From: Sid Shniad
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ME17Ak01.htm
Sunday, bloody Sunday
By Pepe Escobar
It was a Sunday, bloody Sunday - with no uplifting U2 anthem to "celebrate"
it. In
marched to the borders with
- the displacement that accompanied the creation of
The Israeli response, with "maximum restraint": killing 10 people in
over 200. The Anglo-French-American consortium waging war on
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi allegedly kills his own people was thunderously
mute.
The United Nations urged "restraint" (compare it with the official Israeli
"maximum restraint"). The Israeli daily Ha'aretz, oblivious to the irony,
ran a headline "The Arab Revolution is knocking at
baby, it is, and that's why you're freaking out.
*Always on target *
with killing Arabs wholesale because it fears no UN Security Council
resolution; the
administration of target executioner-in-chief Barack Obama would not, for
instance, instruct UN ambassador Susan Rice to abstain from a UN
condemnation. That's the kind of abstention that could also help the UN, for
instance, to force
Forget about the UN Security Council - so eager to send the
Treaty Organization on an attacking rampage on the side of a dodgy bunch of
Libyan "rebels", effectively taking sides on a civil war - even considering
dealing with
until it starts complying with international law.
Forget about the Obama administration supporting the UN Security Council
into giving
nations, including, recently,
recognize the legitimacy of
Palestinian nation could sue the hell of
law over the systematic theft of Palestinian territory.
Would Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama lose anything with this move? No. The
powerful Israel Lobby in
Affairs Committee (AIPAC) - is already campaigning against him in 2012.
Anyway, he won't do it - and on top of it will address the upcoming AIPAC
annual meeting in
complicity in the Israeli regime.
others that are considered "illegal outposts" even under Israeli law. The
supports them all via a complex network of Jewish and ultra-right-wing
Christian "charities". Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations
funding illegal settlements.
And yet this regime is in serious trouble. Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi"
Netanyahu - for all his bluster - is scared to death. He badly needs the
secular Russians of Yisrael Beitenu ("Israel Our Home") and the
fundamentalist ultra-Orthodox Jews of Shas to remain in power. Former
Moldavian bouncer turned Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of
Yisrael Beitenu, eats Bibi for breakfast and routinely humiliates him (and
then Bibi regains his self-respect by humiliating Obama). All one needs to
know is that Lieberman is the top political dog in
On top of it,
told the Jerusalem Post that Jews are already under 50% of the population in
ultra-repressive
majority, a Jewish minority rules over 1.4 million third-class Palestinian
citizens of
1.5 million under siege in that gulag known as
Even Human Rights Watch (HRW) has been forced to recognize that
"Palestinians face systematic discrimination merely because of their race,
ethnicity, and national origin, depriving them of electricity, water,
schools, and access to roads, while nearby Jewish settlers enjoy all of
these state-provided benefits".
*State-bound is the way to go *
Surveying the tragic landscape, Palestinians came to the conclusion there
were only three possibilities on the table; the apartheid continues forever;
in the unlikely possibility of a one-state solution, the apartheid would
continue for a long time until a lot of Israelis, faced with a global
boycott, would decide to emigrate or vote for citizenship for the
Palestinians; or
independent state.
By finally getting their act together and trying to unite Fatah and Hamas,
Palestinians came to the grips with the fact there can possibly be no
meaningful negotiations with a weak, ultra-right wing, fractured Israeli
government essentially controlled by a bunch of squatters (aka "settlers").
Thus the new Palestinian strategy; a relatively unified
out for widespread recognition, during the next UN General Assembly in
September, of a Palestinian state based on the West Bank and
1967 borders. There's no question they will win the vote.
The next step would have to be a UN Security Council resolution forcing
still said no, soon the bulk of the world would start applying economic and
diplomatic sanctions to
enemies - Hezbollah and Hamas - made them stronger. And then a new
Ankara-Tehran-Damascus axis strolled into the neighborhood. And then
"valuable ally" Hosni Mubarak was booted out of power in
(significantly
people, supported the dictator until, and even beyond, the last minute).
The - reflexive - Israeli solution in times of trouble is to launch another
war; until recently, it would be simultaneously on
revealed earlier this year by WikiLeaks cables published by the Norwegian
newspaper Aftenpost (see
here<http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/wikileaks/article3969332.ece>In
practice this would be a total war on civilians, as in "
accept any restrictions on warfare in urban areas". All "collateral damage"
would be of course "unintentional". That was a startling case of the Israeli
military announcing in advance its plans to commit a war crime.
