Twenty-two days into this nightmare,
and the world has reached the international version of Stalemate. This
happened in the wake of various consolidations that speak directly to the
heart of civilizations around the world. The most telling parts of this
new global chess board has arisen with the elimination of those once
functioning governments that have now shed all responsibility to protect
either their citizens and their own natural or created resources. (1)
At the turn of the Twenty-First
Century most people still thought they lived in countries that had some
authority over the lives of their own people. Most believed that their
governments had some allegiance to their own people; but the New World
Order has now succeeded in altering nearly all of that misconception. This
can be easily seen in the current stalemate. What used to be national
governments have become nothing more that privately controlled "Bunches-of-Bandits" that have sucked up the military forces of their
former countries to act as raiding parties, in service to Greed &
Power at any price. This had its roots in frustrating international law
and conventions, but that crime has now spread into the private
consciences, of so many in the world, that it has become nearly impossible
to take clearly humanitarian decisions. Amid this constant onslaught of
evermore savage military conquests the victims can only writhe in agony,
while the invading armies torture, subdue, or just murder them in order to
achieve their self-fulfilling idea of "a victory over terror."
Missing in these concepts is any
of the ancient knowledge that was once intrinsically basic to what was
needed, in any society that sought peaceful co-existence with their
neighbors. A case in point is the Israeli government's view that Israel
can "protect its people" best, by employing armed forces that simply kills
anything that is not Israeli. Obviously this ignores the legendary Chinese
General Sun Tsu who wrote: "To win one-hundred victories in
one-hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without
fighting is the name of skill." However this would require true
military and civilian leadership, and not the simplistic dictatorships
that are beginning to crop up now in far too many places.
Of this Robert Fisk said
recently: "You heard Sharon, before he suffered his massive stroke,
he used this phrase in the Knesset, you know, "The Palestinians must
feel pain." This was during one of the Intifadas. The idea that if
you continue to beat and beat and beat the Arabs, they will submit, that
eventually they'll go on their knees and give you what you want. And this
is totally, utterly self-delusional, because it doesn't apply anymore. It
used to apply 30 years ago, when I first arrived in the Middle East. If
the Israelis crossed the Lebanese border, the Palestinians jumped in their
cars and drove to Beirut and went to the cinema. Now when the Israelis
cross the Lebanese border, the Hezbollah jump in their cars in Beirut, and
race to the south to join battle with them.
But the key thing now is that
Arabs are not afraid any more. Their leaders are afraid, the Mubaraks of
this world, the president of Egypt, King Abdullah II of Jordan. They're
afraid. They shake and tremble in their golden mosques, because they were
supported by us. But the people are no longer afraid. Whether this is
because they've grown tired of being afraid -- you know, they say once you
lose your fear you cannot be re-injected with fear, you can't start being
frightened again -- or whether it's because our Western forces are now at
war with Islamists, not with nationalists, that, I'm not sure." And
Fisk goes on to say:
"...you know, when I grew
up, the prime ministers of my country were Anthony Eden, Winston
Churchill. Churchill is not my greatest hero, but these were all men who
had been in the First World War and, of course, in the second. ~ These
were people who had experienced war at firsthand, and they knew that it
was war as an obscenity. It's about death, rather than victory or defeat.
But we have nobody now in
government in the West, not in the Bush administration -- well, Bush
managed to avoid Vietnam, Cheney avoided Vietnam. Colin Powell was in
Vietnam, but he's no longer in the administration in Washington. But we
have no one left in the Blair or Bush governments now who have any
firsthand practical experience of the obscenity of war. And they think
when they make these statements that they're talking about their
experience, which is of Hollywood or television movies." (2)
This is what has happened
throughout governments now - possibly with the exception of Israel -the
utter lack of any morality or experience within "leadership." Too many
governments are led by people whose only guiding principles are greed and
power on a half-shell of death, that floats on the blood and gore of those
that were once their "masters" (supposedly a practice encouraged by "democracies"). This is what has created the stalemate between the UN and
the criminally disproportionate invasion of Lebanon, currently being
prosecuted by the state of Israel, against the civilian population of that
country. (3)
But, how to phrase what has
happened in so many countries of the Middle East and elsewhere now - that
is the real question. The government of Israel claims that they want to
kill all the terrorists; those people who are resisting the New World
Order and who are standing up to the aggression of the United States,
wherever it and Israel have tried to crush the original populations. At
the same time laws have been passed in Europe to protect Israel from
anyone that uses "anti-Semitic" language: and similar laws are now pending
in the USA!
