Seymour Hersh on U.S. funding Lebanon and Gaza violence

[galylof]

rou7o ya 2youra

fath l 2eslem la souriyya ya shramit

[ballsauce666]

its going to be a fantastic scene when missiles fall on tel aviv.

I'll make the popcorn!

oh, its coming you moron israelis. get ready.

[knowitx]

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ARABS AND JEWS RESUME THEIR PEACEFUL PRODUCTIVE CO-OPERATIVE AS WAS IN 1800 AND EARLY 1900's WHEN JEWS CALLED IN THE ARAB MIGRANT FARM WORKERS FROM ACROSS ARABIA TO BE A PART OF THE ZIONIST ENDEAVOR. ARABS MUST BE REINSTATED.AND DEFUSED FROM THEIR RAGE. ARABS AND JEWS HAVE/WILL CO-EXIST.PURGE HATE FROM ZION.

[AdenMutiny]

Why would Iran be the one that deserves that kind of treatment? America, Israel and Brittain are by far the biggest threat to world peace.

And we have destroyed our economy by our totally STUPID foreign policy. And for what?

To make the rich richer and make you a patsy.

[amdura]

America's middle east policy is so dangerous that it is garanteed to back fire.

We are funding, training and supporting fundementalist sunni groups so they fight "civil wars" againsts shia groups, specifically Hezbollah and Iran.

Contrary to the propaganda in the US. Hezbollah, Iran and other shia groups have more rational policies than the sunni groups, who believe in Wahabi.

All of this risk, so that we control oil and support Israel. Why would American's allow there gov't to do this.

[GlobalSufi]

unfortunately, you are 100% correct. don´t foget that the Syrians are controlled by another minority Islamic sect - the Allawites. that explains their support tof the minority wahhabis anf the minority mullahsin Iran. Iran will NEVER attack Mecca, so the game must be played in one or more of the Sikes-Picot regions - Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Afghansitan, etc.

[marinetargetinc]

Which leader of Hezbollah, Nassan Hasrallah?

[GlobalSufi]

Seymour Hersh is one of the mere handful of people in this world who can put together and analyze the complexity of the Lebanon problem.

Too bad no one else understands the extreme nature of the US's fuckups in the Mid East.

My Father, RIP, was a US Diplomat in every crisis in the Mid East from 1951 - 1979, but the policy wonks in DC never listened to the logical results of his analyses and made the idiotic US policies that he fought against. But my dad still saved thousands of innocent lives.

[saintrambone]

Lebanon Indymedia was shut down due to censorship. The USA is forcing injections and torturing veterans and honest federal bank examiners are being killed. I surived. The fed and FDIC and NTEU syndicates destroyed my career and sanctity. Overthrow the negative capitalists regime. see saintrambone videos and Mobile Audit Club links, some videos of FDIC mob syndicate destroyed by federal government syndicates, I am banned from video taping now in the enemy regimes government

[hakimdream]

Hmm. They fear the Muslim unity.

[Maxwedge12000]

The CIA should be supporting all sides in this. They just need to keep stirring the pot and giving them the guns to kill each other. Allah will be pleased, more martyrs for allah.

[arsenalm8t]

I wish jerks like this guy wold show some proof that the US funded bin laden, fact is he was funded by the Saudis and the US funded Afghan(national)fighters against the soviets.

[postcardsfp]

read the book ghost wars

[dilbertgeg]

Is the words of the US former National Security Advisor Brzezinski bragging in Le Nouvel Observateur about doing so sufficient proof? Memoirs of Robert Gates?

See "How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen"

How about landing a chopper in N. Pakistan to tell Taliban "God is on your side"? They were paid to overthrow a liberal secular govt and make Afgh radical again. more ...

[dilbertgeg]

to arsenalm8t: I believe that the CIA did not *directly* hand money to OBL, or write a bank draft. Back channels, US-Saudi intelligence, Paki Intell, both with close (even dependent) relations with CIA/Amer Intell. Chossudovsky said that the US "created" the ISI, and the CFR official pub. Foreign Affairs said the ISI backed the Taliban who fought alongside Al-Qaeda forces.

[RandomInsults]

I think Fatah and Hamas are slaughtering each other. Anyhow, you have posted this crappy message under many videos, which makes you a spammer. Stop spamming your crap all over the place.

[RandomInsults]

Hahaha, too late, his account was allready closed....

[AdenMutiny]

Hi point was clear and correct. You offered no evidence that he was wrong. Your opinion in and of itself is worthless.

And it is ignorant to not believe that all of this violence in Palestine STARTED with the massive illegal immigration of jews around 1922. Before that Jews lived in peace in Palestine, but the Zionists wanted it and stole it.

Additionally, UN Resolution 181 established Israel, but there are 69 other resolutions that Israel refused to comply with.

That's why there war!

[vksharma20]

SH is saying that Palestinians are rational people. Wow. This would qualify as Joke of the Year. Thanks SH for amusing us. Ha Ha very funny.

[venzetti8]

I agree with you on this point. Palestinians are far from being Rational people. Look at them now, they are killing each other while Israel is laughing at them.

[vksharma20]

Not only Israel but also the whole world is laughing at them. They are constantly losing supporters of independent Palestinian state side by side with Israel. Palestinians are becoming butt of joke now, after Lebanon and Gaza, and rightly so.

[dilbertgeg]

A political person explained that sicne Hamas won, the US and Fatah have been trying to crush them.

