Les sources qui "prouvent" que Assad a gazé son peuple sont israéliennes.
Le trauma de l'Holocauste, la mémoire des gazages et du "Plus jamais ça", détermine les perspectives de "guerres juives de survie" et permet de les justifier. Que ce soit en Allemagne, en Irak, en Libye, en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban, etc.
L'Armée
nationale s'obstinant à leur tenir tête et les expulsant même
victorieusement de partout, devait donc resurgir, comme il était
prévisible, la vieille recette inusable du gaz exterminateur que
les Anglo-américains exploitent avec un art consommé depuis la première
guerre mondiale : arme absolue pour paralyser les consciences et
justifier les coups fourrés les plus tordus quand tout espoir
s'éteint...
« Selon des
informations dignes de foi, le nombre des victimes des Autrichiens et
des Bulgares a dépassé 700 000. Des régions entières, avec villes et
villages, ont été dépeuplés par des massacres. Femmes, enfants et
vieillards ont été enfermés dans des églises par les Autrichiens et
passés à la baïonnette ou étouffés au moyen de gaz asphyxiants, etc. » (Daily Telegraph du 22 mars 1916, p.7)
Un
quart de siècle plus tard, le crapuleux bobard ayant été profitable,
les experts en désinformation britanniques reprendront purement et
simplement le filon sans même changer les chiffres ; pourquoi se fatiguer ? :
«
Au cours du plus grand massacre de l'histoire du monde, les Allemands
ont abattu plus de 700 000 Juifs polonais […] Les plus horribles détails
de la tuerie mentionnant l'utilisation de gaz toxique figurent dans un
rapport envoyé secrètement à Londres par un groupe d'activistes
polonais, etc. » Je passe sur la suite : elle est consultable au même Daily Telegraph du 25 juin... 1942, p.5.
Inouï
ce qu'on peut faire avec le gaz pour étouffer l'adversaire ! On sait
avec quelle constance et succès cette fine imposture fut ensuite reprise
ad nauseam, au point qu'elle fonctionne toujours si parfaitement
qu'elle en permet aujourd'hui cette nouvelle provocation "humanitaire"
que le monde occidental civilisé appelle une fois de plus de ses vœux : Mort au Kaiser ! mort à Hitler ! mort à Saddam ! mort à Miloševic ! mort à Kadafi ! mort à Bachar el-Assad !
Enfin mort à tous ces gueux qui s'obstinent à refuser notre pure et
sainte Démocratie ! Le gaz, les armes de destruction massives, vraies ou
supposées, ça marche toujours, et quand ça ne marche plus on vous
écrabouille aux missiles de croisière, on vous scalpelise
chirurgicalement au depleted uranium ou au phosphore blanc (non
sans vous bénir auparavant aux Droits de l'Homme : restons humains quand
même). (lire l'article complet sur Sagesse Païenne, Foi Chrétienne)
It's perfectly legitimate for Israel to recognize the Holocaust as a key
factor in formulating its defense policy, despite the liberal polemics
seeking a 'post-Holocaust' Israel
Israeli students at Auschwitz in May.
Many
years ago, I asked a senior French official to explain the strategic
logic of France's independent nuclear capacity, its force de frappe.
The Soviet Union, after all, had immeasurably greater and more powerful
nuclear capacities. There was no question of mutual destruction or
mutual deterrence.
I will never
forget his gobsmacking reply. "Our force de frappe's not aimed at
Russia; it's aimed at Germany."The previous century had been an intermittent saga of Franco-German wars, he continued, all of them the results of German militarism and aggression. Even though they were allies and partners now (with West Germany), France still needed to keep its guard up.
In other
words, its recent historical experience was the basis for a central part
of France's defense policy.
And that
was sans a Holocaust. There had "just" been bombing, shelling,
invasion, trench warfare, tank warfare, and periods of occupation.
What's
wrong with that? Why should a nation not rest its policy upon its
recent collective experience? I ask this in connection with the latest
welling up of 'anti-Holocaust' sentiment among the Israeli
intelligentsia following interviews in Haaretz with top Air Force officers
who took part in the symbolic fly-past over Auschwitz exactly ten
years ago. IAF Commander Amir Eshel said he considered that fly-past,
by three F-15s which he led, the flight of his life. Photographs of the
IAF planes over the notorious – and notoriously unbombed – rail lines
adorn many military and civilian offices in Israel's governing
establishment. Men like Eshel keep mementos of that fly-past with them
as they contemplate and plan today a possible strike in Syria or a
possible strike in Iran.
All this
seriously worries liberal opinion. In Haaretz's own editorial
two weeks ago, "Israel today is a strong, independent entity that has
been accepted by the international community. The Holocaust's memory is
a historical obligation, a monument to human brutality that must not
be forgotten. But it cannot constitute a strategic or security
consideration that statesmen and army chiefs must deal with today. They
must outline Israel's strategy and its diplomatic and military way,
while focusing on its future and on the needs of its people, who want to
live not as captives of past traumas."
Arguably
though, what's wrong is not the IAF's memorable demonstration a decade
ago nor Eshel's legitimate and proud memory of it, but rather the
unremitting inability of left-liberal Israelis to assimilate the
Holocaust into their Zionist ethos – and hence into our national history
and policy. The Yishuv, they insisted before and after 1939, comprised
New Jews, to be distinguished, if not dissociated, from the millions
writhing under Hitler's jackboot. If Rommel defeated the British and
swept through Egypt, they would fight him from the Carmel (…!)
This sad
and complex reaction, which had ramifications beyond the establishment
of the State in 1948, has been amply documented and debated by some of
our best historians.
Later,
Menachem Begin's incessant rhetorical hyperbole exploiting the
Holocaust achieved precisely the opposite effect than he intended, at
least among left-liberal opinion. His tasteless analogies – Arafat in
Beirut to Hitler in Berlin for instance – triggered an almost
instinctive spurning of any Holocaust analogy as demagogic and
devaluing.
But
arguably this instinctive reaction has itself become polemic and
hyperbolic. Such reactions become outright irrationality when Prime
Minister Netanyahu proclaimed his own Holocaust analogy,
pointing out that Iran, pursuing the Bomb, was threatening to
incinerate Israel and was denying the Holocaust.
This, of
course, is the sub-text of the criticism of Eshel and the other IAF
generals. They are accused, in effect, of reinforcing Netanyahu's
analogy by referring back to their dramatic fly-past over Auschwitz.
Well, it
certainly works with me. Whenever I see that photograph of the IAF at
Auschwitz my eyes tear. When I saw on Mossad Chief Meir Dagan's wall,
next to the government's instructions to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions,
the photograph of his grandfather, on his knees, about to be shot, the
tears flowed.
Granted, as
Haaretz asserts, Israelis "want to live not as captives of past
traumas." But, as the French official helped me understand, many people
find it natural and unavoidable to live – and make policy – as captives
of their past traumas. Our trauma was the worst of all.
Ten
years after the Israel Air Force flyby over Auschwitz, the awareness of
the Holocaust and the dread of its recurrence are consciously and
deliberately blended into the air force's policy, and into the IDF and
defense establishment's policy in general.(...)
The great value that senior air force officers attribute tothe
Auschwitz flyby- whose photographs were distributed to every air force
squadron commander and base commander - points to the Gordian knot
between the Holocaust trauma and the perception of security and army in
Israel. This knot has been preserved to this day.The people in charge
of the attacks in Syria and Lebanon (according to foreign sources) and
of preparing the air force for a future attack in Iran, see the
September 2003 flyby as one of the most important flights of their
lives.
This
means that the awareness of the Holocaust and the dread of its
recurrence are consciously and deliberately blended into the air force's
policy, and into the IDF and defense establishment's policy in general.
At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu frequently compares
the Iranian nuclear threat to the murderous outcome of the Nazis' rule,
and warns time and again that the Jewish people can trust no one but
themselves to prevent another tragedy of the Holocaust's proportions.
Journalist
Thomas Friedman wrote years ago that"Israel is Yad Vashem with an air
force."Not only is this provocative statement not denied by Israel's
policy makers and military top brass, it is defiantly adopted by them.
Israel
today is a strong, independent entity that has been accepted by the
international community.The Holocaust's memory is a historical
obligation, a monument to human brutality that must not be forgotten.
But itcannot constitute a strategic or security consideration that
statesmen and army chiefs must deal with today. They must outline
Israel's strategy and its diplomatic and military way, while focusing on its future and on the needs of its people,who want to live not as
captives of past traumas.
• First real evidence emerges proving U.S. ally behind Syria attack
by Victor Thorn for American Free Press
October 06, 2013 AFP
AMERICAN
FREE PRESS is opposed to military interventions and wars that are not
in this country’s interest and only benefit the
military-industrial-banking complex and Greater Israel.
And
with that in mind, this week, AFP examines how doctored intelligence
reports, an incoherent foreign policy and powerful special interests
have the potential to lead the United States into World War III.
Once
restricted merely to conspiracy circles, the term “false flag attack”
became part of the popular lexicon during the recent Syrian chemical
weapons debacle. Former Representative Ron Paul (R-Tex) referred to
allegations that the Syrian government had used sarin gas as a false
flag before adding, “The group most likely to benefit from it is al
Qaeda.” But even though Muslim revolutionaries were most likely involved
in the use of chemical weapons, the source of these heinous attacks can
be traced to familiar players.
On
September 17, Jason Ditz, news editor of the website “Antiwar.com,”
wrote, “Israeli ambassador Michael Oren revealed that the Israeli
government has privately been seeking change in neighboring Syria for
the past two years since the ongoing civil war began.”
Four
months earlier, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Secretary of State Colin
Powell’s right-hand man during his term in the Bush administration,
spoke of an earlier chemical attack in Syria.
“This
could have been an Israeli false flag operation,” he said. “You’ve got
basically a geo-strategically, geo-political — if you will — inept
regime in Tel Aviv right now.” Wilkerson is known for calling
intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in October 2005 a
“hoax.”
In regard to Syria,
respected ex-Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Ray McGovern
averred that so-called evidence presented by the Obama administration
“would not stand up in a court of law.” According to McGovern, despite
Israel’s attempts at perpetual instability in the Middle East, saner
heads prevailed via our military’s top brass.
