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FORCE OF ABOUT 20,000 U.S. TROOPS PREPARING
FOR 'OCCUPIED TERRITORIES' OF PALESTINIANS
MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington, DC - 4/05/2002:
You can feel it in the political wind here. Indeed, the very political
forces which have helped subjugate and repress the Palestinians for so many
decades now, are actually leading the charge -- the Israeli/Jewish lobby,
the New York Times, the Council on Foreign Relations, Israeli-centric (and
many would say "dually loyal") top Pentagon officials. Many of the groups
and personalities that make up the extended Israeli/Jewish lobby now are
pushing to use the post 9/11 world and the American/Israeli-inspired "regime
change" wars ahead to finally position a large number of American troops in
the Palestinian territories, force a rump quasi-"Palestinian State" on the
fractured Palestinians (and take credit for it!), and provide a U.S.
"security guarantee" for Israel in advance of the Arab states arming with
new modern weapons systems including weapons of mass destruction (just in
case U.S./Israeli efforts to destroy these regimes and their weapons aren't
fully successful). That's what Tom Friedman at the New York Times in his
journalistic garp, and the Israeli/Jewish community's main public agents at
the Council on Foreign Relations, Henry Siegman and Judith Kipper, are up to
these days -- and because they have all gotten the word to speed things up
they are going at it much more in public view for the first time. Stay
tuned to MER for much more about all this in the days and weeks immediately
ahead now.
ARMY STUDY SUGGESTS U.S. FORCE OF 20,000
By Rowan Scarborough
[The Washington Times - 5 April 2002]:
The Bush administration says there are no active
plans to
put American peacekeepers between Palestinians and
Israelis, but at least one internal military study
says 20,000
well-armed troops would be needed.
The Army's School of
Advanced Military Studies
(SAMS), an elite training ground
and think tank at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., produced the
study last year. The 68-page
paper tells how the major
operation would be run the first
year, with peacekeepers stationed
in Gaza, Hebron, Jerusalem and
Nablus.
One major goal would be to
"neutralize leadership of Palestine dissenting
factions [and]
prevent inter-Palestinian violence."
The military is known to update secret
contingency plans
in the event international peacekeepers are part of a
comprehensive Middle East peace plan. The SAMS study,
a
copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times,
provides a glimpse of what those plans might entail.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld repeatedly
has
said the administration has no plans to put American
troops
between the warring factions. But since the escalation
of
violence, more voices in the debate are beginning to
suggest
that some type of American-led peace enforcement team
is
needed.
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican,
quoted
U.S. special envoy Gen. Anthony Zinni as saying there
is a
plan, if needed, to put a limited number of American
peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied territories.
Asked on CBS whether he could envision American
troops on the ground, Mr. Specter said Sunday: "If we
were
ever to stabilize the situation, and that was a
critical factor, it's
something that I would be willing to consider."
Added Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., Delaware Democrat
and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, "In
that
context, yes, and with European forces as well."
The recent history of international peacekeeping
has
shown that it often takes American firepower and
prestige for
the operation to work. The United Nations made futile
attempts to stop Serbian attacks on the Muslim
population in
Bosnia.
The U.S. entered the fray by bombing Serbian
targets and
bringing about a peace agreement that still is being
backed up
by American soldiers on the ground. U.S. combat troops
are
also in Kosovo, and they have a more limited role in
Macedonia.
But James Phillips, a Middle East analyst at the
Heritage
Foundation, used the word "disaster" to describe the
aftermath of putting an international force in the
occupied
territories.
"I think that would be a formula for sucking us
into the
violence," he said. "United States troops would be a
lightening rod for attacks by radical Islamics and
other
Palestinian extremist groups. The United States cannot
afford
to stretch its forces any thinner. They're very busy
as it is with
the war against international terrorism."
Mr. Phillips noted that two Norwegian observers
in
Hebron were killed this week. U.N. representatives on
the
Lebanon border have been unable to prevent terrorists
from
attacking Israel.
The SAMS paper tries to predict events in the
first year of
peacekeeping and the dangers U.S. troops would face.
It calls the Israeli armed forces a "500-pound
gorilla in
Israel. Well armed and trained. Operates in both Gaza
[and
the West Bank]. Known to disregard international law
to
accomplish mission. Very unlikely to fire on American
forces."
On the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service,
the Army
study says, "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has
capability
to target U.S. forces and make it look like a
Palestinian/Arab
act."
It described Palestinian youth as "loose cannons;
under no
control, sometimes violent."
The study was done by 60 officers dubbed the
"Jedi
Knights," as all second-year SAMS students are called.
The
Times first reported on their work in September.
Recent
violence in the Middle East has raised questions about
what
type of force it would take to keep the peace.
In the past, SAMS has done studies for the Army
chief of
staff and the Joint Chiefs. SAMS personnel helped plan
the
allied ground attack that liberated Kuwait.
The Middle East study sets goals that a peace
force
should accomplish in the first 30 days. They include
"create
conditions for development of Palestinian State and
security
of [Israel]," ensure "equal distribution of contract
value or
equivalent aid" and "build lasting relationships based
on new
legal borders and not religious-territorial claims."
The SAMS report does not specify a full order of
battle
for the 20,000 troops. An Army source who reviewed the
paper said each of three brigades would require about
100
armored vehicles, 25 tanks and 12 self-propelled
howitzers,
along with attack helicopters and spy drones.
The Palestinians have supported calls for an
international
force, but Tel Aviv has opposed the idea.
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