« The Art of War »
Israel, licensed to kill
by Manlio Dinucci
Nobody questions the
« right » of Israel to attack a sovereign state in order to impose
the government it ought to have, after eight years during which the USA, NATO
and the Gulf monarchies tried to
demolish it with Israël, as they did in 2011 with the State of Libya.
No-one is scandalised by
the fact that these Israeli aerial attacks, on Saturday and Monday, caused
dozens of deaths, including at least four children, and serious damage to
Damascus international airport. On the other hand, there was much talk about the
fact that the ski resort of Mount Hermon (entirely occupied by Israel with the
Golan heights) had prudently stayed closed for a day, causing great displeasure
to the holiday crowds.
Nobody seems to be
worried by the fact that the intensification of Israeli attacks in Syria, on
the pretext that it is being used as a launch pad for Iranian missiles, has
begun the preparations for a major-scale war against Iran, planned with the
Pentagon, whose effects would be catastrophic.
The US decision to
withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal – an agreement defined by Israel as « the surrender of the West to the Axis
of Evil led by Iran » - has provoked an extremely dangerous situation, and not only for the Greater
Middle East. Israel, the only nuclear power in the Greater Middle East – and
non-signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which however has been validated
by Iran – currently has 200 nuclear weapons pointed at Iran (as specified by US ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell in March 2015). Among the various vectors
for nuclear weapons, Israel possesses a primary squadron of F-35A fighters,
which was declared operational in December 2017.
Israel is not only the
first country to buy the new fifth-generation fighter from the US company
Lockheed Martin, but with its own military industries it plays an important
rôle in the development of fighter aircraft. Last December, Israel Aerospace
Industries began the production of wing components which make the F-35
invisible to radar. Thanks to this technology, which will also be applied to
Italian F-35's, Israel is potentiating the attack capacities of its nuclear
forces, integrated into NATO's electronic system via the « Programme of individual
cooptation with Israel ».
But we find nothing of
this in our medias, just as we can find nothing about the fact that, as well as
the victims caused by the Israeli attack in Syria, there are those, much more
numerous, visited on the Palestinians by the Israeli embargo in the Gaza Strip.
There, due to the blockade decreed by the Israeli government on international
funds destined for health facilities in the Strip, six hospitals out of
thirteen, including the two paediatric hospitals Nasser and Rantissi, were
obliged to close down on 20 January because of the lack of fuel necessary for the
production of electrical energy. In the
Gaza Strip, network distribution of electricity is extremely sporadic).We cannot tell how many
victims will be caused by the deliberate closing of the hospitals in Gaza.
In
any case, we will find no pertinent information in our medias, which however
widely broadcast the declaration by Vice-Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on the
occasion of his recent visit to Israel - « I pledge all my commitment to
support the right to security for Israel, a bastion of democracy in the Middle
East ».
il manifesto,
January 22, 2019
Traduction: Pete
Kimberley
NO WAR NO NATO
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Manlio Dinucci
Geographer and geopolitical scientist. His latest books are: Laboratorio di geografia, Zanichelli 2014 ; Diario di viaggio, Zanichelli 2017 ; L’arte della guerra / Annali della strategia Usa/Nato 1990-2016, Zambon 2016, Guerra Nucleare. Il Giorno Prima 2017; Diario di guerra Asterios Editores 2018.
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