The Zionist Plan for the Middle East: ISIS Controls the Exact Same Territory Israel Wants to Conquer and Annex to Make Up the Greater Israel
“The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates; it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon.” When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing war on Syria and Iraq, the war in Yemen, the process of regime change in Egypt, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East. The latter consists in weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part of an Israeli expansionist project.“Greater Israel” consists in an area extending from the Nile Valley to the Euphrates. The Zionist project supports the Jewish settlement movement. More broadly it involves a policy of excluding Palestinians from Palestine, leading to the eventual annexation of both the West Bank and Gaza to the State of Israel. Greater Israel would create a number of proxy States. It would include parts of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the Sinai, as well as parts of Iraq and Saudi Arabia (see map).
Greater Israel” requires the breaking up of the existing Arab states into small states. “The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation… This is not a new idea, nor does it surface for the first time in Zionist strategic thinking. Indeed, fragmenting all Arab states into smaller units has been a recurrent theme.” [Source]
'Syria Will Be Torn Into Pieces:' Abu Qatada Speaks to VICE News
November 5, 2015Vice News - A radical Islamic cleric once described as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe says that Syria can no longer function as a nation state, and will be permanently fragmented into zones controlled by various rebel groups.
"Syria will be torn into pieces," said Abu Qatada in an exclusive interview with VICE News, also claiming that the so-called Islamic State (IS) could have been defeated if the United States had taken decisive military action earlier.Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-Jordanian whose real name is Omar Othman, spent more than two decades in the UK where he became a leading Islamist cleric known for increasingly hardline views. By the early 2000s he was accused by British authorities of advocating Islamic extremism and promoting terrorism, including suicide bomb attacks.
"No single group can destroy the other group [in Syria]," he continued. "This fighting will extend to neighboring countries," such as Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Richard Reid, the man known as the shoe bomber for his failed 2001 attempt to blow up a US passenger plane with explosives packed into his shoes, was said to have consulted Abu Qatada on religious issues. In 2002 Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon described the cleric as "the spiritual head of the mujahideen in Britain", and "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe," and in 2012 he was placed under worldwide embargo by the United Nations for his alleged links to al Qaeda.
After a long legal battle that cost the UK taxpayer £1.7 million ($2.7 million), the UK deported Abu Qatada to Jordan in 2013. He stood trial for allegedly planning a terrorist attack against tourists in Jordan during millennium celebrations, but last September was acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
Since his trial, Abu Qatada has focused on organizing political support for Jabat al Nusra (Nusra Front), the al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, according to Hassan Abu Haniah, a Jordanian researcher on extremist groups and commentator for major Arab media. He also consults with al Nusra leaders, advising them on "how they can manage and control Jabat al Nusra and how they can communicate with the ISIS [Islamic State] and Free Syrian Army," said Haniah.
Al Nusra was part of the so-called Islamic State until 2013, when the two groups split in a bitter feud over strategy and tactics. IS went on to establish what it calls an Islamic caliphate, which includes parts of Syria and Iraq, brutally murdering thousands of civilians, foreign journalists, non-Sunni Muslims and other religious minorities in the process.
Abu Qatada maintains IS could have been defeated had the US taken more decisive military action sooner, a position also advocated by American hawks. The US provided shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles to rebels fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, he noted, and "could have done the same" in Syria, he said.
If the US had supplied missiles to "so-called moderate rebels, the situation today would be completely changed," he claimed. The US and NATO could also have destroyed Syrian President Bashar al Assad's air force and created a no fly zone over Syria, he said.
"If the Americans stopped the airplanes of Bashar, believe me, the flags of America would be in the streets of Syria," exclaimed Abu Qatada.He doesn't consider the US a potential ally, but both the US and al Nusra have a shared interest in stopping IS.
"If you are in a deep well and someone will bring you up with a rope, even if he's your enemy, you'll kiss his hand," said Abu Qatada. "We know the US is the enemy, but if it helps the Syrians, things would change there."The US decided not to supply missiles to rebels, and Abu Qatada concedes that the Russian presence in Syria now makes creation of a no fly zone highly unlikely. He opposes the US plan announced last week to send in ground troops, declaring:
"The US has no intention of solving the conflict in Syria."Abu Qatada is equally contemptuous about Russia's decision to bomb Syria in support of the Assad regime. He says the Russians are killing civilians and falsely claim to be fighting Daesh, the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
"They want to destroy areas controlled by Jabat al Nusra and other Islamic groups, not Daesh," he said.But, he claims, the bombing hasn't demoralized al Nusra fighters — in fact, he says, it has only hardened their resolve to fight Assad.
