"Cast Lead" the current phase in the Israeli genocide plan for the Palestinians in Gaza which kicked off before 9/11

The Invasion of Gaza: "Operation Cast Lead", Part of a Broader Israeli Military-Intelligence Agenda by Michel Chossudovsky @ Global Research.

He argues that Operation "Cast Lead" is but the latest phase in the so called "Operation Justified Vengeance" which is also called the "Dagan Plan", named after General (ret.) Meir Dagan, now head of Mossad.

"Operation Justified Vengeance" was presented in July 2001 (note this was prior to 9/11 - see Stepehen Sniegoski) to the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon by IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz, under the title "The Destruction of the Palestinian Authority and Disarmament of All Armed Forces".

"A contingency plan, codenamed Operation Justified Vengeance, was drawn up last June [2001] to reoccupy all of the West Bank and possibly the Gaza Strip at a likely cost of "hundreds" of Israeli casualties." (Washington Times, 19 March 2002).

These included several steps which he identifies..

1. The assassination in November 2004 of Yasser Arafat "Arafat, the person, is a severe threat to the security of the state [of Israel], and the damage which will result from his disappearance is less than the damage caused by his existence."
2. The removal, under the orders of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2005, of all Jewish settlements in Gaza. A Jewish population of over 7,000 was relocated.

3. The building of the infamous Apartheid Wall
4. The Hamas election victory in January 2006. Without Arafat, the Israeli military-intelligence architects knew that Fatah under Mahmoud Abbas would loose the elections. This was part of the scenario, which had been envisaged and analyzed well in advance and the quisling Abbas installed as the chosen leader for the Arabs, eventually, after the schism with Hamas had been manufactured..

With Hamas in charge of the Palestinian authority, using the pretext that Hamas is a terrorist organization, Israel would carry out the process of "cantonization" as formulated under the Dagan plan. Fatah under Mahmoud Abbas would remain formally in charge of the West Bank. The duly elected Hamas government would be confined to the Gaza strip.

5. We are now seeing the " invasion of Palestinian-controlled territory by some 30,000 Israeli soldiers, with the clearly defined mission of destroying the infrastructure of the Palestinian leadership and collecting weaponry currently possessed by the various Palestinian forces, and expelling or killing its military leadership. "((Ellis Shulman, "Operation Justified Vengeance": a Secret Plan to Destroy the Palestinian Authority, March 2001):

6. Mass expulsion could occur at some later stage of the ground invasion, were the Israelis to open up Gaza's borders to allow for an exodus of population. Expulsion was referred to by Ariel Sharon as the "a 1948 style solution". For Sharon "it is only necessary to find another state for the Palestinians. -'Jordan is Palestine' - was the phrase that Sharon coined." (Tanya Reinhart, Evil Unleashed, Israel's move to destroy the Palestinian Authority is a calculated plan, long in the making, Global Research, December 2001. Details of the document were published in Ma'ariv, July 6, 2001.).

It is of interest that the Ruritanian Hashemites sat in Amman are surprisingly vociferous in their opposition to "Cast lead" - the last thing they wish, is a further influx of Palestinian refugees.

7. The broader question Chossudovsky ponders is ," whether Israel in consultation with Washington is intent upon triggering a wider war."

To which the answer of anyone familiar with the wails from AIPAC over the last 2 years means an outright attack on Iran.

PS : Stepehn Sigorski in "September 11 and the war in Palestine " makes a persuasive case that that in the context of the American "war on terrorism," "Sharon got his green light in Washington" to smash the Palestinians.

He says, " it seems reasonable to propose that if the Israeli spies in the United States did know of the impending 9/11 attack, they certainly would not have done anything to try to prevent it. Indeed, it is conceivable that they might have sought to facilitate such an ideal condition, if such assistance became necessary. Such an explanation would account for the presence of the Israeli explosive experts in the United States ..."

