The following article was posted shortly after the details of the at the time
proposed Peace Agremeent in Kosovo were announced. The Yugoslav Government
did indeed sign the Agreement. -
THIS "PEACE" MEANS WAR
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by Jared Israel
As an American, I have not been affected in the same way Serbian and
Serbian-American people have been by the horrible bombing. At the same time,
as a thinking person, I find the "peace agreement," as published by the AP,
most disturbing.
A TRULY HEROIC RESISTANCE
For 72 days the people of Serbia - from all ethnic groups -- have kept up
their spirit in the face of an onslaught by what amounts to the old Colonial
club of Western powers. These powers gave us the Slave trade, colonialism in
all its horror, the gruesome wars of our century and now they have embarked
on a World-Wide drive for power under the cover of humanitarian concerns.
The US is trying to use NATO to destabilize and economically dominate a vast
region, perhaps the entire Eastern world. The Serbs are first on the list. As
has happened twice before during this century, they are the outpost,
defending civilization against barbarians bent on world conquest. By
resisting the power of NATO they have followed the old Serbian saying:
"Freedom is priceless."
Despite a torrent of lies in the Western media, the Serbian people have
inspired millions -- hundreds of millions -- from China to Canada. They have
reawakened the spark of decency, a new political awareness on right and left.
This new grouping of people refuse to accept international injustice and
lawlessness. The Serbian people's symbol, the target bullseye, has become the
symbol for all of us. People from all over the world now say, proudly, "I am
a Serb," just as many years ago John Paul Sartre said "I am a Jew." Except
this time, thank God, the "Jews" are not going quietly to those ovens.
Whatever happens, nothing can lessen the contribution the Serbs have made to
the cause of human freedom which today means resisting NATO. Nothing.
NATO IS THE NAME - NATION DESTROYING IS THE GAME
The U.S. government started the bombing because Serbia would not surrender
its national sovereignty, as called for in Appendix B of the Rambouillet
"agreement." But what does the text of the NEW peace agreement call for?
The Agreement calls for the complete withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from the
Serbian province of Kosovo. It adds the contemptuous proviso that several
hundred troops might be allowed back into Kosovo to mark land mines and guard
monasteries. Indeed.
These troops, perhaps the best in the world, are dug into well-engineered
defenses. From reports, their morale is superb. They have routed the KLA
which has been reduced to scattered snipers. NATO would need a huge ground
force -- certainly several hundred thousand troops -- perhaps as many as a
million -- to have any hope of taking Kosovo from these men and women.
Such an attack would put immense internal strains on NATO and greatly
increase opposition to NATO around the world.
U.S. GOVERNMENT'S GOAL IS NOT PEACE
True the bombing is horrible. But what are the U.S. government's actual
"peace goals" in Serbia? Every indication is the U.S. government would, given
the chance, carry out the PRACTICAL program of the KLA. (The KLA has after
all never been an independent force, but rather has been the terrorist arm of
NATO in Kosovo.) What is the practical program of the KLA? The KLA has
carried out its program for a year and a half: it is the murder of
anti-racist Albanians and all Serbs and Roma people ("Gypsies"). The U.S.
government knows this is KLA policy. When Clinton praises the KLA he is
making it perfectly clear what will happen in Kosovo if NATO gets control.
With the Yugoslav army gone, NATO troops would suppress any significant
resistance.
No Serbian police, no Yugoslav troops with armor, just NATO "under unified
command," that is, with ALL troops, including Russian and Greek troops,
controlled by the U.S. and Britain. This "unified command" could maintain
order while the KLA does its work, slaughtering decent people, town by town.
