* Israel is better off with stable autocracies as neighbors. With the brief exception of Saddam’s Scud missiles in ’91, Arab nations qua nations haven’t posed a military threat to Israel in 42 years. Israel’s military threats in recent years have come from anarchic Lebanon and Gaza. If Syria becomes another Lebanon, Israel would be less secure, not more.
* A clear neo-con/Israeli strategy was outlined to break up the Arab states and splinter the Arab world into warring tribes, factions, and warlords, leaving Israel unopposed by any surrounding hostile Arab states able to act in any kind of coherent manner (in other words, turn them into failed states), and this strategy has worked. Obama has followed this strategy just as closely as did Bush. Look at Libya and Syria. Obama deliberately destabilized those states.
Now some people will object that Obama is a creature of the Saudis, and not of the Zionists, but people made this same accusation of Bush, as well. But it makes no difference in practice, because the Saudis have been pursuing their own Clean Break strategy that closely mirrors the Israeli Clean Break strategy; the Saudis also want to destabilize other Arab states, especially Shia states or other non-Sunni dominated states, and to export their brand of Wahhabi lunacy and send their home grown militants to be a problem elsewhere, away from Saudi Arabia. Ditto for the various Arab Gulf states, that have their own home grown Shia problem to worry about and who support Shia militants.
It’s a perfect dumpster firestorm of idiocy. And it makes no sense if our actual strategy was “all to preserve US military dominance in the Gulf and eastern med.” Stable Arab dictatorships like what still exists in Egypt would be much preferable to US foreign policy if our actual aim was to dominate the region in a fashion actually useful to actual US interests – ie, keep the oil flowing, keep the Islamic crazies under control, stop the migration of so called “refugees”. None of this is possible if we keep destroying Arab dictatorships and turning their states into failed states suitable for 4th generation warfare.
* From A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s by Oded Yinon:
Lebanon’s total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precendent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi’ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan. This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.
* The West has no moral clarity about anything, not after the disaster in Iraq. The mere virtue of these current efforts is that they only are trying to accomplish what is very small. The disaster in Iraq proved the West has no native right to act from thought of a higher level than a little here, a little there. The West has no credibility to pretend that it can go about the business of strategy next to the likes of Russia. And should probably just slink from the world scene altogether, and regroup for an extended period in a small cabin, and pray not for moral clarity but vision at all.
* Obama in NO way hates Jews. The evidence on that is clear based on his policies and his appointments.
From David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel to the Jews he has appointed to power on the Supreme Court, control of money at Treasury, the Fed etc etc. Obama is clearly a philo-semitic liberal Democrat.
Which is of course why Christian paranoids and right wing zionist Jews hate him.
In fact his behavior nearly mimics all the views of liberal Jews in America.
* So the Jews in Israel champion small ethnostates in the Middle East because they are smaller, more cohesive, less fractious, and less likely to attack Israel, the Jewish ethnostate.
It makes perfect sense to me, God bless ‘em.
Yet Jews in America (and it seems in Europe, too) champion large multicultural proposition states that collect increasing numbers of utterly alien refugees from everywhere.
We need to work out a Transfer Agreement with the Israelis.
