[Peace-discuss] Analysis by Phyllis Bennis

[Morton K. Brussel]

…The destruction of Iraq, the U.S.-led international sanctions and  
embargo against Palestine in the context of an escalating Israeli  
military assault in Gaza, and Israel's current war of annihilation  
against Lebanon, all are part of a linked U.S.-Israeli strategy to  
eliminate all resistance to their regional domination and control.  
The Bush administration is not supporting Israel because its resident  
neo-cons are more loyal to Israel than to the United States, but  
because their vision of a strategically unchallenged U.S. drive  
towards global empire, in which no nation or group of nations  
anywhere in the world even imagines it could match or surpass U.S.  
economic or military might, requires a militarized, expansionist  
Israel to play that same role on a regional level in the Middle East.



The full article is at: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm? 
SectionID=22&ItemID=10740

And we must be skeptical at the most recent terror alarm; no details  
of consequence are disclosed, and we can be suspicious of the timing.  
Time will tell, maybe

--mkb


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