(WMR) -- The
Israeli invasion of Lebanon was planned between top Israeli officials and members
of the Bush administration. On June 17 and 18, former Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud Knesset member Natan Sharansky met with Vice
President Dick Cheney at the American Enterprise Institute conference in Beaver
Creek, Colorado. There, the impending Israeli invasions of both Gaza and
Lebanon were discussed.
After receiving Cheney's full backing for the invasion of
Gaza and Lebanon, Netanyahu flew back to Israel and participated in a special
"Ex-Prime Ministers" meeting, in which he conveyed the Bush
administration's support for the carrying out of the "Clean Break"
policy -- the trashing of all past Middle East peace accords, including Oslo.
Present at the meeting, in addition to Netanyahu, were current Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert and former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres. Former Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir is very old and suffers from dementia and Ariel Sharon
remains in a coma after a series of strokes.
After the AEI meeting, Sharansky, who has the ear of Bush,
met with the Heritage Foundation in Washington and then attended a June 29
seminar at Philadelphia's Main Line Haverford School sponsored by the Middle
East Forum led by Daniel Pipes. Sharansky appeared with Pennsylvania Senator
Rick Santorum who this past Thursday was beating the war drums against Syria,
Iran, and "Islamo-fascism" in a fiery speech at the National Press
Club attended by a cheering section composed of members of the neocon Israel
Project, on whose board Santorum serves along with Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss
and Virginia GOP Rep. Tom Davis.
Our Washington sources claim that the U.S.-supported
invasions of Gaza and Lebanon and the impending attacks on Syria and Iran
represent the suspected "event" predicted to take place prior to the
November election in the United States and is an attempt to rally the American
public around the Bush-Cheney regime during a time of wider war.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based
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Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates.” He is the editor and
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