Home > Israel’s Plan B
by Kurt Nimmo
Obviously, things are not moving quickly enough for Israel. So they have sent Mossad agents, made over as businessmen, into the Kurdish area of Iraq. Plan: agitate for an independent Kurdistan carved out of Iraq. Or so a former CIA analyst has told Seymour Hersh. This was apparently confirmed by a top dog at the spook agency:
[A] senior C.I.A. official acknowledged in an interview last week that the Israelis were indeed operating in Kurdistan. He told me that the Israelis felt that they had little choice: ‘They think they have to be there.’ Asked whether the Israelis had sought approval from Washington, the official laughed and said, ‘Do you know anybody who can tell the Israelis what to do? They’re always going to do what is in their best interest.’ The C.I.A. official added that the Israeli presence was widely known in the American intelligence community.
Right. Americans don’t tell the Israelis what to do—the neocon congeries, most of them Likudite fellow travelers, tell the Americans what to do. It was their idea to invade Iraq in the name of Israeli “security,” that is to say in the name of Israeli geopolitical strategy, a fact confirmed by Philip Zelikow, the executive director of Bush’s 9/11 whitewash commission. Since Bush assumed office, the neocon plan to “reshape” the Arab Middle East—invade Iraq and install a Hashemite monarchy (see: A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, presented to Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996)—has more or less broken down because the neocons are genetically adverse to accepting the idea that invaded nations have a tendency to resist occupation.
Israel wants to use Kurdistan as a base of operations against Syria and Iran. Bush and his neocons were to go after both in turn after Iraq was in the bag. But Iraq is not in the bag. So the Israelis—who don’t care how many Americans die in Iraq or how much it costs the somnolent American taxpayer—are working on “Plan B,” as it is characterized by a former Israeli spook. Naturally, all of this agitation inside northern Iraq is of concern to the Turks, who in no way want to see an independent Kurdish anything.
Turkish sources confidentially report that the Turks are increasingly concerned by the expanding Israeli presence in Kurdistan and alleged encouragement of Kurdish ambitions to create an independent state. . . . The Turks note that the large Israeli intelligence operations in Northern Iraq incorporate anti-Syrian and anti-Iranian activity, including support to Iranian and Syrian Kurds who are in opposition to their respective governments.
In other words, the Israelis don’t care what happens to the Turks—or the Kurds for that matter—so long as the drive for Kurdish independence undermines Iran and Syria. Now that the Bush neocons have screwed up so badly and botched the Zionist idea of Greater Israel and the emasculation of Middle Eastern Arabs and Muslims, Plan B is moving forward.
A top German national-security official said in an interview that “an independent Kurdistan with sufficient oil would have enormous consequences for Syria, Iran, and Turkey” and would lead to continuing instability in the Middle East—no matter what the outcome in Iraq is. There is also a widespread belief, another senior German official said, that some elements inside the Bush Administration—he referred specifically to the faction headed by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz—would tolerate an independent Kurdistan. This, the German argued, would be a mistake. “It would be a new Israel—a pariah state in the middle of hostile nations.”
Hersh is missing the point methinks. Pariah status does not bother the Zionist state. In fact, it relishes the idea and actuality. It wants to sow as much discord, ethnic division, and violence in the Middle East as possible. In this way it hopes to keep the Arabs forever distracted and unable to address the Zionist settlers in its midst. For the Likudites, Bush was the Great White Hope. But he blew it. Or rather the neocons blew it. Now comes Plan B.
John Kerry, if he replaces the fumbling Christer Bush, will do whatever Israel wants. He will stand behind Plan B and billions of dollars will continue to flow from the pockets of Joe and Jane Torpidus—the perpetually flimflammed American taxpayer—into the Israeli project.
So consistent is the scam—having the support of both Republican and Democrat presidents and virtually the whole of Congress—that you’d think it was biblical in scope.