I hope that Israel and the Palestinians will rapidly deescalate the military struggle against each other and establish the practical peace that will serve the short and long term interests of all parties.
If AQ is able to establish a front in Palestine or Israel this opportunity may be lost. The time for peace and prosperity is now and yes, the main burden is on Israel but the Palestinians must also seek to act before the political equation is changed.
Of course Palestine has long been the least religiously extreme part of the Arab world. Israel's efforts to social engineer the demographics of the Palestinian people has already led to one failure after another.
It is time for Israel, in particular, to reign in its extremists and make peace within its own constituencies so it can come to peace with the Palestinians. An endless game of warfare and war crimes will serve neither side nor the cause of world peace. Otherwise there is one state and can be only one state Israel/Palestine, with one people, the Palestinians confined to bantustan-like nations and subjugated by an Israeli military dictatorship supplemented with widespread Klan-like setter instigated terrorism.
The greatest pillar of peace for Israel is peace with Palestine and Palestinians. That can be accomplished if only Israel can make peace with itself and choose the humanistic side of its heritage even if the struggle is difficult and increasingly urgent for all parties and the peoples of the world.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
IS BIN LADEN DECEASED?
I guess a lot of folks believe that the infamous Osama Bin Laden is dead. If this is true it would explain why there have been no communiques from him and the more recent ones seem sort of fake. Could an effort be made by AQ or its opponents to fake OBL communiques on video or otherwise?
Of course the whole construct of AQ is sort of loose and we always hear about how this or that organization is "connected" to Al Qaeda, whatever the word "connected" means.
Of course the whole construct of AQ is sort of loose and we always hear about how this or that organization is "connected" to Al Qaeda, whatever the word "connected" means.
Monday, September 1, 2008
The Surge Was Directed At Sadr and Shia Militias Not AQ
Yeah, we can count on AQ being a Sunni thing. AQ in Iraq and its variants may be everyone elses target but the surge was against the al Sadr militias primarily and I guess they sort of melted away after a while.
Of course Senator McCain suggested that Iran which is run by a Shia theocracy is adding and abetting Al Qaeda. I guess the well informed and reality based Senator from the West Bank settlements, Joe Lieberman was with him at the time and tried to direct him not to say such incredibly stupid and incompetent things! Yes, these two variants of revolutionary Islam are enemies, not allies. I wonder if John McCain knows that even today?
So lets not confuse the Iraqi AQ and its variants with the Iranian revolution, please! Por favore.
Of course Senator McCain suggested that Iran which is run by a Shia theocracy is adding and abetting Al Qaeda. I guess the well informed and reality based Senator from the West Bank settlements, Joe Lieberman was with him at the time and tried to direct him not to say such incredibly stupid and incompetent things! Yes, these two variants of revolutionary Islam are enemies, not allies. I wonder if John McCain knows that even today?
So lets not confuse the Iraqi AQ and its variants with the Iranian revolution, please! Por favore.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Surge not so great as AQ redeploys to many foreign lands
I just have to say it. Al Qaeda seems to have redeployed the Iraqi recruits to many foreign lands. I believe these must include Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and I don't know where else.
Follow the suicide bombings and we will know where they have gone. It is as simple as that.
So if Iraq was supposed to be some sort of way to contain AQ it has done just the opposite. Iraq has become a laboratory in how to defeat the technology of the one and only superpower. Now this relatively simple but immensely destructive knowledge has been spread to other nations and regions. Iraq has become a mother of AQ cadre that are now being redeployed to other fronts where the United States poses little or no threat.
It seems that suicide bombings are back in Iraq and it will be interesting to see if they intensify or not. You have to wonder if AQ will largely give upon Iraq but maybe they have an unlimited bucket of martyrs. I just don't see how they can accomplish anything there. It is a largely Shia nation and then there are lots of Kurds too.
Elsewhere you read about waves of suicide bombers in Afghanistan as they seek to develop the suicide bomber technique so they can penetrate hardened positions such as American fortresses.
In Pakistan it is interesting to read that hundreds of little Pakistani forts have been overrun in the tribal areas! This is the so called Pakistani Taleban which like the Taleban of Afghanistan is AQ or its equivalent.
AQ may or may not want to attack the U.S. proper. After all, they achieved their apparent goal of luring the one and only superpower into the quagmire of Afghanistan. The Bush focus on Iraq, instead, was something of a boon to AQ which now has had nearly a decade to build up its presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as mounting an impressive nose bloodying operation against the Iraqi occupation.
Follow the suicide bombings and we will know where they have gone. It is as simple as that.
So if Iraq was supposed to be some sort of way to contain AQ it has done just the opposite. Iraq has become a laboratory in how to defeat the technology of the one and only superpower. Now this relatively simple but immensely destructive knowledge has been spread to other nations and regions. Iraq has become a mother of AQ cadre that are now being redeployed to other fronts where the United States poses little or no threat.
It seems that suicide bombings are back in Iraq and it will be interesting to see if they intensify or not. You have to wonder if AQ will largely give upon Iraq but maybe they have an unlimited bucket of martyrs. I just don't see how they can accomplish anything there. It is a largely Shia nation and then there are lots of Kurds too.
Elsewhere you read about waves of suicide bombers in Afghanistan as they seek to develop the suicide bomber technique so they can penetrate hardened positions such as American fortresses.
In Pakistan it is interesting to read that hundreds of little Pakistani forts have been overrun in the tribal areas! This is the so called Pakistani Taleban which like the Taleban of Afghanistan is AQ or its equivalent.
AQ may or may not want to attack the U.S. proper. After all, they achieved their apparent goal of luring the one and only superpower into the quagmire of Afghanistan. The Bush focus on Iraq, instead, was something of a boon to AQ which now has had nearly a decade to build up its presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as mounting an impressive nose bloodying operation against the Iraqi occupation.
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