Latest Vaccine Propaganda: It Prevents Heart Attacks

Rebel Newsflash: Latest Vaccine Propaganda: It Prevents Heart Attacks (plus 36 more items)

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• Latest Vaccine Propaganda: It Prevents Heart Attacks
• Keiser Report №79: Currency Wars Break Out
• Growing Poverty in America
• Best option: Dignified failure
• Israel Turns its Guns on Internationals
• America’s Men In Pakistan
• The rise of Europe's far-right
• New START’s Big Winners: US Nuke Complex, Pentagon, and Contractors
• US Boosts Aid Amid Doubts About Pakistan’s Recovery
• Where Eagles Double-Dog Dare
• Bloggers Chasten Washington Know-It-Alls
• For Afghan Refugees, Polls Are Far and Near
• Rule of Bullshit
• Ben Affleck’s The Town is a Perfectly Executed Heist
• Inside Burning Man
• From ‘Blood Libel’ to ‘Organ Harvesting’
• Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner
• Behind the rise of Europe far-right
• A Shared State in a Shared Homeland
• Did God Say: Let There Be Plagues and Wars?
• The paradox of Qat
• Monday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 28 Wounded
• Children of Catastrophe – Book Review
• Shut Up! You’re Disturbing the Elite
• The Importance Of The International Solidarity
• Turning terrorists into "heroes"
• Zionist Dialectics: Past and Future
• Illusion of Shield: US 'withdrawal' & security fails in Iraq
• "I am sure this occupation will end"
• Israeli-Palestinian negotiations
• Palestine's endangered vistas captured in "Masharef"
• FBI Improperly Spied On Activists, Says Justice Department Inspector General
• The French Problem
• American Jews ask, will Americans ever know?
• Globalists Plan to Dismantle Middle Class With UN Tax
• Attorney Richard I. Fine Released
• Netanyahu's 'catastrophic success'

Latest Vaccine Propaganda: It Prevents Heart Attacks Posted: 21 Sep 2010 06:20 AM PDT The H1N1 flu scare was a dismal failure. People informed about the health risks refused to get the vaccination. The United Nation’s World Health Organization tried to stampede people into getting the shot by declaring a level six pandemic. The CDC issued apocalyptic warnings. Most people ignored them. The medical establishment, however, has not given up its efforts to convince people toxic vaccines are good for them.

Keiser Report №79: Currency Wars Break Out Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:25 AM PDT This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of Greenspan's 'gold warning;' currency wars breaking out; the Veterans Administration's verbal dealers with insurance brokers raking it in on dead soldiers and Carla Bruni's hopes for raking it in after her husband's (hopefully) one term. In the second half of the show, Max goes to New York to talk to Yves Smith of NakedCapitalism.com about her book, Econned, and about stability and instability in financial markets, structural imbalances,'bad equilibrium,' trillions in derivatives and Che Guevara with machine gun interfering with Potemkin companies.

Growing Poverty in America Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:10 AM PDT The newly released US Census report on "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009" way understates a growing problem as do most other government data. Unemployment for one, the Labor Department's headlined (U-3) 9.6% masks the true 22% based on 1980 calculations. With America in economic crisis, the new Census report portends much worse ahead under a president and Congress doing little to address it, the Brookings Institution Isabel Sawhill expecting the problem to "get much worse long before it gets better." More on the new data below. First, some other confirmations of economic trouble.

Best option: Dignified failure Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:08 AM PDT The entire US administration's Middle East A-team - President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and Special Envoy George Mitchell - is defying the mass majority of political analysts by dismissing the status quo in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, and insisting that the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli direct talks has the potential to lead to an agreement which will resolve the conflict. I have a deep fear that they may be correct in predicting an agreement will be signed, but I do not have an iota of confidence that it will end the conflict.