Scott
Baker, senior editor of the liberal website “Op-Ed News,” addressed
this issue on September 11. “McGovern says the military got to the
president, overriding even the objections of the military’s Joint Chiefs
of Staff,” wrote Baker on his website.
On
September 2, popular news website “The World Tribune” editorialized
about the military’s wise request to slow down the path to war in the
form of General Martin Dempsey, who showed his reluctance to be a
participant in this potential fiasco.
“Dempsey
has been unusually blunt in his remarks with both Obama and Vice
President Joe Biden,” opined the “Tribune.” “His assessment is that any
U.S. war against Assad will involve his foreign allies, and that means
Tehran and to a smaller extent, Moscow.”
Already,
comparisons between Obama and President George W. Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney have been made, particularly in terms of lies and
exaggerations regarding weapons of mass destruction.
For
example, Secretary of State John Kerry stated that 1,429 people,
including 426 children, died in the August 21 chemical attack just
outside Damascus. Yet humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, which
has doctors on the ground in Syria, estimated the total at only 355. Red
Cross Operations Director George Kettaneh directly contradicted Obama
administration claims that a Syrian man had tested positive for traces
of toxic gases in his bloodstream.
Yossef
Bodansky, the senior editor for Defense & Foreign Affairs magazine,
took it a step further in a September 1 article published on the news
agency’s website, entitled “Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian
Chemical Attack?”
As former
director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional
Warfare, Bodansky’s sources acknowledged that on August 13, at a
Turkish military prison in Antakya, representatives from Qatar, Turkey
and the U.S.—including U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford—met with Syrian
opposition leaders to unleash a “war changing development.”
Saleh
Muslim, overseer of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, agreed with
Bodansky’s assessment, asserting that this secret meeting was “aimed at
framing Assad and provoking an international reaction.”
(...)Fayçal al-Maqdad, le vice-ministre syrien des AE, a balayé les
accusations occidentales, rappelant avec ironie le flacon présenté en
2003 par Colin Powell, le secrétaire d’État américain, représentant la
preuve d’armes chimiques que Saddam Hussein était sur le point
d’utiliser pour exterminer son peuple.
Pour lui, ce sont les groupes
islamistes qui auraient employé le gaz sarin que les États-Unis leur
ont livré, dès lors qu’ils ont vu que ces terroristes perdaient du
terrain. Aucune obligation morale de cette sorte n’est, cependant,
invoquée à l’égard d’Israël, pays qui détient le plus important stock
d’armes chimiques biologiques et nucléaires au Moyen-Orient, et qui est
le seul État à ne pas avoir signé le traité de non-prolifération
nucléaire. Ce n’est pas simplement qu’Israël possède un important
arsenal d’armes chimiques. Il s’en est servi contre les Palestiniens en
Cisjordanie et à Gaza : après l’éclatement de la deuxième Intifadha, il y
a eu plusieurs incidents rapportés de soldats israéliens utilisant un
“gaz inconnu” contre les Palestiniens, en particulier durant une
campagne de six semaines, par les forces militaires israéliennes à Gaza,
durant l’opération Plomb endurci.
Adelson,
the multi-billionaire casino magnate known for his support of
Republican causes, his close relationship with Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, and his Jewish philanthropy, spoke broadly on a
range of topics.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Nov. 10, 2013.Photo by Reuters
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, cannot
accept any agreement that Iran has agreed to. Conversely, the only
nuclear accord that Israel can live with is one that Tehran can’t.
Actually,
nothing short of complete and utter dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear
infrastructure can convince Israel that the mullahs in Tehran have
changed their ways. That Iran has given up its quest for nuclear
weapons. That Tehran is no longer pursuing a bomb with which to achieve
regional hegemony and to threaten Israel with extinction.
In
his book “A Place Among The Nations,” Netanyahu wrote about the Iranian
drive for nuclear weapons. In this very context, he noted that a “deep
cultural and psychological distortion” of Islamic fundamentalism has
turned it into a “cancerous tumor that threatens modern civilization”.
You don’t treat cancer by reasoning with it. You need to stop it in its
tracks, and then eradicate it altogether.
In
Netanyahu’s eyes, Iran’s fanatic regime is no more capable of reversing
its raison d’etre than the National Socialists were in Germany or the
Bolshevik communists in the Soviet Union. The only realistic way of
neutralizing the clear and present danger presented by Iran is by using
the methods that worked so well against similar evil tyrannies in the
past: subjugation or regime change or both. The Allies vanquished the
Nazis by using brute military force, while the United States caused the
collapse of the Soviet Union by bringing its overwhelming economic and
technological superiority to bear.
It
follows, therefore, that any accommodation with the ayatollahs is, by
definition, weak-kneed appeasement, a clear indication of Western
naiveté, an act of capitulation to rival Neville Chamberlain’s 1938
surrender to Adolf Hitler.
Declarations
by Iranian President Hassan Rohani that Iran is not seeking a nuclear
bomb are as worthless as Hitler’s signature on Chamberlain’s infamous
“piece of paper” in which the two leaders proclaimed “their desire never
to go to war with one another again.” And under the surface of U.S.
pledges to safeguard Israel’s security one can hear distant echoes of
Chamberlain’s blunt words to the British Parliament: “However much we
may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful
neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole
British Empire in war simply on her account.”
Indeed,
Netanyahu’s harsh reaction to reports of the impending agreement in
Geneva were but an unrehearsed, gut-instinct rendition of a speech from
which he is sure to quote if such a deal is ultimately concluded: “We
have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will
travel far with us along our road,” as Winston Churchill told the House
of Commons a few days after the Munich Agreement was signed. And as he
told Chamberlain: “You were given the choice between dishonor and war.
You chose dishonor, but you will have war.”
The
analogy may seem contrived, lopsided or farfetched to many and perhaps
even most outside observers, but for Netanyahu, indeed for many
Israelis, the concept of “Western Betrayal” has a deep and enduring
resonance that is pertinent and prominent to this very day. In fact, its
impact has probably increased exponentially in recent decades, as the
Holocaust has claimed an ever-growing presence in Israel’s educational
system, political discourse and national psyche.
The
Munich precedent has consistently featured as a staple of Netanyahu’s
core beliefs. In “A Place Among the Nations”, written in 1995, Netanyahu
devotes significant space to the Hitler-Chamberlain analogy, comparing
Israel to pre-War Czechoslovakia, Judea and Samaria to the
German-speaking Sudetenland, a generic Arab monolith to Nazi Germany,
and the Palestinian claims of human rights abuses and demand for
self-determination to the irredentist provocations of the Sudeten Nazis
led by Konrad Henlein.
“It
is small wonder that like in other anti-Israeli schemes, the Arabs are
implementing important chapters from the propaganda strategy of the
Nazis,” Netanyahu wrote. “But what is surprising and disappointing is
that fact that elitist circles in the West were quick to ‘swallow’ this
transparent fraud.”
Unlike
Menachem Begin, Netanyahu has made only rare public comparisons between
Yasser Arafat and Hitler, but he was far less restrained when it came
to the Iranian regime and former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In a
2006 Knesset speech, Netanyahu said that the Iranian president was even
worse than the Nazi Fuehrer. "Hitler went out on a world campaign first,
and then tried to get nuclear weapons. Iran is trying to get nuclear arms first. Therefore, from that perspective, it is much more dangerous," he said.
And
if Iran is Nazi Germany, and its nuclear plans are but an updated
version of the Final Solution, then it follows that U.S. Jews are now
being given a chance to atone for their self-inflicted silence during
the Holocaust. This was the undisguised gist of Netanyahu’s audacious “I
will not be silenced” statement this week at the Jewish General
Assembly in which he called on American Jews to fight the proposed deal
in Geneva: “When the Jewish people were silent on matters relating to
our survival, you know what happened. This is different,” he said.
That
leaves U.S. President Barack Obama with a choice of alternatively being
cast as history’s ultimate Patsy Chamberlain or as America’s
thirty-second president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But this is not your
Jewish grandfather’s FDR who saved the American economy from collapse
and the world from Fascist domination. This is the FDR who “abandoned
the Jews,” who succumbed to the anti-Semites in his midst, whose public
image has been slowly evolving in recent years from being a hero of the
Jews to a misguided leader who was callous about their tragic fate.
These
will be the popular Israeli terms of reference, no matter what is
ultimately concluded in a nuclear accord with Iran. Even under much
improved stipulations, Netanyahu’s scrutiny of such an agreement will be
filtered through a 75-year-old prism and a direct line will be drawn
from Geneva to Munich and back.
What President Obama means when he says he has
Israel's back is that he will partner with Israel's enemies behind its
back, giving succor to a regime that operates against both Israel and
the U.S.
“Never again” was the statement Menachem Begin made after sending a
wave of F-16s against Iraq’s nuclear reactor. "There won't be another
Holocaust in History. Never again."
No such language could have been used by President Obama in respect of the agreement reached
in Geneva. In plain English, the best that could be said of it is that —
for the time being — the mullahs can keep their crematoria, so to
speak, on standby.
That
may sound harsh. But feature the fact that President Obama has been
saying for years that he has Israel’s back. What this turns out to mean
is that he will treat with Israel’s enemies behind Israel’s back, enter a
partnership with them on terms to which the freely elected government
in Jerusalem objects, and in boasting about the betrayal declare that
Israel has good reason to be skeptical of Iran’s intentions.
The
intentions about which this deal raises questions are Obama’s — and not
just his. The concerns of those of us who opposed the elevation of John
Kerry to Secretary of State go way beyond Tehran. This, after all, is
not the first time Kerry went to Europe to treat with an American enemy
and emerged to put the gloss on the enemy’s position. He began his
political career by traveling to Paris in 1970 to meet with envoys of
communist Vietnam.
It
took fewer than five years between Kerry’s trip to Paris as a young
reserve officer in the Navy and the decision of the 94th United States
Congress to abandon free Vietnam. People tend to forget the particulars.
There were no American combat troops in Vietnam when the Congress voted
to cut off all aid to Saigon. It just decided to pivot out of Indochina
and move on, ignoring the pleas of President Gerald Ford and Secretary
of State Kissinger. The devil took the hindmost.
We’re
a long way from that in respect of Israel. But President Obama clearly
understood what he was doing when he picked Kerry as state secretary.
