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War on Gaza worsens Israeli economic crisis

An economic analyst has warned that the aggression launched by Israel against the Gaza Strip will deepen the economic crisis in the near future, which may push Israelis to protest in the streets against the Netanyahu government.

Avi Temeken published his concerns on a specialist economic and technical affairs website. He said that firm analyses showed that the upcoming Israeli government will face an economic situation that requires it to take difficult decisions.

The Israeli expert pointed out that it is this which pushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call for early parliamentarian elections, so he won’t have to deal with issues that can embarrass the government during the interim period.

Temeken thinks that the war against the Gaza Strip will worsen the economic situation in Israel, not least because the costs of an open-ended campaign cannot be estimated. Moreover, the Minister of Defence will ensure that every bullet and missile is paid for by Israeli taxpayers.

The economist warned that the gap in the general budget will widen due to slow growth in Israel, which was lower than the levels predicted prior to the aggression on Gaza. At the moment growth stands at around 3 percentage points per annum; he predicted that if it dips to 2 percentage points, the Israeli economy will go into recession.

This, said Temeken, could see internal unrest against the government. "Austerity measures imposed on the people will not only cause problems inside the government," he added, "but may also push Israelis onto the streets, as happened in the summer of 2011."


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# War, Killing As Means & End
geral 27-11-2012
The awful irony of our time is that the three official branches of government are now overthrown by the unofficial fourth branch, Administrative Agencies.
+1 # Real Reasons for War on GAZA
William H. Depperman 23-11-2012
THE USA/“ISRAELI” WAR ON GAZA WAS REALLY ABOUT SYRIA!

The USA Buys Off Syrian Ally Hamas Leaders with Threats and Bribes then
Directs its Stooge “Israeli” to Bomb GAZA in an “8-Day War” in Order: 1.)
To Try to Restore CREDIBILITY of its Newly Bought-Off Hamas Traitors and
2.) To Try To Generate Credibility of the USA Puppet Governments of Egypt,
Turkey, Qatar, etc. who Support the USA Attempt to Overthrow Syrian Ba’ath
Socialism and 3.) To try to Manipulate Palestinians both Inside Syria, in Occupied
Palestine and in Other Countries to Support USA Mercenaries/Proxies against Syria!

With the full understanding that Fatah and the so-called Palestinian Authority had long ago lost all credibility and has no further credibility or “authority” among Palestinians, the USA/“Israel” proceeded to bribe and BUY OFF the TRAITOR Khaled Meshal of Hamas who deserted Syria, retracted all support for Ba’ath Socialist Syria and moved from Damascus to Qatar, met with USA and “Israeli”-puppet Egyptian “President” Moslem Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi (BBC, July 19, 2012) and U.S./“Israeli” puppet Jordan’s King Abdullah and supposedly resigned (temporarily) as the leader of Hamas on September 23, 2012 and THAT was the actual reason that Hamas, which had represented the majority of Palestinian Sunnis, moved their offices out of Damascus, Syria! (See: New York Times, October 2-3, 2012) The USA and so-called “Israel” want Meshal, Haniya and Hamas to replace the hugely discredited Muhammed Abbas and Fatah and the so-called “Palestinian Authority,” which has no authority. HAMAS, now run by traitors, Khaled Meshal and Ismail Haniya, both of whom the USA/“Israel” has bought off, will retain little credibility once the Palestinians realize that Meshal and Haniya want to recognize so-called “Israel,” which they have now done by signing a cease fire with “Israel,” where Hamas agrees to SUPPRESS all active resistance in GAZA against “Israel” in exchange for opening the border crossings to “Israel” and to USA-puppet Egypt, BOTH of which think Palestinians are just a problem, a problem which somehow should be eliminated! Hamas, which had NOT been part of the ongoing and relentless missile strikes against so-called “Israel” for years suddenly joined with the other Islamic groups in firing rockets into “Israel” after the assassination of Jabari in order to try to buttress the credibility of its leaders as supposedly being “opposed to “‘Israel’” and reverse their most recent image of BETRAYERS of the CHIEF PALESTINIAN ALLY—SYRIA! The USA began the buy-out of the Palestinians in GAZA with a tiny $400 million (USA-authorized!) token gift from the emir of Qatar, who visited GAZA on October 23, 2012. GAZA needs well over a hundred $billion to actually start to rebuild the entire city of GAZA and environs destroyed by USA/“Israel,” not a measly $400 million to build a couple of housing complexes and a prosthetic center to deal with the limbs lost through the continuous non-stop, escalated and now temporarily halted USA-authorized “Israeli” air attacks! No amount of token monetary gifts can change the political and economic reality in GAZA!

