NOVANEWS
December 6, 2010
by Gordon Duff
by Gordon Duff
MORE RIGHT THAN EVEN THEY KNEW
Forever, Israel told us that the Arab nations couldn’t be trusted, that they were ruled by duplicitous back stabbers. Now, Wikileaks has proven that right beyond question. It turns out, the Arab world, all those nations that we thought were preparing to attack Israel, you know, the ones whose tanks were getting ready to close in on Tel Aviv, were actually on Israel’s side. Wikileaks tells us that, since 1979, the countries the US has given Israel more than a hundred billion dollars to protect themselves from where actually working with Israel all along.
Boy, that must be egg on America’s face.
Not only that, Israel had been telling us all along that these countries were petty dictatorships, run by liars and fools, petty criminals who would sell their own people down the river for a dollar. Now we find those same criminals and dictators have been working with Israel for over 30 years, information from Wikileaks that has the people of these Middle East dictatorships reeling in shock.
So, now we have it, the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt and others, several others, all nations America had been told time and time again were preparing to attack Israel were, in fact, allied with Israel against Iran. This means, of course, that when Wikileaks put this information out, it didn’t really expose the American government but rather two other groups:
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Israel: A nation that pretended to be a poor victim while becoming a nuclear power and the third largest arms exporter in the world, in fact selling billions in weapons each year to the very nations they convinced Americans were ready to attack them. Bravo Israel!!
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The Press: For decades, the press has grossly misrepresented political alignments within the Middle East, creating an atmosphere of fear and threat, terrorizing the Jewish community in the United States with decades of outright lies and total fabrications. Do we cheer liars and criminals? Sure we do. Hurrah for the press, champion liars of the world!!
MIDDLE EAST REALITIES
Discounting Syria, Iran and part of Lebanon, the entire region, all the way to China, is one oligarchy after another, countries run by the rich with governments that have one purpose above all others, to crush the poor and downtrodden, even if it causes religious extremism in the process. They can always sell more oil, borrow more money or, as with Yemen, call in the United States to kill off anyone who doesn’t like what is going on.
What makes all this possible is the stranglehold Israel has over the American government. This is a boon to the Islamofascists. Without Israel there, America would simply ignore things and democracy might just set in and spoil everything. Keeping Israel and America around keeps the petrodollars in the right pockets and the poor and ignorant, well, poor and ignorant.
Now and then, some of those poor and ignorant would strap on a suicide vest and blow themselves and those around them to pieces. However, from a cost/benefit analysis standpoint, such things were really good business.
TERROR FOR PROFIT
Long ago, there was a Peter Sellers movie call The Mouse that Roared (1959). The film is about a small duchy, East Fennwick, that is going broke. They decide to declare war on the United States to take advantage of the reconstruction projects. I know few American believe there could have been real corruption like that before Cheney and Halliburton, but it was there and well known enough to make a movie about.
There has been so much profit in terrorism and war that many economies in the Middle East are entirely built on it. With over $3 trillion dollars disappearing into the Middle East, $100 billion going missing here and there on a whim, pretty soon it began to mount up. As they say in Washington,
“A trillion here, a trillion there and, pretty soon, you are talking big money.”