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U.S. Lunacy On Libya Continues
Besides being idiotic, this is a great advertisement for Swiss banking: US, other Western nations declare Gadhafi regime no longer legitimate
The recognition of the Libyan opposition as the legitimate government gives foes of Gadhafi a major financial and credibility boost. Diplomatic recognition of the council means that the U.S. will be able to fund the opposition with some of the more than $30 billion in Gadhafi-regime assets that are frozen in American banks.
Anyone in power somewhere around the world is now advised to not keep any money in a U.S. based banking account. As soon as some idiots come up and proclaim a revolution, the U.S. will likely size that money and give a few crumbs of it to the revolution leader. (The rest will be taken by the usual banking crooks.)
This will be one of the many blowbacks from this lunatic attack on Libya. Others will include downed "western" passenger planes that will be hit by the Strela man portable air defense missiles the rebels took away from the Libyan military depots, a renewed recession due to high oil prices as Libyan capacity will be off the markets for years and lots of more unwanted emigrants to "western" countries.
Denying the Palestinians a state worked so well, let’s do it again in Libya! biklett wrote.
Probably many thought of the comparison, no matter in what spirit biklett’s comment was intended.
The Isr.-Palestine conflict has been shaped by Int’l law, post ww2, in the sense that it is seemingly based on a territorial dispute, and territories were in say 1950, and are today, subject to all kinds of rules, concerning e.g. occupied territories, sub-states, annexed lands, frontiers, residency rights, movement of ppl / law enforcement/ sanitary, etc., civil rights, etc. It is a case of ethnic hate, for lack of a better general term on the moment, expressed thru territorial expansion. Oppression, expulsion, discrimination, unfair treatment, etc. as well as both overt and covert extermination has been neatly fitted into a land disputes scheme, thereby by-passing or masquerading the underlying true issues, as these are taboo, after, for ex. Auschwitz and South African apartheid.
Lybia is in a state of civil war ..distinct from, in my eyes, the events in Egypt or Tunisia. Situations differ, and there are shades of interpretation..many arguments could be made..ok…
The civil war scene in Lybia was sparked by the other Arab Spring events, and the reaction it provoked from the ‘west’ was thus quite different. In the case of Egypt and Tunisia, a gingerly and perhaps fake support for ‘democracy’ was basically all that was done, for many reasons.
In Lybia, under the umbrella of a struggle for democracy, the ‘west’ took sides very rapidly and intervened directly with military force on the side of the ‘rebels’, those trying to overthrow the instituted power.
Several EU countries recognized the TNC, CH, for ex. did so long ago, but that raises questions legitimacy and formality, and their scope. E.g. treating the TNC as a valid partner on the ground and directly attacking Khadafi or agreeing to it – an on the ground affair – to making a formal Gvmt declaration to one’s citizens. For the latter, under what statutes, rules, agreements? See Int’l law, treaties..
Anecdotal factlet: About a year ago, the UN forced Isr. to give an int. post-code to Palestine – today one can write a letter to West-Bank/Gaza, with a post code no. and the designation Palestine. (Previously, it was to ‘Israel’, and the Israelis delivered the mail, or not.) A small step forward in the recognition, not of a Gvmt. but of a territory that is somehow distinct.
Just switching ‘the Gvmtal authority’ one ‘recognizes ’ at the drop of a hat is to a rather rare occurrence (post ww2.) Germany recognized Croatia as an independent ‘entity’ – as did others subsequently – and we know what the result was. But again, this was a matter of territorial control, or was made to masquerade as such. Nobody said Croats should rule Yugoslavia, it was a question, supposedly, of break-away…
Posted by: Noirette | Jul 18 2011 14:24 utc | 10
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