Alternative Press Review Editorial\r\n\r\nWar - The Final Solution\r\n\r\n<\/p>
The continuing escalation of the never-ending Israeli war against the entire\r\nnon-Jewish population of mandated Palestine has become the model for the\r\nBush administration's never-ending war against all those who stand in the\r\nway of U.S. economic and military hegemony around the world.<\/p>\r\n
With the passive support of the majority of its non-Arab\r\ncitizens, the\r\nIsraeli state continues to tag along behind the simple logic of its\r\nincredibly deadly military forces. Given its bloated military capability to\r\ncarry out increasingly vicious campaigns of mass harassment, impoverishment,\r\nimprisonment, torture and murder of the Palestinian population, there is\r\nlittle motivation for Israelis to even consider other approaches to the\r\nPalestinian resistance. Especially considering the protection provided by\r\nits partner in repression, the United States, from the threat of enforcement\r\nof any U.N. resolutions.<\/p>\r\n
Moron that he is, George Bush (with the continuing coaching of\r\nhis handlers) still remains highly aware that the \"success\" of the Israeli\r\nmilitary escalations depends upon a combination of its overwhelming\r\nsuperiority in weapons (including \"weapons of mass destruction\"), its\r\nability to circumvent any threats of international intervention, and its\r\nmassive international propaganda campaigns. The Bush administration has made\r\nthese three planks the center of its own terrorist war on (non-US-backed\r\nforms of) \"Terrorism.\" With its \"Death Star\" military programs, its\r\nneutering of the U.N., and its increasingly well-orchestrated\r\nHollywood-PR-intelligence\/psywar-military complex, the U.S. state can afford\r\nto sink its own economy, while intensifying the exploitation of\r\ninternational resources, and sowing mass social destruction around the\r\nworld-all in the pursuit of short-term oil and armament industry profits,\r\neven shorter-term Republican Party political gains, and a likely chimerical\r\nlonger-term plan of Russian and Chinese encirclement and neutralization. As\r\nlong as the Israelis-with massive U.S. help-continue to get away with\r\nmurder, the U.S. won't be far behind.<\/p>\r\n
It doesn't matter much that even arch-ally Britain's ambassador\r\nto Israel recently angered Israelis by describing the Palestinian\r\nterritories as \"the largest detention camp in the world\" (according to Alan\r\nPhilips in the October 15th Telegraph in England). It doesn't matter that\r\nIsrael is only able to pursue its never-ending war against an entire\r\npopulation through the generous funding of the U.S. government-at a current\r\ntotal rate of as much as $5.5 billion per year according to a recent\r\nWashington Report on Middle\r\nEast Affairs report ($5,525,800,000 for 1997). It doesn't matter that this\r\nnever-ending war requires the creation of an ever-widening list of civilian\r\ntargets for assassination (\"targeted killings\" of civilian \"suspects\" in\r\nU.S.\/Israeli propaganda-speak.)<\/p>\r\n
It doesn't seem to matter that these never-ending wars require\r\nthe day-by-day, increasing Nazification of both the Israeli and the U.S.\r\nstates. The semi-racist, semi-religious, apartheid state of Israel has been\r\ncompared with Nazi Germany for years for a variety of reasons confirmed over\r\nand over in its brutally devastating invasions, annexations, expulsions and\r\noccupations over the last half century. The U.S. state has also earned its\r\nown comparisons to the Nazis-from the invasion, defoliation and genocidal\r\nbombings in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to its seemingly insuppressible\r\npenchant for terrorizing and invading tiny countries, including the repeated\r\norganization and funding of proxy death squads to torture, assassinate and\r\n\"disappear\" its opponents, including teachers, union organizers, students\r\nand health-care workers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
This increasing Nazification can be seen in the prospective\r\nUS-planned massacre in Iraq (\"war\" is a gross misnomer) which promises to\r\nreach new levels of carnage, depravity and brutality with a proposed \"Shock\r\nand Awe\" strategy. It calls for the launching of 3000 precision-guided bombs\r\nand missiles during the first 48 hours of attack to produce a\r\nHiroshima-style effect on the Iraqi civilian population. According to\r\nmilitary strategist Harlan Ullman: \"There will not be a safe place in\r\nBaghdad. The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been\r\ncontemplated before.\"<\/p>\r\n
The population of Iraq is still enduring the effects of the 1991\r\nGulf massacre where water treatment facilities and sewage plants were\r\ndeliberately destroyed in order to create \"favorable conditions for disease\r\noutbreaks, particularly in major urban areas\" (according to a 1991 US\r\nDefense Intelligence Agency document). This was followed by a deliberate US\r\npolicy of blocking humanitarian supplies to deny necessary repairs,\r\nmedicines and medical equipment resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths, many\r\nof them children-a US-enforced embargo declared \"genocidal\" by Denis\r\nHalliday, former Deputy Under Secretary of the UN.<\/p>\r\n
This increasing Nazification can also be seen in the methods\r\nused by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the\r\nIsraeli military adopting the tactics used by the Nazis against the Warsaw\r\nghettos. This intensified campaign of torture, illegal detentions,\r\ndeportations, assassinations, house demolitions, economic strangulation, and\r\nmass starvation-carried out with the unconditional support of the US-is\r\ncreating a major health crisis and a silent famine as severe hunger grips\r\never larger portions of the Palestinian population in the Israeli-imposed\r\n\"detention camps\" of the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\r\n
When wars are fought against vastly outgunned enemies, when\r\ncivilian populations are their primary target, and when no peace is\r\nconsidered possible short of total annihilation of the enemy, the level of\r\nbarbarism which must eventually take shape increasingly resembles those\r\ncarried out by Nazi Germany against its enemies in the 1930s and 1940s. Both\r\nthe US and Israel have committed and continue to engage in terrorist\r\natrocities and war crimes of immense proportions. And the vast majority of\r\nthe corporate media is complicit in this effort serving as willing\r\npropagandists and enthusiastic cheerleaders for the war criminals in the\r\nUnited States and Israel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
This editorial will appear in the forthcoming issue of Alternative Press Review (Volume 8, Number 1) due out\r\nin April 2003.<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.altpr.org","address":"PO Box 4710, Arlington, VA 22204","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"The continuing escalation of the never-ending Israeli war against the entire non-Jewish population of mandated Palestine has become the model for the Bush administration's never-ending war against all those who stand in the way of U.S. economic and military hegemony around the world.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/37984.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}