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Israel may lose its Statehood

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SdlzMuwsc
Col. (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson’s last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02).
Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired in 1997 and began work as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs at George Washington University and is currently working on a book about the first George W. Bush administration.

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We are going to go into Northern Gaza and perhaps other parts of it that we can. We are going to kill everything inside that which doesn't get killed will leave because it sees it might get killed if it doesn't. Meanwhile Ben Gavir and a contingent of settlements and settlers are already to move into Northern Gaza and do precisely what they've been doing in the wet bank used to raise them and go on ice which is essentially to disfuse the Palestinians of their land and to take it over. So I think there is at least that sort of plan for the northern part of Gaza. The rest of Gaza, I'm hearing all sorts of outlandish plans. One suggested that other countries in the world should be willing to take all the Palestinians that are left from this pogrom. I think that's nonsense. Others have suggested that the Sinai would be a place to temporarily keep them. Well what is temporary? I just don't see a solution for it but I do see a strategy evolving where Netanyahu thinks he's going to do much earlier than he had planned. He's going to finish the wet bank, he's going to finish East Jerusalem and such and he's going to move right into Gaza and begin the same thing. These people who are working with the settlers, I've seen some of the videos. They go into places, they can be ramshackled, they can be fragmented, they can be dynamited, they can be bombed. These people go in and they're like construction agents. They go in and they move everything and they get all kinds of manpower in there and before you know it six months a year later, they've got the olive grove going again, they've got a ramshackle house built and they move settlers in, then they go on to the next and do it again and again. It's a very, very good example of what we did with the Native Americans in the west of our country for a long time. We ethnically cleansed, we murdered, we slaughtered and then the settlers came in and the gold miners and everything else. They came in, the Buffalo Hunters and so forth. But that was 175 years ago, we evolved, do we still do those sorts of things? Do we still ethnically cleanse old, native populations in order to get their land, their gold, their silver? Oh yes, there's gas that he had a joint contract with the Palestinian Authority to go after off the coast of Gaza. But it really belongs to the Gaza. It doesn't have to worry about that anymore, now it's all Israel's. When you look at all these weapons that have been sent to the Middle East, the US weapons, nuclear capable weapons, what's the reason for that? Is there any risk of having a false flag attack just like what we've seen in Syria? Everything's ready for Netanyahu administration to start a new war, a big war in the Middle East. It worries me that we during the Trump administration, but certainly starting earlier, began to do things that at my time, which ended in 1997, I admit. But at my time, the military was disrecommended every time someone would say it. For example, putting a base in Israel, no absolute verboten. We didn't want to do that because we knew if we were in for a penny, we'd be in for a pound. But as for the rocket came in and hit an American base, then the United States was a war against the United States. Same with Iran, Syria, any other country that might do something. So we were very leery at doing that. You may recall from the first Gulf War, HW Bush gained a lot of leverage over Tel Aviv at that time because he told them you will not respond even if southern Spain shoots a scud missile into the heart of Tel Aviv. And you may recall too, he did shoot some scud missiles at Israel. They did not respond because we had people there to if they did respond, begin to break our relationship with them. And Bush was that serious about it. We haven't had anybody like that since HW Bush. And now we have put all manner of things around Israel that if they are attacked, we're attacked. So your point is well taken. And I'm really worried about the 150,000 I'm told, maybe 170,000, fairly capable missiles that the Tesla has that Nasrallah is sitting on right now. And because of his lack of real political capital in Lebanon now, I think he's very leery to start anything more than he's doing. I found out today 200,000 Israeli citizens have been evacuated from that border and from the Gaza conflict. And they're very serious about killing people on that border now. I think it was 11 or 12 as ready to kill countless numbers of Lebanese probably or Hezbollah because usually 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 or 5 to 1 or worse. So that's another theater that could open up. And my question there too is if all those rockets were to be unleashed near Simultaneously or in ripple effect, it would devastate much of Israel. What would we do then? And then you've got the worst scenario of all, in my view, a very short distance between Turkey and Israel. And you've got Erdogan calling Israel a state terrorist. You've got him saying things. I'm listening to the Turkish and looking at the subscripts and asking people, did he really say that? And some pretty strong language coming out of anchor. And as I said before, the Turkish army is the most powerful land army in NATO. More powerful than our own. And it's very well equipped. And that would be a game changer for the entire region. And what would be nice to say, too, if it's NATO ally, anchor of the southern flank of NATO, however lately it's become questionable about his NATO affiliation, attack Israel. I don't think Israel could survive that. So my prophecy that Israel won't be a state in 20 years, two years ago, would come through a lot sooner than I thought. The potential is there. I'm not trying to say that it's going to happen. I'm just saying the potential is there, which is why we need to do more than we're doing to rein in NATO and to get this situation under some kind of decent control. Who's running the show, Larry? The natural is really rude, if you will, of turning everything over to the generals when they go to war and the civilians just sit back and watch. When that in NATO, I doubt very seriously, but the case. And to answer your question directly, ever since Netanyahu, Netanyahu, spoke to a joint session of the United States Congress and criticized the sitting president of the United States while he did it. Who's been running this show? BB. And BB is running it now. And Joe can protest, but Biden can protest all he wants to. And he can make remarks in the dark as it were that are strong and forceful. BB is running the show. If they take all the weapons, all the support, all