let's blow the fuckers up. the whole thing. tiem to get your war on bitches!. predator drones for the win.
since isis controls 35% percent of syria we should bomb syria......whoops! i mean isis.
Most Fucked Nation not the same as Most Favored Nation.
Still waiting for Caliphate expansion to migrate to the "Kingdoms" (Jordan, KSA...), and to target its Arch-Enemy. Instead, we get [crickets].
It's not like the "caliphate" has an army of 300,000 to march on the entire region....it's all fishy.
To say the least.
I think it was, "a great wind" that blew from Howard Stern's ass that took out the northern part of Iraq..... It's an open investigation. /sarc
send cheney in
Merica blew on the damn fire and gave it life to begin with! Why would anyone think they would do anything now except watch it all burn?
Perhaps the American government is like the Forest Service. They plan a controlled burn and the wind unexpectedly picks up.
America has done the exact opposite of the Forest Service. America has ignored geopolitical events that look like they could get messy. The can is kicked down the road in the hopes that when TSHTF, it will happen after Barry is out of office.
This is similar to ignoring brush building up in the forest and not doing controlled burns. After time, when a fire happens, all the accumulated brush feeds a huge inferno.
not a bad analogy either, but you assume Barry is NOT doing any active evil....what was Libya? What was Fast and Furious? etc, etc.
Like posted above
US couldn't get support to overthrow Assad, so we financed this group to create all manner of hell and interrupt China and Russia's plans for the region. Same thing with Ukraine, try and paint Russia as the bad guy in order to keep fellow countries in the western fold...
We are doing this shit on purpose in order to cling to power in a world that is desperate to escape our control, my guess is that it hits a breaking point and then you see an end to the global system and a big fat war.
ISIS = CIA = ISRAEL = MOSSAD
Notice Very Little MSM rage against this pack murderous banditos?
Wonder Why Not?
i heard ISIS was headed by a radical going by the name emmanuel goldstein...
It depends what your definition of is is
great let another country deal with this financial black hole
cost of iraq thus far - 3 trillion and counting
What is the cost of doing nothing? Certainly not nothing.
Obama won't do anything. He doesn't care about Iraqi's. It's almost like he wants the extremists to win.
I'm sure there's a policy paper in the halls of Washington advocating that the ISIS problem be used in the future for more interventions.
They just have to let the situation "ripen."
Thanks for that update. I haven't had much luck finding info now that ISIS has been swept off the news herd coverage. Seems they and their allies are solidifying control over Sunni Iraq and significant areas of Syria (though no population centers yet I believe). There can remain only little doubt that the partition of Iraq is a fait accompli. Difficult to imagine a scenario where the 3 factions would wish to work together as a united nation-state, much less a peaceful and prosperous one.
Isn't Kirkuk province controlled by the Kurds? ISIS doesn't want to mess with the Peshmerga.
Anyway, just a matter of time before ISIS forces the news media to pay attention again.
There are regular situation reports posted here:
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ca/
Pretty depressing stuff. Apparently it's deadly chaos. The "Iraqi Government" seems to be the only one with planes though.
This should get interesting...
Ironically, it only took ISIS a little over a month to take over Syria's energy infrastructure and cripple the Assad regime, something the US forces were unable to do last summer. Perhaps it is time for the Pentagon to retain them as mercenaries?
Implying they arent completly funded and controled by the West already.....
Is it true ISIS was created by SIS/CIA and trained in Jordan and Turkey ? It certainly has had a clear run in a way no other terrorist group has. Now they have Israel bogged down in Gaza they could sweeo into Jordan.........
‘Following a similar resolution passed last week by the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday night to support Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip.
No dissenting vote was cast, and no mention was made of the hundreds of Palestinian civilians, most of whom are women and children, that have been killed by Israel in the past ten days.
Senate Resolution 498 was authored by Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), with additional support by Ben Cardin (D-MD) and son of former Republican party politician Ron Paul, Rand Paul (R-KY).’
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/us-senate-unanimously-passes-resoluti...
Gilad Atzmon sees the Gaza murder spree as potentially the end of Israel. I think he is on to something:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/07/the-end-of-israel/
"The level of IDF casualties and the number of bodies of Israeli elite soldiers returning home in coffins send a clear message to both Israelis and Palestinians."
What "number of bodies of Israeli soldiers returning home in coffins" is the author referring to? I've not heard of any mass casualties on the Israeli side.
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/07/21/372207/israel-confirms-deaths-of-22...
