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Any reasons the USA and the west HATE PUTIN? Why the war on Syria was shelved?
Posted on: March 8, 2015
WHY DOES THE WEST HATE PUTIN? THE SECRET REASON
We all know the governments of the West, lead by the US and the UK, have turned against Russia. (Never expect the UK to oppose US foreign policies)
Less widely discussed but more important are the geo-political reasons which look at the areas of conflict between the economic interests of the US and those of Russia and China.At the moment the EU is heavily dependent on energy from Russia. The US would like to stop this.The conflict in the Ukraine is an important part of the process of economically separating the EU from Russia. But there is also a wider agenda.China and Russia lead the BRICS group of countries consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS countries want to develop a world wide economic system that does not depend the US dollar.
The BRICS want to be independent of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World bank. China has also suggested to Europe that they join together with Russia and themselves in what they call the New Silk Road, stretching across the whole of Eurasia, from Lisbon to Shanghai.
Needless to say there is no immediate place for the US in this plan, so this gives another reason to cut the economic ties between Russia and the EU.
The Secret Reason – The War that Didn’t Happen
While these factors are all important, there is another factor which is never discussed in the Western media.
The trigger for the sudden hostility against Russia and Putin can be found in almost unreported events which took place late in August and early September 2013.
What happen in that crucial period is that a planned NATO surprise attack on Syria was stopped by Russia. This was probably the first time since WWII that a military attack planned by the West was confronted by sufficient force to require its cancellation.
The people in the West will not be told because their belligerent, tough-talking leaders “blinked”. They backed down and decided to change their plans. The new plan: Undermine the Ukraine and seize Crimea for NATO.
This obviously didn’t work either, and the mess they created is still with us.
The Planned US/French Attack on Syria
Early in the morning of Saturday, August 31, 2013, an American official called the office of President Hollande telling him to expect a call from Obama later in the day.
“Assuming that the evening phone call would announce the commencement of U.S. air strikes (against Syria), Hollande ordered his officers to quickly finalize their own attack plans. Rafale fighters were loaded with Scalp cruise missiles, their pilots told to launch the 250-mile-range munitions while over the Mediterranean.”(1)
At this point in time the French pilots and the US forces were only waiting for the final command from President Obama to begin their attack.
However, later that same day, at 6:15 pm, Obama called the French President to tell him that the strike scheduled for 3:00 am, September 1, would not take place as planned. He would need to consult Congress.(2)
Three days later, at 06:16 GMT Tuesday, September 3, two missiles were launched “from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea” heading for the Syrian coast, but they did not reach Syria.(3) “Both missiles crashed into the sea.”(4) There are several different accounts of what took place. According to Israel Shamir:
“It was claimed by a Lebanese newspaper quoting diplomatic sources that the missiles were launched from a NATO air base in Spain and they were shot down by the Russian ship-based sea-to-air defence system.
Another explanation proposed by the Asia Times says the Russians employed their cheap and powerful GPS jammers to render the expensive Tomahawks helpless, by disorienting them and causing them to fail.
Yet another version attributed the launch to the Israelis, whether they were trying to jump-start the shoot-out or just observed the clouds, as they claim.”(5)
The Warships Were Ready
It is hard to know what was behind this failed missile launch, but it did not trigger an all-out war.
We can all be very thankful for this. In the map below we can see the significant collection of warships in position off the Syrian coast at the time.(6)
An article in Global Research referred to a “massive US and allied naval deployment is occurring in the Eastern Mediterranean off Syria’s coastline as well as in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.”(7)
At the time it looked almost certain that the US and its allies would launch an attack on Syria.
Instead, the proposed attack was put off indefinitely.
As Israel Shamir says, “the steely wills of America and Eurasia had crossed in the Eastern Mediterranean,” and the US suddenly decided to back away from such a serious military conflict.
One commentator quipped that Obama finally deserved his Nobel Peace Prize after all.
Here is the assessment of the situation from the Saker, an outspoken opponent of what he calls the Anglo-Zionist Empire. Because of his previous life the Saker has insider knowledge of the workings of NATO military affairs.
“Less noticed was the fact that Russia sent a hastily assembled but capable naval task force to the Syrian coast. Not a task force big enough to fight the US Navy, but a task force capable of providing a full view of the skies over and beyond Syria to the Syrian military.
For the first time the US could not achieve a surprise attack on Syria, not with cruise missiles, not with airpower. Worse, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah embarked on a covert and overt program of material and technical assistance for Syria which ended up defeating the Wahabi insurgency.”(8)
Why Did the US Change Plans?
It is difficult for us to know all of the manoeuvres which took place behind the scenes during August and September, 2013, but the final outcome is clear. After years of increasing tensions and threats, the US and its allies decided not to launch a direct attack on Syria as planned.
Given the rhetoric and military deployment directed against Syria seemed to follow the script used for Iraq and Libya, there has been little discussion in the West about why the US and its friends suddenly changed their plans.
Now with hindsight we can see that this failed direct attack led to an increased indirect attact and the rise of what is know known as ISIS.
Two of the obvious reasons I can see for this sudden change are not the sort of things the political leaders of the West want to discuss.
One is the fact that these wars are very unpopular. As a result of countless lies and failures revealed about the pointless and savage wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, it seems that some of the politicians are listening to their citizens. How else can you explain the unexpected decision of the British Parliament on Thursday, 29 August, to vote against the UK taking part in any strikes on Syria?
The other reason is the extent of the military build-up by Syria, Russia and even China.(9)
The Russians and Chinese have not only blocked the US in the Security Council. They “voted” with their military hardware.
They are not happy about what the US planned for Syria and made it quite clear that they would use force to stop them.
When was the last time the Chinese ever sent warships to the Mediterranean?
Both Russia and China are clearly not happy with the way the US decides to invade one country after another.
What Does it Mean?
For reasons which are not hard to imagine, there has been little discussion of the broader significance of these events in the Western media. However commentators like Israel Shamir and Pepe Escobar believe these events signal an important shift in the balance of power in the world.
The following is taken from a presentation by Israel Shamir at the Rhodes Forum October 5, 2013:
“First, the good news. American hegemony is over. The bully has been subdued.
“We cleared the Cape of Good Hope, symbolically speaking, in September 2013. With the Syrian crisis, the world has passed a key forking of modern history. It was touch and go, just as risky as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
“The chances for total war were high, as the steely wills of America and Eurasia had crossed in the Eastern Mediterranean. It will take some time until the realisation of what we’ve gone through seeps in: it is normal for events of such magnitude.”(10)
For ‘Eurasia’ read Russia and China.
In blunt terms, these two countries simply forced the US to back off and cancel their plans for war. Generally speaking, the ordinary people of the US, the UK and many other countries were just as opposed to the attack as the people in Syria itself.
Pepe Escobar is even more dramatic. Writing on the 17th October, after the Syrian backdown and the government shutdown in Washington, he explains that there has been a policy shift in Beijing.
Now, for China, the diplomatic gloves are off. It’s time to build a “de-Americanized” world.
It’s time for a new international reserve currency to replace the US dollar.(11)
This new approach is presented in a Xinhua editorial.(12) The last straw for them was the US shutdown coming on top of the financial crisis provoked by Wall Street banks. He quotes perhaps the most important paragraph:
“Instead of honoring its duties as a responsible leading power, a self-serving Washington has abused its superpower status and introduced even more chaos into the world by shifting financial risks overseas, instigating regional tensions amid territorial disputes, and fighting unwarranted wars under the cover of outright lies.”(13)
China has at least three parts to this new strategy.
The first is to stop the military adventures of the US. All nations must respect international law and deal with conflicts within the framework of the UN.
The second is to broaden membership of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to include countries in the emerging and developing world.
The third is to work towards a “new international reserve currency that is to be created to replace the dominant US dollar.”(14)
Perhaps this is why the leaders in the West are not celebrating the war that didn’t happen.
The Russians and Chinese have forced the West to adhere to international law and avoid an illegal war.
Further, the Chinese see this as a beginning of a new era in world politics. They want to “de-Americanize” the world.
The Russians want to see a “multi-polar” world. This means that the US and its small group of friends in Western Europe and Japan will need to recognize that they cannot make all the major decisions in the world on their own.
Note: The arrogance of the US failed to change the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall
What the French navy is doing in the Black Sea? Repatriating more Jews from Crimea?
Posted on: May 5, 2014
What the French navy is doing in the Black Sea? Repatriating more Jews from Crimea?
This detour by Russia allows us to judge the relative amplitude of the Ukraine crisis of 2014. This crisis translate the incapacity of the EU and USA in figuring out the “Third Europe“.
Maybe many people in the US can enumerate half a dozen of what are labeled the Western European States (the industrialized ones), and a few might still remember a couple of the newly created States in Central Europe after the implosion of Yugoslavia (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Herzegovina, Macedonia…), but it is doubtful that many US citizens know anything about the other States in Eastern Europe, the “Third Europe“, close to the borders with Russia and that were constellations within the Soviet Union.
How many knows of the 3 little Baltic new States, Belorussian, the States in the Caucasus (around the Black Sea) which also includes Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Romania… ? All these States that were occupied by the Ottoman Empire for over 4 centuries.
The implosion of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall have created a “post-Soviet Space” that was subjected to the various liberal “choc therapies”
During Clinton and Bush Sr., the US encouraged varieties of “Orange Colored Revolutions“, especially in Ukraine and Georgia.
If Russia has been feeling humiliated and has this urge of taking matters in its hands, the European Union failed to show a little perspicacity in the treatment of the problems of the tiny emerging new States.
What the French navy is doing in the Black Sea?
Four French war navy accompanied the destroyer and missile launcher USS Donald Cook. The bordering States of the Black Sea have signaled the arrival of these ships, otherwise, the “deployment” was decided in secrecy and not made public.
This operation was camouflaged under the NATO Active Endeavor maneuvering, which was not intended to be conducted in the Black Sea.
So far, neither the French government nor the US have made it public this navy deployment.
The two ships Dupuy de Lome and Alize, dedicated to underwater missions (missions of special under cover operations), along with anti-submarine frigate Dupleix, have manifested operational intentions.
Has France decided to be part of a military alliance with the US against Russia “provocations”?
Note 1: French text
Note 2: The French politician JP Chevenement wrote:
Ce détour par la Russie permet de relativiser l’ampleur de la crise ukrainienne de 2014. Celle-ci traduit l’incapacité à penser ce que Georges Nivat appelle « la troisième Europe », après la première et la seconde, celles d’avant et d’après la chute du mur de Berlin. L’implosion de l’URSS a créé un « espace post-soviétique » voué pour l’essentiel après 1991 aux « thérapies de choc » libérales.
Les Etats-Unis, à l’époque des Présidents Bill Clinton et George W. Bush ont encouragé les « révolutions de couleur ». Si la Russie, humiliée, a voulu reprendre la main dans son « étranger proche », on ne peut pas dire que l’Union européenne ait fait preuve de beaucoup de perspicacité dans le traitement du problème « post-soviétique ».
Israeli Soldiers leading fighting units in Kiev
Has Zionist Israel shot itself in the foot getting closely engaged in the western Ukrain uprising?
First, a short history and potentials of Ukrain. This “independent State” is 600,000 sq.km, vaster than France and a bit smaller than Texas and 45 million strong.
The GDP is about $300 billion and 54% of its land is fertile and used in agriculture. Ukrain has always been the bread basket of Europe and Russia in wheat and corn.
50% of Russia gas and oil destined to western Europe flow in Ukrain.
The latest events have demonstrated that Ukrain has Russia majority in the eastern region and Crimea. Crimea and the States around the Black Sea were occupied by Catherine II Russian troops and snatched from the Othoman Empire territories.
Crimea is 70% Russian and the Russian fleet in the Black Sea is the most powerful navy. The Navy Ukrain chief rallied the Russian fleet. Cremea is now a de-facto a Russian province.
East Ukrain is mostly populated with Russians and a counter uprising is taking place at a large scale.
Second, let’s read what JTA reported from Kiev in the daily Ha’aretz this Feb. 28, 2014, before I develop further in the notes.
He calls his troops “the Blue Helmets of Maidan,” but brown is the color of the headgear worn by Delta — the nom de guerre of the commander of a Jewish-led militia force that participated in the Ukrainian revolution.
Under his helmet, he also wears a kippah.
‘Delta’, ex-Israeli soldier, headed ‘the Blue Helmets of Maidan’ of 40 men and women – including several IDF veterans – in violent clashes with government forces.
Delta, the nom de guerre of the Jewish commander of a Ukrainian street-fighting unit, is pictured in Kiev earlier this month. Photo by Courtesy
Delta, a Ukraine-born former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, spoke to JTA Thursday on condition of anonymity.
He explained how he came to use combat skills he acquired in the Shu’alei Shimshon reconnaissance battalion of the Givati infantry brigade to rise through the ranks of Kiev’s street fighters.
