Subject: HAB: lessons in Power, Sharon's latest production
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:24:01 -0400


Like his appearance in force at the Temple Mount to sabotage the
Clinton-Barak "peace plan," Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "great
success" Mon. nite in Gaza City at the hand of a brave young Israeli F-16
pilot is, if possible, even more stunning as an act of strategic
provocation.  The choice of weapon, hour, location, was clearly designed for
maximum effect to  enrage the Arab street and precipitate the US/Israel into
an heightened and expanded war with Islam.

Sharon & co have every confidence in their death-grip on the US politician
caste; every confidence  it is incapable of meaningful action (termination
of the subsidy, withdrawal of weapons licensing) to practice an independant
policy and dissuade Islam of its complicity.  They know thence that Arab
rage will recur to America's enemies for support, and will attempt with
re-doubled fanatic hatred another quantum level of the only measure,
"terror", available.  Infallibly this will vastly raise the credit of the
hawks,  Wolfowitz & co,  and finally give them their war with Saddam.

The cunning and conception of Sharon and the Zionists, their single-minded
pursuit of an ethnically cleansed Greater Israel, imperial hegemon of the
entire area, is rather breath-taking; but what's more, (and not especially
regarding Sharon, who manifestly has the stomach) is conceiving how the
respective peoples, Israelis, Zionists & Americans, could actually support,
not just so unequal battle/butchery, but for such an unrighteous,
racist/expansionist, cause.  Probably only an Elie Wiesel could guide us
thru and reconcile our collective consciences,...so get ready to see a lot
of him and  epigones.  How wonderful the resiliance and transformations of
the spirit of nazism.



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