(Grantland) wrote:
- and no doubt, less visibly perhaps, in Iran and Syria. And
elsewhere. The Jews want Christian fighting Druze fighting Shiite
fighting Sunni.. and all the rest. They want Persians fighting Arab,
Muslims fighting Christians and Hindus, "Westerners" fighting
"Terrorists" globally - they want chaos. This is what the Jews want.
And it makes no difference whether it's the Jews who control America,
or Britain or Israel who are doing this, or whether the Jews of
Britain or Australia or France are more "moderate" or less obvious
than the overt Nazi Sharon and his goons. They are all Jews - that is
all that matters.
I say again: Civil War is Madness, Suicide - Betrayal of yourself your
Family and your People and your Country AND YOUR GOD!
The Jew is the enemy, and the only enemy.
Grantland
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=28769
K.Nimmo: Israel/US bent on carving up Arab states
Nimmo is pointing to the most important issue involving US/Israeli
pressure on Syria: namely creating the conditions for a new civil war,
roughly analogous to what is happening in Iraq. He links to Leupp's
important interview in Counterpunch. I'm just wondering why he gets so
optimistic half way through. The forces of chaos are in the saddle.
--RB
http://www.kurtnimmo.com/blog/
The “Hezbollah Model” in Lebanon and Iraq
March 05, 2005
If you want to get a handle on the situation in Lebanon, read Gary
Leupp's interview with Fadi K. Agha, the foreign policy advisor to
president Emil Lahoud. Agha's take on the situation—almost completely
at variance with the view presented by the corporate media here in the
United States—is a short primer on Lebanese history, Hezbollah,
Strausscon intentions, and Israeli aggression.
As Israel Shahak wrote in the preface of Oded Yinon's “A Strategy for
Israel in the Nineteen Eighties,” Israel has a burning desire to
fragment “all Arab states into smaller units,” in other words
balkanize the whole of the Arab and Muslim Middle East. Israel's
second invasion of Lebanon in 1982 was but one operation of a larger
plan to “see not only Lebanon, but Syria and Jordan as well, in
fragments… What they want and what they are planning for is not an
Arab world, but a world of Arab fragments that is ready to succumb to
Israeli hegemony,” a plan shared by the Bush Strausscons.
Oded Yinon writes in his report: “Lebanon's total dissolution into
five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world
including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already
following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into
ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon.”
Israel's invasion of Lebanon essentially created Hezbollah and the
“Hezbollah model,” for lack of a better term, and this model will
ultimately stymie the Likudite and Strausscon plan to balkanize the
Arab and Muslim Middle East. As Agha notes, Hezbollah “lead to the
first Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab lands UNDER DURESS. This,
and the fact that Hezbollah has been emblematic of a ‘culture of
resistance’ in the Middle East, has never been forgiven.” In fact, the
current Likudite-Strausscon machination—beginning with the murder of
Rafiq al-Hariri and the fabricated “Cedar revolution” now emerging—is
aimed at Hezbollah because the defeat of Israel as it attempted to
implement the plan detailed by Oded Yinon “has never been forgiven.”
The “Hezbollah model,” currently underway in Iraq—with important
differences—has demonstrated that popular resistance can defeat the
Likudite-Strausscon plan as outlined by Yinon.
Agha writes:
Tel Aviv, will not miss an opportunity to blame any calamity that
befalls it on Syria and Hezballah. The sad part is that Israel
produces “evidences” that are always “bought” in Washington. Listen,
Israel remains the only world occupying force who gets away with
murder. Constantly blaming Syria, Hezbollah … is a sorry attempt by
Tel Aviv to shift the blame for its unsuccessful policy of “security
first.” Basically, one need not be a wizard to determine that a
despaired people, a humiliated people a people in CONSTANT MOURNING,
will go to any length in extracting vengeance from those who dislocate
, humiliate and murder his brethren.
And this is where the Likudite-Strausscon plan breaks down: humiliated
people will always resist invasion and occupation, as they did in
Vietnam and Algeria, to name but two of the more obvious examples.
Arabs and Muslims are no longer so easily diverted by the “divide and
rule” tactics used by colonial powers in the last century, as the
ongoing struggle against occupation in Iraq demonstrates. Bush and
Sharon want the Syrian military to leave Lebanon and thus usher in a
return to the sectarian strife and civil war that worked so well in
their favor in the not too distant past. Israel and the United States
hope for a “Cedar revolution” government in Lebanon that will
disenfranchise and demilitarize Hezbollah. However, this will not
happen—although the Hezbollah political party may eventually be
ejected from parliamentary politics—the struggle against Israeli
aggression will continue and the resistance against American
occupation of Iraq will increase and intensify until the United States
suffers the fate the Israelis suffered in Lebanon in 2000—total defeat
and evacuation with its tail tucked between its legs.
By Robert Fisk in Beirut
07 March 2005
Lebanon confronts a nightmare today. As the Syrian army begins its
withdrawal from the country this morning, after mounting pressure from
President George Bush - whose anger at the Syrians has been provoked
by the insurgency against American troops in Iraq - there are growing
signs that the Syrian retreat is reopening the sectarian divisions of
the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war.
The first Syrian units are expected to cross the Lebanese-Syrian
border at Masnaa before midday and their military redeployment should
be completed by Wednesday.
To the outside world, this may seem a victory devoutly to be wished:
just two weeks after the murder of the former prime minister Rafik
Hariri - a prominent opponent of the Syrian presence in Lebanon - the
army of Damascus is pulling out of the country it has dominated for 29
long years. At last, free elections might be held in Lebanon, further
proof that - thanks to Mr Bush - democracy is breaking out across the
Arab world. Iraq held elections, Saudi Arabia held local elections,
President Hosni Mubarak promises a contended election for the
presidency of Egypt. So why shouldn't Lebanon be happy?
