OPEN BOUQUET (March-April)

By William Markiewicz

(As other short items may follow, I've decided to group them together.)

Fallujah - Stalingrad (4/29)

The U.S. Marines announced an agreement to pull back from positions in Fallujah and allow an all-Iraqi force commanded by one of former President Saddam Hussein's generals to take over security. U.S. Government denials followed; the disarray is apparent.

In Stalingrad the Germans explained their retreat as a strategic move to retaliate from a distance against the local population which, "against international laws, took part in the battle".

Whatever the explanations are, it's an admission of defeat in both cases. To break an indomitable city like Fallujah one needs to destroy it like Germans did in Warsaw, the Romans in Numancia, and the Americans in Japan. Maybe they hesitate to take similar radical measures in Iraq in order to avoid development of some monstrous Kamikaze on a planetary scale.

Black Sheep of Europe? (4/25)

That's how certain media have labeled the Cypriot Greeks after they refused to unite with the Cypriot Turks. They made the right decision; forced marriages sooner or later end in divorce and, in the case of nations, it's most often a bloody divorce. By this act the Cypriot Greeks have become the last freedom fighters in Europe, refusing to become sheep on the NWO neo-feudalist farm. They now join the other black sheep of Europe: their Serb neighbours.

By a strange coincidence, Serbs and Greeks were a team during WW2 -- the only ones who rejected Nazism in the Balkans. The Serbs paid dearly for this 60 years later when Germany, together with its former and new allies, attacked and destroyed Serbia. Of course this was not given as an official reason to invade Yugoslavia and Germany was not an official leader in the aggression, but some alliances have deep roots and tortuous paths.

Police Also Could Use Some Help (4/17)

The Jewish establishment complained that Police are making too little progress in investigating the ongoing vandalizing of Jewish properties in Toronto. The Police haven't made much progress in solving the murder of little Cecilia Zhang either. The family does not protest. They know that the Police are not omnipotent and are doing what they can.

The Zhang family can do nothing to help police. The Jewish community as a community can do more; they have qualified people and means to create some chain of investigation on their own. The Jewish Defense League for instance - does it still exist?

Mea culpa of "Tenderizers" (4/14)

The CIA made mistakes? The FBI made mistakes? What a sinister joke! The CIA and FBI have respectable and brilliant records for normal agencies of a normal country but not for what they have to be now: agencies of a sinister imperium that wants to transform the whole universe into tenderized meat. The basic structures of law and progress in human evolution are thrown into the trash. NWO distributes Mafia-like rules on who should have what and who should live and die. And they want Agencies to reinforce THIS? You don't have to be a prophet to predict that it will never work and that this turn of the century will go down in history as an unexpected return to the Stone Age.

Satan conduit le bal" (Georges Anquetil) (4/02)

Sharon Says Arafat and the Lebanese Hassan Nasrallah may be targets for assassination. The U.S. declares its opposition. Perhaps Sharon's and the U.S. declarations are both for show but it doesn't change the fact that the general line of the NWO is: kill, dominate, divide or unite, at will. After the division of Yugoslavia which would have divided on its own with a little bit of patience, they now enforce the gloomy program of unification; Croats and Muslims in Mostar, Serbs and Muslims in Bosnia, Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, Turks and Greeks in Cyprus have to be united whether they want it or not. The notion of divorce again becomes heresy. In Central Asia they work on unification of Iraq and Afganistan, but, as it's not Europe, they don't really care about what goes on as long as the oil fields remain under secure control. We learn from history that unions, like an overstretched rubber band, sooner or later burst with bloody consequences. The spoiled Olympian brats of the NWO, deaf and blind to the lessons of History, hold on to their super engineered world idea until, like Faust in the French movie, they can ride over the peaceful, united, dead universe.

Indeed, It Could Work ... (3/28)

Telegraph headline: Albanians Posed as Serbs to Stoke Ethnic Fires in Kosovo

It worked in Markale, Racak, Dubrovnik; naturally they assumed that it would work in Kosovo.

There will never be peace in Kosovo as long as the Albanians feel that Occupation Authorities eliminate the Serbs from the picture. Give the Serbs their due, accept that this is their province, their citizens. Let the Serbian Army do their job. Only then will the separatists be forced to step down from their extreme views and drawn into negotiations.

Wisdom and Morality into the Trash (3/25)

Assassinations 'r Us
Israeli action reflects, and indicts, U.S. policy 

(Excerpt from  The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Editorials 3/24/04)

Executive Order 11905 is a 6,000-word national policy 
statement on the activities of intelligence services at home
and abroad. President Ford signed it on Feb. 18, 1976. 
Here's one of its simplest orders: "No employee of the 
United States Government shall engage in, or conspire 
to engage in, political assassination." Sometime between 
Sept. 11 and Sept. 14, 2001, President Bush signed a secret 
intelligence order revoking Ford's. Secretary of Defense 
Donald Rumsfeld would confirm the reversal in a CNN
interview six weeks later. Assassinations were back on.

As the old Chinese saying goes: "the darkest spot is under the lamp." Bush and Sharon, such grown up boys and holding important positions too, why didn't they learn some wisdom from Ford? Why don't they know that you can't kill them all?

Now it was Sheikh Yassin's Turn (3/22)

With war you can destroy peace, but you don't destroy war with war. What harsh reality will cause Bush and Sharon to wake up from their brutal dreams?

When Tragedies Become Routine (3/14)

After what happened in Spain, it was to be expected that the Palestinians would not want to lag behind.

Had Rabin survived, history in general would have taken a different route. From my article about Gaza in this issue: "After Rabin's assassination by a Jewish terrorist, Arafat, perhaps fearing that the same might happen to him from an Arab enemy of peace, blew up the negotiations with Barak by posing impossible conditions for Israel."

If Israelis and Palestinians had been smart, there could have been peace even after Rabin's death; Rabin and Arafat had already set the pathway toward peace. Practically the only thing lacking was the signature and it's never too late for a signature. In line with the spirit of negotiations, the Israelis could have simply withdrawn unilaterally from the territories agreed on between Arafat and Rabin. After the Palestinian euphoria subsided, Arafat could quietly, without great psychological impact, have given his signature with no great threats on his life. As a matter of fact, a few months ago Barak proposed unilateral withdrawal, which remains the only valid solution. But as long as Sharon keeps his job it won't happen.

Almost three years ago, during Sharon's visit to the U.S., Bush and Sharon looking very self-satisfied, declared on TV: "First no violence, later negotiations." If Bush were smart, he'd know that no matter how great your power, you don't act like God, giving orders to the shadows.

Total Security Doesn't Exist! (3/11)

Essentially, politics is the art of preventing war. Total solutions are a myth; you can't sterilize the sea or the air to eliminate sickness. Misery increases crime; a rotten political system increases terror. The total imbalance in world power dethrones the notion of politics. The chain of unending wars will stay on course.

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William Markiewicz