Thursday, July 27, 2006

What happened and is happening to Indymedia in Beirut?

Since yesterday - as the front/home page shows - at 14.58 hours local time - the latest/last posting appeared. Indymedia Beirut is still accessible, but posting, commenting and publishing is not possible anymore. 'Who or what' silenced the editors, writers and readers? Indymedia.org International has been alarmed too.

IS INDYMEDIA BEIRUT ALSO A VICTIM OF THE ILLEGAL AND INHUMAN US/ISRAELI SLAUGHTER OF LEBANON?

The fate of silenced colleagues in a war zone is apparently not important enough for Indymedia in The Netherlands, which put the alarming information about the silencing of Indymedia Beirut way back among the 'older articles' - [even if it was published 10 minutes ago[ - and 'all open postings (including non-news') - (in Dutch: oudere artikelen > alle open posting artikelen (inclusief non-nieuws). - But, they posted it anyhow, and it's found here if you click the 'non-news' - 'inclusief non-nieuws' - at Url.: http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/newswire/newswire761.shtml

Indymedia Beirut, home page today, Thursday July 27th 2006 - Url.: http://beirut.indymedia.org/

Editors and friends in Italy, around the world and especially in EU capital Brussels and Lebanon:

WHAT HAPPENED AND HAPPENS TO INDYMEDIA BEIRUT?

by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF - Amsterdam - The latest/last publishing/posting on the pages of Indymedia Beirut were in the afternoon yesterday; it was an informative article questioning the war propaganda and other lies under the title: ''Kidnapped in Israel or Captured in Lebanon?'' - which as date has 26-07-2006 14:58 hrs.

When I afterwards tried to publish Mike Whitney's honest and open letter, which you can read here below, questioning Fouad Siniora, the Lebanese prime minister, a letter by the way, with which I fully agree, the web site of Indymedia Beirut had been 'stopped' by 'unknown'.

Could people who know about the fate and the editors of Indymedia in Lebanon, or the editors themselves, please find a way to report and tell us all on the 'how and what' of the forced silence?

We know Who profits? - but would like to know: 'Whodunit?'...

Here's the letter by Mike Whitney which could not any more be published by Indymedia Beirut:

Mike Whitney: My Letter to Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fouad Siniora

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14190.htm

FPF-fwd. agreeing with Mike Whitney

The blood of innocent victims is the seed of the resistance.

IN THAT AREA WATER IS OFTEN MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO FIND THAN OIL.

Intro by Henk Ruyssenaars

July 26 - 2006 - The letter below by Mike Whitney, concerns every collaborator of every nationality, race or color, in every country and in every function, supporting - even by silence - the atrocities of the US/Israeli war machine: it concerns all those war criminals with their propagandists. Those media war mongers who seem to think that they can do this to humanity and get away with it.

How the Hell do they think they themselves can survive the terror they spread? They do not respect anything: however can they expect the billions of their victims, the people which everywhere on earth are opposing them, respect anything concerning them? Why do they think there's a global resistance?

The letter is also addressed to all those bad geniuses who - like the group which has taken charge of the global economy and thus politics in many countries - as usual abuse the population and via their banks and media rip off the people in most countries: brainwashing their minds with their propaganda and other lies, and stealing their money.*

To give an example: the 'managers' of The Netherlands, their collaborators and propagandists wallow - like pigs in the mud - in the blood of their innocent victims, and do not want to know nor understand why globally billions of us start seeing red. Starting to understand what the killers for this system are guilty of, and realizing that we for ages have been forced to pay for their war crimes and sacrifice millions of ourselves and our children as unwitting cannon fodder.

Millions of what the killers call 'collateral damage' - is in reality another genocide in which normal people know human beings are killed by the 'London War Lords' and their armed forces doing the dirty work for them; the US/Israeli war machine including NATO and all others in the Coalition of the Killing. And we are forced to pay those horrible criminals billions for that? We want justice, and life time jail sentences with hard labor for them!

JUSTICE FROM THE BARRELS OF OUR GUNS?

