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During her press briefing at the State Department, on July 21st
2006, Condoleezza Rice was questioned on the initiatives she
intended to take to bring peace back to Lebanon. « I have no
interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel
to the status quo ante”, she responded. “I think it would be a
mistake. What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing — the
birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do we have to be
certain that we’re pushing forward to the new Middle East not going
back to the old one.». [1]
Seen from Washington, what is happening today in Lebanon has no
relation whatsoever with the recovering of soldiers captured by the
Hezbollah. What is at stake is the carrying out of the long nurtured
theory of « constructive chaos ». According to the adepts of
philosopher Leo Strauss, whose media branch is better known under
the name of « neo-conservatives », real power cannot be exerted from
if one remains in the status quo, but only, quite the contrary, in
the act of destroying all forms of resistance. It is by plunging the
masses into chaos that the elites can aspire to ensure the stability
of their position.
Léo Strauss
Also, according to the adepts of Leo Strauss, it is only in this
violence that the imperial interests of the United States merge with
those of the Jewish State.
The Israeli will to dismantle Lebanon, to create in its place a
mini-Christian state and annex part of its territory, is not new. It
was enunciated in 1957 by David Ben Gourion in a famous letter
published as an annex to his posthumous memoirs. [2]
Particularly, it was inserted into a vast colonization project of
the Middle East written in 1996 under the title: A clean break: a
new strategy to secure the Kingdom (of Israel) [3]
That document, written up in a neo conservative think tank, the
IASPS, was prepared by a group of experts assembled by Richard Perle
et given to Benjamin Netanyahu. It is representative of the thinking
of the revisionist Zionism of Vladimir Jabotinsky [4].
It
called for:
the
canceling of the Oslo peace agreements
the
elimination of Yasser Arafat
the
annexation of the Palestinian territories,
the
overthrow of Sadam Hussein to destabilize, Syria and Lebanon in a
chain of events
the
dismantling of Iraq and the creation of a Palestinian state in its
territory
the
utilization of Israel as a complementary base for the US Star Wars
program
That document inspired the speech given the next day by Benjamin
Netanyahu to the US Congress. [5]
All ingredients of the present situation are included there: threats
against Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah, with the included demand for
annexation of East Jerusalem.
That viewpoint concurs with that of the United States
administration. The control of areas rich in hydrocarbons defined by
Zginiew Brzezinski
and Bernard Lewis as the “arc of crisis”, ie. the arc reaching from
the Gulf of Guinea to the Caspian sea going through the Persian
Gulf, demands a redefinition of borders, States and political
regimes : a “remodeling of the Greater Middle East,” to use the
expression of George W. Bush.
That is the new Middle East which Miss Rice claims to be the
mid-wife of, and whose painful birth she is watching.
The idea is simple: substitute to the States inherited by the
collapse of the Ottoman empire, smaller entities of mono-ethnic
character, and neutralize those mini-states by setting up them
permanently against each other. In other terms, the idea is to
reconsider the secret agreements concluded in 1916 by the French and
British empires, the Sykes-Picot agreements [6]
and to establish rather a total domination of the Anglo-Saxons over
the region. But in order to define new states, the existing ones
must first be destroyed. That is what the Bush Administration and
its allies have been doing since 5 years with the enthusiasm of a
sorcerers apprentices. Judge the results:
Occupied
Palestine’s territory has been reduced by 7%; the Gaza strip and the
West Bank have been separated by a wall; the Palestinian authority
has been ruined, its ministers and parliamentarians kidnapped and
imprisoned.
The
UN has ordered Lebanon to disarm, expel the Syrian forces and
dissolve the Hezbollah; former Prime minister Rafic Harriri was
murdered and French influence disappeared with him; the economic
infrastructures of the country have been razed and more than 500.000
added refugees roam in the region.
The
Saddam Hussein dictatorship was replaced in Iraq by a still more
cruel regime responsible for more than 3000 dead per month; in total
anarchy, the country is on the verge of fragmenting into three
distinct entities.
The
Taliban pseudo-emirate has given way to a pseudo-democracy ruled
under the most obscurantist interpretation of the Charia, with an
added feature, the poppy culture. De facto, Afghanistan is already
divided among the different war lords and combat is generalizing.
The central government has renounced to being obeyed even in the
capital city.
In Washington, the disciples of Leo Strauss, more and more
impatient, dream of extending their chaos to Sudan, to Syria and
Iran. In this transition period, one no longer speaks of “market
democracy”, but only of blood and tears.
Jacques Chirac who wished to intervene in Lebanon to defend French
interests and sent there his Prime minister, Dominique de Villepin,
had to renounce : during the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, George W.
Bush forbade him from doing so stating that this was not an Israeli
operation approved by the United States, but a United States
operation being executed by Israel. Thus, M. de Villepin had nothing
to declare to his interlocutors in Beyrut, only his words and his
impotence.
More precisely, the project for destroying Lebanon was presented by
Tsahal to the Bush administration a little more than a year ago, as
the San Francisco Chronicle reported it. [7]
It was at the center of political discussions at the yearly World
Forum organized by the
American Entreprise Institute,
on June 2006 17th ad 18th at Beaver Creek. Benjamin Netanyahu and
Dick Cheney
met at length along with Richard Perle and
Nathan Sharansky.
The green light by the White House was given a few days after.
Tsahal’s military operations are supervised by the United States
Department of Defense who determines the essentials of the strategy
and the choice of targets. The main role is played by general Bantz
Craddock as commander in chief of the Southern Command. As he showed
during the Desert Storm operation and, particularly, when he lead
NATO land forces in Kosovo, Craddock is a specialist of armored
vehicles. He is a trusted man of Donald Rumsfeld of whom he was the
personal chief of staff, and for whom he developed the Guantanamo
camp. Next November, he should be named commander of the European
Command and of NATO. In that position, he could be called to
command, beyond those forces already operating in Afghanistan and
Soudan, the interposition force which NATO could deploy in Southern
Lebanon.
The Israeli and United States generals have learned to know each
other, since some thirty years, thanks to the exchanges organized by
the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) an
association which obliges its cadre to follow the seminars on the
doctrines of Leo Strauss.
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