ISRAELIS OPENLY ADMIT THEY ARE NOW ONLY WAITING FOR AN EXCUSE TO INVADE THE GAZA!

The 'Haaretz' reports that the Israeli Defence Minister, Amir Peretz, has said that “…we will not allow the continuation of arming, in a way that the Gaza Strip will turn into the Second Lebanon.”

The report went on to say that: “The scenario for launching the operation was large-scale rocket fire on western- and northern-Negev communities and the abduction of soldiers.” Preparations for the invasion have been completed. The Jerusalem Post reported that: “At the end of last year, Chief of Staff Dan Halutz ordered that preparations be advanced for a possible action in the Gaza Strip that would use large numbers of ground forces. Infantry, armoured units, artillery and intelligence units underwent training, mainly at the Tzeelim base in the South, and the Southern Command headquarters held an exercise last week.”

Now all the Israelis need to do is wait for their ‘excuse’. Naturally, if they have to wait for too long, one couldn’t put it past them to fabricate some ‘false flag’ incident in order to meet their schedule.

No doubt the new IDF Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, will be itching to prove himself in order to consolidate his new position.

HOWARD’S CRIMES

THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE HICKS SAGA HAS RENDERED THE HOWARD GOVERNMENTS CRIMES FAR MORE SERIOUS THAN ANY CRIME HICKS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE COMMITTED.

Robert Richter in his analysis of the fiasco that has been the David Hicks saga, published in ‘The Age’ newspaper, has raised questions that go to the heart of Australia’s legal, moral and constitutional integrity particularly in relation to the way the Howard government, especially his chief minions Alexander Downer and Phillip Ruddock, have handled this entire affair from the moment Hicks was arrested.

Richter cuts straight to the chase arguing that, “Hundreds of years of what constituted the rule of law have been jettisoned so that Howard, Ruddock and Downer can pretend that Hicks is off their election agenda. Forget habeas corpus. Forget retrospective legislation. Forget coerced evidence and confessions. Forget commissions in which guilt has been predetermined. Forget prosecutors being judges in their own cause.”

Richter also specifically refers to the laws that Howard, Downer, Ruddock, et al, have breached; laws that relate to the responsibility the Australian government has to protect the rights of Australians overseas when arrested regardless of what they are alleged to have done, and also their responsibility to ensure that they are not denied and do receive a fair trial. So incensed is Richter, a renowned Melbourne barrister, he has gone on to write: “…we can only hope there will be another attorney-general in Australia who will have the guts to authorise proceedings against those who "aided, abetted, counselled or procured" the commission of the crimes to which I have referred. Let us not forget the war crimes trials after World War II, in which the German Nazi judges who prostituted their duty in the service of the political ideology that put them there were put on trial for what they did.”

The problem for Howard and his minions is that, while they may be able to prevent the beans being spilt about the detention and injustices that Hicks has received, they are unable to conceal the fact that there are beans there to actually be spilt – it’s just a matter of time.

The reality is that Hicks did not commit any crime that he could have been charged with under any US domestic law or even any Australian law. In fact the whole of the Hicks saga isn’t even about Hicks; it is more about the crimes that Howard and various ministers of his government have committed when they ignored the plight of an Australian who had been denied justice and a fair trial. It also now seems that, not only did they do nothing to ensure that Hicks did receive a fair trial; they were actually complicit in ensuring that he did not receive a fair trial.

Howard can only delay the emergence of the truth of what has happened to Hicks but he can’t ever make it go away. When eventually it does emerge – and that may well be sooner rather than later if Hicks is returned to Australia and his lawyers are then able to convince an Australian court of the injustice that has been meted to him – then the Howard government may well have to answer to the laws of Australia for the crimes that it has committed; crimes that are far more serious than any Hicks was accused of.

THE ARABS DEMAND PEACE AND THE ORDINARY PEOPLES OF THE WORLD SHOULD SUPPORT THEM

Twenty-two members of the Arab League, including Egypt and Jordan who already have peace agreements with and recognise Israel, have signed up to guarantee Israel’s security in return for Israel withdrawing entirely from the Gaza and the West Bank back to its pre-1967 lines, including withdrawing all settlements and also including withdrawal from the Golan Heights, recognising the sovereign state of Palestine and accepting a ‘just solution’ for all the Palestinians and their descendants that were displaced from Israel.

Naturally, the hard right-wing of Zionism is hardly likely to accept any aspect of the proposals and will make every effort to disrupt any discussion of them. There are others, however, who have at least expressed an interest in sitting down to talk despite their concerns about the proposals and their all but total rejection of the right of return part of the proposals which is by far the biggest sticking point as far as both sides are concerned. For the Israelis it simply won’t happen, and for the Palestinians there will be no peace unless it does.

Despite the fact that the Israeli government has rejected the entire proposal out of hand, the mere fact that the Arab League were prepared to go to so much trouble in arranging the meeting to thrash out this attempt at a peace plan says much about the current climate among the Arab peoples. It also makes a statement about the extent of Arab unity at a time when the US and Israel have been trying to wedge the differences that Sunni and Shia are currently having in Iraq by inferring that a fractured Iraq would have a detrimental effect on the relationships that each of the Arab nations have with each other implying that the Sunni/Shia differences could spread throughout the Middle East.

Despite the fact that Israel has rejected the proposal, the demand for peace should now be expanded to include not just the united voices of the Arab peoples, but the peoples of all the world including those moderate Jews throughout the Diaspora that want peace and the peoples of Israel who have also had enough of the wars and killing in the name of right-wing Zionism.

RIGHT-WING COMMENTATORS EXPOSE THEMSELVES FOR THE TRANSPARENT PROPAGANDISTS THAT THEY ARE.

David Hicks’ plea of guilty has exposed the right-wing propagandists of Australia’s mainstream press for the lunatic neoconservative-supporting simpletons that they have always been.

These people are so dumb and gullible that they actually believe that his plea of ‘guilty’ amounts to a confession to the ‘crimes’ that the US has created for him. Two of the mainstream media’s dumbest right-wing commentators are the Sydney Morning Herald’s Miranda Divine and, of course, SS-Rantenfuehrer Janet Albrechtsen of The Australian.

Devine seems to think that, “By pleading guilty to terrorism this week, David Hicks has plastered egg all over the faces of his supporters - the naive hysterics who believe he is a tortured innocent as well as those glory-seeking civil rights lawyers who have attached themselves to his case.” The only ‘naïve hysterics’ here is Ms. Devine indulging herself in some smug but totally misplaced ‘I told you so’ rant that does nothing except expose her own naivety as to the reasons that Hicks pleaded guilty – which, as everyone knows, was for the sole purpose of extricating himself from the hell hole that is Gitmo. The only one with egg on the face is Ms. Devine.

Meanwhile, over at The Australian, SS-Rantenfuehrer Albrechtsen predictably writes similarly naïve garbage for which she invites comments. Nigh on all the comments however, condemn her take on Hicks’ ‘guilty’ plea, which is much the same as Ms. Devine’s, and are supportive of Hicks, leaving Albrechtsen with much egg on her face too.

Greg Sheridan, wisely, has kept his mouth shut on the matter though, instead, has come out with some pot-stirring hypocrisy about how terrible the Iranians are for ‘kidnapping’ the 15 UK naval personnel while ignoring entirely the kidnappings of Iranian embassy personnel in Iraq by the US and the fact that the UK naval personnel are on waterways that do not belong to them, regardless of whether they were in Iraqi waters or Iranian waters, on account that the war they are waging against the Iraqi people is illegal.

THE LACK OF MORAL CREDIBILITY OF THE U.S. AND U.K. CAUSES PROBLEMS FOR THE PEOPLE OF DARFUR.

There is an interesting editorial in today’s UK Guardian where it is argued that, while the humanitarian crisis that is Darfur requires the immediate attention of and action by the UN, Tony Blair and George Bush are two of the world’s leaders that would be most inappropriate to be advocating such action given that both “…have been almost completely discredited as morally driven interveners after the experience of Iraq. If they fail to get the UN sanctions they need, establishing another coalition of the willing to bomb Sudan's airfields could falter on precisely these grounds.” In other words, nobody trusts these leaders any more and as a result, thousands more are likely to perish.

It is Tony Blair according to another UK Guardian report that is advocating that the UN intervene with the possible use of force to enforce a UN sanctioned ‘no-fly zone’. The US is supporting the UKs efforts to get military and other sanctions imposed.

The problem is; Blair simply cannot be trusted. Even as recently as yesterday, Blair was still saying that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was UN sanctioned, despite the recently departed Secretary-General of the UN, Koffi Anan, clearly stating that the war was in fact illegal. The international community is very much aware that it has been taken for a ride at the UN by the senior partners in the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ and is reluctant to support anything that the US and the UK propose because there is still the sense that, even when the proposal seems to be based purely on moral grounds, the US and the UK under the leadership of Bush and Blair respectively usually have some ulterior motive for their proposals. Certainly, historically, neither leader has ever done anything that has not in some way been in their interests either politically or economically.

So, what to do? The US and UK can’t be trusted under their present leaders to do anything that may be driven by morality alone; China is out of the question because of its preference to remain isolationist; Russia still has human rights issues that it needs to sort out before it can claim any moral high ground to intervene in a humanitarian crisis; all of which really only leaves the EU being qualified to do anything about it. At least that way the UK can still be actively involved and play an important role – as long as it is under the leadership of the EU and not Blair.