"Given the kid-gloves treatment the major American media afford Israel, there seems to be virtually no chance that their reporters might plumb the depths of a murky conspiracy to implicate the Israelis in 9/11. Thus far the established media have managed to ignore the whole Israeli spy issue — especially the question, which cries out for an answer, of what all those spies were doing on these shores. The likelihood that the U.S. government wanted a terrorist incident to provide the rationale for military intervention would provide additional reason, if one were required, why no Israeli involvement in the vast crimes of 9/11 would ever be uncovered. "

Stop Bombing Gaza NOW - Manchester Demonstration 3rd January Amazing pictures

This is a view of the march on Oxford Road - it eventually filled Albert Square as many more joined as it took a lengthy route through the city centre. Plod was exceptionally helpful and polite - the word had gone out, the last thing Mr Brown wants is a picture on the front page of the Sunday's of someone wearing a palestinian flag getting their head stove in by a beefy tooled up Plod.
Vies of two of the en route cameras, swivelling and zooming monitoring everything - plus of course the Plodcopter zizzing above.

The Yorkshire / leeds / Bradford band was playing many a jolly tune all afternoon - very Lol Coxhill ... excellent and joyous.
The Zionist six pointed star on the Albert memorial in Albert Square provides a paradoxical symbol over a crowd who loathe and despise the symbol and what it means in the Middle East.It is memory of the role of Levantine traders in Manchester who didn't make the cotton goods but traded them - and of course it's associated masonic connection in municipal politics in Manchester ever since. There was a posse of strangely shorn and garbed Talmudic men , their leader addressed the crowd and raised many cheers as he emphasised the division betwee Judaism and Zionism.
Tony Lloyd Manchester Labour MP addressed the crowd - but true humbug managed to slide in the subjunctive clause about how the Gazans, having been raped daily for years must cease struggling and give in. He had been preceded before our departure by Withington (Manchester)Liberal Democrat MP John Leech who used the same weasel words and then left for another engagement apparently mire urgent than genocide. (But he does want pensioners to have free TV licences - so they can soak up Zionist propaganda without paying).

We were promised Brian Iddon Labour MP for Bolton who is Secretary to the Britain-Palestine Group - but he didn't appear. He did appear in June 2007 at the 40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Palestine so his heart is probably in the right place even if he wasn't.

There is a humanitarian crisis Tony & John , we'll agree on that , it's in Gaza not Israel. It's caused by ;

1.The Israeli Government
2. Their massive and well eqipped army, navy, air force and various sinister secret services at work in Israel and any other places throughout the world.
2. Supported by the US Government who freely provide their vast stores of lethal weapons - including the recent supply of 1,000 GBU-39 GPS positioned bunker busters at US$77,000 a pop, 4 per F 15.
3. Supported by the silence of Governments (including the Nu Labour Government) troughout Europe.
4. Whose state controlled media - BBC or Zionist controlled media provide a conduit for the Zionist propaganda.

Before any one moans , at least for once Manchester saw some heads of MP's raised aslightly above the parapet - we want full commitment to the ending of Zionist land grabs, th destruction of property, the imprisonment of 1.5 million people, depriving them of power, water, ewage, food and medical equipment and the ability to trade by land, sea and air.

There never was a time for polite equivocation ... and there certainly isn't now. You are with or agianst the Palestinians - you cannot walk by on the other side wringing your hands.

A Muslim broadcaster had a live feed to the Middle East ... altogether a well organised demo with a massive attendance.

It has just been announced (NYT) by the IDF “large numbers of forces are taking part in this stage of the operation including infantry, tanks, engineering forces, artillery and intelligence with the support of the Israel Air Force, Israel navy, Israel Security Agency and other security agencies.”

“We have just a short while ago launched the second stage,” a spokeswoman for Israel Defense Forces Maj. Avital Leibovich, said in an interview broadcast on CNN.

She said that troops were targeting areas responsible for the launching of rockets into Israel, as well as tunnels, bunkers, and training facilities — “everything that is affiliated with Hamas is a legitimate target,” Major Leibovich said. (ie we will check out how effective those bunker busting GBU-39's were and report to our kind donors Uncle Sam)

Alex Fishman, the military analyst of the popular daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot, wrote on Friday, “Since the name of the game is killing and destruction, the ground operation has to be quick, with a lot of firepower at friction points with Hamas.” He added, “The goal is to exact a high price in the early stages of the ground operation and to end it quickly.”

