Israel ‘wants rapid Gaza pullout’ and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he wants Israeli troops to leave Gaza “as quickly as possible”. So are we really to believe that Israel has permanently turned back from its genocidal onslaught against Palestinians after its own Jewish version of Kristallnacht?

Or is this just the lull in the nastiness as Barack Obama continues to carry on the ‘Global War’ to advance the American Corporate Empire forward against all rivals, while the US population watches on like passive cattle? Why is our society seemingly so ready to turn the entire world into a Hell Hole for its own corporate master class?