Israel will start WWIII

[Iconoclast]

Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.

i think that all it would take is an egyptian invasion + iranian invasion. this should be more than enough to crush israel. with only a population of 6-7 million it could never hold out against the greater populations of iran and egypt.

its like in ww2, germany had the better technology over the russians but the russians had a way greater population and guess who won?

yea hitler fucked up...he should of took of the western front before going over the russians..

He thought he could stop the war with Britain through peaceful means, but clearly that wasn't the case.

[FinalStrike2]

how are we gonna keep the US out of further war in the region?

[ImpeachTheChimp]

It doesn't help that the general public is apathetic/ignorant of what's going on over there. And the media always presents the violence in Israel's sympathy. They always present it as though Israel is merely reacting to Palestinian created violence. Nobody seems to comprehend that Israel is the one displacing a native culture. The Zionists are the ones systematically taking a peoples' nation and land away from them.

The Palestinians are the ones forced to live their lives in Israel's totalitarian police state. Everywhere they go there are checkpoints and they need permits for everything they do. Then whenever Israel wants to take their land they swoop in with bulldozers and raze it. The Israeli settlements now encircle the West Bank and all are set up in militarily strategic locations.

They torture and humiliate Palestinians on a daily basis. They are a fascist state in every sense of the word. Unfortunately none of the Arab nations can do anything about it due to the fact that the US has supplied them with the 3rd or 4th best military in the world and continues to support their fascism in every concievable way politically.

Now Israel is escalating things and will end up backing the Arab nations into a corner. And then that's when I believe things will turn UGLY.

[Opened Eyes]

I can't wait to see Israel get it's ass handed to it!

[Ry]

All I can say is a big fat "I told You So"

I am so glad I got it out in a book before this happened. Alex Jones and all those guys have been ignoring Israel. They just dont get it because Christian bigots can not see anything the chosen people do as bad or that they do themselves as bad. They say oh those arent real jews those arent real christians. News flash. Yes they are.

Israel took us into Iraq I made the case air tight in the book and any regular reader on here knows it. They are taking us into Iran and starting WWIII. They also riged 911 and I can prove it.

People ISRAEL not the illuminati, not the Vatican, not the space lizards, It's ISRAEL who is the force here behind these Zionists Neocons taking us to war. Stop promoting the bullshit you hear from Christian radio programs which is utterly blind to reality chasing stanic cults ect and talk about real people with real evidence of driving us into war.

NO MORE WAR FOR ISRAEL!!!!
Ry anti-neocons.com

keep reading our site and get some sane news that doesn't talk about secret satanic hand signals akin to the Texas Longhorns or spooky junk on the dolllar bill. We report factual things untainted by Protestant Bullshit.

Justin Raimondo put it beautifully today.

"War with Iran will probably not begin with a frontal assault by the U.S. and/or Israel on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons facilities, or even a skirmish along the Iraq-Iran border. Look to Lebanon and Syria for the first battlegrounds of this developing regional war. The Israelis know perfectly well that Iran's nuclear ambitions, if they ever materialize, are not an immediate threat: their real concern is their volatile northern border, where their deadly enemies – Hezbollah – are an effective obstacle to Israeli influence. The Israelis are also looking to exploit growing opportunities to make trouble in Syria, where the restive Kurds are their reliable allies, and the brittleness of the Ba'athist dictatorship is an invitation to regime change."

The suggestion, by Professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, in their now famous "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," that the Iraq war was fought for Israel's sake, and against our own interests in the region, was received in many quarters with outright horror, and not only from the Amen Corner. Noam Chomsky and Stephen Zunes both objected to this thesis of an Israel-centric foreign policy: Israel, they insist, is the "junior partner" of the American hegemon, and is only acting at the behest and under the de facto control of its masters in Washington.