And all those PM's and other war criminals on all levels know - and should never forget - that the very second law is made valid again, they all will suffer what they deserve. - Like the Dutch war criminals, including one of the worst traitors ever, who finished the unions power, sold the whole country an everybody else to the money makers, was rewarded as SHELL Kommissar (the biggest profit ever is announced by SHELL today for those killing & drilling culprits) and ex PM: criminal Wim Kok, here in Court - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp

And I'm afraid - knowing and seeing what they have done, and keep doing everywhere to so many human beings - that they will be gurgling in the blood they now have on their hands. I'm against capital punishment normally, but they break every law and pain limit.

The by us paid military troops must turn the weapons around!

Defending international law concerning human rights for all!

We want functioning laws and justice!

HR

MY LETTER TO LEBANON’S PRIME MINISTER FOUAD SINIORA

By Mike Whitney - 07/25/06 "Information Clearing House"

Dear Prime Minister Fouad Siniora,

Perhaps you will be kind enough to answer a few questions regarding the recent visit of United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, so that people around the world who have looked on with sympathy as your country has been ravaged by Israeli aggression can understand your feelings on these important matters.

FIRST OF ALL, WHY DID YOU ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO VISIT BEIRUT?

The Bush administration had already made its position entirely clear and everyone who followed the issue knew that the US would continue to give Israel the “green light” until it finished its military operations according to its original plans.

Were you unaware that Rice had already stated that she was not prepared to offer a “cease fire”?

Were you unaware that the United States was “rushing a shipment of precision-guided bombs to Israel” to continue the slaughter of Lebanese civilians and the destruction of the nation’s infrastructure?

Why would you allow yourself to be photographed “smiley-faced” and shaking hands with the woman who is destroying your country and killing your people?

Haven’t you seen the pictures of the vast devastation in the south of the country where 750,000 of your people have been forced off their land and shunted into refugee camps?

Haven’t you heard of the many incidents of the Israeli military intentionally bombing civilians, homes, bridges, milk factories, mosques, airports, power-plants, lighthouses, and ports? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14069.htm

Haven’t you seen the photos of the mass graves and the improvised coffins which have been laid side-by-side in long rows following Israeli bombardment? - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14137.htm

Haven’t you heard the reports that Israel is using strange banned weapons in southern Lebanon including cluster-grenades, laser-weaponry, and white phosphorus? http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25033&hd=0&size=1&l=e

Haven’t you heard the haunting shrieks of the young boy who was filmed in hospital by CNN after being incinerated by Israeli napalm? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14181.htm

Haven’t you seen the heartrending picture of the dying Lebanese mother peering up for the last time at her blood-spattered and inconsolable child; another victim of the Israeli onslaught? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14180.htm

What type of man would put out the “red carpet” for his enemy while his people are still being slaughtered in the field?

A SIMPLE PHONE CALL TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT COULD HAVE STOPPED THE SECRETARY FROM LANDING IN LEBANON. HOW MUCH COURAGE DOES THAT TAKE?

If you were a brave man you would have placed the Secretary and her entire entourage under “house arrest” demanding that Israel stop its “scorched earth” campaign before releasing Rice and her people. But, we do not expect you to do the “courageous thing”, just the “decent thing”.

No one expects you to join the resistance and fight the butchers who have invaded your country from the south. No one expects you to risk your life to show your love for Lebanon or your willingness to die for your countryman. But why would you humiliate yourself by posing with the very people who have devastated your homeland and killed your country’s children?

Is your dignity worth so little that you would grovel at Israel/America’s feet for a villa in the Riviera and a pocket full of silver?

Jesus Christ said, “For what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world but lose his soul.”

WHAT ABOUT YOUR SOUL, PRIME MINISTER? WAS THAT PART OF AMERICA’S BARGAIN, TOO?

You have disgraced your country and betrayed your people. You should do the honorable thing and submit your resignation so that your people can elect a leader worthy of their respect.

