New Nazis

(4) Gangster Sharon

Simple minds seek simple answers. Bush looks for easy answers. He isn't bothered by expertise on any foreign policy issue. The accent of Colin Powell's career, a veteran sharpshooter during the Vietnam War, lay on matters how to militarily eliminate enemies and destroy the Vietcong, rather than making an in depth study of how to constructively conduct international relations. Nevertheless the Department of State informed Bush, that the epicenter of Muslim rage was situated in and around Palestine. Therefore the president decided to have a closer look at the situation.

The most intelligent way for this Global Cop to get his facts straight was to inform himself exclusively about one side of the drama by opening up a running dialogue with Ariel Sharon and skip Arafat altogether. Why complicate matters by listening to what Palestinians might have to say? Information that Sharon committed in 1982 bloody war crimes in the Arab refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla, that prompted an Israeli investigative committee to declare him unfit to ever again hold the office of minister of defence, seem to have eluded Bush completely. It happened too long ago prior to his tenure.

The current Israeli Prime Minister clearly is a criminal

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gangster. He thinks like one, acts like one and talks like one. He bluntly tells the press, that he wished he had killed Arafat twenty years ago. George junior, also accustomed to gangster conversations about petroleum at the dinner table at his parents home, naturally considers Sharon as his shining light and a great military ally in Arab affairs.

In fact, having been a resident of New York City (1958-1992) I affirm, that the far majority of Americans thinks and feels as uncivilized and cruel like the Bushes and Sharon's do. Simply get rid of any guy that is making a nuisance of himself. Bin Laden? Kill the bastard. Castro? Shoot him, or send him poisoned cigars. Lumumba? Let the CIA hack him to pieces. Allende? Bring Pinochet in and shoot him. The list of foreign political leaders, presidents, prime ministers or heads of state, that have been overthrown since 1945 on orders of the White House, the CIA and other criminals in Washington is many pages long. Too often, they were democratically chosen leaders who were forcibly removed by US overt or covert operations to be replaced by fascist killers. General Suharto (Indonesia), a certified mass murderer of hundreds of thousands of suspected political opponents and innocents, was kept 32 years in power with massive US, Japanese and European military and financial aid. The same rich governments are now eagerly championing the persecution of former Yugoslav leaders as war criminals, before a special tribunal in The Hague. Of course, Washington refuses to acknowledge the jurisdiction of a new International Criminal Court in The Hague over American citizens, because countless Americans in high places would end up behind bars for the same criminal acts, that Slobodan Milosevic is standing trial for now.

Bush mistakenly looks upon the current cataclysm in the Islamic world stretching as far as Indonesia and the Philippines, as being simply caused by the evil genius of Saudi freedom fighter Osama bin Laden. The White House fails to understand, that its difficulties in continuing to dominate the Muslim world and its natural resources is basically a renewed 21^st century battle against western imperialism and colonialism. Nor is it the only US misinterpretation of why anti-Americanism is sharply on the increase across the globe. It is not just the Arab world which resents the Bush experiment in imbecility by cozening up to Ariel Sharon and ignoring the PLO. Particularly so, since this man has recently been repeating his Sabra and Shatilla patent on war crimes in Jenin, and other Palestinian cities. Bush behaves towards Sharon, as if suddenly Radavan Karadzic would once more be the ideal ally in plotting new moves on the Balkan's.

When, at the request of the Security Council, the United Nations sent a mission to investigate mass murder in Jenin, Sharon simply told them to get lost. He had them barricaded in a hotel and escorted to the airport. Bush and Sharon are dealing with the United Nations in the

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same way Hitler and Mussolini treated the League of Nations in Geneva. The first world organization went under, because nobody reacted when Germany and Italy unilaterally went their own way in world affairs. US and Israeli behavior in 2002 begins more and more to resemble Nazi Germany and fascist Italy in the 1930's. History does have the tendency to repeat itself. The world remained silent when Mussolini overran Abyssinia in 1935, much the same way as the world is looking the other way while Israel, with US support, continues its Zionist tradition in committing war crimes in Palestine.

