[wvns] Blame Americans, absolve the Jews

Bush goaded the Jews into the war against Hezbollah?

Blame Americans, absolve the Jews
By Bob Finch
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shamireaders/messages

(A passionate critique of Jewish Left's spokesman Stephen Zunes by a
member of American patriotic left, accusing the leftist Jews of double
betrayal: that of America and that of the Left. Much needed view, as
Bob Finch reminds us there are good and left and patriotic forces in
the US totally opposing his state's present subservience to the Jewish
will)

Bush goaded the Jews into the war against Hezbollah?

The main tenet of Zunes' article `<a
href="http://www.antiwar.com/orig/Zunes.php?articleid=11008">
Sometimes the Dog Wags the Tail</a>` is that in July 2006 the Bush
regime "goaded" the Jews-only state in Palestine (Jos – this is Bob
Finch's favourite term for the state of Israel, ISH) into attacking
Lebanon. The Bush regime forced the Jos to abandon its policy of
"containment" and attack Lebanon in order to promote America's goal of
global supremacism. This tenet is a part of Zunes' wider project of
absolving the Jos of any responsibility for all the monstrous evils it
has perpetrated since its illegal and violent inception in 1948. Blame
Americans, absolve the Jews, wails this high priest of Jewish racism
from his supposedly left wing pulpit.

The implication of Zunes' stance is that the Jos was not merely forced
against its will into attacking and invading Lebanon but that it had
no desire, no motive, no national interest, no geostrategic interest,
for such an attack. Clearly, the more of a desire the Jos had for a
war against Lebanon, the greater its complicity in the war. But Zunes
will not accept the Jos is to blame in any way. To him, the idea that
the Jos initiated the attack on Lebanon with only cursory approval
from the Bush regime is not merely unrealistic, it is also grossly
anti-Semitic. As Zunes' ideological worldview drifts further away from
reality he denounces those who disagree with him as anti-Semites.

Zunes implies the Jos had no motive for attacking Lebanon, and was
thus blameless for what it did to that country, in a number of ways.

Firstly, he argues that during the six years from the end of the
Jewish occupation of Lebanon to the Jos's invasion in July 2006,
Hezbollah posed no military threat to the Jos. "Though Hezbollah had
hardly renounced their extremist ideology, major acts of terrorism
were largely a thing of the past." Therefore, the Jos had no military
reason to attack Hezbollah or Lebanon.

Secondly, Zunes ignores the possibility that Hezbollah's killing of
eight Jewish soldiers and its capture of two others constituted a
motive for the Jos's invasion of Lebanon.

Thirdly, Zunes also fails to explore the possibility that the Jos
wanted revenge against Hezbollah for kicking the Jewish military out
of Lebanon in six years earlier.

Fourthly, Zunes implies the Jos had no motive for attacking Lebanon
because its military strategy was based on "containment". "Nor did the
commission directly address the reason as to why Israel, in the words
of the report, decided to "launch a military campaign and deviate from
the policy of containment."

Fifthly, Zunes believes the Jos wanted peace with its neighbours so,
once again, thereby implying it had no motive for attacking Lebanon.

Sixthly, Zunes suspects the Jos could not have had a motive for
attacking Lebanon given that Condoleezza Rice, not Ehud Olmert,
directed the Jos's war operations. "As veteran Israeli journalist Uri
Avnery put it, "Rice was back and forth, dictating when to start, when
to stop, what to do, what not to do. America is fully complicit.""

Finally, Zunes does not raise even the slightest suspicion that the
Jos could have been motivated by the desire to acquire a vital
resource: southern Lebanon's water supplies.

The Jews' manifold motives for a war against Hezbollah.

In the real world, the Jos had a number of motives for attacking
Lebanon which were more than enough to suggest it would have invaded
Lebanon even without American approval.

