Re: All Not So Quiet On The Middle Eastern Front

The have learned a lot, from all the American self coup d'tat, all used as
excuses to justify invasions and criminal acts. From the Spanish war, the
robbery of the Mexican territories, pearl harbor,   until now

On 8/6/06, Citizens of the World <iwi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>    Bonjour Dave Balmer,
>
> Concerning your post, there is also another explanation for Israeli's
> extravagant reaction to the capture of two of its soldiers which,
> incidentally, was first reported by many publications as the soldiers
> being
> abducted when they were inside Lebanon on one of their frequent raids. [I
> don't know the truth of these reports but it smells like the Bay of Tonkin
>
> incident being reversed, as it was, to hide U.S, aggression.]
>
> In an article http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HH05Ak01.html
>
> Middle East
> Aug 5, 2006
> It's about annexation, stupid!
> By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
>
> the following paragraphs describe another reason for Israeli's reaction. I
>
> do remember reading some time ago that when Israel withdrew the last time
> it occupied Lebanon, there were reports that they left with tankers of
> water they had 'stolen' from the Litani River. The references to Hertzl
> and Ben Gurion are also correct.
>
> Here are some of the concluding relevant paragraphs.
>
> Yours to incite world insight, Trevor Goodger-Hill
>
> ====================
>
> If so, then the chronology of events narrated by future historians will
> closely follow this line of thought: that Israel deliberately provoked
> Hezbollah into action, after a six-year hiatus, by pressuring Hezbollah's
> ally, Hamas, which was subjected to a campaign of terror, financial
> squeeze
> and intimidation.
>
> The laying of such a trap by Israel would not have happened in a vacuum of
>
> strategic thinking on Israel's part. The fact that Hezbollah fell into the
>
> trap is a result of several factors, including an adventurist element
> lending itself to the "reckless" action of Hezbollah on July 11 with
> respect to crossing the Blue Line and attacking an Israeli patrol.
>
> Since then, the Israelis have put on the mask of being reluctant warriors,
>
> delaying their troops' entry into south Lebanon and thus perpetuating
> Israel's self-image as disinterested in any imperial grand objectives. Yet
>
> the facts on the ground speak louder than words and, indeed, what fact is
> more important than Israeli leaders' announced intention to occupy up to
> the Litani River?
>
> Again, what is understandably omitted in those announcements, adopted as
> the real reasons by CNN and other US networks, is Israel's predatory lust
> after Litani's water sources, as well as for new geographical and
> strategic
> depth. This in turn might explain the otherwise inexplicably blatant
> overreaction of Israel to a border incident with Hezbollah.
>
> Instead of searching for answers in the Israeli collective psyche or in
> the
> context of action, we must probe the answer in the writings of Israel's
> founding fathers, including Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion, commonly
> yearning for Israel's control of the Litani River. As a timely addition to
>
> their old wish, Israel today has a security-related explanation,
> justifying
> the territorial takeover in the near future in terms of the lessons of the
>
> present war, the main lesson being Israel's dire need to gain strategic
> depth to avoid rocket attacks.
>
> Indeed, the verdict will soon be out in Israel about the precious lesson
> of
> Lebanon War II, that is, how to prevent future rocket attacks in the only
> feasible way, that is, direct control of southern Lebanon.
>
> Kaveh L Afrasiabi, PhD, is the author of After Khomeini: New Directions in
>
> Iran's Foreign Policy (Westview Press) and co-author of "Negotiating
> Iran's
> Nuclear Populism", Brown Journal of World Affairs, Volume XII, Issue 2,
> Summer 2005, with Mustafa Kibaroglu. He also wrote "Keeping Iran's nuclear
>
> potential latent", Harvard International Review. He is author of Iran's
> Nuclear Program: Debating Facts Versus Fiction.
>
> (Copyright 2006 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved.
>
> _______________________________________
> CANADA'S WORLD WAR II PRIME MINISTER
>
> "It is fortunate that the use of the [atomic]
> bomb should have been upon the Japanese
> rather than on the white races of Europe."
>
> 1874 - 1950 - William Lyon Mackensie King
>
> 
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]