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Warning to Jews (and Americans) -- Fear The Wrath of God |
Weekend Edition
July 29/30 2006
"A Real Friend of Israel Wishes Its Army a Sound Defeat in South
Lebanon"
Friends, True and False
By ISRAEL SHAMIR
This essay ends with a warning to Jews--"Fear The Wrath of God." This
warning applies also in my opinion to the American people.
After two weeks, the war settled down comfortably in the Middle East,
like an old aunt on a regular visit to her nephews. It came to stay for
a while, and as the first shock of the battle for Lebanon is over, the
picture clears up. First, the news. Despite awesome, crushing might of
the Israeli onslaught, despite its unprecedented viciousness and
brutality, the steadfast warriors of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah kept their
ground. The blitzkrieg planned by Tel Aviv strategists grinded to a
halt in the low hills of Maroun Ras, came to naught in the streets of
Bint Jbail. If in 1982, during previous Israeli invasion, the Jewish
tanks crossed Litani River within 48 hours, now their advance is
counted in single yards.
An old but fearsome weapon forged by the Russians in the days of their
fateful struggle with Germans, and named after a girl's name, Katyusha,
keeps fretting the always-so-safe Israeli hinterland all the way to
Haifa. Israeli Apache gunships and navy's Saar warships, best Merkaba
tanks were met with precise missiles. The frustrated invader covered
the roads and villages of Lebanon with hundreds of charred bodies of
Lebanese children; but remarkably few fighters of Hezbollah were killed
or taken prisoner. They wield a secret weapon: it's the first ever Arab
body the Jews failed to infiltrate. Israeli intelligence did not know
what weapons they have and what plans they prepare. Hezbollah warriors
did not oblige the Jews and did not commit suicide a-calling "Allah is
Great": they fight, defeating the enemy and destroying the twin myth of
Israeli invulnerability and Arab impotence.
Importance of their stand can't be over estimated: if Lebanon were
overrun with little resistance, Israeli tanks would keep rolling to
Damascus, and Israeli jets soar to Teheran. This is the wish of the
American neocons (or should it be spelled neo-Cohns?). William Kristol
speaks plainly: "For while Syria and Iran are enemies of Israel, they
are also enemies of the United States. We might consider countering
this act of Iranian aggression with a military strike against Iranian
nuclear facilities. Why wait? Does anyone think a nuclear Iran can be
contained?" Michael Ledeen supports him: "You cannot escape the
mullahs. You must either defeat them or submit to their terrible
vision." Larry Kudlow is sure of victory: "It will take the U.S.
andIsrael about 35 minutes to knock out the entire Iranian navy and
airforce... Now is the time to really put the squeeze on Syria's
dictator, Baby Assad." The neocons have a good reason to push for war
now: their positions in the US administration weakened recently, and
first signs of goy rebellion materialised in the paper on Jewish Lobby.
A good war will return them into full power in Washington.
The Israeli attack on Damascus and Teheran still can take place, but
every day the Lebanese hold out diminishes the chances of a regional
war. A troublesome word "defeat" is being sounded on Israeli TV:
"bogged down in Lebanon" is the old nightmare of Israelis who had this
experience and do not cherish to repeat. A "defeat in Lebanon" is quite
a limited defeat: it will not lead the victor to Haifa, but will teach
the Israelis some modesty. That is why in this war, a real friend of
Israel wishes his army a sound defeat in South Lebanon, a defeat that
will return the boys home and will keep the generals outof seeking
adventures for a good while. A false friend of Israel would wish an
Israeli victory, a victory that will lead to Teheran, to nuclear war,
to mass destruction and death. While the false friends, the US Jews,
marched supporting the Lebanese adventure, the true friends, Israelis,
marched the streets of Tel Aviv denouncing their leaders' war crimes.
As an Israeli I can't rejoice when Haifa is shelled and Tel Aviv is
threatened. There are too many innocents who cannot discern between
their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle. However, I
can't condemn it either, for this bitter medicine can help where
soft-spoken sermons failed. The missiles of Hezbollah may yet sober up
the Israeli minds and break their addiction to might. Likewise, a good
German could pray for his compatriots' defeat in Holland in 1940 for
this rout would save them from the tragedy of 1945.
The Germans were too strong for their own good. This excessive might
led them to disaster. Now the same fate is prepared for Israel.
Excessive might is no better than lack of it: might intoxicates and
destroys. This war is a good illustration: a minor skirmish was turned
into a great battle and massive destruction of nature and cities
because of excessive strength of Israel. Small border incidents happen
all over the world, but they do not cause such excesses. If Israel were
wiser, it would understand the response caused by their brutality
towards Gaza. If Israel were weaker, it would reply with a
similarattack. But it is too stupid and too strong for its own good.
The Jews incessantly repeat their old errors. In AD 66, almost two
thousand years ago, the Jews made a mighty deed: they defeated the XII
Legion of Cestius Gallus. It was as incredible as the Six Days War, for
Roman legions were not an easy prey. The Jews were carried away by this
feat, and rather vaingloriously thought that God will fight for them.