Russia will be stuck in a stagnant war, he said.
"What happened to the Russians in Afghanistan will happen in Syria."While Abu Qatada is quick to denounce the US and Russia, he personally remains pessimistic about the future of al Qaeda and that of Syria.
"There will never be a clear solution or a clear state," said Abu Qatada. "We are expecting wider destruction and more disintegration."
IS leader says 'caliphate' well, mocks Saudi-led alliance
December 26, 2015AP - The Islamic State group on Saturday released a new message purportedly from its reclusive leader, claiming that his self-styled "caliphate" is doing well despite an unprecedented alliance against it and criticizing the recently announced Saudi-led Islamic military coalition against terrorism.
In the 24-minute audio, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said airstrikes by the international coalition only increase his group's determination and resolve. The message was al-Baghdadi's first since May, and comes amid battlefield setbacks that IS has recently faced.
Meanwhile, a U.S.-backed coalition of rebels in Syria — including Syrian Kurdish, Arab and Christian groups — captured a major dam on the Euphrates River from the Islamic State group as part of the coalition's march on IS-held areas in northern Syria.
The coalition, known as Syria Democratic Forces, announced earlier this week a new offensive aimed at cutting supply lines between IS strongholds in the country's north. The SDF said it seized the Tishrin Dam, which supplies much off northern Syria with electricity, on Saturday.
An SDF spokesman told AP earlier this week that his forces are also trying to cut the supply lines between the Islamic State's de-facto capital of Raqqa and the group's stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria.
The SDF, dominated by the main Kurdish militia in Syria known as YPG, or People's Protection Units, has become a main force in fighting IS.
The Islamic State group has come under pressure in Syria and Iraq, where it has declared its self-styled Islamic caliphate on territory that the militant group controls. It lost the town Sinjar in Iraq last month, and areas across the border in Syria at the same time. Iraqi government troops are also advancing in the Islamic State-held city of Ramadi, the provincial capital of the sprawling Anbar province, Iraq's Sunni heartland.
Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition and Russia in Syria have also destroyed Syrian oil facilities and killed several IS leaders in recent weeks.
"It is unprecedented in the history of our Ummah (Islamic nation) that all the world came against it in one battle, as it is happening today. It is the battle of all the disbelievers against all the Muslims," al-Baghdadi said.He said the U.S.-led alliance does "not scare us... nor do they scatter our resolve because we are the victors in any event."
Al-Baghdadi also taunted the United States for not putting boots on the ground.
"They do not dare to come, because their hearts are full of fear from the mujahideen,"or holy warriors, he said.
"America and its allies dream of destroying the caliphate through their proxies and henchmen, and whenever an alliance of theirs fails or a tail is cut, they hasten to establish another, until they recently declared the Salouli (Saudi) alliance that was falsely called Islamic," al-Baghdadi added.If the Saudi-led alliance was truly Islamic, then it would fight the Syrian army and its Russian "masters," as well as Shiites and Jews, al-Baghdadi said.
In mid-December, Saudi Arabia announced the new, 34-member alliance against terrorism, to be based in the kingdom's capital, Riyadh. But Shiite powerhouse Iran is not part of the new coalition; neither are Iraq and Syria, whose forces are battling to regain ground from the Islamic State group and whose governments are allied with Tehran.
In the audio, al-Baghdadi also warned nations taking part in the war against IS by saying: "We promise you, God permitting, that whoever participates in the war against the Islamic State will pay the price dearly."
He threatened Israel by saying,
"We haven't forgotten you" and "we are getting closer to you" every day. To Israeli Jews, he said that they "will hide behind trees and stones" from the IS.
He also urged Muslims world over to join the IS fight, saying it is their Islamic duty to rise up everywhere.
The authenticity of the audio could not be independently confirmed but it was posted on IS-affiliated websites and Twitter as past IS messages. Also, it was produced by the al-Furqan Media Foundation, IS media arm.
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Who is ISISrael??? Who created, funded and armed them??? To understand EXACTLY Whom ISISrael is, we have to take a look at who ISISrael HAS and HAS NOT attacked.
First of all, ISISrael HAS NOT ATTACKED Israel, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, UAE, or Kuwait. These countries are ALL U.S. allies and friendly to the Zionist regime.
Who HAS ISISrael attacked???? Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Palestinian refugee camps, Egypt, Syria and Hezbollah. These countries ARE NOT U.S. allies and are hostile to the Zionist regime.