REAL SERBIAN-ALBANIAN UNITY
Sometimes good things come out of suffering. The devastating bombing of
Kosovo has brought many Serbs and Albanians together in a fighting unity
against NATO's attacks. This is expressed in mutual aid and solidarity of all
kinds including the repair of damaged facilities, the arming of Albanians to
fight KLA snipers, and so on. This new solidarity is crucial because it lays
the basis for a new, antiracist political unity against the racist Albanians,
who call themselves "nationalists," from the KLA to Rugova. And this unity
has been paid for by the suffering and struggle of many people. Quite
literally, with blood, sweat and tears. (See Appendix 1, # 3, a, b & c and #
5)
WHAT NATO NEEDS IN KOSOVO
The U.S. has been instigating disunity in Kosovo since 1987; disunity is the
necessary prerequisite for NATO domination of Kosovo. The simplest way to
break the current unified resistance is to kill the people involved,
especially the Albanian loyalists. This requires a) the removal of Yugoslav
Army troops from Kosovo and b) the "regrettable" reentry of KLA terrorists
>from Albania. Once the Yugoslav troops are gone, these butchers will stream
across the border, led by US and European special forces. The U.S.-controlled
verifiers who were stationed in Kosovo starting in October, 1998, expressed
"concern" that the KLA used the Yugoslav troop withdrawal to rebuild its
army. In the same way, after a new Yugoslav withdrawal, NATO would be
"shocked" at KLA murders. Or perhaps the news of these murders would be
suppressed so that later the victims of KLA attacks could be unearthed, and
the murders blamed on Yugoslav troops who, we would be told, killed Albanians
as they retreated. These Serbs and Albanian brothers would get to be killed
twice: first by bullets and then by lies.
The result of this slaughter would be even worse then the loss of human life;
for this heroic multi-ethnic group is the basis for reconstructing Kosovo,
for the first time, on an anti-racist basis.
GIVE NATO AN ARM AND IT WILL GO FOR YOUR LEG
Once in possession of Kosovo, would NATO respect the spirit of peace and
cease aggression against the rest of Serbia? If you answered "yes" I'm afraid
you don't know NATO. Or anyway, you don't know Clinton and company. Kosovo is
the first stop in a long train ride, with many bumps.
Everything has been prepared to make Vojvodina, the breadbasket of Serbia,
which borders Hungary, the next Kosovo. It has been physically isolated
through the bombing of bridges over the Danube. In Hungary proper, flunky
leaders have voiced the appropriate concerns about ethnic abuses and they
have been echoed by NATO statements to the effect that Milosevich is
"expected" to target ethnic Hungarians in Vojvodina next. How convenient of
these Serbs to abuse precisely the ethnic group that NATO needs abused, and
to do it at just the required moment.
The minute Kosovo is secure, or perhaps before it is fully secure, atrocities
against Hungarians will be "discovered." There will be satellite photos and
eye-witness accounts of horrors in Vojvodina. Some neo-fascist group of
Hungarian secessionists will pop up like a balloon charged with NATO hot air
and voila -- a whole new Kosovo. It is all predictable because, like every
criminal organization, NATO has a modus operandi. I don't say that because I
am paranoid and I don't know that because I am clairvoyant; I simply read.
For instance, in the Feb. 15, 1999 Washington Post, former State Department
planner Robert A. Manning described U.S. policy as: "...turning the former
Yugoslavia into a series of protectorates, one province at a time."
One province at a time, until Serbia is a group of Banana Republics. Each
time a new province is taken by NATO (to prevent some humanitarian
catastrophe which NATO has created) the neo-fascist group of choice will
slaughter "pro-Serbian nationalists" and "non-Serbian collaborationists"
(such as the Albanians who oppose NATO and the KLA, but this applies just as
easily to ethnic Hungarians, Turks, Jews or Roma.) NATO spokesmen will
terribly regret this violence, tsk tsk tsk, or lie about it (blame the
victims) or the media will bemoan a history of interethnic strife going back
hundreds of years. Or Jamie Shea will just say what he said when a bridge was
bombed, killing and wounding many: "Tough luck," said Mr. Shea.
THEY WOULD GIVE US AFGHANISTAN AND CALL IT PEACE
A true peace is of course better than war. And all things beingequal, it's
worse to be bombed than not.
But this "peace" agreement, as presented by the Associated Press, lays the
basis for continuing the war without NATO having to take the losses which war
usually requires, i.e., without having to launch a land invasion. Land
invasion is preferable to uncontested occupation, which would have a
demoralizing affect on the population, and make the job of resistance --
which would nevertheless occur -- more difficult.
Moreover, if the citizens of Serbia were to allow the uncontested occupation
of Kosovo, this would encourage the U.S. government to pursue adventures of a
similar kind further East. The US is openly and covertly encouraging conflict
between Moslems and Orthodox Christians in the Caspian Sea area, rich in oil.
As Zbigniew Brzezinski, the high-placed U.S. government "thinker" has said,
Russia is far too big. The U.S. government has used the IMF to enforce
policies which have cut the Russian economy in half and similarly devastated
other parts of the former Soviet Union preparatory to breaking up this vast
area into mini-states, too small to defeat economic domination and
exploitation. Much like Central America.
