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.Israel and the '52Groups' pushed the US to supply more 5-ton bombs for its bombers to drop ona defenseless country without a functioning air force.The leadingideologues of the Jewish Lobby pushed for the US to bomb Iran and Syria,the 'hand behind Hezbollah' hoping to start Israeli Ambassador Gillerman'sWorld War Three.111The Power of Israel in the United States /James PetrasThe unanimity of the major Jewish organizations' support for Israeliethnocide extends to the 'peace time' Israeli peace organizations andprogressives like Amos Oz, who calls on Israel's peace organizations toclose ranks behind the butchers of Beirut in the name of the 'defense' ofIsrael.As Washington rushes a new supply of 5-ton bombs and 'precisionmissiles', there can be no doubt that the Israeli leaders' destruction of thecivilian homes, apartments and infrastructure is a precisely calculated target.4 Asprecision-guided missiles are playing a key part in Israel's military strategy, it isclear that the repeated bombing of hospitals, mosques, refugee caravans andambulances on the highways, and the Muslim and Christian sectors of Beirutand other cities are an integral part of that strategy.Professor Juan Cole argues persuasively that the war on Lebanonwas planned for at least a year, citing the presentations by senior Israeliarmy officers to WashingtonA year prior to the war on Lebanon, think tanks, diplomats andsenior Israeli army officers made journalists outlining the coming5presentations to Washington think invasion.tanks, diplomats and journalists The Israeli pretext ofoutlining the coming invasion.rescuing two captured soldiers islaughable given the instant massive offensive and the sustained destructionof all of Lebanon, including large areas of central and northern Lebanonwhere there are few if any Hezbollah.It ill behooves us to ignore the recent historical context for the Israelibombing and wanton murder of Lebanese.For several years the JewishLobby has pressured the White House and Congress to disarm and destroyHezbollah; to accomplish that goal it was necessary to change the correlation offorces in Lebanon by forcing the Syrians out which was successfullyaccomplished through the assassination of a prominent Lebanese politician(Hariri) then pinning the murder on Syrian intelligence though it wasdemonstrably counter to Syrian interests, no proof was ever presented, andperjured testimony, later retracted, was the sole evidence.Subsequent toSyria's departure, a Lebanese assassin in the pay of the Israeli secret service,Mossad, was captured by the anti-Syrian Lebanese police, and admitted tocommitting numerous bombing assassinations on Lebanese citizens targeted bythe Israelis.With Syria out of Lebanon, Washington secured a one-sided UNresolution calling for the disarming of Hezbollah, without any military orterritorial concession from Israel (such as the return of Israeli-occupiedLebanese Shebaa Farms) or the return of Lebanese or Hezbollah prisonerswho had been languishing in Israeli prisons for up to ten years.That UNresolution, probably the only one Israel abides by for obvious reasons,112"Mad Dog" Ravages Lebanonsubsequently provided part of the cover for Israel's invasion as it bombedLebanon into a miserable state more like Afghanistan than the vibrantMediterranean republic it had been just days before.Israel's strategy wastransparent: it sought to isolate Hezbollah in the world, securing UN supportvia Washington, secured in turn by pressure from the Lobby on the BushAdministration, with a view to promoting an internal conflict in Lebanon betweenHezbollah and the Lebanese government, in which the US/UN would thenintervene in favor of its favored Beirut clients likely the Christian Maronites,who presumably were to have been goaded into action against Hezbollah bythe Israeli assault against its own sector.Failing on both counts, Israel decided, in consultation withWashington, to launch a frontal murderous assault on Lebanon on the pretext ofthe captured soldiers and Israel's need to eliminate the "terrorist"organization, Hezbollah.The Israeli military attack presented several favorablefuture possibilities apart from the destruction of the anti-imperialist Hezbollah.One was the opportunity to isolate and create a pretext to attack Syria andIran if they exerted any efforts on behalf of the Lebanese.Secondly Washingtonsaw the Israeli invasion as a means to distract horrified world opinion awayfrom the US genocidal occupation of Iraq.Thirdly the Bush Administrationsought to secure the Jewish Lobby's continued powerful media influence insupport of the US occupation of Iraq when a majority of US citizens wereincreasingly hostile.Finally, in acceding to supply Israel with weapons ofmass destruction, like 5-ton bombs, the Republicans and Democrats sought tosecure campaign funding from their millionaire and billionaire Jewish politicalsupporters.Not to be left behind in the race for the hearts and minds of Israelsupporters, Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean once thebeneficiary of an internet campaign by progressives supporting his drive forthe presidency based on his condemnation of the war in Iraq attracted widemedia attention for his fulmination that the Iraqi Prime Minister was an "anti-Semite" for refusing to denounce Hezbollah [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]