ISRAEL MUST BE WIPED OFF THE MAP...Origins of Treasongate
CARTHAGE MUST BE DESTROYED
Carthage was Rome's implacable foe; thus, did the Roman Senator
Cato conclude whatever the topic at hand on the floor of the
Senate with: "Carthago delenda est" - Carthage must be
destroyed! Eventually, once the Senate of Rome realized her
proximity to the pesky Punic, they attacked with impunity and
wiped them off the map in the Third Punic War (149-146 BC),
salting Hannibal's commercial bastion, never to have her rise
again; thus Rome's supreme illustration of brutality and
imperial ambition incorporated, like the Borg of Star Trek, the
commercial aspects of Empire.
Alas! Meeting the challenge of President Bush's infamous
remarks hurled at the Axis of Evil (which clearly includes
Iran), and reinforced by his NED speech given on October 6, 2005 to wit:
" . . . authoritarian regimes, allies of convenience like
Syria and Iran, that share the goal of hurting American
and moderate Muslim governments, and use terrorist propaganda to
blame their own failures on the West and America, on the Jews .
. . we're determined (against Syrian and Iran) to deny radical
groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes . . .
STATE-SPONSORS like Syria and Iran have a long history of
collaboration with terrorists, and they DESERVE NO PATIENCE FROM
THE VICTIMS OF TERROR. The United States makes no distinction
between those who commit acts of terror and those who support
and harbor them, BECAUSE THEY'RE EQUALLY AS GUILTY OF MURDER.
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also
chosen to be an enemy of civilization . . . and the civilized
world must hold those regimes to account."
. . . Mahmoud Ahmadinejad decided to fight fire with fire:
ISRAEL MUST BE DESTROYED! He shot back at the "World Without
Zionism" conference held in Tehran this week against the United
States and Israel (a.k.a., the USA=The Great Satan; Israel=The
Little Satan...DiscoverT
heNetworks). Ahmadinejad called Israel a "disgraceful blot"
on the Islamic world, and the US Middle East "roadmap" nothing
more than a diversion from the crusader wars between the Islamic
world and perceived imperialists like the USA (http://news.viewlondon.co.uk)
"Israel must be 'wiped off the map' . . . she is a
'disgraceful blot' on the Islamic world . . . the US Middle East
Roadmap to peace is a diversion from the crusader wars between
the Islamic world and perceived imperialists such as the United
States. Furthermore, Iran's President attacked other Muslim
nations which recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state (an
obvious allusion to Egypt). Israel is naught but the product of
an ideological struggle between the 'Arrogant World Order' and
'Islamic rule.'" (News.viewlondon.co.uk)
Quoting Mr. Ahmadinejad:
"Over the past 100 years, the last bastions of the Islamic
world have collapsed. The World Arrogance turned the Zionist
regime occupying Jerusalem into a staging-ground to dominate the
Islamic world . . . there continues a historic war between the
World Arrogance and the Islamic World, the roots of which go
back hundreds of years ago."
Now that sounds vaguely familiar. In my last article, "The Crusader vs.
The Caliphate" President Bush targeted the source of
terrorism's frustration:
"The excuses for violence (range from) the Israeli
presence on the West Bank . . . the U.S. military presence
in Saudi Arabia . . . the defeat of the Taliban . . . or the
CRUSADES of a thousand years ago."
ISRAEL: AMERICA'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER
Putting it bluntly: The problem, President Bush, is the Israeli
aircraft carrier--the USS Israel--poised on the eastern edge of
the Mediterranean, ready (as far as the Middle Eastern edge of
the Axis of Evil is concerned--Syria/Iran) to launch its cruise
missiles throughout the Islamic lands in order to expand its
Arrogant World Order (a.k.a. the Decadent West--The American New
World Order System) under the guise of democracy, women's
rights, religious freedom, and, of course, economic
globalization; in sum: Western world hegemony.
In 1991, Dan
iel Pipes in Commentary described the then unnamed
Axis of Evil by inquiring:
"Why did British and American imperialists want Israel to
exist? Arabs have a rich assortment of answers to the question.
Ash-Sha'b, a leftist Egyptian newspaper, portrays Israel as a
branch-office of the Central Intelligence agency, one which
requires CIA "approval and support" before taking almost any
step. Ahmad Jibril (leader of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine-General Command) dubs Israel
'America's Mideast aircraft carrier.' Khalid al-Hasan,
another PLO leader sees Israel as 'something like a
conglomerate-General Motors, for example.'