In Washington Condileezza Rice soon to be ex Secretary of State said “We are working toward a cease-fire that would not allow a reestablishment of the status quo ante where Hamas can continue to launch rockets out of Gaza.”

Baghdad is a smashed city

Baghdad is a smashed city / Dahr Jamail / Tuesday, 29 May 2007
Atlantic Free Press

Below is an email I have just received from my close friend and translator Abu Talat....

Habibi…

Baghdad is a SMASHED city… no roads to drive on… most of them are closed off by concrete obstacles with concertina wire. In addition, the presence of the Iraqi military, who cover their faces with black masks and hold their guns in such a way that when you see them you will definitely be afraid that they will shoot you.

The shops in most of the area I went to see are closed. I asked one of the shop owners I know, 55-year-old Abu Fadhil, since I heard that his shop was robbed. I found his door closed and locked and he was nowhere to be found.

Later, on my way to Sadr City, I found that two of the three roads which lead all the way from south to north Baghdad are either partially or totally closed in some places. You still remember the highways in Baghdad… well now most of them are closed, or at least fenced off with obstacles, yet they say there is some progress in the security situation inside the city! Everyday two or three cars explode across Baghdad, killing big numbers of civilians.

When I returned to my neighborhood of al-Adhamiya, I couldn’t get in unless the soldiers checked my ID and my car, even though the guards are from the same neighborhood and they know me personally. But they had to check it to ensure that no car bombs might happen. Nevertheless, daily mortars shell my neighborhood and those are out of control, despite this concrete wall placed by the Americans which now surrounds our neighborhood. Despite all that they do, they cannot bring security to our small neighborhood.

Needless to say, Baghdad has been changed into THE CITY OF GARBAGE. You can find it everywhere. You can smell the stench of dead bodies wherever you go.

Talking of electricity, there is now only one hour daily. That’s it. From where we’re staying in the city center, in Bab al-Muadham, I can see from the balcony that people sleep nearly naked on their rooftops because it is so hot and there is no electricity to run fans or air conditioners. Thank God that there are two large generators that maintain electricity in our building.

Everyday by 2-3 pm the buildings where we are staying are closed so that no one can leave or enter. That way it is kept secure, and this is how it remains until the next morning.

As far as my family life in this condition, we are as though we are in jail from 2-3 pm until the second morning where the doors are opened at 7 am.

My son goes to the hospital to work, but for the last two days he finds it without any running water. [His son works in Baghdad Medical City, the largest hospital in Iraq] For the last 2 weeks, as he told me, the hospital has been without any air conditioning and almost without patients, although it’s the biggest hospital in Iraq.

My son's wife, who is also a doctor, has to go to another hospital just to try to assist since there is a drastic lack of Gynecologists. She stays in her hospital for three days continuously before my son picks her up with his car on the fourth day to bring her home, in order to insure her safety so she doesn’t have to take a bus or taxi.

As for my daughter, she has not passed out the doorway of this apartment where we are staying for the last week except for one time for some work she had to accomplish.

My wife left here only once, when she went to her job (which she has been on leave from since we left to Syria) in order to apply for a full year vacation. Thank God she got it.

As for me, I found my car ruined, so I had to repair it. For that I called the mechanic to come to my home and repair it, since I couldn’t take the car to him since all the mechanics shops are closed and there is no place to have a car repaired. All of those shops are totally closed.

When I saw the mechanic he said, “We cannot live anymore, and there is no job we can find.”

Dahr, this short letter gives you just a glance of the current situation in Baghdad. With the next letter I will tell you some more.

Can someone explain the continuing silence of politicians, community leaders, religious leaders to the plight of the Iraqi's - we have endless news of kidnapped Soldiers of Misfortune but nothing about the collapse of a civilised nation.

Why is there silence ? Is there no-one with a conscience ... and a voice ?

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A boy sits in the rubble of his destroyed home the day after the May 29th truck bombing of the Mosque and Husseiniyah in al-Amil (southwest Baghdad). Bodies are still being dug from the collapsed buildings and according to hospital spokesemen the death count from the attack is still rising as seriously wounded people brought to hospitals yesterday die of their wounds.