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FTAC – “Gaza Fortress” and Suzerainty

10 Friday Feb 2017

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Anti-Semitism, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, Gaza Suzerain, Islamic Small Wars, Politics

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“Gaza Fortress” has been pretty much defeated as regards its ability to obtain rockets, if not build them, and its ability to overwhelm the IDF in some kind air and tunnel blitzkrieg. In addition to the plain physical facts of the fighting life, Hamas has made its role as a kleptocratic politically repressive organization glaringly obvious to the people of Gaza, who may not be able to do very much about it but perhaps burn with growing resentment.

Hezbollah, the advanced army of the Ayatollah, on the hand . . . .

http://www.thetower.org/3505oc-report-hezbollah-has-more-rockets-than-27-nato-countries-combined/

At the moment, Russia has been supplying S300/400 surface-to-air missile systems to Hezbollah in Syria, but with nothing said about their being smuggled back into Lebanon.

I would imagine — having only imagination for data, lol — that such a large stockpiling may be destroyed at the outset of war with Israel.


After having been isolated by the Arab Powers over time, I don’t think anyone can deny the existence of a separate “Palestinian People” — but we sure can deny the cooked up KGB narrative that engineered Yasser Arafat and the PLO and produced a system of clans and leadership profiting from the continuous enforcement of the misery of the same.

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/10/03/palestinian-kgb/

Everyone wants “peace in the middle east” as if Israel were the problem, but few to none in my experience care to revisit what the Soviet Union put together for the refugees of 1948 and how it has continued to this day to meet with Hamas, Hezbollah, and PFLP and to in effect sustain the conflict in its anti-western, anti- rule-of-law, and now displaced anti-Semitic enthusiasm.

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2015/10/12/ftac-tip-to-the-kgbs-amplification-of-middle-eastern-anti-semitism/

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As an aside: I advocate for joint Israeli-Egyptian suzerainty for Gaza (let’s let Gaza Youth Breaks Out (GYBO) know). Such an arrangement would provide for democratic home rule but joint foreign oversight over the external affairs of the suzerainty.

Elsewhere in the world, as with Balochistan as mastered by Pakistan, the arrangement exploits the suzerain for its resources, but I think that Gaza and Israel have developed more than enough day-to-day arrangements in basic services and shipping/trade that little would change while the exploiting of the Palestinians by Hamas would be reduced.

Back to rant: please tell me why Moscow has been kept offstage in discussions of the plight of the Palestinians?

 


Relevant to the politics of the Soviet / post-Soviet space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Peace_Council
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_and_the_Soviet_Union

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/12/27/excerpt-1920s-the-spread-of-hate-russia-germany-laqueur/
https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/12/24/ftac-moscows-presence-in-the-middle-east-conflict/

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For Gazans – Suzerainty – If They’re Lucky

01 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, Islamic Small Wars

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I’ve started mouthing about what sounds like the title of a political thriller: “The Gaza Suzerainty”. That is the only decent near answer not only for peace but for humanity. It would also set off a new adventure for Gazans, specifically embracing the challenge of reinventing themselves as the residents of a modern city-state with all of the obligation, privileges, and rights accorded any person in any open society free to truly determine its course. That solution would end arguments about absorption in some way as well as the destruction of Israel for the most heinous of causes, either “pan-Arab nationalism” (ask al-Assad about that) or a fascist Islamism.


None else dare whisper it: suzerainty.

Auspices: responsible Egyptian-Israeli partnership not only controlling the foreign affairs of the city state as well as present martial ambitions and capabilities, but Gaza’s redevelopment opportunities as a democratic and peaceful society.

Addendum

This post began as an aside and would seem to have been overtaken by the combination of Hamas intransigence and Israeli vision.

This showed up in the feed yesterday, and as I keep the Sabbath, I encountered just a few minutes ago.

Late last week, BackChannels also noted that Israel had built and opened an emergency field hospital for Gazans, and that it was already providing services to those who could get to it.

Israel has now long provided similar field hospital services to Syrians who could reach facilities with their wounds or other needs and encounter a medical ethic in which the person and the medical problem receive attention, not the politics.


Loosely related to Hamas’s short history of governance on the strip:

“They drive Mercedes’ and, you know, if we didn’t have money from Farah’s parents, we wouldn’t have anything to eat. I have been unemployed for six months and of course we can’t work in Israel. The SOBs are taking everything for themselves,” he complained bitterly. “But luckily, now there’s Hamas. And they will fix the corruption. I’m going to vote for them in the elections.”

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/31/gazas-west-side-story-a-painful-account-of-an-unlikley-friendship-and-how-hamas-destroyed-one-palestinian-family/ – 7/31/2014.


More has popped up on the web as regards Hamas behavior with its own constituents and with the media:

http://www.thomaswictor.com/massacre-at-shijaiyah/ – 7/31/2014.

http://www.thomaswictor.com/the-un-school-at-jabalia/ – 8/2/2014.

In psychology, a narcissists effort to manipulate a target with false information is referred to as “gaslighting”.  In psychology, also, the same may be limited to the intimate sphere of the person.  In political psychology, it would appear that a movement’s effort to misdirect attention and mislead a large public, including its own constituency, may amount to “Gaslighting” with that capital “G”.

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Political Thriller – The Gaza Suzerainty!

28 Monday Jul 2014

Posted by commart in Anti-Semitism, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology

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Mudar Zahran: I think Egypt must take responsibility for Gaza.  Egypt must take responsibility for Gaza the same way Jordan must recognize its responsibilities towards the Palestinians.  And I do see Egypt intervening to booth protect and save Gazans as well as provide to them.

BackChannels: To protect them from Hamas or from Israel?  Our small world should not want to continue the Hamas-style Islamist enterprise and the anti-Semitic cant that forms a part of its character. That way of speaking — to demonize and slander the Jews (above all) — is in part everyone’s enemy.

From correspondence with Mudar Zahran, Jordanian Palestinian and peace activist, July 27, 2014


The HamaNazi part of the Islamic Botherhood goes.

Gazans — refugees proven unwanted by and not actively integrated into the rest of the Arab world — decidedly stay.

A new culture is born.

Occupation: yes — a real one, not a phony baloney political slogan.

Occupiers: Egyptian and Israeli military.

Transition: from God Mob mafia state to responsible and responsive local governance with foreign policy overseen by an Egyptian-Israeli-Gaza partnership.

Guaranteed: Gazan freedom and self-determination; real respect in the world.

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Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

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