From The Collin's English
Dictionary (1984) "Semitic: a member of the group of Caucasoid people
who speak a Semitic language including the Jews and Arabs as well as the
Ancient Babylonians (Iraqis), the Assyrians (Syria), and the Phoenicians
(the Lebanese of today). Semitic: a branch or sub-family of languages that
includes Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew ..." The Palestinians are pure
Semites!
Given the definition of what it
means to be a Semite - how can Israel adopt the position that anyone who
opposes Israel's political ambitions is anti-Semitic -- While at the same
time - the nation of Israel is out to exterminate the Arabs and the
Palestinians, along with the Lebanese, who are all Semites? Either no one
can be charged with being anti-Semitic, or all who advocate the
destruction of Semites must be subject to arrest and prosecution for their
respective roles in this very murky "newly minted internationalized
crime." This is part of what is being used to shield the Israeli
state and its government, from criticism anywhere in the world today!
Israel cannot have it both ways. Just as Israel cannot claim to seek peace
and then murder anyone who disagrees with their terms of a
settlement-neither can Israel or the USA dictate terms to the world,
concerning who can live and who must die, based on their rather strange
idea of who should be allowed to live in their "New Middle
East"!
Hezbollah and Hamas both sprang
from the need for protection from Israel, by the residents of those
countries where the State of Israel decided that they, and they alone had
security interests. No thought or consideration was given to the needs of
those who actually were citizens of those places where their forces chose
to maraud and plunder, while they captured tortured and murdered so many
thousands of people, including a disproportionate number of women and
children. IF the goal of Israel really is to eliminate these two
organizations, then all they need to do is stop doing what they're doing,
to those who resist their unilateral military adventures. Hezbollah became
twenty-percent of the Lebanese government, not by threats or force, but by
providing schools and clinics, as well as food and water, along with some
protection for the people of Lebanon.
Meanwhile the unholy alliance
between the governments of the US & Israel has come to believe that
they and they alone, are destined to dictate terms to the world, because
of the history that the United States and Israel, to a somewhat lesser
degree, have amassed. Invasions and murder committed down through the
decades of mutually beneficial existence. These two outlaw powers have
used the military muscle they have built, to dominate and subjugate
millions of people. In this process, the United States is funding not only
America's Military Budget, the US Black-Ops budget, all American cloak
& dagger operations, and Homeland Security's domestic spying on all US
citizens: but in addition-we now see that what has been created is a
separate military force, manned by Israeli's, but created and funded
almost entirely by the US taxpayers.
People in the United States do
not receive any of the things that they are paying taxes for: health,
jobs, education, security, freedom or democracy - instead our money is
being used to wage a multiplicity of wars upon other nations, over
territory that has been in Arab hands for over 5,000 years. (4) No pair of
nations, regardless of weaponry, could ever literally "take-over-the-world." And the cost of learning this deadly-clear
lesson is usually annihilation or Diaspora!
 With every hour that passes in
Lebanon and Gaza, Israel continues to dig itself deeper into this quagmire
that will ultimately engulf that self-absorbed state. If this insanity
continues, then can Bush-America be far behind! The world must have laws
to live by, just as people must have at least some small chance to live
their own lives, to each according to their own chosen views of life, of
religious beliefs and of their preferred governments. To do this there
must be not only be international laws to protect the innocent; but the
concept of Justice that lives beneath those laws must be allowed to
flourish wherever people try to live and breathe. Soon enough these
governmental traitors to their own peoples are going to understand, that
it is the Governments that should fear their people, and not the other way
round!
Jim Kirwan
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