OPEN BOUQUET (November-December)

By William Markiewicz

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

Looking for Terrorism in the Entrails of the Planet (11/26)

Toronto Sun, 11/25/03
$401B for arms (excerpt)

The defence bill lifts a decade-old ban on research into
low-yield nuclear weapons and authorizes $15 million for
continued research into a powerful nuclear weapon capable
of destroying deep underground bunkers.
"Destroying deep underground bunkers" with nuclear weapons is not a clean surgical operation but a straight brutal blast into the entrails of the Earth with a lot of unpredictable consequences. After all, our planet is not the size of Jupiter but just familiar ol' Earth.

Jules Verne wrote that if the earth were made of coal, we'd burn it under our feet. No pity for our planet -- it's in our genes. We all have Antichrist in our veins but Bush is Antichrist with power.

"Radiant Future" under NWO (11/23)

This morning on French Radio Canada I overheard a brief report from Afghanistan -- Kabul, I believe -- that the police shot and killed some demonstrators who were demanding their unpaid salaries. It's been a long time since we heard about police shooting at peaceful demonstrators whose complaint was economic, not political. Even dictatorial Iraq or undemocratic Afghanistan were not a source of news like this before America took over. And what if this is not a sign of social unrest but of a simmering ethnic war?

We have no precise news about what's going on. What if the police were Uzbek and Tajikh and the demonstrators were Pashtun? For thousands of years, the Pashtun were masters in their country because this is the only country they have while the Uzbeks and Tajiks have Uzbekistan and Tajikhstan. Now under the protectorate of the NWO the Pashtuns are punished in Afghanistan for existing.

Impossible Bedfellows (11/15)

According to CNN and Antiwar.com (11.15.03), the White House has declared that US troops would remain in Iraq until they get their hands on Saddam Hussein. Translating from diplomatic into straight language this means either that they have some new element for hope or they plan to stay forever. In the latter case, how to resolve the problem of Iraqis' presence in Iraq? Their urban life is very much urban and modern and you cannot bomb them discretely into rubble, as with the Pashtun in Afghanistan, and forget about their existence.

Chretien goes ... (11/12)

It was not an easy task for Chretien to rule closely after Trudeau. Still he succeeded in not being dwarfed by Trudeau's towering personality. When Bush-Man-of-War ordered his allies/subalterns to follow him, Chretien dared to say 'no', to great chagrin not only in the USA, but among the numerous 'beni oui oui' in Canada. He showed steel character and the posture of a true statesman. Had Martin been in his place, he would probably not have deceived the American friend, and Canadian corpses would be joining the Italians and others on Baghdad's martyred soil. Chretien didn't repeat the mistake he made in allowing Canada to be sucked into the Balkan adventure.

Anti-Semitism? (11/03)

The Observer -- 11/2/03 (excerpt):

Israel outraged as EU poll names it a threat to peace
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor 
   Israel has been described as the top threat to world peace,
   ahead of North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran, by an unpublished 
   European Commission poll of 7,500 Europeans, sparking an 
   international row. 
   ...< >...
   'This poll is an indication that Europeans have bought in, 
   "hook, line and sinker", to the vilification and demonisation
   campaign directed against the state of Israel and her supporters
   by European leaders and media,' said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the
   Wiesenthal Centre's founder. 

   'This shocking result that Israel is the greatest threat to 
   world peace, bigger than North Korea and Iran, defies logic 
   and is a racist flight of fantasy that only shows that 
   anti-semitism is deeply embedded within European society, 
   more then at any other period since the end of the war,' 
   he added.

What is the Rabbi telling us -- that there are a lot of anti-semites stretching from Europe to Malaysia, embracing the Middle East and the rest of the world? Those who abuse the term 'anti-semitism' contribute to trivializing it. As my friend used to say: "Are you sure that you can't make enemies by yourself?" The Serb reaction to the Jewish-American anti-Serbian offensive (read "The Golem ...") is not anti-semitism. The world's reaction to the annexation of the Palestinian Territories is not anti-semitism. Those Territories were seized against the Oslo accords for which Begin and Sadat were awarded the Nobel Prize.

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