But God had other plans, and by AD 70, Jerusalem and its temple were
destroyed. Now, again, the Jews are intoxicated by their military
prowess, by obedience of the US and EU, by their control over
media.Their arrogance and brutality lead them to disaster, for after
this Rape of Gaza and Rape of Lebanon, even the most tolerant man of
the Middle East will come to the conclusion the Romans came to 2000
years ago: there can be no peace in the area as long as the Jewish
state exists. After experiencing the neocon rule, this conclusion will
beshared by the Americans.
Another error the Jews repeat is an error of mistreating the native
people. After the Hasmonean victory over Seleukids, the victory
described in the biblical Books of Maccabees, they took over Palestine.
Their first deed was expulsion of the native population of Caesarea and
its repopulation by Jews. There was a Nakba even then. In those days,
the natives of Palestine had no power plants, so the Jews had to be
satisfied with destruction of their temples. In order to become Light
Unto Nations, the Jews had to put the Nations into complete Darkness,
and so they did. Hundred years of Jewish absolute rule (168-68 BC) were
the most horrible times for the country, and the Roman general Pompey
the Great was met as a liberator when he subdued the Jews and limited
their power to Jerusalem and a few other areas.
"The strong are never absolutely strong, nor are the weak absolutely
weak. Those who have Might on loan from fate count on it too much and
are destroyed. Might is as pitiless to the man who possesses it (or
thinks he does) as it is to its victims. The second it crushes, the
first it intoxicates", wrote Simone Weil, the French philosopher and
divine who witnessed the great intoxication of Might called World War
Two. She referred to the Trojan War when she extracted this sublime
lesson from the Iliad: "The human race is not divided up, in the Iliad,
into conquered and conquerors. There is no refuge from fate; learn not
to admire Might, not to hate the enemy, not to scorn the vanquished".
"This is not a war, but anti-terrorist campaign; Israel fights the
terrorists of Hezbollah", says the Jewish media. But hundreds of
burned-out buildings, destroyed bridges and power stations, killed
women and children, strafed refugees refute this oldest PR trick.
Napoleon claimed he fights Mamluks, not the Porte, but the Empire sent
its troops down to Palestine and he had to escape deserting his
soldiers. Adolf Hitler claimed he fights "communists", not Russia, but
Russians united around Stalin and foiled the trick. George Bush claimed
he fights Saddam Hussein, not Iraq, and thousands of dead American
soldiers disproved the lie. Now the Lebanese rejected the line, saying:
this is a Jewish war against Lebanon. A total war against its citizens;
its motto expressed by Israeli Generalissimo Halutz: "For every rocket
we shall destroy ten high rise buildings in Beirut". And the Lebanese
understood it; they did not take the Jewish bait of condemning
Hezbollah. They felt that Hezbollah represents them, is an integral
part of Lebanon. The Lebanese army should take its place next to
Hezbollah - this would completely derail the plans of the invader.
The Jews bombed even Ashrafieh, the well-off Maronite suburb of Beirut,
which led the movement for removal of the Syrian army from Lebanon.
"Haram, ya Ashrafieh", sorry for you. Your folly was visited on you too
soon. Weak and rude as they were, the Syrians would protect your
heavens from the black vultures from South. You are like a lamb that
rejected your nasty old shepherd and was swiftly fleeced by a wolf. The
dream of independent Lebanon was just an illusion produced by Masters
of Dreams. The concept of independence does not work: Lebanon would be
better off as an integral and autonomous part of Syria; Syria would be
better off in union with Iraq, Jordan, Palestine. The Ottoman Empire
had to be transformed into a Commonwealth of the East, not destroyed,
for united we stand, divided we fall.
France bears heavy responsibility for the destruction of Lebanon. It
was France that forced the Syrians out of Lebanon. The US, this obvious
enemy of Arabs, won't be able to do it without support of Paris. By
removing the Syrian protector, France came under moral obligation to
defend Beirut. "You are forever responsible for those you tamed", said
the Fox to the Little Prince in Saint-Exup=E9ry's story, and France
tamed Lebanon. The sad and racist sight of evacuation of foreign
nationals should be replaced by another one: by landing of French
battle troops, not as UN or NATO peacekeepers, but as outright
defenders of Lebanon. They know the way: in 1860, when the Druze ran
amok, the French soldiers landed and restored peace by repulsing the
aggressor. They can repeat this deed; if the French would fight,
shoulder-to-shoulder with the Lebanese against the Jewish invader, it
will bring peace to the Middle East and to France.
Some Arab countries betrayed their brotherly duty. Egypt, Saudi Arabia
and Jordan condemned - not the Jewish aggressor, but the resister,
Hezbollah. The Gulf countries did nothing to save Lebanon.They should
be ashamed for their treachery. Indeed, they could repeat the
successful oil embargo of 1974 and force Europe to pull back the crazed
Zionist pit bull. Hezbollah's brave and staunch resistance is a sign of
honour for the fighters and a sign of shame for other Arab leaders.
They should remember that those who betrayed Palestine were punished:
King Faruk was overthrown, while King Abdullah was assassinated. The
longer the war lasts, the bigger is the chance for these leaders to be
removed by their peoples. This is a strong reason against seeking
cease-fire.
