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 Post subject: Israel will start WWIII
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Israel is freaking out because the AIPAC trial is on August 7th they are trying as hard as they can to start a massive war by attacking Lebanon and Palestine. Syria will be next. And Syria is not just going to roll over they have a legit army.

The Neocons know that their days are numbered. Bush is already trying to blame the capturing of Israeli soldiers on Iran. Note that When Palestine first captured a soldier what that means. It means people from Gaza, who had been attacked repeatedly, went and captured an Israeli soldier who is part of an illegal military occupation to begin with.

Lebanon captured Israeli solders in their country as well. (Israel says on their border) well it's not like Israel invaded Lebanon in 1983 and bombed Beirut. Oh wait, yes they did and the Americans were helping them.

I said a while back that Zionists (that's the Usrael) would wage war with Hamas and Hezbollah as a proxy war with Iran, in Syria an Lebanon. And then they would attack Iran with the US doing all the real fighting. Its in the Iran section. The Israelis are too easy to predict.

We have to stop this here. I also said the race to Iran is with the AIPAC trial and that is in the Zionist scandals section. The US has elections coming up it which poll show the Republicans are about to be close to completely being wiped out. The Democrats are not doing much better the congressional approval rating is in the 20s. We are basically removing incumbents.

So what do they do? They need to pick a fight. PNAC (which was written in Israel originally called for these Middle East wars. The same cabal in the OSP which faked evidence to drag us into war with Iraq is falling apart left and right from different court cases, the Plame affair (in which Rove was just confirmed being involved in) the AIPAC spy-ring, the Niger forgeries...)

We have got them on the run so they are trying to get their war before they get the axe. Just Say no to Israel. They have just bitten off more than they can chew. The Israeli people are against this as well. We already had pilots refusing orders. It we can keep the US out of this. Israel will oh so deservingly fall flat on its crooked fascist face.

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Man, the possible escalation of war, especially with Iran, has kept semi-depressed since Feb....

If people can do anything, say anything, to prevent further war, further escalation, I'd be overjoyed.

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I believe the ww3 has started.

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Israel's pretty tough and has one of the best armies in the world. I don't think they'll go down easily-- if at all.

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Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.

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Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.


i think that all it would take is an egyptian invasion + iranian invasion. this should be more than enough to crush israel. with only a population of 6-7 million it could never hold out against the greater populations of iran and egypt.

its like in ww2, germany had the better technology over the russians but the russians had a way greater population and guess who won?


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Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.


i think that all it would take is an egyptian invasion + iranian invasion. this should be more than enough to crush israel. with only a population of 6-7 million it could never hold out against the greater populations of iran and egypt.

its like in ww2, germany had the better technology over the russians but the russians had a way greater population and guess who won?


yea hitler fucked up...he should of took of the western front before going over the russians..


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Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.


The US does, along with its neocons and jewish businessmen.

Plus, Israel has equipment and excellent training, not to mention a fierce dedication.

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Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.


i think that all it would take is an egyptian invasion + iranian invasion. this should be more than enough to crush israel. with only a population of 6-7 million it could never hold out against the greater populations of iran and egypt.

its like in ww2, germany had the better technology over the russians but the russians had a way greater population and guess who won?


yea hitler fucked up...he should of took of the western front before going over the russians..


He thought he could stop the war with Britain through peaceful means, but clearly that wasn't the case.

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how are we gonna keep the US out of further war in the region?


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It doesn't help that the general public is apathetic/ignorant of what's going on over there. And the media always presents the violence in Israel's sympathy. They always present it as though Israel is merely reacting to Palestinian created violence. Nobody seems to comprehend that Israel is the one displacing a native culture. The Zionists are the ones systematically taking a peoples' nation and land away from them.

The Palestinians are the ones forced to live their lives in Israel's totalitarian police state. Everywhere they go there are checkpoints and they need permits for everything they do. Then whenever Israel wants to take their land they swoop in with bulldozers and raze it. The Israeli settlements now encircle the West Bank and all are set up in militarily strategic locations.

