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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
In Today's Society It Is Hard To Tell The Good Guys From The Bad Guys, Even In Lisbon.
Where Have All the Good Guys Gone?
I went to see the Captain America movie this summer and though I
really enjoyed the movie it made me terribly sad. The movie was
very entertaining and well made, but it made me nostalgic for
something I have never actually experienced. It made my long for
something we can only have in the movies...
In the movies, good guys are good and bad guys are bad. The
contrast is clear. America vs. Nazi's. America is good and Nazi's
are bad, it's easy.
But in the real world it's not that easy. I know that ALL PEOPLE
are capable of beauty and wonder, but I also believe that ALL
NATIONS are ugly on the inside.
Where have all the good guys gone?
Israel and the Upcoming Nuclear War!
by Gordon Duff
Gordon Duff
The total destruction of Israel, something used by the Zionist lobby
to bilk the US out of billions for years, is no longer a dream, it is
inevitable. The only question is “when?” With it a limited world war
may emerge with some surprises in store. It all started long ago but we
can focus back one year when Israel murdered 9 Turkish citizens in an
act of piracy, peace activists on an aid ship heading for Gaza. Aid
ships heading for Gaza now get a military escort from the Turkish Navy
and Turkey’s president is heading for Gaza and Egypt now, to slap Israel
down.
A year ago, Israel and Turkey were best of friends. Their spy
agencies in the US shared nuclear secrets, sold them to China, North
Korea, Pakistan, Brazil, worked as partners blackmailing half of
Washington’s army of corrupt officials and traitorous military
officers. Patriotism in Washington is rare nowadays, considered
stupid. Washington is all about “globalism” and “no borders,” about
corporations, not “America.” To most in Washington, America is a joke, a
bankrupt
“has been” nation drowning in debt with a military now useless, spread
across the globe running errands for a cabal of international bankers.
Until a week ago, the Turkish Army believed it had control of
Turkey, despite the elected government. Israel believed the same. They
were wrong. A year ago, Israel believed Turkey would always be
controlled because
of their desire to join the European Union. Now that dream is
considered hopeless. Who would want to join anyway, the EU is broke,
falling apart and toothless. Turkey, instead, is an economic
powerhouse, outdistancing all but Germany in technology, productivity
and science.
Turkey also has a huge army, a mobile army and a military tradition
of relentlessness and, to be truthful, cruelty. Israel has been
pointing that out of late, how Turkey wiped out the Armenians, much as
Israel is wiping out the Palestinians. Problem is, Turkey’s army is
big, highly disciplined, capable of supporting military operations
across the entire Middle East, allied with Iraq, Iran and Egypt and
considers Israel’s killings of Turkish citizens last year as an act of
war.
This leaves only America or Israel’s nuclear weapons to protect them.
Problem?
Paid stooges in Washington talk about Israel’s strategic importance
to the US. That’s a dream, much as the strength of Israel’s army is a
dream. There are two strategic allies in the Middle East, Egypt with
their control of the Suez Canal and Turkey with their control of the
Bosporus, the only gateway to the Black Sea, something of immense value
to the US. Turkey is also the gateway for oil from Central Asia and
Northern Iraq.
Another factor is Kurdistan. Israel has controlled the PKK, the
communist terror group that has killed thousands in Turkey. Israel is
threatening to unleash them again. In meetings with leaders in Iraq,
however, I was told that Turkish military actions against the PKK, even
inside Iraq were welcomed. Kurds in Iraq hate the PKK and have long
seen it as destructive. Northern Iraq is closely aligned with Turkey,
their economy is totally dependent on Turkey, much more than Baghdad.
Hopes for a Kurdish nation are dependent on good relations with Turkey
and those relations have improved continually for some time.
One reality is the weakness of Egypt. The Mubarak government,
including the military and intelligence services worked closely with
Israel as did those of Turkey. It is Israel’s goal to keep Egypt in
line. However, with the killing of 5 Egyptian police and the protestors
sacking the Israeli embassy in Cairo, that is coming into question.
Israel still has considerable resources in place in Egypt,
particularly as we saw on August 11th, 2011, when Bush/Bechtel “envoy”
David Welch met with Israeli and Gaddafi representatives in Cairo, at
the Four Seasons Hotel, CIA and Egyptian spies in the room, planning
bribes to be paid to journalists and “peace activists” in a last ditch
attempt to save another Israeli ally, Gaddafi.
Thus, Turkey will be doing a “road trip” to gain allies against
Israel and to flank US backing, blackmailing the US. As Turkey has
nearly all US nuclear secrets, gotten through their spy partnership with
AIPAC, something we were told of when I interviewed FBI informants
within the Bush White House, they have things to trade. Turkey can turn
out thermonuclear weapons quickly.
Israel’s counter is their partnership with India. India is building
long range ICBMs, capable of carrying 10 warheads, also capable of
reaching the United States. Israel has requested 10 of those missiles,
giving them the capability of hitting the United States with 100
hydrogen bombs. This is not conjecture, this deal with India has been
confirmed, the weapons are being built with US technology stolen by
Israel (and Turkey) and Pakistan has spies working inside every aspect
of the project, no secret to anyone.