Israel Turns its Guns on Internationals Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:00 AM PDT With every day that passes Israel further establishes itself as one of the world's leading violators of human rights. To its British and American allies this may be seen as a gross overstatement; after all there are plenty of despotic, third world countries that arguably have worse human rights records. The question is - how many of them model themselves as democratic, advanced, first world, nuclear allies? The cold, hard facts of Israel's ever worsening track record are well documented by human rights organisations and the UN, and they speak for themselves.

America’s Men In Pakistan Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:54 AM PDT The more one observes the Pakistan-US relationship, the more one realizes that to understand fully its multiple dimensions, one really needs to look at it through a Gramscian [Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci] framework of hegemony where the hegemon has so entrenched its value system in the ruling elite of the subservient nation that it does not need to exercise the use of force or brute power. In other words, it has established its hegemony, which Gramsci distinguishes from power through use of force – to explain the depth of Gramscian thought in a simplistic but comprehensible fashion. That is, the ruling elite imbibe the value system of the hegemon – in this case the US – as its own and relate to it, rather than to its own indigenous influences and realities. Aiding and abetting this external value system’s adoption are of course the “organic intellectuals” in the Gramscian sense, who are linked to the ruling class and have to be won over by the hegemon since it is this group in a society that create an awareness not only of a class’s functions in the economic sense, but also in the social and political fields. But an even more important group of “intellectuals” are the “traditional intellectuals” who claim to be autonomous and independent of any class in society, including the ruling class but are not always so. If one now examines the extensive definition of intellectuals by Gramsci, it includes not just those who think in society – which he says everyone does – but who have “the function of intellectuals” and included in this are business managers, media persons, researchers, engineers, politicians and so on.

The rise of Europe's far-right Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:28 AM PDT As Sweden adjusts to the idea of a far-right party sitting in the country's famously liberal parliament for the first time, several postal workers in the town of Sodertalje have found themselves in trouble. During the campaign, they refused to distribute election material from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) to minority residential areas, arguing that the pamphlets constituted hate speech.

New START’s Big Winners: US Nuke Complex, Pentagon, and Contractors Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT The passage of New START in a 14-4 vote out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is already being hailed by Democrats and arms-control NGOs as a substantial victory. A floor vote for ratification is now apparently set to occur after the elections. While ratification is by no means guaranteed, there are several clear winners already: Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Aerojet General, Alliant Techsystems, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons laboratories, Y-12 nuclear labs, the Pentagon, and Bechtel Corporation.

US Boosts Aid Amid Doubts About Pakistan’s Recovery Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has announced it will provide an additional 75 million dollars in food aid to help Pakistan cope with floods that have affected about one-fifth of the country – including some 20 million people – since they began in July. That will bring total U.S. assistance to Islamabad to some $345 million, not including about $55 million in in-kind military support, including the deployment of helicopters from Afghanistan to aid in rescue efforts, according to senior U.S. officials who briefed reporters on the situation Monday. The additional assistance was announced in the wake of an unprecedented appeal Friday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for $2 billion in flood relief this year, a four-fold increase in what the U.N. had requested in the first half of August as the floods swept from the frontier regions high in the Himalayas through the Punjab, eastern Baluchistan, and Sindh into the Arabian Sea.

Where Eagles Double-Dog Dare Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT We’re getting ready to sell $60 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, largely in the form of F-15 Eagle fighter jets. In other news, we’re getting ready to sell all of our old elephant guns to the Eskimos. The Eskimos will probably get more use out of the elephant guns than the Saudis will get out of the F-15s. You can shoot polar bears with elephant guns. An F-15 Eagle is made to shoot down other airplanes and darn little else. Oh, sure, they made a handful of the two-seat Strike Eagle version that was made to compete with the Navy’s all-weather A-6 Intruder tactical bomber. But the Intruder and Strike Eagle were designed for nape-of-the-earth radar-evading missions, and nobody goes in low anymore. It’s too easy to run into a cloud of anti-aircraft BBs. The Navy has abandoned the Intruder. The Strike Eagle is still in the Air Force inventory so old navigators can have a fast combat jet to fly in; all the service’s other multi-seat planes are big bombers or trash-haulers (logistics aircraft). At $31 million a pop, the Strike Eagle is an expensive way to let senior officers gainfully ride out the end of their careers. They could fly a desk into the sunset for a lot less money.

