Economic Warfare

If the demise of the Cold War was the "End of History ", then life after 9/11 must be the start of Post-History, an era when the western governments began to create a new bogeyman in "terrorism" (See Here) in order to undermine the democracies under their control. Blair introduces ID cards, an anathema to the British; the Americans begin to use anti-terror legislation as a Foreign policy weapon, such as against the NatWest3 (heaven forbid Enron had anything to do with Americans) and now we see the Israelis imposing economic warfare upon its neighbour under the pretext that it's fighting Hizbullah.

Lebanon completely destroyed itself in the 80s, yet recovered, stabilised and was preparing to thrive before the Israelis bombed it back into poverty. Practically none of Israel's targets have been related to Hizbullah. The fundamentalists don't work at petrol stations, dairies or power plants, they're too busy living the martyr's dream out in the wilderness with their weapons.

Yes, the Israelis don't like arabs, and neither do they want their security undermined: but the evidence indicates that this attack is an opportunist war in order to curb Lebanon's recovery as an economic region. It's a Tory mentality: short term gain at the expense of everybody else's quality of life.

The consequences of this attack—ie: the nurturing of revenging terrorists—will have to be shared by the rest of us.

Fuck off Tel Aviv, and tell your buddies in the White House to fuck off back to their ranches with their billions and to leave the world alone.