They torture and humiliate Palestinians on a daily basis. They are a fascist state in every sense of the word. Unfortunately none of the Arab nations can do anything about it due to the fact that the US has supplied them with the 3rd or 4th best military in the world and continues to support their fascism in every concievable way politically.

Now Israel is escalating things and will end up backing the Arab nations into a corner. And then that's when I believe things will turn UGLY.

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I can't wait to see Israel get it's ass handed to it!

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All I can say is a big fat "I told You So"

I am so glad I got it out in a book before this happened. Alex Jones and all those guys have been ignoring Israel. They just dont get it because Christian bigots can not see anything the chosen people do as bad or that they do themselves as bad. They say oh those arent real jews those arent real christians. News flash. Yes they are.

Israel took us into Iraq I made the case air tight in the book and any regular reader on here knows it. They are taking us into Iran and starting WWIII. They also riged 911 and I can prove it.

People ISRAEL not the illuminati, not the Vatican, not the space lizards, It's ISRAEL who is the force here behind these Zionists Neocons taking us to war. Stop promoting the bullshit you hear from Christian radio programs which is utterly blind to reality chasing stanic cults ect and talk about real people with real evidence of driving us into war.

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keep reading our site and get some sane news that doesn't talk about secret satanic hand signals akin to the Texas Longhorns or spooky junk on the dolllar bill. We report factual things untainted by Protestant Bullshit.

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"War with Iran will probably not begin with a frontal assault by the U.S. and/or Israel on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons facilities, or even a skirmish along the Iraq-Iran border. Look to Lebanon and Syria for the first battlegrounds of this developing regional war. The Israelis know perfectly well that Iran's nuclear ambitions, if they ever materialize, are not an immediate threat: their real concern is their volatile northern border, where their deadly enemies – Hezbollah – are an effective obstacle to Israeli influence. The Israelis are also looking to exploit growing opportunities to make trouble in Syria, where the restive Kurds are their reliable allies, and the brittleness of the Ba'athist dictatorship is an invitation to regime change."

The suggestion, by Professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, in their now famous "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," that the Iraq war was fought for Israel's sake, and against our own interests in the region, was received in many quarters with outright horror, and not only from the Amen Corner. Noam Chomsky and Stephen Zunes both objected to this thesis of an Israel-centric foreign policy: Israel, they insist, is the "junior partner" of the American hegemon, and is only acting at the behest and under the de facto control of its masters in Washington.

The war's aftermath, however, tells a different story. Examined in light of Israel's postwar actions – the unilateral "withdrawal" from Gaza, the absorption of more territory and the building of more settlements on the West Bank, the war against Hamas, and now the re-invasion of Lebanon – the chief (and only) beneficiary of the new regional balance of power is clear enough. The American invasion and occupation of the Mesopotamian heartland has empowered the Israelis as never before – and now they are on the offensive, carving out a greatly expanded sphere of influence extending into Kurdistan as well as Lebanon, bringing closer to fulfillment the old Zionist vision of an empire stretching "from the Nile to the Euphrates."

The U.S., on the other hand, has considerably reduced leverage in the region. Our troops in Iraq are exposed, vulnerable to the Iranians – and stalemated by the Iraqi insurgency, which shows troubling signs of extending into Shi'ite areas. As the Israelis advance, with American support, Sunni and Shi'ite factions in Iraq – including those in the governing Shi'ite coalition – are radicalized, and turn their fire on the Americans.

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This thread is plugged on WRH. Ry, you definitely told us so. Oh, and the Bible too. Just kidding. 8)

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I agree with Iconoclast. The United States and it's businessmen will power Israel's war as usual. Our military should just be honest and dress our soldiers in Israeli fatigues. :roll:

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Iconoclast wrote:
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Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.


The US does, along with its neocons and jewish businessmen.

Plus, Israel has equipment and excellent training, not to mention a fierce dedication.


Not to mention 200+ nukes, which it's enemies don't have..................


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Not to mention 200+ nukes, which it's enemies don't have..................


Israel wont use its nukes, thats just a death warrant every law maker in america would try to stop funding to israel if they do use them, can you imagine how bad it would be for public image ? and not to mention the posible millions of lives it would destroy .

