By Ralph Raschen ——Bio and Archives--February 6, 2014
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With their threat of demographic ruin losing its traction with the public, purveyors of the twostate plan now raise the threat of economic strangulation and ruin at every opportunity. They understand that given the public’s refusal to be drawn into their fantasies about “peace dividends,” the only path before them is a mix of intimidation and political subversion. They hope that together these two tactics can force Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to submit to Kerry’s dictates for Israeli territorial surrenders. Regarding political subversion, last week Eli Lake at the Daily Beast reported that the Obama administration is appealing to retired Israeli security brass to lobby the public against the government, in support of Kerry’s plan for Israel to surrender the Jordan Valley to the PLO. According to senior defense sources, administration lobbying is not limited to retired generals. The US is also recruiting currently serving IDF commanders to work on behalf of Kerry’s plan. The idea is to rally a large enough cadre of security brass in favor of surrendering the Jordan Valley to undermine the authority of [Israeli PM] Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who has rejected Kerry’s plan. Beyond frightening the general public, the economic threats are geared toward subverting the economic leadership of the country. [...] Kerry is waiting for Netanyahu to agree to his framework. Until he does, Kerry, his allies and agents will escalate their threats and subversion.Glick warned of it, and indeed Kerry seems already to be doing it, for instance through a planned "almost religious sermon" from Kerry to the Israeli people –without any "intention of 'going over the head' of the government in Jerusalem," of course. For did Kerry and Obama perhaps ever "go over the head" of other governments, e. g. over that of Iran? Not that much, really. Iran may perhaps not be increasing its stocks of nuclear material that much for the time being, but it may indeed continue its work on ballistic missiles and other technology necessary to deliver atomic bombs on Israel! The last time the "international community" (except for the Russians) was in such a harmony was in its campaigns against the Serbs, and that was also under a leftist islamophilic US administration. And Iran was in the Islamic terrorism business for a "solution" of both the Bosnian and the Kosovo conflict too; in the latter it fought on the side of the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army, even before NATO then feigned to try to "solve" the conflict by an "agreement", which was in fact an even more arrogant "copy" of an historic Austrian dictate to the Serbs to which the Serbs could not bow without surrendering their sovereignty. The first dictate was a ruse by which the Austrians (and the Germans) intentionally triggered the First World War. By the latter one, a massive global jihad was initiated, supported by Western military force, a global jihad without which 9/11 (and the "second intifada") would perhaps never have happened. The first main victims of it were the Serbs, who are still bleeding from that battle and its aftermath of "ethnic cleansing". Then, too, some invented peoples (first "the Muslims" of Bosnia, then "the Kosovars", meaning the Albanian Muslims living in Kosovo, while the Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and others who were living in Kosovo then were of course not "Kosovars" and therefore to be perceived as more or less non-indigenous "settlers") were assigned the role of the victims of systematic violence to be defended (although often even Albanians were the victims of violence perpetrated by the separatists). Then, too, "the West" tried to deprive the enemy people of their historic heartland. Then, along with the the terrorist army of the "victims", it succeeded.
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Ralph Raschen is a freelance translator and author, who has published short stories, satire, and political analyses (languages: Italian, German, and English). He holds a degree in Social sciences. He blogs at freshlemons.bendetto.com.