The upshot of the problem is twofold; first there is the immediate problem of what to do for the people of Darfur given that they need help right this minute, and, second, what to do for the long term to restore faith in the UN to the point where it no longer is just another agency to be used and abused at the whim of the US and it’s right-wing allies in the Western world to start wars that are only in their interests.

CAN MODERATE JEWS IN THE DIASPORA AND IN ISRAEL GRASP THE CHANCE FOR REAL PEACE WITH PALESTINE?

Despite the efforts of the Arab countries around the Palestine/Israel region, particularly Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to bring about another shot at peace between Palestine and Israel, Israel’s leaders continue to refuse to budge on the issue of full withdrawal to the 1967 lines and on the issue of right of return of Palestinian refugees to their original homes that are now in Israel. Initially they said they were open to maybe talking about these issues but only because the Arab nations proposal, basically yet another resurrection of the original 2002 land-for-peace proposal, was supported by both US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Now, however, the Israelis, quite predictably, have backed off from direct talks where right of return and complete withdrawal are likely to be the topic of discussions.

But all need not be entirely lost. Time and time again in the past Israel has shied away from the opportunity of peace because it has never been offered on the terms that the right-wing Israeli Zionists would accept. And, of course, the world now knows that what the right-wing Israeli Zionists actually want is a Greater Israel that includes the West Bank, the Gaza, the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon up to the Litani River. But today things are a little different and there is a glimmer of hope, albeit a rather small glimmer, but a glimmer nonetheless whereby the moderate Jewish people of both the Diaspora, particularly in the US, and the Israelis themselves can grasp the opportunity to gain the peace they have always craved. All they need to do is speak with one voice and demand the peace they and the Palestinian people deserve, and all of the moderate peoples of the world should give their support to these demands and not rest until these demands are met.

If there is any good at all that could come from the disaster that has so far been most of the first decade of the twenty-first century then it must be the opportunity for the world to demand that Israel makes a fair and just peace with its neighbours. The American people clearly are fed up with losing their youth for a cause that is increasingly being seen as not theirs. So too in the UK, the people are likewise unhappy that their leader has taken them into a war that seems to have no end and was based on lies that right-wing Zionists in the US had evolved to instigate a war against Iraq just as they are now trying to push for war against Iran. Around the world the right-wing Zionists and their supporters in the US, the UK and elsewhere have been exposed for the liars and warmongers that they are.

It is up to the peoples of the world now. They know the wars are based on lies and they know those lies were created to justify wars that are only in the interests of the right-wing Zionists. Now all we need to do is say loudly and clearly: ‘Enough is enough. It’s time for peace!’

BLAIR BLUSTERS WITH EMPTY THREATS AS HE UTTERS A FEW MORE LIES.

The British seem to have got themselves into a bit of a tizz over fifteen of their service people that got caught by the Iranians in, so the Iranians say, Iranian waters. The headline in the UK ‘Telegraph’ was a gem. It said: ‘Blair: Iran must free naval prisoners in days’. The report went on: “Tony Blair warned Iran last night that it has only a few days to find a diplomatic solution to the escalating crisis over the 15 missing British sailors and Marines.” However, the article didn’t say what was going to happen in a few days time if they weren’t released.

The British are insisting that their people did not stray into Iranian waters while, of course, the Iranians are equally insistent that they did and that is the reason why they were arrested.

It’s difficult to imagine why the Iranians would arrest them unless they were inside Iranian waters. To do otherwise would mean that the Iranians deliberately went into Iraqi waters and then, just as deliberately, kidnapped the sailors and marines. There is absolutely no reason for the Iranians to do that. The last thing the Iranians want at the moment is to be upsetting the allies that are gunning for them anyway over Irans so-called nuclear ambitions. As for who’s lying… well, who was it that lied before when he wanted to start a war??!!

And, to top it off, Blair’s hypocrisy is also demonstrated here because, while he jumps up and down over the 15 captured sailors and marines, nothing is said about the 300-odd Iranians, mostly diplomats, which have been rounded up and arrested in Iraq by the allies.

BUSH, BLAIR AND DOWNER: THE REAL APPEASERS OF RIGHT-WING ZIONIST ISRAEL’S DEMANDS.

There is a certain irony in the fact that, during the course of recent history, it has been the extreme right-wing of some western governments, including those of the US, the UK and Australia, that have accused those not supporting their wars against the Islamic peoples of the world as being ‘appeasers’.[1]

The irony is in the fact that, just prior to the start of the Second World War, the appeasers were those that were quite happy to allow Hitler to invade and occupy the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia whereas in the lead up to the Coalition of the Willing’s invasion of the Iraq the people that are now somehow being cast as the appeasers are those that implored the COW not to invade Iraq.

It seems that the only people doing the appeasing based on the logic of the western right-wing’s analogy of appeasers being those that appeased Hitler prior to occupying a sovereign nation, are those that support the COW that ended up invading Iraq. All, in the end, were appeasing Israel. The real appeasers therefore, are Bush, Blair and Downer and all the others that supported the invasion, occupation and pillaging of Iraq.

Smoke and mirrors. And some people actually fall for this garbage.



ENDNOTE
[1] In Australia, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has referred to the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as appeasers. In the US Rumsfeld famously referred to those that opposed Bush’s war against Iraq as ‘appeasers’, and in the UK British right-wing commentators like John Keegan were exhorting Blair to ‘ignore the appeasers’.

THE WARMONGERS MAY STRIKE IRAN SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.

There are some rather ominous signs that appear to indicate that an attack on Iran may well be imminent. The Jerusalem Post is reporting that several embassies in Tehran are ‘updating their emergency evacuation plans’ in preparation for a possible attack on Iran from either Israel or the US or possibly both.

In other developments that also tend to suggest that there are some fears that an attack may be imminent, the International Herald Tribune reported that the Russians have pulled out a ‘large number’ of the some 2000 Russian nuclear workers working in or close to Irans nuclear site at Bushehr. Ostensibly the pullout is over a pay dispute between Iran and Russia. Others would like us to think that Russia for some reason has suddenly switched sides to back the US and Israel in getting Iran to drop its ‘nuclear plans’. The reality is that, if anyone knows what the Iranians are doing, it’s the Russians; after all, they’re the ones building it, and the Russians are very unlikely to allow the Iranians to have the bomb. And, of course, if they did, they’d simply sell them a few. They’ve got plenty of them.

A strike on Iran will prove disastrous for the region. Israel and the US are banking on Iran not striking back and hoping that the world, while being shocked at such a blatant pre-emptive strike, will accept the strike as fait accompli.

However, the Iranians have vowed that, if they are attacked, they will strike back and strike back immediately. Given that, the US and Israel would more than likely bring on a first strike not just against Irans nuclear facilities but also against its defences including known missile sites and air defences and other defence bases throughout the country.

Another scenario may be that, while a first strike attack is being launched against Irans nuclear facilities, the US will warn Iran that, in the event of any retaliatory attack against either Israel or US assets close to Iran, then nuclear force will immediately be used.

Any scenario is too frightening to contemplate. Thousands more are likely to die for the cause of right-wing Zionism and the pursuit of a Greater Israel.

The quicker the peoples of our world get rid of these warmongering lunatics the better.

AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER, JOHN HOWARD, CONTINUES TO DELUDE HIMSELF OVER IRAQ.

In an address to the government funded right-wing think-tank organisation, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra yesterday, John Howard, arguing for Australia’s continued presence in Iraq, told his audience that: “The stakes are extraordinarily high - for Iraq, for the wider Middle East, for American power and prestige and, ultimately, for our region and our own national security,” adding that: “I believe strongly that to signal our departure now would be against Australia's national interest”.

These remarks demonstrate Howard’s continued penchant for lying and promoting deceit. He ignores entirely the interests of the Iraqi people themselves who have had their nation destroyed by a war started by a Coalition of the Willing, of which Howard was and is a major partner. He ignores entirely the fact that the continued presence of occupation troops in Iraq is achieving nothing except even more death and destruction. He ignores entirely the 600,000 plus people that have already perished in a war that he was part instigator of and he ignores entirely the growing humanitarian disaster as the numbers of refugees displaced by the war reaches two million and continues to grow as displaced Iraqis pour westward hoping to find refuge in Syria and Jordan.

He arrogantly blusters about ‘American power and prestige’ as though America actually has any ‘prestige’ left after the way it has abused its power against so many peoples of the world. He continues to display his arrogance and belief in his own national self-importance by talking of ‘Australia’s national interest’ ignoring altogether the fact that the vast majority of Australians never wanted to be part of the criminal invasion of Iraq in the first place and even more Australian’s are now demanding that enough is enough and that we should leave immediately.

Howard continues to perpetuate the myth of ‘al Qaeda’ in Iraq whereas in reality there are only those that are either fighting to rid the country of the invader or criminals that have used the chaos of war as an excuse to commit murder and mayhem in grabs for political and economic power in a nation that has slid into anarchy as a result of that war.

The Iraqi people have rejected ‘democracy’ enforced upon them via a nation that has invaded, occupied, destroyed and, together with its puppet government, pillaged its resources. The Iraqi people demand that the invaders leave their country and that they confront the future via their own self-determination.

