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Monday, September 15, 2014

LEE KAPLAN: HOW THE US STATE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN UNDERMINING ISRAEL'S SECURITY AND EXISTENCE



We're behind Israel 100%
The following column is by a long-time researcher and activist trying to expose Muslim terror and those who enable their activities in Israel. 
 
Lee Kaplan is not afraid to point fingers, as long as he has the documentary evidence to back up his statements.  

His non-politically correct statements are always interesting, and his columns a source of new information.  But that's not all.  Pay close attention to what goes between the lines.
 
Another reason to listen to Lee Kaplan is that he has been right in his predictions before.  The ones he now lists on this column are chilling.
 
 
And one of the messages one can read between the lines is that much of Israel's difficulties in asserting its rights lies with Israeli authorities attitude of tolerance for those who threaten the state.  
 
Lee Kaplan, along with other sharp analysts of Israeli politics, sees ominous signs in the Israeli leadership, leading to fatal outcomes. 
 
NOTICE that throughout this column Kaplan points to the Israeli government ALLOWING anti-Israel activities to take place.   Please, keep in mind that this is not due to oversight, or ignorance, or ineptitude.  Some of it is due to pressure from the US and the EU.  But not all.

You cannot understand Israel's plight at the moment without taking into consideration how Israeli authorities themselves have either unleashed disastrous policies (withdrawal from Gaza, Oslo Accords), or allowed activities that undermine Israel's security to take place in plain sight.
 
 
Main points followed by the full column 
  • After having the last twelve years doing analysis and writing about the Middle East and US foreign policy vis-à-vis Israel as well as anti-Semitism, I have looked into the future  and it’s not bright.  Events are not going to get any better unless Israel changes its way of dealing with the Arabs, the Iranians and the United States. 
  • Kaplan denounced at the time the leftist camp's falsely optimistic view of what the expulsion of Jews from Gaza in 2005 would bring to Israel.  Every one of those promises has failed.
  • The US State Department, the EU and assorted Non Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) then created the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) to bring internationals to the 'West Bank' and Gaza to stir up the local Arabs against cooperation with Israel and try to mold public opinion onto the side of the Arabs. 
  • Israel chose to allow anarchists from abroad to interfere with the IDF in combat zones and never demanded the US State Department rescind their passports or make them leave.  
  • Americans have always been pro-Israel.  The State Department, however, has for many years engaged in a campaign to create a Palestinian state on Jewish land.  It is their idea, not the will of the American voters. 
  • The American leaders of the ISM were former low level State Department employees working in an Israel that they hated who suddenly found themselves with lots of monetary support to de-legitimize Israel in the minds of the American public. 
  • The goal of the State Department, in contrast to Congress, has always been to mold American public opinion to be anti a Jewish state and pro a Palestinian Arab one.  
  • The Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions anti-Israel movement (BDS) was and is illegal by US law, but the US Commerce Department looks the other way through every administration, through all the Republican and Democratic administrations since the Carter years. 
  • While previous people in Kerry’s job followed the delegitimization policy secretly, Kerry decided he was going to be the first to be successful with it. 
  • Kerry saw that the long term policy was not succeeding and decided he would get the job done “on steroids”, hence his unending support for Hamas and the terrorists who run the Palestinian Authority. 
  • Since they have failed to defeat Israel by war and by diplomacy, the State Department is doing its best in promoting the delegitimization of Israel, hoping that once American and world opinion are fully against Israel, its demise as a "villain" will come as a matter of course.  (They never counted on the emergency of ISIS, which has exposed the true nature of Islam.  Blogger's note.)
  • How the US arms Hamas:  it just sold $11 billion in armaments to Qatar, a close ally of Hamas.  It won't be long till those weapons are smuggled into Gaza. 
  • (Iran has promised to arm the Arabs in the Palestinian Authority.  The same Iran going nuclear now thanks to White House policies.)
  • There is a real danger from the north now, from Hezbollah and from ISIS.  Israel may be overwhelmed.  The US may offer its help, but at a high price for Israel:  sacrificing the south for a contiguous Palestinian State.  (And much more.  It recently restricted sale of missiles to Israel in the middle of the war with Gaza.)
  • Due to the growing military and political empowerment of Hamas in Gaza, there is no doubt that it represents a real threat to the survival of Israel.  There is a need to crush the threat of Hamas once and for all. 

Of Things to Come:  Taking Stock After the Gaza Operation
 
 By Lee Kaplan
 
In dealing with US supporters of Israel, it is a fact that unless one talks about the mythical peace of a "two-state-solution" for the Israel-Arab conflict, even pro-Israel Jews will attack, or “shoot the messenger “.
 
