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http://rt.com/op-edge/istael-syria-attack-crisis-251/. By Adrian Salbuchi
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" But let’s look at three factors that are missing in the ongoing analysis
of the Syrian crisis:
1) Israel
Ever since the two Gulf wars, America has been fighting Israelis’ wars for
them. In the case of the 2003 invasion and destruction of Iraq, this
was so obvious that the very same NeoCons who in 1996-7 planned war against
Iraq in their “Project for a New American Century (PNAC)” think-tank -
Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Bush, Douglas
Feith, David Wormser and others – would later execute that war in 2003 as
top officers in the George W. Bush regime. The prime reason: Saddam
Hussein was then the greatest threat to “democratic and favored ally”
Israel.
Several of those NeoCons – Douglas Feith, David Wormser, Richard Perle and
other Bushites - had already gone so far as to prepare a strategy report for
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996 called “A Clean Break: A
New Strategy for Securing the Realm” which, again, targeted Iraq as Israel
’s key foe at the time.
So, the Iraq War was to a great extent a proxy war that only benefitted
Israel, becoming a huge headache for America, which lost thousands of its
sons.
As the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Bin Mohammed, once
famously pointed out: "The Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to
fight and die for them."
2) Israel
The excessive and overpowering role that Zionism plays in American politics,
American finance, American universities, American mainstream media
including it Hollywood “entertainment industry,” and over American foreign
policy, has been all but proven. This vital issue today lies at the heart
of an increasingly far-reaching debate among America’s intelligentsia,
which is, of course, being hushed up by the mainstream media.
One of its milestones was played out by two of its prestigious academics –
Stephen Walt, former Dean of the John F Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University, and his colleague John Mearsheimer, professor of
Political Science at Chicago University – who published their
groundbreaking book: “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” in 2007.
In it, they show in a very convincing and well-documented manner the long
reach and powerful clout that the “Israel First” lobby exercises over the
US media, the banks, the Congress, the State Department and the Pentagon,
whereby they are able to systematically tip the scales in favor of Israel,
no matter what the cost. No matter if right or wrong.
And the cost to America has been extremely detrimental to its National
Interest. Here lies one of the roots of much of the disrespect,
mistrust and even hate that growing sections of global public opinion feel
towards the US and its key allies.
3) Israel
President Barack Obama’s problem right now is that America’s military
establishment is very much aware of the stakes involved in any “preventive
attack” against Syria and, much more importantly, against Iran.
Intervention against either or both countries will undoubtedly lead to
massive war in the Middle East.
Look at a map: Syria and Iran lie squarely inside Russia’s vital
geopolitical sphere of interest, which is already under heavy Western
encroachment. Read their lips: Russia is saying, “not one step
further!”
America would do very well to think twice or thrice before doing anything
rash…
But here comes the problem: ever since Israel was kicked out of Southern
Lebanon in July 2006 by the well-armed and trained (by Iran and Russia)
forces of Hezbollah commanded by Nasrallah, Israel has been licking its
wounds; dark furor and revenge burns in Zionism’s heart.
Since Bibi Netanyahu came back to power in 2011, Israel has gone into
preventive war mode, using Iran’s inexistent nuclear program as a pretext.&
#160; For that past four or five years, Israel has been threatening Iran
with military attack almost every other day, with Washington, London and
Paris nervously obliging...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, uses a diagram of a bomb to
describe Iran's nuclear program while delivering his address to the 67th
United Nations General Assembly meeting September 27, 2012 at the United
Nations in New York. (AFP Photo / Don Emmert)
The American military, however, are painfully aware that there’s some truth
to former Prime Minister Mahathir’s words. They don’t want to fight
yet another Israeli war this time in Iran. So, they have been acting
as a brake which is reflected in Obama’s increasing “caution” regarding
Iran, going so far as to dispatching his military top brass to Israel to
calm Netanyahu down, trying to make sure Israel does not launch a unilateral
“preventive attack” on Iran that will drag the US into a massive conflict
in the Middle East, the results of which are far from clear.
Actually a US-UK defeat in the Middle East could very well spell the
beginning of the end of America as a global superpower. Russia (and China)
are staring very sharply at the Middle East… They are not blinking...
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Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV
commentator in Agentina |
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