Bloggers Chasten Washington Know-It-Alls Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT When the elite meet – and speak – we listen, especially in Washington, where every word uttered by the chosen few is like a breadcrumb tossed out for a starving man. Washington’s national security elite gathered itself up to deliver a full feast this month, collectively declaring that the Afghanistan policy is a disaster and in need of a “New Way Forward,” which of course, it aimed to generously provide.

For Afghan Refugees, Polls Are Far and Near Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:00 PM PDT Afghan voters just went to national parliamentary elections, but refugees from that country here in neighboring Pakistan could only rue the fact that they have been left out of this vote. Some 2 million Afghans living overseas in Pakistan and Iran took part in the 2004 presidential election and the first parliamentary poll in 2005. But since then, they have not had a chance to cast their ballots in the 2009 presidential vote as well as in this year’s poll for the lower house of parliament, or Olasi Jirga, on Sept. 18 – the second in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

Rule of Bullshit Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:07 PM PDT   My family and I live in the mountains of North Carolina. Appalachia. We couldn't be happier about that. There's a lot I could say about the contrast between the chaotic, overrun southern Mexi-china-hindoo-arab-fornia we used to live in, and here, but I'm moved today to write by a North Carolina "voter guide" I just received in the mail. Due to the vagaries of local politcs only North Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals candidates appear in this guide. A total of five seats are in dispute. I'm struck by the language in the personal statements of these candidates.

Ben Affleck’s The Town is a Perfectly Executed Heist Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:59 PM PDT The Town, set amidst the fading (but increasingly fashionable) Irish-American underclass of Boston’s gentrifying Charlestown neighborhood, is a model of crime genre filmmaking, perhaps the best-executed film since July’s Inception. Ten minutes into the first bank robbery in this heist movie, it’s evident that movie audiences are back in capable hands again. There’s nothing particularly new about The Town. Ben Affleck directs himself as an ace bandit looking to make one last big score so he can get out of the game. Affleck, who helped write this adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s 2005 novel Prince of Thieves, emphasizes his strengths as an actor by playing an older, sadder, and soberer version of the Boston Irish lout in his breakthrough, Good Will Hunting.

Inside Burning Man Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:59 PM PDT Burning Man defies easy categorization. Wikipedia describes it as “an annual week-long event held in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada,” but that doesn’t tell you very much. Burning Man is many things: a post-apocalyptic phantasmagoria, an experiment in radical self-reliance, a modern tribal gathering, a vast open air art gallery, a forum for self-expression, a platform for exhibitionism, a music festival, a great place to get high, an alternative to the quotidian and, for many, a catalyst for much subsequent proselytizing. But how do all these aspects relate to each other and, more importantly, what is it like when you are there?

From ‘Blood Libel’ to ‘Organ Harvesting’ Posted: 20 Sep 2010 06:36 PM PDT The old Christian-world’s claim that Jews were in the habit of abducting Christian children to perform their religious rituals by using their blood – has always been controversial. Most Jews call the allegation as much a ‘Jew-hating” libel as the Christians call the Holocaust ‘a Christian-hating’. However, under the western “freedom of expression” – When Jews produce anti- Christian movies like The Lost Tomb of Jesus, claiming that Jesus was never resurrected and that he had a sex partner and a child (sic) and the Da Vinci Code OR the anti-Islam Danish Cartoons and recent threats to burn copies of Holy Qur’an – are all okey but telling something which doesn’t follow the Jewish narration of world history – is ‘anti-Semitism’ and not kosher.

Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner Posted: 20 Sep 2010 04:17 PM PDT “Blacks for Gray, Whites for Fenty,” ran the nuanced headline on page one of the Washington Examiner. The story told of how black Mayor Adrian Fenty, who got rave reviews for appointing Michelle Rhee to save District of Columbia schools, was crushed six to one in black wards east of the Anacostia River, as he rolled up margins of three to one in the white wards west of Rock Creek Park. In Fenty’s political obit, it was said, he devoted too much time and gave too many appointments to non-blacks in a rapidly gentrifying city where black folks are still the majority.

