As I’ve searched for the truth behind the conflict between Israel and Palestine, I’ve found nobody that has a better understanding than Joel Skousen.  I’m going to quote a large section of his January 2, 2009 World Affairs Brief.  While quite long, it’s well worth the read:

GAZA: HOTBED OF TERROR AND HOW IT GOT THAT WAY

In foreign affairs things are never as they seem. In the current Israel-Gaza conflict, it isn’t as simple as “they fired rockets at Israel and Israel is attacking in self-defense.” The larger question is how did those thousands of rockets get into Gaza–an enclave supposedly cut off from all the world by rigorous checkpoints? Yes, some crude short range rockets are built inside Gaza, but all the parts and explosives have to be brought in, as well as the larger, medium range rockets of Russia design, now being manufactured in North Korea, Iran and around the world. All these weapons are imported through a myriad of tunnels that run under the Egyptian-Gaza border. Egypt knows this and looks the other way. Israeli intelligence also has eyes and ears all over Gaza and knows this too, but doesn’t act until it’s too late. Why? To understand what’s really going on inside Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the whole Middle East, you have to understand the secret back room deals that the US and Israel have made with the various Palestinian factions. You have to see who is funding and backing the belligerents, and who has the real power to call the shots. We will never know all that is going on behind the scenes but this week I’ll help you sort out the fact from the fiction.

First, some background: I’ve delayed covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in any detail because it is so convoluted and complex. Now that we have a major flare up going on in Gaza, it’s time to set the record straight–not an easy task. Sorting out all the details would take several books. I only have the space to give my readers an overview.

There are two major opposing points of view on Israel floating around America, neither of which is fully true. Each uses part of the truth to cover for numerous distortions.

The most prominent is the establishment point of view adhered to by all the major US Israeli lobbies, and the most conservative Christian Churches, especially the mega-ministries run by John Hagee and Rick Warren and others–that Israel is fulfilling God’s Biblical mandate as a homeland for the Jews and is only acting in self-defense against Arab attacks–and is therefore worthy of our unconditional support.

The second view holds that the entire creation of Israel was a Zionist plot and that those same Zionist Jews have used ignorant Christian support to help conspiring Jews to gain control over all Western governments, which now threatens the freedom of the entire world. Naturally, the various pro-Israeli and Christian lobbies label this view as conspiratorial, extremist and anti-Semitic.

The first PRO-ISRAEL view errs NOT in its allegiance to the Bible’s prophetic mandate for a homeland for Israel, but in viewing the government of Israel as the legitimate implementation of that divine mandate. It is not. In fact, honest Jewish and Christian supporters of Israel have been deceived about this, just as American conservatives were deceived into believing that George W. Bush was a Christian and conservative. In point of fact, the various governments of Israel since Menachem Begin have only been playing the role of “Israel first.” Begin was the last of the Israeli Prime Ministers actually fighting for Israel’s interests. Each subsequent Israeli government, even though falsely labeled as “right wing” has made many secret agreements with Yasser Arafat and other terrorists and have entered into conspiratorial combinations with various globalists forces in Europe and America to undermine Israel’s security and set her up for an international takeover. The Vatican has also played a role in these behind the scenes plots to further international control, as a means of securing its vested interests to claimed historical property.

The Second ZIONIST view and its errors are more complex to explain. This view rightly makes the case that there is a conspiracy involved in all of this, but it fails to recognize that it is more complex than a simple Jewish conspiracy for power. That claim doesn’t even come close to explaining the historical origins of the Marxist Jews who started this nor the allegiance of those running the current crisis. There are two forms of Zionism, almost diametrically opposed to one another–a) the original Torah based religious fervor, longing for a homeland (proper and non-violent)–and (b) the hijacked Marxist version of Zionism (violent and predatory) that dominated the early Zionist leaders who actually had power in Israel during the 1948 war for independence.

