THE BLOOD-FOR-GAS WAR - The Real Reasons Bibi Netanyahu Wants Complete Annihilation of Gaza

For many people, the truth is out now. At last, they know. Those once intimidated into silence can’t look away now. Staring at them from their TV, laptop, phone, is proof of the barbarism of the Israeli state and the great destructive force of its mentor and provider, the United States, the cowardice of European governments, and the collusion of others, such as Canada and Australia, in this epic crime.

The attack on Gaza was an attack on all of us. The siege of Gaza is a siege of all of us. The denial of justice to Palestinians is a symptom of much of humanity under siege and a warning that the threat of a new world war is growing by the day.

When Nelson Mandela called the struggle of Palestine “the greatest moral issue of our time”, he spoke on behalf of true civilization, not that which empires invent. In Latin America, the governments of Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia, El Salvador, Peru, and Ecuador have made their stand on Gaza. Each of these countries has known its own dark silence when immunity for mass murder was sponsored by the same godfather in Washington that answered the cries of children in Gaza with more ammunition to kill them.

Unlike Netanyahu and his killers, Washington’s pet fascists in Latin America didn’t concern themselves with moral window dressing. They simply murdered and left the bodies on rubbish dumps. For Zionism, the goal is the same: to dispossess and ultimately destroy an entire human society: a truth that 225 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have compared with the genesis of genocide.

Nothing has changed since the Zionists’ infamous “Plan D” in 1948 that ethnically cleansed an entire people. Recently, on the website of the Times of Israel were the words: “Genocide is Permissible”. A deputy speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, Moshe Feiglin, demands a policy of mass expulsion into concentration camps. An MP, Ayelet Shaked, whose party is a member of the governing coalition, calls for the extermination of Palestinian mothers to prevent them from giving birth to what she calls “little snakes”.

For years, reporters have watched Israeli soldiers bait Palestinian children by abusing them through loud-speakers. Then they shoot them dead. For years, reporters have known about Palestinian women about to give birth and refused passage through a roadblock to a hospital; and the baby has died, and sometimes the mother.

For years, reporters have known about Palestinian doctors and ambulance crews given permission by Israeli commanders to attend the wounded or remove the dead, only to be shot through the head.

For years, reporters have known about stricken people prevented from getting life-saving treatment or shot dead when they’ve tried to reach a clinic for chemotherapy treatment. One elderly lady with a walking stick was murdered in this way - a bullet in her back.

Israel also claims that Hamas uses children as human shields when in actual fact it is the opposite. Judge for yourself!

When the facts of this crime were put to Dori Gold, a senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister, he said, “Unfortunately in every kind of warfare there are cases of civilians who are accidentally killed. But the case cited is not terrorism. Terrorism means putting the cross-hairs of the sniper’s rifle on a civilian deliberately.”

Such a lie or delusion is repeated unerringly by Israel’s apologists. As the former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges points out, the reporting of such an atrocity invariably ends up as “caught in the cross-fire”. For as long as I have covered the Middle East, much if not most of the western media has colluded in this way.

A Palestinian cameraman, Imad Ghanem, lies helpless while soldiers from the “most moral army in the world” blew both his legs off. This atrocity was given two lines on the BBC website. Thirteen journalists were killed by Israel in its latest bloodfest in Gaza. All were Palestinian. Who knows their names?

Something is different now. There is a huge revulsion across the world, and the voices of sensible liberalism are worried. Their hand wringing and a specious choir of “equal blame” and “Israel’s right to defend itself” will not wash any more; neither will the smear of Antisemitism. Neither will their selective cry that “something must be done” about Islamic fanatics but nothing must be done about Zionist fanatics.

Dr. Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian doctor renowned for his heroic work in Gaza. On 8 August, Dr. Gilbert returned to his hometown, Tromso in Norway which, as he pointed out, the Nazis had occupied for seven years. He said, “Imagine being back in 1945 and we in Norway did not win the liberation struggle, did not throw out the occupier. Imagine the occupier remaining in our country, taking it piece by piece, for decades upon decades, and banishing us to the leanest areas, and taking the fish in the sea and the water beneath us, then bombing our hospitals, our ambulance workers, our schools, our homes.

"Would we have given up and waved the white flag? No, we would not! And this is the situation in Gaza. This is not a battle between terrorism and democracy. Hamas is not the enemy Israel is fighting. Israel is waging a war against the Palestinian people’s will to resist. It is the Palestinian people’s dignity that they will not accept this.

"In 1938, the Nazis called the Jews Untermenschen - subhuman. Today, Palestinians are treated as a sub-human people who can be slaughtered without any in power, reacting.

"So I have returned to Norway, a free country, and this country is free because we had a resistance movement because occupied nations have the right to resist, even with weapons - it’s stated in international law. And the Palestinian people’s resistance in Gaza is admirable: a struggle for us all.”