And picked, in Charles Hagel, a defense secretary who had also turned
against the war in Vietnam. A lot of patriotic Americans turned against
the war in Vietnam. All the more reason to remember the consequences.
The last negotiation for which Kerry plumped plunged a population the
size of Eastern Europe’s into the darkness of communism.
Neither
Kerry nor Obama were alive at the time of Munich. But the catastrophe
of 1938 was well marked on Sunday by Israeli MK Moshe Feiglin, who
called the handshake at Geneva this weekend “the Iranian version of the
Munich Agreement.” He noted that like the doughty Czechs in 1938, Israel
was not a party to the parley. “Israel today watches from the
sidelines,” is the way he put it.
One
could but add that there was one difference between Geneva today and
Munich in 1938. The envoys of the free European governments knew deep
down that they had blundered at Munich. “Imbeciles” was the word Prime
Minister Daladier of France famously muttered when, on his arrival back
at Paris, he was cheered by throngs of his countrymen. Where is the
self-awareness in the Western leadership today?
We
are but 15 years after India stunned the world by disclosing that it
had an A-bomb. Yet “after spending billions of dollars,” the New York
Times spumed in its astonishment, our spies “inexplicably gave President
Clinton no warning that India was ready to test nuclear weapons.” It
and the rest of the Left was almost inchoate with surprise when the
North Koreans betrayed their assurances in respect of their own atomic
bomb.
It
is too soon to tell what the Republicans in Washington will make of the
deal in Geneva. But there is a faction that reckons the problem in Iran
is not only the weapons but the regime, which for years has been
operating against us, surreptitiously in combat, the same as it has
against Israel. This faction reckons that Reagan would have long since
either found a way to bolster Iran’s democratic opposition or helped
found a government-in-exile of Iran that could have levied a revolution.
That is the surest way to put the “never” in the phrase “never again.”
Seth Lipsky is editor of The New York Sun.
He was a foreign editor and a member of the editorial board of The Wall
Street Journal, the founding editor of The Forward and its editor from
1990 to 2000. His books include “The Citizen’s Constitution: An
Annotated Guide,” and most recently “The Rise of Abraham Cahan.”
Haaretz--Total, unmitigated defeat
President Obama had to
choose between dishonor and war, and he chose dishonor. Now we will have
war. He has dishonored US allies in the Middle East, including Israel
and the Persian Gulf states, by abandoning their security concerns regarding a nuclear Iran
by believing that appeasing Iran is the only way to avoid war. These words are those of Churchill after the Munich Agreement was
signed, when Britain and France believed that handing Czechoslovakia to
Hitler was the only way to save the world from another war. It is
regarded as the shameful culmination of the Allies refusal to confront
Nazi aggression and gave Hitler what he wanted in exchange for his
verbal promise of "peace in our time" as Chamberlain called it.After the Munich
Agreement, Churchill gave a speech in the House of Commons on the future
consequences to Europe and the world of the agreement which he called
“total and unmitigated defeat." Following the Geneva agreement,
these warnings ring as true now as they did then. We cannot consider the abandonment of US allies only in the light of
what happened the last few weeks. This agreement in Geneva is the
culmination of the uninterrupted retreat of US power under Obama for the
last five years in the Middle East. For five years, the president has
been betraying Israel,
Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and the UAE but accommodating enemies and tyrants like Syria’s
Assad,
Iran’s Khamenei, and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. (...) US will not be trusted again
Obama, Kerry and other White House official’s panicky statements
during the last two weeks that threatening to impose additional
sanctions on Iran will be a "march to war" reassured the Iranians that
Obama was desperate for any deal. US officials' defamatory attacks
against legitimate Israeli concerns about a potential bad deal by
calling them "war mongers" and keeping many of the details of the
negotiations from them, as well as US reluctance to attack Syria, has
told the Israelis that there is no longer any credible US military
option against Iran.
Israel is not Czechoslovakia. Israel was abandoned by its ally but it
is not broken and will never be silent. Israel is a nuclear power and
can attack Iran on its own like it did against the Iraqi and Syrian
nuclear reactors. The only obstacle is that Obama has tied Israeli hands
for the next six months of negotiations. By then Iran will be a month
away from building a bomb.
Knowing that Obama will never attack Iran militarily and will do his
best to delay Israel from attacking Iran in time will have disastrous
consequences to the Middle East.(...)
La juiverie sioniste admet qu'Israël détient un arsenal nucléaire et prétend que sa survie en dépend! C'est pour cette raison que ses voisins ont été forcés eux aussi de se munir de telles armes ou du moins d'armes chimiques.
The NYT article
by Anne Barnard reported, “Some government supporters — and indeed,
some rebel fighters — have criticized the deal as giving up weapons that
belong to the Syrian people and are needed as a deterrent against
Israel, which maintains an undeclared nuclear arsenal.But Syrian officials said that the
weapons were of little practical use and that giving them up allowed
them to claim new moral standing and draw attention to the push forthe
elimination of Israel’s nuclear weapons.”
Un Moyen-Orient sans nucléaire et sans armes chimiques, c'est surtout pas
Israël qui veut ça! C'est la Syrie et l'Iran. Israël a accumulé un
important arsenal chimique et nucléaire, soi-disant pour assurer sa
survie. En voyant Israël faire ça et les
menacer en plus, les autres pays qui environnent Israël ont
été forcés de se procurer un arsenal chimique.
Selon Peter Novick, pour reprendre contact avec la réalité et retrouver leur confiance envers le monde, les juifs doivent comprendre qu'il n'y a aucune leçon particulière à apprendre de la "Shoah"...
In his vexing new book, "The
Holocaust in American Life," Peter Novick
proposes to look at such questions as why has the Holocaust
"come to loom so large" in contemporary American culture,
what its cultural visibility says about American Jews and
American society at large and what consequences its
heightened place in our collective memory has on our
thinking and our foreign policy. In addressing such issues,
Novick, the author of "The Resistance
Versus Vichy: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated
France" and a founder of the University of Chicago's
program in Jewish studies, takes a willfully contrarian
attitude toward the Holocaust and those he dismissively
refers to as "Holocaust-memory professionals."
He
argues that there are no "useful" lessons to be drawn from
the Holocaust, and he suggests that the high level of
Holocaust awareness in American society stems in large
measure from decisions made by Jews who "occupy strategic
positions in the mass media" -- remarks that echo assertions
made by revisionist historians who play down the Nazi crimes
of World War II.
Throughout this book, Novick contests the view that the
United States should have done more during World War II to
help the Jews, arguing that such "guilt talk" has simply
provided useful leverage in persuading Americans that they
have a continuing obligation to support Israel. He argues
that the question of Allied bombing of the railway lines to
the Nazi concentration camps "can be dismissed immediately,"
because "massive experience" taught us that "bombing rail
lines was hardly ever effective," and adds that there were
"dim practical possibilities" for other rescue attempts of
the Jews.
As for the question of why the United States did not ease
its restrictive prewar immigration policy to allow more Jews
sanctuary, he writes that America was "still not out of the
Depression, with unemployment still high" and that
"anti-immigration sentiment was so strong in Congress and
among the general public that to open the question for
debate seemed likely to worsen rather than to ease
conditions; better to leave bad enough alone."
For the first 20 years or so after World War II, Novick
observes, the Holocaust was "hardly talked about": survivors
were encouraged not to look back but to look forward to
building new lives, and the upbeat, universalist Zeitgeist
of those postwar years made the Holocaust "an inappropriate
symbol of the contemporary mood." In addition, he says, the
Cold War -- which taught that the Soviet Union, not Germany,
was the new enemy, and totalitarianism, not Nazism, the
great evil -- made "the Holocaust the 'wrong atrocity"' for
purposes of galvanizing this new thinking.
In
the 1960s, all this began to change, as the Eichmann
[left] trial raised consciousness of the Holocaust
"as an entity in its own right, distinct from Nazi barbarism
in general." The anxious prelude to the Six-Day War of 1967
fed fears of a renewed Holocaust among American Jews --
fears heightened further during the 1973 Yom Kippur War,
which left many with the image of an isolated and vulnerable
Israel.
"After 1967, and particularly after 1973," Novick writes,
"much of the world came to see the Middle East conflict as
grounded in the Palestinian struggle to, belatedly,
accomplish the U.N.'s original intention. There were strong
reasons for Jewish organizations to ignore all this,
however, and instead to conceive of Israel's difficulties as
stemming from the world's having forgotten the Holocaust.
The Holocaust framework allowed one to put aside as
irrelevant any legitimate grounds for criticizing Israel, to
avoid even considering the possibility that the rights and
wrongs were complex."
While concerns about Israel's security declined in the
1980s and 90s, Novick says, the Holocaust became more of a
focal point for American Jews during those same years
because it "offered a substitute symbol of infinitely
greater moral clarity" than the problematic
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the same time, he suggests,
the rise of identity politics and the "culture of
victimization" made it acceptable, even fashionable, for
American Jews "to embrace a victim identity based on the
Holocaust." In his view, the Holocaust became "virtually the
only common denominator of American Jewish identity in the
late 20th century" as assimilation and intermarriage led to
a thinning sense of Jewish commitment among the young.
It is Novick's startling contention that while "there's
nothing wrong with the affirmative lessons the Washington
Holocaust Museum attempts to teach," such lessons "seem, if
not useless, hardly necessary." He argues that the very
extremity of the Holocaust and "the extremity of the
circumstances in which it unfolded" seriously "limit its
capacity to provide lessons applicable in our everyday
world," adding that "an unintended consequence of our making
the Holocaust our central symbol of atrocity" may in fact be
a "desensitization" to other cases of mass death.
In support of this theory, he notes that the Persian Gulf
war was motivated by geopolitical considerations, not moral
outrage, and that the 1994 Rwandan genocide elicited "not
the slightest will in American political circles for any
U.S. intervention." He does not address the Kosovo crisis at
all (though his book may have well gone to press before NATO
air strikes began).
Although Novick has some useful things to say about the
dangers of dwelling in the memory of oppression, although he
can be eloquent on the sectarian use of the Holocaust as an
easy moral touchstone, such observations are completely
overshadowed by this volume's deliberate cynicism. Novick
writes that survivors' memories "are not a very useful
historical source." He glibly tosses around phrases like
"the gold medal in the Victimization Olympics" and "Jewish
moral capital." He asserts that for Jewish organizations
intent on capturing the attention of a younger generation,
"the Holocaust looked like the one item in stock with
consumer appeal."