For Howard to presume that he knows what is best for the Iraqi people is both delusional and arrogant, characteristics which took Australia into war against the Iraqi people in the first place four years ago and which Howard continues to display as the Iraqi people endure even greater hardships.

JOHN HOWARD, THE LYING LITTLE TYRANT, AVOIDS THE REALLY TOUGH QUESTION AND BUSH PERPETUATES THE LIE.

Last night on the ABCs 7.30 Report John Howard was asked by Kerry O’Brien: “You've just come from Afghanistan, too, where the Taliban and Al Qaeda have been able not only to survive but, it seems, rebuild strength, in the case of the Taliban. In the case of Al Qaeda, its ongoing strength is clear for all to see, it would seem. You must have pondered what might have been if America and its coalition partners had focused on that primary battle front in Afghanistan after September 11 rather than the disastrous four year distractions in Iraq?”

Caught on the hop Howard attempted to side step the question with a question. Howard replied: “Well, I've pondered two things about Afghanistan. I pondered, firstly, why is it important to defeat the terrorists in Afghanistan, but it doesn't matter in Iraq?”

Kerry O’Brien persisted: “Well, what was the evidence that Al Qaeda was a terrorist force in Iraq when you invaded?”

As we now all know, and many of us have always known, there never was any evidence that Al Qaeda was a terrorist force in Iraq when the allies invaded. Howard, of course, is well aware of that and, furthermore, was as much aware of that then as he is now.

So how did Howard respond? It went like this: “But I am talking of the present, Kerry. The great disconnect for the Government's critics is, why is it important to defeat the terrorists in Afghanistan, but it's okay to let them win in Iraq? Now, going back to your central question, the military situation at the time our forces were taken out in 2001 and also the American forces were wound down, justified that, and I think the argument that the Taliban are only resurgent because of those withdrawals is not necessarily verified by the facts, if you go back to that time.”

This is pure garbage from Howard. The fact that the Taliban are resurgent is because they were not entirely defeated and they weren’t entirely defeated because forces were pulled out in order to invade Iraq; it’s as simple as that.

The reality is; the Taliban will never be entirely defeated in Afghanistan. They will wear down western forces long before western forces get anywhere near wearing down the Taliban.

The other reality Howard is unable to accept is that there is no ‘Al Qaeda’ in Iraq. There are a few non- Iraqi Jihadists that are in Iraq to help the Iraqi people rid their country of the western invaders in much the same way as non-Spanish fighters from around the world went to fight for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. And, by the same virtue, just as the non-Iraqi Jihadists are in Iraq fighting for one side, there are many non-Iraqi pro-westerners there fighting for the Americans and their puppet Iraqi government (Israelis, Australians, British), just as there were many non-Spanish fighters from around the world that went to fight for the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. But there is no ‘Al Qaeda’; it exists only in the imagination of western propagandists. ‘Al Qaeda’ is a simple but effective catchall designed solely to perpetuate the myth of a ‘War against Terrorism’.

Howard is unable to confront the realities of the wars against the Afghan and Iraqi peoples because he knows that the people now know that the wars were based on lies.

President Bush, however, is ignoring reality all together. Speaking yesterday on the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq he perpetuated the blatant lie that has so far caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. He told the small gathering in the Roosevelt Room of the White House: “Four years ago today, coalition forces launched Operation Iraqi Freedom to remove Saddam Hussein from power. They did so to eliminate the threat his regime posed to the Middle East and to the world.”
The peoples of the world now think that the only threat to the Middle East and to the world is Israel and the US.


IF THE WARMONGERING NEOCONS THINK THE ‘SURGE’ IS WORKING, THEY ARE DELUDING THEMSELVES.

William Kristol, one of the neoconservative’s most hawkish commentators, seems to think that the ‘surge’, recently started in Baghdad, is having a positive effect. Whether or not it is having a positive effect in reality is impossible to tell. All that is happening at the moment is this; US and Iraqi puppet troops are moving into neighbourhoods where the insurgents were and the insurgents simply melt away and, instead of fighting and killing each other for control of the streets, they concentrate their efforts on bombings. The ‘surge’ has slowed the inter-factional killing but hasn’t stopped the bombing of civilians and occupying forces. And, since the ‘surge’ can’t last forever, just as soon as the US troops move out, the violence will simply carry on as before. However, despite the ‘surge’, this is a sample of what is still going on; from today’s New York Times we are told: “While no single event stood out Monday, the day was in many ways emblematic of the violence that Iraqis suffer daily — two car bombs, several assassinations, at least one kidnapping and a number of roadside bombs. Each attack claimed only a few lives, but the pervasiveness of the violence is part of what has eroded Iraqi hopes for the future.”

“Thirty bodies were found in Baghdad, more than in recent days, raising the possibility that there is a renewal of the sectarian killings that people hoped were diminishing.”

“In the violence on Monday, a bomb exploded at a Shiite mosque near the Shorja market, one of Baghdad’s busiest. In a measure of how inured residents here have become to mayhem, within two hours the market area was again so crowded that it was difficult to walk around.”

And the delusional warmongering William Kristol and his lunatic neocon cohorts are trying to tell us things are getting better??!!

THE LYING LITTLE TYRANT, THE FASCIST HOWARD, CONTINUES TO IGNORE THE VOICE OF THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE.

According to John Howard, recently returned from his trip to Iraq where he spoke with US forces commander General David Petraeus and Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, there is “…a cautious but new sense of hope”. One needs to ask what it is that gives one a new ‘sense of hope’ because, the way things are going in Baghdad at the moment, things are going from bad to worse rather than giving cause for a new ‘sense of hope’.

When Howard met with Australian troops serving in Iraq the reality of the reasons foreign troops were in Iraq was touched upon when he said: “…we have a job to create a situation where the Iraqis can grab hold of a reasonably democratic future and our mission is to create the situation where we see in the future an Iraq that can provide its own security”, which means American and Australian troops won’t be leaving Iraq any time soon, at least while Howard has any say in it as far as the Australians are concerned, and since the Americans have said they will have a continued presence in the Middle East to protect their interests, i.e., the oil, ‘for decades’, one can assume that they will be there until either they are kicked out by the Iraqi people, pulled out by the demands of the American people or when the oil has all been taken out of the ground.

Whatever way one looks at it, Howard is lying, as usual, through his teeth. The bottom line is; the vast majority of Australians want to have our troops out of Iraq but while Howard remains Prime Minister and the Americans remain in Iraq, the wishes of the Australian people will not be considered. Still, what else can one expect from a man who is the son of a man who was suspected of being a member of the Australian fascist organisation, the New Guard, in the 1930s and whose own fascist leanings and tendencies are already well known?

And in news just to hand, it turns out that the ‘incident’ that Howard was involved in when he was ushered hurriedly out of a smoke-filled C-130 Hercules was all a put up job just to make him look like a hero.

IF THE WORLD THINKS THESE ‘CONFESSIONS’ ARE GARBAGE, WHAT WILL THE WORLD THINK OF THE OTHER LIES THE GOVERNMENT HAS TOLD US?

The ‘confessions’ of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed have shown the world that the US government cannot be trusted. The ordinary everyday peoples of the world have woken up to the reality of the US government’s lies and deceit. One needs only to see the readers comments in mainstream newspapers such as the UK Guardian or even Australia’s Murdoch owned The Australian to witness a world realising that for the last six years it has been taken for a ride – a ride that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children, not to mention the trillions of dollars of taxpayers money that could have been used to build a better world rather than attempting to destroy it.

The US government’s intentions in announcing these ridiculous ‘confessions’ have monumentally backfired on them because, far from pointing the finger of blame conclusively to al Qaeda and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for all the worlds ‘terrorist’ disasters over the last couple of decades as was hoped, they have finally succeeded only in destroying what tiny bit of credibility they did have left – and that wasn’t much!

They’ve already been exposed as political fraudsters and warmongers over the lies they told to get the war against the people of Iraq going. Turns out there were no WMDs and, compounding the lie and making it worse still, the government knew that at the time. It also turns out that Saddam didn’t have anything to do with 9/11 after all and nor was he looking for uranium from Niger. These are all things that the peoples of the world now already know.

And, since we now know that all that has turned out to be lies, the US government can’t really blame the peoples of the world for turning to the myriad of unanswered questions about the events of 9/11 itself and demanding answers.

THE US GOVERNMENT’S PATSY COPS THE BLAME FOR EVERYTHING!

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Director of operations of al Qaeda Inc., has finally confessed to being responsible for nigh on every act of terrorism blamed on militant Islam. These range from, the previous attack on the WTC in 1993, the Bali bombings, assassination attempts on Presidents Carter and Clinton and on Pope John II during a trip to the Philippines and even includes planning and organising 9/11; in fact just about everything that the US government haven’t been able to conclusively solve over the last decade or two – until now.

Are we really expected to actually believe this nonsense??!! Mind you, he has been in Gitmo for the last 3 or 4 years. That has to tell you something. What’s really disappointing is that they do expect us to believe it. These people just haven’t woken up yet to their own transparency.

9/11: THERE ARE FAR MORE QUESTIONS THAN THE GOVERNMENT CAN PROVIDE ANSWERS FOR.

