(Israel granted a 48 hour "conditional" cease-fire to allow for Humanitarian Aid to make it's way to the civilian population of southern Lebanon... and to allow an investigation of the events at Qana.)****************************
The events of the past nearly three weeks resemble, in many ways, the world of the late 1930's with Hitler rampaging thru Europe.
The world was told Hitler was rounding up the Jews and murdering them. The world refused to believe. In some cases nations believed, but chose to turn their backs and allow millions of Jews to be murdered. Even the US, having evidence that Hitler was slaughtering the Jews, dragged its feet and allowed the killing to continue. The final tally… somewhere around 6 million Jews killed…men, women, and children. After the concentration camps were liberated, the evidence was laid out for everyone to see.
Shame drove the United Nations to grant Israel statehood in 1948 as a way to salve the world's own wounded ego. The world reasoned that if Israel came under attack again, they, the world, would have the excuse that Israel was a nation now and, as a nation, Israel would be responsible for it's own security.
From 1948, up to this past weekend, Israel has fought a near continuous battle with the "Jew hating" nations around her. Until this weekend she has been able to hold them off. Her only ally has been the US. Until this weekend. Now, her only ally is about to turn it's back on her, as well.
It now appears the US will join it's voice to the chorus of anti-Semites, in the United Nations, calling for a "cease fire" between Israel and the Hizbollah.
Make no mistake... any cease fire will be touted as a "flat out victory" for the Hizbollah and… for Iran and Syria. The terrorists, the "Jew hating" Islamists, the Persians, the Moslems, the anti-Semite Europeans, and even the American Left, will rejoice at the victory accorded the Hizbollah by the UN. A victory Israel's enemies could not gain anyway else.
Indeed, the cease-fire will be read as a victory over, not just Israel, but over the United States, as well. There will be repercussions, to the US, as a result of this Terrorist Victory, which will be tallied in the blood of innocent Americans on our own shores.
Approximately 150 miles from where I sit, in the US, there is reported to be an active Hizbollah cell. I fully expect that they will be heard from shortly.
Israel is about to face it's first loss in war. A loss handed to, arguably, the finest military in the world, after the US Military. It will be a crushing defeat for the men and women of the IDF. Their morale will be unquestionably damaged. The US saw what can happen to a military when it's troops are not allowed to win a war in which they are called upon to bleed and die. All for naught! Further, a cease-fire may purchase a few hours of quiet, but it will be the opening shot of the Third World War.
Here's why:
Israel has an ace card it has not played yet. The nuclear card.
Israel has no intention of being overrun. When the situation becomes such that Israel is staring at a defeat by her hatefilled neighbors she will employ her Nuclear Arsenal. Teheran, Damascus, Mecca, will sprout mushroom clouds, simultaneously.
The war will, overnight, spread all over the globe. Terrorist cells, long dormant and awaiting orders, will suddenly come alive and wreak havoc wherever they can. The US military will have it's hands full reinforcing and supplying Israel while, at the same time, sitting on the Iraqis, and the Afghans, who will surely want to join their Islamic brothers in the fight to rid the earth of Israel.
In days, London will be aflame, along with Paris, Berlin, Madrid, New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, not to mention the cities in South America, Africa, India, and lesser nations all over the globe.
While we have been sleeping, Islam has spread its cancer throughout the world. As I have said, so often before, this will be a fight to the death. There will be no co-existence. It will be them or us!
So watch, carefully, the events about to unfold in the UN, and in Washington, and in Tel Aviv.
We have arrived at the cusp of global war. The next 48 to 72 hours will set the stage for the greatest struggle in the history of mankind on this planet.
There will be no winner. Only survivors.
May God help us!
Longstreet
4 comments:
I have a plan for peace in the middle east. Nuke everything, from Isreal to India From Egypt to Afghanistan, and when finished, if anything in that area moves, nuke it all, all over again. "Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out." "It's religious fundamentalists to pray to God, it's our job to arrange the meeting."
The Islamists have some very intelligent people planning this mess. I think the US is trying its' best to give Israel time and to demand the international peacekeeping force. In the meantime, Sistani is saying the US must call for a ceasefire and will undoubtedly give Sadr the go ahead if he is not pleased. Perhaps more nations, including the US, will suffer more from Hezbolla et al before they realize this is a truly
serious threat. It would appear that too many Americans are still in the talking mood and do not want to act.
Racism is “the belief that one ‘racial group’ is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination.” This is how the British Library wished to define racism on its website.
The above definition hardly deviates from the essence of almost all definitions of the ominous concept. And indeed, the concept is being fully utilized as I write these words in the Gaza Strip, with Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinians and the international community and media’s mild, if not accommodating response to the onslaught.
