Despite Newfound ‘Friends’ Lebanon’s Palestinians Require UN Action to Obtain Civil Rights

Dr. Franklin Lamb Salem-News.com

Lebanon’s Parliament is once again ignoring the issue of the elementary human right to work and to own a home for their guests from Palestine.

Lebanon in 2006, Salem-News.com photo by Dexter Phoenix.

(JALIL REFUGEE CAMP, BAALBEK, Lebanon) – Jalil Refugee Camp is located about 90 km east of Beirut near Baalbek in the Bekaa valley and is home to approximately 8000 of the World’s most destitute Palestinian refugees. It is usually referred to as “Wavell Camp”, after the British Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell’s time at the former French military base during World War II.

The French built the base in order to secure part of their vast chunk of territory following the secret May 16, 1915 Sykes-Picot Arab land grab that divided parts of South Western Asia territory previously administered by the Ottoman Turks between England and France.

The hegemony included illegally carving the State of Lebanon from Syria, during the League of Nations Mandate era and Jilil camp has been housing Palestinians since 1948.

Today, the inhabitants live in particularly unhealthy conditions with some families still living in the original French army barracks and horse stables without daylight and ventilation and several families forced to share communal toilets which sometimes freeze up in the Bekaa’s frigid winters.

When this observer visited the camp last week with a colleague from the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign to discuss the possibility of an American ex-pat Palestinian building a factory near the camp that could employ 400 Palestinians, I was initially surprised by what I saw written on the Kastall Secondary School blackboard. I presumed a teacher had written the words, “Haram, 425 and no benefit to anyone!!”

My first thought was that some of the teachers in UNWRA were finally resisting the outrageous prohibition against UNWRA schools teaching refugee children anything about their history or culture or even allowing them to wear a bracelet or pin with the Palestinian flag or Palestinian symbols to school and certainly not the treasonous kafiyeh although it’s become a popular fashion accessory for students around the world.

While I was aware that the UNRWA prohibition was ordered by the US Israeli lobby lest Palestinian nationalism develop more rapidly among Palestinian youth who had knowledge their country’s history and the Nakba, I have always felt that this groveling was shameful and that UNWRA should completely reject it.

When our meeting started I realized that “425”written on the blackboard did not, as I had wrongly assumed, refer to UN Security Council Resolution “425” which ordered the withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied Lebanese territory in 1978, a UN demand Israel has still not fulfilled 33 years later as it remains in Shebaa Farms and Ghajar.

Rather it referred to the 425 days since Lebanon’s Parliament on August 17, 2010 claimed it had “partially” granted the right to work to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

Of course it did not do any such thing and the feel good thinly cosmetic gesture of abolishing the work permit fee (the fee was never a significant problem) for any Palestinian refugees who somehow might be able to navigate the Kafkaesque labyrinth was stillborn.

A representative of the Camp informed us that since last summer’s Parliamentary feel good gesture, of a very minor amendment to the Lebanese labor law had not even been implemented.

As many of us predicted at the time, Parliament had not created one Palestinian work permit and every Palestinian still remains barred from any job except casual farm labor, per day construction and a few other very marginal jobs such as tending livestock.

So the factory idea has run into a problem since under Lebanese law it is still forbidden for refugees from Palestine to work in more than five dozen jobs including the new hoped for assembly plant.

But to hear the refugee’s new friends report on the current prospects for Palestinians internationally, conditions are coming up roses for the camp inhabitants in Lebanon as well. Bit the facts are quite the opposite for refugee prospects here in Lebanon.

It’s true that the recent events at the UN regarding the Palestinian request for UN Membership has raised the hopes of many in Lebanon’s camps.

This observer was happy to see the much larger than expected turnouts in support of Palestinian statehood at UN HQ in downtown Beirut and also at Mar Elias refugee camp, the smallest of the 12 camps in Lebanon and one of three teeming camps in Beirut along with Shatilla and Burj al Barajneh.