Behind the rise of Europe far-right Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:56 PM PDT As Sweden adjusts to the idea of a far-right party sitting in the country's famously liberal parliament for the first time, several postal workers in the town of Sodertalje have found themselves in trouble. During the campaign, they refused to distribute election material from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) to minority residential areas, arguing that the pamphlets constituted hate speech.

A Shared State in a Shared Homeland Posted: 20 Sep 2010 01:59 PM PDT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently argued, 'What is required is creative, novel thinking in order to resolve these complex [peacemaking] issues.' Netanyahu has never been so right.  The current Mideast peace talks will fail, as befell predecessors, because they are based on a flawed premise blocking the conflict’s resolution. The proposed solution is based on an uneven partition of the land. Israeli Jews, who make up roughly 50 percent of the population, would receive at least 78 percent of the land – and probably more – while the Palestinians who comprise the other half of the population would receive what remains.

Did God Say: Let There Be Plagues and Wars? Posted: 20 Sep 2010 01:54 PM PDT You would not know it today by looking at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but in the Book of Genesis, never does it say: And God said, 'Let there be plagues and wars.' Instead, the Book of Genesis declared: And God said, 'Let there be lights'. (Gen. 1:14) And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind.” (Gen. 1:24) Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them be stewards and let them care for every living thing that crawls upon the Earth. So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Gen. 1:26-27)

The paradox of Qat Posted: 20 Sep 2010 01:42 PM PDT Among the challenges Yemen faces, none may be more daunting than that of water sustainability. One of the glibber pronouncements about Yemen made by the international press is that the country will “run out” of water within a decade or so, unless something is done to alleviate the scarcity. But what does “running out” mean for a substance like water as opposed to oil, say, or gas?

Monday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 28 Wounded Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:49 AM PDT Baghdad again saw a number of attacks today, but they were not as deadly as yesterday’s. At least two Iraqis were killed and 28 more were wounded in the new violence. Meanwhile, hundreds of looted artifacts returned to Iraq before being "lost" again were found in a storeroom belonging to the prime minister‘s office. Also, several members of parliament attempted to meet in an unofficial capacity but were thwarted by the usual politics.

Children of Catastrophe – Book Review Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:56 AM PDT Children of Catastrophe is a work of courage, love - of family, friends, and country - persistence, grief, sorrow, joy, anger, bravery, fear, and frustration - in short it encompasses all the emotions that not only are part of life, but a large part of life for a child born and raised in a refugee camp. Nahr el Bared refugee camp was established in 1949 after the nakba in Palestine. Set near the northern border of Lebanon with Syria, the camp existed, grew, and to a degree, thrived and prospered until it was destroyed by the Lebanese army in 2007.

Shut Up! You’re Disturbing the Elite Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:59 AM PDT Somewhere in America; a young man wearing an “End the Fed” T-shirt stands alone—across the street from a Federal Reserve Bank—shouting the prophetic words of Thomas Jefferson through an amplified bullhorn: “If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.” Many passersby snicker while others stop to stare.  A marked police cruiser pulls to the curb and demands that the young man leave the public sidewalk.  He reminds the officer of his first amendment right of free speech and peaceful assembly.  The officer reminds him that he couldn’t care less.  He pulls a Taser from his utility belt and fires two probes into the boy’s chest—sending him to the ground—where is subdued, and then loaded into the backseat of the cruiser before being hauled away.

The Importance Of The International Solidarity Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:29 AM PDT As the Nonviolence Resistance in Palestine is growing, I believe the international solidarity is one of the most important components of our struggle against the occupation. The presence of the international supporters in Palestine is very importance especially in the nonviolent protests like those in Bil’in, Nil’in, Al Ma’ssara, and Al Nabi Saleh villages; those supporters help in deescalating the violence used by the Israeli military during those weekly actions. They are also our ambassadors to the world, they transmit the full picture of what is happening here to their home countries though there presence and cameras.

