Israeli forces 'dress as Arabs' to conduct operations inevitably blamed on others
The mista'arvim are "the IDF infiltration units that dress as Arabs and enter Arab towns to conduct operations", as one Israeli newspaper unashamedly describes the situation, in an article claiming that the world needs to take more advice from Israel on fighting "the war on terror". Israel knows from experience that when Jews dressed as Muslims attack a target, the world blames Muslims, even when the victims are Muslim civilians. The results can be seen in the streets and market-places of Iraq, where Iraqi police recently caught a British "special forces" unit dressed as Arabs in a car loaded with guns and explosives. The British military later broke into the jail to rescue their personnel, allowing other prisoners to escape at the same time. Israeli units, which actively recruit Jewish extremists, are more fanatical and would sooner die than risk capture. As well as the obvious immediate effect, fake terrorist attacks also provide valuable propaganda to support the more long-term goals of demonizing the enemy and justifying more drastic measures to solve the problem. The more terrible the situation appears to be, the less the public needs to worry about the damage done in the cause of fighting to make things better. The Israeli newspaper article cited earlier triumphantly reports that Zionists in Israel and America are indeed now openly lobbying for "new rules of war", because Israel routinely breaks international law, therefore the law must be wrong. Whenever Israel is guilty of "a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions" we are asked to accept the consensus that it is by definition justified. But there an increasing number of people who can see and think form themselves are questioning some of the illusions conjured-up by propaganda to deceive us. http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=2491 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Israeli, US intellectuals chart new rules of war for insurgencies" .. Ganor's partner in that July 2006 conversation, Mitchel Wallerstein, dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, is a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. Together, Ganor and Wallerstein have brought their two institutions together to develop a document that they hope will set out new parameters for dealing with insurgents. "We decided we had to establish an international team" - experts have been consulted from Canada, Australia and elsewhere - "that will relate to Hague and Geneva, which are very good, but will try to fine tune them for the new situation," Ganor said. With monthly video-conference calls between Israel and Syracuse, New York, the team has begun to lay the groundwork for the document they hope to present in Washington D.C. in October - the 100th anniversary of the Hague Convention. "It's great timing," Ganor says with a smile, "since Hague is the normative basis of international law." The team has already discussed legislative lacunae regarding fighting insurgents; it has heard testimony from Israeli IDC students who have had battlefield experience facing Palestinian groups or Hizbullah; and it has started setting the goals for the final product. The climax of the process will be an intensive July workshop that will bring all the experts together in Israel for the actual writing of the document. "The primary goal is to protect civilians," Ganor said emphatically. [At least this is what he claims, predictably.] "That's the sacred principle behind this. Its implications are far from simple. As Ganor explains: "Take the mista'arvim [the IDF infiltration units that dress as Arabs and enter Arab towns to conduct operations] for example. On the face of it, it's a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions, which demand clear separation between fighting forces and civilians, with 'a badge and a flag.' On the other hand, it's by far the most selective and safe means of arresting or even assassinating someone. It puts more soldiers in more danger, and is much harder to implement, than a missile strike, and its sole rationale is protecting the lives of civilians." ... Finally, a clear definition of right and wrong in insurgent and counter-insurgent fighting will strengthen the hand of states in dealing with guerilla groups. "This isn't a two-sided game," Ganor says, "but a three-sided one. There are us, the enemy and international norms. Right now, states are weaker in fighting insurgents because they are limited by international norms. If we can change these norms even slightly to recognize what insurgents are doing [to civilians] and to give guidelines for dealing with it," then international norms will hinder insurgents as well. [In other words, we are the good guys, and our enemy are the bad guys, therefore it is acceptable to change the law in order to be able to show that we obey the law, because our moral authority is unquestionable and nothing can change our official status as "the good guys" no matter what war crimes we commit.] "The world is moving in the direction of more and more guerilla and insurgent fighting," he noted, bringing more of the world's countries to understand something must be done. The world is losing patience with "those hypocrites who have a double policy of double meanings." Even if new moral rules are unlikely to stop genuine terror organizations [the definition of "terror" in the corporate media does not cover any acts carried out by Israel] from carrying out their operations, it will serve to limit the ability of states and international players from supporting them. source: Jerusalem Post, "Israeli, US intellectuals chart new rules of war for insurgencies", 26 April 2007. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1177591142883&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER READING Al-Jazeera, "The occupation forces are the real perpetrators of bomb attacks in Iraq?", 14 September 2005. Iran's top military commander accused the United States and Israel of planning the non-stop bomb attacks that killed thousands of civilians in Iraq. Brigadier General Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr, the deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told a gathering of senior officials, that the U.S. needs those attacks to justify the continuation of its military presence in Iraq. The Americans blame weak and feeble groups in Iraq for insecurity in this country. We do not believe this and we have information that the insecurity has its roots in the activities of American and Israeli spies, Zolqadr said. Insecurity in Iraq is a deeply-rooted phenomenon. The root of insecurity in Iraq lies in the occupation of this country by foreigners. more @ http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=257 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Insider, "British special forces caught dressed as Arab 'terrorists'", 20 September 2005. British soldiers have been caught posing as Arabs and shooting Iraqis in the occupied city of Basra in southern Iraq. A group of them was caught yesterday by Iraqi police. They were driving an Iraqi car, wearing Arab clothing, and carrying weapons and explosives. The Iraqi police were patrolling the area looking for suspected "terrorists" or "insurgents", and they noticed that the men were acting suspiciously. Suddenly, without warning, the suspicious men started shooting at people, but the new Iraqi security forces managed to capture some of them before they could escape. Obviously, if these men had not been caught, the mass media would now be reporting the incident as just another attempt by evil "terrorists" to create civil war in Iraq. The Iraqi police arrested the men and put them in prison. ...within minutes the UK sent in six tanks and an elite SAS unit to break their terrorists out of jail. more @ http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1556 The Guardian, "British tanks storm Basra jail to free undercover soldiers", front page, 20 September 2005. British troops used tanks last night to break down the walls of a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Basra and free two undercover British soldiers who were seized earlier in the day by local police. An official from the Iraqi interior ministry said half a dozen tanks had broken down the walls of the jail and troops had then stormed it to free the two British soldiers. The governor of Basra last night condemned the "barbaric aggression" of British forces in storming the jail. Aquil Jabbar, an Iraqi television cameraman who lives across the street from the jail, said dozens of Iraqi prisoners also fled in the confusion... In a day of dramatic incidents in the heart of the British-controlled area of Iraq, the two undercover soldiers - almost certainly special forces - were held by Iraqi security forces after clashes that reportedly left two people dead and threatened to escalate into a diplomatic incident between London and Baghdad. The soldiers, who were said to have been wearing Arab headdress, were accused of firing at Iraqi police when stopped at a road block... Muhammad al-Abadi, an official in the Basra governorate, told journalists the two undercover soldiers had looked suspicious to police. "A policeman approached them and then one of these guys fired at him. Then the police managed to capture them"... more @ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1573933,00.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jewish Week, "Chasing Bad Guys", 28 July 2006. The foreword to the first book is written anonymously by a retired member of the Mossad's top management, who quotes a line from Proverbs [ancient Jewish scriptures, also included in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible] as the organization's motto, For by deception thou shalt make thy war, ... more @ http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=12758 The Insider, "British military in Iraq actively recruiting terrorists and involved in 'terrorist' attacks, 5 February 2007. These "insurgants" are in fact working for the British regime, which incites them to attack people and buildings in areas associated with "rival" religious groups. The standard "divide-and-rule" strategy is to carry out initial attacks on one group, blame a rival group, and then pay local people to retaliate against their perceived enemies, ensuring a constant cycle of mindless violence, exactly as we have observed in Iraq since the allies took control... more @ http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=2372