One visiting Palestinian who was not hoodwinked during his visit last week was Hamas co-founder Mahmoud Zahar who following a visit to Nahr al Bared camp declared that Palestinians in Lebanon live is worse conditions than in occupied Palestine or even Gaza following the 2008 Israeli war on the enclave of 1.5 million. Zahar promised Lebanon’s refugees: “We will make all efforts with the Arab League and with Arab states to help lift this injustice inflicted on you in the camps here in Lebanon. It’s injustice that cannot be tolerated by any man and is not acceptable to God Almighty.”

Meanwhile Lebanon’s Parliament is once again ignoring the issue of the elementary human right to work and to own a home for their guests from Palestine.

Two bills that were not considered last year were scheduled to be voted on this session with the new Hezbollah led majority according to their sponsors, the National Syrian Socialist Party and the Progressive Socialist Party led by Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt.

So far Parliament has not exhibited even a hint of considering draft legislation that would enact any internationally mandated civil rights for Palestinians forced into Lebanon 63 years ago.

Arch Palestinian foes are talking as if there is no problem with approximately 250,000 Palestinian refugees without the right to work or own a home. Michel Aoun, who more than any political leader has been and remains responsible for blocking Palestinian basic human rights in Parliament told the September 27 weekly meeting of his Free Patriotic Movement that “ it is the UN that commits an international crime by not recognizing Palestinians remaining rights…“

Today, the UN is confused and remaining silent vis-a-vis the ongoing crime against the Palestinian people, for which it is mainly responsible since Israel was established via a UN declaration.

The Palestinians are not demanding their full share, rather what is left for them after the Jews occupied their land in 1948. They are demanding the 1967 border. If the UN is incapable of proclaiming the state of Palestine within the 1967 border, why is there a United Nations?… Today, the UN will commit yet another crime against the Palestinians by not recognizing the remainder of their land and rights.

So I would like to ask the so-called Arab moderate states whether or not they understood that the path they adopted with Israel was the wrong one.”

Aoun’s rivals in keeping Parliament from enacting civil rights is the right wing Kataeb politburo and Phalange party some of whose members bragged during last year’s elections about how many Palestinian the party had killed over the years.

Sami Gemayal stated on 9/28/11 that his party is “positively” following up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ steps at the UN regarding the former’s formal submittal of a membership bid to the UN. He claimed remarkably that “The Kataeb, has always stood by the Palestinian people and supported their legitimate rights to establish an independent state in Palestine and it cannot but stand by achieving the rightful and urgent demands.

It supports any governmental plan that fulfills these demands.” The Kataeb statement also called on the Arab and international communities to find a “quick solution” to the issue of Palestinian refugees particularly those present in Lebanon.

While neither Aoun nor the Kataeb party as “new friends of Palestinians” is at all serious in demanding that the International community enforce Palestinian refugees rights in Lebanon and would reportedly take up arms to try to prevent it, this is exactly what the UN is obliged to do.

It has become clear that Lebanon’s Parliament is unwilling and incapable of acting on its own and those international sanctions may be the only path to encourage Lebanon to meet its international obligations to her refugees pending their return to Palestine.

Dr. Franklin Lamb is the author of The Price We Pay: A Quarter-Century of Israel’s Use of American Weapons Against Civilians in Lebanon.

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Dr. Franklin Lamb is Director of the Sabra Shatila Foundation. Contact him at: fplamb@sabrashatila.org. He is working with the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign in Lebanon on drafting legislation which, after 62 years, would, if adopted by Lebanon’s Cabinet and Parliament grant the right to work and to own a home to Lebanon’s Palestinian Refugees. One part of the PCRC legislative project is its online Petition which can be viewed and signed at: petitiononline.com/ssfpcrc/petition.html. Lamb is reachable atfplamb@palestinecivilrightscampaign.org. Franklin Lamb’s book on the Sabra-Shatila Massacre, International Legal Responsibility for the Sabra-Shatila Massacre, now out of print, was published in 1983, following Janet’s death and was dedicated to Janet Lee Stevens. He was a witness before the Israeli Kahan Commission Inquiry, held at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in January 1983.

Here are eleven facts that you need to know about the nation’s biggest banks:

– Bank profits are highest since before the recession…: According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., bank profits in the first quarter of this year were “the best for the industry since the $36.8 billion earned in the second quarter of 2007.” JP Morgan Chase is currently pulling in record profits.

– …even as the banks plan thousands of layoffs: Banks, including Bank of America, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse, are planning to lay off tens of thousands of workers.

– Banks make nearly one-third of total corporate profits: The financial sector accounts for about 30 percent of total corporate profits, which is actually downfrom before the financial crisis, when they made closer to 40 percent.

– Since 2008, the biggest banks have gotten bigger: Due to the failure of small competitors and mergers facilitated during the 2008 crisis, the nation’s biggest banks — including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo — are now bigger than they were pre-recession. Pre-crisis, the four biggest banks held 32 percent of total deposits; now they hold nearly 40 percent.

– The four biggest banks issue 50 percent of mortgages and 66 percent of credit cards: Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup issue one out of every two mortgages and nearly two out of every three credit cards in America.

– The 10 biggest banks hold 60 percent of bank assets: In the 1980s, the 10 biggest banks controlled 22 percent of total bank assets. Today, they control 60 percent.

– The six biggest banks hold assets equal to 63 percent of the country’s GDP: In 1995, the six biggest banks in the country held assets equal to about 17 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product. Now their assets equal 63 percent of GDP.

– The five biggest banks hold 95 percent of derivatives: Nearly the entire market in derivatives — the credit instruments that helped blow up some of the nation’s biggest banks as well as mega-insurer AIG — is dominated by just five firms: JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo.

– Banks cost households nearly $20 trillion in wealth: Almost $20 trillion in wealth was destroyed by the Great Recession, and total family wealth is still down “$12.8 trillion (in 2011 dollars) from June 2007 — its last peak.”

– Big banks don’t lend to small businesses: The New Rules Project notes that the country’s 20 biggest banks “devote only 18 percent of their commercial loan portfolios to small business.”

– Big banks paid 5,000 bonuses of at least $1 million in 2008: According to the New York Attorney General’s office, “nine of the financial firms that were among the largest recipients of federal bailout money paid about 5,000 of their traders and bankers bonuses of more than $1 million apiece for 2008.”

In the last few decades, regulations on the biggest banks have been systematically eliminated, while those banks engineered more and more ways to both rip off customers and turn ever-more complex trading instruments into ever-higher profits. It makes perfect sense, then, that a movement calling for an economy that works for everyone would center its efforts on an industry that exemplifies the opposite.

Smashing Greater Central Asia—Part II

Risking the World

Peter Chamberlin

In the grand scheme of things, as conceived inside Washington, D.C., the world is a three-dimensional chess board, much like the ones seen on Star Trek, or more accurately, like the modern game called “Risk.”

For those unfamiliar with this popular cult board game, it is literally a game of world conquest, fought with symbolic armies, massed on the players’ occupied territories, with battles decided by the roll of a pair of dice.  The Obama foreign policy seems like it could be something that was dreamed-up in the middle of the night by a couple of  stoned-out “frat boys,” in their smelly, smoky college dorms,  making their plans to one day rule the world.

Like the strategy of the Hasbro game, the White House is engaged in a series of moves that are intended to undermine all other players.  Following a carefully planned strategy, which was originally conceived during the last administration, Obama is continuing Bush’s  attack, undermining his opponents’ weak links, in a manner that is anticipated to cause a cascading loss of strength in their adversaries.  The grand plan of undermining every country simultaneously, until you are the last man left standing, requires taking key territories with enough armies to hold them all, until the end.  This is the deadly game that the White House and the Pentagon are playing against the rest of the world, using human beings as game pieces, without remorse.

The strategic and tactical geniuses at the Pentagon and the CIA have actually been tasked with fixing the major problems that America has with the rest of the world.  The primary problem is that people and nations do not behave in the submissive manner that our leaders would like to see coming from them.  Their solution is to bring all things in the world under the control of one command center—a “Pax Americana,” creating an era of global peace, enforced by American military might.  One-by-one, all the “trouble-making” countries which have offered resistance to this new order would be brought into line under Imperial plans.  The real problem is that American leaders have let their greed get in the way of their altruism.  No plan to pacify the power centers of the world could succeed unless its main mission was the elevation of the human condition.  Plans of pacifying the world for the profit of a small minority of men will always be doomed before they even start.

The US Army Central Command has literally set into play a game strategy intended to undermine every Nation in the world, except for the last one, the world’s only superpower.  This brutal dangerous game that the military planners have activated could just as easily undermine every Nation, including the lone superpower, unless the commanders manage to maintain some degree of control.  The plan to control the behavior of free Nations usually begins by establishing leadership control in key countries, in particular, with military leaders.

The global war on terror is in no way a war on “terror,” because most of the people that they are planning to kill cannot be defined as “terrorists,” yet.  They belong to no terrorist or militant outfit, at this point in their lives. They are probably not even enemies of the United States yet, maybe most of them even desire our “way of life.”  The enemies for this war plan do not even exist yet, but our military leaders plan to create thousands of new enemies, by driving some of them to take-up arms to resist us at some point in the future.

America’s war plan is to push the limits of normal human endurance in the targeted countries, past the point where most people there are willing to submit to our domination and mind-games.   American military strategy is to take entire nations (like Pakistan) to the breaking point, where they turn elements of the population from passive to active, turning them into resisters against America’s Imperial cause.  We create, what we have defined as “terrorists,” in order to know who they are.  It is a great sorting-out of the Muslim world.   Who has the seed of “terrorism” within them?

How could such a global “police action” be considered a “war,” when we have no organized “enemies,” except for small groups of older terrorists who have mostly been trained by us, numbering only in the hundreds or low thousands?  If you are looking for global domination, then how do you fight wars without enemies?  You must create them as you go, which is exactly the process that I have been describing, over and over, for the past four years.

Why do you need to take wholesale risks with your troops, by fighting real enemies, when you can just as easily (and much more cheaply) create the perception that your troops are fighting against actual guerrilla armies?  Perception-management is the real name of this war, which we have so far called the “global war on terrorism.”  In typical “false flag terrorism,” attacks are staged in specific locations, in a manner that will cast guilt on specific innocent parties.  In warfare by perception-management, false flags are just one of the more extreme tactical solutions to altering misguided perceptions.  In a war that is all about perceptions, that is, controlling perceptions, the most effective weapon is the controlled media.

With a controlled media, there isn’t even a need for a big organized opposition of any kind.  With today’s electronic media, stories are frequently created out of thin air, hand-crafted, using digital information.  These are the stories that have given substance to The Myth of “Al-Qaeda.”   You then use your media to interweave these mythical stories with war reports from the four or five real wars that you have managed to start and you have the makings of a believable legend.  Take the real history of the original American/Pakistani trained Afghan mujahedeen veterans and their exploits, while working for the CIA in Africa and Eurasia, then roll that together with the legend that you have already created, and you have the apparently real media entity known as “Al-Qaeda” (SEE:  Unraveling the Myth of Al Qaida).

Now that American psy-warriors have managed to manufacture this synthetic “enemy” from carefully constructed lies and strands of real information, they feel confident enough in the mold of the “militant Islamists” that they have created to use it to import the threat of an Islamist takeover into Central Asia, Africa and perhaps beyond that.  They have already used it to light the spark of revolution in Libya, in a sort of reverse pattern.  There, America’s Islamists are now openly fighting on our side (SEE:  America’s “Islamists” Go Where Oilmen Fear to Tread), in an attempt to revive the original prototype of Islamist warriors who were once described as “freedom fighters” by their creators in Reagan’s CIA.  The problem with the new “Libya scenario,” is that it only works when conditions are ripe enough for instigating democratic-revolution.  The dictators of Central Asia maintain too tight of a grip for such a destabilization to work there without the inclusion of other measures.  Multiple forces have been arrayed against the dictators of the Stans.  The chances of any of them surviving the steady onslaught are minimal, at best.

In order to undermine strong-man rule there, American psy-warriors must follow the basic rules of terrorist provocation that they have been compiling since the early days of their European “Gladio” campaign.  In Germany, Italy, Turkey, and throughout Western Europe, right-wing allies were recruited from local militaries to stage terror attacks upon left-wing leaders, or to implicate them in “false-flag” scenarios.  This is known as the “strategy of tension.”  It is a fear-driven campaign designed to induce psychological trauma in the minds of the targeted victims.  Those intended victims in the new great game are primarily the dictators themselves.  They must be driven by fear into instituting harsh, unnecessary punitive measures upon local populations, seeking to quash budding “Islamist” or democratic movements in their infancy.

All that is necessary is the staging of a few “Shariah” enforcing attacks, or small military assaults upon police or government forces and swift government reprisals will follow.  Intersperse a few manufactured media stories about Afghan militants, or IMU (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan) terrorists moving northward, or agitate known former Islamists into taking a defensive posture and you have created the makings of an anti-Islamist government crackdown.  This artificial Islamization effort is underway now all along the central Fergana Valley.  Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, in particular, have been infiltrated by a handful of Afghan veterans, or paid mercenaries, or former militants, resulting in claims that they will be the first dominoes to fall to Islamist penetration, thus preparing the way there for the introduction of US or NATO defenders.

If, for some reason, this strategy of tension fails to elicit the required harsh government reaction, then State Dept. agitation tactics are being readied as a fall-back position.  The lack of freedoms in the former Soviet satellites ensures that social unrest will arise some day in each of the Stans, making agitation a simple matter for psywar technicians.  Economic hardships and deprivation are like icing upon the cake in any planned destabilization.

In my previous article in this series, Smashing Greater Central Asia (Part I), I described the components of a “(net-centric combat system), tied directly into the Global Information Grid (GIG),” that was to be constructed in Central Asia.  I speculated in that article that it was to be constructed surreptitiously in all the countries in Central Asia, under multiple justifications.  The more that the latest game/psyop plays-out, the more apparent it becomes that Uzbekistan is to be the intended primary location of this electronic total information network, with an air force of unmanned Reapers riding shotgun high in the skies over the Northern Distribution Network (NDN).  This network is definitely being constructed through Uzbekistan, also touching on a small sliver of Kazakhstan, where the Northern Network meets the Caspian Sea.  The components of this network are to be moved into Uzbekistan under cover of the recently authorized military aid package for Uzbekistan.  This is anticipated to be a long-term arrangement, as proposed oil and gas pipelines will need protecting after the alleged end of the Afghan war in 2014.  By that time, it is hoped that the UAV drone network can be extended into all the Caucasus countries, in order to guard the full lengths of the planned pipelines, TAPI and Nabucco (which is due to start construction at about that time).

In addition to the drone/surveillance network, Special Forces training centers in the works will coordinate military efforts between host countries and their Imperial benefactor.  They will be manned by US and NATO trainers.   One is planned for Uzbekistan and another has already been built in northern Kyrgyzstan with a second US-manned training facility under consideration for the south, near Fergana Valley.   Tajikistan, as well as Turkmenistan have already opened their arms to the American military’s efforts to build modern border control centers along the frontier with Afghanistan.

Multiple avenues of penetration ensure that no targeted nation is immune to the US probing.  Even so, there is always the possibility that some smart Central Asian dictator will grow weary of all the manipulations and machinations and shut-down ongoing State Dept. penetration by radicalized journalists and armies of trained activists.  Turkmenistan is one targeted, energy-producing state which has already done this to a degree, by shutting-down Western NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that had been operating there under the guise of humanitarian aid programs and by refusing to cooperate on NATO’s Northern Distribution Network.

Even though NATO forces have given-up on drug eradication efforts within Afghanistan, (the source of most of the world’s heroin and opium), the CIS leaders are all seriously concerned about narco-terrorism.  Drug interdiction efforts are developing into a primary area of interaction between CIS countries (even Russia) and Western military and policing forces (SEE: Washington’s New Foxy Plan To Sneak Into the Central Asian Hen House).   The Central Asian Counter-narcotics Initiative (CACI) is the name of the “foxy” plan, which aims to sneak American DEA agents into all the Central Asian “hen houses.”

Military to military aid is the favored method for gaining control of elements within a nation’s armed forces.  American control over NATO was used to expand the organization into former Soviet space, primarily through the Partnership for Peace (PIP) military exchange and military modernization program.  Military friendships which have been established through this program have served to infiltrate US military thinking into the minds of the foreign military leaders.  Whatever is planned for those countries will be centered on those officers who have been compromised in this manner, and those who are susceptible to simple bribery.