the help to the Israelis out of that region, what would happen to the BB Netanyahu administration? If we cut our support completely, which I think now, after 50 years of experience in the US government, it is total impossibility. But if we cut it completely, he'd have to stop. He wouldn't have to stop right away, but he'd have to stop pretty quickly. They are capable of going on. I would say probably for 30 to 45 days with this kind of bloodshed and so forth, but pretty soon they'd run out of all the things that we give them almost gratuitously. Things like the bombs that come off the pylons of the F-16s, where as get out of Levy has said before, where is guilty of the Israelis every time one of those bombs killed the Palestinian child in the street, which is quite a lot of times where is guilty? And we took all that away. If we stopped all of our support, plus pulled the carriers out of the eastern Med and essentially said, we're breaking off contact with Israel. This is too much of a bloodbath. We're not going to tolerate it. They won't listen to us. It'd be over, for sure. Now, when you're attacking civilians, you are playing in the hand of Hamas, not playing against Hamas. But I don't think Israel will continue to be a state as it's presently constituted within the next 20 years. I'd say within the next decade now. I say that for a number of reasons. First of all, they are a strategic liability, not a strategic asset to the United States. They've always dealt with them during the Cold War. That's what we dealt with them. Taiwan, same thing. You know, an island at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, friendly to us that we could land on if we had to fight the Soviet Union. Same thing with Taiwan. Then there was strategic asset, in that very geostrategic sense. They were an asset. They are now a total liability to the United States, to our reputation, to our power, to our strategic focus. We should be focused on China. China is the real threat to the United States. I'm not saying there's going to be a war there, but there might be if we keep getting weaker and weaker and weaker in China, it feels like it's still March on. That strategic focus is terrible. This latest development, this development in Gaza, that the Israeli should have seen coming like a steam rover down the road. I mean, how many intifautas do we have to have? How many times do we have to go through this iteration where people who are fundamentally slaves, subhuman, kept that way by another state's military and police forces suddenly reacts to that? I don't care whether it's Hamas or the Palestinian Authority or some outside powers, it does it for them like Saudi Arabia or Egypt. It's just going to happen. Now this cycle can only repeat itself so many times, I think. This might be the last cycle. What is Israel after this cycle ends? Is it what Netanyahu wants, which is a greater, desionist dream, a greater Israel? It's so big and encompasses all the water, oil, gas and everything else in that region and is really giving Jordan and Egypt and Syria a headache every day because they know no one is satisfied with that kind of movement and gain of territory until they've got more and more and more. So that's what the region would be looking at. They would then figure out a way to terminate Israel as an existence state. That's what they're headed for. And yet you've got everything from the US side where John Hageek thinks this is terrific Christians united for Israel because it's going to bring about Armageddon and that's what he's looking for. To the side that says, okay, the only way to protect Israel is to eliminate its enemy. We're starting with the Palestinians and we'll negotiate with people like the Qataris and Emirates, Saudi Arabia and so forth and we'll put cash in front of them which always gets those Arabs and when we're ready to smack them, we'll smack them too. But right now we're just going to keep them close to us. I see that as a, what would you call that? The strategy of a greater Israel, the strategy of the Zionists from the original conception. We're not just going to have a state, we're going to have a whole bunch of land and a whole bunch of regions. I don't know if nothing else schemes are that grandiose. They certainly won't be satisfied even if they're any possibility they would in his lifetime. That's another thing about these people and I don't mean Jews when I say these people. I mean these Zionists who are so zestful for other people's property and other people's territory. They don't seem to have a closure for their appetite. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the wake of the devastating violence of World War II when international leaders came to the sudden realization that the world no longer had a non-stop carnage-filled conflict with which to entertain itself and decided that the best course of action would be to lock Israelis and Palestinians in bloody, unrelenting combat for their own amusement. Global leaders worked tirelessly to engineer a conflict so intractable that it could last indefinitely with a near-constant stream of entertaining destruction for many generations to come. The UN's plan has been so successful that it has resulted in some of the most thoroughly enjoyable displays of ideological bloodshed the world has ever seen, including the edge of your seat fun of the Six-Day War, the non-stop satisfaction of the First Interfather, and the widely beloved series of Jerusalem bus bombings. While the conflict has raged for almost three-quarters of a century, both Israelis and Palestinians actually favor an identical solution for ending hostilities. Israeli and Palestinian leaders have made it clear that they see eye to eye on virtually every facet of the proposed solution, including such provisions as seizing all territory, watching the opposition burn in righteous fire, and building a unified nation on the corpses of the enemy, and yet they still haven't come any closer to putting a stop to the conflict. However, many Israelis and Palestinians remain hopeful that significant breakthroughs in recent years could mean that their mutual goal of total annihilation of the other side will be realized within their lifetimes. Given the lengthy and brutal history between the two rivals, there will never be peace in the region, but hey, that doesn't mean Palestinians and Israelis shouldn't try. Everyone needs something that gives them a sense of purpose, and if getting together every once in a while to have a chat about ending their fighting is what's going to give Israelis and Palestinians a reason to roll out of bed, then that's just great. Taking up rollerblading, building a ship in a bottle, negotiating a ceasefire built on 1967 borders. All of these are wonderful ways to keep yourself active and healthy, and it doesn't matter if the ceasefire fails to hold, and hundreds and hundreds more innocent people die, because you know what? You tried, and that's what really matters. So forget about the ingrained hate and bloodlust, and just be you, Palestinians and Israelis. You're doing a great job, and we couldn't be prouder of both of you.