Why is the Israeli government purposefully falling on its sword? November 19, 2012 (LD) – Israel exists in a perpetual “besieged” mentality. The Israeli people have been conditioned to view themselves as an island amidst a violent sea. However, the constant belligerent posture of their government in fact drives the winds that churn that sea, and as the face of modern warfare shifts, and the more they use their armor and air power against their perceived enemies, the higher the waves become.
Video: Dr. Webster Tarpley explains the reckless untenable nature of Israel’s current foreign policy, and the need for an immediate ceasefire to be reached – both for the sake of preserving innocent life in Palestine, and for the very survival and stability of Israel.
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Historian and geopolitical expert Dr. Webster Tarpley noted in a recent PressTV interview that the paradigm has shifted in terms of modern warfare, and that tactics involving armor and air superiority cannot guarantee Israel its defense any longer. Operations such as the abortive invasion of southern Lebanon in 2006, the brutal but ultimately unsuccessful “Operation Cast Lead” in late 2008-early 2009, and now this most recent conflict in Gaza, show that while Israel still possesses an immense capacity to inflict suffering and death in a tactical dimension, it has become all but impotent at achieving any meaningful strategic objectives.
The leadership in Israel must surely understand this, and that the more overtly belligerent they become, the more they endanger the state of Israel and its people. Then why, one must ask, do they continue on an obviously self-destructive path?
The answer is simple – while the people of Israel have an invested interest in their own self-preservation, their leadership, though they play the role well of Israel’s defenders, do not.
Israel’s compromised corporate-financier driven leadership seems to be positioning the nation for a significant fall, to what degree is still not clear. It could range from a catastrophic defeat, to another humiliating ceasefire after an exercise in impotent, self-incriminating brutality. The purpose of this appears to be to grant their regional partners, mainly the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the necessary clout, legitimacy and unity needed to carry out the next stage of reordering the Middle East.
With a decisive defeat of Israel by what the Washington Post calls “a changed Middle East,” the Saudi-Qatari-Egyptian axis, a united front of sectarian-hardliners long-sought by Wall Street and London to fight its regional enemies, will be prepared to confront Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon – to accomplish what the US and Israel have themselves already tried but failed to achieve.
The Washington Post, easily recognized as a “right-wing” Neo-Conservative clearinghouse, and proponent of Israel, almost seemed to celebrate the united front lining up behind Hamas in Gaza, against Israel. In their article, “Hamas finds greater support in a changed Middle East,” they state:
“Fenced in by an Israeli blockade and by the tacit consent of authoritarian Arab regimes that disdained Hamas’s Islamist politics, the group long relied on two international pariahs — Iran and Syria — for support.
But the outbreak of a revolt in Syria shattered ties between Hamas and the government of President Bashar al-Assad and forced a rift between Hamas and Shiite Iran. Hamas has since repositioned itself, gaining a new set of regional partners at a critical time.
Newly democratic Egypt and Tunisia, along with regionally influential Qatar and Turkey, have increasingly assumed the roles of Hamas’s new allies.”
It must be remembered, however, who was behind the creation of the “newly democratic Egypt and Tunisia,” and who is currently partnered with Qatar and Turkey in various regional objectives, not the least of which is the subversion and destruction of Syria.
Hamas’ New Friends – Israel’s Semi-Covert Allies
The 2011 “Arab Spring” was far from the spontaneous uprising it was portrayed as being. While the US government feigned surprise, it had been quietly preparing both hardliners and “pro-democracy” protesters years in advance – at least as early as 2007.
The newly elected Tunisian president’s first order of business was in fact to toe the line of US foreign policy, and withdraw recognition of the Syrian government. This was not surprising, considering President Moncef Marzouki had spent years coddled by the West in Paris, France, his NGO funded by the US government. Marzouki’s organization, the Tunisian League for Human Rights, was a US National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros Open Society-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) member.
