Egypt building US-designed underground wall in attempt to cu

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December 16, 2009



It isn't bad enough that Israel has been walling off Gaza like the Nazis walled off the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow, squeezing the life out of the Jewish people, whose Zionist contingent seems to have forgotten the lesson in "never again," interpreting it as let's do it to someone else with less power than we have.

Now the US, under orders of Everyman President Obama, most probably with some help from his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, IDF in Gulf I, and whose dad fought for the Zionist terror gang Irgun against the Palestinians, has directed the United States Army Corps of Engineers to come up with a vertical underground wall under the border between Egypt and Gaza. So now, we have walls under walls, and soon to be tunnels under walls under walls under tunnels. Send in the clowns. But then it isn't funny.

Absurd, tragic, pathetic, embarrassing, inhuman; it is all these things and more, especially from a man who made his political bones in the ghettos of Chicago, walled in by towering projects of poverty, misery, and drugs. Or has he been struck by amnesia since he hit the White House? Or is he smoking again (but holding it in)? The vision is blurry here.

Ann Wright writes in Common Dreams, "In March 2009, the United States provided the government of Egypt with $32 million for electronic surveillance and other security devices to prevent the movement of food, merchandise and weapons into Gaza. Now details are emerging about an underground steel wall that will be 6-7 miles long and extend 55 feet straight down into the desert sand."

If that's not enough, "The steel wall will be made of super-strength steel put together in a jigsaw puzzle fashion. It will be bomb proof and can not be cut or melted."

The wall will be, as the BBC writes, 'impenetrable,' and reportedly will take 18 months to construct."

"The steel wall is intended to cut the tunnels that go between Gaza and Egypt."

Intelligence sources in Egypt say the barrier is being sunk close to the perimeter wall that already exists. They claim 4km of the wall has already been completed north of the Rafah crossing, with work now beginning to the south.

"The land beneath Egypt and Gaza resembles a Swiss cheese, full of holes and tunnels through which the Palestinians smuggle the everyday items they are denied by the blockade," the BBC reported.

But of course the Israelis claim "that the tunnels are also used to smuggle people, weapons, and the components of the rockets that are fired at southern Israeli towns.

The wall is not expected to stop all the smuggling, but it will force the Palestinians to go deeper and it will likely cut the hundreds of superficial tunnels closer to the surfaces that are used to move the bulk of the goods."

These tunnels have been literally lifelines for Gaza ever since the international community insanely agreed to blockade Gaza as group punishment because their citizens, in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council elections, voted to give Hamas ta majority of the seats. This was the ultimate no-no because predictably the US and other western bastions of demagoguery placed Hamas on the list of terrorist organizations.

Of course, neither Israel nor the United States with their respectively huge stores of nuclear weapons, and now the US with its deadly predator drones killing from afar in Afghanistan and Pakistan every day are on the terrorist list. They are on the g-g for good-guys list.

They are also on the Colonizers for Cash list, able to steal a nation for its real estate and natural resources in Israel's case, and able to steal, bombard and CIA any third world nation in the US case, including torturing confessions of terrorism from random citizens, thanks to the help of Blackwater, now newly branded "Xe" as in xenophobic.

Returning to Obama's underground steel wall, Wright writes it was "intended to strengthen international governmental efforts to imprison and starve the people of Gaza into [further] submission so they will throw out the Hamas government." But since "might makes right," as the great Greek historian Thucydides wrote in his History of the Peloponnesian Wars, many centuries ago, the mordant notion of bullying the crap out of whomever you wish if you have the fire-power, not necessarily justice, on your side, justifies Western actions. And it will continue to do so until we are brought to our feet as we were in Vietnam, and as Israel will be one day in and by Palestine and/or the surrounding Arab nations.

There is also the rule of history about empires and how they begin to sag from the debt of their excessive war making and squandering of their wealth, strength, and blood and finally get overtaken by some hungry Attila and his Huns of one sort or the other to settle the score. Or as they say, "What goes around comes around."

Returning once again to the inevitable wall, in which we are now cornering ourselves in disgrace, not just the Gazans in ethnic cleansing, Ann Wright writes, "Just as the steel walls of the US Army Corps of Engineers at the base of the levees of New Orleans were unable to contain Hurricane Katrina, the US Army Corps of Engineers' underground steel walls that will attempt to build an underground cage of Gaza will not be able to constrain the survival spirit of the people of Gaza."

She adds, "America's super technology will again be laughed at by the world," this as it was in Iraq as we got quietly pounded by the insurgency, leaving nearly 5,000 hapless soldiers dead, albeit killing a million or two of them.

Col. Wright adds, "I have been to Gaza 3 times this year following the 22-day Israeli military attack on Gaza that killed 1,400, wounded 5,000, left 50,000 homeless and destroyed much of the infrastructure of Gaza. The disproportionate use of force and targeting of the civilian population by the Israeli military is considered by international law and human rights experts as violations of the Geneva Conventions."

Right you are, Col. Wright, even as sometimes, blessedly, some sole voice in the wilderness, like yours, asserts it is not just might that makes right. It is human consciousness at its highest level of moral and ethical behavior. It's beginning to feel like Christmas, with a gift of justice in the air.

So let's have more it, Col. Wright, who adds "Just as American smart bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq have not conquered the spirit of Afghans and Iraqis, America's underground walls in Gaza will never conquer the courage of those who are fighting for the survival of their families." Amen.

And she concludes, "One more time, the American government and the Obama administration has been an active participant in the continued inhumane treatment of the people of Gaza and should be held accountable, along with Israel and Egypt for violations of human rights of the people of Gaza." Amen and let it be written in the heaven of all gods.

And thank you, Col. Wright for making decent Americans proud of you. And for most likely making South African Justice Richard J. Goldstone feel he's not alone in his deeply moral universe, condemning Israel for their excessive use of force against the Palestinians. The first time you made decent Americans proud was on March 19, 2003, for your letter of resignation from the armed services. That was for US military policy and abuse against Iraq.

By the way, "Ann Wright," as her bio tells us, "is a retired US Army reserve colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She served as a US diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia [all the fun and brutal places]. She is the co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience." Attention should be paid to her.

Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer living in New York City. Reach him at http://www.jerrymazza.com, Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com.

 

 

:: Article nr. 61119 sent on 16-dec-2009 17:29 ECT


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