Google the Oded Yinon plan and the Greater Israel. Google the map of the Zionists dream of the Greater Israel and you will see the same area ISISrael controls is the exact same territory Israel wants to conquer and annex to make up the Greater Israel.
Truth of the matter is, Muslim kills Muslim, Catholics killed other Catholics in WWII, the Pope shaking hands with Hitler, (Google it) and their disgusting secret pact with Hitler..ALL these False Religions are just exposing themselves as what they are FALSE. Everyone and I mean Everyone, proves to the Creator each and everyday what they are..Drug addict, prostitute, wife beater, alcoholic, rapist, murderer, thief, whatever it is..that's what you are to the Creator. Everything that the Bible says about living in the Last Days is coming true! Whether you believe it or not, It don't matter to me, cause I'm in the same boat. Fear the True God and keep his commands no matter what this Wicked World does, stay out of it, it's bigger than any one person or country, let them rip apart themselves. They are proving to the Creator that man has no right to rule themselves, everything is going from bad to worse on every level. Exciting times we live in..
I often get attacked for being brutally honest, I do remember the Rwandan massacre, I was in my 20's as I recall, another example of Religions bloodguilt. Again the majority of those people killed were again Catholic killing Catholic, the majority Religion there. Where is there neighborly love shown? Why didn't the Pope or the church leaders try and stop it? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it's a duck. Same thing with Religion, ask yourself, what are identifying marks of false religion? What are some identifying marks of true religion? Staying neutral is what the Creator expects, this world is so corrupt, it's tainted every fabric of life on every level, it has to go, the wicked, I mean the truly wicked people have to be destroyed, if the Almighty does not step in there is no hope for the Earth, it's on a one way course. I know mankind is tired, everyone has something they are dealing with, don't give up, it will not be late.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a Mental Hospital Excapee. He is a known schizophrenic and Meth addict that is off his medication. The sad part is, like Hitler who was also a schizophrenic, he has brainwashed the uneducated and unintelligent sheep around him as did Hitler and hands out Meth to his followers like candy. Meth is directly related to schizophrenic behavior. Hitler used it on his troops as well.
The latest IS commander killed had Turkish intelligence contact numbers on his telephone, but I don't think he was Jewish, he was a useful idiot. Sure is confusing. Hegelian dialectic. Eat it up America.
The US is fighting ISIS and supporting Syrian insurgents fighting against Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS against the Syrian insurgents. ISIS is joined with Syrian insurgents fighting Assad. US old enemy Iran is fighting ISIS so is US siding with Iran? Turkey, a Democracy, is supporting ISIS in its fight against Assad, so is America supporting a Dictator, Assad, and a much hated Islamic Theocracy, over a Democracy in Turkey to fight against ISIS?
The CIA and Israel are working closely with Da'esh didn't you know that? Even US politicians have openly said in interviews that they are close to Da'esh and talk to them.
Bagdahdi is CIA
Saudi has been funneling money to Isis via Turkey and other means since it's inception.The reason Saudi and the Gulf States support Isis is because they were created to disturb and fight the mortal enemies of Saudi there,the Shia ( Iran).Both Isis and Saudi are Sunni,believe and practice the same flavor of Islam,they are not at odds,this is just their way of fooling the Western public and hiding their true roots and plans.
ISIS is a Sunni organization,that was set up by other Sunni States,such as Saudi to counteract the Iranian,Shia threat.Just because ISIS exploded in their Sunni faces and are now running wild even on their former masters it doesn't absolve Saudi or the Gulf States of their crimes of aiding and constructing this plague.
I've been following other conspiracy theorists on the web that have been saying that all these stories about "Muslim terrorism" are just Jewish propaganda to push the Israel agenda. So it's interesting to see that stories like these is just the "biggest pile of BS that these Muslims are spewing on us".... they both can't be right...
Israel is helping Da'esh by buying tankerloads of oil from them. Funny how Da'esh never attacks Israel isn't it?
"The only solution for the protection of the Jewish state "is to create an enemy near its borders".
I could well believe this. Can't help but be cynical about the distraction caused by ISIS whilst Israel bombs Gaza to pieces ....