The government of Egypt, likewise, had been the creation of Western meddling. Muslim Brotherhood mobs had augmented crowds led by the more presentable Mohammed ElBaradei, a long time functionary of US foreign policy. Eventually, ElBaradei was exposed as a Western proxy, and made way for the accession to power of the Muslim Brotherhood. While the Brotherhood postures as both anti-Israeli and anti-American, it is in fact, on record, funded by the United States and Israel, with money and even weapons laundered through Saudi Arabia, and now Qatar, and then sent to its various regional branches.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, published in 2007 a report titled, “The Redirection,” based on US, Saudi, and Lebanese representatives, exposing US, Israeli, and Saudi backing of sectarian extremists tied to Al Qaeda, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood itself.
Hersh reports that a supporter of the Lebanese Hariri faction had met Dick Cheney in Washington and relayed personally the importance of using the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria in any move against the ruling government:
“[Walid] Jumblatt then told me that he had met with Vice-President Cheney in Washington last fall to discuss, among other issues, the possibility of undermining Assad. He and his colleagues advised Cheney that, if the United States does try to move against Syria, members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood would be “the ones to talk to,” Jumblatt said.” –The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
The article would continue by explaining how already in 2007 US and Saudi backing had begun benefiting the Brotherhood:
“There is evidence that the Administration’s redirection strategy has already benefitted the Brotherhood. The Syrian National Salvation Front is a coalition of opposition groups whose principal members are a faction led by Abdul Halim Khaddam, a former Syrian Vice-President who defected in 2005, and the Brotherhood. A former high-ranking C.I.A. officer told me, “The Americans have provided both political and financial support. The Saudis are taking the lead with financial support, but there is American involvement.” He said that Khaddam, who now lives in Paris, was getting money from Saudi Arabia, with the knowledge of the White House. (In 2005, a delegation of the Front’s members met with officials from the National Security Council, according to press reports.) A former White House official told me that the Saudis had provided members of the Front with travel documents.” –The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
It was warned that such backing would benefit the Brotherhood as a whole, not just in Syria, and could effect public opinion even as far as in Egypt where a long battle against the hardliners was fought in order to keep Egyptian governance secular.
Clearly this “new Middle East” the Washington Post describes as lining up behind Hamas, and against Israel, is a monster of Western policy’s own purposeful creation. It seems as if Henry Kissinger may have had something much more specific in mind when he stated, “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.”
While it may seem unfathomable that the corporate-financier interests of Wall Street and London would jeopardize the safety, security, and even existence of Israel – a long time beachhead for Western geopolitical interests across the Middle East – this is only because people severely overestimate the importance placed on Israel by the corporate-financier elite.
Image: (Wikipedia) The Destruction of Jerusalem, 70 AD by the Roman Empire. The price Israelis will pay for enterprising with empire today will be no different than it was 2,000 years ago. Perpetual belligerence didn’t save them then, and it will not save them now.
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To the West’s corporate-financiers, Israel is another plot of land – its people another demographic to be targeted, manipulated, and exploited, its resources to be expended, its role and existence to be assessed and reassessed based on utility. Like the Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago, when Israel outlives its usefulness as a proxy, it will be overrun, looted, destroyed, and its people scattered to the four corners of the globe, if and when necessary. As has been stated many times before, the greatest existential threat to Israel as a state, and to its people, is their own compromised ruling government. In reality, the Israeli people and their perceived mortal enemies share a common foe – who has pitted them both purposefully against each other for over a generation.
Netanyahu’s over-the-top, cartoonish warmongering, the IDF’s purposeful provocations, and a continuous campaign of self-vilification seems designed to make what appears to be an engineered fall all the more satisfying and uniting for the “new Middle East” Wall Street and London (with the ruling Israeli government’s help) has assembled over the past 2 years. For the Israeli people, stepping back seems impossible – but continuing forward is almost certainly suicidal.
The Israelis have the military might, the political sway, and the economic means to prevail against any true enemy. Rooting out warmongers like Netanyahu will not leave the nation defenseless, but better footed to explore other paths toward regional co-existence, peace, and prosperity. It will not be easy, but no more difficult than fighting perpetual war.
