March 31, 2009 09:45 AM EDT
(Updated: March 31, 2009 09:46 AM EDT)
Conflict of terms? Not when the attitudes and methods are identical.
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Was the Gaza blitz a dress rehearsal for an assault on Iran? In this incisive analysis completed before the February elections, James Petras alleges that Israel tested the waters in Gaza drawing the lesson that it can decimate a society, murder and maim thousands of civilians with impunity. Israel is engaged in a military buildup for a new and bigger war against Iran, as part of a regional strategy to secure imperial power. Israel knows it can continue to count on the US Zionist lobby securing White House and US Congressional support; and it now also knows that it can count on the passivity and impotence of Western governments. Organized mass action aimed at increasing the political, economic and military costs for Israeli aggression is, in Petras’ view, the only deterrent to future wars.
Introduction
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories as a prelude to their quest for World Empire. Israel’s drive for regional dominance has followed in their footsteps, imitating their style: Indiscriminate aerial bombings of civilian and military facilities, a savage blitzkrieg led by armored vehicles, disdain and repudiation of all criticism from international agencies was accompanied by an open, military buildup for a new and bigger war against Iran. Like the Nazi leadership, who played on the ‘Bolshevik threat’, the Israeli high command has set in motion a vast world-wide propaganda campaign led by its world Zionist network, raising the specter of ‘Islamic terror’ to justify its preparations for a military assault on seventy-four million Iranians. Just as Nazi Germany interpreted the passivity, sympathy and impotence of the West when confronted by ‘facts on the ground’ as license for aggression, the Israeli military machine receives a powerful impetus for new wars by the Western governments’ inaction and flaccid response to its invasion of Lebanon, the bombing of Syria and now its Nazi-style blitz and conquest of Gaza. For the Israeli high command, the impotence and complicity of the Western states, marks the way to bigger and bloodier wars to establish Israel’s supremacy and dominance of the Middle East, from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf.
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