As I’ve said many, many times before, I don’t know what actually happened on 11 September 2001, but I do know what didn’t happen.

Here is a collection of video stuff from youtube.com that, while still not telling you what did happen, will give you cause to realize that there are just too many unanswered questions for any reasonable thinking person to blindly accept the government’s story of the events of 9/11.

Here’s Rumsfeld making a classic Freudian slip about Flight 93 that was supposed to have come down over Pennsylvania after those brave all-American heroes took over from the bad guys and deliberately crashed it harmlessly in a field thus saving the President from almost certain death. It’s just the sort stuff Hollywood could make a film of! Waddayamean they did!!?? This piece of video shows that there is virtually no wreckage from Flight 93, an aircraft that weighs in at around 115 tonnes, yet, despite its mass and impact velocity, only manages to create a hole in the ground that is about 20 feet long and 10 feet wide!

This one ponders the reasons for the WTC buildings collapse – all three of them. It also tells of some rather suspicious building evacuations and power-downs prior to the attacks.

And talking of buildings falling down, there is the classic bit of tape showing Larry Silverstein, the WTC owner, saying the building should be ‘pulled’, and, contrary to what the loony right-wing says, he wasn’t talking about the fire-fighters that were in the building – there weren’t any – he is talking about ‘pulling’ the building as in demolition jargon for demolishing it. The question here is; how come it was already wired up ready to ‘pull’? It takes days, if not weeks, to wire a building like that ready to ‘pull’. Not hours. This footage shows exactly how WTC7 fell – straight down at free fall speed. Then there is the collapse of WTC 1 & 2 and the questions that are raised by both experts and firefighters that were on the scene as shown in this footage.

Meanwhile, at the Pentagon, this well known piece of footage slowed right down reveals a rather interesting sight. Stop the film at 1 min. and 26 secs. and you’ll see an object that appears from the right hand edge of the screen in line with what becomes the impact point just an instant before the actual impact. A jet airliner? I think not.

All food for thought, though the loony right, who really want to believe that the government story is the real McCoy, will be tearing their hair out in despair and will be putting in blog overtime in order to try and debunk the footage and push the original government conspiracy theory.

HOWARD THE GREAT STATESMAN!!??

It’s amazing how Greg Sheridan of The Australian can make mountains out of Howard’s mole hill-like creations. Sheridan’s latest garbage, ‘Former foe now close ally’, attempts to paint Howard as the great Australian statesman that has mended the fence that was destroyed during the Second World War if we are to believe this patronizing rubbish: “It is a tribute to the pragmatism and vision of both leaders that the two nations, bitter enemies in the Pacific war, have grown so close since the end of World War II.”

The war ended over 60 years ago in the first half of the last century! We’ve been trading and dealing with Japan for yonks and the Australian military have been working with the Japanese military in Iraq for a year or so now. What’s the big deal now that we have a treaty with the Japanese? Would Sheridan have come out with same nonsense had Australia signed a treaty with modern Germany?

I guess Sheridan is just big-noting his lying mate Howard with a few accolades in order to help him along in the lead-up to the next election when the Lying Little Tyrant is going to need all the help he can get just to hang on to his own seat let alone government.

JEWISH MODERATES GAINING THE UPPER HAND.

PRO RIGHT-WING ISRAELI WESTERN MAINSTREAM PRESS GETTING WORRIED OVER MODERATE JEWISH BACKLASH.

The western right-wing mainstream press that have been vigorously supporting the right-wing Zionist extremists seem to be getting concerned that the popularity of the recently launched Independent Jewish Voices organizations in the UK, Australia, Germany and the US, as well as elsewhere, and other moderate Israeli and Jewish Diaspora organizations is at last having a detrimental effect on the right-wing extremists agenda; at least enough for the right-wig mainstream press to write op-eds voicing concern.

One extremist commentator, Melanie Phillips, who has written an article in the right-wing Zionist The Jewish Chronicle which in turn was partly re-published in The Australian, has gone as far as to say that these critics of right-wing Zionism could actually be ‘paving the way for a new Holocaust’! Fortunately, this kind of fear-mongering, which worked up until the lies of the right-wing Zionists and their supporters in the US were revealed for the sham that they are, is now quite transparent and tell us more about the right-wing Zionists intentions than they do about how the Islamic world really thinks about Israel or, more importantly, how the right-wing Zionists lie about the intentions of Islam.

On the plus side, it seems that the voice of moderation even within America’s biggest Israeli Lobby group, AIPAC, is now beginning to be heard – or at least the voices of the extremists are a bit quieter – judging by the reaction to the tone of Cheney’s speech to their conference compared with last years warmongering.

HOW DOES ONE ASSASSINATE A DEAD MAN?

Apparently the US is going to send in assassination teams to knock off bin Laden. First, of course, they have to find him. Some, including President Musharraf of Pakistan, believe that he has been hiding very quietly for the last six years in a small whole in the ground measuring approximately two meters long by two meters deep and about 900mm wide from whence he has not once stirred.

Back in December 2001 even the Bush administration thought that bin Laden was dead. The Afghan leader, President Hamid Karzai, is another that thinks bin Laden is dead. And the FBI thinks he’s dead. By around 2003 however, the Bush administration realized that the myth of a living bin Laden is of more use to them than the legacy of his death so all talk of him being dead all but ceased as though the idea of him being dead had never crossed anybody’s minds. Three years later the administration is hoping that everyone had forgotten that they had said that they thought he was dead. Now they are after him again.

And they actually expect people to fall for this garbage. They really are getting desperate.



THE EXTREME RIGHT-WING ISRAELI LOONY LOBBY DISPLAY THEMSELVES FOR THE DISGUSTING RACISTS THEY REALLY ARE.

This new racist site, created to counter the Independent Australian Jewish Voices site created last month by Antony Loewenstein to cater for the moderate voice of Australian Jews, clearly demonstrates the lunatic views of extreme right-wing Zionists and their hate-mongering ideas. So far the hate site has collected a measly 40-odd signatures reflecting the miniscule following of the noisy Israeli Loony Lobbyists whose names can be found appearing regularly at various other hate sites run and frequented by the same people who have signed up to this garbage, most notably the Tim Blair hate site, the pseudo-intellectual Islamophobic Dylan Kissane whose lunatic ravings mirror the ideas of the likes of neocon warmongers Daniel Pipes and Joshua Muravchik, and the delusionally paranoid Geoff Pahoff.

Meanwhile, the voice of moderate Jews throughout the Diaspora and within Israel grows stronger.

RIGHT-WING AUSTRALIAN ISRAELI LOONY LOBBY SHOW FEAR OF THE SILENT MAJORITY OF MODERATE AND TOLERANT DIASPORA AND ISRAELI JEWS.

It seems the extreme right-wing Israeli Loony Lobby are more than a bit worried about the extent of influence the newly formed Independent Australian Jewish Voices is likely to have on the right-wing Zionist Israeli agenda to create a Greater Israel at the expense of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples.

Judging by the amount of noise and frothing at the mouth being created by the Islamophobic lunatics that gather like vultures at the fascist Tim Blair hate blog, they really do seem to be more than a little worried that the silent majority of Jews throughout the Australian Jewish Diaspora and the world are actually getting more than a little bit of traction in terms of both attention from the press and grass roots support.

Just to top it off, some mischievous toe-rag had even added my name to the IAJV list! I’m quite happy to leave my name there; thank you for saving my time whoever it was that did it.

PEACE? ISRAEL? YOU MUST BE JOKING!; NEOCONS WANT LIBBY PARDONED; NEW AUSSIE JEWISH GROUP BEGINS TO BITE AGAINST HARD RIGHT JEWS; OLMERT LIES OVER WAR

PALESTINIANS OFFER A TRUCE; THE ISRAELIS SAY THEY’LL THINK ABOUT IT!?

Of course, the last thing the right-wing Zionist government of Israel really wants is peace with the Palestinians. Peace will deprive the Israelis of the continued opportunities hostilities provide for the Israelis to accomplish their dream of a Greater Israel which includes the Gaza and the West Bank. While the Palestinians continue to defend their homelands against the Isreali occupier, the Israelis can continue their program of extreme oppression and persecution against the Palestinians as they continue their ethnic cleansing agenda in the Gaza and West Bank. The right-wing Zionist government of Israel doesn’t want peace with the Palestinians; it wants the land that the Palestinians live on.


LIBBY’S CONVICTION HAS SERIOUSLY UPSET THE NEOCONS.

The neocons are demanding that Libby gets a Presidential pardon. They reckon he’s just a victim of politics or, as the editors at National Review Online put it: “…became the target of a politicized prosecution set in motion by bureaucratic infighting and political cowardice.” Pure garbage. The fact is a jury has found him guilty of lying. Not only that, but the lies he told were in support of the lies that were told by his boss, Dick Cheney, that were used to kick off the war against the Iraqi people that has subsequently caused the deaths of some 650,000 people. Time to impeach Cheney as well as Bush and throw Libby in Guatanamo!


NEW AUSTRALIAN JEWISH ANTI RIGHT-WING ZIONIST GROUP STARTS TO MAKE WAVES.

