legal obligation to ensure that Israel maintains its military
dominance over the Middle East.
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know the enemy
they don't get this power by being good Americans
On Oct 10, 8:15 am, excalliber stevens
<excalibur.stevens.bis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Panetta To Netanyahu:" Israel May Not Survive
> The Current Arab/Islamic Awakening"
> By Franklin Lamb
> 09 October, 2011
> Countercurrents.org
> Beirut: Three weeks after being named by President Obama in January
> 2009 as the 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
> during his first day on the job which was February 12, 2009, Leon
> Panetta, now US Secretary of Defense, signed off on a March 2009 "eyes
> only" CIA Report that had just been completed by his new agency.
> As reported at the time, the CIA Report predicted the demise of Israel
> within 20 years, if present political trends in the region continued.
> The CIA intelligence analysts concluded that it was unlikely that
> Israeli leaders would grant even minimal concessions in order to
> achieve a settlement with their neighbors, which comprise increasingly
> disillusioned and rapidly growing dignity and justice seeking
> populations.
> The CIA Report noted that Israeli officials felt emboldened in taking
> Palestinian land by the myriad support Israel was receiving from the
> leadership of Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and three
> other Arab leaders.
> Israel and its two most powerful US lobbies, the US Congress and
> AIPAC, quickly squelched the 2009 Report and only seven copies were
> eventually acknowledged, one by AIPAC and the others by staffers of
> select supporters of Israel on key Congressional Committees.
> During last week's meetings with Israeli officials, both sides knew
> that the 2009 CIA study was front and center even without Panetta
> being the first one to refer to it.
> President Obama sent Panetta to engage in frank discussions which
> included the White House displeasure at Netanyahu's repeated
> humiliation of the President over the past 18 months and Israeli
> threats to cut off Jewish aid to Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
> Panetta did deliver public statements which allowed Netanyahu to put
> the best hasbara face on the meetings and he thanked the US Secretary
> of Defense for "helping to improve US-Israeli relations."
> Panetta repeated at a news conference with his Israeli counterpart,
> Defense Minister Ehud Barak some pointed generalizations. "At this
> dramatic time in the Middle East, when there have been so many
> changes, it's not a good situation for Israel to become increasingly
> isolated. And that is what's happening," he said.
> "There's not much question in my mind that they maintain that
> (military) edge. But the question you have to ask he added is: was it
> enough to maintain a military edge, if you're isolating yourself in
> the diplomatic arena? At this dramatic time in the Middle East, when
> there have been so many changes, it's not a good situation for Israel
> to become increasingly isolated. And that is what's happening," he
> said.
> In private, according to Washington sources, the atmosphere was quite
> different. Panetta reportedly made plain that given recent changes
> among Middle East countries, meaning the Arab Spring and Islamic
> Awakening, Israel was quickly running out of time. Its only choice was
> to make peace with the Palestinians and her neighbors or perish.
> During frank and sometimes heated exchanges, Panetta told the Israelis
> that time is running out for a two state solution, which means time is
> running out for Zionist Israel and that similar to apartheid South
> Africa, following the Reagan years, the days of American propping up
> of Israel are coming to a close.
> Seemingly dwelling on the subject of the US being unable to continue
> funding Israel in real terms with more than $6 billion every year and
> being able to continue to guarantee Israel's Qualitative Military Edge
> (QME), Panetta told the Israelis that it was out of the question given
> American domestic problems and the US process of substantial, if
> partial, disengagement from the region.
> At issue with the American inability and increasing unwillingness to
> prop up Israel's QME is the innocuous sounding 2008 Naval Vessel
> Transfer Act shepherded through the Congress a month before the 2008
> US Presidential election by one of Israel's unwavering lobbyists, Rep.
> Howard Berman.
> In its essence, this law shackles every American president with a
> legal obligation to ensure that Israel maintains its military
> dominance over the Middle East.
> It is designed to assure that Israel's regional hegemony is legally
> mandated via Israel's"Qualitative Military +*Edge" (QME). The US
> Government must guarantee that "the sale or export of the defense
> articles or defense services will not adversely affect Israel's
> qualitative military edge over any military threats to Israel."
> The term 'qualitative military edge' means the ability to counter and
> defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual
> state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while
> sustaining minimal damages and casualties, through the use of superior
> military means, possessed in sufficient quantity, including weapons,
> command, control, communication, intelligence, surveillance, and
> reconnaissance capabilities that in their technical characteristics
> are superior in capability to those of such other individual or
> possible coalition of states or non-state actors.
> Panetta reportedly reminded Ehud Barak, during heated discussions
> between the two defense ministers of the statement of an Egyptian
> general back 1973 as reported by then President Nixon.According to
> Nixon, an Israeli official asked an Egyptian general convalescing in
> hospital, "We have defeated you Arabs three times (1948, 1967 & 1973)
> why to you continue to resist us?" The Egyptian replied, "You may have
> defeated us three times, and you may defeat us 11 times. But the 12th
> time we will win and Palestine will be liberated."
> The unavoidable signs seen by Panetta, as by his predecessor, Defense
> Secretary Robert Gates, include nearly one dozen uprisings in the
> region that share the goal, among others, of returning Palestine to
> its rightful inhabitants.
> The Egyptian people are reclaiming Egypt's proud Arab position and
> helping lead the cause to liberate Palestine as evidenced by their
> intentions to expel the Israeli Embassy, scrap Camp David, abrogate
> the capitulation agreements, including Egypt's natural gas giveaway to
> Israel subsidized by the Egyptian people, and made by the Mubarak
> family doing business with Israeli officials. Panetta, and an
> increasingly number of American officials as well as the American
> public knows that the genie has been released and that Arabs, Muslims,
> and all people of good will continue to inexorably confront the
> remaining 19th Century colonial enterprise which is the artificial and
> illegitimate Zionist implantation on Palestinian land.
> Franklin Lamb is doing research in Libya. He is reachable c\o
> fpl...@gmail.com. He is the author of The Price We Pay: A Quarter-
> Century of Israel's Use of American Weapons Against Civilians in
> Lebanon.
>
> http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb091011.htmwww.realindianews.blogspot.com
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