Godspeed dat.
The support of Genocide.
Many videos have shown the violence against the people of Gaza, and humanity, but none show the cruelty and barbarism of Israel any stronger than an IDF sniper shooting on an unarmed man trying to reach his family in the ruble during the ceasefire.
And the sniper keeps firing so the man's comrades could not reach him to save his life.
Who can say that as Americans we didn't do this when every single so-called "representative of the people" just the same as pulled that trigger? They are worse than murderers; they are marcelled savages that need to be pulled out of Washington before they destroy this nation and the people of the world. If it cannot be done by vote it must be done by revolution.
Israeli War Crime: Video Shows Sniper Killing of Wounded Gaza Civilian
“The Israeli military just shot a Gazan man trying to reach his family, during an announced ceasefire. He was with a group of municipality workers and international human rights defenders who were attempting to retrieve injured people in the Shujaiya neighborhood…” ISM, July 20, 2014
A video has emerged of the targeting and killing by a sniper of a Palestinian civilian in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood where Israeli shelling killed dozens of civilians and caused massive destruction early on Sunday morning.
The video, documenting a war crime, was uploaded to YouTube by the International Solidarity Movement, which described the incident in a 20 July press release.
LINK TO VIDEO ON GLOBAL RESEARCH:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-war-crime-video-shows-sniper-killing-of-wounded-gaza-civilian/5392489
The sniper is not shown in the video.
This could easily be another propagada piece by Hamas.
Everyone in this country should print pic's of those little boys blown to smitherines & mail them to their alleged representatives.
Evil. Pure EVIL.
ok so who is doing busines with ISIS.... controlling geography is wonderful but how do they move and deliver the product and maintain the fields and refineries... ??????? you telling me a bunch of raghead camel fuckers are technologically capable ... come fuking on...
We train armies in both afghanistan and iraq and THEY CANT FIGHT THEIR WAY OUT OF A PAPER BAG.... and out of the blue in 3 years ISIS dominates being led by an ex Bagum prisoner who WE SET FREE...WTF??? we trained em in Jordan and Qatar and WE are funding and supporting them.. THIS IS WHAT FUCKNUTS WAS COVERING UP IN BENGHAZI.... THE SECRET ARMY OF JIHADIS... "see you in new york".......
THIS IS WHAT FUCKNUTS WAS COVERING UP IN BENGHAZI.... THE SECRET ARMY OF JIHADIS.
Exactly right. Been doing that since the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan in 1979. Osama bin Laden, etc. However, I do question how firm their control is of these guys. You should check out some of the ISIS you tube videos.
Do they wear Raiders garb as well?
They love their ninja outfits but you've got a good marketing idea there!
Man you reminded me of idiocracy.
"The new Caliphate brought to you by Carl's Jr." Carl's Jr says "Fuck Yeah!! We are winning!"
Those we trained are already predisposed to surrender and desersion.
Otherwise, they were just pretending to be our lapdogs, until we left town.
Trying to draw in either Russia or Iran.
Either will do to demonize at this point for Uncle Scam.
If I'm having trouble following the plot here , I wonder how our secretariat of state is
managing.Talk about imperial overreach. lets see if we can start a war on 3 fronts at once.
Its worked so well in the past for empires.
Oh wait....
Sheikh Imran has posted some very thoughtful and insightful commentary on the plot behind the plots. The goal is to lure Iran and Saudi Arabia into the war (on opposite sides), and exponentially increase the chaos and destruction in the Muslim world.
edit, here is an interview:
http://youtu.be/QZl0Xbm1Z-A?list=UU3Xlgbc8gq3NOMmdEUAlfGg
I would say luring Iran into a war with Saudi Arabia's proxy ISIS. Why should the Hous of Saud put their own chips in play? Washington's funny money + CIA trained thugs are doing just fine.
the Saudis won't have much say it it. Once things get hot, the war will spread like a wildfire. the idea is destroy all Muslim states, even those that serve U.S./Israeli interests today... because their children might wake up tomorrow and realize who the real enemy is...
Dr. Alan Sabrosky who was a Director of Studies and Adjunct Professor at the U.S. Army War College is also commenting on the plot behind the plots four years ago.
Send in the Marine Corpse!!
Sarcastic or willfully ignorant?
Send in the sons & daughters of the Globalist Neocon Kabal MFers, who planned and ran this whole treasonous disaster. Send in the kids of Banksters, Politicians, Lobbyists, Oil and MIC cartels, and the Dual Citizens for whom everyone else was/is bleeding and dying. And send the bill and post-war medical care to Israel, KSA and other ME oil emirates, for whom we are running interference.