People all over the world have been protesting against the military actions in Gaza all week, there have even been protests within the colony of Israel among Israeli citizens.
There are many people in Israel who understand the situation and don’t buy in to the government propaganda as past generations have.
“Nearly 150 Israeli activists have staged a demonstration in Tel Aviv to protest against the Isralei regime’s airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip.
The demonstrators, who rallied at Tel Aviv’s Habima square on Saturday night, slammed the military aggression as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “election campaign.”
They chanted, “Children in Sderot and Gaza want peace.” They also chanted slogans against the “occupation” of Palestinian territories by the Israeli regime.
Earlier on Wednesday, anti-war activists also held a similar demonstration outside the house of Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, calling him the “No. 1 terrorist” in the Israeli regime.
At least 50 Palestinians have been killed and more than 400 others wounded since the beginning of the recent Israeli air strikes against the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Many women and children are among the casualties.
Israeli has authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 reservists, preparing for a possible ground invasion of Gaza.”
For well over a year now peace activists in Palestine and Iran have been teaming up with other peace activists in Israel and the United States to spread a message of love and unity among people of all geographical locations…..regardless of what all the crazy politicians say.
One of the most popular of these efforts is the Iran loves Israel and Israel loves Iran campaign, which started out as a viral Facebook phenomena where Iranians and Israelis would send messages of love to one another and reassure each other that the hateful rhetoric put forward by governments and media outlets are totally out of line with the true feelings of the average person.
Wars belong to the politicians, the weapons manufactures and the bankers, it is their hate and their propaganda that drives the violence in these conflicts.
The people at home just want to live long, happy and peaceful lives.
“Nothing about war is healing. It doesn’t plant seeds of change – only of discord and pain. The people of Iran, like our counterparts in Israel, are vibrant, creative, and forward-thinking.
We need a transparent arena where ideas can be exchanged, thoughts developed, and discourse inspired by our similarly ancient cultures.
Although many countries in the Middle East suffer from debilitating international stereotypes, we can unite to transform the media’s image of us as violent and intolerant aggressors to loving and cooperative partners.
As we go through the crucible of our inherited animosities, we can burn away our superficial differences and together emerge with a greater understanding of humanity.”
“Once you see your enemy as a human being similar to yourself, being expressing his love and understand he doesn’t hate you as years of propaganda succeed to make you believe, you can never go back to blind hate, then you can start to know each other and you will be ready for peace.”
I am sure that these groups are working hard on awareness efforts to bring these issues to the rest of the world and let people know that the conflict is not between the people but between the governments, so there is no reason for the people to get killed and caught in the middle.
As of right now protests around the world are growing exponentially as the violence escalates in Gaza.
The IntelHub will be paying close attention to all aspects of this issue as the story develops.
J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance, a staff writer and reporter for The Intel Hub and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.
You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com
Support for marijuana legalization in British Columbia has reached a whopping 75%, according to a new Angus Reid poll commissioned by Stop the Violence BC, a coalition of law enforcement officials, legal experts, medical and public health officials and academic experts concerned about the links between cannabis prohibition in British Columbia and the growth of organized crime and related violence in the province.
The poll surveyed 799 respondents in British Columbia. The results have a margin of error of +/- 3.5%.
The number supporting legalization is up six points over last year’s Angus Reid poll, where 69% supported it. Meanwhile, opposition to legalization has declined from 24% last year to 21% this year.
The new poll also suggested a broad social acceptance of marijuana in Canada’s westernmost province, which has been a hotbed of marijuana cultivation and culture for several decades now. Only 14% of those polled believe possession of a joint should lead to a criminal record, down six points from last year, and 74% would be comfortable living in a society where adult cannabis consumption was taxed and legally regulated under a public health framework, an increase of four percentage points from last year.
Strikingly, support for full legalization was higher than support for the half-measure of decriminalization. While 75% supported legalization, only 62% wanted decriminalization.
