Positioning for World War Three
By Allen J DuffisPublished: January 25,2010
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May 14, 1948: Beginning the March to Armageddon Background In 1917 Chaim Weizmann, scientist, statesman, and Zionist, persuaded the British government to issue a statement favoring the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The statement which became known as the Balfour Declaration was, in part, payment to the Jews for their support of the British against the Turks during World War I. After the war, the League of Nations ratified the declaration and in 1922 appointed Britain to rule in Palestine. 
UN Resolution 181, defined the outline of a settlement in Palestine creating both a Jewish and a Palestinian homeland. The 1947 UN Partition divided the area into three entities: a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone around Jerusalem. At midnight on May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel proclaimed the new State of Israel. On that same date the United States, in the person of President Truman, recognized the provisional Jewish government as de facto authority of the new Jewish state (de jure recognition was extended on January 31). The U.S. delegates to the U.N. and top ranking State Department officials were angered that Truman released his recognition statement to the press without notifying them first. On May 15, 1948, the Arab states issued their response statement and Arab armies invaded Israel and the first Arab-Israeli war began.
Israel: A State built upon a campaign of terror 
Israel was created from part of Palestine in order to create a homeland for the Jewish people. A sector of Palestinian land was placed aside and Israel was built on that sector of land. When the other Arab nations rejected this agreement, they declared war on the new state and directed all of their Arab brethren there to leave until they'd defeated the usurper. Unfortunately, the Jews won and the former residents of that territory (named Palestine by the British), victims of their own decisions, were thus rendered homeless - and the State of Israel came into being. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the total Jewish population of Palestine was estimated at around 20,000 persons, but this quickly increased with legal and illegal immigration. Until 1948 the holy land, Palestine, was a British mandated territory. British policy on the territory was enforced by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, whereby Palestine would be regarded as a homeland for the Jews, subject to the rights of the Arabs, but would not necessarily be an independent state. By 1939, Britain was moving away from this position, and a white Paper recommended that an - Arab state of Palestine be created. In order to force Britain's hand and ensure a favorable outcome, the Jews commenced a program of terrorism, with the Stern Gang as the main participant. In 1946, the British headquarters in the King David Hotel were blown up. By February 1947, the number of British casualties in Palestine has risen sharply and Britain called on the UN to - solve the Palestinian problem. At this point, the United States reached agreement with USSR that Palestine was to be divided. In November 1947, a UN Special Committee on Palestine presented a report to the General Assembly, with a majority advocating division, but a minority advocating a unitary state based on democracy. Intense pressure by USA and USSR was necessary to gain the necessary two thirds majority vote for partition. 
In 1947, King Abdullah of Jordan held secret negotiations with the Jewish agency to divide Palestine between his kingdom and the Jews. By this means, the Palestinians were effectively isolated from a potential ally. At first, the international solution was for the Palestinians to receive the major portion of the divided territory, but the Jews gradually achieved concessions, until a "Green Line" was drawn, dividing the territory approximately into two, by means of four sectors which touched at one point, so that a Jew or Palestinian need not cross the other's territory in order to move from one of his two territories to the other. After the British forces moved out, the Jews declared independence for Israel and commenced a civil war to extend its area. This was successful, and the recognized boundaries of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were far more favorable to Israel than provided by the Green Line. 
Palestinians were deported from their ancestral homes, changing the proportions between Jews and Arabs in the Israeli zone. Between May 1948 and January 1949, 370 Palestinian villages were wiped out just in the coastal strip between Tel-Aviv and Haifa. In many cases, the villagers who refused to leave were put onto trucks and driven away to the West Bank. In today's parlance, we would refer to such actions as - 'Ethnic Cleansing.' In challenge to the claim of the Palestinians that the Jews have no claim on the land, the Jewish community responds through many media outlets (such as the Jewish Virtual Library: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org) in the following manner: The Jewish people base their claim to the Land of Israel on at least four premises: (1) the Jewish people settled and developed the land; (2) the international community granted political sovereignty in Palestine to the Jewish people; (3) the territory was captured in defensive wars and (4) God promised the land to the patriarch Abraham. The Aftermath: That fatal 1948 decision by the United States to favor a 'Jewish State' over a 'Palestinian State' (the most expensive political decision this country has ever made) has now come to fruition, leading the Middle East to a possible - nuclear confrontation. Israel knows that its hold on remaining the major power in the Middle East is dependent upon its 'undeclared' nuclear deterrent - now being challenged on many fronts by the threat of Pakistani 'nukes on the loose' and the inevitable Iranian factor. Why They Hate Us 
It is incredible that with all of the Middle East 'experts' we have in residence within our State Department and news media, many of them of Arabic ethnicity, there appears to be in evidence a criminal lack of understanding of the - Arab Mind. The Arab world does not comprehend our determination to treat Arab and Israeli interests and viewpoints with a totally incomprehensible conflicting diplomatic philosophy. They ask: Why allow Jewish nukes but not Arab nukes? Slowly but steadily world opinion has begun to drift in their favor on this and other area issues, as is indicated by the following news item of recent: Israel criticizes Turkey over television series January 12, 2010 (CNN) -- Israel criticized Turkey Monday for a Turkish television series that depicted Israeli intelligence agents as baby-snatchers, heightening tensions between the two countries. "Why is it doing this? Because it says 'I possess the power in this region,'" the news agency quoted Erdogan as saying of Israel. "It possesses un proportionate power and it is using this. It is not acting in accordance with U.N. resolutions, it is uncomfortable. It says 'I will do whatever I please.'" Israel and Turkey have enjoyed close military and economic ties for more than a decade. But relations have grown testy at times in recent years over Israel's activities in the Palestinian territories and over its Gaza offensive in December and January. However, at present they do have close ties with India, as both sides have immediate and similar concerns over the actions and fate of a nuclear armed neighbor - Pakistan. Taliban - al Qaeda Connection From the Bush administration right on through the Obama administration, there seems to be an American inability to comprehend the relationship of the Taliban Movement and al Qaeda. 
