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Syria: The Faces Behind The Terror

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In her extraordinarily bold and direct speech addressed to the Irish Parliament, Clare Daly (TD, Dublin North) called Obama a "war criminal" and "hypocrite of the century".   In describing the fawned reception of Obama in Ireland akin to pimping and prostituting of that nation,   Ms. Daly hit the nail on the head.     Sadly, America dwarfs Ireland and elsewhere in the undignified category of prostitution -- the 29 standing ovations from Congress in May 2011 for war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu attests to this tragic fact.   

While Daly was quite right in censuring Obama for his criminal policies, including aiding terrorists in Syria, it is worthwhile noting that Obama is merely a willing instrument; the faces and factors behind his handlers and the policies merit greater scrutiny and exposure.   

Backing and arming the so-called Syrian opposition distracts from the threat posed by Israel and its's expansionist agenda by internalizing the enemy in order to weak the State.   As former Israeli Intelligence Chief Amos Yaldin told the audience at the Israel Policy Forum in February 2013:  "And this military [Syrian], which is a huge threat to Israel, is now also weakening and, in a way, disintegrating.  We still have risk from Syria--a risk of being an Al Qaeda country, a Somalia-type country--but from military point of view, each one of these are less dangerous than the Syrian regular army."

Perpetuating adversaries to kill each other is a time-tested tactic--one that was used during the bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war; a war that according to Leon Wieseltier [i] was a "distraction" when Israeli boots were on the ground in Southern Lebanon.   In that war, the United States was providing arms and intelligence to both sides.     When asked what the logic was in aiding both sides in the bloody war, a former official replied: "You had to have been there" [ii] .  But why Syria?  

The Need for Water  

The primary goal of the early Zionist leadership was to control and secure the region's waters.    At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Chaim Weizmann declared that "it was of vital importance not only to secure all water resources feeding the country, but to control them at the sources" -- and the development of these waters became the primary aim of the Yishuv as a whole [iii] .   This policy remained in place. As Israel's third Prime Minister Levi Eshkol put it, water was "the blood flowing through the arteries of the nation".  

As previously stated (HERE and HERE), the chaos we witness in Syria today has been in the making for years with the aid and backing of Israel-firsters in order to accommodate Israel's agenda -- expansion and control of regional water supplies while weakening its adversary/ies.

Israel faced one of its worst droughts in 1990-91.  A second more serious drought in 1998 forced it to turn to water-rich Turkey.   Turkey and Israel engaged in serious negotiations starting in May 2000 to import 50 billion cubic meters of fresh water from Turkey using tanker ships, but using tankers was not cost-effective for the transport of water.   Alternate plans were suggested. 

In September 2000, the same year that young Bashar-al Assad succeeded his father as President of Syria, a strategy paper entitled "The Geopolitics of Water" by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) opined that "Since extensive water-planning proposals will necessitate the establishment of pipelines and energy grids stretching across borders, a political and military structure that can ensure the safety and security of the carriers will be the prerequisite to effective water sharing" ... "But an effective regional system would require political-military cooperation against Syria".     

How to achieve this?

Israeli-Firsters to the rescue 

Media mogul Haim Saban became involved in politics in the mid 1990's with a view to support Israel.   Saban professes that his greatest concern is the "protection" of Israel.   At a conference in Israel, Saban described his method of influencing American politics: "Make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets".   ( Saban penned an opinion piece in The New York Times in support of President Obama in his 2012 re-election bid. )     

It was no surprise therefore that in 2002, Saban pledged $13 million to start a research organization at the Brookings Institution called the Saban Center for Middle East Policy.  Saban Center would play an important role in propping up Syrian opposition (as it did in fermenting unrest post-2009 Iran elections with their June 2009 publication titled: "Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Towards Iran" [1] ).       

In 2006, Time Magazine revealed that that the US had been agitating, funding, and supporting "opposition" in Syria.  According to Time, the U.S. was "supporting regular meetings of internal and diaspora Syrian activists" in Europe. The document bluntly expressed the hope that "these meetings will facilitate a more coherent strategy and plan of actions for all anti-Assad activists."   

It is worthwhile mentioning here that America's support of the so-called "opposition", which includes criminals, terrorists, and foreign fighters, to effect regime change underscores America's stark hypocrisy.   According to 18 USC - 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government (Cornell Law), advocating the overthrow of the government, "organizing or help or attempt to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of the government of the United States or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence" bears serious consequences including fines and prison sentence of up to 20 years. 

 

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