Leaving Afghanistan “frees up resources for Israel”
In an article published by the US Defense News, Yair Ramati of the Israeli MirYam Institute, discussed what he considered to be the “central pillar of Israel’s security strategy”. His concern was the maintenance of Israel’s “qualitative military edge” superiority in the Middle East, which is guaranteed at present by the ten-year $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the United States. Now, according to the Times of Israel, senior officials in the Biden Administration have reassured Israel that: “If anything, the end of America’s military involvement in Afghanistan frees up resources and attention and ultimately allows us to better support our partners like Israel.” The officials went even further, stressing that: “We are pursuing a very steady course, centred on achievable aims; alignment of ends and means; and, first and foremost, support to our partners, and, of course, Israel being second to none.” To be precise, what is actually “second to none”, for the US ruling elite, is the imposition of profitable population-control – a commitment that it also recognises in Zionist ideology.
No concern for people
In 1978, the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the ruling dictatorship in Afghanistan and introduced democratic and humanist reforms, such as free medical care and a campaign for general literacy. John Pilger informs us that the Washington Post had reported Afghan loyalty to the new government as unquestionable. For the US Government, none of this was worthy of recognition, let alone support. The reforms were dismissed as a ‘Soviet coup’, flying in the face of a reality later recognised by President Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, stating: “We had no evidence of any Soviet complicity in the coup.” In 1979, the US began its campaign to destroy Afghanistan’s newly-won freedoms. In August that year, the US Embassy in Kabul reported: “the United States’ larger interests . . . would be served by the demise of the PDPA government, despite whatever setbacks this might mean for future social and economic reforms in Afghanistan.” A Washington Post article reminds us: “the Afghanistan Papers revealed that over the course of the past 20 years the United States flooded Afghanistan with a trillion dollars, which quickly went into the hands of various military contractors and advisers and lined the pockets of government officials. Like the British before it, the United States adopted a policy of paying off and co-opting local warlords and drug traffickers.”
The Daily Toll in Occupied Palestine
One week after just one Palestinian Gaza ceasefire violation, that had been followed over ensuing days by eleven Israeli attacks, Resistance fighters in Gaza finally reacted on 24 August, to mounting assaults on the enclave which included four air strikes as well as attacks on fishing boats. One of the air strikes, on the al-Shati UN refugee camp, was particularly terrifying for the families because an Israeli air strike, last May, on the same refugee camp, had killed ten people, eight of them children.
Four days earlier, Israeli forces, opening fire on protesters, wounded 41 people, including at least 24 children. Among the wounded was a news reporter, Assem Mohammed Abdullah Shehadeh. Local news media footage shows an Israeli sniper shooting at Palestinians through a small opening in the wall isolating Gaza, and people are seen trying to deflect the gun poking through it. One armed person runs along the wall and, by reaching up into the opening with a hand gun, manages to shoot the sniper and stop him firing. The sniper, Barel Hadaria Shmueli, was hospitalised with a head wound, from which he has since died. Another Palestinian victim of Israeli sniper fire that day was a 13-year-old Gaza City resident, Omar Hassan Abu Al-Nil. According to a field investigation by Defence for Children International Palestine, he had been targeted and wounded with a live round by another sniper and died of his wounds three days later. Omar had been watching the protests from a distance of over 70 metres.
On 27 August, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with US President Biden at the White House. Bennett told reporters that he and Biden had “created a direct and personal connection between us”, which he regarded as “a significant step in equipping and building the Israeli force.” On 29 August, Bennett declared: “We will operate in Gaza according to our interests” and so, indeed, the air strikes and gunfire continued, with Palestinian Resistance resorting to the launching of incendiary balloons, burning tyres and the firing of a missile across the Green Line, in protest and outrage.
Yes Bennett will be pushing for Biden to back an attack on Iran asap.
Bennet himself, back when he was a officer in the IDF ,,,, called in Artillary fire onto a UN refugee camp ,,, wounding and killing hundreds.
According to the IDF it was a mistake due to Bennet panicking and fucking things up ,,,,, which could be true as it was during Israels last and unsuccessful Invasion of Lebanon,,,, when the Israel army showed itself not that flash when meeting highly committed defenders using effective tactics and weapons.
