I should start by correcting something I said in my earlier post. The coalition of foreign powers have not been meeting today (23/3/11). Instead they were using today to announce the date when they will be meeting. They will now be meeting on Tuesday March 29th although according to the French Foreign Minister the meeting will take place in Paris while according to the British Foreign Minister the meeting will be taking place in London so it should be an interesting meeting.
Today has also seen a sudden and dramatic change in US military operations in Libya. They have announced that they will resume bombing Libyan government forces in western Libya and tonight that bombing appears to have re-started.
The American announcement came just hours after a large terrorist bombing in Israeli occupied Jerusalem which killed at least one and injured 30 more. Although I haven't had the time to take a proper look at the incident it appears to be either an Israeli false flag or the work of a Palestinian terrorist group linked to Fatah which are pretty much the same thing these days. This bombing is just the latest in a series of increasingly violent incidents in the country. This latest cycle of blood letting began after the Israelis announced that they are to build more Jewish settlements on occupied land. This prompted two Palestinians to carry out a particularly brutal murder of a settler family. While to my knowledge no-one has been caught it is believed that the two men were linked, at a low level, to Fatah. In retaliation Jewish settlers started stabbing and shooting random Palestinians. In retaliation Palestinians in Gaza started firing rockets into Israel. In retaliation the Israeli Defence Force carried out air strikes against Gaza and round again we go.
Therefore it's obvious that at this point America's policy towards Libya is largely being dictated to it by Israel. Israel want to see the conflict in Libya go on for as long as possible in the hope it will divert western eyes from the Israeli conflict and inflame anti-Israeli feeling in the Arab world ahead of this summers big war. The last thing Israel wants is for the Libyan rebels to be confined to a small strip of desert on the shores of the Mediterranean sea. That would make it far too easy to draw comparisons between Qaddafi's treatment of the rebels and Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza.
On a related subject following what can only be described as a series of embarrassing incidents on a recent foreign tour international support for Sarah Palin's bid to become President in 2012 is at an all time high. Or to put it another way Obama finally needs to man up or just accept that he's going the same way as Jimmy Carter.
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