Trashing Iran

Currently the big question is what incident or circumstance will be fabricated, exaggerated, disguised, or otherwise manipulated by the Bush neocons in order to create a pretext for trashing Iran. As was the case with Iraq, Iran is no threat to the U.S. This is all about Israel. (Like all other Muslim countries, Iran despises Israel's brutal occupation and colonization of Muslim lands.) Inasmuch as we are already going bankrupt losing two wars, it is clear we can not afford a third. However, as exemplified by Israel's extensive bombing of Lebanon last summer, the neocon goal is not winning wars but trashing Israel's enemies. Meanwhile, to further benefit Israel, why not foment some more civil wars along the way! Seymour Hersh reports that we are bolstering Sunni extremist groups in Syria and Lebanon which are sympathetic to Al Qaeda ("The New Yorker" 3/5/07) Never mind the fact that these groups hate Americans more than they hate the Shiites we're paying them to bomb. It turns out there's no way to prevent the money and weapons provided to these Sunni extremist groups from ending up in the hands of the Sunnis who are attacking our troops in Iraq. Indeed, the enormous black hole into which US taxpayers' grandchildren's billions have disappeared, unaccounted for, in Iraq is being used as a money pot to finance these Sunni extremist groups. No matter! We must continue to instigate civil wars in Israel's enemies as advocated by Obed Yinon. (See previous blog entry "Civil War Advocates" 4-15-06.) And who knows? As an added bonus, these "covert actions" may even provoke an Iranian response giving the Bush neocons an excuse to trash Iran.

Refugees' Rights

During the Israel-Lobby-dominated media frenzy propelling us into war with Iraq, how often we were reminded that Saddam Hussein was in violation of UN resolutions! Yet, never mentioned was the fact that Israel has been in defiance of many more serious UN resolutions for a much longer period of time. These include UN Resolution 242, calling for Israel to withdraw from occupied territory in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, and UN Resolution 194 which states "that refugees wishing to return to their homes and live in peace should be allowed to do so..." (See Jimmy Carter's "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" p. 4.) Unfortunately, Zionists burn the midnight oil devising devious excuses for defying these UN resolutions so that they can keep their stolen land and continue ethnically cleansing out its rightful inhabitants. For instance, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert recently stated that "Israel would not allow a single refugee to return to what is now Israel." (The New York Times, 3-31-07) Olmert's fake excuse is his claim that it is the Arabs' own fault for leaving. Of course, he ignores the role of Jewish terrorist groups which massacred innocent Arab civilians, including women and children, causing the rest to flee. (See Patrick Buchanan's "Where The Right Went Wrong" p. 114) In fact, the main reason Israel refuses to accept refugees (some of whom still have keys to their houses), as part of a peace plan, is the fear that a growing number of non-Jews could eventually out-vote the rest, with the result that Israel could cease being a Jewish state. The obvious solution is for Israel to drop the pretense that it is a democracy. For a country can not be both a democracy and a permanent Jewish state. There looms always the possibility that the Jewish state aspect could be voted out. This is one reason that Israel, after all these years, still has no constitution. Clearly, a constitution should be written which mandates a permanent Jewish state no matter what. Only those refugees pledging allegiance to this constitution should be allowed back into Israel. Refugees only have a right to return if doing so does not endanger the existence of the Jewish state.