What is going to become of the Middle East?

Stalemate
Jim Kirwan
8-2-6

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!

kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net

(1) Time to Replace All the Leaders of the World:
http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=412

(2) Robert Fisk ­ on Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/01/1434244

(3)Everything in my life ~
http://dominionpaper.ca/accounts/2006/07/28/everything.html

(4) The Most Unsuccessful War
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/745313.html

Insight into the Neo Con Mindset
http://infowars.net/articles/August2006/010806mindset.htm

Zionist Control of America Virtually Complete
http://www.rense.com/general72/oer.htm