Real journalism looks like this. “Every day, at sunrise, Mohammed looks for families who have been bombed. He records their stories, standing in the rubble of their homes; he takes their pictures. He goes to the hospital. He goes to the morgue. He goes to the cemetery. He queues for hours for bread for his own family. And he watches the sky. He sends two, three, four dispatches a day. This is real journalism”.

“They are trying to annihilate us,” he says. “But the more they bomb us, the stronger we are. They will never win.”

That was just a synopsis of the real Gaza and what goes on in there.

Now we come to the second real reason why Zionist Israel wants Palestine and specially the Gaza strip flattened and wiped out.

The current slow-motion ethnic cleansing super-production conducted in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Farces sorry Forces (IDF), is Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s wet dream.

It’s easy to forget that at the time of Israel’s previous invasion of Gaza – Operation Cast Lead – gas fields in Palestine were outright confiscated by Israel. This “operation” was already an energy war. This was a Blood for Gas war!

Then there is the Bigger Picture - the 122 trillion cubic feet of gas plus the potential 1.6 billion barrels of oil in the Levant Basin spread over the territorial waters of Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus and – of course – Gaza. These waters are as incandescently disputed as rocks and shoals in the South China Sea. Needless to say, Tel Aviv wants it all.

The way Gaza is kept as a concentration camp, subjected to non-stop collective punishment, maybe revolting enough. But then it must be added the key economic component: by all available means, Gazans must be prevented from accessing the Marine-1 and Marine-2 gas fields. These will be gobbled up by Israel. From every angle, and for all practical purposes, Israel lords overall Palestinian natural resources – land, water, and energy.

So here’s the “secret” of Operation Protect the Zionists, sorry, Protective Edge: without smashing Hamas, which controls Gaza, Israel cannot drill off the Gaza coast. For Bibi as well as the Knesset, the possibility that the Palestinians could have access to their own gas-generated wealth is an absolute red line.

And the EU may be on it as well. No one in Brussels will admit it, but it’s easy to conceive “strategists" regarding this takeover of Palestinian gas fields opening the door in the future for the EU being less dependent on Gazprom, and a substantial importer of (stolen) Israeli gas.

Quick Duck! Donald is here with the "Deal of the Century"

If there’s one thing real estate moguls understand it’s the value of the land. Which begs the question of why Donald Trump’s plan to broker peace in the Middle East is so spectacularly ignorant of reality

The Trump/Kushner Israeli/Palestinian Peace Plan, ‘the deal of the century’ was presented in a workshop held in the Manama Hotel, Bahrain on June 25. Criticized because it put economic proposals before political considerations, this US deal has a more sinister policy objective: the crafting of every conceivable cruelty towards Palestinians.

Cruelty occurs when one group maintains superiority over another, sustains inequalities and, as the means of control, uses force and creates fear. The US and Israeli governments have heeded Machiavelli’s lesson that cruelty never occurred between equals, that inferior groups should be treated as of no consequence and kept unequal. Despite Kushner’s claims about economic development to promote ‘peace to prosperity’, and contrary to Zionism ideals about justice, cruelty as the policy has been a consistent Zionist/Israeli theme.

Cruelty towards Palestinians was maintained first by a British military government in Arab areas, then with a military dictatorship in the occupied territories. The ultra-nationalist and racist Netanyahu government now compete with Israeli political parties in their racist statements against Palestinians, lepers to be stigmatized, abhorred and discarded.

The cruelty of discrimination became explicit in the Jewish Nation-State Law of August 2018, which says this state actualizes its national, religious and historical rights for self-determination. The distinguished Israeli journalist Gideon Levy concluded that through this law, Israel had adopted apartheid as a form of government, bolstered by the ‘moral rot’ of a ‘legal system far removed from fundamental principles of equality and justice.’

The latest demand to maintain the superiority of one people over another comes from the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon. In a New York Times Opinion piece, he wrote as a leader of a master race. Armed with his assumptions about the merits of top-down abuses of power, about humiliation as a policy and cruelty to inferiors taken for granted, he advised that the best the Palestinians could do is surrender.

They should negotiate without any prospect of a State: “A national suicide of Palestinians’ current political and cultural ethos is what is needed for peace.”

Danon associated himself with what he calls Western Liberalism, as illustrated by the “natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate in their own sovereign state”. By contrast, inferior people such as Palestinians could not have rights to self-determination, even though those rights are made clear in Article 1 of the Charter of the UN.

Consistent with a New York real estate agent’s technique for softening up powerless tenants before evicting them, Trump had already humiliated Palestinians, yet asked them to accept his deal. The US Embassy in Israel had been moved to Jerusalem, Palestinian diplomatic offices in Washington were closed, most funds for the refugee agency UNRWA terminated, so too crucial financial support for Palestinian hospitals in East Jerusalem; then the Golan was annexed and renamed Trump Heights.