He has headed a force of 40 men and women — including several fellow IDF veterans — in violent clashes with government forces.
Several Ukrainian Jews, including Rabbi Moshe Azman, one of the country’s claimants to the title of chief rabbi, confirmed Delta’s identity and role in the still-unfinished revolution.
The “Blue Helmets” nickname, a reference to the UN peacekeeping force, stuck after Delta’s unit last month prevented a mob from torching a building occupied by Ukrainian police, he said. “There were dozens of officers inside, surrounded by 1,200 demonstrators who wanted to burn them alive,” he recalled. “We intervened and negotiated their safe passage.”
The problem, he said, was that the officers would not leave without their guns, citing orders. Delta told JTA his unit reasoned with the mob to allow the officers to leave with their guns. “It would have been a massacre, and that was not an option,” he said.
The Blue Helmets comprise 35 men and women who are not Jewish, and who are led by five ex-IDF soldiers, says Delta, an Orthodox Jew in his late 30s who regularly prays at Azman’s Brodsky Synagogue. He declined to speak about his private life.
Delta, who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s, moved back to Ukraine several years ago and has worked as a businessman. He says he joined the protest movement as a volunteer on November 30, after witnessing violence by government forces against student protesters.
“I saw unarmed civilians with no military background being ground by a well-oiled military machine, and it made my blood boil,” Delta told JTA in Hebrew laced with military jargon.
“I joined them then and there, and I started fighting back the way I learned how, through urban warfare maneuvers. People followed, and I found myself heading a platoon of young men. Kids, really.”
The other ex-IDF infantrymen joined the Blue Helmets later after hearing it was led by a fellow vet, Delta said.
As platoon leader, Delta says he takes orders from activists connected to Svoboda, an ultra-nationalist party that has been frequently accused of anti-Semitism and whose members have been said to have had key positions in organizing the opposition protests.
“I don’t belong [to Svoboda], but I take orders from their team. They know I’m Israeli, Jewish and an ex-IDF soldier. They call me ‘brother,’” he said. “What they’re saying about Svoboda is exaggerated, I know this for a fact. I don’t like them because they’re inconsistent, not because of [any] anti-Semitism issue.”
The commanding position of Svoboda in the revolution is no secret, according to Ariel Cohen, a senior research fellow at the Washington D.C.-based Heritage Foundation think tank.
“The driving force among the so-called white sector in the Maidan are the nationalists, who went against the SWAT teams and snipers who were shooting at them,” Cohen told JTA.
Still, many Jews supported the revolution and actively participated in it.
Earlier this week, an interim government was announced ahead of election scheduled for May, including ministers from several minority groups.
Volodymyr Groysman, a former mayor of the city of Vinnytsia and the newly appointed deputy prime minister for regional policy, is a Jew, Rabbi Azman said.
“There are no signs for concern yet,” said Cohen, “but the West needs to make it clear to Ukraine that how it is seen depends on how minorities are treated.”
On Wednesday, Russian State Duma Chairman Sergey Naryshkin said Moscow was concerned about anti-Semitic declarations by radical groups in Ukraine.
But Delta says the Kremlin is using the anti-Semitism card falsely to delegitimize the Ukrainian revolution, which is distancing Ukraine from Russia’s sphere of influence.
“It’s bullshit. I never saw any expression of anti-Semitism during the protests, and the claims to the contrary were part of the reason I joined the movement. We’re trying to show that Jews care,” he said.
Still, Delta’s reasons for not revealing his name betray his sense of feeling like an outsider. “If I were Ukrainian, I would have been a hero. But for me it’s better to not reveal my name if I want to keep living here in peace and quiet,” he said.
Fellow Jews have criticized him for working with Svoboda. “Some asked me if instead of ‘Shalom’ they should now greet me with a ‘Sieg heil.’ I simply find it laughable,” he said. But he does have frustrations related to being an outsider. “Sometimes I tell myself, ‘What are you doing? This is not your army. This isn’t even your country.’”
He recalls feeling this way during one of the fiercest battles he experienced, which took place last week at Institutskaya Street and left 12 protesters dead. “The snipers began firing rubber bullets at us. I fired back from my rubber-bullet rifle,” Delta said.
“Then they opened live rounds, and my friend caught a bullet in his leg. They shot at us like at a firing range. I wasn’t ready for a last stand. I carried my friend and ordered my troops to fall back. They’re scared kids. I gave them some cash for phone calls and told them to take off their uniform and run away until further instructions. I didn’t want to see anyone else die that day.”
