WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF
December 22, 2000, ©Joel Skousen
Joel Skousen s World Affairs Brief
Website: http://www.joelskousen.com
Despite the continuing daily attacks upon Israeli civilians by Palestinians (mostly drive-by shootings at Israeli commuters in cars and buses), the Barak government, in collusion with the Clinton administration, seems hell-bent on getting the "peace" process back on track. There is a desperate reason for this "rush to peace" and it doesn't have anything to do with peace. In the short term, it is all about salvaging the political life and reputation of the Barak Labor government in Israel--the most corrupt, NWO connected regime in Israeli history. In the longer term, there is a NWO objective to remove Israel as one of the last bastions of national sovereignty, opposing globalist control. The so-called "peace process" has always had as its major objective to weaken Israel militarily through a series of "land for peace" compromises. These agreements will force Israel off the strategic high grounds and set the stage for a future full scale pan-Arab attack on Israel that is meant to end in a stalemate presided over by UN occupation forces--only in Israel, naturally.
Let's look at the short-term political objective first. Despite Israel s suicidal offering of over 95% of what the Palestinians demand, Arafat got greedy, rejected the peace deal and opened the spigot of terrorism and violence. In one fell swoop, the propagandized, half-asleep, left-leaning Israeli population started to wake up and realize that the "peace process" is a sham, that Arafat has no sincere intentions of ever giving Jews any peace--no matter how high the concessions. The "peace now" movement buckled and Barak's popularity plummeted to below 30%. Under normal, non-manipulated circumstances, the Barak government would been subject to a vote of no-confidence, the Israeli parliament (Knesset) would have been dissolved and new elections called for. The failed Labor party agenda would have been repudiated at the polls.
But things aren't that clear and simple anymore. Corruption is rampant among most of the smaller left- and right-wing parties in the Knesset, as is typical in parliamentary systems where multi-party coalition governments are the rule rather than the exception. No medium-sized minority party can rule without the help of other smaller parties, so secret deals and pay-offs are the price everyone pays to govern. The key political party that makes or breaks the current Barak coalition is the Shas Party--the third largest party with approx. 17 members; a bastion of the Moroccan "right-wing, orthodox Jewish" political wing that should be opposing, on principle, everything Barak does. Instead Shas keeps making secret deals with Barak to keep him in power. Barak's government, in turn, keeps funding Shas religious schools and making secret pay-offs to (and then blackmailing) their leaders. Former Shas party leader Aryeh Deri is currently serving a stint in prison on corruption charges. Shas current rabbinical leadership (Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef ) keeps holding mass rallies and vigils outside the prison to keep up the illusion among Shas supporters that Deri has been unjustly imprisoned. In reality, Deri was convicted on only a minor portion of the charges he was actually guilty of. All the serious charges were covered up in the investigations so as to allow the opportunity for Deri to make a come-back in the future--and and also to obscure the corruption links that lead back to Barak and Peres, and their respective US and European globalist supporters. A great short book tracing these and other corruption issues in Israeli politics is the new edition of Barry Chamish's work, The Last Days of Israel. Chamish is Israel s top investigative reporter. Highly recommended. You can order it toll-free from the Zionist Book Club, 1-877-722-4699. In Israel 02 6712284.
In October, Shas withheld its support for a motion of no-confidence, and refused to call for new elections. It made a deal with Barak allowing him another month of grace time to try to bring Arafat back to the table with more secret concessions. A "call off your dogs" agreement was made with Arafat in Egypt but Arafat failed to follow through and violence escalated. The Jewish people become more disgusted with Barak's weak response to the new uprising (Intifada). When the grace period passed, Shas still refused to shut down the Barak government and instead, gave Barak more time to maneuver. Clinton failed in his attempt at arranging another peace conference, but he sent Dennis Ross and other US State Department hacks to descend upon both parties in Israel, twisting arms and trying to get Arafat to yield a little. Nothing doing--he wants it all, and probably has the assurances of the world powers that he can get it if he plays along.
The Palestinian attacks upon innocent Jewish civilians continue. The Israeli army, trying to placate the hostile international press, only reacts to the violence rather than intervene effectively to cut off the leadership sources of the violence. The result is more Palestinian deaths and more bad press. The Israeli defense forces (IDF) continue to operate under "hands tied" restraint. As Arutz-7 reported, "Throughout the clash with the Palestinians, the IDF has proposed steps aimed directly at senior PA officials, such as retracting the VIP cards of the heads of the security agencies, Muhammad Dahlan and Tawfiq Tirawi, whose officers were involved in terrorist attacks. These proposals were not approved... In practice, most of the sanctions have disintegrated or been lifted: the supply of construction material for PA use was resumed and gasoline was allowed to be brought in. The Karni crossing is open, as is the airport in Rafiah and the border crossing to Egypt. The export of goods from Gaza is resuming... Israel also recanted its decision to withhold funds from the Palestinian Authority." Thus we see that the Barak government refuses, almost unilaterally, to allow the IDF to take out the terrorists, confiscate their weapons, or even cut off their flow of ammunition and funds provided by the Israel government itself.