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This article is from Israel and was published today on a US site:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e13974.htm

What Are They Fighting For

By Prof. Tanya Reinhart

07/13/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Whatever may be the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army’s war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman widely reported, the army was preparing for an attack months earlier and was constantly pushing for it, with the goal of destroying the Hamas infrastructure and its government. The army initiated an escalation on 8 June when it assassinated Abu Samhadana, a senior appointee of the Hamas government, and intensified its shelling of civilians in the Gaza Strip. Governmental authorization for action on a larger scale was already given by 12 June, but it was postponed in the wake of the global reverberation caused by the killing of civilians in the air force bombing the next day. The abduction of the soldier released the safety-catch, and the operation began on 28 June with the destruction of infrastructure in Gaza and the mass detention of the Hamas leadership in the West Bank, which was also planned weeks in advance. (1)

In Israeli discourse, Israel ended the occupation in Gaza when it evacuated its settlers from the Strip, and the Palestinians’ behavior therefore constitutes ingratitude. But there is nothing further from reality than this description. In fact, as was already stipulated in the Disengagement Plan, Gaza remained under complete Israeli military control, operating from outside. Israel prevented any possibility of economic independence for the Strip and from the very beginning, Israel did not implement a single one of the clauses of the agreement on border-crossings of November 2005. Israel simply substituted the expensive occupation of Gaza with a cheap occupation, one which in Israel’s view exempts it from the occupier’s responsibility to maintain the Strip, and from concern for the welfare and the lives of its million and a half residents, as determined in the fourth Geneva convention.

Israel does not need this piece of land, one of the most densely populated in the world, and lacking any natural resources. The problem is that one cannot let Gaza free, if one wants to keep the West Bank. A third of the occupied Palestinians live in the Gaza strip. If they are given freedom, they would become the center of Palestinian struggle for liberation, with free access to the Western and Arab world. To control the West Bank, Israel needs full control Gaza. The new form of control Israel has developed is turning the whole of the Strip into a prison camp completely sealed from the world.

Besieged occupied people with nothing to hope for, and no alternative means of political struggle, will always seek ways to fight their oppressor. The imprisoned Gaza Palestinians found a way to disturb the life of the Israelis in the vicinity of the Strip, by launching home-made Qassam rockets across the Gaza wall against Israeli towns bordering the Strip. These primitive rockets lack the precision to focus on a target, and have rarely caused Israeli casualties; they do however cause physical and psychological damage and seriously disturb life in the targeted Israeli neighborhoods. In the eyes of many Palestinians, the Qassams are a response to the war Israel has declared on them. As a student from Gaza said to the New York Times, “Why should we be the only ones who live in fear? With these rockets, the Israelis feel fear, too. We will have to live in peace together, or live in fear together.” (2)

The mightiest army in the Middle East has no military answer to these home-made rockets. One answer that presents itself is what Hamas has been proposing all along, and Haniyeh repeated this week - a comprehensive cease-fire. Hamas has proven already that it can keep its word. In the 17 months since it announced its decision to abandon armed struggle in favor of political struggle, and declared a unilateral cease-fire (“tahdiya” - calm), it did not participate in the launching of Qassams, except under severe Israeli provocation, as happened in the June escalation. However, Hamas remains committed to political struggle against the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. In Israel's view, the Palestinians elections results is a disaster, because for the first time they have a leadership that insists on representing Palestinian interests rather than just collaborating with Israel's demands.

Since ending the occupation is the one thing Israel is not willing to consider, the option promoted by the army is breaking the Palestinians by devastating brutal force. They should be starved, bombarded, terrorized with sonic booms for months, until they understand that rebelling is futile, and accepting prison life is their only hope for staying alive. Their elected political system, institutions and police should be destroyed. In Israel's vision, Gaza should be ruled by gangs collaborating with the prison wards.