One of the US-backed Fatah chiefs is a top guy at the World Bank, so he'd be pushing typical World Bank and IMF policies, like those parasitic ones Stiglitz wrote about. Hamas members are not World Bank. Hence, a struggle between factions, not "the Palestinians".

[oldjoe5]

The US and Fatah? Aren't we forgetting somone?

[dilbertgeg]

oldjoe5

The US and Fatah? Aren't we forgetting somone?

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Well yes, of course, Israel, Mossad.

And apparently Saudi royals, who helped create Al-Qaeda, along with Pakistan elite ISI.

Some of the 1993 terrorists were Egyptian Intelligence.

Certainly other groups I've not mentioned.

There's facts about stuff in Indonesia where jihadists were sort of 'protected' by US intell.

[vksharma20]

SH is a very funny guy. His lunatic conspiracy theories never cease to humour me. The older he is getting his theories are becoming more and more amusing.

[venzetti8]

What is so hard to believe about this? shit like that happens all the time. In the 80s UNITED STATES supported the Taliban with arms to fight the Soviet Union. United states and other western countries along with Arab Nations Supported Saddam with arms and men to fight against IRAN. What is so hard to believe about that.

[vksharma20]

Taliban was created in 90s by Pakistan, and not by US in 80s as you are falsely claimed. You don't even know the difference between Taliban & Mujahids.

What US arms support to Saddam are you talking about? Most Iraqi weapons were Soviet, Chinese & French.

Ignorant of history and intellectually lazy people like you are the usual sucker of propaganda and conspiracy theories of lunatics like SH.

Do yourself favour and read history before making a fool of yourself by writing silly comments.

[venzetti8]

I do know the difference between them. most of the mujahids joined the taliban. Don't talk about Iraq as if you know anything about it. I was born In IRaq was there during the iranian iraq war. THE UNITED STATES ALONG WITH OTHER ALLIES SUPPORTED SADDAM. That is a fact, maybe you should read your history.

[vksharma20]

You said earlier that US supported Saddam "with arms". So I am asking you again what arms are you talking about? Give us some names. Did US supply Saddam artillery or tanks or fighter jet or nuclear reactor?

US DID NOT SUPPLY ARMS TO IRAQ. Only US & UK help came to Iraq was in late 83, when it was losing war, in form of intelligence. The countries who made money by the miseries of Iraqi and Iranian people were Soviets, Chinese and as usual French (like vultures).

[venzetti8]

supplied them with chemical weapons. During the Uprising against Saddam in the early 90s, it was the US Satellites and US Jets that were locating the people who wanted the bring Saddam down.

[vksharma20]

Iraq, besides French supported nuclear program had its own Chemical weapon program, which was supported by Italians, Germans and perhaps Soviets as well. So they did not need US chemical weapons.

US & UK did not hunt down the insurgents after 1st gulf war; they just did not help them. Having said that, I have to say that most unfortunate and sad US foreign policy mistake after East Timor & Rwanda was abandoning Kurds and Shias after 1st gulf war.

[vksharma20]

So you are eating your words that "US created Taliban in 80s to fight Soviets".

Read this little history lesson, you might learn something: Main cadres of Taliban were Pashtun madrassa students in Pakistan & Afghanistan. Except hard-core religious groups and foreign fighters, most Mujahids did not join Taliban when it was created; they joined it when Taliban defeated them like Gulbudin Hikmatyar. And quite a few did not join at all, eg Rabbani, Mohammed Fahim, Abdul Haq, Ahmed Shah Masud etc.

[venzetti8]

I dont know the full details of that part of the region in Afghanistan and Pakistan. You know it better than I do. I can't argue with that.

[vksharma20]

I admire your modesty, which is very refreshing and rare at least in youtube forums.

You should spare some time to read about one of the most defining conflict of our time i.e. Afghan conflict, which has its roots in first Afghan-British was in 1850s. It is very enlightening and can help to understand the challenges the world is facing. Pls accept my apologies if I sound bit patronising.

[venzetti8]

its ok, Its youtube a lot of people on here post with their minds already made up and are looking through a narrow hole without an open mind.

[dilbertgeg]

Also, not only did Brzezinski brag about his brilliant plan to arm the Muj, and give a speech to them, it is also known that Pakistan's ISI is either 'created by' or an adjunct of CIA. So what ISI does, amounts to what USA does, although probably not every ISI knows.

That's the nature of COVERT and CLANDESTINE operations. The right and left hand don't know.

[dilbertgeg]

Former National Security Advisor Zbignew Brzezinski, in an interview in a French newspaper, stated that not only did he arm the Muj (and their Al-Qaeda backers) but he did so PRIOR to the Soviet invasion. It was a secret plan between himself and Jimmy Carter to "increase the probability" of a Soviet invasion. I also have video of him on CNN, telling the Taliban "God is on your side". Who's God? Brzezinski?

[AdenMutiny]

Wow you are taking him so LITERALLY.

His points are right one and you are nit picking the details.

The US ABSOLUTELY provided the chemical weapons that Iraq used against Iranians and Kurds. The actual chemical formulas were from the US gov't. They may have had others, but they used the US' secret sauce.

[AdenMutiny]

Venzetti is corret. You are not.

The Taliban got their financial support from the US. Otherwise, they probably would have dwindled to nothing. There are pictures of George Tenant standing next to Osama Bin Ladin and other pieces of evidence to support this.

Second, the US was definately the main backer of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. There is plenty of evidence that supports this as well.