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Canadian economist and academic Michel Chossudovsky is a
signatory of the Kuala Lumpur declaration to criminalize war and the author of The Globalization of Poverty and The New
World Order (2003), America’s ‘War on
Terrorism’ (2005), and Towards a
World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011).This week he was writing
at Global Research on the latest carnage in the Occupied Territories.
“We are not dealing with an isolated event,” Michel
Chossudovsky writes. “The invasion of Gaza is part of the broader U.S.-NATO-Israel
military agenda.”
“The attack on Gaza must be understood in relation to the
broader Middle East war,” he says.
“The Israeli attack was approved by [U.S. President Barack]
Obama. It has a direct bearing on U.S.-NATO-Israeli pans for war pertaining to
Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
“The timing is of utmost significance: one week following
the U.S. presidential elections. ‘Operation Pillar of Cloud’ is a deliberate
act of provocation, intended to lead to military escalation.”
Bitter irony
On November 14, Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari was
murdered in an Israeli missile attack. In a bitter irony, barely a few hours
before the attack, Hamas had received the draft proposal of a permanent truce
agreement with Israel.”
The firing of dozens of rockets by Hamas against Israel came
after the Israeli attacks, Chossudovsky reports.
Self-fulfilling
prophesy
circular propaganda
Manufacturing War - Creating
and labeling “terrorists”
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| Rafah Crossing |
“Palestine’s response was known to Israeli war planners and
the resulting Israeli civilian casualties are now being used to justify military
escalation on humanitarian grounds.
“What we are dealing with is a carefully planned operation,
a clear act of provocation. The deaths of Israeli civilians (envisaged and
foreseen by IDF military planners) are being used to muster the support of the
Israeli public.
“Meanwhile, the Israeli attack is casually portrayed by the
Western media as part of a legitimate counter-terrorism agenda.
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| Child's home demolished |
“The Obama administration is blaming the victims of Israeli
atrocities. The victims are portrayed as terrorists.’”
Background: The IDF or Israel Defense
Forces or ‘The Army of Defense for Israel’ consists of ground forces, air force
and navy, the military forces of the State of Israel. Headed by its Chief of
General Staff, the Ramatkal, subordinate to the Defense Minister of Israel. The
IDF is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no
civilian jurisdiction within Israel.
The
IDF has served as Israel’s armed forces in all the country’s major military
operations.
The
number of wars and border conflicts in which it has engaged has made it “one of
the most battle-trained armed forces in the world.”
Originally
the IDF operated on three fronts: against Lebanon and Syria in the north,
Jordan and Iraq in the east, and Egypt in the south. After the 1979
Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty, the IDF has concentrated its activities in
southern Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories, including the First and the
Second Intifada.
The
Israel Defense Forces was officially established ─ comprised of a conscript army
formed out of the paramilitary group Haganah, incorporating the militant groups
Irgun and Lehi ─ on orders of Defense Minister David Ben-Gurion on May 26, 1948.
Ariel
Sharon, Israel’s 11th Prime Minister, was a commander in the Israeli Army from its
inception in 1948.
Operation flashback
Planned Humanitarian
Disaster: Massacre in Palestine
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (tenure February 13, 2007 –
January 20, 2009) John Negroponte on December 8, 2008 “was in Tel Aviv for
discussions with his Israeli counterparts.” Included in the meetings was Meir Dagan, the director of Israel’s national intelligence
agency, Mossad, Chossudovsky recalls.
‘Operation Cast Lead,’ the December 27, 2008– January 18,
2009 war on Gaza that left more than a thousand Palestinians dead, “was
initiated two days after Christmas and was coupled with a carefully designed
international Public Relations campaign under the auspices of Israel’s Foreign
Ministry.
“Hamas’ military targets [were] not the main objective; ‘Operation
Cast Lead’ [was] intended, quite deliberately, to trigger civilian casualties. What
we [were] dealing with [was] a ‘planned humanitarian disaster’ in Gaza, in a
densely populated urban area.”
Chossudovsky continues documenting a historical design of calculated
genocide and removal that has been escalating for more than 60 years.Expulsion was referred to by Ariel Sharon as ‘a 1948 style solution.’
Referencing Tanya Reinhart’s “Evil
Unleashed, Israel’s move to destroy the Palestinian Authority is a calculated
plan, long in the making,” Global Research, December 2001, he writes:
For Sharon ‘it is only necessary to find another state for
the Palestinians ─ Jordan is Palestine –
was the phrase that Sharon coined.’
Sources and notes
“The Invasion of Gaza: Part of a Broader US-NATO-Israel
Military Agenda. Towards a Scenario of Military Escalation?” (By Prof Michel
Chossudovsky), Global Research, November 16, 2012,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-invasion-of-gaza-part-of-a-broader-us-nato-israel-military-agenda-towards-a-scenario-of-military-escalation/5311957
Professor Michel Chossudovsky continued
In 1999, Chossudovsky joined the Transnational Foundation
for Peace and Future Research as an adviser and he has been a visiting
professor internationally and has been advisor to governments of developing
countries.
Michel Chossudovsky (b. 1946) is a Canadian economist and
professor of economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky
Canadian economist and academic Michel Chossudovsky is a
signatory of the Kuala Lumpur declaration to criminalize war and author of The Globalization of Poverty and The New
World Order (2003), America’s ‘War on
Terrorism’ (2005), and Towards a
World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011).
Israel Defense Forces, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces
David Ben-Gurion or David Gruen (b. October 16, 1886,
Płońsk, Pol., Russian Empire [now in Poland]; d. December 1, 1973, Tel
Aviv–Yafo, Israel) was Israel’s first prime minister (1948–53, 1955–63) and
defense minister (1948–53; 1955–63), “a Zionist statesman and political leader.”
Ariel Sharon (b. February 26, 1928; d., after being in a
persistent vegetative state following a stroke, January 4, 2006), chief
participant in Arab-Israeli wars, was a commander in the Israeli Army from its
inception in 1948. The retired Israeli general also served as Israel’s 11th
Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon
Benjamin Netanyahu (var. refs Binyamin, Bibi, b. October 21,
1949, Tel Aviv [now Tel Aviv–Yafo], Israel) has been Israel’s prime minister
twice: 1996–1999, and 2009 until the present.
Biographical notes Wikipedia and Britannica
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