The futility of trying to reason with the Bush administration
By Kurt Nimmo
Posted: 11-May-2006
Iran's president Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be "wiped off the
map," although Shimon Peres did say "the president of Iran should remember
that Iran can also be wiped off the map." As Anneliese Fikentscher and
Andreas Neumann note
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12790.htm> Ahmadinejad
was deliberately misquoted as part of an ongoing propaganda campaign
against Iran by the neocons, in particular the Middle East Media Research
Institute (MEMRI), founded by Yigal Carmon, who served time in Israeli
military intelligence, and Meyrav Wurmser, a neocon that had a hand in
crafting the neocon document "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing
the Realm" presented to then Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu. MEMRI
is known for selectively quoting and distorting Arab and Muslim news
reports and editorials.
Shimon Peres was simply using the distortions of Ahmadinejad's
comments to make excuses for the long-held Israeli and later neocon
plan to not necessarily "wipe off the map" Islamic countries, but
rather reduce them through "Lebanonization," or balkanization, a plan
sketched out by Oded Yinon, an Israeli diplomat attached to the
Foreign Ministry. Oded Yinon's "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s"
document, according to historian Stephen Sniegoski,
<http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/20030102.php#Anchor-26274>
"undoubtedly reflected high-level thinking in the Israeli military and
intelligence establishment. The article called for Israel to bring
about the dissolution and fragmentation of the Arab states into a
mosaic of ethnic groupings."
Of course, Israel realized it did not have the power or resources to
pull off this massive undertaking. Israeli foreign policy expert
Yehoshafat Harkabi reflected on Yinon's critique "to impose a Pax
Israelica on the Middle East, to dominate the Arab countries and treat
them harshly" and hoped that "the failed Israeli attempt to impose a new
order in the weakest Arab state--Lebanon--will disabuse people of similar
ambitions in other territories." Sniegoski comments: "Left unconsidered
by Harkabi was the possibility that the United States would act as
Israel's proxy to achieve this goal," a fact partially realized a decade
later when Bush Senior invaded Iraq and, more than another decade removed,
his son finished the job.
In the wake of Bush Senior's invasion and merciless attack on Iraqi
civilian infrastructure, octogenarian British "Orientalist" Bernard
Lewis wrote for the premier globalist periodical, the CFR's Foreign
Affairs, that most "of the states of the Middle East ... are of recent and
artificial construction and are vulnerable to such a process
[balkanization]. If the central power is sufficiently weakened, there is
no real civil society to hold the polity together, no real sense of common
national identity or overriding allegiance to the nation-state. The state
then disintegrates--as happened in Lebanon--into a chaos of squabbling,
feuding, fighting sects, tribes, regions and parties," a miserable and
violent condition preferred by the Israelis and the Straussian
neocons (see British Svengali Behind Clash Of Civilizations,
Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg).
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's feeble and somewhat absurd letter
sent to Bush through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran--an effort to stave off
the impending destruction and "Lebanonization" of his country--was
received in a predictable fashion. "US Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice dismissed Iranian President's surprise letter to President George W
Bush, saying it did not seriously address the standoff over Tehran's
disputed nuclear program," reports NDTV. "This letter is not the place
that one would find an opening to engage on the nuclear issue or
anything of the sort. It isn't addressing the issues that we're
dealing with in a concrete way," declared Secretary of State Condi
Rice. "Rice's comments were the most detailed response from the
United States to the letter, the first from an Iranian head of state to
an American president since the 1979 hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran," ABC News adds. "She would not discuss the contents in detail
but made clear that the United States would not change its tack on Iran."
In short, the shock and awe campaign against the people of Iran--a
beginning fusillade in the process of balkanizing Iran into several
more easily digestible pieces--is on. Now the question is when this
will happen and what the response will be here in America and across the
world. Of course, for the neocons, this response is hardly
important and may be safely ignored, as opponents will once again be
dismissed as a "focus group" (as Bush called those of us opposed to his
invasion of Iraq) and the process of splintering the Middle East will
move forward, closing in on its ultimate goal, as described by Bernard
Lewis, of delivering the Muslim world "into a chaos of squabbling,
feuding, fighting sects, tribes, regions and parties."
URL: http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=537142
see also:
full text of Ahmadinejad's Letter to Bush
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12984.htm
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