WHAT HAPPENED? On November 14, 2012 the USA authorized so-called “Israel” to assassinate Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, the head of the military wing of Hamas, by a much ballyhooed USA and “Israeli” aerial pinpoint bombing for the unstated reason that Jabari opposed Haniya and Meshal’s betrayal of HAMAS and their support for the USA overthrow of Syria. Jabari had become the de facto leader of Hamas after the traitorous betrayal and defections of Meshal and Haniya to the USA/“Israel.” Hamas had not fired rockets into “Israel” for years and could NOT have been assassinated for THAT REASON! But Jabari apparently strongly opposed such betrayal and treachery by Meshal and Haniya and refused to abandon the original political positions of Hamas, which included SUPPORT FOR SYRIA and no recognition of so-called “Israel.” With Jabari’s assassination Meshal and Haniya were in a position to return and reclaim “credibility (?)” in a leadership role. After assassinating Jabari, “Israel” immediately moved to regenerate credibility for Haniya by “bombing the disgraced Haniya’s vacated house (RT, November 15, 2012) The USA/“Israeli” Bombing of GAZA was simply one more Dog and Pony Show, a WAR OF PROVOCATION in order to manipulate and confuse the Palestinians and the World, while sacrificing the lives of over 160 Palestinians, which is NO PROBLEM for the USA/“Israeli” mass murderers! The PRIMARY PURPOSE of the USA Bombing of GAZA, which began with the admitted targeted assassination of Jabari, the CHIEF OPPONENT of the Meshal/Haniya SELLOUT of the Ba’ath Socialist Syrian Government, was designed to eliminate Jabari and to attempt to simultaneously FALSELY DISASSOCIATE the new USA-Hamas puppets, Meshal and Haniya, from their new USA/“Israel” masters and help to regenerate their credibility, both in Occupied Palestine and in SYRIA to try to reverse Palestinian support for Ba’ath Socialism and Syrian support for Hezbollah! Simultaneously the sudden USA/“Israeli” Bombing of GAZA began with an otherwise unexplained escalation of air strikes and reported “Israeli” troop mobilizations, supposedly under the pretext of Palestinian rocket attacks, which had been ongoing for years! The USA then directed its puppet governments of Egypt, Turkey, Qatar to travel or send emissaries to demagogically: “Stand with the Palestinians” and criticize “Israel” for killing Palestinians! Why now all of a sudden? What a JOKE! Hopefully the majority of Palestinians won’t be fooled and will see through it.

But the USA has total contempt for the political intelligence of the Palestinian masses, just as it has total contempt for the USA masses, a significant percentage of which it is mobilizing to exterminate in escalating economic and biological warfare, and believes that it can at least NEUTRALIZE Middle East-wide Palestinian support for USA-targeted Syria and hopefully manipulate the Palestinians in GAZA and in Syria to support the USA mercenaries/proxies or at least keep them CONFUSED (because a confused person cannot act!) and to generate enough popular support through the ceasefire for the newly regenerated AUTHORITY for HAMAS misleadership to be able to suppress other political opposition groups in GAZA in order to reduce or eliminate the rocket attacks and recognize so-called “Israel!” This is an example of how the USA hopes to control the Middle East and Persian Gulf and implement DIVIDE AND CONQUER policies made possible through its so-called “Arab Spring” Regime Change Gambit to try to turn the Hamas masses against Ba’ath Socialist Syria, whose support for the Palestinian masses remains STEADFAST as it has always been, but does not support fake leaders who betray ALL Palestinians. On November 22, 2012 USA PUPPET Mohamed Morsi issued a DECREE giving him dictatorial powers, authorized by the USA to enforce USA interests and actual decisions regarding “Egypt’s policies.” USA PUPPET Morsi is completely opposed by Mohamed Elbaradei and other opposition groups. The HAMAS misleaders—TRAITORS, Meshal and Haniya, will undoubtedly move to try to enact the same sort of Rule by Decree in GAZA!

The name “Bashar Assad” is shorthand for Ba’ath Socialism, which is the real target! The USA overall “strategy” for their Islamic Fundamentalist mercenary proxies in Syria (including Al Qaeda just like in Libya! See below) is to simply invade cities, towns and areas and take over people’s homes as their base forcing the local inhabitants to seek refuge elsewhere in public schools and other sites and openly murdering for intimidation purposes a certain number of the overwhelming majority of Syrians who support the Ba’ath Socialist government, while going about willy-nilly destroying Syrian infrastructure, while depending on the USA-controlled world capitalist media to use the Big Lie technique to label Syria as “the aggressor!” This is what has happened in Damascus and Aleppo and throughout Syria! Syrians generally hate and despise the USA and all its proxies! On August 3, 2012 for good measure the USA directed its proxies to bomb the Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee Camp, the home of 150,000 Palestinians in Damascus as a deliberate provocation and then blame the Ba’ath Socialist government for the bombing (!) to try to break Palestinian loyalty to the Syrian government and then claimed to have recruited many Palestinian youths via their false Internet propaganda! The New York Times has openly described what are USA divide and conquer attempts in Syria and Lebanon. (August 23, 2012) In line with its divide and conquer strategy in Lebanon and Syria alike, the USA tried to get its puppet Sunni sheiks in Lebanon to form “Sunni Defense Councils” to attack the overwhelmingly popular Hezbollah, but that obvious USA scheme has been opposed by even the Sunni mufti of Tripoli and northern Lebanon! (BBC, August 28, 2012)

William H. Depperman, Coordinator
United Front Against Racism
And Capitalism-Imperialism
New York, N.Y. 10003
November 22, 2012