This flippant tone reflects Novick's determination to not
merely demystify the Holocaust, but to diminish its place in
the collective imagination. While he argues that Hitler
would triumph if Jews were "to tacitly endorse his
definition" of them "as despised pariahs by making the
Holocaust the emblematic Jewish experience," the words of
the scholar Emil Fackenheim remain a potent warning of the
real dangers of forgetting the past: "We are commanded
[to remember] the martyrs of the Holocaust, lest
their memory perish," he declared in 1967. "We are forbidden
. . . to deny or despair of God . . . lest Judaism perish. .
. . To abandon any of these imperatives, in response to
Hitler's victory at Auschwitz, would be to hand him yet
other, posthumous victories."
Amazon.com
Publié
en Israël en 2007, Vaincre Hitler a suscité de très débats. Et pour
cause : l'auteur, ancien président de la Knesset y déplore le fait qu'Israël,
plus de soixante ans après Auschwitz, définit son identité quasi
exclusivement par rapport à l'Holocauste. (...) L' "autre" ne devrait
plus être perçu, selon Burg, comme une menace, mais comme un potentiel
de coopération.
Modern-day Israel, and the Jewish community, are strongly influenced by the memory and horrors of Hitler
and the Holocaust. Burg argues that the Jewish nation has been
traumatized and has lost the ability to trust itself, its neighbors or
the world around it. He shows that this is one of the causes for the
growing nationalism and violence that are plaguing Israeli society and
reverberating through Jewish communities worldwide. Burg uses his own
family history--his parents were Holocaust survivors--to inform his
innovative views on what the Jewish people need to do to move on and
eventually live in peace with their Arab neighbors and feel comfortable
in the world at large.
“This is an important book by a
very courageous man. The shadow of the Shoah and its abusive
application to the contemporary Middle East have been a catastrophe for
Jews, Israelis and Arabs alike. In Burg's view Israel must move beyond
Hitler's poisoned legacy. If they cannot or will not do this, the Middle
East will never see peace and Israel has no future.”
-- Tony Judt,
bestselling author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 and Professor at New York University
“An
Israeli-born son of Holocaust survivors, Burg addresses a heartfelt
plea to his countrymen: remember the past, but do not be its slaves;
pathology is neither patriotism nor statescraft. A compelling and
eloquent cri de coeur from a veteran of Israel's wars and politics.”
--
Howard M. Sachar, bestselling author of A History of the Jews in the Modern World and A History of Israel
"Burg
takes a blunt, loving, painful and desperately important look at the
state of the Jewish soul today. Anyone who cares about the future of the
Middle East and the fate of victimized peoples needs to read this book
and think hard."
-- J.J. Goldberg, author of Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment and Editorial Director of The Forward
“This
fascinating and thought-provoking book should be read by every person
who cares about Israel. Burg's central theme is that Israeli leaders use
the memory of the Holocaust in ways that are warping the country's
soul, creating unnecessary fear, and making it impossible to achieve
peace with the Palestinians.”
-- John J. Mearsheimer, bestselling author
of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
"[An] assured and provocative polemic. . . . [A] lecture with much wisdom . . . worthy of global consideration."
-- Kirkus Reviews
“An honest reflection of a tormented man searching for the universal values in Judaism.”
-- Le Figaro
“In
this book of memories and reflections, the former Knesset Speaker
delivers his disquieting findings about Israel that 'became a Kingdom
without a prophesy.'... Foremost a book of hope from a man who wants to
find ways to return Judaism to its universal calling.”
--Le Monde
“Short of being Prime Minister, Burg could not be higher in the Zionist establishment.”
David Remnick, The New Yorker
"Mr. Burg...wrote a powerful book, an indictment of how Zionism and the Holocaust have been used."
--Globe and Mail
"[A] compelling mix of polemic, personal memoir, homage to his parents and meditation on Judaism."
--The Independent
"Avraham
Burg has great faith in the creative power of argument. His book has
already provoked much controversy and now that it has been translated is
certain to provoke more. At a time when crass, catchpenny titles pour
from the presses, it is that unusual thing: A new book that matters."
Landau: 1967 lines are 'Auschwitz borders
Tourism Minister Uzi Landau called pre-1967 lines "Auschwitz borders" ahead of Sunday's cabinet meeting. Landau's
comments, quoting a well-known turn of phrase byformer foreign
minister Abba Eban from 1969, came after US Secretary of State John
Kerry visited the region and called for a treaty based on pre-1967 lines
with land swaps.
The meeting with Tourism Minister Uzi Landau took place a day after he publicly quoted the well-known maxim of former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "The '67 borders remind us of the borders of Auschwitz."
These words were uttered by Landau at the beginning of a government
meeting that took place on Sunday (May 26) and were widely quoted in the
news broadcasts. (...) Isn't the Holocaust comparison
somewhat exaggerated? After all, the president proclaims the vision of
two states, and allows us to understand that he and the prime minister
are in agreement … (...) Former Foreign Minister Abba Eban used that expression in 1969. Dozens of years have passed since then …
"That doesn't make these borders less
Auschwitz-like. Before '67, they didn't have Katyusha rockets and
missiles to the extent owned today by Hezbollah in the north and Hamas
in the south that constitute a strategic threat to Israel. One thing
must be clear: A Palestinian state is not the solution."
Bibi: the 1967 lines are ‘Auschwitz Borders’ By Frank Dimant
CEO, B’nai Brith Canada
Once again, the United States is applying significant pressure on
Israel to advance the Middle East peace process. Not satisfied with
Israel’s freeing of over a hundred Palestinian terrorists with blood on
their hands, Israel is called upon, once again, to accept the 1967
armistice lines, better known to informed Mideast observers as the
“Auschwitz Lines”, as the basis for a starting point to the peace talks.
Ceux
que le PDG de la B'nai Brith appelle "des observateurs informés", c-à-d
ceux qui qualifient les vieilles frontières israéliennes de 1967 de
"frontières d'Auschwitz", ce sont LES POLITICIENS ET ANALYSTES SIONISTES
ISRAÉLIENS LES PLUS EXTÉMISTES!
C'est connu dans la société israélienne que ceux qui tiennent ce
discours en Israël ce sont les politiciens les plus à droite (incluant
également plusieurs analystes qui se disent "de gauche" mais qui
suivent quand même les idées radicales pro-colonisation normalisées par
la droite).
Given this state of affairs, one can certainly fathom the distrust that
Israelis have in their surroundings. Their fear of a second attempt to
exterminate them is certainly understandable, as is the term “Auschwitz
borders,” coined by legendary Foreign Minister Abba Eban [1966–1974] in
reference to a return to the 1967 borders. A nation which experienced
that less than a hundred years ago will have a hard time shutting
themselves up in a country that is just nine miles wide, especially
given the fact that there are hundreds of millions of Muslims stirring
behind those borders, and that some of those Muslims refer to the Jews
as “the descendants of apes and pigs,” call openly for jihad and refuse
to come to terms with the existence of a Jewish entity in the historic
land of Israel.
"It is
important to negotiate - and even more important that negotiations be
conducted on the basis of reality and without illusions," he said. Lieberman
noted that he has said many times that there is no solution to the
conflict, at least not in the coming years. "What is possible and
important to do is to manage the conflict," he wrote. He said that
Israel must not agree that the negotiations be conducted on the basis of
the pre-1967 borders, reminding that the late former Minister Abba Eban
“called them Auschwitz borders" due to the fact that they would
guarantee Israel’s destruction. In addition, said Lieberman, it is
important to make clear to the PA that "there will be no construction
freeze. Not in Jerusalem and not in the Jewish communities in Judea and
Samaria."
Forget About It
Pro-Israel readers of the New York Times
were startled on Sept. 15 when the Times’s widely read Sunday opinion
section featured a commentary by Ian Lustick, a professor at the
University of Pennsylvania,who contends that the long dreamed-of “two
state solution” for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an “illusion.”
Often denounced as being a critic of Israel and accused of being
“anti-Zionist,” Lustick—who is Jewish—suggests that a variety of
elements (including self-interest on the part of many different players
involved, including American politicians) has gotten bogged down in the
two-state dream. Although he doesn’t suggest it directly, Lustick is
hinting not-so-broadly at the concept of a demilitarized, secular “Holy
Land State” first widely publicized in The Spotlight (forerunner of
AMERICAN FREE PRESS) by the late Haviv Schieber. (American Free Press, Oct 7, 2013)
Ça
montre que pour eux, il faut que les USA soient intimidants et face
l'étalage de sa puissance en faisant des guerres et en inspirant la
terreur dans le monde. Les USA sont leur "police mondiale", c'est leur
Golem, leur assurance-vie! Si les USA ne font pu peur à personne, les
juifs se croient vulnérables et sans défense!
Guerres impérialistes: Seule la guerre permanente fait survivre Israël… Un analyste politique dit que le régime israélien a besoin de
déclencher des guerres à travers le monde, spécifiquement au
Moyen-Orient, s’il veut assurer sa survie et demeurer le récepteur
principal de l’aide financière et militaire américaine, rapporte Press
TV.
Israel better off with Arab tyrants Op-ed: In the name of our egoistic interest,we only want dictators in our neighborhood. Let Washington deal with democracy and freedom of expression.
Quel
aveu! C'est ça que je dis depuis longtemps. Israel veut juste des
méchants arabes excités autour de lui, pour lui servir de repoussoir.
Car si Israel est entouré d'États modérés et pleins de bon sens, c'est
Israel qui passe pour le méchant.
Si des nations arabes comme la Syrie ont décidé de se munir d'un arsenal de destruction massive (chimique ou autre), c'était en réaction à la menace très réelle que constitue l'arsenal nucléaire de l'état voyou israélien.
Concernant l'appui d'Israël aux rebelles syriens anti-Assad que l'on sait dirigés par al-Qaïda, l'ambassadeur d'Israël aux États-Unis, Michael Oren, a déclaré qu'Israël "préfère les bandits qui ne sont pas financés par l'Iran aux bandits financés par l'Iran".