I see some comments that link Saudi and ISIS when infact they are sworn enemies. ISIS is pure evil and has nothing to do with Islam and its principles which are followed by Muslims in KSA and worldwide in general. Each religion has its fare share of extremists heck even the atheists have them. Rest assured Muslims worldwide and KSA will be first to celebrate the decimation of this hideous group and its followers. Instead of blindly following false assertions I hope the good American people will see through this cowardly liar and his followers as being power hungry control freaks who have nothing good whatsoever to offer and the whole world would be better off without them and god willing it will happen soon.
Related:
- IS leader urges uprising in Saudi, attacks in Israel: recording AFP
- Kurds, Arabs seize key Syria dam from IS: group AFP
- Syrian crisis simplified: Who's fighting whom, and why? Associated Press
- Al-Baghdadi Zeroes In On Libya: The Next Evolution of Islamic State Huffington Post
- Saudi Arabia forms Islamic counterterrorism coalition Associated Press
Ze’ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Ha’aretz (and probably the most knowledgeable in Israel, on this topic) writes about the “best” that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: “The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi’ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part” (Ha’aretz 6/2/1982).
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A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
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This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14–Winter, 5742, February 1982
The Moslem Arab World is built like a temporary house of cards put together by foreigners (France and Britain in the Nineteen Twenties), without the wishes and desires of the inhabitants having been taken into account. It was arbitrarily divided into 19 states, all made of combinations of minorites and ethnic groups which are hostile to one another, so that every Arab Moslem state nowadays faces ethnic social destruction from within, and in some a civil war is already raging. Most of the Arabs, 118 million out of 170 million, live in Africa, mostly in Egypt (45 million today).
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.
In this giant and fractured world there are a few wealthy groups and a huge mass of poor people. Most of the Arabs have an average yearly income of 300 dollars. That is the situation in Egypt, in most of the Maghreb countries except for Libya, and in Iraq. Lebanon is torn apart and its economy is falling to pieces. It is a state in which there is no centralized power, but only 5 de facto sovereign authorities (Christian in the north, supported by the Syrians and under the rule of the Franjieh clan, in the East an area of direct Syrian conquest, in the center a Phalangist controlled Christian enclave, in the south and up to the Litani river a mostly Palestinian region controlled by the PLO and Major Haddad’s state of Christians and half a million Shi’ites). Syria is in an even graver situation and even the assistance she will obtain in the future after the unification with Libya will not be sufficient for dealing with the basic problems of existence and the maintenance of a large army. Egypt is in the worst situation: Millions are on the verge of hunger, half the labor force is unemployed, and housing is scarce in this most densely populated area of the world. Except for the army, there is not a single department operating efficiently and the state is in a permanent state of bankruptcy and depends entirely on American foreign assistance granted since the peace.6
In the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Egypt there is the largest accumulation of money and oil in the world, but those enjoying it are tiny elites who lack a wide base of support and self-confidence, something that no army can guarantee. 7 The Saudi army with all its equipment cannot defend the regime from real dangers at home or abroad, and what took place in Mecca in 1980 is only an example. A sad and very stormy situation surrounds Israel and creates challenges for it, problems, risks but also far-reaching opportunities for the first time since 1967. Chances are that opportunities missed at that time will become achievable in the Eighties to an extent and along dimensions which we cannot even imagine today.
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A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
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This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14–Winter, 5742, February 1982
Lebanon’s total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unqiue areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi’ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan. This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today. 14
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Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization. 15
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The entire Arabian peninsula is a natural candidate for dissolution due to internal and external pressures, and the matter is inevitable especially in Saudi Arabia. Regardless of whether its economic might based on oil remains intact or whether it is diminished in the long run, the internal rifts and breakdowns are a clear and natural development in light of the present political structure.
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A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
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This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14–Winter, 5742, February 1982
Jordan constitutes an immediate strategic target in the short run but not in the long run, for it does not constitute a real threat in the long run after its dissolution, the termination of the lengthy rule of King Hussein and the transfer of power to the Palestinians in the short run.
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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. The autonomy plan ought also to be rejected, as well as any compromise or division of the territories for, given the plans of the PLO and those of the Israeli Arabs themselves, the Shefa’amr plan of September 1980, 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. 17
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Within Israel the distinction between the areas of ’67 and the territories beyond them, those of ’48, has always been meaningless for Arabs and nowadays no longer has any significance for us. The problem should be seen in its entirety without any divisions as of ’67. It should be clear, under any future political situation or military constellation, that the solution of the problem of the indigenous Arabs will come only when they recognize the existence of Israel in secure borders up to the Jordan river and beyond it, as our existential need in this difficult epoch, the nuclear epoch which we shall soon enter. It is no longer possible to live with three fourths of the Jewish population on the dense shoreline which is so dangerous in a nuclear epoch.
