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Thursday, July 31, 2008

WAS THE MUCH TOUTED ISRAELI AIR RAID ON THE ALLEGED "SYRIAN NUCLEAR SITE" THE MANIFESTATION OF AN OLMERT HOAX?

There is only one lauded "success" in the entire history of the Olmert legacy: the annihilation of an alleged Syrian nuclear facility. This event recalled former Israeli glories in that it represented a daring, pre-emptive strike against an alleged nuclear threat and did so under the noses of Russian radar and Russian missile defense systems.

The alleged success of this air raid stands out in stark contrast to the great failures and disasters Israel has suffered ever since KADIMA took power. Here is a partial list of those failures and disasters:

* The unilateral GAZA surrender set an ugly historical precedent for ethnic cleansing in which Israel ethnically cleansed itself from GAZA.

* The GAZA surrender split Israel apart and demoralized Israel, as well as caused untold suffering to the Arabs living in Gaza, undermined Israeli sovereignty and security, undermined Israeli and Arab economics, destabilized Arab relations, led to the incessant daily missile firings terrorizing Sderot for years, and led to the captures of Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev (may they rest in peace) and Gilad Shalit (may he be returned home safely) and the disastrous 2005 Lebanon War.

* The 2006 Cossack-like police action against the Jews of Amona was unconscionable.

* The successes of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon (under the "HECHSHER" of United Nations Security Forces) as they consolidate power with Syrian, Iranian, and Russian assistance "feather" Olmert's cap.

* There have been increases in bold terrorist actions against Israel, tunnelling infrastructures and advanced weapons smuggling throughout Gaza.

* There have been political and propaganda advances by the Arabs and their supporters towards chopping Israel into smaller pieces (talks already are aimed at extorting Israel to make certain "hard choices": surrender the strategic Shaba Farms to Syria, Lebanon, or to the U.N.; surrender the Golan to Syria; surrender Judea-Samaria to Fatah or to Jordan; surrender East Jerusalem to Fatah or Jordan or even to Hamas; surrender the southern border crossings to Hamas so that Hamas may overrun Israel).

* One project that deserves special note is the Red Sea - Dead Sea Canal Project the French have piloted (and pledged serious money towards building) jointly with Israel, Jordan, and with the Palestinian Arabs to create a corridor along the Dead Sea geological fault that will provide a channel on the Jordanian side of the Fault to replenish the Dead Sea with sea water from the Red Sea, to build a highway and a railway connecting Gaza with Jordan and with Judea-Samaria, and to build cities and hotels and tourist facilities along the way. This smacks of an expensive plan to build the Arabian equivalent of a "Security Fence" surrounding Israel.

* The Israeli poor have suffered greatly during the Olmert tenure, and corruption has flourished to unprecedented levels including the drive-by daytime murder of an innocent civilian on an Israeli beach this week (collateral damage of a botched mafia hit).

My point in bringing out the most salient failures and disasters occurring to Israel under Olmert's Watch as Premier is that the succession of failures calls into question the credibility of the aerial attack against the alleged Syrian nuclear threat. There is no question that both Israeli morale and Olmert's standing were bolstered -- for a short while. Yet, Israeli morale has not been high and Olmert has just today announced that he will resign in September (if he can be believed).

There is an ugly air of inevitability in the world and amongst many in Israel that sooner rather than later, Israel will lose the Shaba Farms, Golan, Judea-Samaria, and East Jerusalem to the Arabs, and that it is not a question of who will make the deal as it is a question of when the deal will be made. Looking to Kadima, Labor, Likud, or any other Party or movement to defy this sense of fatalism successfully at the ballot box and in the arena of international opinion has been stultifying.

IT IS MY CONJECTURE THAT THE ISRAELI AIR RAID ON THE ALLEGED SYRIAN NUCLEAR FACILITY WAS NOTHING BUT A PROPAGANDA STUNT OF SMOKE AND MIRRORS DESIGNED TO MAKE OLMERT LOOK LIKE THE WARRIOR HE IS NOT, TO CREATE A FALSE PERSPECTIVE OF STRENGTH IN OLMERT'S LEADERSHIP, AND TO FACILITATE ADDITIONAL CAPITULATIONS TO THE SYRIANS, THE LEBANESE, HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS, AND FATAH.

IT IS MY CONJECTURE THAT ISRAEL BOMBED NOTHING MORE THAN AN EMPTY WAREHOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF SYRIAN NOWHERE -- A "PEACENIKS'S DREAM" -- TRICK THE WARRIORS INTO THINKING THAT APPEASERS ACTUALLY WAGED PRECISE, SUCCESSFUL, SURGICAL WARFARE, EVEN ON THE HEELS OF THE 2005 DISASTER OF THE LEBANON WAR; AND, MAKE POLITICAL MONEY IN THE PROCESS BY EXPENDING EXPENSIVE WEAPONRY THAT MUST NEEDS BE REPLACED, WITHOUT ACTUALLY KILLING ANY ENEMIES OR DESTROYING ANY ENEMY RESOURCES OF VALUE.

IT IS AS IF OLMERT HAD CALLED UP ASSAD AND SAID TO HIM, "LISTEN, BASHAR, I HAVE A GREAT IDEA; NO ONE HAS TO GET HURT AND WE CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AND MAYBE EVEN WIN NOBEL PRIZES; YOU WILL LOOK SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED IN THE MEDIA FOR A SHORT WHILE; BUT, IT WILL ALL WORK OUT AND THEN YOU WILL LOOK VERY GOOD. INTERESTED? TELL ME, DO YOU NEED A LITTLE DEMOLITION WORK DONE, THAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU FROM THE AIR AT NO CHARGE TO YOU? WE'LL GIVE OUR FLY BOYS A LITTLE EXERCISE, TARGET PRACTICE IN SYRIA, IF YOU WILL; WE'LL LEVEL WHATEVER SITE NEEDS LEVELING WITH A FEW WELL PLACED BOMBS, WE'LL INFLATE THE FACTS IN THE MEDIA TO SUGGEST THAT WE TOOK OUT A SECRET SYRIAN NUCLEAR FACILITY THAT WAS IN THE MAKING, ISRAELI'S WILL FEEL SO GOOD THAT THEY'LL BE READY TO GIVE YOU BACK THE GOLAN...."