Les politiciens sionistes et les groupes juifs et pro-israéliens (AIPAC, ADL, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations) poussent ouvertement en faveur d'une guerre contre la Syrie, tout en essayant de dissimuler et minimiser leur rôle dans cette affaire. La Syrie représente la pièce centrale de "l'arc stratégique" Liban-Syrie-Iran que veut détruire Israël.
La Droite conservatrice républicaine en profite pour accuser Obama d'appuyer al-Qaïda, mais omet soigneusement de mentionner qu'Israël appuie ouvertement al-Qaïda et pousse le monde occidental à entrer en guerre (et non l'inverse).
L’ambassadeur d’Israël à Washington Michael Oren a déclaré au
quotidien américain Washington Post que l’intérêt d’Israël réside dans
le renversement du Président Bachar el-Assad, même si c’est al-Qaida qui
va accéder au pouvoir à sa place!
« Israël est intéressé par la
chute du Président Assad. Il a toujours voulu le renverser, avant même
la crise syrienne. Nous préférons les méchants qui ne sont pas soutenus
par l’Iran aux méchants qui bénéficient de son appui. Nous avons voulu
toujours le départ d’Assad », a-t-il dit.
Et d’ajouter : « Nous réalisons qu’il existe des gens très méchants
parmi les rebelles, mais le plus grand danger pour Israël est représenté
par l’axe stratégique qui s’étend de Téhéran à Beyrouth, en passant par
Damas ».
« Nous trouvons que le régime d’Assad est la pierre angulaire qui
maintient debout cet axe et telle est notre position avant même
l’éclatement des événements en Syrie », a-t-il dit.
« Pour Israël, la ligne rouge est la possibilité que l’Iran ou la
Syrie transporte des armes chimiques ou des armes non conventionnelles
au Hezbollah ou à d’autres organisations terroristes. Dans ce cas,
Israël ne restera pas passif », a insisté Oren, tout en démentant les
rapports médiatiques faisant état du transfert d’armes chimiques
syriennes au Hezbollah.
Dans le même cadre, le quotidien israélien "Maariv" a révélé que
l’ambassadeur israélien à Washington, et avec l'autorisation de
Netanyahu, a mené une série de réunions au Congrès américain pour
convaincre le Sénat et les membres de la Chambre de soutenir une frappe
militaire en Syrie.
Citant Oren, le journal a dit: "Evidemment, une série de réunions a
été tenue", soulignant qu'il n'avait pas pris l'initiative, mais qu’il
"était au service de ceux qui ont cherché à connaître la position
d'Israël en la matière."
Oren n’aurait pas tenu ces réunions s’il n’avait pas reçu le feu vert du Premier ministre israélien, poursuit le journal.
Aux efforts d’Oren s’ajoute une campagne assidue menée par le lobby
sioniste à Washington, à la demande de la Maison Blanche, pour
convaincre les membres du Congrès de voter en faveur d’une offensive
contre la Syrie.
La radio de l’armée israélienne a rapporté mardi que
les responsables du gouvernement israélien préfèrent que la Syrie soit
dirigée par l’organisation d’al-Qaïda à la victoire du président syrien,
Bachar al-Assad, sur les rebelles qui combattent pour la chute de son
régime.
Selon la radio militaire de l’Etat hébreu, relayée par arabic-upi,
"une crainte règne au sein du gouvernement israélien envers la force
grandissante de Bachar al-Assad dans les batailles opposant l’armée
syrienne aux insurgés". A ses yeux, "la gouvernance d’al-Qaïda en Syrie
serait meilleure que la victoire de Bachar al-Assad".
"Si la résistance de Bachar al-Assad se poursuit dans la
confrontation avec les rebelles, et s’il continue à gouverner la Syrie,
il serait très attaché à l’Iran et lui sera reconnaissant, ce qui est de
nature à renforcer la place de l’Iran comme une puissance régionale
menaçant Israël", estiment les responsables israéliens.
"La relation entre la Syrie, l’Iran et le Hezbollah sera renforcée
et sera plus dangereuse pour Israël", ajoutent-ils, selon la radio.
"Il existe un seul Etat qui dit que son but est de supprimer Israël
c’est l’Iran. Assad est l’Iran, n’importe quel pouvoir en Syrie est de
ce fait préférable, même s’il s’agit d’al-Qaïda et de l’Islam radical,
tout est moins pire qu’un Assad faible qui sera une marionnette entre
les mains des Iraniens", considèrent les responsables israéliens.
Le ministre de la Défense israélien, Moshe Ya’alon, avait déclaré
lundi lors de la réunion de la commission des Affaires étrangères et de
la sûreté, relevant de la Knesset, que "les forces de l’armée syrienne
contrôlent 40 % seulement des territoires syriens, et que seuls quatre
quartiers à Damas sont sous leur contrôle".
Selon ses dires, Israël suit avec inquiétude la possibilité que la
Russie ravitaille la Syrie par le dispositif S-300. "Conformément à ce
qui a été publié, ces missiles n’ont pas été encore acheminés, et s’ils
venaient à être transférés, ils ne le seront qu’en 2014", a-t-il
indiqué.
Moshe Ya’alon a encore dit qu’"Israël n’interviendrait pas dans la
guerre en Syrie, tant qu’elle ne touche pas nos intérêts, y compris le
transfert des armes développées, des missiles et de l’armement chimique
au Hezbollah, et tant que le front n’est pas chauffé".
L’Egypte se transformera en chaos comme en Irak, c’est encore Mordechai Kedar qui le déclare à un journal israélien. M.Kedar est un politologue qui a réalisé sa thèse sur la Syrie de Hafez El-Assad. Il a été pendant 25 ans officier des renseignements israéliens, spécialisé dans le contre-terrorisme et l’analyse des médias arabes. Maîtrisant cette langue, la télévision des Frères musulmans, Al-Jazeera le sollicite régulièrement pour « éclairer » l’opinion arabe. Il déclare publiquement préférer Al-Qaïda au régime actuel, pronostique une implosion de la Syrie en plusieurs entités, un chaos en Egypte et la division des palestiniens en plusieurs tribus. (...)
Israel
has finally admitted publicly (what has long been known): Israel would
prefer rebels aligned with the al Qaeda terror network seize control in
Syria, rather than the secular regime of Bashar al-Assad retaining
power.
This eye-opening revelation will shock those who perceive Israel as America’s closest ally, particularly in the “war on terror” (aimed at al Qaeda) waged in the 12 years following the 9-11 attacks which the United States government claims were al Qaeda’s doing (despite profound evidence to the contrary).
Returning American troops—who fought against al Qaeda—and families of the dead will now rightly have some serious doubts about Israel. And troops still abroad will surely ask why they are fighting al Qaeda if America’s “best friend” supports that terror network’s ambitions in Syria.
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, told The Jerusalem Post why Israel supports the al Qaeda-aligned forces.
While noting—of the rebels loyal to al Qaeda—that while Israel understands “they are pretty bad guys,” Oren told the Post
for an article published on Sept. 17 that Israel views Assad’s regime
as “the keystone” in “the strategic arc” between Lebanon and Iran, the
nation Israel is eager to destroy.
“We
always wanted Assad to go,” he said. “We always preferred the bad guys
who weren’t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran.”
So
Israel believes al Qaeda-allied forces are useful for its own ends,
America’s interests in the “war on terrorism” notwithstanding.
This
eye-opening revelation will shock those who perceive Israel as
America’s closest ally, particularly in the “war on terror” aimed at al
Qaeda waged in the 12 years following the 9-11 attacks which the U.S.
government claims were al Qaeda’s doing, despite profound evidence to
the contrary.
Returning
American troops—who fought against al Qaeda—and families of the dead
will now rightly have some serious doubts about Israel. And troops still
abroad will surely ask why they are fighting al Qaeda if America’s
“best friend” supports that terror network’s ambitions in Syria.
From
an American perspective, the toll in the Afghan and Iraqi wars has been
staggering: 2.5 million Americans were deployed, about half of them
more than once. Some 6,650 died. Another 106,000 were wounded in action
or evacuated for injury or disease. Some 675,000 veterans of the war on
terror applied for disability. Suicides and other deaths among returning
troops—drug overdoses, car crashes etc—are unusually high.
Academic estimates say the wars will ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers some $5
trillion. And that figure does not include untold trillions Americans
give Israel, much of it for purported assistance in the “war on terror”
that is being waged against al Qaeda.
Now
that Israel has betrayed America and supports al Qaeda, the U.S. should
cut off relations with Israel, expel its diplomats and citizens from
the United States, and henceforth consider Israel an enemy in the war on
terror.
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Michael Collins Piper is an author, journalist, lecturer and radio show host. He has spoken in Russia, Malaysia, Iran, Abu Dhabi, Japan, Canada and the U.S.
Although Syria’s weapons of mass destruction—
in this instance, chemical
weapons —are now the focus of global
media attention, what is largely suppressed
in the mainstream media is the “back
story” as to why Syria even has chemical weapons
in the first place.
On April 17, 2003 veteran Washington Post correspondent Walter
Pincus, who happens to be Jewish,
acknowledged in a story relating to angry
claims by the George W. Bush administration—relating
to Syria’s alleged “weapons of mass destruction”—
that Syria had built its arsenal as an
“equalizer” and that “Israel’s arms spurred [Syria’s]
fears.”
Although, at the time of Pincus’s story, Syria had
asked for a United Nations resolution calling for
nuclear arms inspections all across the Middle
East—including Israel—few expected the United
States would support Syria’s request. And, of course, the United States did not, despite
the official U.S. position that, according to
then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, the United
States wanted to see the entire Middle East free of
weapons of mass destruction.
Pincus’s article regarding Syria’s drive for a military
arsenal designed to counter Israel’s nuclear
weapons cache was instructive. Pincus wrote:
Syria’s current arsenal of chemical warheads
and Scud missiles to deliver them was started
more than 30 years ago to counter Israel’s development
and possession of nuclear weapons, according
to present and former U.S. intelligence
officials.
“They have been developing chemical weapons
as a force equalizer with the Israelis,” a former
senior intelligence analyst said yesterday.
“Hafez al-Assad, the present president’s father,
saw chemicals as a way to threaten the Israelis
and an equalizer for their nuclear program.”
Assad knew, the former analyst said, that “military
aid from the Soviets would never be able to
match what Israel developed in the nuclear field
and received from the U.S.”