In a coldly calculated political move Barak resigned and called for new elections (only for Prime Minister) to be held on Feb. 6, 2001. He is not reacting to popular demand. He chose the resignation route because it does not dissolve the Knesset and because current law doesn't allow non-Knesset members to run for president. Thus, Barak's most formidable opponent, Likud s Benyamin Netanyahu, is prohibited from running for president since he is not a sitting member of the Knesset. Even if he could run, without parliamentary elections the present leftist coalition would hold their seats and effectively stymie any right-wing prime minister from passing any legislation since he wouldn t have a parliamentary majority in the Knesset. In round two, the Likud Party tried to get Shas to go along with a motion to dissolve parliament and also to pass a bill to allow non-members of the Knesset to run for president (appropriately called the Netanyahu Bill). The Netanyahu bill passes, but once again, Shas intervened and voted against the bill to dissolve parliament, thus guaranteeing a continuation of the leftist rule in the Knesset. This party is clearly co-opted.
Netanyahu rightly concluded that he can't run for PM under those conditions since he knows that he would achieve nothing and yet get blamed for the government s failure to respond effectively to the violence--even though that inaction would mostly be the fault of a left-wing controlled Knesset. This leaves the current Likud leader Ariel Sharon as the only candidate left to run against Barak. Far left-wing former prime minister Shimon Peres (who runs the more radical side of the Labor Party) has been talked out of running against Barak so as not to split the left-wing "peace now" movement (composed of the Labor party and all others to the left). The left knows better than to allow anyone to split their votes.
Sharon is not a true right-wing alternative to Labor. He is a mixed bag of philosophies and a sellout artist in his own right. Sharon is also best friends with Shimon Peres, which is telling. His recent meeting with right-wing competitor Rabbi Yitzchak Levy of the National Religious Party hints at the kind of politician Sharon is. As reported by Arutz-7, Levy has decided to not challenge Sharon in the upcoming Prime Minister election. It had been thought that a challenge by Levy would force Sharon to take more right-wing positions (though such strategies never yield permanent results for the right). Predictably it is Levy that was pacified--not Sharon. Rabbi Levy told Arutz-7 that his meeting with Sharon "assured me that we would pretty well be able to identify with his positions." Rabbi Levy said that his purpose in the meeting was to clarify with Sharon three chief issues:
1) ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS: Sharon promised Levy that his guidelines stipulate that not one community in Yesha (referring to the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, slated to be handed over to the Palestinians) would be "hurt." That's a slick use of words. Notice he didn t say they wouldn t be abandoned. Virtually every Israeli leader has promised to not give up Jewish settlement blocks at one time or another, and they all have betrayed those promises. Levy is naive, indulging in wishful thinking. It is interesting how people on the right, always being dispossessed of real political power (since the media will never countenance any true, hard-line leader as a legitimate candidate for office) will always be tempted to believe that the compromising head of the mainstream conservative party will be true to his words. It never happens--never!
2) THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL: The second point that Levy wanted to hear from Sharon was his position on Israel as a "Jewish democratic state." This is a big issue with orthodox Jewish political parties. They want the Jewish religion to have official state status and each Jewish faction to have access to taxpayer funds. Sharon promised to give the Jewish aspect of the state its "proper weight"--another slippery use of words.
3) THE THREAT OF POWER SHARING: Finally, Levy was very concerned about the danger of Likud entering into a "national unity government" with Labor (a euphemism for power sharing compromises that only favor the left). Levy found out that Sharon had already made a contingency promise to Barak offering him the Defense Ministry portfolio in any future unity government (a dangerous concession given Barak's mishandling of the current Intifada). Again Sharon promised Levy that "he would adhere to his own principles in forming such a government..." (another vague generality).