After having the last twelve years doing analysis and writing about the Middle East and US foreign policy vis-à-vis Israel as well as anti-Semitism, I have looked into the future  and it’s not bright.
 
We can sing Bashanah Habaah ("Things will improve next year" - a popular Israeli song, ed.) but events are not going to get any better unless Israel changes its way of dealing with the Arabs, the Iranians and the United States.
 
The problem with Iran
 
In 2006, I wrote about all the hoopla going on about the Iranians getting the bomb and talk of Israel and the US attacking Iran to stop this. I said it would never happen and I was right.
 
Today, the threat of a nuclear threat from Iran is guaranteed. The ending of economic sanctions bought hungry businessmen from the EU and US to Iran and that influx of money served to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program will continue.
 
The expulsion of Jews from Gaza in 2005
 
Before the Disengagement from Gaza, I was at a dinner with Ranaan Gissin who was selling a group of American Jews on the then emerging idea. Gissin gave a compelling argument for withdrawing the Israeli population from Gaza.
 
He drew on a chalkboard how it took thousands of Israeli soldiers to protect only a small group of Jews in Gaza. He gave the leftist argument that the Arab’s demographics would mean if Israel didn’t leave Gaza, it would no longer be able to remain a democratic state as Gaza Arabs would be denied the vote.
 
Finally, he told us how if we did withdraw and the Arabs attacked us, the entire world would be on Israel’s side because Israel would have shown enormous efforts to make peace.
 
Despite his arguments, I told him I was against the Disengagement for two reasons:
 
1) Israel today cannot find any excuse for doing to Jews what the Germans did to them in World War II. To forcibly deport 8,000 Jews from their homes and businesses to please anti-Semites was a no starter.
 
And 2) as for world opinion, he was kidding himself if he believed the world would side with Israel if the Jewish state was attacked. The same anti-Semitism would always be there. Ten years and 12,000 rockets later, we all know that.
 
Gaza was a great deal for the Palestinian Arabs. Israel, by international treaty, took on the obligation to supply the civilian Arab population in Gaza with food, electricity and water, and being a law-abiding nation, did so even after being attacked by the Hamas government voted into power by Gazans.
 
The US State Department role in all this
 
The US State Department, the EU and assorted NGO’s then created the ISM to bring internationals to the 'West Bank' and Gaza to stir up the local Arabs against cooperation with Israel and try to mold public opinion onto the side of the Arabs.
 
Few people realize it, but the death of Rachel Corrie was a boon to this goal and had much to do with the recent war in Gaza - as well as previous ones.  (American Rachel Corrie got in the way of a bulldozer during an illegal demonstration, was not seen by the driver, and was killed.  She has since become a poster girl for the ISM - Blogger's note) 
 
Israel chose to allow anarchists from abroad to interfere with the IDF in combat zones and never demanded the US State Department rescind their passports or make them leave. Rachel Corrie’s death opened the Rafah border for the Hamas and ultimately led to ISM publicity stunts - like the Flotillas - that Israel also ignored.
 
Few Israelis realize Corrie died blocking an IDF bulldozer that was destroying the entrance to a tunnel, not protecting an Arab’s home as suggested by the Arab spin. 
 
Given what we see now regarding tunnels in this Gaza war, nobody points out that tunnels were something Corrie and the ISM were acting as human shields to protect.
 
John Kerry's not-so-veiled threats to Israel
 
Not long ago, John Kerry admonished PM Netanyahu that if Israel didn’t play ball with his “peace” plans, the Jewish state could expect “delegitimization on steroids”. 
 
That statement confirmed for me that ISM and its delegitimization, the boycott movement in the US and on campus, the weekly riots against the Security Fence and other forms of de-legitimization were being orchestrated behind the scenes by the US State Department. 
 
American public opinion, especially among Christians, has always been strongly pro-Israel. But the US State Department, back as far as Henry Kissinger in the 1970’s, has always insisted on a Palestinian state. 
 
The American leaders of the ISM were former low level State Department employees working in an Israel that they hated who suddenly found themselves with lots of monetary support to de-legitimize Israel in the minds of the American public.
 
Kerry, new to the job as Secretary of State, was just stating the department’s policy instead of hiding it, attempting to force Israel to conform by openly threatening delegitimization “on steroids” to Israel’s leaders.
 
The Mavi Marmara (ship in the pro-Gaza flotilla) had an ISM agent in the White House advising President Obama even though its voyage, the seventh flotilla, was against maritime law.
 
State Department employees in the US consulate in Tel Aviv would spring to the defense of ISM US citizen activists arrested on the 'West Bank', despite their open avowal of support for terrorist groups.
 