Syria’s possession of chemical weapons was an
important part of the Bush administration’s recent,
week-long verbal offensive against Damascus.
But it also has brought attention briefly to
another highly sensitive issue: the impact that Israel’s
nuclear arsenal has had on its enemies in
the Middle East.
The consensus from Middle East experts is
that almost every country in the region has pursued
weapons of mass destruction programs—
and they have done so primarily because of the
arsenal that Israel has built up, said Joseph Cirincione,
head of the non-proliferation programof the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“You can’t get rid of chemical or biological or
nuclear programs in Arab countries unless you
also address the elimination of Israel’s nuclear and
chemical programs,” Cirincione said.
Now, in recent days—despite overwhelming
American popular opposition to an attack on Syria
in retribution for its purported use of chemical
weapons—we have seen the Jewish lobby in
America loudly banging the drum for a U.S. military
attack on Syria.
On Sept. 3 The Washington Post bared the truth
in a story quite candidly headlined: “Pro-Israel and
Jewish Groups Strongly Back Military Strike
Against Syria.”
Noting that, theretofore, there had been “intense
discussion” among pro-Israel partisans about
whether they should be open about their concerns,
the Post pointed out that that many in the Jewish
lobby were “worried” that critics of the proposed
attack on Syria were casting it “as a move to protect
Israel’s interests rather than an action to defend
U.S. credibility.”
One pro-Israel activist, who spoke in what the
newspaper described as “the condition of anonymity”
admitted to the Post, “There is a desire to not
make this about Israel.” In other words, the Jewish
lobbywould prefer the public not knowIsrael does
indeed have an interest in seeing Syria subjected
to American military might.
Later—even after President Obama’s address to
the nation in which polls show he failed to convince
Americans of the need to strike Syria—the
Postreported on Sept. 9 that AIPAC had nonetheless
mobilized its traditionally influential lobbying
team—some 300 strong—to continue to besiege
members of the House and the Senate demanding
they support the attack.
However, despite the infamous Capitol Hill
clout of the well-funded Jewish lobby groups, the
good news is that public pressure on Congress
against another Middle East war is so overwhelming
that even the pro-Israel forces are being beaten
back.
Now, with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
energetic intervention setting the stage for an
agreement which seems to be undercutting the
Jewish lobby’s push for war, it appears that for the
first time in many years, that powerful lobby will
be defeated.
Nonetheless, many people are still concerned
that an angry Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu,
may engage in some covert measure such as a
“false-flag” terrorist attack on America—to be
blamed on Syria or Iran or groups friendly to Syria
and Iran—designed to redirect American public
opinion.
The bottom line is that recent events have
brought into widespread attention the fact that the
Jewish lobby in America stands in opposition to
the vast majority of the American people, who are
saying, “No more U.S. intervention in the Middle
East.” And many are beginning to see that those interventions
have, in fact, been on behalf of Israel—
not America.
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The Zionists seem to have loose lips. Michael Oren, Israeli
ambassador to the U.S., admitted in a recent interview that Israel
prefers the throat-slitting Takfiri Jihadist militants over Assad.
This confirms what many political commentators have rightly
postulated — that Israel and its American and British puppets, in
collaboration with Saudi and Qatari kingpins, are covertly supporting
the Takfiri terrorists who are stampeding their way across Syria,
chopping off heads, cutting out hearts, machine-gunning captive
prisoners and unleashing sarin gas on civilians.
Oren’s statement is consistent with the decades-old Israeli strategy
of divide and conquer. Israel’s plans to destabilize and eventually
destroy the nation of Syria was laid out in plain English by the
Neoconservative cabal of Zionist Jews led by Richard Perle and Douglas
Feith in 1996:
Israel can shape its strategic environment, in
cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even
rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein
from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own
right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions. (“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” IASPS, 1996)
After issuing that sinister and deadly “Clean Break” strategy paper
for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, Perle and Feith
would go on to become the two of the three principal architects of the
Iraq war from within the Bush Regime in 2003. The other was Paul
Wolfowitz, a Zionist Jew with intimate ties to Israel.
The Israeli envoy to the United States, Michael Oren, confirmed in a
new statement that the Israeli regime in Tel Aviv fears the alliance of
Syria, Iran, and Lebanon, and the Israeli Ambassador even confirmed that
Tel Aviv prefers al-Qaeda jihadists rather than the secular government
of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Although not Syria has
recently attacked Israel, but the Israeli regime has conducted at least
three airstrikes on Syria in 2013.
The
Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, also said in his
new statements that the alliance of Syria, Iran, and Lebanon would pose
the greatest danger to Tel Aviv and that the regime in Israel prefers
Al-Qaeda linked groups rather than groups that are supported by the
Iranian administration. However, not the alliance of Iran, Syria, and
Lebanon has carried out attacks on Israel, but the Israeli regime has
conducted airstrikes on targets in Syria – at least three airstrikes in
2013, which all have violated international law and were acts of
aggression.
But it seems that the alliance of Iran, Syria, and
Lebanon, the so-called “Resistance Axis”, remains the main enemy of the
Israeli regime in Tel Aviv and the rest simply doesn`t matter. Further,
the statements by the Israeli envoy to the United States confirm that
Israel rather supports the terrorist organization of Al-Qaeda than a
secular government in the Middle East. Although Syria’s President Bashar
al-Assad has never attacked Israel, the regime in Tel Aviv wants rather
Al-Qaeda in power in Syria and the overthrow of the secular-minded
President. And this, although Al-Qaeda should afterwards become a
serious threat for Israel. In a normal world and in the case that the
common information and propaganda about Al-Qaeda is correct.
Therefore,
it is easy to assume that Israel backs the armed terrorist groups in
Syria and even supports the Syrian al-Qaeda offshoots such as the
al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra)
in order to topple the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his
government in the capital, Damascus. Further, the regime in Tel Aviv
wants to weaken the axis of resistance in the Middle East by supporting
the terrorist groups and armed jihadists fighting in Syria. Not to
mention that the Saudi regime also supports the Al-Qaeda-affiliated
groups in Syria and that this is less surprising as the support for
Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists by the Israeli regime.
In addition, it is already confirmed that the totalitarian dictatorship in Saudi Arabia is a lackey of the Zionist regime in Israel
and that both are in bed with the leadership of the United States.
However, the Syrian-Iran-Lebanon alliance is certainly a threat for
Israel because the alliance of resistance, including the resistance
movement Hezbollah and other resistance groups in the region, have the
power to destroy the occupation regime of Israel.
In case, it
would come to such a dangerous situation of a new war in the Middle
East. The first victim would certainly be Israel of such a new war by
Western-led military forces (e.g. by the United States) against an Arab
country in the Middle East. There are certainly several persons on both
sides who are waiting for such a moment. However, no war is good and
every war has to be prevented.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United
States, Michael Oren, also explained in his statement that Israel always
wanted “the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to go” and this has been
the “initial message (by Israel) about the Syria issue.” According to
the statements by the envoy of the Israeli regime to Washington, Tel
Aviv was always willing to see the overthrow of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
and his government before the beginning of the conflict and armed
terrorism in March 2011. Primarily, because the overthrow of Bashar
al-Assad and the government in Damascus certainly weakens the axis of
resistance against Israel in the Middle East.
While some might
consider it as somehow schizophrenic or even dangerous that Israeli
rather supports and prefers al-Qaeda terrorists and jihadists than the
mainly secular government of al-Assad in Damascus, it seems such a logic
is valid for Michael Oren and the Israeli regime in Tel Aviv. However,
as mentioned, it is to expect that in the case the Syrian al-Qaeda
branch would overthrow the Syrian governance and President al-Assad,
these armed terrorists would probably start to hate Israel again –
despite the current support by the Israeli regime for their armed
fighting against the Syrian Army and government.
Of
course, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has
no shy to mention the real reasons for the support of Al-Qaeda in Syria.
On the one hand, it weakens the axis of resistance and thus, the
Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah and also the Iranian
administration in Tehran. On the other hand, a weak Syria would pose no
threat for Israel and has no more abilities to support the axis of
resistance or the Palestinians in the occupied areas. Israel would have
an easier life and would be able to expand its territory even further
and more easily.
The envoy of the Israeli regime to Washington said
that “greatest danger to Israel is by the strategic arc that extends
from Tehran, to Damascus to Beirut. And we saw the Assad regime as the
keystone in that arc.” However, this is partly propaganda. On the one
hand the usual propaganda by Israel and on the other hand a useful
propaganda for the government in Syria, which supports the resistance
against the Israeli regime but the phrase about “Syria being the
keystone” is questionable. As said, Israel has attacked Syria, not vice
versa. There is so much talking every day. The deeds show the true
colours, not the words of any of those sides.
As mentioned in another article (see here),
the Israel’s hostility toward Syria and Lebanon has increased in recent
months. Not vice versa, although probably due to the reason that e.g.
Syria has no more capabilities to really support the axis of resistance
or to carry out any acts against the Israeli regime in Tel Aviv.
Syria
has been successfully weakened, but to which is extent is still
questionable and it hopefully has never to be shown. However, while the
Israeli envoy talks about the reasons why the regime in Tel Aviv prefers
to support Al-Qaeda operatives rather than the secular government in
Damascus or Iranian-backed groups, it is questionable if the members of
the regime in Tel Aviv really consider all possible consequences of its
support of Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in Syria just for the reason
that they are not “Iran”.
At least, one thing might be funny
about the statements of the Israeli envoy. They really fear the axis of
resistance and are still afraid of Syria. However, the propaganda is not
quite correct by the Israeli Ambassador to the United States. As
documents prove, there were several meetings and debates between Israel
and Syria in recent years and especially when Bashar al-Assad came to
power in Syria.
According to several information and documents,
Syria’s President was never interested in a war on Israel. In contrary,
he wanted to resolve several problems, but the Israeli regime has
hampered or even dumped every attempt by al-Assad. Israel really is
notoriously hostile, fearful, and a liar. Not to mention all its crimes
against humanity since the establishment of the little state of Israel.
Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff of Colin Powell in the Bush Regime, has stated in an interview with The Real News Network
that U.S. senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, known for their
servile groveling to Israeli interests, are “bordering on being
traitors.”
