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Britain’s Mideast Cockpit: Netanyahu Launches a New Gaza War
16 November 2012
The British are launching new wars in Southwest Asia. First HM asset Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has started a new war against Gaza, while in Jordan, Britain’s Saudi and Muslim Brotherhood assets are moving to overthrow King Abdullah II for his refusal to allow Jordan to be used as a base for war against Syria. Netanyahu ordered the assassination of Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas’s Al Qassam Brigade, its military wing, as the opening attack of what Israel calls "Operation Cloud Pillar." Jabari was the highest official killed in four years, and his murder drew the programmed response from Gaza, of massive rocket and mortar fire into Israel. Three Israelis were killed by one of the missiles, which gave Israel the pretext to escalate further, in what it has already said would be a "widespread campaign." It is telling the population to prepare for a "protracted" conflict. Schools have been closed in the area, and people have been told to stay in bomb shelters. The Israeli Air Force has hit over 200 targets. Palestinian casualties could number in the dozens now. On the Gaza side, it should be noted, even the Israeli press was saying the rocket fire from Gaza over the last weeks was the work of jihadis, Salafists, and al-Qaeda-linked groups, which Israeli news service Ynet recently said wanted to draw Israel into a conflict with Egypt, which borders Gaza. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi ordered the recall of his Ambassador to Israel Yasser Ridha and also summoned the Israeli Ambassador in Cairo, to hand him an official protest. Morsi is demanding that the UN Security Council convene an emergency meeting and has called for an emergency meeting of the Arab League, as well. An emergency session of the UNSC did meet today, but ended after 90 minutes with no resolution. According to Ynet, Susan Rice defended Israel and denounced Hamas for its "vicious" attacks, saying there was no justification for "Hamas and other terrorist organizations" to attack Israel. A US intelligence source said today that Netanyahu’s motive for the new Gaza attacks was to thwart the Palestianian Authority’s bid for semi-recognitions as a state at the United Nations, by trying to portray Palestinians as terrorists. It should also be noted that the attack occurs before Israeli elections, and that most of the opposition has already lined up behind Netanyahu as a programmed response to war. At the same time, in Jordan on Nov. 13-14, there have been riots and demonstrations in protest of the government’s cutting subsidies on fuel, and on heating and cooking oil, which has raised cooking- and heating-gas prices by 54% overnight. Why the increase? Because Saudi Arabia cut the $2 billion annual grant it gives Jordan, as punishment for Jordan’s refusing to allow its territory to be the launch pad for a major attack on Syria. Jordan had to turn to the IMF for a loan, which, typically, the Fund would not grant unless subsidies were cut. The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, the most well-organized political force in the country, is organizing widespread demonstrations, some of which have turned violent, with gunmen reportedly among demonstrators in some parts of the country. |