Neocons desperate to orchestrate Armageddon

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Lead Editorial

31 July 2024
Vol. 26 No. 31

Unless Australia breaks from its “dangerous allies”, as the late former PM Malcolm Fraser called the USA and UK, and adopts a truly independent foreign policy, we are in danger of contributing to the spiralling escalation in world events that is leading to literal Armageddon.

This week, the danger of an expanded regional war in the Middle East has increased exponentially, following Israel’s accusation that Hezbollah bombed a Druze town in the Golan Heights, and Israel’s “retaliation” overnight by bombing Beirut.

The biggest danger of an expanded regional war is the risk that it draws in the world’s superpowers, which is one the very real scenarios currently for triggering a thermonuclear showdown.

With an independent foreign policy we could independently assess these developments, and even the veracity of the claims, and take a position that might help to bring international diplomatic pressure that calms the situation.

Without an independent foreign policy, however, Australia will fall into step with the US line that uncritically accepts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s accusation against Hezbollah, which is his pretext for escalating the conflict.

This is a terrible mistake, which will have disastrous consequences, because the overwhelming evidence points to the supposed Hezbollah attack being used by an Israeli government run by madmen and operating in league with Anglo-American neoconservatives as a false flag to trigger a wider war.

Netanyahu has been a central figure in the US neocon faction going back to the 1990s, when he worked against Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians (for which Rabin was assassinated by extremists associated with members of Netanyahu’s cabinet today) and lobbied for America to attack countries like Iraq and Iran.

Today, he serves as PM with corruption charges hanging over his head for which he will likely be jailed if he loses government, so he is doing his best to obstruct any effort to end the war in Gaza, such as negotiating the release of the remaining hostages, and to expand the conflict into a direct war with Iran, in which the USA will be forced to back him up.

To that end, Netanyahu flew to Washington to address the Congress, just days before seizing on a missile strike on the Druze village of Majdal Shams that killed 12 children playing soccer, to accuse the Lebanon-based Hezbollah of targeting Israeli civilians.

Except this is extremely unlikely: As former MI6 officer Alistair Crooke emphasised on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s YouTube show Judging Freedom, “Majdal Shams is in occupied Golan, it is in fact Syrian territory, and nearly all those Druze were Syrian citizens. They have Israeli residence, but they are Syrian citizens, and most of them support the resistance.”

It is far more likely the deadly strike was a result of Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defence system misfiring, but Netanyahu has seized on this incident as the pretext he was seeking to escalate the war.

Crooke said the purpose of Netanyahu’s visit to America was to get a “green light” for an Israeli attack on Hezbollah/Lebanon from the US “Deep State”, which he described as “the load-bearing foundational structure which no one [i.e. no President] will be allowed to touch…. These structures exist and have existed for some time.

“One of them is the military edge for Israel”, he continued, “that cannot be touched. And above that is a superstructure of policies towards the region, to Egypt, the Saudis, etc., all based on Israel’s qualitative edge ... and dollar dominance. All of these cannot be touched. As the Bush Doctrine, that’s still the current doctrine … that we will not allow … any competitor to American hegemony to emerge. And we [the Anglo-Americans] will stop that happening by pre-emptive action. So these are the load-bearing structures of all of this policy. And you don’t touch that.”

The situation has never been more dangerous. Australia must take an independent stand for peace.

In this issue:

• New Zealand should learn from Australia: Don’t privatise Kiwibank!
• Sack ASIC Chairman Joe Longo!
• Bank victim’s letter to AFR re ASIC
• From Wall Street to Shanghai: The shifting nexus of global finance
• Brits lead takeover of US Treasury Debt
• Staying the course: China’s Third Plenum
• China and Russia target exclusive blocs at ASEAN summit
• Restoring America’s mission
• The Russians are (not) coming: why ASIO and AFP’s ‘spy’ hysteria doesn’t stack up
• The Democratic Party’s undemocratic candidate switch
• We should not invite a war criminal to address Congress
• Cash: an all-weather, ever-ready alternative!
• UK banks forced to protect customers from scammers! What about Australia?
• ALMANAC: Rampant financial abuse a product of hands-off approach to banking
• Banks facilitating financial abusers

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