The capture of Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit is a clear act of self-defense. One of America’s top and most courageous international law professors wrote me yesterday: “Insist on calling Gilad Shalit a prisoner of war, for he is one.” Well, maybe according to international law and the Geneva Conventions, but not CNN, Fox News and the increasingly spineless BBC, which insists on presenting the solider (with an overt emphasis on his young age) as a victim, who was “kidnapped” by Palestinian “militants”, who are “affiliated” with the Hamas government, and that Israel is doing its outmost to free him, insisting that there can be “no negotiations with terrorists.” If reporters stationed with the invading Israeli soldiers, amassed in and around the Gaza Strip fail to communicate these assertions themselves, then they will do all they can to ensure that they are communicated by Israeli military spokesmen or “experts”, both seem to convey the same ideas.
By not challenging the Israeli narrative in any meaningful way, and dumping it on hapless viewers all around the world, the uncritical media has become a tool in the hands of Israel’s war strategists and their eternal concoctions. Consider this for example, an Israeli military commander tells a BBC correspondent dispatched to the border area between Israel and Gaza, that Israel intends on opening the border for “as long as it takes” to offset the humanitarian crisis developing in Gaza. The Israeli Army representative in a barefaced lie declares that the border has always been open, despite the perpetual Palestinian threat on the state of Israel. The BBC correspondent thanks him sincerely and signs off. I, in turn, throw my remote control at the television.
Is it possible that the BBC and its mighty researchers are unaware of the fact that Gaza has been under a very strict military siege since Hamas’ democratic advent to power through the January 2006 elections? Could it be that the Western media has missed the dozens of shocking reports, including some by the World Bank, that have warned that the Israeli siege, which began months before the capture of Shalit, was soon to create chaos and panic among the already malnourished Palestinians in Gaza? Did they all miss statements by top Israeli officials, vowing to carry on with the siege until the ouster of Hamas?
Well, maybe. For someone who has spent many years in this business, I can testify that some reporters misrepresent facts out of ignorance, not by design. But if that indeed was the case, then how can one excuse the fact that the same media that coined the term “kidnapping” to describe the action of the Palestinian fighters who captured Shalit, refused to use the same association to describe the kidnapping of most of the elected Palestinian Cabinet, mostly academics with no affiliation to any militant wing of any sort. Israel’s military spokesman insisted that they are “all terrorists” and Israel, “like any democratic” country has the right to protect itself against terrorists. If they were indeed “terrorists” as Israel claims, why did Israel refrain from kidnapping them until Palestinian fighters embarrassed the mighty Israeli Army and captured their first prisoner of war in a long time, Shalit? Is “rounding up” Palestinian ministers and scores of legislators the same as having a solider captured in what has been for long a one-sided Israeli war? If you are an avid viewer of Fox News or a reader of the New York Times, then Israel is yet to exceed its legitimate legal boundaries, that of a democracy opting to defend its citizens.
But only utter racism can lead to such rationale. Only a racist media portrays the capture of a solider whose army units have besieged Gazans for years, denying them food and medicine, as an earthshaking violation of all that is holy. Only a racist media presents the kidnapping of 9,000 Palestinians, now in Israeli jails, as a just outcome of Israel’s routine arrests of Palestinian terrorists or potential terrorists.
Only racism can play down the Israeli destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure or the little infrastructure that it still possesses (since Israel has already destroyed a great deal). The sabotage of Gaza’s electricity, water supplies, its bridges and universities is justified without question, for such actions are necessary to impede the militants efforts from transporting its soldier to another hideout. And yet, Israel is praised for its seemingly generous act of allowing some food to be transferred to hungry Gazans, who ironically have gone hungry because of the Israeli spearheaded international campaign to punish Palestinians for electing Hamas.
Only racism can completely remove from the current discourse the murder of dozens of Palestinian civilians at the hands of the Israeli Army (90 civilians in seven weeks) as the reason that led to the Palestinian raid on the Israeli Army post and the capture of Shalit; instead depicting the current escalation as if it was entirely the work of the Palestinians, with Israel’s slate still clean.
Indeed, Israel’s slate will continue to be clean as long as racism and inequality are the concepts according to which this conflict is explained. Israel has the right to collectively punish, starve to death, kidnap democratically elected civilian ministers and try them “in accordance with Israeli law”, destroy its neighbors’ infrastructure, instigate a humanitarian disaster, assassinate at will, violate international law without hesitation, because Israel is not Palestine, and the lives and well being of the residents of Israel, at least some of them, cannot be equated with Palestinians. Turn the tables for a moment, and you’ll understand how repellent such racism is.
Inequality has always been at the heart of this conflict, the late Professor Edward Said used to say. Racism is at the heart of inequality, I must add. The media can be ignorant, biased, self-serving, indeed, but it can also be utterly racist.
I came very close to not publishing the anonymous comment above... and then... I realized that the readers of this site need a reminder of the mind set we are up against in the world today.
The writer, above, explains for us the reasoning of the European countries, the UN, and the Islamic nations around the world.
Notice... no mention is made of the atrocities done to Israel by it's "neighbors".
There is something seriously wrong with the reasoning ability of a mindset such as that exposed above.
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