ISRAELI ATTACK: DESPERATE BID TO SAVE FAILED SYRIAN CAMPAIGN
By Tony Cartalucci
February 01, 2013 “Information Clearing House” – Israel has conducted
airstrikes in Syria based on “suspicions” of chemical weapon transfers,
in a flagrant violation of the UN Charter, international law, and in
direct violation of Syria’s sovereignty. The Guardian in its report
titled, “Israel carries out air strike on Syria,” claims:
“Israeli warplanes have attacked a target close to the Syrian-Lebanese
border following several days of heightened warnings from government
officials over Syria’s stockpiles of weapons.”
It also stated:
“Israel has publicly warned that it would take military action to
prevent the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons falling into the hands
of Hezbollah in Lebanon or “global jihadists” fighting inside Syria.
Israeli military intelligence is said to be monitoring the area round
the clock via satellite for possible convoys carrying weapons.”
In reality, these “global jihaidists” are in fact armed and funded
by the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel since at least as early as
2007. They are also in fact the direct beneficiaries of Israel’s recent
aggression. The Israeli “suspicions” of “weapon transfers” of course,
remain unconfirmed, because the purpose of the attack was not to
prevent the transfer of “chemical weapons” to Hezbollah in Lebanon,
but to provoke a wider conflict aimed not at Israel’s defense, but
at salvaging the West’s floundering proxy terrorist forces inside
Syria attempting to subvert and overthrow the Syrian nation.
The silence from the United Nations is deafening. While Turkey openly
harbors foreign terrorists, arming and funding them with Western,
Saudi, and Qatari cash as they conduct raids on neighboring Syria,
any Syrian attack on Turkish territory would immediately result in
the United Nations mobilizing. Conversely, Turkey is allowed, for
years, to conduct air strikes and even partial ground invasions of
neighboring Iraq to attack Kurdish groups accused of undermining
Turkish security. It is clear the same double standard has long
applied to Israel.
Israel, along with the US & Saudi Arabia, are Al Qaeda’s chief
sponsors.
It must be remembered that as far back as 2007, it was admitted by US,
Saudi and Lebanese officials that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia were
intentionally arming, funding, and organizing these “global jihadists”
with direct ties to Al Qaeda for the explicit purpose of overthrowing
the governments of Syria and Iran.
Reported by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his
New Yorker article, “The Redirection,” it was stated (emphasis added):
“To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush
Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in
the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with
Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations
that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is
backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations
aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities
has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a
militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic
to Al Qaeda.”
Of Israel it specifically stated: “The policy shift has brought Saudi
Arabia and Israel into a new strategic embrace, largely because both
countries see Iran as an existential threat. They have been involved
in direct talks, and the Saudis, who believe that greater stability
in Israel and Palestine will give Iran less leverage in the region,
have become more involved in Arab-Israeli negotiations.”
Additionally, Saudi Arabian officials mentioned the careful balancing
act their nation must play in order to conceal its role in supporting
US-Israeli ambitions across the region:
“The Saudi said that, in his country’s view, it was taking a political
risk by joining the U.S. in challenging Iran: Bandar is already seen in
the Arab world as being too close to the Bush Administration. “We have
two nightmares,” the former diplomat told me. “For Iran to acquire
the bomb and for the United States to attack Iran. I’d rather the
Israelis bomb the Iranians, so we can blame them. If America does it,
we will be blamed.””
It may interest readers to know that while France invades and occupies
large swaths of Mali in Africa, accusing the Qataris of funding and
arming Al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups in the region, France, the
US, and Israel are working in tandem with the Qataris to fund and
arm these very same groups in Syria.
In fact, the US-based think-tank, the Brookings Institution literally
has a “Doha Center” based in Qatar while US-Israeli citizen Haim
Saban’s Brookings “Saban Center” conducts meetings and has many of
its board of directors based likewise in Doha, Qatar. Doha also
served as the venue for the creation of the West’s most recent
“Syrian Coalition,” headed by an unabashed supporter of Al Qaeda,
Moaz al-Khatib.
These are part of the brick and mortar manifestation of the conspiracy
documented by Seymour Hersh in 2007.
The Wall Street Journal, also in 2007, reported on the US Bush
Administration’s plans of creating a partnership with Syria’s Muslim
Brotherhood, noting the group is the ideological inspiration for linked
terror organizations including Al Qaeda itself. In the article titled,
“”To Check Syria, U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim Brothers,” it states:
“On a humid afternoon in late May, about 100 supporters of Syria’s
largest exile opposition group, the National Salvation Front, gathered
outside Damascus’s embassy here to protest Syrian President Bashar
Assad’s rule. The participants shouted anti-Assad slogans and raised
banners proclaiming: “Change the Regime Now.”
The NSF unites liberal democrats, Kurds, Marxists and former Syrian
officials in an effort to transform President Assad’s despotic regime.
But the Washington protest also connected a pair of more unlikely
players — the U.S. government and the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The article would also report:
“U.S. diplomats and politicians have also met with legislators from
parties connected to the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Egypt and Iraq
in recent months to hear their views on democratic reforms in the
Middle East, U.S. officials say. Last month, the State Department’s
intelligence unit organized a conference of Middle East experts to
examine the merits of engagement with the Brotherhood, particularly
in Egypt and Syria.”
It describes the ideological and operational links between the
Brotherhood and Al Qaeda:
“Today, the Brotherhood’s relationship to Islamist militancy, and
al Qaeda in particular, is the source of much debate. Osama bin
Laden and other al Qaeda leaders cite the works of the Brotherhood’s
late intellectual, Sayyid Qutb, as an inspiration for their crusade
against the West and Arab dictators. Members of Egyptian and Syrian
Brotherhood arms have also gone on to take senior roles in Mr. bin
Laden’s movement.”
Yet despite all of this, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, along with
Israel and Turkey are openly conspiring with them, and have now
for years been arming and funding these very sectarian extremist,
terrorist groups across the Arab World, from Libya to Egypt, and now
in and around Syria.
Israel’s fears of these terrorists acquiring “chemical weapons”
is absurd. They have already acquired them with US, NATO, British,
Saudi, Qatari and even Israeli help in Libya in 2011. In fact, these
very Libyan terrorists are spearheading the foreign militant groups
flooding into Syria through the Turkish-Syrian border.
What Israel’s strike may really mean.
Indeed, Israel’s explanation as to why it struck neighboring Syria
is tenuous at best considering its long, documented relationship
with actually funding and arming the very “global jihaidists” it
fears weapons may fall into the hands of. Its fears of Hezbollah are
likewise unfounded – Hezbollah, had it, the Syrians, or the Iranians
been interested in placing chemical weapons in Lebanon, would have
done so already, and most certainly would do so with means other
than conspicuous convoys simply “crossing the border.” Hezbollah has
already proven itself capable of defeating Israeli aggression with
conventional arms, as demonstrated during the summer of 2006.
In reality, the pressure placed on Syria’s borders by both Israel
and its partner, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey in
the north, is part of a documented plan to relieve pressure on the
Western, Israeli, Saudi-Qatari armed and funded militants operating
inside Syria.
The above mentioned, Fortune 500-funded (page 19), US foreign-policy
think-tank, Brookings Institution – which has blueprinted designs
for regime change in Libya as well as both Syria and Iran – stated
this specifically in their report titled, “Assessing Options for
Regime Change.”
From: Baghdasarian