The Jerusalem Post reported that the Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has said that the newly formed Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV) are just “…a fringe, anti-Zionist minority in Australian Jewry”. Not quite ‘fringe’ enough however, to fail to be noticed by Israel’s leading right-wing national rag. The reality, of course, is that the only Australian Jews out on the fringe are the rather noisy neoconservative warmongering types that are themselves, despite the noise they make, the ones that are in a minority. The vast majority of Jews throughout the worldwide Jewish Diaspora simply want a just peace for Israelis as well as Palestinians without wanting to take Palestinian lands.


AS I SAID AT THE TIME, THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON LEBANON WAS PLANNED WELL IN ADVANCE OF ANY SO-CALLED ‘KIDNAPPING’.

The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had indeed planned the attack on Lebanon months before two Israeli terrorists were caught inside the Lebanese border. The newspaper says: “Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Winograd Commission that his decision to respond to the abduction of soldiers with a broad military operation was made as early as March 2006, four months before last summer's Lebanon war broke out.” And also four months before the Israeli soldiers were captured.

PERHAPS NOT THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF ISRAEL BUT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A NEW START FOR THE REGION.

The quicker the ordinary Israeli people get control of their own nation and rid itself of the current government that has brought nothing but death, fear, war and corruption to both themselves and the Palestinian and Lebanese people, the better off all will be because the way things are going at the moment inside Israel it is just as likely to implode from within.

According to Professor Dror Wahrman of the Indiana University the collapse from within may well have already started. He writes:

“Foreign observers of Israel tend to focus so intently on the dangers the country faces from its Arab neighbours that they have largely missed an astonishing story that has been accelerating over the past few months: that of the Jewish state’s possible move toward internal collapse. If you consider this an exaggeration, just take note of what the past couple of weeks have brought about. A few days ago the chief of the Israeli police resigned after an investigation that found several of Israel’s highest police officers guilty of corruption and negligence. This came within a week of the forced resignation of Israel’s Chief of Staff from the military because of the fiascos of the second Lebanon war. It was also some ten days after Israel’s minister of justice was convicted of sexual assault while on duty, and a couple of weeks after Israel’s president – who holds a largely symbolic position – resigned temporarily following charges of rape and sexual misconduct. It was also the same day that the head of Israel’s tax authority resigned because of possible corruption charges. In the meantime, several other investigations are still pending, not least two or three directed at the Prime Minister himself, Ehud Olmert, concerning corruption and favoritism. And an appeal to the Supreme Court has already been filed against the minister of police’s choice for a new police chief – again, because of old charges of corruption of which the nominee had been acquitted only through a particularly narrow benefit of the doubt.”

It would be nice to think that this, as well as the other stirrings among the ordinary Israeli people and throughout the Jewish Diaspora, could be part of the glimmer of hope that the Palestinian, Lebanese and Israeli people need to bring about a just peace for the region and to allow the other nations through the broader region to find their own self-determination without the interference from corrupt Western ‘democracies’.

THE JEWISH PEOPLES OF THE WORLD BEGIN TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST WAR AND OPPRESSION

Until recently the extreme right-wing of Zionism and their supporters among the predominately Jewish-American neoconservatives in the US together with their other supporters throughout the world had held centre-stage as the events of the on-again-off-again Israeli-Arab conflict have unfolded. The right-wing Zionist propaganda machine has been going full bore ever since 9/11 pushing the right-wing Zionist cause.

Now, however, the machine seems to have run out of steam. Ever since the failures of the Israeli push into Lebanon and their disastrous war against Hizbollah, the peoples of the world have finally started to wake up to the idea that all is not what it seems in that part of the world. Both in the Gaza and in Lebanon, Israel were seen to be the aggressors and the capture of three Israeli soldiers seemed to be an extremely lame excuse for obliterating nations. But most importantly of all – and this may be the one glimmer of hope that the ordinary peoples of both Israel, Palestine and Lebanon have to grasp at a chance for a just peace – the Israeli people and the Jews of the Diaspora around the world are finally finding their voice and telling the right-wing Zionists that enough is enough.

Following the launch last month in the UK of Independent Jewish Voices, a similar organization, Independent Australian Jewish Voices, has recently been launched here in Australia. And in the US some of the smaller left-wing Jewish groups such as the Israel Policy Forum, Americans for Peace Now and Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace are taking steps to form an umbrella group that will be an alternative to the highly influential extreme right-wing pro-Zionist lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

The peoples of the world, including the Israeli and Jewish peoples, have had enough of the extreme right-wing of the Western world taking sides with an extreme right-wing nationalist Israeli grouping that is intent on subduing the Islamic world just so that right-wing Zionists can have a Greater Israel at the expense of the peoples already on those lands.

The world has moved on from the anti-Islamic hysteria brought on by the events of 9/11. What is beginning to emerge nearly six years later is the reality of an extreme right-wing group having taken advantage of the earlier chaos and the resultant wars and who are now being exposed for the liars, warmongers, war profiteers and empire builders that they really are. Now the world is beginning to find a voice that may just end this nightmare.

Peoples around the world should give support to the Jewish Voices that speak out against war and oppression.

US AND ISRAEL ATTEMPT TO WEDGE SUNNIS AND SHIITES THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST.

In recent months the US and Israelis have made a big deal out of the problems Sunni and Shiites in Iraq are having with each trying to project the differences the two Iraqi groups have with each other on to the wider Middle East Sunni and Shia communities. The aim, of course, is to simply isolate one nation that has a predominately Shia population, Iran, from other Middle East nations that have a predominately Sunni population – which is just about most of the Middle East – apart from Iraq. The US and the Israelis seem to think that they can exploit the differences that Iraqi Sunni and Shia have for propaganda purposes in their warm-up to war with Iran.

What the US and the Israelis fail to understand though, is that, despite the differences Sunni and Shia have had over hundreds of years, they have over that time developed an ability to be able to live quite happily with each other throughout the region both at basic community level and at national level. The differences that Sunni and Shia have in Iraq are simply the animosities that have been left over after having been built up over many years in Iraq by the policies of Saddam Hussein. It would be a big mistake to consider that those animosities can be projected over the entire region.

The alliances and understandings that Sunni and Shia have with each other throughout the region are very complex. Yes, they certainly do have differences and those differences have indeed come to a head in Iraq, but elsewhere, even where there are differences, those differences are put aside when the need to unite against a common enemy emerges. This has been demonstrated many times in Iraq where both Sunni and Shiite forces have operated together to attack American and allied soldiers in Iraq. And at national levels Syria and Iran have treaties that look after each others interest despite Iran being predominately Shia and Syria being predominately Sunni. And the fact that Israel’s declared enemies, the Hizbollah to the north in Lebanon, a predominately Shia organization, and Hamas in the Gaza and the West Bank, predominately Sunni, are in an alliance with each other is just another reason why the US and Israel are trying so hard to wedge the two groupings. The reality, however, is that the two major players in the game, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are very much aware of the game that the US and Israel are trying to play and, consequently, are not really interested in getting up each others nose just to stroke the whims of US and Israeli fancifulness.

Saudi Arabia knows Iran hasn’t got, nor wants, a bomb and Iran knows Saudi Arabia knows. Saudi Arabia may well be funding insurgents in Iraq, insurgents that are fighting to rid Iraq of the occupiers, but they know better than to fund Sunnis that simply want a turf war and a bit of bloody payback against the Shiites there and the recent pledge of friendship between Saudi Arabia and Iran only strengthens the ties between Sunnis and Shia making even more forlorn the US and Israeli hope of wedging them.

ISRAELI TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN; THE 9/11 PLOT THICKENS (OR IS THAT 'THINS'?); AND MORE GARBAGE FROM THE SPECIALISTS IN ISRAEL.

ISRAELI TERRORISTS KILL PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK

It seems Israeli terrorists have been at it again. Dressed in plain clothes they have murdered three Palestinians in Jenin. One has to wonder about many of the other murders that have occurred in both the Gaza and the West Bank over the last few months, including many of those that were considered to be as a result of the factional in-fighting between elements of Hamas and the Fatah.


HOW ON EARTH ARE THE GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS GOING TO TALK THEIR WAY OUT OF THIS ONE?

The BBC telling the world live on TV on 11 September 2001 that the World Trade Centre 7 Building had collapsed when in fact it was clearly being shown still standing right behind the reporter as she was claiming it had collapsed is a major, major boo-boo by the government conspiracy continuity directors that were part of the governments live performance of 9/11. Something was just bound to go wrong on the night as it were. I guess the government producers of the 9/11 blockbuster show were hoping the audience wouldn’t notice. And it’s not just the BBC that seems to have got their story out of line with actual events; CNN apparently had the same problem. One wonders how the relatives and friends of the victims are going to react when the truth finally is revealed.


MORE FEAR-MONGERING GARBAGE FROM THE GARBAGE DISPENSERS AT RIGHT-WING ZIONIST HQ.

This piece from the Israel News Agency demonstrates the extent to which the Israeli propaganda machine is willing to go in order to spread their lies and deceit. It looks like the Iranians are going to take on the world – with the nukes they haven’t got. Didn’t we hear all this stuff about Iraq a few years ago? They must think the entire world is stupid.

ZIONISTS WON’T BE HAPPY; ORDINARY ISRAELIS UNHAPPY WITH ZIONISTS; TO THE VICTORS GOES THE SPOILS; LAND THEFT DOESN’T GO UNNOTICED; AND MORE HYPOCRICY.