In the second part of the interview Wilkerson confirmed what many
political commentators have been saying for years, that Israel is
engaged in a divide and conquer strategy in the Middle East to pave the
path for their grand vision of a “Greater Israel”. Israel intends to
weaken and undermine all of its regional competitors by instigating and
fomenting internal conflict in those countries — just as they did in
Lebanon in the 1980s.
Wilkerson recently stated that the chemical attack in Syria that took
place in late August of this year was likely an Israeli false-flag
operation.
• ‘No smoking gun’ evidence that Syria used chemical weapons
• Israel the source for current charges of sarin gas use by Assad
One
of America’s most respected military figures charged publicly that
long-standing allegations about the Syrian government’s use of chemical
weapons may have been, in his words, “an Israeli false flag operation”
calculated to stir up opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
long perceived by Israel as a threat to its geopolitical agenda.
And
now that the United States seems poised to attack Syria on the basis of
new claims about the use of such weapons, what former U.S. Army Colonel
Lawrence Wilkerson told Current TV on May 3 bears noting.
A
longtime military intimate of U.S. General Colin Powell, and later his
chief of staff when Powell was secretary of state under “W” Bush,
Wilkerson said his intelligence sources dismissed claims at that time
that Assad’s military had used chemical weapons against terrorist
forces.
Having loomed over Assad for months, that charge has
been reinvigorated and the media revels in the possibility the U.S. will
now attack Syria. However, the Los Angeles Times reported August 27
that Germany’s Focus magazine—citing a former Israeli intelligence
official—said Israel was the primary source for current charges about
Syria’s alleged use of chemical warfare.
Noting “U.S.
intelligence sources long have relied on Israel to help provide
intelligence about Syria” the Times didn’t mention it was also Israel
that previously supplied the Bush administration much of the false data
about supposed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which provided the
pretext for the invasion of that Arab republic.*
The mainstream
media carefully suppresses the fact that—as demanded by the Israeli
lobby in Washington—U.S. tax dollars (underwriting Israeli covert
expertise) instigated the rebellion against Assad that led to the civil
war that U.S. blood and treasure are now expected to resolve in a manner
satisfactory to Israel.
Although the media suggests the
Pentagon is eager for war on Syria, the fact is that—just as before the
Iraq war when multiple military leaders were warning of the dangers of
such a venture—top brass are likewise urging restraint vis-à-vis Syria.
Even Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey recently told
Congress that U.S. intervention in Syria would not be in America’s
interests.
Yet, despite widespread public opposition to war,
many Republicans and Democrats alike—bankrolled by pro-Israel campaign
contributors—are clamoring for action.
* See THE GOLEM: Israel’s Nuclear Hell Bomb and the Road to Global Armageddon for more data on this little-known scandal.
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and radio show host. He has spoken in Russia, Malaysia, Iran, Abu
Dhabi, Japan, Canada and the U.S.
"Israel, everyone agrees, is an established nuclear weapon state. It was the sixth nation in the world—and the first in the Middle East—to develop and acquire nuclear weapons. Indeed, while exact figures are speculative, Israel's nuclear forces are believed to be (in qualitative terms at least) more like those of France and the United Kingdom than India's and Pakistan's. Yet Israel's code of conduct and discourse in the nuclear field differs distinctly from the other established nuclear weapon states. Unlike the seven acknowledged nuclear nations—the five de jure nuclear weapon states under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) (the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, and China) and the two de facto nuclear weapon states outside the NPT (India and Pakistan)—Israel has never advertised or even admitted its nuclear status __ Nobody—in or out of Israel—cares to ask Israeli leaders uncomfortable questions about the nation's nuclear status... In Washington, and subsequently in other Western capitals, the Israeli bomb has become a most sensitive issue, almost untouchable ... under which the United States treats Israel as a special (and unique) nuclear case. Under this policy, the United States has exercised its diplomatic influence and power to ignore and shield the Israeli case. Israel is treated as an exception, somehow exempt from the nonproliferation regime that applies to everyone else. Friends and foes of Israel (and of the United States) have to reckon with this aura of exceptionalism. For friends it is a matter of political embarrassment; for foes it highlights the double standard and inequality of America's unevenhanded approach to non-proliferation."
—Israeli historian Avner Cohen "The Last Taboo: Israel's Bomb Revisited" Current History - April 2005 (in Michael Collins Piper's The Golem)
‘Back Story’ on Putin-Obama Deal: Plug Pulled on Israel, Warmongers • Zionists up in arms that peaceful solutions to Mideast problems being considered
By Mark Glenn
NEW
YORK, N.Y.—To say it has been a month of political roller coasters
powerful enough to give even the most seasoned veterans a case of severe
whiplash is an understatement. This all culminated when the U.S.
president, for the first time in three-and-a-half decades, telephoned
the newly elected Iranian president on Sept. 27 to discuss firsthand the
future of the two countries they lead.
September began with the
possibility of yet another military disaster in the Middle East for
Israel’s benefit. By all appearances, a nagging Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu had finally gotten on President Barack Obama’s last
nerve and pushed him into doing what he had resisted doing for the last
four years—war with Syria.
The calls for war were built around
circumstantial evidence implicating the Syrian government led by Bashar
al-Assad in a chemical weapons attack that took place in a suburb of
Damascus on Aug. 21. Secretary of State John Kerry was out in front,
accusing the Syrian military of gassing its own people. Ghastly videos
of children dying were quickly posted to the Internet for the world to
see, and estimates of the death toll escalated to more than 1,400
Syrians.
It was Iraq all over again. In spite of weak proof that the
Syrian military was actually behind the attack, it looked as
thoughWashington had made up its mind and was going to war whether or
not the Assad regime was responsible or not.
With up-to-the-minute
news reports featuring U.S. military assets steaming toward the Syrian
coast, the drama was breathlessly reported by the mainstream media.
And
then, almost as quickly as it all started, the shouts for war ended
abruptly. Suddenly, Obama announced there would be nomilitary action
without Congress being brought in, just as the Constitution demands.
Of
course, even themost politically naive would have a hard time leaving
out of this curious political equation the fact that a few days before
Obama had suddenly became a conscientious constitutionalist he and other
world leaders met in St. Petersburg, Russia for the G20 conference.
Equally difficult would be dismissing the possibility of Obama having
discussed the messy business of Syria with Russian President Vladimir
Putin, who up to this point had made it clear that, when it came to a
war with Syria, “nyet” means “nyet” and that his country was not going
to sit by as another Middle Eastern country was bombed into oblivion by
the United States.
However, even the most optimistic watchers of
politics found it hard to believe that the Russian president could rein
in the lawless America. After all, Putin does not control the U.S.
Congress, the U.S. media or the U.S. financial system like Netanyahu’s
kith-n-kin. Jewish groups around the globe have made it clear that wars
in the Middle East are vital for the continued survival of Israel.
It
was against this backdrop that the crazy notion of an American
president calling his Iranian counterpart on the phone actually took
place on the last Friday in September, despite 34 years of silence
between the two offices.
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (third from right; shown with members
of the Israeli delegation), addressed the UN secretary general (not
shown) during
the UN General Assembly in New York on Oct. 1. Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s belief
that only tough sanctions and a “credible
military threat” would force Iran to bow
before Israel’s will. He also
said Israel was not afraid to bomb Iran alone if he felt
it necessary.STAN HONDASTAN HONDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The mainstream media
was in an uproar over the phone call. Fox News headlined its report:
“Netanyahu decries Iran’s Rouhani as ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing.’” The
Washington Post titled its article:
“Worries about the Rouhani phone
call.” And The New York Times printed this bizarre story: “Iranians
Welcome Home Rouhani With Protest.”
However, Obama’s gesture in
reaching out to Rouhani and intimating that a deal could be struck
between the two nations to resolve the difficult diplomatic situation
only makes sense when the events of the lastmonth involving Syria and
Russia are factored in.
By all appearances, this is exactly what has
taken place. An out-of-control America, firmly in the grip of the
Israeli lobby and its voracious appetite for war, would not restrain
itself on principles of the Constitution, the rule of law or even
thebasic tenets of right versus wrong. The U.S. establishment would only
stop the drive to war if it were trapped in a cave with a large, angry
bear that was standing in its way.
——
Mark Glenn is a
commentator and activist fluent in several languages. He is currently
based in Idaho. See more from Glenn at www.crescentandcross.com.
Fri, 08/23/2013 - 20:01
Jobbik on the conflict in Syria
Jobbik has
always spoken out against the use of weapons banned by international
law, therefore, if it is proven that such a case has indeed taken place,
our party objects to the use of poison gas in Syria as well.
However, Jobbik is worried to see the
sinister events developing in Syria as well as the systematic attempts
of the West to find a casus belli
for an armed intervention against the Assad government. Jobbik disowns
the provocation as well as the anti-Assad stance of the West and the
servile attitude of the Hungarian government that runs to rally behind
its Western allies. Jobbik also objects to the support provided for the
forces being organized against the Assad government which also represent
Islam's most extreme platforms, Wahhabism and Salafism and openly
cooperate with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations. Not only does
the West contradict itself by supporting terrorism, but subordinates
the already fragile stability of tension-ridden Middle East to its own
short-term goals.
Jobbik firmly believes that the UN
Security Council, which represents the interests of the powers that view
the Syrian conflict subjectively and in light of their own goals, is
unable to conduct a fair investigation of the gas attack. This has
already been proven ten years ago, in the case of the shameful Iraqi
invasion that was built on a smear campaign and propaganda.
Jobbik stands for the Assad government,
which enjoys the support of the overwhelming majority of the Syrian
people and has built up an economically, culturally and politically
stable country during its rule of over half a century in one of the most
complex Middle Eastern countries in terms of ethnicity and religion. We
hope that the Assad government will soon be able to stabilize the
situation and continue its governmental activity in the interest of the
Syrian people.
Márton Gyöngyösi, deputy leader of Jobbik's Parliamentary Group
Talk of deal to eliminate Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons sends jitters through Jerusalem; will Israel be next?
With Moscow and Washington now discussing a diplomatic deal that would rid Syria of its chemical weapons, officials in Jerusalem are preparing for the possibility that Israel will be asked to submit to supervision of the chemical weapons that foreign reports say it possesses.