Sincerely,


Mike Whitney


[andend] - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14190.htm

A VERY IMPORTANT P.S.: Please do never forget that if - for instance - you were the head of the secret service in your country - as all 'services' fully cooperating with the 'managers' of your country and people - and you and your 'spooks' had not already a long time ago infiltrated all important alternative news sources - like Indymedia too - you would be fired immediately!

That's too why Indymedia in The Netherlands has more pro-Israeli gatekeepers than gates... And it are always the infiltraitors (pun intended) who scream first about anti-semitism* or similar stupidities. Because they know they defend the 'London War Lords' and their permanent and global injustice, the global US/Israeli war crimes, and all crimes against us: humanity. This banking group's criminality never knew, nor knows any limits.

There's nothing new under that particular and dark sun, but do pls. always keep this reality in mind. There's more historical proof than you want to know. And the vile media megaphones who cover up the global misery, all those traitors and especially the prompter pimps, dish bitches, and so called journalists which nearly all are propagandists - they all know that they are guilty as Hell. They fear the coming heavy punishment they all very much deserve. In Nuremberg, after the War Crimes Tribunals, this kind of media liars was hanged by the Americans.

ONE OF THE MANY ATROCITIES THEY COVER UP IS THE ILLEGAL WAR IN AFGHANISTAN:

RESISTANCE DOWNS HELICOPTER OF THE 'COALITION OF THE KILLING': Today - July 27 - 2006 - it was announced that a helicopter in Afghanistan was shot down, killing 16, among them 2 Dutch, also illegally being there. They all are in breach of the Charter of the UN as Secretary general Kofi Annan said to the BBC, and thus illegally invading and killing in an innocent but resisting country and population. Digging the people's and their own graves - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/f96bc

Google's mainstream war propaganda selection concerning the crash - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/z3lzp


RICE - #1 WAR CRIMINAL

P.S. 2: In the PNAC's propaganda sheet New York Times, in the article* concerning Rice visit to Israel, it says that there was a sign saying "Rice Go Home!" Reality - as could be seen in Israel and on TV in Europe etc. were hundreds of people protesting, even with those heavy security measures, of which many had other, adequate signs reading: RICE - #1 WAR CRIMINAL! - Very appropriate!

* New York Times war propaganda: ''Israel to Occupy Area of Lebanon as Security Zone'' - The Israeli holocausting of the world, this time destroying much of Lebanon, and the attempt - by also killing UN observers - to keep all 'foreigners' out 'until the job is finished', shows the malignant intentions of the managers of the US/Israeli war machine. - Propaganda sewer #1 - New York Times - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mhf8n

They are trying to occupy - together with their US weaponry, new US bombs and satellite info - the southern part of Lebanon, up to the Litani river and it's water. Under the pretext of a 'security zone', sending in fake 'peace troops', NATO 'restorers' or whatever. Like the Golan Heights they also illegally keep occupied. Israel does not, and never cared, about resolutions by the rest of the world through the United Nations. - Map - Url.: http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/lgcolor/lbcolor.htm

IT IS A WATER WAR AS WELL. Because in that area water is much more expensive many times than oil. So here's one of the Lebanese water projects - Url.: http://www.isiimm.agropolis.org/index.php?page=worksites&country=4

* ANTI-SEMITISM IS WRONG: It is not a matter of race, color, religion or nationality. It's finding out - and presenting facts - about who did what, where, when and why? - ''Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mbej3

* THE EVIL EMPIRE keeps devastating hundreds of millions of lives, and we are all complicit - because of our collaborating puppet governments - in the ruination of lives and exploitation of human energies. So, what is the origin? Who are the real criminals and profiteers, this murderous mafia for centuries already living in their own VATICAN OF THE COMMERCIAL WORLD - THEIR OWN 'STATE WITHIN A STATE'? - WHO HOLDS THE GOLD, AND THUS THE POWER? - WHO ARE THE CULPRITS HOLOCAUSTING MANKIND? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hvtxo

* WHO IS FINANCING? - THE US PRIVATELY OWNED 'FEDERAL RESERVE' IS THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST CRIME AGAINST ALL HUMANITY EVER. - URL.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

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Lebanon as a new target: The Neo Conservatives and the Policies of Constructive Chaos

by Thierry Meyssan

Some in Washington and Tel Aviv, are rejoicing about the military operations taking place in the Middle East.