China is also aware and they believe they are a potential target of
these Indian weapons. Thus, China is transferring advanced
technologies, not only thermonuclear but advanced aircraft designs and
missile technology to Pakistan.
In reality, from a military standpoint, India overshadows Pakistan
by a mile.However, with the US in economic decline and dependent on
China to buy US debt, betting against China and their close relationship
to Pakistan is inadvisable. Pakistan represents China’s foothold in
Central Asia and their access to a port, Gwadar, in the Indian Ocean.
China is dependent on oil from the region and sees the Indian Ocean
as an area of strategic value.Pakistan is taking advantage of
that.Russia is laughing themselves to death. They helped set up America
to fall in Afghanistan, payback for America’s support of the Mujahideen
and are enraged at the CIA and US military for its role in flooding
Russia with cheap heroin from Afghanistan.
Heroin is destroying the social fabric of Russia nearly as much as
drug profits that have infected the US political system have
destabilized the US, left the Mexican border totally open and kept the
US in Afghanistan as guardians of the largest opium den in the world.
The changes we will see?
Libya’s new government is more than aware of Israel’s interference
on behalf of Gaddafi and will become a relentless enemy of Israel,
despite false reports Israel has inserted into the “fringe media.”
Egypt is in play. Things could go either way, depending on how meetings
go this week with Turkey.
With the UN vote on Gaza a given, the US will veto Palestinan
statehood, Egypt and Turkey will be pushed together as US prestige in
the region crashes.Israel’s reaction under its repressive and
reactionary Likudist regime, under attack at home for economic failures,
one after the other, will be to push for military action against Gaza.
They may also wish to “play” in Lebanon, taking advantage of Syria’s
current weakness. This would be a mistake. Syria will not “go down in
flames” like the Gaddafi regime. They are too vulnerable and will lose
their place at the table, offset by Turkey, a nation that has an
unpleasant history in the region lasting hundreds of years, a reputation
Turkey is now trying to repair.
This could also go either way. Israel still has nuclear weapons.
Their “nuclear advantage” in the Middle East is now likely to make them a
target.
Turkey’s army is more than a match for Israel, not even close.
There is little expectation that Egypt will do more than posture as
their military under Mubarak became a defensive force only, infiltrated,
as is Turkey’s, with corrupt officers.
What will happen?
Israel, with all its planning, its “possible involvement” in 9/11,
its very proven involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its
machinations in, not just Washington but Cairo, Ankara and other
capitols across the region, is the big loser. Israel is now totally
isolated and very much considered sacrificable by the US, despite
continual pronouncements by members of congress otherwise.
When Israel had to turn against the Democrats, despite the fact that
79% of American Jews support the Democratic Party, and turn to the GOP
and Christian Zionists for support, they bought “friends” they would
never be able to trust.
For years, American conservatives were known to hate Jews, ban them
from organizations, maintain “no Jews allowed” policies at resorts and
“ritzy” neighborhoods, under the euphemism of “restricted.”
Red States were always “no Jews or Niggers allowed after sundown.”
This may not be taught in history books but it is real history just
the same and the generation of American Jews that remember real
antisemitism, not the phony “Abe Foxman” kind, know who their real
friends are.
Turkey, not Iran, will be forced to go nuclear. Turkey, however, is a
long time American ally, a charter member of NATO and, at heart, very
pro-American, pro-Western and, as it were, sitting on the world’s most
strategic real estate.
Turkey is also a relentless enemy, one Israel will be too stupid to
apologize to, too stupid to make reparations to and will depend on its
nuclear arsenal and friends in the US for protection.
Nobody will benefit from this, not the Palestinian people, not
Egypt, only those who wish to see Israel have their faces in the dirt.
There is a problem with this. There was some hope that Israel itself
might have a rebirth of democracy, with 500,000 demonstrators demanding
the resignation of Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist government last week,
their was a hope.
The other big loser will be the United States. Pakistan will bring
China into Central Asia. Turkey may well bring them into the
Mediterranean or further.
Whether American’s choose to recognize it or not, Bush murdered
America’s military future. Social cuts and job programs won’t be
enough. America will have to gut its military and withdraw from its
bases around the world, that or economically die in less than 5 years.
The only other way out is “debt denial” which requires full
cooperation from China and Japan. In light of these issues, these
problems, Israel, that “small country” that has so much control over the
US government will wake up one morning a forgotten “backwater” in world
affairs.
Back in 1981, it looked like Israel would be a peaceful neighbor in a
Middle East destined to move forward, maybe not to freely elected
governments but at least to no longer be a sideshow for the Cold War.
There were lessons from 1981, when Jews visited Cairo as honored guests.
500,000 Israeli’s, homeless, underemployed, say they can no longer
afford, even with the billions America is giving them, to try to run the
world from a few acres of sand, now farmed by foreign workers.
If Israel’s extremist government continues its fear mongering,
helped along by AIPAC and the ADL in the United States, Israel will not
survive. Israel will not die alone, not by a long shot. The problem is
that there is no political leader in Israel or within the Zionist
community in the United States that seems to care.
The dreams of world domination, as some of us have always seen, never left room for the survival of Israel or any other nation.
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