That Marxist version of Zionism was later hijacked by the NWO globalists, so this wasn’t a purely Jewish conspiracy at all, even though there have been many Jews involved at various levels. These Jews did not join nor conspire because of their Jewishness, nor because they cared a whit about Jewish religion (most are atheists and despise orthodoxy Judaism). They are brought into the globalist halls of secret power because they are smart and ruthless hirelings that naturally gravitate to the centers of finance and world power. These have no allegiance whatsoever to any Godly mandate for the land of Israel. One need only observe their constant betrayal of Israel’s religious settlers–the beleaguered minority of honest religious Jews–to see their true colors. I’m not talking about the orthodox religious parties like Shas whose leaders are not honest and that betray the principles of the Torah. These religious leaders have become corrupted by making one deal after another with corrupt coalition governments in exchange for financial support–mostly of their religious schools.

It is my considered opinion that Jews represent only a minority of the very top leaders (which, except for the Rothschilds, are hidden from public view). They do predominate, however, at the second level, because they are such effective handlers of puppet presidents and kings–Henry Kissinger being one of the prime examples.

Israel is being supported unconditionally by the globalists because it is an engine for conflict creation, and because America’s knee-jerk sense of defense for Israel effectively guarantees monetary and military support for Israel no matter how egregious its crimes against civilians. Israel is also a major source of black operations through its Mossad–whether that be targeted assassinations of world leaders, or black arms shipments to controlled terrorists around the world. There is a seamless relationship between our CIA and the Mossad. The Mossad often does the CIA’s dirty work so that if caught the US has “plausible deniability.” Israel is also used as a back channel to funnel sophisticated weapons technology to the West’s future enemies like Russia and China.

That is why, when you see inside the secret deals they have been making with the Arab factions and leaders, there is no intent to ever have peace–only the continuation of secret monetary and military support for the most radical elements of the Moslem Brotherhood. These deals are recipes for conflict and will never lead to peace. In fact, it is the continual lack of peace that drives the useless concessions that Israel keeps making.

The media plays a very special role on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It always gives positive coverage to the peace initiatives of the international community, especially the Camp David variety–lots of show, but filled with secret deals the public is never allowed to see. The media also appears to be acting contrary to Israel by always playing up the amount of civilian damage Israel commits upon innocent Palestinians during their retaliatory attacks in Gaza or the West Bank. This is done in part because the media can’t get access to Palestinian areas unless they play the pro-Palestinian role. But its real purpose is to keep the opposing forces somewhat balanced so that violence in the Middle East rises like a never-ending crescendo. That’s the real reason why the US always gives an equal amount of foreign aid to Israel’s enemies in Egypt as it does to Israel.

International intrigue has always made the conflict worse. For much of their history together, common Israelis and Palestinians have traded amicably with each other and got along fairly well together. But now, due to constant and heavy-handed crackdowns by the Israeli government and their adoption of US style air power attacks, which destroys a lot of property and kills or wounds hundreds of civilians, Arab hostility toward everything Israeli is at a fever pitch. This growing hostility is easily exacerbated by radical Arab propagandists in schools and on television, but the real culprit are the Arab and Israeli leaders who are both fronting for larger conspirators who have anything but peace on their mind.

Historically, the Arabs have been funded, trained and controlled by the Russians–who still have a strong presence in Syria, Egypt, and Iran. But now placing the blame is not so clear cut. The US and British globalist governments play both sides of the street. They fund terrorism and fight terror (half-heartedly) so as to ensure there are plenty of excuses to intervene and control other nations and the Israeli and US populations. Even now, Arabs are still being armed and funded by Russia using its surrogates in Egypt and Syria. That is why Hamas has been able to maintain its arms pipeline through its tunnel system on the Egyptian Gaza border. These are not crawling type tunnels, but tunnels big enough to drive trucks through. Don’t be deceived by the appearance of a crackdown by Egyptian police on Gaza protestors. This is merely a token show of force to make it appear as if Egypt is not complicit in preserving these tunnels.