So the question the whole world is asking is inevitable; what's wrong with
these people?
*Get rid of those Arabs*
Whenever they are in geopolitical trouble, Israeli elites cannot but react
with a feeling of being victimized; Mubarak's case is exemplary, as he
conveniently followed Washington's and Tel Aviv's orders and duly obeyed the
Over the years, this Israeli attitude has engendered widespread paranoia -
as in repeated attempts to unmask a possible, internal, Fifth Column. It was
mixed with virtually total desensitization concerning the daily tragedy in
displayed by radical settlers. Plus equating any criticism of the Israeli
government with advocating the "destruction of
Yet all this paled in comparison with the growing consensus among Israelis
that it's all right to "transfer" - code word to expel - Israeli Arab
citizens to a possible future collection-of-Bantustans Palestinian state or,
better yet,
gambit).
Already by early 2009, according to the Israeli Association for Civil
Rights, 55% of Jewish Israelis said that the state should "encourage Arab
emigration"; 78% opposed Arab parties in the government; and 56% were sure
that "Arabs cannot attain the Jewish level of cultural development".
Another parallel trend has also been visible over these past two years. Jews
who are fond of
in fact being "excommunicated". Some of these have been talking to
Times Online.
Dr Oren Ben-Dor, born in
trying to provoke a permanent state of violence against itself. There's got
to be a huge element of self-satisfaction involved, conditioning such a
self-destructive drive to be hated - as a matter of fact globally - at all
costs.
Ben-Dor found the answer in the "incapacity of Israelis of questioning the
discriminatory foundation of their own state". Only to seriously question
the Israeli apartheid, this famous "right of
a Jewish state" could end the cycle of violence; otherwise the "self-defense
rhetoric" will reveal itself as a "chronicle of a suicide foretold".
There's no evidence the "self-defense rhetoric" is going anywhere else - not
with 2.4% of the Israeli population hijacking what is referred to as the
"peace process" by continuing to build settlements in stolen land. And it's
not even religion that drives them; it's a good deal. The cost of living in
settlements can be infinitely lower than in
Netanyahu's master plan is basically to say "No" - a tactic he learned from
his mentor Yitzhak Shamir. Under this framework even the Obama
administration had to admit there's nothing left to
cajole - and beg. "No" always translates into a very good deal - for
not for the
One of the latest examples: for a minimalistic, one-off 90-day freeze on
illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank (excluding
other goodies. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to spend no less
than eight hours cajoling Bibi Netanyahu to accept the bribe. He agreed only
to submit it to his security cabinet. And then he said No.
The Obama administration also knows that
of
between
*No, no, no *
As it stands, every additional house built in any
only one thing: No. No to peace. No to negotiations. No to Palestinian
rights. Israeli peace activist and author Uri Avnery defines this behavior
as "moral insanity".
As usual, it gets worse.
created, Zionists dreamed of an Eretz Israel from the Nile to the
As the
Palestinians must recognize
administration has never complained.
Were this recognition of a Jewish state ever to happen, 1.5 million
Palestinians - already infra-citizens in
denationalized and set to be expelled en masse to the Palestinian Bantustan
configured as the solution to the "demographic problem" as Zionists see it,
a problem created by the fact that the Palestinians simply exist.
So in the Israeli narrative the Israel Defense Forces could have pulverized
destroying "only" 15% of
children in late 2008, early 2009 could be sold - and accepted - by Israelis
as a "humanitarian" act. As for
None of this, of course, ever arouses the ire of the UN Security Council.
The world knows that
of thousands of Palestinians over the past 63 years because of the
unconditional support of
September will be a game-changer. A new, really representative, really
sovereign Egyptian government will definitely be a game-changer, because -
to Tel Aviv's horror - it will be the absolute opposite of Mubarak.
Yet what is already certain is that as long as the apartheid enshrined at
the very core of
no evidence the "moral insanity" of the "pathological state" is abating.
*Pepe Escobar** is the author of* Globalistan: How the Globalized World is
Dissolving into Liquid War
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0978813820/simpleproduction/ref=nosim
Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of
Surge http://www.amazon.com/Red-Zone-Blues-snapshot-Baghdad/dp/0978813898
His new book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan
http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Does-Globalistan-Pepe scobar/dp/1934840831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233698286&sr=8-1
(Nimble Books, 2009).
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