- "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." Condoleezza Rice in a Press Conference
on July 21, 2006.
- Madam Secretary, one question please: Will your country
claim the newborn if it happens to be the wrong color?
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- I remember reading about the new Middle East in a document
written back in 1996 called A Clean
Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm (ACB) .
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- It was authored by a group of policy advisors to Israel.
Subsequently, nearly all members ascended to influential policy making
positions within US government, media, and academic circles and were instrumental
in taking the US to war against Iraq under false pretenses. Many of
the ACB policies, such as toppling the government of Iraq, are now
in full implementation and present new challenges to the global community. The
ACB contained six pages of policy recommendations for then Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The authors of this policy paper
included Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Douglas Feith,
Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser amongst others, who
became known as the Neo-conservatives or Neocons for short.
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- The paper was an outline of what Israel should do to
subjugate not just the Palestinians but also everyone else around it. It
was written: "Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation
with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back
Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq
" an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right."
They also did not like the " Land for Peace" deal that Israel
signed with the its neighbors including the Palestinians and suggested
Israel should pursue a different formula based on "Peace for Peace".
This means that they would create a situation on the ground that is
so big, using Israel's military might in order to change the "Land
for Peace" formula into a plea to "just please give us peace
and take our piece", or so they thought. Therefore, they
would be creating a "New Middle East" once they neutralized Iraq,
Lebanon, and Syria by following the new formula for peace. They wrote about
: "Efforts to salvage Israel's socialist institutions which include
pursuing supranational over national sovereignty and pursuing a peace process
that embraces the slogan, "New Middle East"
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- Aha, so this is where I heard what Rice murmured on July
12 2006. It was actually written 10 years before !!!
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- I believe we are watching these very painful birth
pangs. I just don't think Israel and America will like, or even
claim the baby, once it's delivered. Israel's attack on Lebanon has accomplished
something the Lebanese have been trying to do for over a 100 years.....
Unity. For 19 years, the Lebanese fought each other in one of the bloodiest
conflicts witnessed in the 20th Century. The Phalanges Kataeb Party fought
the people who have now belonged to the Hizbullah and Amal movements
for years.
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- Last night, the Secretary General Karim Bakradoni
of the Phalanges Party said that he supports the Government of Lebanon
and the Lebanese Resistance, which is a term used solely to describe Hizbullah.
We are witnessing a new Middle East, because the Phalanges is the same
Party that lined itself up with the Israelis back in 1982 and was rewarded
by Israel's making its Chief, the late Bashire Jumayel, the President of
Lebanon. Things are different now. Hizbullah represents close to 35
percent of the population in Lebanon and is represented in all
aspects of the government; the military, civil and social organizations
in Lebanon. Before it's all over, and no matter who wins this war, Hizbullah
has already won, even if it looses. Its policies will end up
making the next Lebanese governmentâ¤s policy. This is something
similar to what happened in Palestine with Hamas. Would the United
States like to raise this baby? I think not.
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- This will strengthen relations between Syria and Lebanon
to levels never seen before and, of course, will spill over to other countries
in the Middle East who will put pressure on their governments to take a
harder position towards Israel and the United States in particular,
and the West in general. We will then see new alliances made with regional
and continental powers other than the US. We already see a total sympathy
with Hizbullah all over the Arab and Muslim worlds. In Egypt, the
Muslim Brotherhood offered to send 10,000 highly trained and equipped fighters
to help Hizbullah in Lebanon. If the United States is having a hard time
in Iraq, wait till you see Lebanon.
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- The United States somehow missed its bidding again when
it bid on leaders such as the Arab leader who called Olmert, in the
first days of fighting, and asked him to fight until Hizbullah is
destroyed: Or like the Foreign Minister of an Arab country with
no official relations with Israel, at least not public, cut his vacation
in Tel-Aviv short because of the war and was forced three weeks later to
send a private Jet to pick up his family, who was still vacationing in
Tel-Aviv, because Hizbullah threatened to attack Tel-Aviv.
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- You want a new Middle East? You will get a New Middle
East. You will have a Middle East, which sees Israel and the
US as the enemy, an enemy to despise and fight, one
that will one day be united in its struggle against the new invaders, and
colonizers. This time around, Sykes-Picot will not be around to decide
on whom rules the pieces. This time around, they will be faced with
a New Middle East just like they wanted.
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- In Kuwait, people took to the streets; the same people
who took to the streets in 1992 celebrating the liberation of their country
by waving American flags and pictures of George Bush the father. However,
today they were burning the American flag and chanting "death
to Israel and America."
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- America has lost dearly in the Arab and Muslim worlds
due to its policies in the Middle East that are biased towards Israel.
American interests are being threatened due to this blind support for a
state that cannot survive without state terrorism.
- Just be careful what you wish for, you might actually
get it.
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