The US and Israel also tolerate this black market arms traffic–as well as the normal smuggling of food, and household goods that is typical of a restricted border area. The US and Israelis also ship arms and ammunition directly to “police” forces in Gaza and the West Bank during periods of truce–and the public wonders why terror never stops. The Israelis lie to their people about everything. They say they don’t negotiate with terror when they do all the time. They say they never release prisoners for hostages, but they do by the hundreds. They even have betrayed their own soldiers to Arab ambushes or attacks in order to justify larger wars. The Israelis set up Yasser Arafat’s secret bank accounts in Switzerland (through Marc Rich and others). One of the reasons the globalists never do root out terrorism in Gaza is that it leaves the world with a continual expectation that Israel should make some new concession to achieve peace. That’s been the rationale for all the latest releases of prisoners. But, most of these prisoners just go back into the ranks of the Hamas fighters.

The US trains Palestinians in the US in ways that defy reason–unless you understand the globalist conflict creation motives. Security forces from Palestine have been given terrorist training by the CIA (under the false guise of “counter-terror”) at their so-called “farm” in Virginia. But how is teaching Palestinian security forces the nuances of bomb building and detonation a counter-terrorist exercise? It can go both ways, and it always goes toward terror–not counter-terror. This CIA relationship began in earnest during the secret accords of the Oslo agreement back in the 1990s and have continued after every temporary “peace deal” brokered by the Israeli government, with collusion of the US.

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The Political motives: I’ve just covered the larger issues that you won’t get elsewhere. There are, of course, lesser corruption and political conspiracies that operate simultaneously with the globalist agenda. These often get into the press, because they think greed explains everything. Israeli politicians acts as if they hate each other (sometimes true), but in reality, they collaborate on many things that are not good for the country. Only a few at the top fully understand the control system that works on all major parties.

As a review for new subscribers, keep in mind that the Labor party represents the old Left/Marxist elements in Israel. Its support is getting smaller every year since the PTB in Israel have agreed that a phony Right-wing agenda is much more effective at controlling the majority (who are interested in a successful economy and a proper defense). The Likud party represents the establishment “Right-Wing” and is led by Kissinger-protege Benjamin Netanyahu. It long ago abandoned the true Right and the patriotic settlers that originally supported it and, like the American Republican Party, is now merely a front for the globalists. But, it always keeps playing to the far right so as to corrupt its Right-wing constituents into unwise compromises and to position itself to accept the inevitable electoral backlash that comes when the current center-Right (actually Left) government gets into trouble. TheKadima party is a breakaway party from Likud that formed when Likud’s globalist/leftist leader Arial Sharon could no longer keep up his front as a Right-wing leader. He refused to form a coalition government with small parties further to the Right. Even though these religious parties can usually be bought by benefits for their religious schools and churches, they had tired of Sharon’s constant betrayals. Ehud Olmert, Sharon’s successor in Kadima (after Sharon’s incapacitating stroke), lost popular support after the disastrous failure of the Lebanon war with Hezbullah and because of his involvement in numerous corruption scandals. All the top leaders are corrupt. Only some get caught.

The current PM is a woman, Tzipi Livni, is very ambitious and unprincipled. She is locked into a political struggle in the upcoming elections with Defense Minister Ehud Barak (the former Leftist PM from Labor Party). Barak’s political popularity had been very low due to the appeasement defense policies of Olmert, of which he shared the blame. Suddenly, his stock is rising with his hard line response to Hamas in the Gaza attacks–but all that will turn to dust when another secret deal is made with Hamas to again protect the terrorists for another fight later on. Thus, at least part of what is going on in Gaza is to refurbish Barack’s and Livni’s image.

Haaretz correspondent Yossi Verter filed this report: “Two months after Ehud Olmert was elected as Israel’s prime minister, the Second Lebanon War broke out. Two months before Olmert departs, the military campaign in the south breaks out. But Olmert isn’t the story here; he’s on his way to the Prime Minister’s Bureau pensioners’ ward. Ehud Barak is the story here. The man who, until yesterday, had to remind the Israeli voter of his existence with self-ridicule on billboards and satirical shows is returning to the political ring with force. In the coming days, weeks maybe, Barak will stand in the center of the public’s attention. For better or worse, he’s in his element. The beginning of the raid in Gaza bears the wily and deceptive fingerprint of Barak, the Israel Defense Forces most highly decorated combat soldier [based upon fraud--his military cowardice was covered up to make way for his political career]. This does not make him the most suitable candidate for the premiership, but it may deliver him and his party from the humiliating defeat the polls are predicting.

