According to a CIA study currently being shown to selected staff members on the US Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Israel's survival in its present form beyond the next 20 years is doubtful.If a one-state solution is implemented, some two million Israelis will head to the United States.
The Report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a Two State to a One State solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in the region."
The Report claims that, “Alongside a decline in Jewish births and a rise in Palestinian fertility, approximately 1.6 million Israelis are likely to return to their forefather’s lands in Russia and Eastern and Western Europe with scores of thousands electing to stay, depending on the nature of the transition.”Or so says the report. Problem: I can't find any verification of the existence of this CIA study, beyond one article by Franklin Lamb. On February 21, that same article appeared in lots of places -- at the above-linked site, in Countercurrents, the Seoul Times and elsewhere.
Who is Franklin Lamb? Wikipedia says he is a researcher at the American University and author of the book Hezbollah: A Brief Guide for Beginners. He also wrote a book called The price we pay: a quarter-century of Israel's use of American weapons against civilians in Lebanon (1978-2006). (See here.) In 1984, he wrote Israel's War in Lebanon. He was a witness at the Kahan Commission Inquiry into the Sabra-Shatilla massacre (the subject of yet another of his books).There is an interview with him here. This site paints him as something of a mystery man. He seems to have developed excellent sources and has written a number of good pieces on Lebanon and Israel.
So yeah, it's possible that this guy could have found out about a CIA report that remains unknown to all other journalists. Perhaps a Senate or House staffer sneaked him a copy...? I can't see any previous indications that the man has ever trafficked in (or fallen for) a forgery.
Interesting. Why isn't anyone else talking about this report? Why is so much attention suddenly being paid to Rush Limbaugh and not to this? A CIA prediction of Israel's demise certainly qualifies as news in my judgment.
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Why Limbaugh?
"Look over there - something shiny!"
Magicians call it "misdirection"
But I doubt this report is what they're hiding.
myiq, I wasn't implying that the Rush pseudostory was being used to cover up this oddity. I just wanted to point out the bizarre hierarchy of importance in this country...
Oh, that - It's like the Rezko and Ayers stuff - the media decided it's a non-story so they don't report it.
"Nothing to see, move along"
The two top storys on my local news was the power ball and mega millions...then the weather
A writer friend of mine who's written about Israel told us half dozen years ago that Israel was kaput. Writing's been on the wall.
Pisses me off, mostly...all these Americans who give a flying fuck about the gender apartheid Islamists whose own kind don't lift a finger for them, as if we should be supporting blood-thirsty woman-slavers...where is all the brow-beating and teeth-gnashing for native Americans? If Israelis should give up their settled nation, why don't we also?
But that's nothing new, in a way. In Israel, I think the fact the country is in peril is much better understood--Olmert himself has used the term "apartheid" to describe Israel's current predicament, yet that was entirely ignored by the US media. Compare that to the storm of criticism Pres. Carter got when he stated the obvious.
For whatever reason, bad news regarding Israel's future does not make headlines in the US, ever.
This is from the same morons that in the early 80 predicted that the Soviet Union is going to surpass the US, that organized the Bay of Pigs, were torturing people in Iraq, found Obama (dead or alive).
The Central lack of Intelligence Agency.
Zee -
According to the women's rights organization Freedomhouse.org report on Palestine, while there is much progress to be made in reversing old attitudes, it is noted that:
[excerpts]
The third draft constitution (The Basic Law) of Palestine, which appeared in the Official Gazette in March 2003, views Palestinians as equal before the law. Article 9 of the constitution states that Palestinians will not be subject to "any discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, political convictions or disability."
Article 32 of the draft constitution states that any violation of personal liberties or the privacy of the person or other general civil rights that are protected by the constitution or the law will be considered a crime. A presidential decree in 1993 established the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR), with a mandate to ensure respect for citizens' rights in Palestine
the Palestinian Labor Law and Social Status Law are now mostly gender-sensitive.
There is no known practice of slavery of women in Palestine.
women can have many rights within a marriage [to divorce, etc.] if they are specified in their marriage contract.
Palestinian women have the legal right to own land and property and to exercise control over their property.
No legal barriers prevent women from entering into businesses or economic-related contracts and activities.
women enjoy freedom of expression
Women have their own media outlets and express their views freely.
Women and their organizations are free to advocate openly about the promotion and the protection of women's human rights.
Women are guaranteed equal voting rights
The women's movement enabled Palestinian women to establish the Ministry of Women's Affairs in 2003, in addition to gender desks inside various ministries, and the Women's Affairs Technical Committee. They reversed the regulation requiring women to secure permission of "guardians" to obtain passports and included many provisions to make the Civil Status Law, the Civil Administration Law, the Labor Law, and the Elections Law less discriminatory against women.
AUTHOR: Suheir Azzouni is a Palestinian women's rights leader and an expert on gender and human rights. She established the Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) in the Palestinian Territory, serving as General Director from 1994 to 2001.
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In your analogies, you're mixing up your parties: as the Israelis (according to their own histories, at least) seized land belonging to others or were given it over those others' objections (those others being one or more of various Arab nations), and further, initiated hostilities to wipe out some of those others, they would be analogous to the USers, and the Palestinians and Arab Israelis to the Native Americans, not the other way around.
Sergei Rostov
A world without Israel. What a pleasant thought.
Zee-
I don't know if you are aware of this, but Israel itself is an international hub of sex slavery.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7487
Much of this stems from Israel's vastly different treatment of Jews and non-Jews, which leads to the sexual exploitation of non-Jewish immigrant women in Israel.
One major side benefit of the elimination of Israeli laws that discriminate against and oppress non-Jews in Israel would be the elimination of the forced sex trade there.
Yes, the native Americans were treated horribly during US history, but at least they were given full citizenship rights in the US in 1924. Not so for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were forced out of Israel and now live under brutal occupation, or those who remained as second class citizens in Israel. If we are going to give any real meaning to "Never again" then we have to struggle to ensure full human rights to all, regardless of their ethnic or religious background.
Indeed! Imagine how peaceful the Middle East would be, and how improved our own fortunes, without that criminally insane, hellbent-for-suicide "western democratic ally" of ours.
Someone posting at another blog noted that his response to Americans who want universal healthcare is that we're already getting it -- in Israel. Israel has universal healthcare, partially paid for by US tax dollars. Booyah!
Watch for the Executive Summary of the Report in Wilkileaks. Also AIPAC in DC has it and got two staffers fired so far for leaking it....
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