Comments on: Motive and Precedent in the Gemayel Assassination

By: Rah Sabs

Rah Sabs — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:29:48 +0000

I am aware of the heterogenity of Israeli politics; that was not my point.

It’s a safe bet that the operation was not executed by AIPAC! So the field operatives must have been — or organised by — Israelis.
The directive for so doing, however, may come from any pole within Israel or from Zionist entities outside Israel.

If the impetus for the murder was their defeat in Lebanon, then the directive may have been either internal or external.
If, OTOH, the intent was to sabotage the deal with Syria, then external directives (ie Diaspora Zionists) are plausible.

By: m.idrees

m.idrees — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:15:19 +0000

Re Syria, you are assuming that the Israeli government and the Israel Lobby in the US have similar interests. On many occasions they diverge; the Israel Lobby’s position is usually more hawkish. It is only by virtue of a conflict in the levant that they can retain their domestic relevance. Two incidents in this regard are instructive: In From Beirut To Jerusalem Thomas Friedman recounts an incident in the early days of the Oslo “peace” process where Thomas Dine of AIPAC called Yossi Beilin a “little shit” for participating in it. More recently, leading neocon Meyrav Wurmser (founder of MEMRI, wife of David Wurmser — Cheney’s chief Middle East advisor and author of “A Clean Break”) confessed to YNet her disappointment at Israel’s reluctance to bomb Damascus during the Lebanon war.

By: Rah Sabs

Rah Sabs — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:35:15 +0000

Hi,

once again, I hear you asking the right questions — questions which one does not even hear _whispered_ in the West.

I am surprised at even Fisk! Why would Syria want to kill a second-rate politician when it was finally being re-offered the carrot it had been seeking for the previous 5 years?

However, I do wonder why Israel would sabotage this when it had been secretly negotiating with Syria for the past 2 years? For answer, one can think of Israel’s unexpected defeat by Hezbollah, or merely suspect conflicting power centres within Israel itself — IOW, an operation by a rogue unit within Israel’s intelligence organisations.