Following the expression of Condoleezza Rice, the pains of Lebanon would be “the birth pangs of a new Middle East”. For the theoreticians of a « constructive chaos », blood must be shed in order to bring about a new order in that region rich in hydrocarbons. Planned since a long time, the Tsahal offensive against Lebanon is supervised out of the United States Defense Department.

During her press briefing at the State Department, on July 21st 2006, Condoleezza Rice was questioned on the initiatives she intended to take to bring peace back to Lebanon. « I have no interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel to the status quo ante”, she responded. “I think it would be a mistake. What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing — the birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do we have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the new Middle East not going back to the old one.». [1]

Seen from Washington, what is happening today in Lebanon has no relation whatsoever with the recovering of soldiers captured by the Hezbollah. What is at stake is the carrying out of the long nurtured theory of « constructive chaos ». According to the adepts of philosopher Leo Strauss, whose media branch is better known under the name of « neo-conservatives », real power cannot be exerted from if one remains in the status quo, but only, quite the contrary, in the act of destroying all forms of resistance. It is by plunging the masses into chaos that the elites can aspire to ensure the stability of their position.

LEO STRAUSS

ALSO, ACCORDING TO THE ADEPTS OF LEO STRAUSS, IT IS ONLY IN THIS VIOLENCE THAT THE IMPERIAL INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES [CAN] MERGE WITH THOSE OF THE JEWISH STATE.

The Israeli will to dismantle Lebanon, to create in its place a mini-Christian state and annex part of its territory, is not new. It was enunciated in 1957 by David Ben Gourion in a famous letter published as an annex to his posthumous memoirs. [2] Particularly, it was inserted into a vast colonization project of the Middle East written in 1996 under the title: A clean break: a new strategy to secure the Kingdom (of Israel) [3] That document, written up in a neo conservative think tank, the IASPS, was prepared by a group of experts assembled by Richard Perle [and] given to Benjamin Netanyahu. It is representative of the thinking of the revisionist Zionism of Vladimir Jabotinsky [4]. It called for:

- the canceling of the Oslo peace agreements
- the elimination of Yasser Arafat
- the annexation of the Palestinian territories,
- the overthrow of Sadam Hussein to destabilize, Syria and Lebanon in a chain of events
- the dismantling of Iraq and the creation of a Palestinian state in its territory
- the utilization of Israel as a complementary base for the US Star Wars program

That document inspired the speech given the next day by Benjamin Netanyahu to the US Congress. [5] All ingredients of the present situation are included there: threats against Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah, with the included demand for annexation of East Jerusalem.

That viewpoint concurs with that of the United States administration. The control of areas rich in hydrocarbons defined by Zginiew Brzezinski and Bernard Lewis as the “arc of crisis”, ie. the arc reaching from the Gulf of Guinea to the Caspian sea going through the Persian Gulf, demands a redefinition of borders, States and political regimes : a “remodeling of the Greater Middle East,” to use the expression of George W. Bush.

THAT IS THE NEW MIDDLE EAST WHICH MISS RICE CLAIMS TO BE THE MID-WIFE OF, AND WHOSE PAINFUL BIRTH SHE IS WATCHING.

The idea is simple: substitute to the States inherited by the collapse of the Ottoman empire, smaller entities of mono-ethnic character, and neutralize those mini-states by setting up them permanently against each other. In other terms, the idea is to reconsider the secret agreements concluded in 1916 by the French and British empires, the Sykes-Picot agreements [6] and to establish rather a total domination of the Anglo-Saxons over the region. But in order to define new states, the existing ones must first be destroyed. That is what the Bush Administration and its allies have been doing since 5 years with the enthusiasm of a sorcerers apprentices. Judge the results:

- Occupied Palestine’s territory has been reduced by 7%; the Gaza strip and the West Bank have been separated by a wall; the Palestinian authority has been ruined, its ministers and parliamentarians kidnapped and imprisoned.