The Israeli army is hungry for war. It would not let concerns for captive soldiers stand in its way. Since 2002 the army has argued that an “operation” along the lines of “Defensive Shield” in Jenin was also necessary in Gaza. Exactly a year ago, on 15 July (before the Disengagement), the army concentrated forces on the border of the Strip for an offensive of this scale on Gaza. But then the USA imposed a veto. Rice arrived for an emergency visit that was described as acrimonious and stormy, and the army was forced to back down (3). Now, the time has finally came. With the Islamophobia of the American Administration at a high point, it appears that the USA is prepared to authorize such an operation, on condition that it not provoke a global outcry with excessively-reported attacks on civilians.(4)

With the green light for the offensive given, the army's only concern is public image. Fishman reported this Tuesday that the army is worried that "what threatens to burry this huge military and diplomatic effort" is reports of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Hence, the army would take care to let some food into Gaza. (5) From this perspective, it is necessary to feed the Palestinians in Gaza so that it would be possible to continue to kill them undisturbed.
A shorter version of this article was scheduled to appear Thursday, July 13 in Yediot Aharonot, but postponed to next week because of the developments in Southern Lebanon. (*)

*Parts of this article were translated from Hebrew by Mark Marshall.

(1) Alex Fishman, Who is for the elimination of Hamas, Yediot Aharonot Saturday Supplement, June 30, 2006. See also Alex Fishman, The safety-catch released, Yediot Aharonot June 21, 2006 (Hebrew), Aluf Benn, An operation with two goals, Ha'aretz, June 29 2006.

(2) Greg Myre, Rockets Create a 'Balance of Fear' With Israel, Gaza Residents Say. The New York Times, July 9, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/world ... ex=1310097

(3) Steven Erlanger, “U.S. Presses Israel to Smooth the Path to a Palestinian Gaza”, New York Times, August 7 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/inter ... yt&emc=rss The planned July 2005 offensive is documented in detail in my The Road Map to Nowhere - Israel Palestine since 2003, Verso, September 2006.

(4) For a detailed survey of the U.S. administration's present stands, see Ori Nir, U.S. Seen Backing Israeli Moves To Topple Hamas, The Forward, July 7, 2006. http://www.forward.com/articles/8063

(5) Alex Fishman, Their food is finished, Yediot Aharonot, July 11, 2006.

Copyright Tanya Reinhart http://www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/


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The7thEarlofNails wrote:
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Israel does not have the wealth or population to sustain a protracted war with an enemy that actually has an army to fight back with.


The US does, along with its neocons and jewish businessmen.

Plus, Israel has equipment and excellent training, not to mention a fierce dedication.


Not to mention 200+ nukes, which it's enemies don't have..................


don't be so sure its enemies don't have nukes.

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seems to me that palestine may finally get some overt support from its arab neighbors. some pretty damn powerful words from the iranian president and hezbollah leader both. israel and the united states may have really done it this time.

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Actually, Gys, it's "That which is to shed light must endure burning - Viktor Frankl"


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Gyps,

His famous book is "Man's Search For Meaning," about surviving the concentration camp. It's a great book, BTW.


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The Israeli offensive against Iran – until now, purely polemical – morphed into military action the moment the IDF crossed the border into Lebanon and took on Hezbollah. As our regular readers know, this turn of events was predicted in this space three months ago:

"War with Iran will probably not begin with a frontal assault by the U.S. and/or Israel on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons facilities, or even a skirmish along the Iraq-Iran border. Look to Lebanon and Syria for the first battlegrounds of this developing regional war. The Israelis know perfectly well that Iran's nuclear ambitions, if they ever materialize, are not an immediate threat: their real concern is their volatile northern border, where their deadly enemies – Hezbollah – are an effective obstacle to Israeli influence. The Israelis are also looking to exploit growing opportunities to make trouble in Syria, where the restive Kurds are their reliable allies, and the brittleness of the Ba'athist dictatorship is an invitation to regime change."

The suggestion, by Professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, in their now famous "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," that the Iraq war was fought for Israel's sake, and against our own interests in the region, was received in many quarters with outright horror, and not only from the Amen Corner. Noam Chomsky and Stephen Zunes both objected to this thesis of an Israel-centric foreign policy: Israel, they insist, is the "junior partner" of the American hegemon, and is only acting at the behest and under the de facto control of its masters in Washington.