Firstly, after Hezbollah forced the Jewish military to retreat from
Lebanon in May 2000, it had constantly taunted Jewish political and
military leaders, mocked the Jos's military capabilities, and had
become a considerable thorn in the Jos's side. NATO has documented the
Jews' psychotic aggression against Hezbollah. "Violations of Lebanese
airspace and territorial waters which, according to UNIFIL exceeds
18,000 since 1978, when the UN began keeping records." (Franklin Lamb
`The Approaching Prisoner Exchange: The Edginess of Lebanon'
http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb07032007.html July 3, 2007).
Hezbollah's main impact on the Jos was psychological rather than
military. "Over the next decade, Katyusha rocket attacks on Israel
became common combat methods for Hezbollah, usually in response to
Israeli attacks, but they rarely caused real physical or military
damage inside Israel. The psychological damage on Israeli citizens,
however, was paramount and the Israeli media would portray them as
"terror attacks"." (Sami Moubayed `Lebanon guided by the Nasrullah
factor' http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB26Ak03.html
February 26, 2005).

Secondly, the killing of eight Jewish soldiers and the capture of two
others was a major challenge to the Jos which it could not ignore.
Just how important this motive was could be seen from the Jews'
reaction to Palestinians' capture of a Jewish soldier the previous month.

Thirdly, the Jos's military and many of its political parties,
especially the likudniks, were desperate to exact revenge on Hezbollah
for forcing the Jewish army out of Lebanon in May 2000. This was the
Jos's first military defeat. Hezbollah freedom fighters had succeeded
in killing thousands of Jewish troops who'd been illegally occupying
the country for eighteen years. Zunes' denial that the Jos had a
desire for revenge suggests that he ignores the reality of the Jos as
a jingoistic militaristic state.

Fourthly, the Jos's defence policies were not based on the principle
of containment as Zunes suggests but on the notion of deterrence.
Hezbollah's success in ending the Jewish occupation of Lebanon
seriously undermined the Jos's policy of deterrence. Jewish military
leaders had made it plain on many occasions that it was imperative to
restore the Jos's deterrent capability.

Fifthly, the Jos has never been interested in peace in the Middle East
because war enables it to continually steal land from its neighbours.
Its foreign policy is to establish regional hegemony. Once the Syrian
military had been forced to withdraw from Lebanon, it was only a
matter of time before the Jews' invaded the country to re-establish
its military supremacism in the region. "It matters only that Israel
demands total military domination of the Middle East." (Chris Hedges
`A Declaration of Independence from Israel'
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070702_a_declaration_of_independence_from_israel/
July 02, 2007).

Sixthly, quite bizarrely, there is no one else on the planet who even
remotely suspects that Condoleezza Rice was personally running the
Jews' military operations against Hezbollah. Even if she had more of
an input in directing the war than the Jos's democratically elected
prime minister, Ehud Olmert (which she didn't) even this isn't
conceding anything since the prime minister's role in the military
state is to put a democratic gloss on decisions made by military
leaders. "A close reading of the interim report of Judge Eliyahu
Winograd's report on the summer war shows clearly that it was the
Israeli army which ran the military, strategic and political campaign.
Again and again in Winograd's report it is clear that Mr Olmert and
his Defence Minister failed to challenge "in a competent way" (in the
commission's devastating phrase) the plans of the Israeli army."
(Robert Fisk `Olmert Comes Undone'
http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk05032007.html May 3, 2007).

Condoleezza Rice has survived in the Bush regime primarily because she
remains loyal even when the likudniks banish her to the political
sidelines. It is not only commentators who, for many years, have
ridiculed her frequent trips to the Middle East which never result in
any political success. Even members of the Bush regime publicly
proclaim that her role is to sustain the illusion that America is
trying to bring about a peace process in the Middle East in order to
allow the Jos to implement its supremacist policies. "As Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice presses Israelis and Palestinians to meet a new
set of policy benchmarks, the White House is reassuring Jewish groups
and conservatives that the president has no plans to pressure
Jerusalem. Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams told a
group of Jewish communal leaders last week that the president would
ensure that the process does not lead to Israel being pushed into an
agreement with which it is uncomfortable. Also last week, at a regular
gathering of Jewish Republicans, sources said, Abrams described
President Bush as an "emergency brake" who would prevent Israel from
being pressed into a deal; during the breakfast gathering, the White
House official also said that a lot of what is done during Rice's
frequent trips to the region is "just process" - steps needed in order
to keep the Europeans and moderate Arab countries "on the team" and to
make sure they feel that the United States is promoting peace in the
Middle East." (Nathan Guttman `Top Bush Adviser Says Rice's Push for
Mideast Peace Is `Just Process''
http://www.forward.com/articles/top-Bush-adviser-says-rice-s-push-for-mideast-p/
May 11, 2007). To believe that this powerless woman was guiding the
Jos's military operations against Lebanon is bizarre.

