The year 1991 saw the effective end of Israel's sovereignty. This occurred when the United States attacked Iraq in what has become known as the "First Gulf War."
The Iraqi dictator, unable to effectively deal with the United States, attacked Israel. The Scud missiles fired from trucks in Iraq could have been stopped by the air forces of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), but the United States ordered the Israelis not to retaliate, and to make sure that the Israel government complied, withheld codes that would have allowed our air forces to fly over Jordan and Iraq. Israel's self-defense was thus squelched by the minions of George H.W. Bush and his Secretary of State, James "fuck the Jews" Baker.
After this war, Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir was virtually ordered to a summit in Madrid for "direct talks" with the Arab enemy. Shamir wrecked these talks by calling his Syrian counterpart a terrorist. The Syrian, enraged, threw the accusation back at Shamir, whose group in the War of Independence, known as the "Stern Gang", had assassinated the Swedish "mediator" Count Folke Bernadotte, a man who had planned to force Israel to surrender Jerusalem entirely in his proposals for "peace" in 1949.
This wrecking of the Madrid summit by Shamir was the last sovereign act by an Israeli head of government. Since then, no Israeli prime minister has had the guts to take any action independent of the United States. Not Yitzhak Rabin, who depended on the United States for support, not Benyamin Netanyahu, who had been intimidated by Bill Clinton, not Ehud Barak, who owed his position entirely to Bill Clinton, not Ariel Sharon, who was unwilling to do what he was elected to do, to squelch Arab terror with an iron fist as he had done in Gaza decades previous, and certainly not the clown who pretends to the prime minister's seat and is on the verge of ejection from it, Ehud Olmert. But I get ahead of myself.
A further example of how the United States squelched the sovereignty of the country was how it influenced the settlement of Judea and Samaria after the flood of Russian Jews came here. Aid money that was supposed to be used to build infrastructure was withheld on the condition that Russians be prevented from settling in Judea and Samaria.
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1 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
It appears that the editor of this article saw fit to cut out the interview in it with Henry Gluksman, and to cut out what this regime has become. In the process, he gutted the article.
So, let's include them here.
The following is what was cut out of this article that ought to have been there. This is the excerpted portion of Barry Chamish's interview, and the parts immediately following it.
This details the reasons for the Oslo Accords as they were originally envisioned. Beilin's vision for change in Israel goes even beyond that of Uri Avneri and other "Gush Shalom" types. Perhaps his vision for peace would have made sense if we were all Arabs, and the Arabs were not being convinced daily that they have to kill us all. But as we see, the Arabs leaders do want to kill us all and have been poisoning their people with the desire for Jewish blood for decades.
The remainder of this interview deals more with the death of Rabin, but outlines why our country is on the ropes today. The Israeli leadership saw this as a big money making opportunity. And they had the minds of criminals. Let's read the rest of Barry Chamish's interview with Henry Gluksman to get a better sniff of the rat's nest that is Israeli politics.
This little portion of Chamish's interview with Henry Gluksman outlines one of the main problems of the present Israeli régime. It is nothing but a criminal mafia. It had been for a long time but "Palestine" was the cash cow that really drew all the cockroaches out of the wall. To be fair, this country is far less corrupt than countries like India or Pakistan, and even in crisis is better governed than either of these aforementioned states. But the quality of the governance has dropped dramatically, even as the standard of living (for the rich Ashkenazi Jewish élite) has gone up.
What does Oslo really mean?
In the interview with Henry Gluksman, we saw what Yossi Beilin's vision for the Oslo Accords was to have meant and one of the reasons it went so terribly wrong. In this article from Israel Insider, we see what the reality of the Oslo Accords were to be as they started to be enforced. Let's look at the murder of two boys hiking near Teko'a.
It is no different than the heartbreaking case of the 14 year-old son of Sheri Mandell, an American immigrant living in Teko'a. He took a short hike from his home with a friend, they were set upon by Arabs who tied them up and bludgeoned them to death, cracking open their skulls with rocks.
After delighting in the screams of the boys as each rock opened more of their brains, the murderers took further pleasure in the sadistic coup de grace of ripping the bodies apart with knives.
Days later, Sheri Mandell's home was sniped at, with a bullet entering the bedroom of her nine year old daughter. Had she been in the room, she would have joined the list of double murders. Sheri took the hint and abandoned her home in Teko'a tonight. She will likely not be the last.
One of the secret parts of the Oslo Accords dealt with Judea and Samaria. In it, it detailed in as few words as possible, the elimination (as in murder) of the leadership of Judea and Samaria. When you talk to folks who have lived here for fifteen years or so, they can see the arm of elimination and murder of their leaders, even if they do not want to. They've been to too many funerals.
Even in the case of a young kid like Kobi Mandell detailed above, the effects of murder and demoralization have their toll. One of the fellows who found the body is a man who works for the Jewish Agency, and moderates a website for would-be immigrants to this country. On the website, political arguments break out frequently, even though it is a site for the nuts and bolts of moving one's life from an English speaking country to Israel and discussions of religion and politics are banned. Imagine what stoicism it takes to do the job of telling Jews to shut up about the problems of Arabs killing them when you have just found the destroyed body of one of your neighbors - a body destroyed by a mob of savages.
