In Israel, A Tsunami Warning

[Os Cangaceiros]

In May, in a closed meeting of many of Israel’s business leaders, Idan Ofer, a holding-company magnate, warned, “We are quickly turning into South Africa. The economic blow of sanctions will be felt by every family in Israel.”

The business leaders’ particular concern was the U.N. General Assembly session this September, where the Palestinian Authority is planning to call for recognition of a Palestinian state.

Dan Gillerman, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations, warned participants that “the morning after the anticipated announcement of recognition of a Palestinian state, a painful and dramatic process of Southafricanization will begin” — meaning that Israel would become a pariah state, subject to international sanctions.

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11601/in_israel_a_tsunami_warning/

[Jose Gracchus]

Good article by Chomsky, within his specialization, which is kind of a reductionist view of American foreign policy. I linked this with the bellwether of the debt ceiling political crisis and subsequent credit rating downgrade, as marking possibly this year as a discernible inflection point in the further decline of American sole hegemony in the world capitalist system, which could very well mean an increasing polarization and confrontational world geopolitical order. The only salvation from which will be the world proletariat.