Finally, the issue of the Jews' coveting vital resources in Lebanon
should not be overlooked. Indeed, during the war, whilst the Jews were
temporarily occupying parts of southern Lebanon, they took the
opportunity to pump as much water as they could from the Litani River
back into the Jos. It is striking that Zunes doesn't refer to such a
vital resource issue. He almost invariably explains wars in terms of a
fight over resources. Indeed, he insists the sole reason for America's
invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq had been to gain control over these
countries' oil resources. And yet he can't bring himself to believe
the Jos would attack Lebanon over water even though, to the Jos, it is
as much of a vital resource as oil. In addition, one of the main
reasons the Jews won't return the Golan heights to Syria is because
water supplies from the area are so vital for the survival of the Jos.
Zunes, like many other neo-lefties with likudnik sympathies, always
resorts to a materialistic explanation for conflict and yet, quite
exceptionally, refuses to do so as far as the Jos is concerned. This
is yet another example of Zunes' adherence to Jewish exceptionalism.

It should also be considered that if Bush pushed the Jos into a war it
did not want, why did the Jos blitz southern Lebanon with cluster
bombs at the very end of the war when it had no military value? Even
if the Bush regime had been able to push the Jos into the war (which
it couldn't) it couldn't control what the Jos did or did not do during
the war. The Jos's excessive use of cluster bombs at the very end of
the war was a clear example of the Jos going far beyond what the Bush
regime might have wanted to get out of the war. This war crime was an
expression of the Jews' hatred of Hezbollah showing the intensity of
the Jews' motives for this war.

To argue the Jos had no motive for the war in Lebanon, and can thus be
deemed blameless, is as big a lie as Bush's rationale for America's
invasion of Iraq - to destroy saddam's wmds. Zunes wilfully ignores
the Jos's wide range of motives for attacking Hezbollah not merely to
protect the Jos but to allow it to continue with its reign of terror
around the Middle East.

Once again the Jews are Victims. According to Zunes, the situation
that the poor, innocent, peace-loving Jews currently find themselves
in as a consequence of what the Americans made them do against their
will, is that they are now confronted by even more enemies throughout
the Middle East. This makes it still more difficult for them to find
the quislings with whom they could conclude `peace' agreements. Thus,
if it wasn't for those horrible Americans then the Jos wouldn't have
any enemies in the Middle East and everyone in the region could live
happily ever after. Zunes suggests the Jews are appalled by the mess
the Americans, their supposed protectors, have caused them. "There is
still enormous bitterness that the Bush administration - with
overwhelming bipartisan support from Congress - was so willing to
sacrifice Israeli lives and Israel's long-term security interests to
advance American imperial objectives." However, the Jews don't seem
that angry with the Bush regime considering they're still accepting
American largesse.

For Zunes, the victims of the Jews' war against Lebanese civilians
were the Jews themselves. "While the Lebanese people, their
infrastructure, and their environment suffered the most from this
immoral and misguided U.S. policy, Israel was a victim as well." As he
has done before, Zunes reaches back to the medieval period to find an
illuminating parallel to explain what happened during the Jews' war
against Lebanese civilians. "Just as ruling elites of medieval Europe
cynically used some members of the Jewish community as moneylenders
and tax-collectors in order to maintain their power and set up this
vulnerable minority as scapegoats, so the United States is cynically
using the world's only Jewish state to advance its hegemonic agenda in
the Middle East, thereby contributing to the disturbing rise of
anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments in the Islamic world." The Bush
regime has taken a highly precautious approach to disarming North
Korea even though it possesses only a mere eight nuclear weapons of
dubious potency. So the belief that America could coerce the world's
third biggest nuclear power, with the world's fourth largest and most
advanced airforce, into acting against its own interests is just a
fantasy.

Zunes summons up the medieval period to defend his beloved Jos. But
this is not an analogy. For Zunes this is a historical trend. The Jews
have always been the victims of violence and oppression from biblical
times to the present day. Zunes' portrays himself as developing a
sophisticated, modern day, anti-imperialist theory but all he is doing
is updating the ancient Jewish canard of the `Jew as eternal victim'.

