- "This national ethnic minority picture extending
from Morocco to India and from Somalia to Turkey points to the absence
of stability and a rapid degeneration in the entire region. When this picture
is added to the economic one, we see how the entire region is built like
a house of cards, unable to withstand its severe problems."
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- --1982, World Zionist Organization.
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- When approaching (and hopefully better understanding)
the situations in Egypt, Tunisia and other parts of the Middle East, it
is important to consider the above statement, as it summarizes the thinking
and--more importantly, the intentions of Zionist strategists in the 1980's
vis-à-vis the future of Israel and its enemy, the "Arab World".
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- Israel understands it can never destroy its enemies by
conventional means because of the sheer number of the Arabs compared with
that of the Jews and the size of the Arab territories that would have to
be directly occupied by Israel,--an impossible task to accomplish given
the relatively small army Israel possesses. Therefore the only way to conquer
the "Arab enemy" is to do it from within and, better still, to
use his strength against him. Israel has identified certain fault lines
within each of the Arab (and non-Arab) states that by virtue of their Islamic
character, represent the greatest threat to her eventually becoming the
regional superpower she envisions herself. Long ago she planned to use
these fault lines, represented by religious, cultural, linguistic and ethnic
differences between the various peoples, and what must be remembered when
forming an understanding of the present situation is that it is akin to
planting a tree in that it takes time before the fruits are harvested.
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- Israel wants to accomplish two things in the next 30
year--(1) that "Eretz Y'Israel--the "land of Israel" as
it is referred to by Jews--eventually encompass the area west of the river
Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, and (2) it wants to be a super power with
imperial aims. The Zionists made this clear back in 1980 when they wrote
in the very prescient essay "Israel's Strategy for the 1980s"
that --
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- "Dispersal of the (Arab) population is therefore
a domestic strategic aim of the highest order; otherwise, we shall cease
to exist within any borders. Judea, Samaria and the Galilee are our sole
guarantee for national existence, and if we do not become the majority
in the mountain areas, we shall not rule in the country and we shall be
like the Crusaders, who lost this country which was not theirs anyhow,
and in which they were foreigners to begin with. Rebalancing the country
demographically, strategically and economically is the highest and most
central aim today. Taking hold of the mountain watershed from Beersheba
to the Upper Galilee is the national aim generated by the major strategic
consideration which is settling the mountainous part of the country that
is empty of Jews today. Prof. Yuval Neeman, "Samaria--The Basis for
Israel's Security," Ma'arakhot 272-273, May/June 1980
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- In the 1980s the mountains of the West Bank (referred
to by Israel as "Judea and Samaria") were empty of Jewish settlements.
Therefore plans were put in motion starting in the late 1970's to accelerate
the building of settlements in the mountains of the West Bank. Today Israel
has over 600,000 illegal settlers in the West Bank, up from a mere 1100
settlers in 1972. The settlement issue has always been a sticking point
in all negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. During the
George H. W. Bush administration, particularly from 1990-92, tensions over
settlements so severely strained ties between Israel and its American ally
that direct communication between the President of the United States and
the Prime Minister of Israel ground to a halt. A war of words between George
H.W. Bush and then-Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir was the norm on the evening
news worldwide to the point that Bush declared the illegal Israeli settlements
in the West Bank an "obstacle to peace" and threatened withholding
$10,000,000,000.00 in loan guarantees promised to the Jewish state. When
asked about this by a reporter, Shamir's reaction was prophetic-- "I
will have his job" meaning that G. H.W. Bush--at the time running
for re-election against Bill Clinton--would not stand a chance. In doing
so, Shamir made it clear to the world who really is in charge of America's
political system, and he was proven correct when Bush lost to Clinton,
even though he was just coming out of a victorious war against Iraq with
87% approval of the American people.
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- Shamir himself warned the Arab delegates to the 1991
Madrid Peace Conference that talks will not succeed if they focused primarily
on territory. Shamir came to the conference with the intention of keeping
the West Bank and Gaza forever under Israel's control. He admitted to a
Ma'ariv reporter that he planned to drag negotiations on for 10 years and
"in the mean time we would have settled one-half million souls in
Judea and Samaria." Remember that this was in 1992 as reported by
the LA Times when the Israeli settlers in the West Bank were around 10,000.
It is clear that no matter who is in control of the Israeli government
from the Right or the Left they are all committed to carrying out the same
plan of populating the "Mountains of Judea and Samaria" as their
Zionist plan has suggested.
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- Fast forward now to November 15, 2010 with a U.S. President
Obama makes Israel on offer she cannot refuse--the U.S. taxpayer subsidized
"sale" to Israel of 20 F-35's stealth bombers, a deal providing
Israel with unmatched capability of striking anywhere in the region. However,
contingent upon this was the stipulation that Israel must freeze West Bank
settlement expansion for 90 days, and what was an offer too good to turn
down became exactly that, as Israel refused the offer. The lesson learned
from this is that building the settlements is more important to Israel
and their national interests than getting the F-35's to strengthen their
offensive capacity. Keep in mind that this stipulation on the part of the
U.S. was not for a permanent freeze, but only for a mere 90 days.
