On the neocons all over again – Amir Tibon in Haaretz:

‘No single word is being used in a more negative way among supporters of President Donald Trump these days than "neocons," short for neoconservatives. This word, which originally described a specific school of interventionist thought in American foreign policy, is often associated with the presidency of George W. Bush, and specifically with the push to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime, take over Iraq and install a different government there.
After the Iraq War turned out to be a total disaster, blaming the neoconservative thinkers and strategists who had supported it became a bipartisan sport in Washington. Barack Obama ran against their foreign policy in 2008 and 2012, and Donald Trump took over the Republican Party by promising to sideline them in 2016. But once he entered the White House, Trump chose many of the supposedly infamous neocons for top policy positions, including former National Security Advisor John Bolton and veteran State Department official Elliott Abrams.’

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‘The experiment referred to in the prior paragraph is the Netanyahu government's plan to take over aid distribution in Gaza, first published by Barak Ravid over the weekend and later corroborated by senior Israeli officials in briefings to the Israeli press. It goes something like this: American companies will begin operating in southern Gaza, under the supervision of the Israeli military, in a "humanitarian compound" surrounded by barbed wire. Two million Gazan citizens will be concentrated in this compound to get food and aid, while Israel will take over the rest of Gaza and use the pressure put on Gaza's population in order to topple the Hamas regime.’

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‘If all this sounds familiar to you, that means you've probably lived through the Iraq War and the "happy" days of American contractors operating under military guidance in an attempt to "separate the local population from the terrorists" and replace the regime, but it's unclear with what exactly.’

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‘Two decades later, they are promoting their Gaza plan in similar fashion – and so far, despite all the rage about the "neocons disrupting his agenda," the president seems to buy it.’

Read the article here.

I was in Baghdad during the happy days of American contractors in the green zone and its surroundings.
The absurdities were numerous, to say the least.

Netanyahu seems to think that if you pile disaster upon disaster you will eventually win.

This is the Messianic belief, see Revelations, destruction first, Messiah later.

Socialism didn’t survive Stalinism very long. I’m not sure what kind of Israel we will have in twenty years, I’m not sure what kind of Israel we have today.

Chances are that the rebuilding of Israel will start in Berlin. In other words, I wrote about it before, that the bastard child of Zionism will be diasporism.