THE RIGHT-WING ZIONISTS OF ISRAEL AREN’T GOING TO BE HAPPY WITH THIS!

The US in high-level talks with the Syrians and the Iranians? This definitely would not be sitting very well with the right-wing Zionists of Israel whose sole and only aim is to eliminate the regimes of Syria and Iran at any cost in order to leave the Israelis free to take on Hizbollah and Hamas without them getting support from Syria or Iran and to eventually occupy the lands of southern Lebanon up to the Latani River and also the Gaza and West Bank in their quest for a Greater Israel. On the other hand, perhaps all this high-level talk business may be just a ruse for something else the Israelis and the US have up their sleeves. Who knows – especially in the light of the fact that the US has said in the recent past that it would not be talking to the Iranians until they gave up enriching uranium.


MEANWHILE, ORDINARY ISRAELIS AREN’T TOO HAPPY WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING UNDER THEIR RIGHT-WING ZIONIST GOVERNMENT.

Several Jewish organizations both in Israel and throughout the Diaspora have sprung up recently to counter the extremists in the Israeli government and the right-wing Zionist organizations and lobby groups, particularly the powerful Jewish lobby groups in the US. They are also unhappy with the disgusting way the Palestinians have been treated especially in the Gaza and West Bank. At long last the ordinary people of Israel are finding their voice and, with the help of likeminded Jews throughout the Diaspora, may yet be able to gain control of their own land and hand back to the Palestinians and the Syrians those lands which do not belong to them. That way there will be peace.


US CONSULTING COMPANY DRAFTS IRAQ’S NEW OIL LAWS.

So the invasion had nothing to do with the oil then? No doubt the Iraqi-puppet government well be ratifying the laws without too many problems apart from the odd futile but obligatory objection from here and there to make it all seem ‘democratic’. Then the big US-dominated oil giants will move and steal the oil literally from under the Iraqi peoples feet.


MODERATE ISRAELI PRESS EXPOSES RIGHT-WING ZIONISTS LAND THEFT AND OFFICIAL COMPLICITY.

An editorial in Israel’s left of centre newspaper Ha’aretz has exposed the blatant way in which the Israeli authorities are complicit in the theft of Palestinian land and the legitimizing of otherwise illegal construction of buildings for Israeli settlers on that land. The important aspect of this article is the fact that until recently such anti-Zionist news wouldn’t have made it to the editorials of newspapers like Ha’aretz. The movement away from right-wing Zionist extremism by the Israeli left and ordinary Israelis are all positive signs for both the Palestinians and the Israeli people.


MORE CHUTZPAH FROM ISREALI DEFENCE MINISTER PERETZ.

It seems that while Peretz was jumping up and down bemoaning the fact that Hamas is using the cease fire to rearm itself Israel has exactly been dormant themselves. Once again they are expecting the American taxpayer to pay for their continued terrorism in the Gaza and West Bank. Any Israeli attack on the people of Lebanon and their suspected and threatened attack against Iran will also be paid for by the American taxpayer as they rearm after last summers acts of terrorism against the Lebanese people.

CHENEY THREATENS PAKISTAN, BUSH'S TILT AT CONGRESS, ARE AUSSIES AS WELL AS THE US ALREADY IN IRAN? AND HOWARD THE LOSER

FIRST THEY THREATEN TO CUT AID TO PAKISTAN THEN THEY WANT PAKISTAN TO FIGHT HARDER AGAINST THE TALIBAN.

Dick Cheney dropped in on Pakistan yesterday because the weather wouldn’t let him into Afghanistan. So while he’s there he tells Musharraf that the Pakistanis ought to be making more of an effort to curtail Taliban fighters from entering Afghanistan from Pakistan. The Pakistan President must be fuming. First he gets told that aid may be cut and then he’s told that he must make more of an effort to fight America’s war for them. No wonder the US is losing this war. Bush and Cheney; America’s worst enemies.


SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS – AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.

Condoleeza Rice has said that Bush will not abide by legislation to limit the Iraq war. Rice has ‘urged the Democratic-controlled US Congress not to interfere in the conduct of the Iraq war and suggested President George Bush would defy troop withdrawal legislation.’ Bush is moving further and further away from reality if he believes he can defy Congress in this way. Everything about the Bush-Cheney-Rice administration clearly shows America drifting closer and closer toward a totalitarian state that ignores its own legislature and the voices of it peoples.


IT SEEMS SPECIAL OPERATION TEAMS ARE ALREADY OPERATING IN IRAN – AND THEY ARE NOT JUST AMERICAN TEAMS.

‘The US is reportedly stepping up covert operations in Iran in a new strategy that risks sparking an "open confrontation" with the Islamic republic.’ There are a few noises on the grapevine that are saying that it is not just US special forces operating inside Iran gathering intelligence for the coming attack. Apparently, according to some anonymous sources, Australian SAS people are also operating in Iran. I hope for Howards sake, not to mention the soldiers themselves, that none of them get caught. The political repurcussions of any of them getting caught and then shot for spying would be disatrous for the good name of Australia.


WILL HOWARD TRY TO STAY ON AT BENNELONG OR BOW OUT BEFORE THE ELECTION – EITHER WAY HE LOOKS LIKE A LOSER.

Whatever Howard does, it looks like his days are now numbered. Recent polls have already indicated that he would lose his seat and now the odds are on Maxine McKew gaining it. So the big question is going to be: Will John Howard take his chances at the next election or will he jump ship prior to the election and hand it over to Costello? Either way he’s going to look like a loser and, for a bloke that has always wanted to be nothing other than one of history’s winners, that’s going to hurt. I can’t think of it happening to a more deserving Australian Prime Minister.

FEAR-MONGERING IN THE UK, HOWARD ON THE ROPES, ISRAEL READIES FOR WAR - AGAIN, AND BUSH DOES SOMETHING STUPID - AGAIN!

BRITAIN’S FEAR-MONGER THINK-TANKS HAVE BEEN AT IT AGAIN WITH MORE RIDICULOUS ‘TERROR’ PLOTS.

Over the years the Americans and their Western allies in the so-called ‘war against terror’ have endeavored to maintain the illusion of there actually being terrorists by creating various stories about ‘al Qaeda’ plots that have either been discovered or thwarted by the ever vigilant authorities. One that has recently been revealed is the ‘al Qaeda’ plot to assassinate UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. According to a report in the UKs Telegraph newspaper, not only were they going to do assassinate Blair but they were going to do it front of the Queen. As usual, the story has absolutely no evidence to support the claim. Just more propaganda to keep the masses in fear.


IT LOOKS LIKE AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER JOHN HOWARD IS GOING TO HAVE TO KISS HIS SEAT GOODBYE AT THE NEXT ELECTION.

The Prime Ministers seat at Bennelong, Sydney, has become increasingly marginal over the past few elections to the point where a poll recently revealed that Howard would have lost his seat had an election taken place a couple of weeks ago. Now, as if that wasn’t bad enough news for Howard, it seems that popular ex-ABC journalist, Maxine McKew, is going to ensure that he well and truly takes a thumping at Bennelong by announcing her intention to stand against him at the next election. The quicker the better!


OLMERT WANTS ISRAEL TO GET READY FOR WAR WITH SYRIA

While Israel’s Military Intelligence Chief, Amos Yadlin, concedes that it is unlikely that Syria would initiate an attack on Israel, Syria would he said more than likely respond to any Israeli provocation – like Israeli fighters buzzing the Syrian Presidents home as they did in June of last year. One can only imagine why the Israelis would want ponder the idea of provoking Syria. It’s typical right-wing Zionist Chutzpah. What better way to provoke the Syrians than to tell Israeli forces to prepare for war with them! But, more importantly, why? Unless…


HOW STUPID CAN BUSH GET? NOW HE’S THREATENING THE LEADER OF THE ONE ISLAMIC NATION THAT REALLY DOES HAVE ‘THE BOMB’ WITH AID CUTS!

Pakistan is the one Islamic nation that really does have nuclear weapons and its leader is only in power by virtue of luck – the kind of luck you need to escape several assassination attempts with more than one of them getting more than a bit too close for comfort. For Bush to threaten Musharraf with cutting aid because he thinks Musharraf’s forces aren’t doing enough to halt border activity with Afghanistan and rounding up Taliban and so-called al Qaeda operatives is plain stupidity. In light of the fact that the Pakistan government together with its nuclear arsenal could fall to a hard-line anti-American Pakistani alliance at the drop of hat and then to threaten the one person that’s holding it together is pure insanity. But we are talking about Bush here.

CHENEY’S NOT WELCOME IN OZ

As Cheney hits Sydney, Sydney-siders will face massive traffic disruption as the security for his visit gets underway.

One has to wonder though, who he is actually being protected from – and why. No doubt his minders will make an effort to ensure that he doesn’t get a glimpse of the crowds that will be out to protest this warmongering lunatic’s visit. As the most despised person on the planet (yes, apparently more despised than even bin Laden) is wined and dined by Howard and his minions, ordinary Australians from all over Sydney will be protesting his presence everywhere he goes.

The propaganda machine would have us believe that he is a ‘terrorist’ target; hence all the roads being shut down as he motors through. The real reason of course, is to protect him from the anger of the ordinary everyday people of Sydney who are fed up with his disgusting war and the lies.