- The UN has ordered Lebanon to disarm, expel the Syrian forces and dissolve the Hezbollah; former Prime minister Rafic Harriri was murdered and French influence disappeared with him; the economic infrastructures of the country have been razed and more than 500.000 added refugees roam in the region.

- The Saddam Hussein dictatorship was replaced in Iraq by a still more cruel regime responsible for more than 3000 dead per month; in total anarchy, the country is on the verge of fragmenting into three distinct entities.

- The Taliban pseudo-emirate has given way to a pseudo-democracy ruled under the most obscurantist interpretation of the Charia, with an added feature, the poppy culture. De facto, Afghanistan is already divided among the different war lords and combat is generalizing. The central government has renounced to being obeyed even in the capital city.

IN WASHINGTON, THE DISCIPLES OF LEO STRAUSS, MORE AND MORE IMPATIENT, DREAM OF EXTENDING THEIR CHAOS TO SUDAN, TO SYRIA AND IRAN. IN THIS TRANSITION PERIOD, ONE NO LONGER SPEAKS OF “MARKET DEMOCRACY”, BUT ONLY OF BLOOD AND TEARS.

Jacques Chirac who wished to intervene in Lebanon to defend French interests and sent there his Prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, had to renounce : during the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, George W. Bush forbade him from doing so stating that this was not an Israeli operation approved by the United States, but a United States operation being executed by Israel. Thus, M. de Villepin had nothing to declare to his interlocutors in Beyrut, only his words and his impotence.

More precisely, the project for destroying Lebanon was presented by Tsahal to the Bush administration a little more than a year ago, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported it. [7] It was at the center of political discussions at the yearly World Forum organized by the American Entreprise Institute, on June 2006 17th ad 18th at Beaver Creek. Benjamin Netanyahu and Dick Cheney met at length along with Richard Perle and Nathan Sharansky. The green light by the White House was given a few days after.

Tsahal’s military operations are supervised by the United States Department of Defense who determines the essentials of the strategy and the choice of targets. The main role is played by general Bantz Craddock as commander in chief of the Southern Command. As he showed during the Desert Storm operation and, particularly, when he lead NATO land forces in Kosovo, Craddock is a specialist of armored vehicles. He is a trusted man of Donald Rumsfeld of whom he was the personal chief of staff, and for whom he developed the Guantanamo camp. Next November, he should be named commander of the European Command and of NATO. In that position, he could be called to command, beyond those forces already operating in Afghanistan and Soudan, the interposition force which NATO could deploy in Southern Lebanon.

The Israeli and United States generals have learned to know each other, since some thirty years, thanks to the exchanges organized by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) an association which obliges its cadre to follow the seminars on the doctrines of Leo Strauss.

Thierry Meyssan

SOURCES

[1] Source : Special Briefing on Travel to the Middle East and Europe, State Department, July 21st 2006.

[2] « Lettre de David Ben Gourion à Moshe Sharett sur la constitution d’un État maronite au Liban », document is available in french in the electronic library of the Réseau Voltaire.

[3] A Clean Break : A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, IASPS, July 8th 1996. An abridged version is available on the website of IASPS. The complete content of the document is known through the reports made by the Guardian at that time.

[4] The father of Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben-Zion Netanyahu was the personal secretary of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of revisionist Zionism. Ehud Olmert belongs to that same current..

[5] «Speech to the Congress of the United States» by Benjamin Netanyahu, July 9th, 1996.

[6] That secret treaty was signed on May 16th 1916 by Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, for the United Kingdom and France, then approved by Russia and Italy.

[7] « Israel set war plan more than a year ago. Strategy was put in motion as Hezbollah began gaining military strength in Lebanon » par Matthew Kalman, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21st 2006.

