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"But none of them, not even Mr. Hollywood Cabal, has said that God wants them to do this, establish Israel and wipe out other peoples. But if that wasn't true, why would they be doing it?"
I didn't suggest that they would do something quite so crude and obvious as to exterminate them. Although I'm sure many Likudists are chaffing at the bit to do that very thing.
No. Sometimes its not a bad idea to open the lens and see if there are other reasons the Israelis are doing what they are doing. I think there are several. First to present Obama with a fait accomplie and to let him know in no uncertain terms that they will deal with him in as uncompromising a manner as they are aggressive towards the Palis of Gaza. Second this war is a heavy breathing exercise to those on the West Bank to remain passive if they know what's good for them as they, the Israelis continue to knick their land.
Finally its a wail of utter rage aimed at the out going American administration who didn't manage to achieve certain objectives in Iraq. Bremmer made a year zero economic situation in Iraq. American corporations were supposed to move in and set up manufacturing shop. This they would have been able to do paying no taxes and being able to take all profits out of the country.
Had those firms moved in the could have retrieved the profitable manufacturing bit of the process that has been outsourced to China. The Yanks would have used equally as cheap Arab labour instead. It would have meant more profit and the ability to reduce Americas financial liabilities viz a viz China. They would then have induced Palis to come to work as temporary/permanent workers to Iraq like the Turks in Germany.
But the Corporations didn't come. Their lawyers saw difficulties. Occupying forces are restricted in what they might do in those countries that they occupy. So the Corps didn't come. The Israelis are also pissed that the US didn't manage to get a pipeline running down to Haifa where the Israelis expected to develop their refining capacities, get their slice of the oil pie and hence become a crucial player in that sphere. One could go on - the water line from the Euphrates and so on.
And why would the US do all this for Israel. Why to reduce the subsidies that they needed to pay it in order that it could exist. And to help Israel become more powerful by using regional resources to generate its own revenue.
(The US high command knew that subsidising Israel would become more onerous and difficult to sell to the American public when the credit crunch came. They knew that was coming because afterall - they fucking planned it.)
Does my take seem totally off the wall? Sure it does. But then I am deducing what the plans were of those far more off the wall than I am. These were the dreams of the necon KoolAid drinkers.
You CANNOT understand what has been happening in America/Iraq and its relationship with Israel WITHOUT looking it in terms of trying to understand a very ruthless criminal endeavour.
