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Monday February 4, 2008
Buying Israeli lemonade
Could the news reports about the suicide bombers at Dimona be any more
confusing? Could the fallout be any more advantageous for Israel?
A Reuters
headline says: Hamas armed wing says carried out Israel
bombing, but the article says: the two Palestinians ... came
from the West Bank city of Hebron, rather than from the
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip
The
Telegraph
passes off conjecture as fact when saying that the suiciders went into
Israel via Egypt, goes on to insert a little something about "Al
Qaeda", and then says: A Hamas spokesman praised the attacks, while
denying any involvement.
The
New York Times says: Militant groups in Gaza made the names
of the attackers public later on Monday, saying they had come from Gaza
but then blames the attacks on Fatah and the PLO - not Hamas!
The
TimesOnline says the Fatah armed groups said the attackers
came out of Gaza.
The
Associated Press says both bombers blew themselves up, but
reveals it's only speculation that the bombers went into Israel via
Egypt.
Prospects
for a border deal dimmed further Monday amid an investigation into
whether two young men from Gaza used the border breach to sneak into
Egypt and from there to Israel, where they blew themselves up in a
shopping center in the southern town of Dimona.
The attack,
which
killed an Israeli woman and wounded nine people, followed warnings
Sunday by the head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency that militants
were using the breach to slip out of Gaza and carry out attacks. The
bombing further embarrassed Egypt and heightened pressure to keep the
border closed.
No sooner does
Shin Bet
predict, than the proof conveniently arrives! And Egypt is
sufficiently non-plussed that it hesitates to allow further traffic
across the border, thereby becoming effective jailers for Israel.
The
Jerusalem Post blames all the misreporting on Al Aqsa. It
goes on to say something rather revealing:
"We
are waging a war on terror.
It is continuing without bounds and we will get to everyone involved in
terror activity," said Olmert during a Kadima faction meeting.
Meanwhile,
Defense
Minister Ehud Barak said that the attack justified his decision to
remain in the coalition. "If someone among us needed a greater
understanding regarding the complexity of the situation we're in,
unfortunately, he could have found it today in Dimona"
Israeli
officialdom's
talent for making lemonade when handed lemons is amazing. Olmert
was
able to use this tragedy to get in a good word for the "war on terror"
and justify the daily slaughter and terrorizing of Palestinians, while
Barak took advantage of the moment to reinforce the "complexity of the
situation", a concept that has excused Israeli foot dragging on the
peace issue and enabled 40 years of building more and more settlements
in Palestinian territory.
Me, I can't help wondering if the two Palestinians had something like Down
syndrome
and were lured into action by "special forces" to prove a point.
It
was interesting that a member of an "elite unit" "happened to be at the
scene" to become a hero and shoot the second bomber - five
times in the head.
What, you think that's impossible? What do you think makes the
"special forces" so special? They are trained in Psychological
Operations, for one thing.
A
Psychological Operations Specialist is an information and media
specialist who can assess the information needs of a target population
and develop and deliver the right message at the right time and place
to create the intended result.
Right now Israel
has a
severe PR problem, and would have no trouble at all coercing a couple
of weak minded Palestinian prisoners into acting as collaborators.
Of course
it's possible this
was a bona fide suicide project, but the confusion surrounding it and
the auspicious timing for Israel reduce the aggregate of these reports
to gibberish dressed up to look like news - and that is a hallmark of
Psyops.
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