And in news just to hand it seems that Cheney is so hated that the Premier of New South Wales has had to rush through special legislation that would allow Cheney’s personal bodyguards to carry arms to protect their charge while in Australia. You just don’t know where those pesky Iraqi insurgents are going to strike next.

Meanwhile Bush and his White House staff are getting giddy trying to spin Blair’s troop withdrawals just as Bush is trying to scrape the bottom of their enlistment barrels to get more troops actually in to Iraq. Howard and Downer aren’t faring any better either – especially after Downer was telling Australian viewers on Lateline only the night before the British cut and run announcements that the British were still there as strong as ever side by side with the US and Australians. Clearly, despite Howard telling Australians otherwise, Downer was not aware that the British were about to announce their cut and run strategy. So much for the alliance of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’.

GIVEN HOWARD’S CONTEMPT OF THE UN, WILL CHENEY’S VISIT SEE HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF?

In May of last year John Howard was asked: “Prime Minister, is Australia’s involvement in any planned military action in Iran an option?” To which he replied: “There’s been absolutely no thought given to that. I’m not in favour of other than trying to achieve a diplomatic solution. It’s quite hard. This is a test for the United Nations. At the time of the Coalition operation in Iraq, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom were all attacked for not leaving it to the United Nations. Now Iran is in the hands of the United Nations and it will be a very big test of the processes of the United Nations to see if that matter can be resolved. I think we should continue to try diplomatic processes.” [1]

Vice-President Dick Cheney is due to arrive in Australia this week for talks with Howard. It will be interesting to see after Cheney leaves whether or not Howard’s rhetoric about Iran changes.

There are a lot of high-level administration officials flying all over the place at the moment talking with Middle East and Western allies. One wonders, in the light of the heightened rhetoric with regard to Iran, if these visits from high-level officials aren’t the prelude to the next stage of whatever it is the US and Israel is planning.

It’s interesting to note that in a follow-up question in the same interview which asked: “But given that you didn’t trust the UN in the case of Iraq, what’s changed with Iran?” Howard replied: “It’s not a question of not trusting the UN, it’s a question of the UN having failed in Iraq. Now it has another opportunity on this occasion. I mean what we did in Iraq was based on a Security Council Resolution. But the alternative was that we should leave it endlessly to further United Nations processes and that did not work. The United Nations failed in relation to Iraq. I hope it now has an opportunity to succeed in relation to Iran, and it should be given the opportunity to do so.”

Apart from the arrogance and contempt Howard displays toward the UN because it failed to bow to US demands, the remark also demonstrates Howard’s ignorance of the facts. The UN is a body representing the nations of the world. Failure to get sanction from the UN to invade Iraq not only demonstrates the extreme contempt that Howard and cohorts have for the other nations of the world but also fails to accept that it is not the UN that has failed in Iraq since the invasion but the US and, by association, Australia. One has to seriously wonder, in the event that the UN once again refuses to yield to US demands with regard to Iran, if the US will take matters into their own hands once again and attack Iran anyway. One would further need to wonder where Howard stands given his unstinting support of Bush’s delusional ideas about the so-called ‘War on Terrorism’ so far.

So far we’ve heard very little from Howard about Iran as the next election approaches but will there be change in Howard’s tone after Cheney has been and gone?




ENDNOTES
[1] ‘Transcript of the Prime Minister the Hon. John Howard MP, Doorstop Interview, Kirribilli House, Sydney’, 12 May 2006. Available online: http://www.pm.gov.au/news/interviews/Interview1929.html Accessed 20 February 2007.

MORE LIES AND DECEIT FROM AUSTRALIAN ISRAELI LOBBYIST DYLAN KISSANE

In a classic example of how the Australian Israeli Lobby use lies and deceit for propaganda purposes Dylan Kissane, a PhD student at the University of South Australia and right-wing Zionist propagandist, has used his blog to deliberately deceive those that read his work.

His post was:

Kevin's Konfusion
Thursday, Feb 15, 2007

ALP Leader Kevin Rudd looks at our forces in the Middle Eastern theatre and concludes - contrary to PM John Howard's contention - that their withdrawal wouldn't be such a big deal:

"...there are 140,000 American troops in Iraq, about to surge to 160,000, currently our force in the entire region is about 1,400 and this debate is about the future of the combat element of that of some 500. It’s important to put all that into context because Mr Howard says that if these Australian combat forces of about 500 are withdrawn after another couple of rotations that that of itself would trigger the withdrawal immediately of 140 to 160,000 American troops, well I think we need to put that into some context as well."

According to Rudd, it's a little silly to think that 500 combat troops can precipitate something as large as a 160,000-strong US troop withdrawal. But on the other hand, Kevin claims those same troops are strong enough to change the foreign policy outlooks of sovereign nation-states in the region:

"...Australia’s policy in Iraq these last five years, has had one huge strategic consequence, and that is the emboldening of Iran as well as threatening the broader internal security of the other surrounding States like Saudia [sic] Arabia."

In the first case Rudd is arguing that the number of troops are so small as to have little impact on the regional security. In the second case he is arguing that those same small number of troops can and do have an impact on regional security, including promoting changes in the grand strategy of nuclear weapons wannabe Iran and other surrounding countries.

Looks like Kevin's confused again.



The deceit is in Kissane’s re-contextualising of the words Rudd actually used which was achieved by only partially citing what Rudd said, which was:

“What’s concerned me deeply, and I’ve been writing about this for more than a year now, is one of the greatest strategic failures in Mr Howard’s decision to take us into this war, and as the chief cheerleader for this war outside of the United States, has been that is has emboldened Iran. Iran, which was once a significant power in this wider region of the Middle East, has become the dominant power because you have, through the Shia influence from Iran, extending of that influence into Iraq so that the Iranian influence is now much more widespread. This places Iran in a much stronger position. The failure of our policy, Australia’s policy in Iraq these last five years, has had one huge strategic consequence, and that is the emboldening of Iran as well as threatening the broader internal security of the other surrounding States like Saudia Arabia. Mr Howard says he’s going to be part of the long term solution. I say on national security and foreign policy, Mr Howard increasingly looks like a long term risk.”

While in the first instance that Kissane refers to, Rudd indeed was talking about the numbers of Australian troops and their relative impact, or lack thereof, on the criminal war effort in Iraq, but clearly in the second instance Rudd was not refering to the troop numbers at all as Kissane attempts to assert but was referring instead to Howards failed strategic policy.

One can only hope that Kissanes dishonesty is not reflected in his academic work.

THE EVENTS OF 9/11 AND THE ‘HOUSE OF CARDS’ EFFECT

Most of the worlds major events, including the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the terrible consequences of those invasions including the hideous tortures and deaths at Abu Ghraib, the massacres of countless villagers in Afghanistan, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis through bombings and shootings, the daily sectarian killings, the expenditure of billions upon billions of dollars, the threat of further expansion of the Middle East war, the deaths of over 12,000 allied soldiers, not just those that died on the battlefield but those that have since died of their wounds and remain uncounted in the official lists,[1] and the many thousands of others that have been injured; all of this has been as a direct result of the events of 11 September 2001.

All that has happened has been because George W. Bush told the world that the terrible events of 11 September 2001 were the work of ‘terrorists’. Everything that Bush has done since has been done in the name of the events of 11 September 2001. The killings, the treatment of prisoners, the torture, the deaths of US and allied soldiers, the spending of those billions of dollars have all been justified by Bush because of the events of 11 September 2001.

But what if the events of 11 September turned out not to be the work of the ‘terrorists’ that Bush claimed. Or worse, what if it turned out that elements within or associated with the Bush administration were complicit in the ‘terrorist’ attacks on America on 11 September 2001. There has been massive amounts speculation about these possibilities ever since the day it happened but despite the huge amounts of circumstantial evidence that suggests that there was more to the events of 11 September 2001 than we are being told, we haven’t yet had any substantive evidence that could demonstrate conclusively that it didn’t happen the way the Bush administration has told us it happened – at least not until now.

Just recently emerging is the strongest pieces of evidence[2] yet that show that all is not well with the official story of the events 11 September 2001. They relate not to the spectacular collapse of the Twin Towers after they had been hit by airliners or to the mysterious circumstances of the explosion at the Pentagon over which there is much controversy– but it relates to the collapse of WTC Building 7; a collapse that, at the time, virtually went unnoticed happening as it did on the same day as the main event as it were.

The collapse of the Twin Towers will always be controversial but as the evidence regarding the collapse of WTC7 emerges so the controversy about how the building collapsed recedes, because it is so obvious that it was taken down by professional demolition explosives in a controlled implosion, rather than spontaneously collapsing due to fire, but as the question of ‘how’ is resolved so the questions of ‘who’ and ‘why’ take over.

The moment the mainstream media accept that, indeed, WTC Building 7 was deliberately demolished by placed explosives then the whole edifice that is the foundation of all that has happened so far this century will begin to crumble just like a house of cards.

And when it does it will be just as spectacular as the collapse of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center – and just as messy.



