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Title: Why Syria? Israel, the US, and the Balkanization of the Arab Middle East
Published: 2018-04-16
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkzG8Htxm84
Title: Why Syria? Israel, the US, and the Balkanization of the Arab Middle East
Published: 2018-04-16
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkzG8Htxm84
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For the ordinary person untutored in history and geopolitics, the situation unfolding in Syria may seem perplexing. According to the official explanation, the leader of that country, Bashir Al Assad, is a brutal and ruthless dictator who has thus far butchered 500,000 of his own people, who yearn for democracy and freedom. This narrative, carried by all major establishment media outlets, now includes Russia and Iran as accessories. The2/6
conflict is hardly a recent development. It began soon after the First World War, when the Ottoman Empire was defeated, allowing France and Britain to colonize and redraw boundaries in the Middle East. Prior to the conclusion of the war, France and Britain secretly drew up the Sykes' peacock agreement and laid out their spheres of influence, in addition to imposing artificial borders that created tribal and ethnic division3/6
and conflict. The British gave preferential treatment to Jewish immigrants inspired by the Zionist movement. In regard to Syria, the Sharia Diaries reveal a plan to occupy southern Syria in 1954. Israel insisted an armistice agreement between the two countries no longer existed. Following the Six Day War in 1967, and the capture of Syria's Golan Heights, Israeli journalists Odin Yannone published a strategy for Israel in the 1980s,4/6
which was translated by Israel Shahak. The publisher of this translation writes, the plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must one become an imperial regional power. And two, must affect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states based on ethnic and religious composition. Now that President Trump has appointed the notorious Neokhan, John Bolton, his national5/6
security adviser, we can expect the long-term Israeli plan to break up and vulcanize the Arab Middle East to move forward. It can no longer be denied that U.S. foreign policy aligned with that of its nearest and dearest and most handsomely paid, client state, Israel. A vulcanized and strife-ridden Middle East, South Asia and Africa, guaranteed continued exploitation of natural resources, most prominently oil, but also strategic minerals.