There is NO valid reason why we cannot stay out and simply buy oil from whoever is in charge in any given region of country -- the way the rest of the planet is doing it.
"The 100% Patriot is the 100% useful Idiot" - Kirk. Just ask Dick Cheney, who (and I quote) "...had better things to do" than to be drafted.
Its a comment on O's teleprompter reading comprehension
Words cannot express the savagery of a powerful army crushing a defenseless people who have nowhere to run. But this account comes very close.
The Assault on Gaza: A Historic Crime
By Patrick Martin and Barry Grey | Global Research, July 21, 2014
Excerpt:
...The Israeli military defended its use of flechette shells against the Palestinian population, saying it was permitted under the laws of war. Flechette shells spray out thousands of tiny metal darts with sharpened tips, designed to shred human flesh.
Human Rights Watch, a US-based organization generally allied to the American political establishment, released a report indicting Israel for deliberately targeting civilian facilities. “Israeli air attacks in Gaza investigated by Human Rights Watch have been targeting apparent civilian structures and killing civilians in violation of the laws of war,” the report stated.
The Israeli state is carrying out mass murder in Gaza. Its troops, tanks, war planes and gunboats are perpetrating a massacre of defenseless Palestinians trapped inside a tiny, impoverished and densely populated territory. No one really knows how many have been killed in the two weeks of Israeli bombing and shelling. But Palestinian hospital officials as of mid-day Sunday put the figure at 436, with more than 3,000 wounded. The dead include more than 100 children.
If this is not a war crime, then what is?
The lies given out by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to justify this atrocity are beneath contempt. People are told not to believe what they are seeing with their own eyes in news reports and videos, despite the grossly distorted, pro-Israeli coverage provided by most of the corporate-controlled media. Israeli officials have the temerity to claim that their actions are a defensive response to aggression from Hamas. But the facts speak for themselves: the civilian death toll is heading rapidly toward 1,000 on the Palestinian side, while only two Israeli civilians have died as a result of Hamas’ crude rockets.
The measures taken by Hamas are the defensive response of an isolated and besieged people to a savage onslaught, the culmination of decades of unrelenting and ever-escalating Israeli violence... For all its cynicism and brutality, the Israeli government gives the impression of a regime that has lost its bearings.
In its long and bloody history, Israel in the past four days has crossed a fundamental line. Its actions in Gaza are those of a society in a state of political and moral disintegration—the result of the dead end of Zionism.
It is now clear that the murder two weeks ago of 16-year-old Muhammad Khdeir in East Jerusalem by Jewish fascists, who poured gasoline down the youth’s throat and set him on fire, was only the precursor to a far broader crime, carried out by the highest authorities of the Israeli state.
More and more, Israel is looked upon around the world as a pariah state run by a combination of fascists and lunatics... Outrage against it is mounting among working people and youth internationally. ...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-assault-on-gaza-a-historic-crime/5392402
God help us all. Humanity has been hijacked by evil.
No. It's been hijacked not by a concept called evil, but by living, breathing people hellbent to impose their unfeeling and uncaring culture on the rest of the world.
Of all the countries in the world who could be next to use nuclear bombs, I think israhell is the clear leader on the list. And when they do, Wall Street and Manhattan will be burned to the ground.
Kirk, I totally agree on who should fight the war and who should pay the bill.
Now about Cheney- well, when it was his ass on the line, he applied for, and received, five freaking deferments!
Here is what the chickenhawk, neocon warmonger who became US Representative, White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense, and Vice President actually said-
"I had other priorities in the '60s than military service".
-Richard Bruce "the Dick" Cheney
"I would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called."
-Richard Bruce "the Dick" Cheney; 1989, Secretary of Defense Senate confirmation hearing
Nothing wrong with avoiding the military. Cheney was wrong for many other reasons.
Come back in early september after 0bama gets back from Martha's Vineyard. You might catch his attention then.
So, how to all those patriotic US soldiers feel about the sacrifice in sweat, blood, broken bodies, minds and corpses that they made in Iraq? Seriously.
Will they re-enlist for the next war, or just vote for Jeb Bush? Cause Bush 1 and 2 did such a bang up job with their ME wars, right?
As someone once said: "The 100% patriot is a 100% idiot". Well, maybe not "100% idiot", but certainly "100% useful idiot".