In essence, the United States elite is trying to carve up the world, the way
colonial powers used to do in the late 19th century. But this isn't the late
19th century. This is the nuclear age and there are tens of thousands of
nuclear warheads all over the former USSR - and elsewhere. So this plan for
world conquest makes nuclear war quite possible, perhaps probable. As you
read this, Russian nuclear warheads have been re-aimed so they once again
target the U.S. The ancient Greeks said, "Whom the Gods would destroy, they
first make mad."
Are our leaders mad? Perhaps they are. But mad or not, this is their plan.
As usual, Serbia is the dress rehearsal for those attempting world
domination. As usual, the Serbs are the "kraj," which means the end in
Serbian. The end, the outpost, the outpost of civilization against barbarism.
What the Serbs do about this "peace agreement" will affect the whole course
of world history.
Shakespeare said:
"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
(Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 2)
The stakes are great indeed.
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APPENDIX
1. Evidence that reporters KNEW the U.S. government had deliberately written
the Rambouillet "peace" agreement to be so extreme that the Serbs couldn't
sign it. That is, it was a setup to achieve bombing. But this was never
reported. See: http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kosovo-talks.html
2. Documents, not intended for publication, from the German Courts and German
Foreign Ministry According to these official German documents, there was no
Serbian persecution of Albanians during the year before the bombing started.
http://www.counterpunch.org/germanmemo.html
3. Three reports from Paul Watson, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter on the
ground in Kosovo since bombing started.
a) "Missing " Albanian men are doing fine, and fraternizing with Yugoslav
troops
http://www.beograd.com/nato/texts/english/l/LATimes/lat_kosovo990517.htm
b) Despite Western reports, Mr. Watson sees NO evidence of massacres or
organized government persecution of Albanians in Pristina, capital of Kosovo
http://www.counterpunch.org/watson.html
c) Albanians and Serbs work side by side in Kosovo to undo damage caused by
NATO's bombs
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/YUGO/DISPATCH/t000048733.html
4. Here's a brilliant deconstruction of a NATO mass grave hoax
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Mass_Graves_Hoax/
5. Eve-Ann Prentice, London Times reporter targeted (!) by NATO planes over
Kosovo, describes Serbian/Albania kindness towards her after the attack.
Gives a whole different impression of what these folks are like from what
we're getting on TV.
(http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/06/01/timkoskos02002.html?112402
7)
6. What is the KLA, the Kosovo Albanian group for which NATO is now providing
an air force? Prof. Chossudovsky's answers and it isn't good.
http://www.transnational.org/features/crimefinansed.html
7. Report of U.S. Congressional Mission to Serbia refutes NATO assertions
about atrocities and ethnic cleansing.
(http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/findings1.html)
8. A group of articles from the NY Times and other papers in the 1980s show
the Serbs were victims of a racist movement in Kosovo.
http://members.tripod.com/~sarant_2/ksm.html
9. When NATO planes bomb Albania, everyone within miles flees - illustrating
the Serbian government's point that bombing is what crated the refugee
crisis.
(http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/06/02/timkoskos01002.html?112402
7)
10. Albanians take up arms against the secessionist KLA.
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/YUGO/DISPATCH/t000048921.html
11. Sean Gervasi has written some of the best analysis of U.S. and German
plans for carving up the world. For instance, see:
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Gervasi.html
12. NATO has been demonizing the Serbs for 9 years. Here one of the most
successful slanders, the concentration camp hoax, is debunked by Thomas
Deichmann. http://www.informinc.co.uk/ITN-vs-LM/story/LM97_Bosnia.html
13. Diana Johnstone's "Seeing Yugoslavia Through Dark Glass" gives an
overview of the history of the area while cutting through the fog of lies and
half truths created by media, government officials and NGO's. Very good for
clearing the mind.
14. NATO has been demonizing the Serbs for 9 years. Here one of the most
successful slanders, the concentration camp hoax, is debunked by Thomas
Deichmann. http://www.informinc.co.uk/ITN-vs-LM/story/LM97_Bosnia.html
15. A constant refrain of Serb-bashers is "Look what they did at Srebrenica."
George Pumphrey exposes the Srebrenica massacre myth using the very media
sources that have spread it.
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Pumphrey.html
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