The hypothesis that "the Bush administration, with the support of such
a broad bipartisan majority of Congress, goaded Israel into waging an
unnecessary war that cost the lives of scores of its citizens and
emboldened anti-Israel extremists in Lebanon and beyond" is a modern
day conspiracy theory. Even if it was true that the Bush regime had
somehow "goaded" the world's third biggest nuclear power into a war it
opposed, it ought to be remembered that the person formulating
America's Middle East policy was a Jewish likudnik, Elliott Abrams.
So, at the very least, it would be much more accurate to portray the
situation as one in which a member of the likudnik party in the Bush
regime used American power to pressure the Kadima-dominated Jos
government into carrying out the policy of a rival political party,
the likudniks. Also relevant here is that according to a number of
accounts from likudniks with direct connections to the likudnik
dominated Bush regime, during the Jews' war against Lebanon, Abrams
had tried to push the Jos into attacking Syria. It refused. From the
perspective of Zunes' analysis, is it not a little contradictory that
the Bush regime managed to push the Jews into one war but not another?

Zunes' gross anti-Americanism.

The converse of Zunes' pro-Jos bigotry is his gross anti-Americanism.
No wonder the left in America is in such an appalling state of
unpopularity when leading left wingers like Zunes blame America for
implementing what are clearly likudnik inspired policies designed
solely for the benefit of the Jos. Although he's supposed to be a left
winger he's clearly willing to sacrifice the left's prospects of
winning popular support in America for the sake of protecting the Jos
and its succession of extreme right wing, crypto-nazi, governments. No
matter what the Jos does, Zunes will always blame Americans for
forcing the Jews to do it. And the more he blames Americans for the
Jews' endless war crimes, the more bankrupt his left wing ideology
becomes, and the greater the left's unpopularity. If Zunes had a
choice he would undoubtedly alienate every American voter from left
wing politics for generations to come as long as he could boost the
interests of the racist Jos. There is no difference between wacky
Christian fundamentalists who have been fooled by perverse
interpretations of the bible into giving total support to the Jos and
wacky left wingers who have been deceived by perverse interpretations
of American imperialism into sacrificing their political principles
for the sake of protecting the racist Jos.

In 1991, Jewish lobbies in the West coerced and manipulated Western
states into imposing sanctions on Iraq to aid and abet the interests
of the Jos. These sanctions killed an estimated half a million
children. These same lobbies have also forced the west to impose
sanctions on Palestinians in order to boost Jewish supremacism. They
have also succeeded in getting the West to impose sanctions on Lebanon
to try and achieve through the UN what the Jews couldn't achieve
through military intervention. In addition, they have forced the West
to impose sanctions on Iran to weaken the country prior to a
Judaeo-American war. "The relentless destruction of Iraq is mirrored
by similar devastation in Gaza. Twelve years of US-imposed, United
Nations-approved sanctions literally destroyed Iraqi society. Western
sanctions are meant to do the same to Palestinian society." (Pepe
Escobar `Hamastan and Red Zoneistan' Hamastan and Red Zoneistan'
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF29Ak03.html Jun 29, 2007
June 29, 2007).

Under the irresistible pressure of Jewish lobbies, the West is
currently imposing sanctions on millions of people in the Middle East
for the sake of protecting the apartheid state in Palestine. Huge
numbers of innocent Middle Eastern people are being starved, deprived
of medicines, basic health services, domestic power, sanitation/refuse
systems, basic security, basic civil liberties, etc. simply because
they refuse to be forced onto their knees to pledge allegiance to
their racist likudnik masters. These sanctions are just a prelude to
further proxy Zionist wars which will drive even more millions of
people into even greater states of deprivation. These likudnik
policies are being promoted in the west by the likudniks' quislings.
Around the western world there are leaders whose prime concern is not
the interests of their own country but the interests of their
paymasters' country i.e. the Jos. This is the age of likudnik
quislings such as Bush, Blair, Sarkozy, Aznar, Abbas, Siniora,
Mubarak, Prince Bandar, King Abdullah of Jordan, etc. Many of these
quislings are supported by a likudnik dominated media and likudnik
commentators such as the neo-conservatives, the neo-lefties, the
neo-liberals, and even most shockingly of all, the neo-peaceniks. The
most prominent amongst the neo-lefties are Noam Chomsky and Stephen
Zunes. Zunes isn't just a traitor to America's national interests.
He's a traitor to left wing political principles, to humanitarian and
civilized values. He believes himself to be at the forefront of
protest against American imperialism but, by failing to appreciate the
distinctly likudnik nature of this imperialism, which is being
implemented for the benefit of the Jos rather than for America, he
ends up condoning the world's most virulent imperialists. It is a
remarkable testimony to Zunes' intellect that he has managed to turn
his critique of American imperialism into a total cover-up of likudnik
imperialism thereby absolving the Jews of all wrong doing.

