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THE COMING REFERENDUM...MAYBE
by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst &
commentator
There may be a Referendum wherein the Israeli people will
be offered the opportunity to freely vote whether they wish
the Government to abandon the Golan Heights to Syria.
I have my doubts as to whether it will occur as
promised or, if it does, will it be weighted down with
small print and escape clauses to allow the Government
to do as it pleases. Here then are some of the things to
be expected and watched for:
1. Look for deep but covert involvement of the Clinton
Administration.
2. Watch for pre-planning which is intended to dominate
Israeli thinking - to include brain-washing,
intimidation, missing details, misleading and/or
untrue statements, little explanation of consequences.
3. The Israeli government, at the directions of Barak is
already blocking out language of the Referendum.
It will include psychological thoughts intended to
confuse and mislead the reader. Such thinkers as Yossi
Beilin, Shimon Peres, Yossi Sarid will be working closely
with such U.S. State Department advisors as Dennis Ross,
Madame Albright, and most certainly with Clinton’s
political tricksters James Carville and staff.
Pollsters can attest to the fact that a question can be
positioned so that the respondent can only give one answer.
Therefore, the language of the Referendum will be
subtly formatted to tilt the answer (vote) in one direction.
4. Look for Barak to enlist the authority of Israel’s
Left-leaning Supreme Court to add its weight and supposedly
even-handed opinion. The mere appearance of the names of
Supreme Court Judges will cover over any suspicions the
public may have as to Barak’s intentions and honesty.
5. Naturally, weeks before the Referendum is offered to the
public, the three Leftist newspapers, the government run
radio and television will launch a mind-numbing campaign
to convince the Israeli public that the stark choice is
war or peace. Naturally, they will reflect Barak and
Clinton’s position.
6. American journals, closely linked to the State Department
will spew out lofty reasons for the Syrian position and
this will be quoted as gospel by the Hebrew Press
eliminating the factual down-side.
You will see small articles here and there, offering the
opposing opinion but it will be selectively offering the
thoughts of unimportant writers whose opinions the public
will consider trivial, non-persuasive and guaranteed to
be ignored. But, the Hebrew Press will have covered
itself against accusations that they are biased and
working hand in hand with Barak
and U.S. interests.
Before the Referendum, they will use the same technique
as pre-Oslo.
Barak - Clinton - Assad will offer a completed document,
spelling out all the wonderful intended goals of the peace
of paper. It will very likely be given to the Knesset for
a rubber stamp approval. You may even see signatures
of nations from the E.U. (European Union), in addition to
our "esteemed" American President so closely associated
with Arab interests.
This impressive and weighty document, backed by all those
important people and nations will then be presented to the
Israeli people with the implicit threat of: "I dare you to
reject what the world has offered."
Clearly, the plan of intimidation is well underway,
with the Jewish advisors to Clinton shaping the language
in a way that only another Jew would know to be most
effective against his own people.
Now, if all that fails to force a yea vote, be assured
that there will be escape clauses allowing Barak to set
aside the vote, using the high-sounding phrase: "It’s a
matter of National Security." This a common phrase in
American politics when scoundrels are caught in dirty
illegal tricks and covert operations. They wrap themselves
in the flag and claim "National Security" thereby avoiding
impeachment or prison.
I see the deal as having been cut long ago. Just as the
Labor Party started Oslo illegally in 1983, so to the
Syrian deal has been simmering for a long
time. Syria is to be taken off of the U.S. list of
terrorist nations. They will be granted large amounts of
American aid with which they will rebuild their armed
forces much the same as has been done with Egypt. They
(the Syrians) will in due time ignore all the language of
normalization as has Egypt.
They will absolutely turn back the water flow from the
Golan into Syria. Israel will protest to the U.S. and be
ignored, just as when Egypt moved missile batteries into
the Sinai. The Leftists will be chased out of the
Government if not out of the country but by that time
Israel will be dried up and parched.
Look for ramped up intimidation by the Police as happened
under Rabin and Peres. Peaceful demonstrators will be
harassed. Leaders will be arrested on trumped up charges
and kept in jail or in court with costly trials. The Army
will be charged with suppressing demonstrations all over
the country by patriots who want to defend the Golan
Heights as an irreplaceable security asset which includes
40% of the nation’s water supply.
Note! The Government has already launched a misleading
media campaign, assuring the public that this massive
water loss can be replaced by water tankers from Turkey
and desalination plants. This is, of course, a lie. Barak
recently made a secret appeal to Turkey to allow more water
through to Syria so Syria will allow language in the coming
agreement NOT to hold back Golan water from Israel once it
is under Syrian control.
Other Avishai Ravivs will be busy acting as ‘agents
provocateurs’ giving the Hebrew Press and opportunity to
demonize those who oppose trusting Syria and giving up the
high ground and water of the Golan. If there is enough
opposition, look for Barak to declare martial law, imposing
a military regime and, of course, pushing through the
surrender of the Golan Heights.
There will, of course, be police and military riots.
(That means that there will be officially sanctioned
brutality.) Perhaps some will recall the official police
beatings of elderly women and other orderly demonstrators
when they protested against the Rabin policies. The great
humanists (the Left) turned a blind eye to the beatings
because these "people" were opposing their political
philosophy. If this all sounds like a replay of the
East German Stasi or the Romanian Iron Guard and other
Fascist repressions, it’s because these methods have been
adopted by succeeding Leftist Governments as their methods
of choice. They were, after all, doing it in
the best interests of the people and it was only a
momentary lapse in democracy.
Finally, if intimidation fails; if jailing the opposition
fails; look for new elections with Barak and Company
relying on the thin margin that the Arab vote will give
him to push through the Golan surrender.
There is also the law of ‘unintended consequences’ such as
Assad dying and Rifat, his brother, starting a Civil War
in Syria to take control.
There is also the yet unknown response of the American
Congress as to whether they are prepared to sign off to
Israel on $20 to 40 Billion American taxpayers dollars to
buy Clinton his Nobel Peace Prize. The real and additional
cost will be the transfer of military and civilians off
of the Golan Heights. Then there is the fund for Syria
which could easily be double what is allocated for Israel.
All in all, the Congress will be asked by a Peace Prize
seeking President to pony up in excess of $100 Billion
dollars, coming out of U.S. tax revenues and draining
other entitlement funds for American schools, medicine,
et al.
There is a high probability that Congress will provide
only a fraction of this money (if any). The burden of
payment will then fall on the Israeli people in increased
taxes. By the time Congress refuses to pay for Clinton’s
grand gesture, Barak will have committed to Syria and there
will be no turning back.
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