Did Israel
Offer ISIS $10 Million ToFree Steven Sotloff? By Franklin Lamb At Ein el Helwe Palestinian camp 9-4-14
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At the same time the US Zionist lobby has been intensively lobbying the Obama administration to bomb IS forces in Iraq and Syria, Israeli agents were reportedly talking with IS about obtaining Mr. Sotloff’s freedom and offering $10 million to DAASH as part of a release deal. Over the last 48 hours Mr. Sotloff’s ‘fixer’ has reportedly disappeared from public view, and is no doubt himself being hunted and marked for death as Israeli and perhaps American agents track him. This is not the first time, nor likely will it be the
last, that Westerners or others seeking to report on events here—or who
simply show up in exciting places to bear witness or do good—have gotten
themselves into a fix. New arrivals around here often are unaware that
the ‘war economy’ along the Turkish-Syria-Iraq border these days means
that just about anything, or anyone, is up for sale at the right price.
There is plenty of buyer’s cash available, and that attractively pushes
profits up even higher. Even sworn enemies regularly do business—either
through agents or sometimes even directly—with criminal gangs and others,
and the commodities run the gamut from oil, arms, counterfeit US $ 100
bills, an array of drugs, women, children, would-be jihadists and just
about every other tangible asset you can think of—this while simultaneously
they fight each other nearby and pledge devotion to Allah and loyalty
to “humanity.” Yet, being accused of working for a foreign government
these days in this region is not uncommon. This observer has been accused
of being a CIA agent while at the same time also of being a supporter
of the Lebanese national Resistance led by Hezbollah and Hamas. Many around
these parts simply do not understand why someone from a ‘safe and prosperous
country’ would be over here if he was not being paid by some government’s
security services. Many don’t understand Americans or what patriotism
means to most of us. For a majority of Americans it’s not a question
of “My country right or wrong!” as the bleats of the John McCain-Lindsay
Graham’s insist. Rather it’s a question of, as Commodore Stephen
Decatur put in back in April of 1816, having returned from the Barbary
Wars in off Libya, as some historians argue, the first
postRevolutionary war hero: “My country, right or wrong; if right,
to be kept right; but if wrong, to be set right.” With respect to the claimed Mossad offer, ISIS reportedly balked at the proposal for several reasons, including the one stated publicly, i.e. the US bombings of ISIS fighters in Iraq. But an additional reason, reported to this observer, was the most recent Israeli aggression against Gaza: “Think of this execution as also a gesture to the Palestinian
Gaza Resistance. As the Zionists do not put any value on other than Jewish
lives, let them taste justice. No Jew, Christian or Muslim who works for
Mossad or who works to confiscate one inch of Arab land will be treated
with respect. They will taste Allah’s punishment.” |
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