Turning terrorists into "heroes" Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:20 AM PDT Celebrations have taken place in Israel to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary organisation which paved the way for the establishment of the state of Israel and the Israeli Defence Forces. A headline in the Jewish Chronicle refers to "the generation that established Israel" above a photograph of some elderly veterans rather sadly wearing military uniforms. Describing the veterans as the "heroes of Israel", the IDF's Chief of General Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, is quoted by the JC, saying, "You were the ones to pave the way for the IDF as the army of the Jewish people, and as a body that can promise to the world 'never again', a reference to the Holocaust.

Zionist Dialectics: Past and Future Posted: 20 Sep 2010 06:45 AM PDT "My God! Is this the end? Is this the goal for which our fathers have striven and for whose sake all generations have suffered? Is this the dream of a return to Zion which our people have dreamt for centuries: that we now come to Zion to stain its soil with innocent blood?" Ahad Ha'am, 1921 This study has employed a dialectical framework for analyzing the destabilizing logic of Zionism. We have examined this logic as it has unfolded through time, driven by the vision of an exclusionary colonialism, drawing into its circuit – aligned with it and against it – nations, peoples, forces, and civilizations whose actions and interactions impinge on the trajectory of Zionism, and, in turn, who are changed by this trajectory.

Illusion of Shield: US 'withdrawal' & security fails in Iraq Posted: 20 Sep 2010 06:40 AM PDT Violence continues to rage in Iraq after three car bombings killed at least 36 people, in Baghdad and Fallouja. Following the official end of US combat operations, fifty thousand American troops remain in the country to train local security forces. But as RT's Paula Slier reports, it barely helps to make local residents any safer.

"I am sure this occupation will end" Posted: 20 Sep 2010 06:08 AM PDT Since 2005, residents of the occupied West Bank village of Beit Ommar have launched nonviolent demonstrations in protest against the increasing theft of their land at the hands of the five surrounding Israeli settlements, and to call for an end to the Israeli occupation of all Palestinian lands. Despite the brutal response of the Israeli forces, resulting in the death, injury and detention of scores of teenagers from the town, the people of Beit Ommar remain steadfast in their resistance. Jody McIntyre interviews Beit Ommar Popular Committee secretary Ahmed Abu Hashem for The Electronic Intifada.

Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Posted: 20 Sep 2010 06:00 AM PDT The latest round of Middle East "peace talks" is under way. The resumption of direct talks has had a mixed reception. Some commentators have dismissed them out of hand as nothing more than a PR stunt doomed to failure, while others, such as British Foreign Secretary William Hague, have hailed them as being of "historic importance". But how realistic is it to expect them to yield any tangible progress towards peace? The negotiations may very well result in pen being put to paper and some sort of agreement being signed (if only to save face for its American co-ordinators) but signing an agreement does not equate to resolving the Middle East crisis. Agreements have been signed before, hands have been shaken and photos have been posed for, and yet the situation in the Middle East is as bad now, if not worse, than ever before.

Palestine's endangered vistas captured in "Masharef" Posted: 20 Sep 2010 04:50 AM PDT The Shat-ha walking group leaves Ramallah every Friday morning. The group, founded in 2006 by Dr. Saleh Abdel Jawad, a Birzeit University history and political science professor, and economist Samia Botmeh, has explored the West Bank from its green north to desert south. Now Masharef (Vistas), an exhibition of new photographs by members of the group, brings the threatened beauty of the Palestinian landscape to a wider audience. Many readers of The Electronic Intifada will be familiar with Raja Shehadeh's book Palestinian Walks, a moving retelling of nearly three decades of walks in the West Bank countryside, and of the slow destruction of his familiar landscapes by the Israel occupation and settlement-building program. Many of Shehadeh's more recent hikes have been undertaken with fellow walkers from Shat-ha, both the local residents who form the core of the group, or international visitors such as Masharef curator Susan Moffat.