So a ceasefire was negotiated ,,, so Israel carpet bombed the place in bad faith ,,, because as Bennet has said ,,,, there’s nothing wrong with killing Arabs.
A investigation by a British Army artillery expert noted the Israelie IDF account of the ‘accidental shelling’ of hundreds of civilians sheltering in a UN safe zone / camp ,,,, was at odds with the evidence and eye witness accounts of what took place.
When Bennett says there is nothing wrong with killing Arabs ,,,,, The unspoken Kahanist bit he leaves out is ,,,, ‘To steal their land and drive them out of their homes and keep our boot on their throats ,,, we have to kill a few Palestinians’,,, and he sees nothing wrong with that.
He is a land thief committed to killing the rightful birth of a Palestinian nation state where it already existed ,,,, and the obliteration of Palestinian culture.
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Should the Al-Aqsa Mosque be destroyed, the match will be lit by a fanatic settler, but it is decades of Zionist indoctrination and Israeli policies that will be responsible for the destruction.
” They gloss over almost an entire century of ethnic cleansing, violence, racist policies, an apartheid regime, and a concerted effort to rid Palestine of its people and its landmarks.
Fifteen hundred years of history, fifteen hundred years of worship, and maintaining what is one of the most wonderful structures known to humanity are meaningless in the eyes of Zionists. As an example, Al-Aqsa and the structures that surround it are older and in many ways more beautiful and certainly more significant than the Taj Mahal. Now imagine someone coming to claim that the Taj Mahal is sitting on an ancient temple and must be destroyed.” https://www.mintpressnews.com/zionisms-anthem-the-danger-lurking-in-jerusalem-of-gold/278352/
Bennett …”He was a field commander in the mold of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, skilled, violent, daring and rash. He believed it was in his power to vanquish the enemy if he could only free himself from the limitations of the orders given him by politicians and commanders too timid for his taste. Kurtz wanted to do it his way: to kill and prevail. But it ended badly for him.
That April day, Bennett’s force met with highly effective mortar fire of a Hezbollah unit near Kafr Qana. It was then that he realized he couldn’t prevail on his own. He needed a battery of IDF 155mm howitzers [to come to his rescue], which hit a refugee camp and killed 102 ” …
“Israeli journalist Raviv Drucker recounts a story he heard from an IDF officer and eyewitness of the events of that day. According to him, a hysterical Bennett pressured his superiors to bring far more firepower than necessary to bear save his ass. The result was this “terrible catastrophe.”
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/01/06/during-lebanon-war-naftali-bennett-led-his-idf-unit-into-ambush-and-israeli-war-crime/
Leslie, thanks again for your updates, authenticated with credible links which include photographic evidence.
Of course, the usual merchant of misinformation didn’t waste much time in making wild accusations backed up by????? Oh what a surprise, the usual diatribe of diversions and propagandist lines. This includes the one that suggests the bribes, and weapons and funding for terrorists and agents of intended regime change are in the same realm of $US 3.8 annual “tithe” plus supplementary payments received by the worlds most expensive PHP military.
The line about rules of engagement was particularly mirth generating, especially since the troll recently put up an Israel sourced link that contained the same film clip that you provided which showed…. yes, the attempts to disarm a Israeli sniper who was targeting protesters through a slot in a wall before he was ‘neutralized’. Bet that ‘fish in a barrel’ targeting slot has now been concreted over.
“If anything, the end of America’s military involvement in Afghanistan frees up resources and attention and ultimately allows us to better support our partners like Israel”
The forever war the USA supports does not include democracy nor human rights for Moslem women.
Biden is a self admitted Zionist who openly supports a ridiculous 2 state solution given the uncontrolled Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.
On the tragedy that is Afghanistan a recent report released by the US congressionally created SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction) stated that $6.5 trillion has been spent on the war and contrary to popular opinion 80 to 90 % of that amount has returned to the US via the military industrial complex and DoD contractors etc.
“The forever war” ideology is supported and conducted by a ruling class of psychopaths who will never waver from their course unless challenged and defunded.
Julian Assange alluded to this on Afghanistan 10 years ago.
Along with climate change, empirically driven conflict and intervention the imprisoning of the ultimate truth teller Julian Assange, will I am sure, be historically judged as a monumental injustice.
Thank you Leslie for speaking truth to power.