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- It is clear that Israel will not allow a Palestinian
State West of the River Jordan and--given the fact that the rest of the
civilized, enlightened world is day by day increasingly recognizing a Palestinian
State West of the Jordan, therefore Israel must have a plan of action--now,
and not tomorrow, but yesterday. Furthermore, given that America obviously
can no longer drag negotiations out with Israel and play the role of designated
bodyguard for the Jewish state, therefore the Zionist strategy in the 1980's
must go into action before the Palestinians get a chance to go through
with their plans of having the world recognize their state West of the
Jordan.
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- Let's look at the footprints of that strategy in 2011.
"The best that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq is the dissolution
of Iraq into a Shi'ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish
part" (Ha'aretz 6/2/1982). Again, remember that this was written was
in 1982 in one of Israel's biggest newspapers and was a mere repitition
of the menu outlined in various Zionist strategy papers, including "Israel's
Strategy for the 1980s". The picture in Iraq today is not some accident,
coincidence or happenstance, for--just as a house is built according to
the blueprints drawn up well-ahead of the first nail being driven by a
construction worker, what we see in Iraq today it is exactly what was planned
not just years ago, but decades. Can anyone dispute that picture?
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- Now, let us take a look at Egypt. Although not discussed
in mainstream (i.e. Zionist controlled) news, Egypt was the strongest ally
to the Palestinian Authority and the main mediator between it and Israel
any time help was needed. Egypt was the only Arab regime that can talk
to Hamas on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. In terms of putting pressure
on the only substantive Palestinian negotiating body--the Palestinian National
Authority--Israel would love to see a regime in Egypt not as friendly to
Israel as Mubarak was and at the same time more sympathetic to Hamas, thus
placing the PNA between the jaws of the pincer to force them back to the
negotiating circus for another 10 years. Better yet, to force the PNA out
of power in order to start the next phase in annexing the West Bank. Then
comes the all-too-predictable--regime or policy change in Jordan, which
would inevitably halt the push for Palestinian statehood and thus stall
talks and drag out the status quo for another 10 years, during which time
Israeli settlers in the West bank increase their numbers to over a million
and a half, making it impossible for a Palestinian state to be viable because
of the constantly-heard rational concerning "facts on the ground".
Thus, a different solution altogether is then required in which the most
plausible and acceptable solution to the problem would be population transfer
from West Bank of the river Jordan to the East Bank, where the future "Palestinian
State" would then be setup.
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- Those who doubt such a scenario is part of Israel's blueprint
for the region should take another look at what the aforementioned "Strategy
for the 1980's" has to say about it--
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- "There is no chance that Jordan will continue to
exist in its present structure for a long time, and Israel's policy, both
in war and in peace, ought to be directed at the liquidation of Jordan
under the present regime and the transfer of power to the Palestinian majority.
Changing the regime east of the river will also cause the termination of
the problem of the territories densely populated with Arabs west of the
Jordan. Whether in war or under conditions of peace, emigration from the
territories and economic demographic freeze in them are the guarantees
for the coming change on both banks of the river, and we ought to be active
in order to accelerate this process in the nearest future. It is not possible
to go on living in this country in the present situation without separating
the two nations, the Arabs to Jordan and the Jews to the areas west of
the river. Genuine coexistence and peace will reign over the land only
when the Arabs understand that without Jewish rule between the Jordan and
the sea they will have neither existence nor security. A nation of their
own and security will be theirs only in Jordan."
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- In short, Israel planned this in the 1980's but never
had the opportunity to implement it. Conditions were never ripe (as they
are now) for the execution of this plan. So far they are succeeding accordingly,
but will the revolution in Egypt delay their plans or accelerate them?
It is all dependent upon the way the regime in Egypt treats Hamas and the
PNA. If Al Jazeera, which has scored many points with the young people
of Egypt and the Arab street, continues to be used in advancing the agenda
of the other side and continues its incitement f the Arab street (and especially
with the continuation of its attacks on the PNA) then the Israel's Strategy
for the 1980's will indeed accelerate. The incitement of the Arab Street
has caused the majority of Arab intellectuals and so-called "thinkers"
to join in on the hysteria because no one wants to be seen as if they were
against the "winds of change". Israel can create a lukewarm atmosphere
with Egypt which may serve both governments' interests of the "changing"
times which would allow Israel more time to continue its settlement building
because no one on the Arab side would dare push for negotiations with Israel.
Therefore Israel can cry to the world that it doesn't have a "peace
partner" on the Arab side. In the mean time "facts on the ground"
will continue to be on Israel's side until there comes a time when the
Arab street will be ready to accept Israel's plan for the Middle East after
it has been broken-in like a wild horse.
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- Must the Zionist plan for the Middle East succeed? Of
course not, but it requires an Arab plan to fight it, which--unfortunately
there is none at this time. It also requires a Palestinian plan to combat
the Israeli plan, but Palestinian politicians and their Arab counterparts
continue down the road mapped out for them by Israel and its tool, the
USA.
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- We must learn one thing in this game, and without it
there can be no possibility of victory: We cannot win by playing THEIR
game by THEIR rules. Rather, we must adopt our own rules of engagement,
forcing them to change theirs.
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- Dr. Hesham Tillawi
- tillawi@currentissues.tv
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- USA February, 2011
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