The War on Terror is a Hoax

By Paul Craig Roberts

The “war on terror” is a hoax that fronts for American control of oil pipelines, the profits of the military-security complex, the assault on civil liberty by fomenters of a police state, and Israel’s territorial expansion.

There were no al Qaeda in Iraq until the Americans brought them there by invading and overthrowing Saddam Hussein, who kept al Qaeda out of Iraq. The Taliban is not a terrorist organization, but a movement attempting to unify Afghanistan under Muslim law. The only Americans threatened by the Taliban are the Americans Bush sent to Afghanistan to kill Taliban and to impose a puppet state on the Afghan people.

Hamas is the democratically elected government of Palestine, or what little remains of Palestine after Israel’s illegal annexations. Hamas is a terrorist organization in the same sense that the Israeli government and the US government are terrorist organizations. In an effort to bring Hamas under Israeli hegemony, Israel employs terror bombing and assassinations against Palestinians. Hamas replies to the Israeli terror with homemade and ineffectual rockets.

Hezbollah represents the Shi’ites of southern Lebanon, another area in the Middle East that Israel seeks for its territorial expansion.

The US brands Hamas and Hezbollah “terrorist organizations” for no other reason than the US is on Israel’s side of the conflict. There is no objective basis for the US Department of State’s “finding” that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations. It is merely a propagandistic declaration.

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Is it not conceivable that a nation operating a spy ring against a ‘friendly nation’ could possibly have paid infiltrators working in what they consider to be ‘enemy territory’? Personally, the way Israel has behaved over the past 60 years, I would not put anything past them. They have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted, nor can those nations that continue to support them.

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Weg uit de ‘War on Terror’

Is het praten met "terroristen" en de politieke islam dé manier om een eind te maken aan de "war on terror?" Alastair Crooke, zelf ervaringsdeskundige in het creëren van dialoog in diverse conflicten, meent van wèl.

Daarom richtte hij het Conflicts Forum op, waar hij informele ontmoetingen organiseert tussen Westerse zwaargewichten en vertegenwoordigers van o.a. Hamas en Hezbollah. Het forum heeft als doel de wederzijdse vooroordelen tussen het Westen en de politieke islam weg te nemen. Alleen zo kun je volgens hem wegkomen van de oorlogretoriek en uit de impasse die de wereld verlamt sinds de Oorlog tegen het Terrorisme.

VPRO's Tegenlicht maakte een reportage over het forum, waarin o.a. een interview met Midden-Oosten-deskundige Robert Fisk.

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Palestinians enjoy a day at the beach, on the second day of the Egyptian-brokered truce between Hamas and Israël.

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Carter said on Monday that Hamas leaders told him they would accept a negotiated peace agreement, if voted for by the Palestinian people.

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