Israel, Oil and the "planned demolition" of Lebanon

[mom cat]

Israel, Oil and the "planned demolition" of Lebanon

By Mike Whitney


08/07/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- By bombing the highways and main bridges into Beirut, Israel has cut off the capital from the outside world and put the entire nation under siege. Israel can now execute its plan to pummel Lebanon into rubble without the threat of foreign intervention.

The north has been effectively severed from the south allowing the IDF to continue its ethnic cleansing operations as well as its search-and-destroy missions for Hezbollah fighters. They have meticulously destroyed all the main points of entry at the Syrian border and blockaded the coastline. Israel believes that their earlier occupation (which ended in year 2000) failed due to the unrestricted flow of supplies and weaponry from Syria and Iran. The Bush administration has assisted this effort by providing crucial intelligence from the NSA about the movement of material from the outside.

By now, it should be apparent that Israel’s military campaign has nothing to do with Hezbollah’s capturing of the 2 Israeli soldiers on July 14. The present plan, which was drawn up more than a year ago (and which high-ranking members of the Bush administration were fully briefed) is designed to establish a new northern border for Israel at the Litani River and create an “Israel-friendly” regime in Beirut.

The plan to annex the land south of the Litani River dates back to the founding of the Jewish state when Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion described the country’s future borders this way: “To the north the Litani River, the southern border will be pushed into the Sinai, and to the east, the Syrian Desert, including the furthest edge of Transjordan.” (See Map of post WW1 Zionist plan for region http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Maps/Story1045.html )

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14406.htm

[chimpymustgo]

1. Oil, water, Greater Israel, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment.

Getting the picture?

[adriennui]

3. um, no. i'm not.

[leftchick]

13. it is crystal clear

to me.
k&r!

[burythehatchet]

14. Open your eyes.

[malaise]

11. We warned fellow DUers not to be

fooled. It was always about the greater Israel dream. Won't work though.

[mom cat]

15. War crimes! ... See attempts to bring charges against Blair:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1842938

[EFerrari]

2. #3 and KICK

:kick:

[fooj]

4. It has all been done by design...

Damn.

[panader0]

5. Wasn't Ben Gurion in on the hotel bombing, a terrorist act?

[KharmaTrain]

20. It Was Menachem Begin

If you're gonna slime Israeli leaders, please get it right.

Thank you

[chill_wind]

6. Drawn up two years ago - SF Chronicle (F.A.I.R.)

Media Advisory

Down the Memory Hole
Israeli contribution to conflict is forgotten by leading papers

7/28/06


(...)


This intense fighting was the prelude to the all-out warfare that began on July 12, portrayed in U.S. media as beginning with an attack out of the blue by Hezbollah. While Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers may have reignited the smoldering conflict, the Israeli air campaign that followed was not a spontaneous reaction to aggression but a well-planned operation that was years in the making.

"Of all of Israel’s wars since 1948, this was the one for which Israel was most prepared," Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, told the San Francisco Chronicle (7/21/05). "By 2004, the military campaign scheduled to last about three weeks that we’re seeing now had already been blocked out and, in the last year or two, it’s been simulated and rehearsed across the board." The Chronicle reported that a "senior Israeli army officer" has been giving PowerPoint presentations for more than a year to "U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks" outlining the coming war with Lebanon, explaining that a combination of air and ground forces would target Hezbollah and "transportation and communication arteries."

Which raises a question: If journalists have been told by Israel for more than a year that a war was coming, why are they pretending that it all started on July 12? By truncating the cause-and-effect timelines of both the Gaza and Lebanon conflicts, editorial boards at major U.S. dailies gravely oversimplify the decidedly more complex nature of the facts on the ground.


http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2928

[mom cat]

17. The role of the media in focusing on the two captures soldiers, that they

keep calling the "kidnapped soldiers" was remarkably swift and in unison. The talking points on this have also been planned in advance.

[chill_wind]

34. Here's the SFC story (link)

San Francisco Chronicle
Israel set war plan more than a year ago
Strategy was put in motion as Hezbollah began increasing its military strength

Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service

Friday, July 21, 2006



(07-21) 04:00 PDT Jerusalem -- Israel's military response by air, land and sea to what it considered a provocation last week by Hezbollah militants is unfolding according to a plan finalized more than a year ago

limk: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/21/MIDEAST.TMP

[Atman]

7. Isn't it ODD how BushCO can track movement of weapons NOW, but..

...all they could get prior to the invasion of Iraq were some grainy b&w photos that looked like they were taken with a Kodak Brownie? Stupid fucking dickhead Americans never seem to question why CNN can use Google earth to zoom in to a cockroache's buttcrack, but the United States Government couldn't find caravans of WMD's being buried, or trucked across the Syrian border, or shoved up Saddams's ass, or whatever lame excuse they used. And Americans bought it. Ate it up. What a stupid lot we are!

[patdem]

8. If Israel was planning this for a year..could thay have placed people in

certain websites in order to have creds and then support anything Israel did? I mean..so many were here for so long till they could no longer support Israel...could that TOO have been planed? Call me naive.

