Meneer Van Baalen, we zijn uitgelachen. De tijd is gekomen om serieus te zijn. Dit is geen spelletje. Dit is de grote mensen wereld, en niet de polder.Tijdens de gesprekken voor mijn boek over Israel en Palestina sprak ik met een vooraanstaand joods-Israelische academicus die me zei dat zijn land met steun van het Westen in een schurkenstaat is veranderd, en het zionisme een volkomen losgeslagen criminele ideologie is geworden, die tot het uiterste zal gaan om zijn belangen te behartigen. Ik moest hieraan denken toen Sonja mij het volgende citaat mailde: 'We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force…. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.' Het is een citaat van de van origine Nederlandse en nu Israelische academicus Martin Levi van Creveld. Zie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_van_Creveld
Dit is geen grootspraak, van deze bedreiging zijn de Europese en Amerikanse beleidsbepalers zich uiterst bewust. Daar chanteert Israel het Westen ook mee.
'1973: Israelis catch Soviet spy ring in high levels of Israeli government and make it clear to Soviets they have produced "suitcase nukes" they could sneak into Russia. Egypt and Syria attack unprepared Israeli forces in Sinai and Golan Heights on the Jewish fast in Yom Kippur War. Israel goes on nuclear alert and begins to ready nuclear weapons for actual use, forcing the U.S. to airlift them weapons and to start redeploying nuclear armed ships and airplanes. When Soviets started talking about sending in Russian troops, Israel again goes on nuclear alert. Washington pressures Israel to accept a cease-fire. 1974: Defense Minister Dayan visits South Africa to discuss testing a nuclear weapon there.'
'From Seymour Hersh's best selling book "The Samson Option", quoting former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: "We are much more important than (Americans) think. We can take the middle east with us whenever we go." And quoting a “former Israeli govt official” with “first hand knowledge of his government’s nuclear weapons program”: “We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next time we’ll take all of you with us.” Hersh's book details at length Israel's targeting of the Soviet Union; their spy Jonathan Pollard was particularly interested in stealing U.S. targeting information on its cities. Do they like Russia any more now that it is giving nuclear aid and long range missiles to Iran? Two high profile Israel supporters - professors yet! - have written particularly chilling comments: Martin Van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem stated: "We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: ‘Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.’ [...] We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under." In 2002 the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter in which he wrote: "What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away--unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans--have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?"
'From Seymour Hersh's best selling book "The Samson Option", quoting former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: "We are much more important than (Americans) think. We can take the middle east with us whenever we go." And quoting a “former Israeli govt official” with “first hand knowledge of his government’s nuclear weapons program”: “We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next time we’ll take all of you with us.” Hersh's book details at length Israel's targeting of the Soviet Union; their spy Jonathan Pollard was particularly interested in stealing U.S. targeting information on its cities. Do they like Russia any more now that it is giving nuclear aid and long range missiles to Iran? Two high profile Israel supporters - professors yet! - have written particularly chilling comments: Martin Van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem stated: "We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: ‘Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.’ [...] We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under." In 2002 the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter in which he wrote: "What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away--unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans--have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?"
In 1973 dreigde de Israelische regering achter de schermen Egypte en Syrie met nucleaire wapens aan te vallen. De Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Henry Kissinger werd met dit dreigement door de Israeli's gechanteerd onder andere om de Amerikanen te dwingen onmiddellijk extra conventionele wapens te sturen. Het dreigement werd maar al te serieus genomen, want 'the U.S. decided to open an aerial resupply pipeline to Israel, and Israeli aircraft began picking up supplies that day.' Zie: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/farr.htm
En over de terreur tegen de Palestijnen een andere academicus: 'This inhuman madness will end only with the end of the violent ideology that spawned it-when those who are committed to the project of creating and maintaining a religiously and ethnically exclusivist state in what has always been a culturally and religiously heterogeneous land finally relent and accept the inevitable: that they have failed. '
Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA and the author of http://www.counterpunch.org/makdisi01072009.html Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.
Saree Makdisi is a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA and the author of http://www.counterpunch.org/makdisi01072009.html Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.
We hebben met een schurkenstaat te maken. De vraag is hoe de politiek dit gaat oplossen. Hoe langer men voortmoddert, des te gevaarlijker wordt Israel. En dit voltrekt zich allemaal aan de rand van Europa.
