Netanyahu's Iran Speech in Context: Irony, Hypocrisy and the Undeclared Hijacking of U.S. Foreign Policy
By Adeyinka Makinde
May 03, 2018
Adeyinka Makinde, Writer: Netanyahu's Iran Speech in Context: Irony, Hypocrisy and the Undeclared Hijacking of U.S. Foreign Policy
The reason why Israel wants Iranian aid to Hezbollah cut off and the organisation destroyed is not hard to fathom. Hezbollah is the only armed force within the Arab world willing and capable of taking on the Israeli military. Israel has for long coveted southern Lebanon up to the River Litani. But Hezbollah has twice inflicted humiliating defeats on Israel: first in 2000 when Israel was forced to withdraw after an 18-year occupation of the southern part of Lebanon which had commenced with a bloody invasion, and secondly in 2006 when Israel was forced to withdraw after sustaining heavy losses during a 34-day conflict.
Apart from the aforementioned goal of breaking the conduit between Iran and Hezbollah, the balkanisation of Syria would mean that any of the successor states would find it difficult to make a claim for the Golan Heights which Israel conquered in 1967 and which it illegally annexed in 1981. Israel is also supportive of the idea of a Kurdish state being created out of Syria as a means through which the transfer of oil and gas could be facilitated.
Much evidence exists of a pre-existing Israeli plan to destroy Syria. The Yinon Plan of 1982 and a series of position papers produced by Israel-friendly neoconservative ideologues in the United States (the Project for the New American Century’s ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses - Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century’ in 2000) as well as for the Israeli government (‘A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm’ in 1996) bear this out. Each document clearly calls for the neutralising or the “rolling back” of several states including Syria.
The Yinon Plan, the name given to a paper entitled ‘A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s’ which was published in February 1982 in Kivunim (Directions), a journal written in Hebrew, set out Israel’s enduring aim of balkanising the surrounding Arab and Muslim world into ethnic and sectarian mini-states. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq were prime candidates.
It was not a unique or suddenly arrived at policy, but simply set out in detail an overarching policy pursued by Israel’s leaders since the founding of the state. For instance, the diaries of Moshe Sharett, an early prime minister of Israel, laid bare David Ben Gurion and Moshe Dayan’s aim of weakening Lebanon by exacerbating tensions between its Muslim and Christian population in the course of which Dayan hoped that a Christian military officer would declare a Christian state out of which the region south of the River Litani would be ceded to Israel.
A crucial point to mention is that the policy of the United States towards Syria and others is congruent with that of Israel. In fact, America has been pursuing a two-decade long strategy aimed at destabilisation and balkanisation regardless of the political stripe of the president in office. After the attack of 9/11, the United States set in motion a plan, in the words of retired U.S. General Wesley Clark, “to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran”.
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This interview took place 5 years prior to the first protests in Syria which began in March 2011. As you can see, the plans were already in place long before 2011.
"CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Mr. President, you know the rhetoric of regime change is headed towards you from the United States. They are actively looking for a new Syrian leader. They're granting visas and visits to Syrian opposition politicians. They're talking about isolating your diplomatically and, perhaps, a coup d'etat or your regime crumbling. What are you thinking about that?"
October 12, 2005
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/international/2012/07/11/exp-amanpour-assad-2005.cnn
http://www.presidentassad.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112resident-assad-cnn-interview-october-12-2005
"JOHN KERRY, Secretary Of State: ....With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes.”
“They have. That offer is on the table.”
....“In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we’ve done it previously in other places, they’ll carry that cost.”
“That’s how dedicated they are at this. That’s not in the cards, and nobody’s talking about it, but they’re talking in serious ways about getting this done.”
September 04, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...iveblog/the-houses-syria-hearing-live-updates
Hillary Clinton brief on Syria from Clinton emails
(date is 2012 not 2001--an error by U.S. State Department)
"The best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.
What Israeli military leaders really worry about ... but cannot talk about ... is losing their nuclear monopoly."
New Iran And Syria 2.Doc
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05794498 Date: 11/30/2015
January 01, 2012
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/851481351241039872
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18328#efmADQAFfASJAT7
WikiLeaks: Cable
Influencing The SARG In The End Of 2006
December 13, 2006
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html
Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton admitted "AQ is on our side in Syria"
e-Mail:
From: Jake Sullivan
To: Hillary Clinton
See last item - AQ is on our side in Syria. Otherwise, things have basically turned out as expected.
February 12, 2012
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225#efmAGIAHu
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.
What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
"In October 2000 Iraq insisted on dumping the US dollar - 'the currency of the enemy' - for the more multilateral euro."
--Faisal Islam, Iraq nets handsome profit by dumping dollar for euro, February 16, 2003--
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeuro
The Invasion of Iraq: Dollar vs Euro Re-denominating Iraqi oil in U. S. dollars, instead of the euro
Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank - this before they even had a government.
Robert Wenzel wrote in the Economic Policy Journal: "I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences."
EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Libyan Rebels Form Central Bank
Alex Newman wrote in the New American: "In a statement released last week, the rebels reported on the results of a meeting held on March 19. Among other things, the supposed rag-tag revolutionaries announced the [d]esignation of the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and appointment of a Governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi."
Newman quoted CNBC senior editor John Carney, who asked, Is this the first time a revolutionary group has created a central bank while it is still in the midst of fighting the entrenched political power? It certainly seems to indicate how extraordinarily powerful central bankers have become in our era.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world...libyan-rebels-create-central-bank-oil-company
https://www.cnbc.com/id/42308613
--Ellen Brown, Libya: All About Oil, Or All About Banking?, April 08, 2011--
LIBYA: ALL ABOUT OIL, OR ALL ABOUT BANKING?