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Dispersal of the 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.
A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
ReplyDeleteby Oded Yinon
This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14–Winter, 5742, February 1982
Conclusion
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Three important points have to be clarified in order to be able to understand the significant possibilities of realization of this Zionist plan for the Middle East, and also why it had to be published.
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The Military Background of The Plan
The military conditions of this plan have not been mentioned above, but on the many occasions where something very like it is being “explained” in closed meetings to members of the Israeli Establishment, this point is clarified. It is assumed that the Israeli military forces, in all their branches, are insufficient for the actual work of occupation of such wide territories as discussed above. In fact, even in times of intense Palestinian “unrest” on the West Bank, the forces of the Israeli Army are stretched out too much. The answer to that is the method of ruling by means of “Haddad forces” or of “Village Associations” (also known as “Village Leagues”): local forces under “leaders” completely dissociated from the population, not having even any feudal or party structure (such as the Phalangists have, for example). The “states” proposed by Yinon are “Haddadland” and “Village Associations,” and their armed forces will be, no doubt, quite similar. In addition, Israeli military superiority in such a situation will be much greater than it is even now, so that any movement of revolt will be “punished” either by mass humiliation as in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or by bombardment and obliteration of cities, as in Lebanon now (June 1982), or by both. In order to ensure this, the plan, as explained orally, calls for the establishment of Israeli garrisons in focal places between the mini states, equipped with the necessary mobile destructive forces. In fact, we have seen something like this in Haddadland and we will almost certainly soon see the first example of this system functioning either in South Lebanon or in all Lebanon.
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It is obvious that the above military assumptions, and the whole plan too, depend also on the Arabs continuing to be even more divided than they are now, and on the lack of any truly progressive mass movement among them. It may be that those two conditions will be removed only when the plan will be well advanced, with consequences which can not be foreseen.
A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
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This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14–Winter, 5742, February 1982
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Why is it assumed that there is no special risk from the outside in the publication of such plans?
Such risks can come from two sources, so long as the principled opposition inside Israel is very weak (a situation which may change as a consequence of the war on Lebanon) : The Arab World, including the Palestinians, and the United States. The Arab World has shown itself so far quite incapable of a detailed and rational analysis of Israeli-Jewish society, and the Palestinians have been, on the average, no better than the rest. In such a situation, even those who are shouting about the dangers of Israeli expansionism (which are real enough) are doing this not because of factual and detailed knowledge, but because of belief in myth. A good example is the very persistent belief in the non-existent writing on the wall of the Knesset of the Biblical verse about the Nile and the Euphrates. Another example is the persistent, and completely false declarations, which were made by some of the most important Arab leaders, that the two blue stripes of the Israeli flag symbolize the Nile and the Euphrates, while in fact they are taken from the stripes of the Jewish praying shawl (Talit). The Israeli specialists assume that, on the whole, the Arabs will pay no attention to their serious discussions of the future, and the Lebanon war has proved them right. So why should they not continue with their old methods of persuading other Israelis?
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In the United States a very similar situation exists, at least until now. The more or less serious commentators take their information about Israel, and much of their opinions about it, from two sources. The first is from articles in the “liberal” American press, written almost totally by Jewish admirers of Israel who, even if they are critical of some aspects of the Israeli state, practice loyally what Stalin used to call “the constructive criticism.” (In fact those among them who claim also to be “Anti-Stalinist” are in reality more Stalinist than Stalin, with Israel being their god which has not yet failed). In the framework of such critical worship it must be assumed that Israel has always “good intentions” and only “makes mistakes,” and therefore such a plan would not be a matter for discussion–exactly as the Biblical genocides committed by Jews are not mentioned. The other source of information, The Jerusalem Post, has similar policies. So long, therefore, as the situation exists in which Israel is really a “closed society” to the rest of the world, because the world wants to close its eyes, the publication and even the beginning of the realization of such a plan is realistic and feasible.
Israel Shahak
June 17, 1982 Jerusalem
The Crisis, Part I
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Commentary for 20 July 2015
“We must organize the Intellectuals.”
- Willi Münzenberg
“I sing in praise of college,
“Of M.A.’s and Ph.D.’s,
“But in pursuit of knowledge
“We are starving by degrees.”