Since May 2000 when the Jewish army was unceremoniously kicked out of
Lebanon, the Jos has been planning a war against Hezbollah. It has
sought revenge for the killing of thousands of Jews during the
occupation of Lebanon and has been intent on reasserting its military
supremacy in the region. If all had gone well it might have
depopulated southern Lebanon and stolen the waters of the Litani
River. But the Jews suffered a second major defeat at the hands of
heroic Hezbollah freedom fighters. No sooner was the war over than
left wing likudnik commentators launched into a propaganda campaign.
Firstly, blaming America for pushing the Jos into the war. Secondly,
pointing out how badly the Jos has lost out because of American global
supremacism. The obvious implication of this perspective is that
America owes the Jos huge political and military debts for doing what
America wanted. This leads to the conclusion that America should
reward the Jos with more money and weapons so it can win the next war.

The Wider Picture.

The Jos no more got permission from the Bush regime for its attack on
Lebanon in July 2006 than earlier Jewish governments got permission
from America for the invasion of the Suez canal in 1956, the bombing
of the USS liberty in 1967, the attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear
reactor in 1981, and the invasion of Lebanon in 1982. The Jos has
never asked American permission for its incessant warmongering. At
best, it informs America what it is going to do and then expects
American administrations either to join in militarily or to support it
politically. The Jos does not implement American policies. America
implements likudnik policies. "U.S. foreign policy, especially under
the current Bush administration, has become little more than an
extension of Israeli foreign policy." (Chris Hedges `A Declaration of
Independence from Israel'
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070702_a_declaration_of_independence_from_israel/
July 02, 2007). This truth becomes transparent with a historical
perspective. Forty years ago America was a multi-cultural, liberal,
egalitarian society. The Jos was a vicious militaristic apartheid
state. Since those days, America has changed dramatically so that now
it is almost as militaristic and anti-Islamic as the Jos. The Jos has
not become as democratic, multi-cultural, multi-racial, secular, as
America was once.

If the Jos didn't exist then America would never have invaded
Afghanistan and Iraq because it would have had loyal governments in
these countries guaranteeing its oil supplies. American imperialism
would have been much more focussed on the rising anti-American
opposition developing in South America.

If there was no oil in the Middle East, America would still have
invaded Afghanistan and Iraq because America's Jewish lobby
manipulated the American political system into believing it was being
confronted by geostrategic dangers. Both Chomsky and Zunes believe
that if there was no oil in the Middle East then America would never
have invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. This not merely reveals their
inability to understand geostrategic issues, it also reveals yet
another device for defending Jewish racism in Palestine.

The Jewish occupation of Palestine is as illegitimate and catastrophic
as the Judaeo-American occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Both of
the latter were carried out overwhelmingly to enhance the Jews'
occupation of Palestine. There would never have been an invasion of
Iraq if it wasn't for the paranoia of the Jos and the Jewish lobbies
around the western world which believed there was a possibility Saddam
possessed nuclear weapons. The likudniks believed they didn't need to
take any chance that he had such weapons, despite all the evidence
that he didn't, because they could manipulate America into an invasion
of Iraq to discover what the situation was in Iraq. Zunes is wrong to
suggest that the Bush regime was willing to sacrifice Jewish lives and
the Jos's long-term security interests. On the contrary, the Jos was
perfectly willing to sacrifice American lives and treasure for the
sake of finding out for sure whether Saddam had such weapons. The Jos
is currently demanding that America sacrifices even more American
lives and treasure to attack Iran even though such an attack/invasion
is not in America's geostrategic interests to do so. Ever since the
Jos's establishment it has inflicted increasing catastrophes upon
America. The biggest catastrophe it will inflict on America has still
to come. Be sure that Zunes will blame America for the disaster and
absolve the Jews of all responsibility.

Bob Finch

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