From: devcarter@iinet.net.au   
      
   On Israel Obama will need a secular plan "B"   
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   Plan "A" is typically an expression of American 'ideals' and 'power'   
   as defined by the Washington influence peddlers with the big bucks to   
   garner support for policies that suit their interests, and a big stick   
   to wield at the ballot box against  politicians who do not come   
   re-election..   
      
   Bush's presidency was defined by the neo-con / Christian evangelical   
   handle on policy definition and military initiatives for a Greater   
   Israel within the context of a bold neo-imperial Wolfowitz vision-   
   America the monopolist superpower defending geo-political interests   
   against enemies by creating a lily pad of military bases across the   
   globe, controlling any undesirable development of nuclear weapons by   
   any means.   
      
   The Wolfowitz policy is straight out of Hitler's Mein Kampf - a   
   state's role of cutting down the tall poppies (states like Iraq and   
   Iran) and pulling out the weeds (assassination of anyone defined by   
   the Zionist-US alliance as an Islamic militant terrorist).   
      
   The EU states didn't buy this vision, and where they have contributed   
   troops such as Afghanistan it is very much in a non-vanguard role.   
   Punitive terror campaigns such as the recent Israeli attack on Gaza,   
   with images supporting claims that Israeli soldiers ordered people out   
   of their homes and shot their children dead in front of them, leave   
   the EU nations aghast, and the Islamic world outraged.   
      
   Even the more ardent supporters of US policies such as Australia were   
   last week actively issuing counter images such as Afghanistan action   
   footage to displace the prima face reality of cold blooded Zionist   
   terror from Australian TV screens. These images and reports could not   
   as easily be countered by Israeli Army Media Units who routinely paint   
   a terrorist behind every dead mother and child. The Australian PM   
   lambasted a local Islamic guru who in a 5 year old video clip   
   suggested some light corporal punishment was OK against one's wife if   
   she misbehaved.   
      
   What words of admonition did the Australian PM have for these cold   
   blooded Zionist atrocities- none!   
      
   When one lifts the skull caps and examines the ideals of the Christian   
   fundamentalist conservatives for Greater Israel your find a   
   dyed-in-the-wool apocalypsnut as fervent for biblical prophesy   
   emulation as any product of a Pakistani madrassa for some future   
   Islamic neo-Caliphate. Every atrocity is lost in the surreal haze of   
   prophecy- of the End times; the Rapture; or the second-coming of   
   Christ and is welcomed as a sign of immanent salvation not as a   
   provocation to draw the Islamic nations into conventional wars they   
   cannot win, and thus a factor in hastening their development of WMD   
   for defense of sovereignty.   
      
   The danger in drawing foreign policy directly out of Mein Kampf is   
   that one is temping fate- to repeat history not to change it. When   
   delusional propaganda systems are the basis of action, a nation   
   becomes ideological locked in the quagmire of plan A. The fascist   
   propaganda system having created a momentum towards disaster could   
   only be rectified with the inevitable crash with reality- with 100   
   million dead and Europe in ruins.   
      
   If the USA cannot find a rational plan B, one ought to factor in 1   
   billion dead in any future global conflagration. The precedent was   
   created in the final days of WW2 with the USA's use of nuclear   
   weapons- WMD are OK if it serves a nation's interest to use them. In   
   future wars we can add viral and biological agents into the WMD option   
   mix as well.   
      
   Plan A favored by the Bush administration was a road map to nowhere-   
   to a mythic two state solution to the conflict. The reason this was a   
   farce was that the borders of Israel were never defined. To qualify   
   for a peace settlement the Palestinian militants would need to   
   recognize an ambit vision of Greater Israel, one that would include   
   Jerusalem and much of the West Bank and thus rob themselves of the   
   requisite territory necessary for any viable two state solution. With   
   Israeli settlement along the Jordan River, it would cut off any border   
   access with Jordan effectively creating a Palestinian state that would   
   be little more than a landlocked Bantustan-like client territory   
   surrounded and dominated by its arch enemy- Israel. This client entity   
   would be in accordance with Bush's biblical vision of the   
   re-establishment of Israel but far from any western concept of   
   sovereign state.   
      
   Supplying hi-tech military weaponry to militant Zionists who occupy   
   and expand Israeli settlement while assassinating Islamic resistance   
   fighters- hardly defines Bush as an even handed broker for peace. Thus   
   the US plan A is perceived as a farce in every country not dominated   
   by the apocalypsnuts of the Judeo-Christian Right.   
      
   Which bring us to Obama and how dyed-in-the-wool he is for the same   
   biblical vision as Bush, or how much that vision is merely a cloak of   
   conventionality masking a pragmatic secularist at heart. Obama's team   
   of advisers comes out of the old circus school of the Clinton years so   
   and as they are supporters of the same two state rhetoric there is   
   little prospect for a alternative voice to be heard.   
      
   One remembers Obama signing a statement in support of Israeli action   
   in the recent Lebanon war- and presumably support for the bombing of   
   Lebanon villages with US supplied cluster-bombs in its final days- an   
   act designed to maximize civilian casualties. The sad truth is that   
   'on the evidence', Obama was silent about the recent Zionist terror   
   campaign in Palestine because he must of political necessity support   
   it, but is cleaver enough to know the damage such admissions would do   
   to his future prospects in dealing with moderate Muslim states- hence   
   the tight lip.   
      
   Farce is farce, there is no spin doctoring that Obama can muster to   
   salvage Plan A - neither to make it more respectable to the world at   
   large, nor to Muslim moderates in the Arab world and beyond.   
      
   The task for Obama, if he is serious about change, is to devise an   
   alternative secular plan B - a plan that while recognized existing   
   realities of the permanent Israeli annexation of the West Bank and   
   Gaza, gives political protection to Israeli Jews while at the same   
   time giving equal civil and increasing democratic rights to the   
   Palestinian Muslim population. The question of a two state   
   partitioning can be put at a referendum in the future, if the   
   citizenry would actively seek it being incapable of working together   
   in an integrated Israel-Palestine for a common good.   
      
   The Israel-Palestine parliament would initially be accorded a 60:40   
   weighting factor in favor of Jewish representation but the ratios   
   would vary by 2.5% every 5 years with full equality at 50:50 in 20   
   years but with the constitutional weight of each vote always no   
   greater than 50:50 irrespective of the changes in demographics in the   
      
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