When asked whether he trusts Sharon to follow through on his promises, Rabbi Levy answered, "I am not naive, and I know that there are often differences between what is said before elections and what happens afterwards. But first of all I believe that the word of a Prime Ministerial candidate has value, and secondly -- to clash publicly with Sharon based only on the claim that he is a liar is not something that I would want to do." Interesting. No matter how many times a politician on the right goes back on his word, it is politically incorrect to distrust him for future action or to call him a liar. As long as conservatives are this hungry to believe in illusions of hope, there is little chance of awakening them to the realities of betrayal....until it is too late. Sharon has a hard-line military reputation, which makes him alluring to Jewish civilians (who desperately long for protection) but it also makes Sharon vulnerable in the media--they always paint him as a radical hawk who will only make things worse by stirring up Palestinian fears. Of course, Sharon (if he gains office) will predictably react to this criticism by bending over backwards to prove the media wrong and making deep compromises in security to show his "moderation." Polls show Sharon leading Barak by only 3-4 points, and if Barak is capable of pulling off one last peace agreement, he may be able to sway those last border-line votes and get reelected. That s what the current round of "peace talks" at Bolling AFB near Washington are all about--not forgetting Clinton s desperate globalist agenda as well.
Here is what the latest leaks reveal about movement in the Israeli negotiating position at these ongoing talks.
Full recognition of a large Palestinian state, which will become a fully armed camp with autonomous powers to import weapons, ready to attack when the rest of the Arab nations finish their preparations for war. Once a Palestinian state is declared in and among the Jewish state, it will be impossible to regain control again short of a major all-out war.
95% of Judea and Samaria, all of Gaza, and thousands of square kilometers in Halutza (southeast of Gaza) in exchange for settlement blocs in Shomron, Gush Etzion, and around Jerusalem. This means giving up the entire settlement enterprise of Judea and Samaria. Barak promised before that the settlements of Beit El or Ofrah would never be given up, but who is going to hold his feet to the fire, with Shas protecting him in the Knesset. Giving away 95% of Yesha (Judea and Samaria) means that communities such as Eli, Shilo, Ofrah, Beit El will not be able to exist. These communities will be surrounded by hostile Palestinians.
Barak is prepared to give away the entire old city of Jerusalem - excluding the Western Wall and the Jewish Quarter, but including the Temple Mount.
Total control of the entire Temple Mount to the Palestinians, which will cut off Jews from the holiest site in Judaism--the object of 2,000 years of intense prayer. Access even to the Wailing Wall, the only portion remaining of the original temple foundation, will cease due to lack of Israel security on the mount above. Palestinians have been throwing stones down upon Jewish worshippers at the Wall during the Intifada.
On the refugees issue, Israel is prepared to increase the offer from accepting 100,000 back into Israel to accepting an unspecified much higher number. This will lead to a further dilution of right wing and Jewish votes in the Knesset, making it almost impossible to overturn this leftist agenda, politically, or peacefully.
In summary, Barak has embarked upon a classic Clintonesque tactic--take his nation to the brink of military disaster to salvage his career and the globalist agenda he serves. He is proposing an almost total sellout of the Israeli position as if it were the only solution to peace--thus, forcing the people to accept an even worse "peace" deal than what was offered before at Camp David. Now, I think it becomes obvious why the Barak government has not used effective measures to shut down the Palestinian terrorist. Continual low-intensity warfare is being used to prod the Israeli people into being susceptible to compromise. The "peace process" is always labeled and presented as the "only" viable solution. Israeli IDF military action is almost always a minimal and ineffective response so as to discourage anyone from believing in a military solution--shades of the American leadership s sabotage of the Vietnam War.
Without a military solution (removing the terrorist leadership within the Palestinian Authority) there can never be a peaceful resolution of the legitimate desires of non-violent Jews and Palestinians. How can Israel give the Palestinian minority full rights and full mobility within the nation when Israeli-Arabs harbor terrorists in their midst and elect them as leaders? The longer Israel puts off the necessary eradication of terrorism and terrorist leaders, the more hatred will grow. Israeli leaders, I believe, are purposely evading the proper solution in order to enforce a global "final solution" upon Jews and Arabs alike.
Sadly there will be no "peace on earth" in the "Holy Land" this year, or in years to come. That Israel will barely survive, (through the intervention of God) I am confident, but the minority of innocent Jews and Arabs that are rational and open to truth will continue to suffer death and destruction due to the deadly compromises of corrupt politicians on both sides of the political spectrum--politicians who are upheld by a sizable majority of ignorant people, incessantly manipulated by the propaganda and deception of the media powers. I wish I could say that Israelis, Arabs, or even Americans could be excused in their ignorance, having been denied a lot of critical information in the news. But there is also a divine source of truth, ever-present, giving out a broad spectrum of spiritual warnings to the world whaich most of the world doesn t want to hear. The world is wont to indulge in illusions of peace and prosperity--and in the end, they will have neither.
On this somber note, may I wish all of my subscribers God's choicest blessings in this holiday season and in the coming year. You who are troubled and concerned about the world s direction should at least be grateful that you have learned to be sensitive to His warning voice. That "still, small voice," if heeded in the full range of its messages, both temporal and spiritual, will be our greatest comfort and security in the difficult times to come.
--Joel Skousen, editor
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