The goal of the State Department, in contrast to Congress, has always been to mold American public opinion to be anti a Jewish state and pro a Palestinian Arab one.
 
The Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions anti-Israel movement (BDS) was and is illegal by US law, but the US Commerce Department looks the other way through every administration, through all the Republican and Democratic administrations since the Carter years.
 
While previous people in Kerry’s job followed the delegitimization policy secretly, Kerry decided he was going to be the first to be successful with it.
 
People have short memories. Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Hillary Clinton, all Kerry’s predecessors, openly used the word “contiguous” to describe a future Palestinian state which is to include Gaza and the 'West Bank'.  (This would mean not only partitioning tiny Israel to make way for a Palestinian State, but Israel would also have to be cut in two so that the Arab state could be continuous.  Blogger's note.)
 
Kissinger in the 70’s said Israel would become very small and did his best to try and force that issue during the Yom Kippur War.
 
Kerry, after putting his feet under the desk, saw the long term policy that was not succeeding and decided he would get the job done “on steroids”, hence his unending support for Hamas and the terrorists who run the Palestinian Authority.
 
Talk of tunnels or elevated trains between the 'West Bank' and Gaza in order to creatre a contiguous Palestinian state is arrant nonsense, one need only look at the Danzig Corridor at the end of World War I to see that no such project was ever viable.
 
Like Ranaan Gissin’s pipe dream of world support if the Arabs attacked Israel after the Disengagement, the idea of any Palestinian state next to Israel is never going to work.
 
Kerry and the State Department hope that through delegitimization of Israel in colleges in America, in the world press and public opinion, enthusiasm for Israel can be drowned out, especially among upcoming generations. This is how the US hopes to make the unworkable work.
 
The fighting in Gaza isn’t really over. Hamas has been beaten, but they won’t surrender. The world is hysterically attacking Israel despite its logical act of self-defense. 
 
Here is a worst-case scenario:
 
The delegitimization hysteria in the colleges, the supermarkets, in the Media and labor unions isn’t just business as usual.
 
The Hamas leadership knows through its intermediaries in Qatar that the US wants Hamas to achieve its goals.
 
Qatar just spent 11 billion dollars in the US for arms, arms that will probably make their way to Gaza. 
 
In essence, the US is helping to fund and arm Hamas through relations with Qatar (it used be Saudi Arabia, but the US is being weaned off Saudi oil and the Saudis are so afraid of Iran they are making overtures to Israel).
 
Hezbollah in the north also has tunnels to Israel and has plans to attack, backed up by 50,000 rockets, invading the Galilee where thousands of Arabs-Israelis live who are expected to assist Hezbollah troops in time of war.
 
The only reason Hezbollah did not attack in this war with Gaza is they are facing ISIS on their flank, encroaching on Lebanon.
 
Eventually, the ISIS might be persuaded to not attack Hezbollah, despite Sunni-Shiite animosity, if it would mean conquering the Jews once and for all. There are some ISIS members fighting in Gaza right now.
 
A spectacular attack would lead an invasion and whatever it is, it’s going to be big. In this next confrontation Israel will be fighting within its own borders against the enemy.
 
Israel may find itself with its back to the wall. If images of Christians being murdered en masse by ISIS are frightening., imagine what they would do to the Jews if they could. Israel might ask the US for help and the US will give it  - at a price.
 
The Sixth Fleet will provide additional air support and marines to fight back Israel’s enemies. But Israel will be told to give up the southern half of the country for a “contiguous” Palestinian state as per State Department plans.
 
Israel will not be able to use a nuclear option and her leaders will comply. Over the next ten or twenty years the smaller Israel will eventually be eaten up by attrition as the surrounding Arabs eat away at the Jewish state. ‘The US may help Israel acquire the Iron Dome for now, but that puts money back into the US economy.
 
Sounds incredible? Any more than that Israel would deport an entire Jewish population from Gaza?
 
In order to prevent this scenario from coming to pass, Israel must do to Gaza what the allies did to Germany in World War II.
 
The Hamas government must be crushed ruthlessly and the population that put them into power must suffer the same as did the Germans who suborned Nazism. If Hamas attacks are renewed, carpet bomb Gaza if needed.
 
If Israel can deport its own people in total, it can arrange for deportations of non-Hamas Arab civilians from Gaza to Sinai temporarily while the Hamas terrorists in Gaza are eliminated without mercy. This must be done soon. Israel will get world condemnation but that is happening now anyway, and it is a question of survival.
 
Not to do so leaves the very real possibility of the above-described scenario, threatening Israel's very survival. The longer Israel waits, the closer it gets to a possibly disastrous outcome. 
 

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