Plain and simple, al Qaeda has branched out as a franchise movement: a maneuver that allows them to be in many places at the same time. And this strategy is the centerpiece of their determined long-range plan to gain a foothold in Pakistan and, potentially, eventual access to its nuclear weapons arsenal. In pursuit of this goal they have formed a deadly partnership with the Taliban. While the Taliban and active fragments of the al Qaeda organization wreak sporadic havoc at various world-wide locations, like Yemen (the new failed state) the main al Qaeda effort is the construction of a widespread complex of operating cells in secure locations all throughout Pakistan's major cities. In other words they are digging in to have a functional organization capable of handling the takeover of a nuclear arsenal - their primary goal. And while all of this activity is taking place, a very nervous Israeli government is watching with a wary eye - and planning. Meanwhile, very few are aware that long-standing tensions between India and Pakistan are slowly moving off the back burner to a more ominous state, as was made patently clear by the following editorial excerpt: India and Pakistan: Cold Start for the Hottest War by: J. Sri Raman - t r u t h o u t - Wednesday 20 January 2010 We have all been witness to a long and continuing war of words between New Delhi and Islamabad ever since the Mumbai terrorist strike of November 2008 disrupted the India-Pakistan "peace process" and "composite dialogue" which had kept going until then despite smaller problems and provocations. These statements and counter-statements, however, do not constitute the exchange that should cause the most serious concern over peace in South Asia. The Israeli Factor 
Any American who harbors the illusion that the collective mind of the Israeli government is synched to that of the U.S. in joint and equal concerns of pending the dangers within the Middle East - needs to have his, her or their collective minds examined professionally: for nothing could be farther from the truth. The fact is - the Israelis' don't give a damn about America and - they never have and never will. Israel is for Israel: always have been and always will be; but in pursuit of their singular territorial expansion interests, they would be willing to fight right down to the last American soldier - if need be. In fact, they would even be willing to kill a few Americans as they have already demonstrated by an infamous incident in the 1967 Six-Day War. Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty The Political Spin: 
On June 8, 1967, the fourth day of the Six-Day War, the Israeli high command received reports that Israeli troops in El Arish were being fired upon from the sea, presumably by an Egyptian war vessel, the El Quseir, as they had a day before. The United States had announced that it had no naval forces within hundreds of miles of the battle front on the floor of the United Nations a few days earlier; however, the U.S.S. Liberty, an American intelligence ship assigned to monitor the fighting, arrived in the area, 14 miles off the Sinai coast, as a result of a series of United States communication failures, whereby messages directing the ship not to approach within 100 miles were not received by the Liberty. The explanation given is that the Israelis mistakenly thought this was the Egyptian warship El Quseir doing the shelling, and war planes and torpedo boats (in three separate assaults - before being driven off by responding American war planes) attacked - killing 34 members of the Liberty's crew and wounding 171. Contrary Evidence: Others claim that the attack was deliberate and premeditated. They note that the Liberty was more than twice as large as the El Quseir (a fact well known to Israeli intelligence), and - was clearly designated with Latin rather than Arabic letters and numbers. Proponents include surviving Liberty crewmen, and some former U.S. government officials, including then-CIA director Richard Helms and then-Secretary of State Dean Rusk as well as Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer, former Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Israeli and American governments conducted multiple inquiries into the incident, and issued reports concluding that the attack was the result of a mistake, caused by confusion among the Israeli attackers about the precise identity of the USS Liberty. These conclusions have been challenged, most notably by an organization of Liberty survivors as well as by some key former high-ranking U.S. officials who were in office at the time. These skeptics have included Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Director of the NSA, and the senior legal counsel to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry into the incident. The matter is considered officially closed for purposes of Israeli-American relations, but it remains controversial in public discussion. 
The Motive most supported by the cumulative circumstantial evidence to date, point to Israel's determination to gain complete control over the - international - Holy City of Jerusalem (a mission which they had promised the Americans and United Nations they would not undertake, to which the spy ship Liberty was monitoring their command communications). But the Israelis' wanted the prize - at any and all costs - and 34 American sailors paid that price. Most disturbing, however, is the Israeli penchant for 'spectacular', and often paranoid, efforts in their quest for unparallel national security. Israel will go to virtually any lengths to accomplish a mission its leaders have decided must be done - even if every logical indication bares out that the stakes in human lives is far too high. An example of such an overwhelming task is that of militarily taking out the Iranian nuclear potential - without employing - low yield nuclear weapons. Trigger Incident to Irrational Action What is clear from events to date and at present, is that the world has become too politically and militarily fragile to withstand another 9-11 catastrophe - anywhere, but the powers to be know that such an event is on the horizon - they just don't know where or when. But sometime in the next two years - something will happen. And when it does, one of the leadership factions of the west - or Israel - will respond in the form of an 'action' will set off a chain of events that can very likely culminate in a - major world war. Exactly how and when these factors will come into play and - most crucial - how they will conclude is - unknown.
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