UN representative Terje Roed-Larsen, who spoke of ‘horrific destruction beyond belief in Jenin’, first, confirmed that a blood bath had taken place in Jenin on April 18, 2002. Marie Colvin reported, ‘that human senses were overwhelmed by the devastation and the stench of death upon entering the ruins of this Palestinian city’. She wrote about Israeli tank tracks leading to the body of Jamal Sabagh (28), father of three. A tank smashed him. What had once been a young man was now rotting flesh mingled with shredded clothing mashed into the earth. One foot was all that looked human. The Israeli Army had banned ambulances from Jenin for 11 days, and neighbors were too terrified to go to him. He was a diabetic and not a freedom fighter. His wife and children fled, but he was too afraid to be taken for a suicide bomber and stayed where he was. Only after the Israelis had yelled over megaphones that they were going to blow up his house, that he gathered a bag of medicines and eventually lined up with other men on Seha Street. Soldiers yelled to take of his shirt and trousers. He did but clung to his bag with medicine as he tried to unbuckle his belt. He was slow and his friends told The Times that soldiers had shot him. Others were taken with virtually no clothes to the Army base at Salem. (Jenin: The Bloody Truth, The Times, April 21, 2002).

Of course, when no one in the world dares to raise his voice in protest against US-Israeli war crimes and everybody remains afraid to call a spade a spade, quo vadis humanity? As long as all of us refuse to recognize that what is sausage for the goose is sauce for the gander, Bush en Sharon will continue to get away with murder. As long as the world behaves like cowards and measures war crimes with double standards, the US Gang of Four will have its way. The Bush II White House lacks the intelligence and brainpower, to demand from the Israeli leader that he simply observes international law. Even compared to the first Bush Administration, the second Bush White House behaves like lawless vigilantes. If international standards would be applied to superpower bosses as well, the entire current command of the United States would he receiving one-way tickets to the newly opened ICC in The Hague.

Just as Adolf Hitler felt in the late thirties that he could do anything he wanted, Bush feels likewise that is free and not bound to observe the Charter of the UN to plan a

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blood bath of his own in Iraq. With Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell - three cronies who used to cook up mischief for Dad - junior Bush is preparing a Blitzkrieg against Saddam Hussein. It's a repetition of the old Hitler tactic to invade weaker neighbors. Rumsfeld has already visited US bases in Kuwait and Qatar as well as those of the 5^th fleet in Bahrain. Special forces and covert CIA Waffen SS action would even be launched inside Iraq. According to a report in The Observer (July 7, 2002), even Jordan would be used as a ‘jumping off point’ for some 250.000 US soldiers chosen for this latest job of wanton US aggression. The motorway Amman-Baghdad is, after all, only 600 miles. According to eyewitnesses preparations are underway at the Muafaq Salti air base at Azraq, 50 miles east of Amman on the road to Baghdad. In exchange, Washington will double its ‘aid’ to Jordan up to 500 million. General Tommy Franks and the chairman of the Jordanian Chiefs of Staff, general Khalid Jamil Surayrih conferred the end of June on attacking neighbor Iraq in collusion with another puppet of the US Axis of Evil. In the mean time did both Jordan's foreign minister, Marwan Muasher, and Information minister, Mohammad Al-Adwan categorically state, that Jordan would never allow this to happen.

Nevertheless, in true Nazi tradition, Bush & Co are preparing a superpower attack on an Arab nation of 25 million. Iraq is an extremely desirous objective, since it would be without a US blockade, the second largest oil producer in the Near East. Iraq has been seriously weakened first by the war with Iran and second by the Gulf War with a grand alliance of states, when the backbone of the Iraqi Army was destroyed. Then followed the near fatal economic blockade that even spread hunger and disease. I visited Baghdad in May 2002. Suffering Iraqis do put on a brave face, but compared to their erstwhile prosperity and affluence, one wonders why it has to be this way. Why not bring Saddam to Camp David and find a non-violent solution? There was a time, when the same man wasn't looked upon as being evil and even considered an admired and trusted ally of both Dad and Margaret Tatcher. Now, the White House swore to take out Saddam, dead or alive of course, commemorating the old days of the Texas sheriff. Will the son do a better job at it than the father? Osama bin Laden, too, used to be considered in Washington a true freedom fighter with the US and against the USSR. He too is now being hunted as an evil war criminal.