Thierry Meyssan
Journalist and writer, president of the Voltaire Network.

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Lebanon as a new target: The Neo Conservatives and the Policies of Constructive Chaos

by Thierry Meyssan

Some in Washington and Tel Aviv, are rejoicing about the military operations taking place in the Middle East.

Following the expression of Condoleezza Rice, the pains of Lebanon would be “the birth pangs of a new Middle East”. For the theoreticians of a « constructive chaos », blood must be shed in order to bring about a new order in that region rich in hydrocarbons. Planned since a long time, the Tsahal offensive against Lebanon is supervised out of the United States Defense Department.

During her press briefing at the State Department, on July 21st 2006, Condoleezza Rice was questioned on the initiatives she intended to take to bring peace back to Lebanon. « I have no interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel to the status quo ante”, she responded. “I think it would be a mistake. What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing — the birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do we have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the new Middle East not going back to the old one.». [1]

Seen from Washington, what is happening today in Lebanon has no relation whatsoever with the recovering of soldiers captured by the Hezbollah. What is at stake is the carrying out of the long nurtured theory of « constructive chaos ». According to the adepts of philosopher Leo Strauss, whose media branch is better known under the name of « neo-conservatives », real power cannot be exerted from if one remains in the status quo, but only, quite the contrary, in the act of destroying all forms of resistance. It is by plunging the masses into chaos that the elites can aspire to ensure the stability of their position.

LEO STRAUSS

ALSO, ACCORDING TO THE ADEPTS OF LEO STRAUSS, IT IS ONLY IN THIS VIOLENCE THAT THE IMPERIAL INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES [CAN] MERGE WITH THOSE OF THE JEWISH STATE.

The Israeli will to dismantle Lebanon, to create in its place a mini-Christian state and annex part of its territory, is not new. It was enunciated in 1957 by David Ben Gourion in a famous letter published as an annex to his posthumous memoirs. [2] Particularly, it was inserted into a vast colonization project of the Middle East written in 1996 under the title: A clean break: a new strategy to secure the Kingdom (of Israel) [3] That document, written up in a neo conservative think tank, the IASPS, was prepared by a group of experts assembled by Richard Perle [and] given to Benjamin Netanyahu. It is representative of the thinking of the revisionist Zionism of Vladimir Jabotinsky [4]. It called for:

- the canceling of the Oslo peace agreements
- the elimination of Yasser Arafat
- the annexation of the Palestinian territories,
- the overthrow of Sadam Hussein to destabilize, Syria and Lebanon in a chain of events
- the dismantling of Iraq and the creation of a Palestinian state in its territory
- the utilization of Israel as a complementary base for the US Star Wars program

That document inspired the speech given the next day by Benjamin Netanyahu to the US Congress. [5] All ingredients of the present situation are included there: threats against Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah, with the included demand for annexation of East Jerusalem.

That viewpoint concurs with that of the United States administration. The control of areas rich in hydrocarbons defined by Zginiew Brzezinski and Bernard Lewis as the “arc of crisis”, ie. the arc reaching from the Gulf of Guinea to the Caspian sea going through the Persian Gulf, demands a redefinition of borders, States and political regimes : a “remodeling of the Greater Middle East,” to use the expression of George W. Bush.

THAT IS THE NEW MIDDLE EAST WHICH MISS RICE CLAIMS TO BE THE MID-WIFE OF, AND WHOSE PAINFUL BIRTH SHE IS WATCHING.

The idea is simple: substitute to the States inherited by the collapse of the Ottoman empire, smaller entities of mono-ethnic character, and neutralize those mini-states by setting up them permanently against each other. In other terms, the idea is to reconsider the secret agreements concluded in 1916 by the French and British empires, the Sykes-Picot agreements [6] and to establish rather a total domination of the Anglo-Saxons over the region. But in order to define new states, the existing ones must first be destroyed. That is what the Bush Administration and its allies have been doing since 5 years with the enthusiasm of a sorcerers apprentices. Judge the results:

- Occupied Palestine’s territory has been reduced by 7%; the Gaza strip and the West Bank have been separated by a wall; the Palestinian authority has been ruined, its ministers and parliamentarians kidnapped and imprisoned.