"And what functions does this intelligence office/aircraft
carrier/multinational corporation serve? To jeopardize whatever
it may be the speaker holds most dear. Thus, for Nasser, the
Pan-Arab leader, Israel endangered Pan-Arab nationalism. His
1962 Charter of National Action dubbed Israel 'the tool of
imperialism' and 'a whip in their hands to fight the struggling
Arabs.' In 1968 the PLO was still under Nasser's influence, so
its Covenant accused Israel of being 'a geographic base for
world imperialism placed strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab nation for liberation,
amity and progress.'"
SO WHAT'S NEWS? THE "CLEAN BREAK"
Hating and annihilating Israel is not news. However, the hate
rhetoric's been ratcheted up a great deal--especially the
"religious" overtones and undertones, greatly! Instead of
President Carter and the Ayatollah Khomeini, who founded the
first modern Islamic Republic (Iran) chattering away over
American hostages for 400+ days--we now have President Bush and
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (perhaps to the right of the original
supreme leader Khomeini) blasting away at one another.
Somehow, the current war in Iraq, the intel scandal rocking the
nation, and Israel-America being fed up with Moslem terrorists
(who more and more interfere with our quest for "hidden
treasurers" in the Middle East--i.e., OIL), has got to be dealt
with. Is/was there a plan to effect this sea change in the
Middle East--i.e., put the terrorists on notice (and to flight)
after the collapse of the Soviet Union and their little war they
lost in Afghanistan, as we, the Americans, supplied millions to
the likes of Osama ben Laden and his Mujahadeen (Holy Warriors)
to defeat the red menace?
Indeed, thus was laid the plan entitled "Clean Break: A New
Strategy for Securing the Realm." The document was prepared in
1996 by an Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced
Strategic and Political Studies. The document was a precursor to
the then-incoming government of Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan
was, according to the London Guardian, Brian Whitaker and
syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, designed to reshape
Israel's "strategic environment" (Christian Century) Alas! The
proposal/plan has turned out, according to Geyer, to be Bush's
blueprint for Iraqi policy--and, I hasten to add, the
centerpiece for an upcoming confrontation with both Syria and
Iran.
The 1996 plan called for the removal of Saddam Hussein, the
installation of a monarchy akin to Jordan's--similar to one that
ruled Iraq in the mid-1900s. Next, with Saddam eliminated,
Jordan and Turkey would team up, along with Israel, to severely
weaken Syria. Thus, "Israel will not only contain its foes, it
will transcend them."
Naturally, to orchestrate the plan, Israel would need extensive
American downfield blocking. Thence, was born the linguistics of
the Cold War to persuade the Americans to get on board; and,
after all, it would (in the long/short run) secure America's
insatiable quest for cheap energy. Hard to say who was pushing
whom here . . . the Israelophils/Israelis the Americans
or the Americans the Israelophils/Israelis!
In any event, by 2000 the Americans under the then (now
deposed) Richard Perle--perhaps the most prominent of the war
hawks after 9/11 insofar as Iraq is concerned, and strong
proponent of Dr. Samuel Huntington's Clash of
Civilizations, wherein the Judeo-Christian West vs. Islam is
a defacto reality of life (apparently, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
unwittingly embraces the same reality)--drafted additional
expansions of "Clean Break" -
to wit:
"Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced
Strategic and Political Studies' 'Study Group on a New
Israeli Strategy Toward 2000.' The main substantive ideas in
this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion
makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles
Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David
Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled
'A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,'
is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy.
As group leader, Perle (also of the American Enterprise
Institute at the time, and still is), knew full well the
immediate plans insofar as Syria were concerned:
"Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective
approach, and one with which America can sympathize, would be if
Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern
borders by engaging Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal
agents of aggression in Lebanon, including by:
* Striking Syria's drug-money and counterfeiting infrastructure
in Lebanon, all of which focuses on Razi Qanan. * Paralleling
Syria's behavior by establishing the precedent that Syrian
territory is not immune to attacks emanating from Lebanon by
Israeli proxy forces. * Striking Syrian military targets in
Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select
targets in Syria proper.
It is safe to say that Perle, who has spent considerable time
in Israel, is a staunch supporter of Israel's conservative Likud
Party. Furthermore, while the 2000 report wholeheartedly
supports the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime (i.e., "regime
change"), it wholly backs the encirclement and neutralization of
Syria:
"Given the nature of the regime in Damascus, it is both natural
and moral that Israel abandon the slogan 'comprehensive peace'
and move to contain Syria, drawing attention to its weapons of
mass destruction program, and rejecting 'land for peace' deals
on the Golan Heights."
And, finally, the coup de ma