IMO, anyone who still enlists deserves everything they get -- but not our 'support' or even sympathy. More like pity (for desperation) or contempt (for willful ignorance), but not support or sympathy.
But, but, but....terrism!!! You're either with us or against us...and all that jazz.
Why do you think they are talking about illegals fighting for is to gain citizenship? I think the trend in recruitment is going way down. There must be a shortage of rah rah patriot kids in high school these days. (Not like the 80s when I adorned my car in high school with wall to wall recruiting stickers.). It ain't to give the Mexicans a fair shot that is for sure.
>>>IMO, anyone who still enlists deserves everything they get -- but not our 'support' or even sympathy. More like pity....
At this point certainly, anyone who enlists deserves pity, for the reasons you stated. They're either too ignorant to have any idea of what they are actually signing up for, or they're aggressively hostile personalities who don't give a shit about the killing and maiming of people in their own homes. I'm not sure the latter type even deserves pity; more likely, they deserve death.
Why don't they partner with Goldman Sachs? They can be limited partner and wait for an ISIS IPO.
Best comment yet on this thread.
Mr. Putin we have Iraq on line one.
Yet another US-backed non-democratic people-oppressing leader asking for US military help to either take or remain in power.
Time to mobilize the Transgendered Navy Squeals!
Here come the Chinese. This is a perfect segue for entry onto the world stage. Right now, the Chinese are largely untested and this provides them an opportunity to see what they're made of and where the gaps are. There is no other way to obtain an understanding of War and its requirements (no matter how many books you read). As the very astute Mike Tyson observed, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." ;-)
Will the US allow this? Do they have a choice? We shall see...
I think the author meant Iraq will find another "Big Bother"
JO +1
"Senate Resolution 498 was authored by Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), with additional support by Ben Cardin (D-MD) and son of former Republican party politician Ron Paul, Rand Paul (R-KY)."
RAND is a puppet, he looks and talks like a puppet (or controlled opposition which is worse) and Rand is no different than Lindsey, Barry or Sarah Palin.
DC = District of Criminals
Son: "Look dad, it's easy for you. You are already retired, you can say what you think; I still have to make it."
So the ISIS is taking out Syria. Does that mean that the Qatar pipeline will be going thru Syria as O/Saudis wanted - which will be in competition with Putin's pipeline?
Russia is currently busy right now but China is available.
If this guy is talking about Russia helping he just needs to look at how much Russia helped Iraq when it was invaded. Or how much Russia helped Libya. Or how effective Russia's help is in Syria. Sorry to say Russia cannot project influence in a military manner.
Russia minds its own business, until it has no other choice.
Somebody remind me why getting rid of Saddam was so damn important.
Cause he threatened someones daddy.
Oh and he also made some small steps to getting off the petro-dollar....
Selling oil for Euros instead of Dollars comes to mind.
Euros bad ...Dollars good.
I know I am missing a few... but I remember-
Fuck big borther!
First the colonies on the periphery fall with growing inner tension and decay as always.
The process of collapses are highly interesting.
(1) Fuck Iraq. We trained your military and gave you arms. Clean up your own mess instead of running away.
(2) Israel can do whatever they want to do just so long as they don't come crying back to us when it backfires.
(3) The Palestinians can do whatever they want to do so long as they don't come crying back to us when it backfires.
Common thread? None of our business.
That's not what 51% of Merkins think.
Merka Fuck Yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
The guys we trained are just switching teams.
"Mission Accomplished"
why should christians help muslims to slate each other.
Somewhere, Vlad is smiling
Well done America. Well done...
Golf clap...
Maybe we should not pick sides and just give them all AK's and lots of defective ammo, ( like one in 100 shoots backwards or something, too big a bullet in it and it jams the barrel and then the next shot) and let them go at it.......
Then in a year or so we can just walk in and get our oil, no worries about any tough arab getting mad at us.....
There might be a few left but they will be pooped out and pretty busted up by then....
They would simply micrometer every round.
They already do that stuff.
Take one round and replace the powder with C-4 ... drop it into an ammo pile. Turns the rifle into a small grenade
US has been doing that for decades.
What do you mean by 'our' oil?
So we should provoke the people of the middle east to slaughter each other so we can steal their oil ?
Wow is there any part of the world not on the verge except great Britain gotta wonder if they're responsible for the NWO? Just my thoughts and I am not suicidle
City of London is the center of all malfeasance. (Rothschild)
GB on the verge of disintegration too, Septrmber Scotland independence referendum just like the ones in Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk...