Very Direct Action, Gazans Blow The Border!

As is being reported all over Gazans took matters into their own hands as Israel’s siege under America’s protection would keep killing them so they blew up the border wall with Egypt, outstanding-

 dozens of Palestinian militants blew down most of the border fences between the two territories. Witnesses said they also saw bulldozers removing barbed wires on the borders as well as rubbles of the cement and blocks of the fences near the Rafah crossing, the only gateway for the Gazans to the outside world bypassing Israel.

The US is already playing the round up game to re-deliver them into Israel’s crosshairs-

The United States expressed concern Wednesday about tens of thousands of Palestinians pouring into Egypt from Gaza across a broken barrier that the Israelis had erected at the border for security. “We are concerned about that situation and frankly I know the Egyptians are as well,” State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said. David Welch, the assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, has talked to Egyptian authorities about the situation, Casey said, but he didn’t offer details. He said the Egyptians take border security seriously and that he has no indication the situation has affected Israeli-Palestinian relations for now.

And we all know who David Welch is don’t we-

To understand what is going on with Fatah al-Islam at Nahr el-Bared one would want a brief introduction to Lebanon’s amazing, but shadowy ‘Welch Club’.

The Club is named for its godfather, David Welch, assistant to Secretary of State Rice who is the point man for the Bush administration and is guided by Eliot Abrams.
Key Lebanese members of the Welch Club (aka: the ‘Club’) include:

The Lebanese civil war veteran, warlord, feudalist and mercurial Walid Jumblatt of the Druze party( the Progressive Socialist Party or PSP)

Another civil war veteran, warlord, terrorist (Served 11 years in prison for massacres committed against fellow Christians among others) Samir Geagea. Leader of the extremist Phalange party and its Lebanese Forces (LF) the group that conducted the Israel organized massacre at Sabra-Shatilla (although led by Elie Hobeika, once Geagea’s mentor, Geagea did not take part in the Sept. 1982 slaughter of 1,700 Palestinian and Lebanese).

The billionaire, Saudi Sheikh and Club president Saad Hariri leader of the Sunni Future Movement (FM).

Over a year ago Hariri’s Future Movement started setting up Sunni Islamist terrorist cells (the PSP and LF already had their own militia since the civil war and despite the Taif Accords requiring militia to disarm they are now rearmed and itching for action and trying hard to provoke Hezbollah).

The FM created Sunni Islamist ‘terrorist’ cells were to serve as a cover for (anti-Hezbollah) Welch Club projects. The plan was that actions of these cells, of which Fatah el-Islam is one, could be blamed on al Qaeda or Syria or anyone but the Club.

To staff the new militias, FM rounded up remnants of previous extremists in the Palestinian Refugee camps that had been subdued, marginalized and diminished during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. Each fighter got $700 per month, not bad in today’s Lebanon.

The first Welch Club funded militia, set up by FM, is known locally as Jund-al-Sham (Soldiers of Sham, where “Sham” in Arabic denotes Syria, Lebanon, Palestine & Jordan) created in Ain-el-Hilwa Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon. This group is also referred to in the Camps as Jund-el-Sitt (Soldiers of the Sitt, where “Sitt” in Sidon, Ain-el-Hilwa and the outskirts pertain to Bahia Hariri, the sister of Rafiq Hariri, aunt of Saad, and Member of Parliament).

The second was Fateh-al-Islam (The name cleverly put together, joining Fateh as in Palestinian and the word Islam as in Qaeda). FM set this Club cell up in Nahr-al-Bared refugee camp north of Tripoli for geographical balance.

Fatah el-Islam had about 400 well paid fighters until three days ago. Today they may have more or fewer plus volunteers. The leaders were provided with ocean view luxury apartments in Tripoli where they stored arms and chilled when not in Nahr-al-Bared. Guess who owns the apartments?

That would be funding and directing terrorism wouldn’t it, except when the empire does it…that’s ok!

Anyways, good on the Gazans it would be useful to pressure the US & Egypt to keep the border open to alleviate the use of Gaza by the Israelis as a huge open air prison whose inmates they can torment at will. No progress can be made while the childish refusal to include Hamas in talks is in place, but then that is a deliberate tactic to aid the agenda of the neo-cons of Israel and the US. As the statement shows they are eager to help incarcerate the Gazans again, not so much with the freedom loving. This is a very clear situation where people are standing up for their own freedom, the world should support that, unless all that talk by the ruling class is a big load of old shite to keep us pacified…oh damn. So NGO’s and civil society, non-mainstream media, we the people have to step up.

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