The continuing escalation of the never-ending Israeli war against the entire non-Jewish population of mandated Palestine has become the model for the Bush administration's never-ending war against all those who stand in the way of U.S. economic and military hegemony around the world.

Alternative Press Review Editorial

War - The Final Solution

The continuing escalation of the never-ending Israeli war against the entire
non-Jewish population of mandated Palestine has become the model for the
Bush administration's never-ending war against all those who stand in the
way of U.S. economic and military hegemony around the world.

With the passive support of the majority of its non-Arab
citizens, the
Israeli state continues to tag along behind the simple logic of its
incredibly deadly military forces. Given its bloated military capability to
carry out increasingly vicious campaigns of mass harassment, impoverishment,
imprisonment, torture and murder of the Palestinian population, there is
little motivation for Israelis to even consider other approaches to the
Palestinian resistance. Especially considering the protection provided by
its partner in repression, the United States, from the threat of enforcement
of any U.N. resolutions.

Moron that he is, George Bush (with the continuing coaching of
his handlers) still remains highly aware that the "success" of the Israeli
military escalations depends upon a combination of its overwhelming
superiority in weapons (including "weapons of mass destruction"), its
ability to circumvent any threats of international intervention, and its
massive international propaganda campaigns. The Bush administration has made
these three planks the center of its own terrorist war on (non-US-backed
forms of) "Terrorism." With its "Death Star" military programs, its
neutering of the U.N., and its increasingly well-orchestrated
Hollywood-PR-intelligence/psywar-military complex, the U.S. state can afford
to sink its own economy, while intensifying the exploitation of
international resources, and sowing mass social destruction around the
world-all in the pursuit of short-term oil and armament industry profits,
even shorter-term Republican Party political gains, and a likely chimerical
longer-term plan of Russian and Chinese encirclement and neutralization. As
long as the Israelis-with massive U.S. help-continue to get away with
murder, the U.S. won't be far behind.

It doesn't matter much that even arch-ally Britain's ambassador
to Israel recently angered Israelis by describing the Palestinian
territories as "the largest detention camp in the world" (according to Alan
Philips in the October15 th Telegraph in England). It doesn't matter that
Israel is only able to pursue its never-ending war against an entire
population through the generous funding of the U.S. government-at a current
total rate of as much as $5. 5billion per year according to a recent
Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs report ($5,525,800, 000for1997 ). It doesn't matter that this
never-ending war requires the creation of an ever-widening list of civilian
targets for assassination ("targeted killings" of civilian "suspects" in
U.S./Israeli propaganda-speak.)

It doesn't seem to matter that these never-ending wars require
the day-by-day, increasing Nazification of both the Israeli and the U.S.
states. The semi-racist, semi-religious, apartheid state of Israel has been
compared with Nazi Germany for years for a variety of reasons confirmed over
and over in its brutally devastating invasions, annexations, expulsions and
occupations over the last half century. The U.S. state has also earned its
own comparisons to the Nazis-from the invasion, defoliation and genocidal
bombings in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to its seemingly insuppressible
penchant for terrorizing and invading tiny countries, including the repeated
organization and funding of proxy death squads to torture, assassinate and
"disappear" its opponents, including teachers, union organizers, students
and health-care workers.

This increasing Nazification can be seen in the prospective
US-planned massacre in Iraq ("war" is a gross misnomer) which promises to
reach new levels of carnage, depravity and brutality with a proposed "Shock
and Awe" strategy. It calls for the launching of 3000 precision-guided bombs
and missiles during the first 48 hours of attack to produce a
Hiroshima-style effect on the Iraqi civilian population. According to
military strategist Harlan Ullman: "There will not be a safe place in
Baghdad. The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been
contemplated before."

The population of Iraq is still enduring the effects of the1991
Gulf massacre where water treatment facilities and sewage plants were
deliberately destroyed in order to create "favorable conditions for disease
outbreaks, particularly in major urban areas" (according to a 1991 US
Defense Intelligence Agency document). This was followed by a deliberate US
policy of blocking humanitarian supplies to deny necessary repairs,
medicines and medical equipment resulting in 1 to1 . 5million deaths, many
of them children-a US-enforced embargo declared "genocidal" by Denis
Halliday, former Deputy Under Secretary of the UN.

This increasing Nazification can also be seen in the methods
used by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the
Israeli military adopting the tactics used by the Nazis against the Warsaw
ghettos. This intensified campaign of torture, illegal detentions,
deportations, assassinations, house demolitions, economic strangulation, and
mass starvation-carried out with the unconditional support of the US-is
creating a major health crisis and a silent famine as severe hunger grips
ever larger portions of the Palestinian population in the Israeli-imposed
"detention camps" of the West Bank and Gaza.

When wars are fought against vastly outgunned enemies, when
civilian populations are their primary target, and when no peace is
considered possible short of total annihilation of the enemy, the level of
barbarism which must eventually take shape increasingly resembles those
carried out by Nazi Germany against its enemies in the1930 s and1940 s. Both
the US and Israel have committed and continue to engage in terrorist
atrocities and war crimes of immense proportions. And the vast majority of
the corporate media is complicit in this effort serving as willing
propagandists and enthusiastic cheerleaders for the war criminals in the
United States and Israel.

This editorial will appear in the forthcoming issue of Alternative Press Review (Volume 8, Number 1) due out
in April 2003 .