War and Peace
Bin Laden resurfaced this week, with a new audiotape containing the suggestion of a truce: “We do not object to a long-term truce with you on the basis of fair conditions that we respect.” The White House was quick to respond by stating, “We do not negotiate with terrorists,” while the Vice President, with canny insight, declared: “It sounds to me like it’s some kind of ploy.” The only actual news out of all of this seems to be just how seriously Bin-Laden is taken by all. Does Cheney really feel the need to explain to the public that al-Qaeda is “not an organization that’s ever going to sit down and sign a truce”? If so, the administration only has itself to blame. For the past four years they have treated Bin-Laden as a legitimate adversary. They have insisted that they are at “war” with Bin-Laden and his rag-tag band of outlaws. They rhetorically transformed their invasion and occupation of
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Israel needs Sadams and Osamas, as many as possible, to project an aura of Arab intransigence and unremitting hostility to the U.S. is the only way they will be able to continue pimping the American taxpayers.
All experts who are not employees of the Bush cabal swear to the fact the recent tape is a fraud. Even the diction to the untrained is an obvious hoax.
The object is to make the U.S. increasingly blind and isolated in the Middle East and thus eventually as dependent upon Israel as Israel is upon the U.S. That's why a report praising a moderate potential Arab leader that falls into Israeli hands could find it's way from there to someone who can destroy that Arab moderate.
At present, there is only one country in the Middle East with "secret" and ambiguous stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
Over the last 50 years, Israel has been directly and indirectly aided and funded in its development of weapons of mass destruction by the United States, France, Norway, Britain and Germany. These nations have neither been forthright nor accountable in their roles in giving one small country in the Middle East enough clout to wipe out most of their neighbors via nuclear holocaust. Such a stance is not only controversial and hypocritical to non proliferation, it is intrinsically detrimental to all other diplomacy and hope(s) concerning peace in the future of the Middle East.
The United States and most of Europe, now rumbling and grumbling and on edge over Iran still avoids even discussion let alone confrontation over Israel's proliferation, and thus presents this rather poor standard for diplomacy.
Rafi Eitan, who was not only responsible for the abduction of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann but whose next greatest purpose was to acquire fissionable materials for the atomic weapons program Israel wished to have.
.... a company from Apollo, Pennsylvania , Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp (NUMEC), owned and run by the son of an orthodox rabbi and ardent Zionist who strangely lost track of a certain amount of enriched uranium that was stored at the plant for legitimate US government contracts. Rafi Eitan, master mind in spying and stealing technological secrets, paid NUMEC a visit. More than 100 kilos of uranium disappeared and owner, Zalman Shapiro , did not report the loss.
Eitan takes similar action, only this time with forged papers and the cooperation of a German businessman. Somewhere close to Cyprus a ship carrying a load of uranium disappears, but not before the "goods" were loaded onto an Israeli ship headed for Haifa.
..... most eager of all Israelis to have the "bomb in the basement" was Eitan's friend and then Minister of Defense, Ariel Sharon,
.....Eitan and Sharon, in 1985 would use and abuse and then later distance themselves from American spy for Israel, Jonathan Pollard . Before they snubbed him, however, they received much in the way of technological "high security" secrets.
During that time, Israel has also refused to sign or negotiate any commitment against the use of biological weapons, such as the 1972 Biological Weapons Conventions. Thus another ambiguous stance when peace requires making more clear the moral conscience and commitment towards peace and non violence.
According to previously classified papers, the 20 tons of heavy water were part of a consignment that Britain bought from Norway but later decided was surplus to requirements.
The documents show how officials presented the transaction as a straight sale from Norway to Israel. The revelation is potentially embarrassing for the British government at a time when London is heavily engaged with its European Union partners in trying to persuade Iran — a nation hostile to Israel — to give up its nuclear ambitions.
Israel has always refused to confirm reports that it has a nuclear arsenal consisting of several hundred warheads.
American Mideast experts know that the most important goal of Israeli diplomacy is to undermine relations between the U.S. and Arab moderates
Israel's claim that it only spied in the U.S. to obtain information about the Arabs. In 1979 the CIA reported that Israel uses American spies to secure U.S. political and scientific secrets as well as information on the Arabs. A former chief of internal security for the Department of Justice has described Israel's intelligence activities in the U.S. as second in size only to those of the Soviet Union.
I am unsure what kind of irony the editors' blog is, but I think it is situational,lol. And Buzzkill is the right description for the above comment. What does that have to do with what was said in this particular blog?
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