Forget about Tunisia. Forget about Egypt Forget about Libya.
Forget about Algeria, Yemen, Morocco, Jordan and Bahrain. Forget about Iran. Forget about all the former Soviet states.
Forget about Saudi Arabia.
Forget about the Color Revolutions.
For the first time since the Balfour Declaration, the prospect that the Palestinians might find the strength and the inspiration to throw off tyranny and the yoke of foreign occupation is at hand.
You can’t have good answers unless you first have good questions. So here goes.
What happens now that Mubarak has gone down?
What happens if Gaddafi goes down?
What happens if the House of Saud goes down?
All good questions.
One answer to all of these questions is this: The global power structure stays in place, mostly.
The price of oil skyrockets. The US economy goes into a tailspin. China blinks.
Obama doesn’t have much to say these days. Small wonder. What we have witnessed over the last few weeks is a sea change. He doesn’t know what to make of it. Nor do his foreign policy wonks, what with all manner of megalomaniacal dictatorial heads of state finding themselves in death throes, ranting about the need to preserve the status quo, threatening to, and then using force to suppress a popular uprising.
Obama might well consider what he will do should he find himself in a similar situation. And he could.
There are differences, of course.
We do know from past experience that Obama is not averse to using lethal weapons to enforce the will of the investor class.
But how far will he go? Would he sacrifice one million lives to preserve Wall Street’s integrity? Five hundred thousand?
Would he sacrifice his own people? It’s happened before—many times. It’s happening right now—in Afghanistan, Iraq.
How about Netanyahu?
Can Israel go it alone, without US approval?
Now . . . What happens if Israel goes down?
The fall of the Soviet Union altered but did not destabilize the global power structure. There was a change in the power structure, that’s all.
US power was consolidated. Now there was only one superpower. Beyond that not much changed. Bottom line: the fall of the Soviet Union was in Wall Street’s best interest. This is the case with Egypt, Tunisia and, most certainly, Libya.
George Kanaan, the head of the Arab Bankers Association of London said last week that the Libyan uprising is a “wonderful opportunity” for “massive outside investment” in Libya.
Not so with Israel. If Israel goes down everything changes. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has long defined the doctrine of Anglo-Arab relations. That’s why maintaining the conflict has been the top US foreign policy objective for 50 years. On this we will not budge. It’s about keeping the rabble in line.
So if you were Netanyahu what would you be thinking? Would you think it impossible that the Middle Eastern Virus could spread to Palestine?
And if it does, what options would you have?
Methinks there are only two considering the virulent nature of this virus. That is, this virus has one defining symptom: Kill us all if you will, we will never submit again!
So, 1) Kill all the Palestinians; 2) Make peace with them.
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Could it be?
Posted on March 1, 2011 by Dennis Ballentine
Could it be?
Forget about Tunisia. Forget about Egypt Forget about Libya.
Forget about Algeria, Yemen, Morocco, Jordan and Bahrain. Forget about Iran. Forget about all the former Soviet states.
Forget about Saudi Arabia.
Forget about the Color Revolutions.
For the first time since the Balfour Declaration, the prospect that the Palestinians might find the strength and the inspiration to throw off tyranny and the yoke of foreign occupation is at hand.
You can’t have good answers unless you first have good questions. So here goes.
What happens now that Mubarak has gone down?
What happens if Gaddafi goes down?
What happens if the House of Saud goes down?
All good questions.
One answer to all of these questions is this: The global power structure stays in place, mostly.
The price of oil skyrockets. The US economy goes into a tailspin. China blinks.
Obama doesn’t have much to say these days. Small wonder. What we have witnessed over the last few weeks is a sea change. He doesn’t know what to make of it. Nor do his foreign policy wonks, what with all manner of megalomaniacal dictatorial heads of state finding themselves in death throes, ranting about the need to preserve the status quo, threatening to, and then using force to suppress a popular uprising.
Obama might well consider what he will do should he find himself in a similar situation. And he could.
There are differences, of course.
We do know from past experience that Obama is not averse to using lethal weapons to enforce the will of the investor class.
But how far will he go? Would he sacrifice one million lives to preserve Wall Street’s integrity? Five hundred thousand?
Would he sacrifice his own people? It’s happened before—many times. It’s happening right now—in Afghanistan, Iraq.
How about Netanyahu?
Can Israel go it alone, without US approval?
Now . . . What happens if Israel goes down?
The fall of the Soviet Union altered but did not destabilize the global power structure. There was a change in the power structure, that’s all.
US power was consolidated. Now there was only one superpower. Beyond that not much changed. Bottom line: the fall of the Soviet Union was in Wall Street’s best interest. This is the case with Egypt, Tunisia and, most certainly, Libya.
George Kanaan, the head of the Arab Bankers Association of London said last week that the Libyan uprising is a “wonderful opportunity” for “massive outside investment” in Libya.
Not so with Israel. If Israel goes down everything changes. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has long defined the doctrine of Anglo-Arab relations. That’s why maintaining the conflict has been the top US foreign policy objective for 50 years. On this we will not budge. It’s about keeping the rabble in line.
So if you were Netanyahu what would you be thinking? Would you think it impossible that the Middle Eastern Virus could spread to Palestine?
And if it does, what options would you have?
Methinks there are only two considering the virulent nature of this virus. That is, this virus has one defining symptom: Kill us all if you will, we will never submit again!
So, 1) Kill all the Palestinians; 2) Make peace with them.
Could it be?