In most of the CIS states, the problem is the same—after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the state has become one man.  The failure of The State, the failure of The Party, the failure of The System, were all made right in one man rule.  In that one “new man” was born the new totalitarian future, within the new system, “neo-capitalism,” a new type of capitalism, one with a familiar communist head.  The dictator became the first new capitalist, the “proto-neo-capitalist” (oligarch), when he inherited the possessions of The State and all the rest, to divide-up amongst his favorite cronies and family members, however he saw fit.  In turn, the many new oligarchs dispensed part of their new fortunes to their friends and cronies.  They have patterned their new economies, as well as the daily operations of their inherited industries, after Western management models, creating the impression of new “capitalist” economies and through association, implying that post-Soviet governments were “democratic.”

The problem of trying to bring Western investors into these new economies was in integrating the neo-capitalist industries with traditional capitalist financiers and industrialists.  The neo-capitalist markets that they created were based around expansion of their own black market operations.   The oligarchs could impersonate the real capitalists, but they refused to operate by Western profit models, which would have confined them to profits of less than 30% (on average), preferring instead, to reverse the equation, taking 70 or 80% returns on the investments that were being made, using their purloined resources (SEE:  The Private Pocket of the President (Berdymukhamedov).  Western investors have prudently hesitated to invest in such partnerships.  Western oil and gas corporations have come to realize that they were running up against this psychological obstacle in their attempts to harvest and transport Central Asian hydrocarbon resources.  Turning former communists into good capitalists is a never-ending problem, just look at all the problems that have been created by our own “neocons” (former Marxists).

Obama is trying to overcome Central Asia by either forcing the sitting regimes to change the way that they operate, or, failing that, to change the regimes themselves.  Pax Americana has no room for failure, even though all the existing plans are doomed to failure, because of their inherent weaknesses and basic contradictions.  No amount of plotting will overcome human nature.   All of those leaders can be counted on to protect their own interests.  They can all be counted on (with the possible exception of Roza Otunbayeva in Kyrgyzstan), to resist with all the means at their disposal, when they realize that the dangers they are facing from the West will make the Soviets look like a bunch of “old softies.”  When they realize that the same malevolent forces which succeeded in dismantling and then replacing the Soviet Union are repeating the same process in the Stans, the reactions will be swift and eventually coordinated.

Central Asia will not go down without a fight, and NOT the fight that the American psy-warriors have envisioned.  There will be NO procession of events from NDN, to Afghan pacification, to TAPI and then to Nabucco, under the protective umbrella of terminator-drones, operating within their Global Information Grid.  The extremely complicated, elaborate grand Take-Over-the-World Plan, which has been arrogantly conceived, may have been doomed to failure from the start, because of the many fallacies upon which it was forced to operate, but that has not stopped American and NATO leaders from following it to create even more and more cracks in the façade of human civilization, in hopes of taking control over all countries in the end.  There is no end to the depths of human depravity that they will plumb, in their great quest to control the world.  Cheney’s arrogant “walk on the dark side” has threatened to plunge us all into an era of utter darkness.

By taking Iraq out of the Middle East equation, they have made the whole Greater Middle East fluid, making it impossible to predict many things that would happen next.  Now that Iraq’s military has been destroyed unnecessarily, the playing board has been made somewhat safe for other Iraq-sized militaries to make bold moves, or to benefit from the destruction that we have wrought, as Iran has done, hoping to capitalize on the breakdown of the balance of forces there.  Turkey in the Mediterranean and in the former Turkic countries of Central Asia is a perfect example of the unpredictable events that will arise out of medium sized militaries pushing their weight around, seeking to profit from American destabilization efforts.  France and the UK in Libya, for example, making their daily threats against Syria, is just another unintended consequence of the new reality.  To illustrate just where this is all leading, France and Turkey are now taking jabs at each other over Armenia and Turkey’s complicated history.

Perhaps the preceding points may help to explain US and NATO readiness to resort to implied threats of military force, to supplement their customary bribery and pay-off practices, in their efforts to win the great prize.  However, trying to explain why American leaders have taken up a path of world conquest, is not an attempt to justify the immoral games that they have set into motion to seize control over Central Asia’s gas and oil, and with them, the whole game.

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