Have we forgotten 150,000 dead? Have we forgotten the Western
hostages? Have we forgotten the 241 Americans who died in the suicide
bombing of 23 October 1983? This democracy, if it comes, will be
drenched with blood - but the blood will be that of the Lebanese who
live here, not that of the foreigners who wish to bestow freedom upon
them.
Alas, this is a dark corner of the former Ottoman empire - whose First
World War defeat allowed the French to create Lebanon out of part of
Syria - which rests precariously upon an understanding between its
Christian, Sunni, Shia and Druze inhabitants. All factions came
together to mourn Hariri. But now, at night, most - though by no means
all - of the demonstrators in Martyrs' Square who have demanded a
Syrian withdrawal are Christian Maronites. Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the
chairman of the Hizbollah Shia guerrilla movement, a loyal if somewhat
unwilling Syrian ally which drove the Israelis out of Lebanon in 2000,
called yesterday for a massive demonstration close to Martyrs' Square
tomorrow - to support the "unity and independence" of Lebanon, but
also to thank the Syrians for their "protection" of Lebanon. Mr
Nasrallah invited Christians and every other religious group to join
their demonstration. But most of those present are bound to be Shias -
who, like their co-religionists in Iraq - are the largest community in
the country.
Thousands of Lebanese now fear that when the Syrians do leave, they
may be asked to pay a price for this: that in the absence of these
"sisterly" Syrian soldiers, civil conflict might suddenly -
mysteriously - return to Lebanon.
On Saturday night, a few dozen members of the Lebanese Baath party
turned up in the Christian Sassine Square area of Beirut and two shots
were fired in the air. The Lebanese army quickly suppressed this
apparently pro-Syrian demonstration (no arrests were made). Was this
because their leader happens to be the Lebanese - and equally
pro-Syrian - minister of Labour?
How swiftly a Middle Eastern country which had become a bedrock of
financial stability and security - even for thousands of new Western
tourists - can fall into the abyss. Within 24 hours of Hariri's
murder, hundreds of Saudi landowners were closing their properties in
Lebanon - after paying their condolences to Hariri.
The Central Bank has announced that the Lebanese pound is secure; but
it has spent almost $2bnsupporting the pound, at 1,500 Lebanese pounds
to the US dollar, in the past fortnight - and Lebanon has a $32bn
(£17bn) public debt which only Hariri's international reputation might
have salvaged. Then there came Syrian President Bashar Assad's speech
to the parliament in Damascus on Saturday evening in which he referred
to those Lebanese who were loyal to Syria and those who were on
"shifting sands".
Did the latter include Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader and erstwhile
Syrian ally, who suddenly departed for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on
Saturday, and who personally told me that he was probably next on
Syria's hit list after Hariri?
A UN team is investigating Hariri's death - Hizbollah's Nasrallah gave
them his full support yesterday - and the Lebanese government insists
it has searched every nook and cranny for evidence of the culprits.
Problem: three more bodies have been discovered at the scene of the
bombing in the two weeks since the attack. Hungry cats and the stench
of death revealed two of them; which doesn't say much for the
detective work of the government authorities so keen to solve the
murder.
President Assad said that 63 per cent of Syria's army in Lebanon had
been withdrawn since 2000 and that the "international media" had paid
no attention to this. He was right. Mr Nasrallah, in his press
conference in Beirut yesterday, said the American demands for the
withdrawal of the Syrians and the disarmament of the Hizbollah itself
were "a photocopy" of Israel's plans for Lebanon. He, too, was right.
But here is the real problem. The Syrians and Hizbollah say that
Syrian forces are withdrawing from Lebanon under the terms of the
inter-Arab 1989 Taif agreement which ended the civil war here.
This called for a Syrian withdrawal from Beirut - already accomplished
by the Syrian army but not by its intelligence services - to the
Mdeirej ridge in the mountains east of Beirut, and then to the Bekaa
Valley and, after talks with the Lebanese and Syrian governments, to
Syria itself.
UN Security Council resolution 1559 calls for pretty much the same -
but also for the disarmament of the Hizbollah guerrilla movement in
southern Lebanon, which still attacks the Israelis in the Shebaa farms
area, which belonged to Lebanon under French mandate law but which has
been occupied by the Israelis since 1967.
Tomorrow, the Hizbollah will be supporting Taif because it called for
national unity and arranged for an orderly Syrian withdrawal - but
didn't mention the disarmament of the guerrillas. The Hizbollah will
be against their own disarmament. They will be against UN resolution
1559. And they will be only 500 yards from the Hariri demonstrations.
The Hariri protesters, who at the least deserve to know who killed a
man who wanted to rebuild Lebanon and who never had a militia - in
other words, he never had blood on his hands - will stage yet another
demonstration tomorrow, from the crater of the bomb which killed him,
to his grave before the ugly mosque he built in central Beirut.
But yet again, Lebanon risks becoming a battlefield for the wars of
non-Lebanese.
For 30 years, America has tolerated - even supported - Syria's
military presence in Lebanon. In 1976, both the Israelis and the
Americans wanted Syrian troops in Lebanon - because they would be able
to "control" the 300,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon - but now Mr
Bush's real concern is Syria's supposed support for the insurgency in
Iraq.
The irony is extraordinary: 140,000 American troops occupy Iraq - we
shall leave the Israeli occupation forces in Palestinian lands out of
this equation - while their President demands the withdrawal of 14,000
Syrian troops from Lebanon.
Democracy indeed!
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