The war's aftermath, however, tells a different story. Examined in light of Israel's postwar actions – the unilateral "withdrawal" from Gaza, the absorption of more territory and the building of more settlements on the West Bank, the war against Hamas, and now the re-invasion of Lebanon – the chief (and only) beneficiary of the new regional balance of power is clear enough. The American invasion and occupation of the Mesopotamian heartland has empowered the Israelis as never before – and now they are on the offensive, carving out a greatly expanded sphere of influence extending into Kurdistan as well as Lebanon, bringing closer to fulfillment the old Zionist vision of an empire stretching "from the Nile to the Euphrates."

The U.S., on the other hand, has considerably reduced leverage in the region. Our troops in Iraq are exposed, vulnerable to the Iranians – and stalemated by the Iraqi insurgency, which shows troubling signs of extending into Shi'ite areas. As the Israelis advance, with American support, Sunni and Shi'ite factions in Iraq – including those in the governing Shi'ite coalition – are radicalized, and turn their fire on the Americans.

[Corey Michael]

This thread is plugged on WRH. Ry, you definitely told us so. Oh, and the Bible too. Just kidding.

Forgive them father, for they know not what they do.

[Opened Eyes]

I agree with Iconoclast. The United States and it's businessmen will power Israel's war as usual. Our military should just be honest and dress our soldiers in Israeli fatigues.

[The7thEarlofNails]

Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.

The US does, along with its neocons and jewish businessmen.

Plus, Israel has equipment and excellent training, not to mention a fierce dedication.

Not to mention 200+ nukes, which it's enemies don't have..................

[XIII]

Not to mention 200+ nukes, which it's enemies don't have..................

Israel wont use its nukes, thats just a death warrant every law maker in america would try to stop funding to israel if they do use them, can you imagine how bad it would be for public image ? and not to mention the posible millions of lives it would destroy .

[aucuneconnerie]

This article is from Israel and was published today on a US site:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e13974.htm

What Are They Fighting For

By Prof. Tanya Reinhart

07/13/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Whatever may be the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army’s war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman widely reported, the army was preparing for an attack months earlier and was constantly pushing for it, with the goal of destroying the Hamas infrastructure and its government. The army initiated an escalation on 8 June when it assassinated Abu Samhadana, a senior appointee of the Hamas government, and intensified its shelling of civilians in the Gaza Strip. Governmental authorization for action on a larger scale was already given by 12 June, but it was postponed in the wake of the global reverberation caused by the killing of civilians in the air force bombing the next day. The abduction of the soldier released the safety-catch, and the operation began on 28 June with the destruction of infrastructure in Gaza and the mass detention of the Hamas leadership in the West Bank, which was also planned weeks in advance. (1)

In Israeli discourse, Israel ended the occupation in Gaza when it evacuated its settlers from the Strip, and the Palestinians’ behavior therefore constitutes ingratitude. But there is nothing further from reality than this description. In fact, as was already stipulated in the Disengagement Plan, Gaza remained under complete Israeli military control, operating from outside. Israel prevented any possibility of economic independence for the Strip and from the very beginning, Israel did not implement a single one of the clauses of the agreement on border-crossings of November 2005. Israel simply substituted the expensive occupation of Gaza with a cheap occupation, one which in Israel’s view exempts it from the occupier’s responsibility to maintain the Strip, and from concern for the welfare and the lives of its million and a half residents, as determined in the fourth Geneva convention.

Israel does not need this piece of land, one of the most densely populated in the world, and lacking any natural resources. The problem is that one cannot let Gaza free, if one wants to keep the West Bank. A third of the occupied Palestinians live in the Gaza strip. If they are given freedom, they would become the center of Palestinian struggle for liberation, with free access to the Western and Arab world. To control the West Bank, Israel needs full control Gaza. The new form of control Israel has developed is turning the whole of the Strip into a prison camp completely sealed from the world.