The war's aftermath, however, tells a different story. Examined in light of Israel's postwar actions – the unilateral "withdrawal" from Gaza, the absorption of more territory and the building of more settlements on the West Bank, the war against Hamas, and now the re-invasion of Lebanon – the chief (and only) beneficiary of the new regional balance of power is clear enough. The American invasion and occupation of the Mesopotamian heartland has empowered the Israelis as never before – and now they are on the offensive, carving out a greatly expanded sphere of influence extending into Kurdistan as well as Lebanon, bringing closer to fulfillment the old Zionist vision of an empire stretching "from the Nile to the Euphrates."

The U.S., on the other hand, has considerably reduced leverage in the region. Our troops in Iraq are exposed, vulnerable to the Iranians – and stalemated by the Iraqi insurgency, which shows troubling signs of extending into Shi'ite areas. As the Israelis advance, with American support, Sunni and Shi'ite factions in Iraq – including those in the governing Shi'ite coalition – are radicalized, and turn their fire on the Americans.

Yet the U.S. is still shilling for the Israelis, blaming Syria and Iran for acts that occurred well outside the purview of the mullahs and the increasingly isolated regime of Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile, in the UN, we are bringing the issue of Iran's nuclear power program to the Security Council, pressing for a confrontation that can only end in $200-per-barrel oil.

In 1996, a group of pro-Israeli Americans – including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser – prepared a policy statement for then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that proposed a strategy of regime change as the only solution for Israel's growing encirclement and isolation. The main problem, they averred in "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," was Syria, and the troublesome border with Lebanon:

"Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon."

But this could occur only if Iraq was taken out first:

"Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria's regional ambitions."

With Saddam out of the way, the second phase of the "Clean Break" scenario is unfolding before our eyes. And the propaganda war is going just as well as the military aspect of the campaign: the Israelis are no fools. They realize they can't proceed without the tacit complicity of the U.S. and the Europeans, who must be made to look the other way as the IDF commits war crimes on the ground. Under the pretext of avenging the "kidnapping" of one of their soldiers – and, more recently, two more – they have unleashed a military assault planned well in advance of the allegedly precipitating incidents.

This is surely one of the most threadbare excuses for a war ever uttered. One wonders how Israel's spokesmen can say it with a straight face. Soldiers in wartime are captured, not "kidnapped." If Hezbollah has "kidnapped" those two Israeli soldiers, then how do we describe the jailing of thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of women and children, on the basis of their alleged sympathy for Hamas – now the democratically elected government of Palestine? In any case, it appears, according to this report, that Hezbollah has some Israeli competition when it comes to the business of kidnapping.

The Bush administration is formally committed to the "road map," which entails the creation of a Palestinian state. Yet the Israelis have done everything possible to undermine Bush's plan, including obstructing elections. The American response has been appeasement: as Israeli gunboats make short work of Gaza beach-goers, Washington's response is to demand the unconditional release of captured Israeli soldiers. There is an undertone of disapproval, as Condoleezza Rice urges "restraint" by all parties and the president worries that the Lebanese government will be destabilized, yet none of this is allowed to deflect U.S. policymakers from their craven course of kowtowing to the Israelis while they spend our money and earn us plenty more enemies among the world's billion-plus Muslims.

Israel's fifth column in America has been enormously successful in "spinning" the latest news from the Middle East. Instead of reporting that Israel is invading Lebanon, the "mainstream" media avers that Israel has "entered" Lebanon – as casually as one would enter a room in one's own house. The first few paragraphs of many news stories describe the latest attacks on Israeli targets and accounts of the damage done, while, five paragraphs down, we finally get word that 55 civilians have been killed by the latest Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon.

The Mearsheimer-Walt thesis – that U.S. foreign policy has been hijacked (kidnapped, if you will) by what they refer to as "the Lobby" – has so far been confirmed by the events of the past few days. The United States is giving what appears to be unconditional support to phase two of the "Clean Break" plan, targeting Syria and Iran, albeit while cautioning the Israelis on Lebanon.

The Israelis, outraged by what they regard as foot-dragging in Washington, are forcing Uncle Sam's hand. If we won't fire the first shots of World War IV, then they are perfectly willing to do so – confident that we'll follow them blindly into the maelstrom.

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