by Mike Miller

Created on: June 22, 2008   Last Updated: January 07, 2009

Why The Current Round of Peace Treaties Will Fail

In George Orwell's novel 1984 a slogan ran throughout the novel: "War IS Peace". War production kept the economy buzzing, and roused the Patriotic juices of the population. Real peace was not desirable. In today's political world, diplomatic initiatives cannot be taken at face value: it is NOT peace that's the agenda on the table, but war.

The last efforts for real peace in the Middle East came when Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat made peace between Israel and Egypt, for which they both were assassinated. Would that today's leaders really wanted peace. However, the real driving force behind the current "rapprochement" process is, paradoxically, the imminent nuclear weapons capability of Iran. To understand what is taking place in the Middle East right now, a look back to the days prior to World War II can be instructive.

Prior to WWII there were rounds of Peace Treaties. Russia and Japan made peace. Neither could afford to fight a war on two opposite fronts. Japan was determined to go after the United States in the Pacific, and wanted no trouble with Russia at its backdoor. Russia didn't declare war on Japan until after Germany had surrendered. When we realized Russia was moving troops toward the Japanese front to launch a "backdoor" invasion of Japan, we bombed Hiroshima. The very next day Russian declared war on Japn, so we bombed Nagasaki, immediately precipating the unconditional surrender of Japan. We couldn't have Russia occupying Japan as they were doing in Eastern Germany.

Similarly, Hitler made a non-aggression pact with Russia prior to tearing into France and trying to invade Britain. Only after the Western Front's advance was stopped did Hitler turn savagely to the East, devastating Russia, killing 22 million. So, we let us learn from modern history, that "peace" can, paradoxically, mean "WAR."

That what is happening in the Middle East right now.

(as of this writing....) Israel has just worked out a non-aggression agreement with the Palestinian militant group Hamas that seems earnest, or at least, temporarily so. However, at the same moment it is making peace with Hamas, Israel is holding advanced military exercises in the Mediterranean that are uniquely geared toward war with Iran. Can it be that Israel doesn't want to be bothered by Hamas during an action against Iran? That's certainly what it looks like....

(updated...January, 2009) Israel has been ferociously ravaging Hamas in the Gaza Strip for about

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