Besieged occupied people with nothing to hope for, and no alternative means of political struggle, will always seek ways to fight their oppressor. The imprisoned Gaza Palestinians found a way to disturb the life of the Israelis in the vicinity of the Strip, by launching home-made Qassam rockets across the Gaza wall against Israeli towns bordering the Strip. These primitive rockets lack the precision to focus on a target, and have rarely caused Israeli casualties; they do however cause physical and psychological damage and seriously disturb life in the targeted Israeli neighborhoods. In the eyes of many Palestinians, the Qassams are a response to the war Israel has declared on them. As a student from Gaza said to the New York Times, “Why should we be the only ones who live in fear? With these rockets, the Israelis feel fear, too. We will have to live in peace together, or live in fear together.” (2)

The mightiest army in the Middle East has no military answer to these home-made rockets. One answer that presents itself is what Hamas has been proposing all along, and Haniyeh repeated this week - a comprehensive cease-fire. Hamas has proven already that it can keep its word. In the 17 months since it announced its decision to abandon armed struggle in favor of political struggle, and declared a unilateral cease-fire (“tahdiya” - calm), it did not participate in the launching of Qassams, except under severe Israeli provocation, as happened in the June escalation. However, Hamas remains committed to political struggle against the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. In Israel's view, the Palestinians elections results is a disaster, because for the first time they have a leadership that insists on representing Palestinian interests rather than just collaborating with Israel's demands.

Since ending the occupation is the one thing Israel is not willing to consider, the option promoted by the army is breaking the Palestinians by devastating brutal force. They should be starved, bombarded, terrorized with sonic booms for months, until they understand that rebelling is futile, and accepting prison life is their only hope for staying alive. Their elected political system, institutions and police should be destroyed. In Israel's vision, Gaza should be ruled by gangs collaborating with the prison wards.

The Israeli army is hungry for war. It would not let concerns for captive soldiers stand in its way. Since 2002 the army has argued that an “operation” along the lines of “Defensive Shield” in Jenin was also necessary in Gaza. Exactly a year ago, on 15 July (before the Disengagement), the army concentrated forces on the border of the Strip for an offensive of this scale on Gaza. But then the USA imposed a veto. Rice arrived for an emergency visit that was described as acrimonious and stormy, and the army was forced to back down (3). Now, the time has finally came. With the Islamophobia of the American Administration at a high point, it appears that the USA is prepared to authorize such an operation, on condition that it not provoke a global outcry with excessively-reported attacks on civilians.(4)

With the green light for the offensive given, the army's only concern is public image. Fishman reported this Tuesday that the army is worried that "what threatens to burry this huge military and diplomatic effort" is reports of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Hence, the army would take care to let some food into Gaza. (5) From this perspective, it is necessary to feed the Palestinians in Gaza so that it would be possible to continue to kill them undisturbed.
A shorter version of this article was scheduled to appear Thursday, July 13 in Yediot Aharonot, but postponed to next week because of the developments in Southern Lebanon. (*)

*Parts of this article were translated from Hebrew by Mark Marshall.

(1) Alex Fishman, Who is for the elimination of Hamas, Yediot Aharonot Saturday Supplement, June 30, 2006. See also Alex Fishman, The safety-catch released, Yediot Aharonot June 21, 2006 (Hebrew), Aluf Benn, An operation with two goals, Ha'aretz, June 29 2006.

(2) Greg Myre, Rockets Create a 'Balance of Fear' With Israel, Gaza Residents Say. The New York Times, July 9, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/world ... ex=1310097

(3) Steven Erlanger, “U.S. Presses Israel to Smooth the Path to a Palestinian Gaza”, New York Times, August 7 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/inter ... yt&emc=rss The planned July 2005 offensive is documented in detail in my The Road Map to Nowhere - Israel Palestine since 2003, Verso, September 2006.

(4) For a detailed survey of the U.S. administration's present stands, see Ori Nir, U.S. Seen Backing Israeli Moves To Topple Hamas, The Forward, July 7, 2006. http://www.forward.com/articles/8063

(5) Alex Fishman, Their food is finished, Yediot Aharonot, July 11, 2006.

Copyright Tanya Reinhart http://www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/