FBI Improperly Spied On Activists, Says Justice Department Inspector General Posted: 19 Sep 2010 09:00 PM PDT The FBI improperly spied on American activists involved in First Amendment-protected activities and mischaracterized nonviolent civil disobedience as terrorism which improperly placed activists on terrorist watch lists, according to a report out today by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. Inspector General Glenn A. Fine undertook his investigation after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the American Civil Liberties Union uncovered evidence that the FBI was chilling political association and improperly investigating peaceful advocacy groups. The Inspector General (IG) found the improper investigations were often opened based on “factually weak” or even “speculative” justifications, and were sometimes extended in duration without sufficient basis. The IG said that the low standard for opening investigations under the 2002 Attorney General Guidelines, which required only the “possibility” of a federal crime, contributed to the problem.

The French Problem Posted: 19 Sep 2010 08:58 PM PDT About fifteen years ago, a friend of mine opened a shop selling fabrics and other household staples in a Tuscan town. She was English, beautiful and an innocent in the world of commerce. The other shopkeepers adored her, because she and her daughters charmed them and brought a lot of trade to the cobbled main street. Whenever Gypsy caravans camped outside the town walls, Roma women in brightly colored gowns would stroll casually from shop to shop. Keeping wary eyes on them were robust Tuscan women shopkeepers. When the Gypsy matrons went into my friend’s shop, the other lady shopkeepers followed them inside and guarded my friend’s stock until the women left. No one said anything. It was clear the Italians protected her because they suspected she was not canny enough to prevent the transfer of baubles into bags without money changing hands. If the assumption was that the Gypsy women would shoplift if given a chance, they did not get the chance.

American Jews ask, will Americans ever know? Posted: 19 Sep 2010 07:21 PM PDT On September 7, 2010 – the NYT published Laurie Goodstein’s article titled American Muslims ask, will we ever belong?, which like the New York’s highly debated Islamic Community Center – is to con Muslims to renew their false guilt of being behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Goodstein did note that some of the Muslim apologists, after being pushed to the wall for the last nine years have come to the conclusion that their misguided apoplogies are not acceptable to the Islam-hating Zionist crowed.

Globalists Plan to Dismantle Middle Class With UN Tax Posted: 19 Sep 2010 02:35 PM PDT Globalists representing 60 nations will meet at the UN this coming week to push a tax on world financial transactions in the name of solving poverty and climate change, formally launching a massive program to bankrupt the middle class and enrich the coffers of global government. “Spearheaded by European Union countries, the so-called “innovative financing” proposal envisages a tax of 0.005 percent (five cents per $1,000), which experts estimate could produce more than $30 billion a year worldwide for priority causes,” reports CNS News.

Attorney Richard I. Fine Released Posted: 19 Sep 2010 06:49 AM PDT From the early 1990s until his disbarment and March 4, 2009 jailing, Fine challenged and corrected state corruption, returning about "$350 million to California taxpayers which state, county and municipal governments (unlawfully took from) 'special funds' and 'trust funds' in a series of taxpayer cases filed in federal" and state courts. Yet, for his many years of crime fighting, he was charged with "contempt of court" and "moral turpitude," disbarred by California's Supreme Court, and jailed by Superior Court Judge David Yaffe (retiring November 1) "in retaliation for bringing the cases and exposing the unconstitutional payments," ones later held to be unconstitutional.

Netanyahu's 'catastrophic success' Posted: 19 Sep 2010 04:02 AM PDT The George W. Bush administration had a phrase for it: "Catastrophic success." As part of the planning process before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a comprehensive list of potentially disastrous unintended consequences of a successful military campaign was drawn up. Though initially there was considerable relief when none of the developments on the list came to pass, it eventually became apparent that the list - which failed to anticipate a string of supremely unwise post-invasion decisions - was far too short. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, may soon be wishing he had drawn up such a list - and paid attention to it - many years ago. For the consequences of his own - and his party's - catastrophic success are becoming manifest.

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