“From a scientific and public safety, making cannabis illegal has clearly been an expensive and harmful failure,” said Dr. Evan Wood, founder of Stop the Violence BC and Canada Research Chair in Inner City Medicine at the University of British Columbia. “With 75% of British Columbians supporting change, and the status quo contributing to increasing harms in BC communities, it is absolutely time for politicians to catch up with the public.”
Stop the Violence BC has been pushing for the legalization and regulation of marijuana. Its members include four former BC attorneys general, four former Vancouver mayors, including Larry Campbell, and former West Vancouver police chief and Liberal member of the provincial legislature Kash Heed.
The campaign is picking up steam. In September, the Union of BC Municipalities passed a resolution called for marijuana regulation, and last month, the Public Health Association of BC (PHABC) endorsed regulation.
“From a public health perspective, we urgently need to research alternatives to our current approach to cannabis which has clearly failed to protect public health and has actually resulted in substantial individual and community harms,” PHABC president Dr. Marjorie MacDonald said in a statement.
Listen to Richard Gage admit that he, an architect, has never studied the very important NYC seismographic data, and that thermite does not explain all of the evidence from 9/11 (Part 2). It’s absolutely mind-blowing to think about how many well-intended people are still fooled by this man’s unscientific claims…
After I found out that Richard Gage was coming to Peoria, IL, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to ask him why he continually ignores the overwhelming sum of easily verifiable physical evidence that thermite and explosives of any kind do not explain, why he has not filed his “smoking gun” thermite evidence in a court of law, and why he banned me, a donating member, from his AE911Truth organization just for sending Mr. Gage one well-intended email to ask if he knew about the large sum of important physical evidence that Dr. Judy Wood has discovered. I also asked Mr. Gage some other important questions, such as why he doesn’t ever mention Dr. Steven Jones’ past work with Los Alamos National Laboratories (the laboratory that conducted the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb and many other top-secret defense / weapons programs), and Dr. Jones’s role in disrupting the ‘Cold’ Fusion research and patent application of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann long ago. Please pay close attention to Mr. Gage’s words, body language, and attitude, and decide for yourself what his intentions are.
In Spring of 2010, I messaged Richard Gage of AE911Truth to ask him if he knew about the large sum of important physical evidence that Dr. Judy Wood has discovered, and as a result, I was silently banned from AE911Truth, despite the fact that I have donated over $100 dollars to Richard Gage and his organization over the course of my ~1 year membership. As of the morning of March 4th 2010, my name was removed from the AE911Truth petition and my profile was deleted, so it appears that I have been banned from the group simply for sharing evidence with Richard Gage in one private email. This is very concerning to me, because I have not done anything wrong by asking Richard Gage if he is aware of the large sum of empirical evidence Dr. Judy Wood has gathered, yet AE911Truth has banned me simply for trying to help. Furthermore, shortly after I began posting on internet blogs and forums about what AE911Truth had done to me, it was then that Mark Graham of AE911Truth contacted me, emailing me to offer me a refund because they noticed I was telling people what had happened to me.
If Mr. Gage was searching for the truth, then he would not be trying to deceive people by claiming to present the best “scientific forensic evidence”, only to completely ignore the large sum of scientific forensic evidence that thermite does not explain. If a cancer researcher only presented the evidence that supported his hypothesis while completely ignoring the evidence that countered his hypothesis, he would be ridiculed, criticized, and most likely fired from whatever institution he represented for presenting such an unscientific and biased fraction of the total sum of important physical evidence that demands consideration.
In my opinion, I find it to be highly probable that Richard Gage, Steven Jones, Alex Jones, and others, are ignoring a large amount of physical evidence and pushing the thermite-only story just in case we ever attempt to bring the true 9/11 perpetrators to justice. There is a thing called Double Jeopardy in our legal system, so we only get one shot at charging the true suspects, and thus, we better figure out exactly how they did it before we charge them. Thermite is easily disprovable in a court-of-law because it does not even come close to explaining all of the physical evidence from 9/11, so if AE911Truth is truly interested in the “Truth”, perhaps they should stop pushing the unscientific thermite-only/explosives-only nonsense down everyone’s throats. They should be encouraging us to think for ourselves, but instead, they are telling us what to think and what evidence to consider, while simultaneously ignoring an overwhelming sum of extremely important, easily verifiable, empirical evidence.
