Israeli invasion of Lebanon planned by neocons in June

http://waynemadsenreport.com

July 22/23, 2006 --

The Israeli invasion of Lebanon was planned between top Israeli
officials and members of the Bush administration.

On June 17 and 18, former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and
Likud Knesset member Natan Sharansky met with Vice President Dick
Cheney at the American Enterprise Institute conference in Beaver Creek,
Colorado. There, the impending Israeli invasions of both Gaza and
Lebanon were discussed. After receiving Cheney's full backing for the
invasion of Gaza and Lebanon, Netanyahu flew back to Israel and
participated in a special "Ex-Prime Ministers" meeting, in which he
conveyed the Bush administration's support for the carrying out of the
"Clean Break" policy -- the trashing of all past Middle East peace
accords, including Oslo. Present at the meeting, in addition to
Netanyahu, were current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Prime
Ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir is very old and suffers from dementia and Ariel Sharon remains
in a coma after a series of strokes.
Lebanon and Gaza invasions planned last month in Colorado meetings
between Netanyahu, Sharansky, and Cheney.
After the AEI meeting, Sharansky, who has the ear of Bush, met with the
Heritage Foundation in Washington and then attended a June 29 seminar
at Philadelphia's Main Line Haverford School sponsored by the Middle
East Forum led by Daniel Pipes. Sharansky appeared with Pennsylvania
Senator Rick Santorum who this past Thursday was beating the war drums
against Syria, Iran, and "Islamo-fascism" in a fiery speech at the
National Press Club attended by a cheering section composed of members
of the neocon Israel Project, on whose board Santorum serves along with
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Virginia GOP Rep. Tom Davis.
Our Washington sources claim that the U.S.-supported invasions of Gaza
and Lebanon and the impending attacks on Syria and Iran represent the
suspected "event" predicted to take place prior to the November
election in the United States and is an attempt to rally the American
public around the Bush-Cheney regime during a time of wider war.
Syria to enter conflict if Lebanon invaded: minister
MADRID, July 23, 2006 (AFP) - A Syrian minister warned Israel in an
interview published Sunday that a major ground incursion into Lebanon
would draw his country into the Middle East conflict.
"If Israel makes a land entry into Lebanon, they can get to within 20
kilometres (12 miles) of Damascus," Information Minister Moshen Bilal
told the Spanish newspaper ABC.
"What will we do? Stand by with our arms folded? Absolutely not.
Without any doubt Syria will intervene in the conflict." Bilal said
Syria wanted above all a ceasefire "as soon as possible" combined with
a prisoner exchange and indicated he was working to that end with
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, whom he met in recent
days in Madrid.
But he added: "I repeat, if Israel makes a land invasion of Lebanon and
gets near us, Syria will not stand by with arms folded. It will enter
the conflict." Israel has said it wants to push Hezbollah militias 20
kilometres north of its border.
Bilal criticised the United States saying that it was "unjustifiable"
that "the superpower is not working for a rapid ceasefire." He rejected
claims by Washington that Damascus has armed Hezbollah, saying that it
offered "moral support" but adding that "we do not finance any
resistance." -AFP

Going after Syria (and then Iran) is accordance with the 'A Clean
Break'/war for Israel agenda which esteemed intelligence author/writer
James Bamford discusses on pages 261-269/321 of his 'A Pretext for War'
book (scroll down to pages 261-269 at the following URL):

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=28769

Pat Buchanan: No, This Is Not 'Our War' (it's Israel's war):

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=56303

Neocons Resurrect Plans For Regional War In The Middle East:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/17/neocons-middle-east-war/