2 - Dave Nalle
Wait, are you trying to tell us that Robert Frost was wrong when he wrote "good fences make good neighgbors"?
Dave
3 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
No Dave,
I am saying that Yossi Beilin had a plan to "decountrify" Israel as Marthe Raymond likes to put it, and that this is what the impetus behind the Oslo Accords was.
That is what this interview with Gluksman deals with in part. The other part deals with what he viewed as the criminalization of the Oslo Plan - where both Israel and the new Palestinian Authority were to be these huge cash cows for the enrichment of the labor politicians and their friends.
The Zionist movement degenerated into a criminal mafia, and that is what it is now.
4 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Since the "treif bird" (a bird not kosher for consumption) Peres (peres means vulture) is mentioned in comment #1, I thought I'd mention this e-mail I just got from a friend who lives in Qiryat Arba:
Unanimous vote in the Council of Torah "Sages" of SHAS: they'll vote for the treif bird for "President of the State of Israel"!
These guys are known for their permanent tendency to cause multitudes to sin, and for being spillers of Jewish blood through Oslo.
Now, they support the election of the biggest liar in Israeli politics, someone who has Jewish blood on his hand, not last Jonathan Pollard's blood!...
I will mention in defense of these "Torah Sages" that four of them were in an elevator that suddenly dropped a whole bunch of floors. They must have gotten the hint that in a criminal regime, "accidents" happen, and wanted a little life insurance by voting for the biggest killer in Israel to be the president.
5 - Stop being Scared
"...to squelch Arab terror with an iron fist..."
You're sooooo stupid. You and your big fancy arguments.
Crush this generation and live in peace. That's what your simple childlike mind envisages.
But what happens to future generations? Those you crushed today come back to crush you in 3, 30, 300 or 3000 years.
Why not make peace? Yes, it's hard for you now, but at least your children, or childrens children or their children's children won't be fried by a nuke in a suitcase.
Think, Think, THINK
6 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
While demonstrators in Tel Aviv desecrated the Sabbath to protest the "occupation", a surprising item surfaced in the anti-Israel New York Times and Reuters:
New York Times:
...Majed Azzam wrote in the Hamas-affiliated weekly Al Risala in Gaza that Palestinians* "should have the courage to acknowledge the truth," that the only thing that "prevents the chaos and turmoil in Gaza from spreading to the West Bank*** is the presence of the Israeli occupation." **
Another Palestinian writer, Bassem al-Nabris, a poet from Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, wrote in the Arabic electronic newspaper Elaph that if there was a referendum in the Gaza Strip on the question of whether people would like the Israeli occupation to return, "half the population would vote ‘yes.’ But in practice," he continued, "I believe that the number of those in favor is at least 70 percent, if not more."
"If the occupation returns," Mr. Nabris added, "at least there will be no civil war, and the occupier will have a moral and legal obligation to provide the occupied people with employment and food, which they now lack."
Reuters:
Frequent internal fighting and lawlessness gripping the Palestinian territories have transformed the militants into no more than gangsters in the eyes of many of those who once saw them as heroes. "Many of these groups are now a burden on society," said legislator Nasser Jum’a, once a leading member of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Jum’a said ordinary Palestinians were so fed up with the armed groups "they now wish the Israeli occupation would take over in Gaza or hope for the return of Jordanian rule in the West Bank" to get rid of them.
IRIS reported on this phenomenon a year-and-a-half ago: Many of my foreign colleagues have tended to ignore the voice of the man in the street, but it is not enough to interview this or that official. To understand what the Palestinians are really thinking, you need to sit in the cafes. There were days when I would go to Nablus, for example, and I would hear Palestinians telling me, "You know what? We really hope the Jews will come back and reoccupy Nablus. It’s not because we love Israel, but because we’re fed up with the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian corruption."
Meanwhile, Palestinians are voting with their feet for Israel:
Palestinians in Jerusalem, by deed if not by declaration, are increasingly opting for life under Israeli sovereignty. Jerusalem is by no means happily unified, but it is becoming grudgingly unified. "It’s not that the Palestinians here have become Zionists; it’s not that they’ve fallen in love with the State of Israel," says an Arab attorney in Jerusalem. "They just want to live normal lives, with security, with a little money in their wallets. They want their kids to be able to go to school. They want what everybody wants."
Many local Arabs are coming to terms with Israeli sovereignty. They are reporting crimes to Israeli police in greater numbers. There is also a big shift in the schools away from the PA-approved curriculum to the one approved by Israel - at the insistence of Jerusalem Arab parents. Except for aging members of the PLO, the locals no longer clamor publicly for al-Quds â€" the Arabic name for Jerusalem â€" to be recognized as the Palestinian capital. Notes the local attorney: "The saying you hear [from Arabs] in the city now is ‘Give me hell in Jerusalem over paradise in the PA.’"
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Thanks to Allen Mallenbaum for picking this up from The Iris Blog Site. The links to the major news organizations quoted below are found at the IRIS link.