If you care about our beautiful planet, then please help bring the true 9/11 suspects to justice by familiarizing yourself with ALL of the important physical evidence that must be explained. Please consider the large sum of important physical evidence found at the following three websites:
Abraham Hafiz Rodriguez
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IMPORTANT: Part 2 (I caught up to Mr. Gage at the end of the Q&A session to ask him questions one-on-one):
Listen to Richard Gage admit that he, an architect, has never studied the very important NYC seismographic data, and that thermite does not explain all of the evidence from 9/11. It’s absolutely mind-blowing to think about how many well-intended people are still fooled by this man’s unscientific claims…
After the unsatisfying answers that Richard Gage gave in response to my first set of questions, I decided to approach him at the end of the Q&A session to see if I could get a better explanation for why I was silently banned from AE911Truth simply for sending him one well-intended private email which asked Mr. Gage if he was aware of the large sum of important physical evidence that Dr. Judy Wood has discovered. I sent the email in Spring 2010 shortly after I found out about all of the important evidence Dr. Judy Wood has discovered, because I thought Mr. Gage most likely did not know about it. Now, it seems that Mr. Gage does indeed know about all of this important evidence, and that he purposely is choosing to ignore it. In my opinion, it is now very obvious that Richard Gage, Dr. Steven Jones, Alex Jones, and other “truth” seekers, are simply the second layer of the 9/11 coverup. Please do not take my word for it, rather, take it upon yourself to research this evidence for yourself and make up your own mind about it. We all must think for ourselves and familiarize ourselves with ALL of the physical evidence from 9/11, so that our opinions are as accurate and well-informed as possible. Please pay close attention to Mr. Gage’s words, body language, and attitude, and decide for yourself what his intentions are.
I found it very concerning to see Richard Gage implying and/or stating things such as, “I don’t understand the NYC seismographic data, I’ve never studied them”, or “I know that 1,400+ mangled cars cannot be explained [by thermite], I don’t know what can explain that”, or “I don’t want to ask questions that will raise more questions, I [only] want to ask questions that will motivate people to ask for a new investigation”, or “it’s up to you [public] to do something with this evidence and act on it, because I am working 80 hours per week managing this organization and no attorney has stepped up yet” (I wonder if Richard Gage forgot about James Gourley, the legal attorney, supporter of AE911Truth and the Journal of 9/11 Studies, and the Executive Director of the International Center for 9/11 Studies?) , and other related statements…
In my opinion, I find it to be highly probable that Richard Gage, Steven Jones, Alex Jones, and others, are ignoring a large amount of physical evidence and pushing the thermite-only story just in case we ever attempt to bring the true 9/11 perpetrators to justice. There is a thing called Double Jeopardy in our legal system, so we only get one shot at charging the true suspects, and thus, we better figure out exactly how they did it before we charge them. Thermite is easily disprovable in a court-of-law because it does not even come close to explaining all of the physical evidence from 9/11, so if AE911Truth is truly interested in the “Truth”, perhaps they should stop pushing the unscientific thermite-only/explosives-only nonsense down everyone’s throats. They should be encouraging us to think for ourselves, but instead, they are telling us what to think and what evidence to consider, while simultaneously ignoring an overwhelming sum of extremely important, easily verifiable, empirical evidence.
If you care about our beautiful planet, then please help bring the true 9/11 suspects to justice by familiarizing yourself with ALL of the important physical evidence that must be explained. Please consider the large sum of important physical evidence found at the following three websites:
Fact Israel did not exist until 1948
Fact Palestine existed since ancient times.
Fact under whatever empire it doesn’t matter the same culture and people lived in continuity until a foreign invasion in the 1940s which was based on religious bigotry and rhetoric.
Fact none of it matters, it doesn’t matter if a family moved there yesterday none has the right to murder people based on saying hey my fam was here longer than yours. It extra stupid when you weren’t even there longer.
By JG Vibes
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