- The UN has ordered Lebanon to disarm, expel the Syrian forces and dissolve the Hezbollah; former Prime minister Rafic Harriri was murdered and French influence disappeared with him; the economic infrastructures of the country have been razed and more than 500.000 added refugees roam in the region.

- The Saddam Hussein dictatorship was replaced in Iraq by a still more cruel regime responsible for more than 3000 dead per month; in total anarchy, the country is on the verge of fragmenting into three distinct entities.

- The Taliban pseudo-emirate has given way to a pseudo-democracy ruled under the most obscurantist interpretation of the Charia, with an added feature, the poppy culture. De facto, Afghanistan is already divided among the different war lords and combat is generalizing. The central government has renounced to being obeyed even in the capital city.

IN WASHINGTON, THE DISCIPLES OF LEO STRAUSS, MORE AND MORE IMPATIENT, DREAM OF EXTENDING THEIR CHAOS TO SUDAN, TO SYRIA AND IRAN. IN THIS TRANSITION PERIOD, ONE NO LONGER SPEAKS OF “MARKET DEMOCRACY”, BUT ONLY OF BLOOD AND TEARS.

Jacques Chirac who wished to intervene in Lebanon to defend French interests and sent there his Prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, had to renounce : during the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, George W. Bush forbade him from doing so stating that this was not an Israeli operation approved by the United States, but a United States operation being executed by Israel. Thus, M. de Villepin had nothing to declare to his interlocutors in Beyrut, only his words and his impotence.

More precisely, the project for destroying Lebanon was presented by Tsahal to the Bush administration a little more than a year ago, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported it. [7] It was at the center of political discussions at the yearly World Forum organized by the American Entreprise Institute, on June 2006 17th ad 18th at Beaver Creek. Benjamin Netanyahu and Dick Cheney met at length along with Richard Perle and Nathan Sharansky. The green light by the White House was given a few days after.

Tsahal’s military operations are supervised by the United States Department of Defense who determines the essentials of the strategy and the choice of targets. The main role is played by general Bantz Craddock as commander in chief of the Southern Command. As he showed during the Desert Storm operation and, particularly, when he lead NATO land forces in Kosovo, Craddock is a specialist of armored vehicles. He is a trusted man of Donald Rumsfeld of whom he was the personal chief of staff, and for whom he developed the Guantanamo camp. Next November, he should be named commander of the European Command and of NATO. In that position, he could be called to command, beyond those forces already operating in Afghanistan and Soudan, the interposition force which NATO could deploy in Southern Lebanon.

The Israeli and United States generals have learned to know each other, since some thirty years, thanks to the exchanges organized by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) an association which obliges its cadre to follow the seminars on the doctrines of Leo Strauss.

Thierry Meyssan

SOURCES

[1] Source : Special Briefing on Travel to the Middle East and Europe, State Department, July 21st 2006.

[2] « Lettre de David Ben Gourion à Moshe Sharett sur la constitution d’un État maronite au Liban », document is available in french in the electronic library of the Réseau Voltaire.

[3] A Clean Break : A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, IASPS, July 8th 1996. An abridged version is available on the website of IASPS. The complete content of the document is known through the reports made by the Guardian at that time.

[4] The father of Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben-Zion Netanyahu was the personal secretary of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of revisionist Zionism. Ehud Olmert belongs to that same current..

[5] «Speech to the Congress of the United States» by Benjamin Netanyahu, July 9th, 1996.

[6] That secret treaty was signed on May 16th 1916 by Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, for the United Kingdom and France, then approved by Russia and Italy.

[7] « Israel set war plan more than a year ago. Strategy was put in motion as Hezbollah began gaining military strength in Lebanon » par Matthew Kalman, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21st 2006.

Thierry Meyssan
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