Hezbollah are the true heroes of the Middle East. Not because of their
might, but because of their compassion. They are the only ones who felt
compassion with the plight of Palestinians. They did not remain
indifferent observers at the Rape of Gaza - they tried to stop the
violator with their modest means, like England protested the German
conquest of Poland. Compassion and solidarity are more important than
sovereignty.
For this reason we can't condemn the Hezbollah fighters or even"both
sides". A Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin (1883-1954) made a clear
distinction (in his Resistance to Evil By Force) between the violator
and the resister.
The Violator says to his victim: =AByou are given unto my power=BB,while
the Resister replies to the violator: =AByou destroy and will be
destroyed, desist! Here I put the end to your tyranny".
Indeed, the Jews tried to dominate Palestinians so completely, they
tortured them so freely and without remorse, that a Resister had to
appear. In face of shameful obedience of the rest of Arabs, fighters of
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah deserve praise. They were the first opponents
who dared Israeli rules of the game and took the war to the Jewish
territory, as until now, the enemies of Israel obeyed its sanctity.
Even in 1948 the armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq
did not cross the borders of the Jewish state, and were satisfied with
securing the territories given by the UN to the Palestinian Arab State.
In 1967-1971 Nasser's Egypt did not dare to send even one bomber jet to
Tel Aviv, though Israeli air force bombed and strafed the Egyptian
cities. Thanks to Sheikh Nasrallah cities of Israel experienced -
though in homeopathic doses - the feelings of Gaza and Beirut.
Let us hope this experience will destroy the Jewish superiority
complex, so that the people of Israel will come out of it - more
modest, more willing to compromise, more considerate to their
neighbours. The present Luck of Jews dangerously reminds a Friedrich
Schiller's poem (based on a story by Herodotus) that of extremely lucky
Polycrates. His guest was worried for such run of luck is likely to end
in disaster. He begged Polycrates to take his most valuable ring and
throw it in the sea, and so he did. But next morning, a fisherman came
to his court to present him with a huge fish he had caught. When the
fish was cut open, the precious ring was in its stomach. "The guest
with terror turned away. "I cannot here, then, longer stay, The gods
have willed that thou shouldst die Lest I, too, perish, I must fly" And
indeed, Polycrates suffered a terrible reversal of fate and was
crucified by the Persians.
Israel is too lucky by far. Her generals are guilty of the worst war
crime, that of aggression. They kill with impunity and get hailed by
their American vassals. Now they targeted the UN and killed some of
peacekeepers, but no worry, nobody will begrudge them. Israeli
Ambassador in the UN already demanded an apology from spineless Annan
and I sure he will get it. The Jews have nothing to fear - but the
leading Orthodox churchmen, the Greek Archbishop Christodoulos o f
Athens and the Palestinian Archbishop Theodosios Atallah Hanna of
Sebaste reminded them: "Do not provoke our consciences. Do not feed the
world condemnation against you. Fear God's wrath."
http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir07292006.html
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| Title: Re: Warning to Jews (and Americans) -- Fear The Wrath of God |
29 Jul 2006 04:08:33 PM |
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peace.seeker.27 wrote:
Weekend Edition
July 29/30 2006
"A Real Friend of Israel Wishes Its Army a Sound Defeat in South
Lebanon"
Friends, True and False
By ISRAEL SHAMIR
This essay ends with a warning to Jews--"Fear The Wrath of God." This
warning applies also in my opinion to the American people. ...
http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir07292006.html
Here is the background to my hostility towards Israel Shamir, who also
writes under the names of Schmerlin, Robert David, Vassili Krasevsky
and J=F6ran Jermas. I cannot vouch for which of these is the real Israel
Shamir:
Shamir is apparently a right-wing Russian journalist, who pretends to
be an Israeli Jewish leftist. He claims to live in Jaffa, and may well
have a home there, but he also seems to live in Sweden. He uses a
Swedish email address, and his website used to be hosted there. His son
was deported from Israel to Sweden, and when Shamir tried to sell Nazi
memorabilia to David Irving, he wrote to him from 16 Dalagatan,
Stockholm, phone and fax (468) 335186.
His CV reads like a work of fantasy-grandson of a rabbi, Israeli
paratrooper, graduate in law and maths, translated Agnon, Herzog, Joyce
and the Talmud into Russian, parliamentary spokesman for Mapam, worked
for the BBC. "He also managed to find time to translate a number of
Japanese classics."
I don't believe a word of it. According to the Jerusalem Post (August
15, 1991), he denounced Sakharov in the right-wing Russian press as a
"Zionist agent," while at the same time, in the Hebrew press and
under another name, denouncing Solzhenitsyn and his circle as
"enemies of the Jewish people." He appeared in Israel, as if from
nowhere, at the beginning of the Intifada, writing well-received
articles, in which his hidden agenda became more and more overt. From
the beginning, it was clear to those who could read critically that he
was a Christian evangelist rather than a left activist. ...
http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/sept_04/sept_04_22.html
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