The New York Real Estate agency had become Cruelty Inc. There would be no withdrawal of settlements, no end to Israeli control of Palestinians’ lives and nothing to address the injustices to refugees. The Bahrain workshop was told the Palestinians could not secure a better offer.

Deception is another key ingredient in the cruelty mix. Kushner made fraudulent claims even as he appeared to be generous. Fifty billion dollars would generate recovery of the Palestinian economy even though any Palestinian economic development has been restricted by the occupation of the West Bank, the siege of Gaza and other military controls. The $50 billion would be pledged largely by the Arab States but no pledges had been made.

In Bahrain, Kushner delivered his father-in-law’s notion that life is about deals and deals are about money.

Fragile but significant Lebanon could receive $6 billion from a plan geared mostly towards connecting Lebanon with Gaza and the West Bank. But the Lebanese rejected this as a shameless bribe. They know that money will come and go whereas Palestinians will always pursue their human rights and ownership of their lands.

Hidden in the offer to the Lebanese was the long-held Israeli view that by making Palestinians citizens of other countries – Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt – they could be made to disappear, and Lebanon could also be bullied. Home to 450,000 Palestinian and 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the Lebanese might welcome money, but they know that without politically just solutions to conflict, no economic initiatives could succeed.

Like fraudulent advertising to increase prospective homeowners’ interest, the Kushner deal was presented as the carrot to attract all prospective buyers, even though Palestine was not for sale. Bill Law in the Journal Middle East Eye says that as with other Trump frauds, the deal of the century was not meant to work. The purpose was to pretend peace until more land had been stolen, more checkpoints erected, more night raids made on Palestinians’ homes and more weapons tested over Gaza. Ghassan Khatib from the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre says, “Its purpose was to buy time, kick dust, shift blame and thereby guarantee permanent Israeli control of the West Bank.”

In this post-truth era when ideas about US domestic and foreign policy flow from a President’s tweets, there’s inherent cruelty in a deal of the century which ignored decades-old injustices, the occupation of Palestinian lands, the siege of Gaza, the continued containment of millions of refugees.

To pursue peace with justice for Palestinians and Israelis, politicians and other policymakers should cease being intimidated by a toxic Zionist lobby, and instead ponder Dr. Hanan Ashrawi’s judgment that the Kushner plan is “… totally divorced from reality. The elephant in the room is the occupation itself”.

In addition, we could all learn from Palestinian delegations’ reasons for boycotting the Bahrain workshop. They know that you don’t fight for freedom by giving it up.

And now we have a new peace plan, just like the old one except it's even worse, and Donald (Impeached) Trump and Bibi (Indicted) Netanyahu have unveiled a new Middle East Peace Plan with all the pomp and pizzaz where Netanyahu gets to annex the Palestinians where and how he wants them to be, a plan that unequivocally makes Jerusalem the capital of Israel and if the Palestinian behave themselves then they can go and pray at their own Al Aqsa Mosque. This is a plan completely unacceptable to anybody who can display a modicum of common sense let alone the Palestinians.

The 181-page document contained conceptual maps showing how Israel and a future Palestinian state could look if Palestinians agreed to sign up to the plan, which was endorsed at the White House by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Palestinian leaders have already rejected the proposals.

This is how the territories of Israel and Palestine would look under Trump's plan: The map in the plan is generously shaded to make it look like a good deal for the Palestinians, and the Map on the right is the actual map of how Palestine would look like after the annexation. The map below it shows the historical occupation of Israel over the Palestinian People and how Donald Trump's plan leaves the Palestinians with just 15% of the land.

Jared Kushner the President's son in law an investor in Israel's illegal settlements the supposedly self-professed Middle East expert is the architect of this plan has gifted Benjamin Netanyahu a plan when there is an election at stake and Netanyahu who was being indicted for fraud at home while the plan was being revealed in Washington DC while Donald Trump is in trouble at home with Impeachment.

The plan is designed to give both of them a boost when the chips are down.

Israel’s Newspeak is old news; after all, they are masters of fooling no one but themselves. This is an all-out Blood-For-Gas War!

Back to the ever-powerful Jewish controlled media, they should be aware that now critical public intelligence and resistance to propaganda do exist; and a second superpower is emerging - the power of public opinion, fuelled by the internet and social media.

The false reality created by false news delivered by media gatekeepers may prevent some of us knowing that this new superpower is stirring in country after country: from the Americas to Europe, Asia to Africa. It is a moral insurrection, exemplified by the whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assange. The question begs: will we break our silence while there is time?

When you are, driving back to the Israeli checkpoint, you will catch sight of two Palestinian flags through the razor wire. Children had made flagpoles out of sticks tied together and they’d climbed on a wall and held the flag between them.

The children do this, whenever there are foreigners around because they want to show the world they are there - alive, and brave, and undefeated.