Currently, the Blue Helmets are carrying out police work that include patrols and preventing looting and vandalism in a city of 3 million struggling to climb out of the chaos that engulfed it for the past three months.
But Delta has another, more ambitious, project: He and Azman are organizing the airborne evacuation of seriously wounded protesters — none of them Jewish — for critical operations in Israel.
One of the patients, a 19-year-old woman, was wounded at Institutskaya by a bullet that penetrated her eye and is lodged inside her brain, according to Delta. Azman says he hopes the plane of 17 patients will take off next week, with funding from private donors and with help from Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel.
“The doctor told me that another millimeter to either direction and she would be dead,” Delta said. “And I told him it was the work of Hakadosh Baruch Hu.” (What that means?)
Note 1: Independent Ukrain, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, was one of the “friendliest” States to Israel. What Israel asked was a demand to be granted quickly and obediently.
West Ukrain has been historically closely tied to Germany and most of them consider themselves Teutons. They rallied Nazi Germany when the troops invaded Russia in late 1942, and they committed the worst atrocities against the Russians and Jews.
Why Israel has sent troops disguised as reservists to lead armed groups during the recent uprising?
And why Israel is now voicing apprehension that the 200,000 Jews in Ukrain might be facing “hate treatments” if a civil war breaks in this part of Ukrain?
Note 2: Can we interpret this uprising in Ukrain as tightly linked to the Syrian uprising?
Is the USA trying to pressure Russia for a few concessions and further compromises in Syria?
In any case, it does not stand to reason that Putin will allow the thousands of Islamic “terrorist” Chechen fighting in Syria to converge to bordering regions of Russia.
Ukrain needed the urgent attention of Merkel of Germany in order to ward off lingering troubles on its backyard. Instead of visiting Israel with 17 members of her government, Merkel should have been visiting Kiev and stayed there until a political resolution was finalized.
Merkel’s staunch strategy that Germany policies should be centered on the USA might have side tracked her from more pragmatic ties with Russia, the historical extension of Germany.
Now Merkel is loaded with a long lasting crisis, as bad as the Euro crisis.
Tags: adonis49, armed fighting units, Blue Helmets, Blue Helmets of Maidan, bread basket, Catherine II, Euro crisis, Givati infantry brigade, Hakadosh Baruch Hu, hate treatments, Israeli soldiers, Kiev, kippah, Merkel, Navy Ukrain, Nazi Germany, Rabbi Moshe Azman, Russia, Shu’alei Shimshon, Svoboda, Ukrain, urban warfare, Volodymyr Groysman
The Republican Party made a terrible blunder by not advancing “Con dolcezza”, (a name which means “with softness” that her mother Angelena used as it appeared on piano partitions), to challenging Hillary Clinton in the latest Presidential campaign. Condoleezza Rice would have been beaten: The Republicans had to be kicked out after two disastrous terms of the Jr. Bush, two wars, and the financial crash of the century. Nevertheless, Condo would have infused a colorful campaign instead of the decrepit, decaying, boring dinosaur of McCain.
The “No dolcezza” Condo was born in 1954 in Baton Rouge (Louisiana), as her father John Wesley, originally from Birmingham (Alabama), was teaching and preaching at a Presbyterian church. Condo then moved with her family to Birmingham till the age of ten. At the time, Birmingham was the most racist city in the US and applying the stringent segregation laws. Her father was a Presbyterian preacher and inherited the church that his father established in Birmingham. Her mother was a science and piano teacher. The Rice and Ray married in their thirties and decided to concentrate all their resources and energy in the only child girl. The grandmothers of Condo had been house slaves, attached to the mistress of the plantation after the mister got satisfied for a short time. Their husbands were field slaves with diminished privileges but they managed to get some education: three generations of Rice and Ray went through university studies because only education was the surest way not to returning to the cotton fields.
The Rice family protected Condo from trespassing to the white districts in the city: The family didn’t need to mingle with the white citizens and could afford everything in their own quarters. Condo joined a black school and she was a bright achievers: She participated in all sorts of contests, especially piano and singing. Condo learned French with a private teacher. The mother was the organist and Condo the pianist in the choral of the father. Sundays at 11 am was the time of the mostly segregated hour in the city: They all joined their respective churches. The father was a football fan and initiated Condo to that sport.
The parents were mentally aware of the terribly discriminating behaviors of the citizens but they built barriers around the house and their emotions; the father owned a car and never had to ride any bus; they traveled westwards, out of Alabama and the southern States, and visited museum, zoos, university campuses. The parents continued their education and acceded at higher social status and encouraged Condo to keeping her scholarly schedule pretty busy.
At the age of ten, Condo transferred with her family to Denver (Colorado) and joined a private religious school. Soon after, the mother discovered that she had breast cancer and survived the sickness for another 14 years. The father had risen in the university administrative positions. Condo would wake up at 5 am and practice ice skating for 3 hours, go to school, and then practice piano for another 3 hours in the evening.
At the last year in high school, Condo decided to formally finish high school and participate in the diploma ceremony, while taking courses at the Denver university. She went to the prom at the arm of the most famous university football player. The year 1974 was a critical stage: Condo had to decide on her specialty and the university to attend. Condo decided not to integrate the famous music university of Julliard in New York: She had attended a music instrument competition and realized that many musicians had talents that she lacked. Condo had to be the best in everything she does.
Condo decided in the second semester to major in international politics because she got impressed with her professor Joseph Korbel (father of the infamous Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s State Secretary). Joseph Korbel was the secretary of Czechoslovakia President before the WWII and then ambassador until Russia annexed Czechoslovakia and ended up teaching in Colorado. Condo opted to specialize in Russia and had to learn the language, the literature, the music and the history of Russia. She also learned the Check language to satisfy Korbel.
Condo finished her Masters within a year in Notre-Dame (Indiana) and returned to finish her Ph.D in Denver. She received a grant for a post-doctoral study in Stanford in 1981 and remained there for 20 years. She became professor, chairman of the humanities and political sciences department, and then provost at Stanford. As provost, she managed to eliminate the university debts within two years but alienated the Afro and Latino activists colleagues in the university.
Condo was chaperoned, prepared and formated by the Republican think tanks: She spent sabbatical at their main think tank bastions such as the Hoover Institute (Stanford), the Rand Corporation, Carnegie Foundation, JP Morgan and Chase, Chevron (oil multinational). George Shultz and Brent Scowcroft were her mentors: She became a member of the Bush family and spent her week-ends in Houston and in Maine.
Bush Sr. introduced Condo to his son Bush Jr. when governor of Texas: He planned to assigning Condo to give his son private lessons and prepare him for the presidency; she tailor-made her program to conform with Bush’s short-term attention span and frivolity. Bush Jr. was not excited to becoming President of the USA, but as he was elected against his will, he sent for Condo to support him and further his education at the White House. By then, Condo had become an expert in missiles and the balance of power between the USA and Russia: She was appointed in the first term as Bush national security advisor and then Secretary of State in the second term. Bush Jr. saw Condo first in the morning and the last person before going early to bed.
I would have voted against “No dolcezza” no matter what; I would have campaigned aggressively against this technocrat who was formatted to becoming unethical, immoral, and not exhibiting compassionate behavior. I vividly recall the way Condo barged in Lebanon, for a swift visit, as Israel has been pounding Lebanon for 30 days, in July 2006. Israel by now had destroyed all the infrastructures in Lebanon, totally demolished 10 villages to the ground, pulverized a ten-block quarter in Beirut, using freshly US donated implosion bombs. Israeli aggression killed 1,500 civilians, half of them children and women, injured and handicapped 4,000 civilians, and displaced 800,000 from their homes for 33 days.
Condo moved to shake hands with Lebanon oligarchy leaders, with her peculiar gait, the behind profusely protruding “out”; she assured the oligarchic leaders, who were anxious for the war to resume and getting rid of the Lebanese Resistance that checked the all-out Israeli military machines, that Israel is about, in a few additional days, to resurrect Bush’s public wishes of a newer democratic Greater Middle-East and that liberty will sweep the region with the total and unconditional backing of the USA.
The oligarchic Lebanese leaders were greatly pleased of Condo’s confirmation that Hezbollah is to be on its knees: the oligarchy leaders were rubbing their hands in joy because soon, the rich Arab oil States will be donating millions for the “reconstruction” of the country and their private bank accounts will swell beyond imagination. They believed that no political opposition parties would dare challenge their plundering project.
The consequences of the war were contrary to expectations: Condo realized that she was looking more stupid than Bush and equally as bloody and senile a political figure as Cheney.