[Phrogman]

10. You got it!

e0m

[Mandate My Ass]

9. Hmmm, a resource war fought under the guise of fighting terror

against a nation that is defenseless against their far superior military might. Where on earth did Israel come up with that cockamamie idea? :eyes:

[patdem]

Gee, if Sadaam was not such a REAL threat to the US..I could guess

Somolia? (oops almost forgot) :sarcasm:

[patdem]

12. delete. dupe ..how'd that happen..

[mom cat]

22. Gee. I am clueless too!

[burythehatchet]

16. Why the hell won't some European nation

come to the aid of Lebanon? I cannot understand how this state terror regime is allowed to destroy a country.

[mom cat]

19. It is appaling how this major series of war crimes have beenput in

the "see no evil" box. The reaction of the governments of most of the world to the illegal invasions in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Lebanon bears a striking resemblance to the appeasement strategies that met Hitler's invasion of Poland, etc.

[sweetheart]

18. have you never had a bridge demolished

have you never lost a bridge in life,
collapsed burdens 'neath the holy load of fate,
for a time a span can lead to strife,
as the island land-accounts its democratic state.

Added up all the wishes and curses,
banked and booked akashic trends of late,
paid and delivered across the shore,
yank bless you away, and 'ere no hate.
When the land is red and full of blood,
bombers hands of dread, life turned to mud.

[mom cat]

21. That is a powerful statement. Thanks.

[mom cat]

23. The US has never before aided in armed aggression against an ally:

"The United States has played a unique role in Israel’s war on Lebanon. In its 230 year history the US has never deliberately assisted in an attack on an ally. That record will end with Lebanon.

Lebanon was demonstrably “pro-American” government on friendly terms with Washington. In fact, American NGOs and intelligence organizations helped to activate the “Cedar Revolution” which gave rise to the Fouad Siniora government and the eventual expulsion of Syrian troops. To a large extent, Washington and Tel Aviv had achieved what they wanted to by meddling in Lebanon’s political affairs. The country was singled out as a shining example of Bush’s “global democratic revolution”, which was the stated goal of American intervention in the Middle East.

Lebanon has since been rewarded for its cooperation by the total obliteration of its economy and infrastructure. The Bush administration has abandoned any pretense of being an “honest broker” and is now providing Israel with precision-guided missiles to prosecute a war against a (mainly) civilian population. They are also actively collaborating with the Olmert regime to foil all plans for an immediate ceasefire. The United States is a fully-engaged partner in the premeditated destruction of a democratic country. It is as much a part of the Israeli aggression as any IDF tank commander rumbling towards Beirut.

The United Nations has been sidelined by the administration’s obstructionism at the Security Council. The efforts of the Bolton-Rice team are tantamount to a “declaration of war”. So far, the Israeli offensive has uprooted nearly 1 million people in the south; making refugees of approximately 25% of the Lebanon’s total population. The UN has done nothing to respond to this calamity. Its ineffectiveness casts doubt on whether it will survive the present crisis. Security in the new century will ultimately depend on alliances between the individual countries. The UN model of one, monolithic international institution trying to "preserve the peace” has proved to be a wretched failure."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14406.htm

[scarletwoman]

24. heh. consigned to the dungeon.

That's what happens when you try to get past the matrix of convential wisdom.

sw

[sweetheart]

26. the dungeon is back!!

:-) bigger and better, stronger and made out of thinner
cheaper plastic available at target, wallmart or delivered
to your dooor with a free set of steak knives and an apple pealer...

[scarletwoman]

27. NO ONE expects the SPANISH INQUISITION!

Our chief weapons are fear and surprise...

sw

[bloom]

25. To read more about the Litani Water Dispute...

see:

http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/litani.htm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=226887

[BeHereNow]

28. No, no!!! Not the dungeon!

But of course.
Any one REALLY surprised?

BHN

[BeHereNow]

30. Dungeon or not, I see I am surrounded by good company

on this thread.
:hi:
to my fellow defenders of the truth.
BHN

[chill_wind]

29. Oh for gods's sakes. NOW what rules have been broken?? nt

[BeHereNow]

31. No rules have been broken- the thread has just been swept

into this forum; as so to be less conspicuous I suppose.
But hey, we're here, no?
Quality, not quantity where truth is concerned.

BHN

[chill_wind]

33. Ok. ::sigh::

All the frequent frantic relocating and locking etc over these last few weeks is just making me disoriented and cross-eyed, I guess. I'm sure you're ultimately right.

[BeHereNow]

32. What the hell? You can't recommend threads from this forum???

What the hell is that?
And just why can threads from this forum not be recommended?
Is that the purpose of the dungeons on DU?
To make sure certain viewpoints never make it to the greatest threads page?
Shakes head in disbelief...
BHN

[chimpymustgo]

35. (whispering) How might we meekly inquire WHY this thread was moved?

Sorry, don't mean to start to trouble, just wanna talk, Bossman. No trouble, no sir...

[pelsar]

36. because its an embarrasement

to thinking/educated people everywhere.......

i surprised no one added the oil pipeline that the war is supposed to protect

or israels grab for water that it needs

or the uranium deposits it found last time they were in lebanon

or the fact that it puts the israeli air force that much closer to iran for the attack

or that it now puts more pressure syria as they now have enlarged their front to syria

or by getting close to the hermon they can soon take it and double the size of the ski slopes thereby increasing the GNP of israel.....