ENDNOTES
[1] Brian Harring, ‘Over 12000 US Soldiers Killed in Iraq War’, The Harring Report, 7 January 2007 Available online: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/01-09-07/discussion.cgi.58.html Accessed 13 February 2007.
[2] Paul Watson, ‘NYPD Officer Heard Building 7 Bombs’, Prisonplanet.com, 10 February 2007. Available online: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/100207heardbombs.htm Accessed 13 February 2007.
See also: Paul Watson and Alex Jones, ‘More Ground Zero Heroes on the Record: Building 7 Was Deliberately Brought Down’, Prisonplanet.com, 9 February 2007. Available online: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/090207broughtdown.htm Accessed 13 February 2007, and Paul Watson, ‘Ground Zero EMT: We Were Told Building 7 Was Going to be “Pulled”’, Prisonplanet.com, 8 February 2007. Available online: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/080207building7.htm Accessed 13 February 2007.

AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER JOHN HOWARD STILL REVELS IN HIS FANTASY WORLD AND FAILS TO ACCEPT REALITY.

In an interview on Australia’s current affairs program, ‘Sunday’, Australian Prime Minister John Howard demonstrated how completely out of touch with reality he really is. He told the interviewer after being asked about Barack Obama’s decision to run for the Presidency and how he would have the troops home by March 2008 if elected: “I think he's wrong. I think that would just encourage those who wanted completely to destabilise and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for Obama victory. If I was running Al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008, and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats.”[1]

Howard has failed to see that Iraq is already completely destabilised and has already been destroyed and that the ‘terrorists’ in Iraq is the US troops and their allies. Howard continues to insist that Al-Qaeda bogeymen are running things in Iraq. He fails to grasp the reality that the only reasons for the violence in Iraq is because the people don’t want the US and their allies, including Australia, in Iraq and that their presence there is unwelcome by the vast majority of Iraqis. Howard says: “There's no way by March 2008, which is a little over a year from now, everything will have been stabilised so that America can get out in March 2008.” What Howard is unable to accept is the fact that Iraq will never be stabilised while the US are there. For every moment that the US remains in Iraq they prolong the agony that the Iraqi people now endure.

Howard also ties in the conflict in Iraq with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He says: “And, if America is defeated in Iraq, the hope of ever getting a Palestinian settlement will be gone.” The hope of getting a Palestinian settlement in favour of right-wing Zionist Israelis will be gone – yes, but a proper settlement returning to the Palestinians their land and sovereignty can only be enhanced by an American withdrawal from the Middle East.

Howard goes on to say: “There'll be enormous conflict between the Shi'a and the Sunnis throughout the whole of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Jordan will both be (destabilised), Al-Qaeda will trumpet it as the greatest victory they've ever had and that will have implications in our region because of the link, the ideological link at the very least, between the Al-Qaeda and JI.”

This is pure unadulterated garbage. There is no reason for either Saudi Arabia or Jordan to become ‘destabilised’ simply because some - and only some - Shi’a and Sunnis have got at each others throats in Iraq to take advantage of the internal power struggles that dominate Iraq as a result of the US presence there. To infer that the violence between Shi’a and Sunni militants in Iraq is so widespread that it will spread throughout the region is pure nonsense. To suggest that Al-Qaeda will ‘trumpet it as the greatest victory they've ever had’ is just plain delusional. The delusion is completed for Howard by suggesting that such a ‘victory’ for Al-Qaeda will somehow have repercussions in the South Pacific region.

Howard has tried all these lies before but does he really expect people to still actually believe them?


ENDNOTE
[1] ‘Interview: John Howard’, Sunday.ninemsn, 11 February 2007. Available online: http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/political_transcripts/article_2124.asp Accessed 12 February 2007.

IS THE WESTERN ‘LEFT’ REALLY IN AN ALLIANCE WITH THE ISLAMIC ‘RIGHT’?

The short answer, of course, is ‘No!’

The question arises only because the Western ‘Right’ have used the notion of the Western ‘Left’ being in alliance with the Islamic ‘Right’ as a propaganda tool against the Western ‘Left’ because the Western ‘Left’ are not supporting the Western ‘Right’ in their fight against what they perceive to be the Islamic ‘Right’.

The notion has its source in the statement made by George W. Bush on 20 September 2001 when he said quite emphatically: “You are either with us or you are with the terrorists”.[1] In the eyes of the Western ‘Right’ that statement precluded the options of not being with either or of being against both. Since those words were spoken Western ‘Right’ leaders and the mainstream media have taken the notion literally in order to berate the ‘Left’.

For example; Jeremy Cordeaux, at the time a radio personality in Adelaide, South Australia, asked Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of the world’s staunchest allies of President Bush, about a month before the allied invasion of Iraq and just after the massive demonstrations around the world protesting against the pending war, this: “Let me ask you first, what did you think when you saw 400,000 fellow Australians on the streets demonstrating in a way that was, they say, against war but really it was in favour of Saddam Hussein?” Howard responded with: “…I do know also that demonstrations do give comfort to the Iraqi leadership, there's no doubt about that.”[2] The reality that Cordeaux failed to grasp was the fact that people weren’t supporting Saddam Hussein, but simply did not support war – especially a war that most people knew by then was based on lies. Howard, forever the politician however, played on Cordeuax’s words brilliantly by not quite explicitly saying that the 400,000 were in favour of Saddam Hussein but inferring it by saying that it gave ‘comfort to the Iraqi leadership’.

The fact that so many people demonstrating against an impending war against Iraq more than likely did give ‘comfort to the Iraqi leadership’ is hardly the point. What Howard and Cordeaux had succeeded in doing was to plant the seed that being against the war was tantamount to being in favour of terrorism as exemplified by the arch villain of terrorism Saddam Hussein who was about to be attacked for what was claimed to be his part in world terrorism.

Right-wing commentators, particularly right-wing Zionist propagandists, have ever since been pushing the line that the left-wing that is against the war is somehow in an alliance with right-wing Islamic militarism. One has even gone so far as to have written a book about it. David Horowitz’s book is about what he perceives as, and is titled, an ‘Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left’. Horowitz argues that the American left has forged an alliance with radical Islamists in order to jointly oppose America’s war on terrorism and its war in Iraq. The argument is based on the precept that the American left is ‘anti-American’, an absurdity in much the same way as some Jews are being called ‘self-haters’ because they don’t share the right-wing Zionist view about Israel’s fight against the Arabs is an absurdity.

When the right-wing says that someone is ‘anti-American’ it is based on the assumption that the right-wing view of ‘America’ is the one and only acceptable view that one may have of America. It is an arrogant premise. If ones view is not aligned with the right-wing view it is considered then to be anti-American. The right-wings view of the ‘Left’ being ‘anti-American’ is based purely on arrogance and has little to do with reality. Horowitz bases his entire argument on the premise that the ‘Left’ is ‘anti-American’ and so, ipso facto, must be pro right-wing Islam. It is a deliberate lie that is based on deceit and paranoia.

The concept works in much the same way as the propaganda of the right-wing Zionists who insist that any opposition to them is ‘anti-Semitic’ even if those that oppose them are actually Jewish themselves. Most people are aware, however, that indeed it is just propaganda.

The ‘Left’ did not oppose the war because it supported Saddam Hussein. The ‘Left’ opposed the war with Iraq because the war was being launched based on ulterior motives. Most of the peoples of the world were not fooled for one moment by the lies and rhetoric coming from Western right-wing leaders. Most of the peoples of the world knew that what the war was really about was oil, hegemony and Israeli interests and these facts were made quite clear at the various rallies and demonstrations that were held around the world just prior to the invasion. Everything that has transpired since has proved the ‘Left’ correct in the assumptions that were made then. There were no WMDs, Saddam was not in anyway involved with the events of 9/11 and Iraq certainly was not a threat to the world and nor did it any longer have any ambitions of being nuclear armed. The left cried ‘No war for oil!’ and the right insisted that it was not about oil – yet now the US have secured contracts for Iraq oil guaranteed for the next thirty years. The right lied.

The ‘Left’ is far more concerned about the ulterior motives of the Western ‘Right’ than it is about the Islamic ‘Right’. The ‘Left’ see the Western ‘Right’ as a far greater threat to world security than the Islamic ‘Right’ despite the Western ‘Rights’ propaganda and rhetoric. The bottom line is simply that deaths resulting from the actions of the Western ‘Right’ far outnumber deaths resulting from the actions of the Islamic ‘Right’. The Western ‘Right’ have been exposed as a sham. The rhetoric alleging an alliance between the Western ‘Left’ and the Islamic ‘Right’ is also a sham – just like Saddam’s WMDs were.

Just because the Western ‘Left’ does not support an attack on Iran does not mean to say that it therefore supports the politics of Iranian President Ahmadinejad. The Western ‘Left’ doesn’t support an attack on Iran because the Western ‘Left’ knows that the Western ‘Right’ are simply lying about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and involvement in Iraq in order to find a casus belli to attack it in order to maintain US hegemony in the region and to further Israel’s regional aspirations for a Greater Israel.





ENDNOTES
[1] President George W. Bush, ‘Address to the Joint Session of Congress and to the American People’, The White House, 20 September 2001. Available online: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html Accessed 6 February 2007.
[2] ‘Transcript of the Prime Minister the Hon. John Howard MP interview with Jeremy Cordeaux, Radio 5DN’, 20 February 2003, PM Australia website. Available online: http://www.pm.gov.au/news/interviews/Interview247.html Accessed 6 February 2007.