“If, by the end of the operation, the general sentiment will be that Israel has once again failed to meet its goals, if rockets continue to land and Gilad Shalit remain captive, the public will turn their anger at Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and power will drop like a ripe fruit into Benjamin Netanyahu’s lap [That is why this globalist has positioned himself to the Right, and why the US is pressuring the IDF to cease the operation before a successful conclusion].”

THE PEACE PROCESS IS DEAD

IPS wrote that “Formally, the Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace process’ appears set to continue, in line with the last UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution. But the chances of finding a resolution are virtually nil in light of Israel’s new campaign against the Gaza Strip. ‘Even before Israel’s latest bombardment of Gaza, the so-called peace process was dead,’ Magdi Hussein, secretary-general of Egypt’s Islamist-leaning Labor Party (officially frozen since 2000)… On Saturday (Dec. 27), Israel began a series of punishing air strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Palestinian resistance faction Hamas. According to Israeli officials, the campaign comes in retaliation for rockets fired at Israel by Palestinian resistance factions… The current round of negotiations began in November 2007 with a peace summit in Annapolis in Maryland… The Annapolis summit was followed by a series of negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The PA rules the West Bank. Up until this point, however, Abbas’s frequent talks with his Israeli counterpart have failed to bring any gains to the Palestinian side, with Israel continuing to reject key Palestinian demands… include an Israeli withdrawal to pre-1967 borders [which cuts off most of Israel's water supplies and makes Israel such a tiny nation that it is highly vulnerable to military attack], the return of Palestinian refugees to what is now Israel [which would overwhelm the Jews in every election], and the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital [allowing the Arabs to have unfettered access to build and rearm for another attack on Israel].” Israel’s sellout leaders would gladly agree to these except they cannot get away with it and still stay in power. The numerous right wing minority parties would rebel and bring down the government coalition.

“Abbas’s negotiations with Olmert have also failed to significantly reduce the number of Israeli military roadblocks riddling the Palestinian West Bank, or stop the continuous construction of Jewish-only ’settlements’ on occupied Arab land.” The report fails to acknowledge that the land was captured after the Arabs attacked and lost the last 5 wars, so this is hardly a clear cut question of Arab land. Second, the Israeli government has dismantled by force hundreds of Jewish religious settlements, but they do not do so to placate the Arabs. They do this because these are the most anti-government Jewish settlers–true Zionists and not globalists.

As Helene Cobban (Leftist) wrote, “The US’s actual power in the region is noticeably reduced from what it was in 2006. Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, and Tzipi Livni have launched the whole of the Middle East on a wild ride. Neither they nor their backers in Washington will be able to shape this outcome. The best we can hope for now is some kind of forceful political intervention from other, more neutral powers.”

As if on cue, French newspapers announced, “Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Israel is working toward a peace treaty while it is attacking targets of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Earlier this week, Israel rejected a 48-hour truce proposed by France. Meanwhile, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said the European Union must take the initiative to seek a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, noting the United States cannot be counted on at this time. He made his remarks as the Czech Republic took over the EU’s rotating presidency today. Mr. Topolanek said he is organizing a diplomatic mission to the Middle East that will look for a solution to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The Czech news agency said the mission will include EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, the bloc’s external relations commissioner.” Solana is a long-term Marxist and will follow the EU path of pushing for more aid and power for the Palestinian state.

Now this blog is devoted to helping people prevent themselves from becoming enslaved, zombie-like individuals.  So why do I write such a long post about Israel and Palestine?  As mentioned in Deflation, Zombies and You, I said:

I believe that the most important things you can do is to find the truth.  Increase your knowledge about the current events in the world.

So hopefully this post has helped you in your efforts.

I’d also like to mention that I really think Joel Skousen is a great writer and one of the best, if not the best mind that I’ve come across when it comes to political philosophy.  Check out his sites, www.joelskousen.com and www.worldaffairsbrief.com.  In my opinion, he is a true patriot which is the highest compliment I can give.