- Popular ditty from the 1920s
In Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Albert Jay Nock explained that a monkey can be trained, but only a small percentage of human beings can be educated. He added that his students at the Ivy League schools were, in large part, monkeys. But is that fair given the bureaucratic nature of universities then and now? A bureaucracy cannot teach children or adults how to think. Bureaucracies can give standardized tests, and offer standardized curriculum. They can offer one-size-fits-all programs, and even “elite” programs; but everything is based on the law of averages, and groupthink, and a type of intellectual conformism. If Marshall McLuhan was right to say the “medium is the message” then if the medium is a bureaucratized school, the message signifies the bureaucratization of the human mind. The fact that billions of dollars have been poured into this kind of education, and that it produces increasingly dismal results year after year, testifies to a kind of mass stupidity – a readiness for intellectual shackles.
Consider what our schools now teach: The typical high school textbook features Senator Joseph McCarthy as the main villain of American history, and Martin Luther King, Jr. as the main hero. Very little is taught about George Washington or the Founding Fathers. The ever-present and subversive subtext redirects us to racism, sexism, and U.S. imperialism. Yes, this is the kind of history that is taught in U.S. schools. The Founding Fathers were slave owners, right? George Washington was rich, right? Even Lincoln was a racist. And if a high school junior knows nothing else about the country’s history, she knows this. A moralistic judgment about the past is presented, showing that our forefathers were racists and homophobes. In this way the past is discounted. In this manner a war is waged against certain traditions and sentiments, all presented in a one-sided way by educational bureaucrats. Of course, everything presented is factual – or mostly factual. It is presented, however, to students that have not been properly taught how to read. These students are never given the task of organizing their own ideas, since their ideas have already been organized for them. The facts used in school textbooks are carefully selected in advance, through a process of careful editing.
The teaching of history has become a kind of tearing down of the past, a slandering of our forefathers. This does not help young people at all; rather, it hurts them. It disarms them before their enemies. It fills them with a vague sense of guilt. And it leaves them without positive inspiration.
Many decades ago, Jose Ortega y Gasset noted that the modern university “has abandoned almost entirely the teaching or transmission of culture.” And there is no doubt he was right. A gigantic disconnect has occurred. We have failed to transmit our history, and we have also failed to transmit our culture. The other side of this coin is the collectivists’ war against the individual. Shorn of our patriotism and our sense of national self-preservation, the individual is shorn of autonomy by a process of “dumbing down.” Those who are ignorant and incompetent must be ineffectual as individual human beings. Such people are easily manipulated by deceptive demagogues.
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Robin S. Eubanks has written a book titled Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon. She argues that latter-day public education has been purposely designed to hinder the intellectual development of children. Near the end of her book, on page 358, she writes, “Education in the 21st century is no longer an end. It is a means of domination and enrichment and exploitation by a self-select few. That’s why when you cut through the layers of [today’s educational] theory … it is always human consciousness being manipulated and modified via education. Education remains the ultimate and timeless cultural weapon against the individual….”
ReplyDeleteI was recently invited to hear Ms. Eubanks give a talk in which she said, “This is about political power. There is no mass prosperity when political power and economic power are combined.” And this is what the schools are facilitating in the mind of the students; that is, the takeover of the economy by the state. In her book she points to educators who are quoting from Karl Marx (in an elliptical fashion) about the collectivization of the mind “by converting the aims of the individual into general aims.” According to Eubanks, “That’s easier to do if the individual is only marginally literate with little factual knowledge.”
This is a terrible thing to do to the young, and it is not the only terrible thing being done. The attack on history, the cultural disconnect, and the dumbing down of the students, is accompanied by an outright denial of human nature itself. This is the part of the educational assault that gives the game away.
The stage has been set for a general assault on the pillars which uphold civil society; for as Pinker explains in his book, “The denial of human nature has spread beyond the academy and has led to a disconnect between intellectual life and common sense.”
It is not a coincidence that today’s education produces effects detrimental to political and religious authority, to principle, discipline and reason. What is intriguing is the way that all these developments serve the strategic interest of a particular power and a particular cause – almost as if we were looking at a clandestine method for disrupting society. Would it surprise you if such a method was developed long ago by Willi Münzenberg (1889-1940) of the Communist International? “We must organize the intellectuals,” he told the Comintern. “We must avoid being a purely communist organization.” For in this circumstance many seeds must be planted in the minds of impressionable children and young adults. In The ABC of Communism N.I. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky wrote: “the Communist Party is not merely faced by constructive tasks, for in the opening phases of its activity it is likewise faced by destructive tasks. In the educational system … it must hasten to destroy everything which has made the school an instrument of capitalist class rule.”
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