In the past few days, Foreign Ministry officials note, senior Russian officials have repeatedly drawn a connection between Syria’s chemical weapons and Israel’s military capabilities. President Vladimir Putin, for instance, told Russian media outlets that Syria’s chemical weapons exist as a response to Israel’s military capabilities, while Russia’s ambassador to Paris told Radio France that Syria’s chemical weapons were meant to preserve its balance of deterrence against Israel, “which has nuclear weapons.”
Israel signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1993, but never ratified it. Consequently, it hasn’t agreed to submit itself to international inspections or to refrain from steps that would violate the convention.
Syria, which has one of the largest chemical weapons arsenals in the world, has never even signed the convention, nor has Egypt, which also has a chemical weapons program. Iran, which suffered chemical weapons attacks from Iraq during their war in the 1980s, signed the convention in 1993 and ratified it in 1997. Nevertheless, senior figures at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem claim that Iran secretly maintains a large stash of chemical weapons.
Both Syria and Egypt used Israel as their excuse for not signing the convention. In various international forums over the years, Syrian and Egyptian officials have said their countries would agree to sign only if Israel signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and opened its nuclear reactor in Dimona to international inspectors.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told Haaretz on Wednesday that Israel would not ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention as long as other states in the region with chemical weapons refuse to recognize Israel and threaten to destroy it.
“Unfortunately, while Israel signed the convention, other countries in the Middle East, including those that have used chemical weapons recently or in the past, or are believed to be working to improve their chemical capabilities, have failed to follow suit and have indicated that their position would remain unchanged even if Israel ratifies the convention,” Palmor said in a written statement. “Some of these states don't recognize Israel's right to exist and blatantly call to annihilate it. In this context, the chemical weapons threat against Israel and its civilian population is neither theoretical nor distant. Terror organizations, acting as proxies for certain regional states, similarly pose a chemical weapons threat. These threats cannot be ignored by Israel, in the assessment of possible ratification of the convention.”
Despite not having ratified the convention, Israel does have observer status at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international agency that monitors the convention’s implementation, and participates in many of its meetings.
In early 2010, then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman sent a letter to the OPWC’s director general saying that Israel was interested in increasing its cooperation with the organization. But he also stressed that Israel wouldn’t sign the convention until it has signed peace treaties with all its neighbors and is no longer threatened by its neighbors’ chemical weapons.
U.S. State Department cables leaked to WikiLeaks reveal that the American administration held lengthy talks with Israel about the possibility of ratifying the convention, including at a February 2007 meeting in Jerusalem between senior State Department officials and their Israeli counterparts.
An American cable summing up the meeting said that U.S. officials urged the Israelis to move forward on this issue, stressing that Israel is one of only five countries that haven’t yet ratified the convention, with the others being North Korea, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon.
Alon Bar, then director of the Foreign Ministry’s arms control department, responded that Israel signed the convention in the early 1990s, when the peace process was at its height, and that since then, the situation had changed.
Israel’s chemical weapons policy is overseen by a Defense Ministry panel comprising about 20 senior representatives from the defense establishment and the intelligence community. The committee was established in 1991, dismantled in 2007 and reconstituted in 2009. It meets every few months, but in recent years it has spent very little time discussing chemical weapons.
It's time for Israel to stop making military threats and to propose an
imaginative diplomatic move — risky as it may seem — to help ease
nuclear tensions in the Middle East.
It can start by acknowledging its own nuclear weapons program.
It
has accused Iran of seeking the capability to produce nuclear weapons,
when for years Israel has been believed to possess hundreds of nuclear
bombs and missiles, along with multiple delivery systems. It continues
to insist it doesn't have them.
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders continue to accuse Tehran
of deceit in describing its nuclear program as peaceful.
Perhaps
Netanyahu sees Iran following the path Israel took 50 years ago when
it's known that his country joined the relatively small nuclear weapons
club.
Back in the 1960s, Israel apparently hid the nuclear
weapons program being carried on at its Negev Nuclear Research Center
(NNRC) at Dimona. It deceived not only the international community but
also its close U.S. ally. It repeatedly pledged "it would not be the
first to introduce nuclear weapons into the area."
In early
1966, at the time of a U.S. sale of F-4 fighter-bombers to Israel, the
Johnson administration insisted that Israel reaffirm that pledge.
"Foreign Minister Abba Eban told Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara that Israel did not intend to build nuclear weapons, 'so we
will not use your aircraft to carry weapons we haven't got and hope we
will never have,'" according to the State Department's Foreign
Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XVIII.
Sound
familiar? Maybe that's why Netanyahu was so tough Tuesday during his
U.N. General Assembly speech when attacking Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani's statements that Tehran's nuclear program is peaceful. When
the Israeli prime minister asked, "Why would a country that claims to
only want peaceful nuclear energy, why would such a country build
hidden underground enrichment facilities?" I thought Dimona.
According
to the bipartisan, Washington-based, Nuclear Threat Initiative, the
Machon 2 facility at Dimona "is reportedly the most sensitive building
in the NNRC, with six floors underground dedicated to activities
identified as plutonium extraction, production of tritium and
lithium-6," for use in nuclear weapons.
So, along with
easing up on the threats, what else could Israel be doing, perhaps with
U.S. support? After all, since the 1960s, Washington has gone along
with this idea of never openly acknowledging Israel's nuclear weapons.
What
about following the recent example of Russia and Syria? After Russian
President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad both
refused to acknowledge Syria having chemical weapons, they did what
Americans would call "a flip-flop." They admitted that such weapons
existed and that Damascus would join the Chemical Weapons Convention
and destroy the whole program.
Inspection teams from the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are on the ground
in Syria. (...)
Perhaps it's time to drop the facade hiding
Israel's nuclear weapons program from the public, since Washington and
the Israeli government say more transparency is one of the goals
sought when dealing with Iran's nuclear program. It then might be
easier to revive a once-planned conference on a Middle East nuclear
free zone, linking it to progress made guaranteeing that Tehran's
program remains peaceful.
No doubt, there would be risk. Israel must ask itself if it is a chance worth taking.
Un Moyen-Orient sans nucléaire et sans armes chimiques, c'est pas
Israël qui veut ça, c'est la Syrie et l'Iran. Israël a accumulé un
important arsenal chimique et nucléaire soi-disant pour assurer sa
survie. En voyant Israel faire ça et les
menacer en plus, les autres pays qui environnent Israel ont
été forcés de se procurer un arsenal eux aussi, pour parer à la menace
d'un Israël menaçant et
doté d'armes chimiques et nucléaires.
U.S.: Singling out Israel at UN would harm efforts for nuclear-free Middle East
En fait c'est précisément l'inverse qui est vrai: s'attarder sur le cas d'Israel est la clé pour faire du Moyen-orient une zone sans nucléaire! Car c'était précisément à cause de l'arsenal nucléaire israélien que les pays voisins ont senti la nécessité de se procurer des armes chimiques!
(...)Fayçal al-Maqdad, le vice-ministre syrien des AE, a balayé les
accusations occidentales, rappelant avec ironie le flacon présenté en
2003 par Colin Powell, le secrétaire d’État américain, représentant la
preuve d’armes chimiques que Saddam Hussein était sur le point
d’utiliser pour exterminer son peuple.
Pour lui, ce sont les groupes
islamistes qui auraient employé le gaz sarin que les États-Unis leur
ont livré, dès lors qu’ils ont vu que ces terroristes perdaient du
terrain. Aucune obligation morale de cette sorte n’est, cependant,
invoquée à l’égard d’Israël, pays qui détient le plus important stock
d’armes chimiques biologiques et nucléaires au Moyen-Orient, et qui est
le seul État à ne pas avoir signé le traité de non-prolifération
nucléaire. Ce n’est pas simplement qu’Israël possède un important
arsenal d’armes chimiques. Il s’en est servi contre les Palestiniens en
Cisjordanie et à Gaza : après l’éclatement de la deuxième Intifadha, il y
a eu plusieurs incidents rapportés de soldats israéliens utilisant un
“gaz inconnu” contre les Palestiniens, en particulier durant une
campagne de six semaines, par les forces militaires israéliennes à Gaza,
durant l’opération Plomb endurci.
Le secret des gaz israéliens Ce sont les recherches israéliennes sur les armes chimiques et biologiques qui ont poussé historiquement la Syrie à rejeter la Convention interdisant les armes chimiques. C’est pourquoi la signature par Damas de ce document risque de mettre en lumière l’existence, et éventuellement la poursuite, de recherches sur des armes sélectives destinées à tuer les seules populations arabes.
Glenn Beck: " I Personally Am Calling for the Impeachment of the President of the United States "
Les
sionistes se servent des révélations sur l'appui US envers Al-Qaïda en
Syrie pour attaquer Obama et
demander sa destitution (comme pour l'affaire Snowden). Comme si
c'était lui qui voulait aller en guerre... Les sionistes vont toujours
trouver le moyen de blâmer Obama peu importe ce qu'il fait: s'il va pas
en guerre c'est sa faute, s'il y va, c'est sa faute: "Damned if
you do and damned if you don't." Faites attention au discours qui s'en
prend à l'appui des USA envers al-Qaïda car cela peut aussi servir, de
manière détournée, les plans d'Israël qui aime brandir constamment le
spectre des "islamistes".
Ça
montre que pour eux, il faut que les USA soient intimidants et face
l'étalage de sa puissance en faisant des guerres et en inspirant la
terreur dans le monde. Les USA sont leur "police mondiale", c'est leur
Golem, leur assurance-vie! Si les USA ne font pu peur à personne, les
juifs se croient vulnérables et sans défense!
Guerres impérialistes: Seule la guerre permanente fait survivre Israël… Un analyste politique dit que le régime israélien a besoin de
déclencher des guerres à travers le monde, spécifiquement au
Moyen-Orient, s’il veut assurer sa survie et demeurer le récepteur
principal de l’aide financière et militaire américaine, rapporte Press
TV
Israel better off with Arab tyrants Op-ed: In the name of our egoistic interest,we only want dictators in our neighborhood. Let Washington deal with democracy and freedom of expression.
Quel
aveu! C'est ça que je dis depuis longtemps. Israel veut juste des
méchants arabes excités autour de lui, pour lui servir de repoussoir.
Car si Israel est entouré d'États modérés et pleins de bon sens, c'est
Israel qui passe pour le méchant.