Opinion Editorials, October 2007
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Arab Gulf Region And The Giant Powers, Part VI: Road To Dominate Arab Gulf Region Passes Through Weakening Regional Giants
By Ali Al-Hail
ccun.org, October 26, 2007
I. Summary Of Part V:
In part V, I discussed and analyzed how apparently, Israeli agents have planed 9 \ 11. Many argue that, attributed to fundamentally, three rationales. On one hand presumably, was the reason to get Israel back on the track with the U.S.A., while on the other, was to free Israel's hands to do whatever pleases it with its opponents, including Palestinians and to reach the Arab Gulf region. As was thoroughly, dealt with, was that, Israel had been brushed aside by its foster state i.e., the U.S.A. that, considered it as a strategic burden during Gulf War II. 9\11, was arguably, invented to do just the contrary. Undeniably, Israel has succeeded almost entirely, on all these fronts. In this part, I will discuss and analyze the suspected 'weakening agenda', prepared by the Israeli lobby, the U.S.A. and Israel against regional Arab and Muslim giants to clear the way to 'wishfully' dominate the oil-rich- Arab Gulf region.
II. 9/11 as an Israel's Open Gate:
Israel's regaining its status as US strategic asset predominantly, during the cold war era was indisputably, its first 9\11's harvest. Indeed, this factor has vigorously, help Israel revenge in arrears, from pro-resistance groups in Palestinian and Arab occupied lands.
Had 9 /11 not occurred, Israel-Sharon would not have massacred a huge number of Palestinian resistance key influential leaders, toped by Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, Founder of Hamas, Dr. Abdul Azeez El-Rantisi, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin's successor, Abu Ali Mustapha, leader of the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP) and Engineer Ismail Abu Shanab, of Al Jihad Al-Islami Movement. One could presume, as do many that, staunchly, pro- Israeli lobby executives in the Bush administration, worked up the idea of weakening all Israel's rivalries, including Arab and Muslim giants e.g., Iraq-Saddam and Iran-Nejad in order to have their access to the oil-rich- Arab Gulf region open and fluent.
III. 9/11 & The Reinforcement of A presumed Common Enemy:
The Israeli lobby in the U.S.A. is defined as a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations who" attempt to influence US foreign policy in support of Israel ( http://en.wikipdia.org .) It's believed that, this definition may well be valid as regard to Israeli lobbies in the West as a whole.
Frontline, an Indian current affairs magazine, opened a rhetorical inquest into why the Bush administration that seemed "so eager to please [Bush's] Arab Gulf region allies, particularly the Saudis, go out of its way to take the side of Ariel Sharon's Israel? Two public policy organizations give us a sense of an answer: the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)."
Frontline recounted that, "WINEP tended to toe the line of whatever party came to power in Israel" while "JINSA was the U.S. offshoot of the right-wing Likud Party." In its report, Frontline elaborated that, (JINSA's) relations with the Bush administration were so intimate that, (JINSA) "draws from the most conservative hawks in the U.S. establishment for its board of directors" including Vice-President Richard Cheney, and Bush administration appointees John Bolton, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Zalmay Khalilzad, Richard Armitage, and Elliott Abrams (See also, for example, http\\ en.wikipdia.org.) As a result, Many argue in the U.S.A. that, Vice-President Cheney whose plans to weaken \ terminate the giant powers adjacent to Arab Gulf region in favor of Israel, is the one who runs the show in the Bush Administration. Lately, former US President Jimmy Carter, has sharply, criticized Cheney for his pro-Israel suspicious role in the Middle East.
According to Dr. John J. Mearsheimer and Dr. Stephen M. Walt (2006), in their 'explosive' paper "The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy", the Bush administration-led-West justified the extra and exceptional support for Israel in the early, 1990s and specifically, in the aftermath of 9/11, solely, based upon subjective, rather than objective factors. The former was obvious in the assertion that both Israel and the US-led- West face an Islamic terrorism or "Islamists", targeting Western Civilization. Since these terrorists come from states in the Arab or Muslim world, and sponsored by certain "rogue states" that, hunt for weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Israel's role was weighed out as pivotal. Presumably, this is yet, another faked account in a long series made up by the Israeli lobby in the U.S.A. and in the rest of the West. The aim is totally, believed to have granted Israel an upper hand in the Middle East and more crucially, in the oil-rich-Arab Gulf region.
As Mearsheimer and Walt (2006) boldly, put it:
"This rationale implies that Washington should give Israel a free hand in dealing with the Palestinians and not press Israel to make concessions until all Palestinian terrorists are imprisoned or dead. It also implies that the United States should go after countries like the Islamic Republic of Iran, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. Israel is thus seen as a crucial ally in the war on terror, because its enemies are America’s enemies. This new rationale seems persuasive, but Israel is in fact a liability in the war on terror and the broader effort to deal with rogue states." (the London Review of Books Vol. 28, No. 6 (March 23, 2006), and http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html ).
IV. More On The Wakening Agenda:
Additionally, there have been growing speculations and rumors that, Turkey could be next on the 'US-Israel's weakening agenda', fearing its revisiting its Ottoman influence in the Arab Gulf region. Four theories seem to hold firm on these speculations and rumors.
First; Turkey's Muslim links (not necessarily, its relative geographic closeness) to the Arab Gulf region (think, for example the Turk Dr. Ihsan Ogloh, the Islamic Conference Organization (ICO's) Secretary-General.)
Second; the Justice and Development Party that, leads Turkey for the second parliamentary election is observably, popular in Arab Gulf region for its Islamic\secular political balance and for being politically, moderate.
Thirdly; there are an estimated figure of 200,000 Turks in the work force in the Arab Gulf region, most of whom originate in Arab lands seized by Ottoman-Turkey and to whom Arabic is almost a native language.
Fourthly, the level of trading between Arab Gulf region and Turkey has recently, begun to increase up to nearly, $1.5 billion annually.
Further, a virtual analysis goes to the extent that, if Pakistan-Musharraf was not doing a marvelous job for the USA., Israel and the West in fighting Al Qaeda's, Pakistan could be added to the weakening agenda, more or less for the same reasons as Turkey. Allegedly, Saddam-Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, has made many in the Arab Gulf region, let alone those in the West, to consider apart from Iraq, Israel, Iran, and other giant Arab and Muslim countries, as a potential threat to their oil-made wealth and prosperity.
Professor, Dr. Ali Al-Hail, Professor of Mass Communication, Twice Fulbright
Award Winner, Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Board Member of AUSACE, ASC, IABD, NEBAA, BEA, IMDA and EAJMC American Associations.
Can be cotacted via alhailali@yahoo.com
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