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The hundred-plus Iraq-Palestinians that went to Chile were the ones in that particular war zone (Bush invasion of Iraq). But this Rice memo was about Palestinians in Israel's walled prison zones--an unspecified number, but probably very big (thousands, tens of thousands? possibly up to 5 million, according to the article). Too hasty reading of the article. But I stand behind my questions, sarcasm and suspicions.
Why was Argentina no. 2 on Rice's list for large-scale displacement of what would surely be highly selected Palestinians and Palestinian communities? How on earth could she could have thought that Argentina would agree? Was she counting on the success of U.S. efforts to overthrow Kirchner, or was she planning to somehow bludgeon Argentina into accepting masses of poor, rebellions people including trouble-makers and CIA operatives as refugees, in order TO overthrow Kirchner? Or was she just idly thinking about all those "large tracts of sparsely populated land" in Argentina and how they could be useful to her corporate/war profiteer interests?
New question: Who is this very biased, anti-left writer, Rory Carroll, trying to shaft in this article, and why? Or, if it isn't aimed at, say, Condi Rice, or possibly at Cristina Fernandez (leftist president of Argentina), what current situation is Carroll trying to put his oar into? Also, who leaked the memo?
The entire article is based on a note with the initials "CR," "according to minutes of the encounter seen by the Guardian." I wouldn't put it past the writer to over-interpret scrawled initials or to fail to disclose that there was someone else in the talks with the same initials, but, presuming that he's telling the truth about this, his failure to give us any information at all about the source of the memo (so we could at least guess at possible leaker agendas), and given his past history of lies and propaganda about the Latin American left, I think it's fair to surmise that he's up to no good.
As to whose country Rice was thinking of sending the Palestinian diaspora to--a thought that ranks up there with Thomas Jefferson's notion of sending all the slaves back to Africa and giving them "their own country"--Brazil was a reasonable Ricean note, but Argentina is not. It is quite an oddity.
Bear in mind that this was June 2008, just after a U.S./Colombia bombing/raid on Ecuador, which almost started a war between the U.S./Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela. Ecuador and Venezuela both have strong leftist governments. The U.S. had notoriously tried to overthrow the Chavez government in Venezuela, to no avail. U.S./Colombian spies and operatives had infiltrated the Ecuadoran military--likely in a plot of overthrow Rafael Correa's leftist government. The Bush Junta was desperately trying to stop regional and worldwide initiatives to end Colombia's 70 year civil war, and had just completed months of treachery to that end (concluding with the bombing/raid on the FARC guerrillas' peace negotiation camp just inside Ecuador's border). Much more U.S. treachery was soon to follow, with Bush pet, Alvaro Uribe, in Colombia, using concocted "evidence" to try to paint Chavez and Correa as "terrorist lovers."
And that was just early 2008--just before this Rice memo. That summer, the Bush Junta reconstituted the U.S. 4th Fleet in the Caribbean--a plain threat to Venezuela and its oil, and with Brazil's president saying it was a threat to Brazil's oil as well. Brazil proposed a "common defense" within the context of UNASUR, a new EU-prototype, all-South America (no U.S.) organization, formalized that summer. In the fall--as the Bush Junta did their final massive looting with the Wall Street/bankster crash, et al--the U.S. embassy in Bolivia was funding/organizing a violent white separatist insurrection against the popular Evo Morales and his leftist government. UNASUR went into action and played an important part in defeating that coup attempt.
And through all of this, one thing that particularly stands out is the new unity among South American leaders in opposition to U.S. interference, bullying and aggression. They were even formalizing a new organization to fend it off. And the other thing that was clear then, and is still clear, is that, except for democracy and honest elections in the USA, there is nothing that our U.S. corporate rulers and war profiteers fear more than democracy in Latin America and their unity of purpose on social justice and regional independence. It is the closest source of huge oil reserves for the U.S. war machine, and other important resources, the closest source of masses of slave labor for U.S.-based and allied multinational corporations, and it has traditionally been supine and vastly exploitable.
Argentina has been perhaps the key player in this historic movement--although it's difficult to choose. Chavez was the pioneer. Lula da Silva became a critically important player at key moments (and still is). Evo Morales has been a great moral force. Michele Batchelet played a vital role in stopping the U.S.-instigated coup against Morales. And it is important to recognize that multilateral cooperation is a method and goal of this movement, so there are many important players, including millions of grass roots activists.
But Nestor Kirchner's defiance of U.S./IMF-World Bank bludgeoning and his alliance with Chavez is probably the founding moment of this regional movement, or, the moment that its success became realizable. When the Bush Junta sent down its dictate that Latin American leaders must "isolate Chavez," Kirchner replied, "But he's my brother!"
That is the heart and soul of Latin American independence from the U.S. And the Bush Junta likely hated Kirchner for it more than they hated Chavez. Kirchner died not long ago, but his wife is equally passionate about this amazing, historic movement.
And Rice wanted to dump tens of thousands of poor, alienated, angry, rebellious, oppressed Palestinians into "large tracts of sparsely populated land" in Argentina? You gotta wonder about this women's seething brain. But even more, you gotta wonder about all the dirty rotten schemes that she was conversant with, already accomplished or to come, in Latin America and other places.
That's the background for the word "Argentina" in her note. As to Rory Carroll's motives, this article could have something to do with the many Latin American countries (and not just those with leftist governments) who have recently recognized the Palestinian state. I can't guess quite what it might have to do with that, but it certainly came to mind. For one thing, these recognitions seems to say, 'No, Latin America will not be the dumping ground for this humongous, disastrous, bloody-minded mess that Israel and the U.S. have made in the Middle East." But that's as far as I can get with it. I'll have to think about it some more. It sure would help to know where he got the memo from. Was it a Wikileaks item? Anybody know?
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