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HomeBlogJanuary 2012 January 6, 2012: US-Israeli Spring Will Bring Deployment of Thousands of US Soldiers
January 6, 2012: US-Israeli Spring Will Bring Deployment of Thousands of US Soldiers
January 6, 2012: US-Israeli Spring Will Bring Deployment of Thousands of US Soldiers
This
spring, Israel and US will showcase the largest ever missile defense exercise
and establish US command posts in Israel and Israeli Forces will occupy EUCOM
headquarters in Germany.
Between
Thanksgiving and Christmas, Lt.Gen. Frank Gorenc, commander of the US’s Third
Air Force based in Germany, visited Israel and finalized the plans for “Austere
Challenge 12”.
This
misguided action will deploy several thousand American soldiers in Israel and establish
joint task forces that further entwine US-Israeli policies that favor military
muscle over diplomacy, equal human rights and justice.
Presidential
candidates pontificate over the dangers of nuclear weapons in Iran and are
oblivious to the danger to the American people because of US support of Israel’s
military occupation of Palestine and collusion in Israel’s nuclear
ambiguity/deceptions.
As
the West was adopting more sanctions against Tehran claiming Iran is
manufacturing WMD, Iran responded in a 10-day war game naval exercise near the
strategic Strait of Hormuz.
All
of the oil output of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Iraq and Iran run through
the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is well equipped with missile boats and land-based
missiles. It doesn’t require much intelligence to comprehend that Iran would
close off the Strait of Hormuz as soon as the first plane from Israel or US entered
Iranian airspace. The blowback to
the world’s economy with the elimination of nearly a fifth of the industrial
nations’ supply of oil would lead to the end of the world as we all now know it.
What
we all need to know is what Mordechai Vanunu, Israel’s nuclear whistle-blower
said just prior to Israel sending him back to solitary confinement for 78 days
in 2010-the outcome of his historic freedom of speech trial and punishment for
speaking to foreign media in 2004:
"Everyone
knows Israel has 200 bombs-hydrogen, nitrogen...No one wants atomic weapons in
the Middle East....No one wants Israel or the Middle East to have atomic
weapons, because if Israel has the bomb Iran will have the bomb."
What
Americans desperately need to know is what Vanunu told me in 2005:
“President Kennedy tried
to stop Israel from building atomic weapons. In 1963, he forced Prime Minister
Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the sign outside
proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor
is only for peace.’
“Kennedy
insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding that Ben
Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection. The French were responsible for the
actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money; they were feeling
guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay their way out. Everything inside was
written in French, when I was there, almost twenty years ago. Back then,the
Dimona descended seven floors underground. In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with
the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they fought against
Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower
demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.
“Kennedy
demanded inspections. When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with
Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators
would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators
and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about
the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
“Nixon
stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel
increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they
may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.” [1]
On 2 October
2009, The Washington Times reported that Obama agreed to keep Israel's
nukes 'secret' and reaffirmed a 4-decade-old understanding that has allowed
Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international
inspections." [2]
Three officials spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were
discussing private conversations, but all said Obama pledged to maintain the
agreement when he first hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the
White House in May 2009.
Under the understanding, the U.S. has not pressured Israel to disclose its
nuclear weapons or to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which would
require Israel to give up its estimated several hundred nuclear bombs.
This nuclear deception was reached at a summit between President Nixon and
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir on 25 September 1969, with "the United
States passively accepting Israel's nuclear weapons status as long as Israel
does not unveil publicly its capability or test a weapon."[Ibid]
In 2007, the Nixon library declassified a 19 July 1969, memo
from Henry Kissinger, the then national security adviser stating: "While
we might ideally like to halt actual Israeli possession, what we really want at
a minimum may be just to keep Israeli possession from becoming an established
international fact."
The
"established international facts" were exposed in 1986, when
Mordechai Vanunu told the truth and provided the photographic proof of Israel's
seven story underground WMD Facility that can be viewed on You Tube:
Another established international fact occurred on 17 April
2010, when Iran hosted a conference in Tehran on nuclear disarmament with sixty
countries represented.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a
statement delivered at the conference stating that nuclear weaponry was "haram"
meaning prohibited under Islam and he also blew the doors off Israel's and
America's nuclear deceptions:
"If
America’s claims of fighting the proliferation of nuclear weapons were not
false, would the Zionist regime be able to turn the occupied Palestinian lands
into an arsenal where a huge number of nuclear weapons are stored while
refusing to respect international regulations in this regard, especially the
NPT?
"There
is only one government that has committed a nuclear crime so far. Only the
government of the United States of America has attacked the oppressed people of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs in an unfair and inhumane war…using or
even threatening to use such weapons is a serious violation of the most basic
rules of philanthropy and is a clear manifestation of war crimes.
"The
greatest violators of the NPT are the powers who have reneged on their
obligation to dispose of nuclear weapons mentioned in Article 6 of the
Non-Proliferation Treaty. These powers have even surpassed other countries with
respect to promoting nuclear weapons in the world. By providing the Zionist
regime with nuclear weapons and supporting its policies, these powers play a
direct role in promoting nuclear weapons which is against the obligations they
have undertaken according to Article 1 of the NPT.
"We
believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass
destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat
to humanity. The Iranian nation, which is itself a victim of chemical weapons,
feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production
and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its
facilities to counter such threats. We consider the use of such weapons as haram
(religiously forbidden) and believe that it is everyone’s duty to make efforts
to secure humanity against this great disaster."[3]
In 1987, from Ashkelon prison, Vanunu wrote:
"The
passive acceptance and complacency with regard to the existence of nuclear
weapons anywhere on earth is the disease of society today.
"This
struggle is not only a legitimate one - it is a moral, inescapable struggle.
"Already
now there are enough nuclear missiles to destroy the world many times over
[and] this issue should unite us all, because that is our real enemy.
"Is
any government qualified and authorized to produce such weapons?" [4]
In
1961, John F. Kennedy warned:
"Every man, woman
and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of
threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or
by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.”
The ties that bind US-Israeli policies are not in the best interests of
Americans-or anyone else in the world.
1. BEYOND
NUCLEAR:Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My
Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010
4.
BEYOND NUCLEAR:Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a
Muckraker: 2005-2010
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“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
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Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel