Protocols of the Elders of Neocons
Hussein Shobokshi
[Arab News, undated]
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=25493

In this weekly telephone report Paul Wolfowitz expressed his
anxiety to Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister about the situation
in the Middle East. “How are you doing?” asked Wolfowitz. “OK,
OK,” answered Sharon, “but you must go to Syria.” Wolfowitz
pondered, “this will be tougher to get the president’s okay on.”
Sharon could not help but scream, ”He does not know Damascus from
Des Moines, Iowa. Move it Paul. You can always tell him that this
man of peace thinks it’s kosher,” concluded Sharon with a
hysterical laugh.

Before the euphoria of the attack on Iraq was over the war hawks
in America began shifting their targets toward Syria (as
expected). The Israeli gang in the American administration,
better known as the neocons, will not tell the American public
that Syria was one of the countries that voted for the Security
Council Resolution authorizing the new inspection in Iraq thus
allowing that vote to be carried out unanimously. No one will
speak about Syria’s cooperation in the post-Sept. 11 trauma in
arresting suspected terrorists. America’s (or should I say Israel
’s) biggest problem with Syria is its support for resistance
movements such as Hamas and Hezbollah groups, which are fighting
the bloody, horrific and deadly occupation of the war criminal
Sharon and his cronies. Interestingly, that the US accusations
against Syria should come at this time.

Let’s take a look back. At a small village in Palestine exactly
55 years ago, several weeks before the state of Israel was
declared, the Irgun and Stern militias stormed the village, home
to nearly 600 inhabitants. They killed nearly 100 men, women and
children with guns and swords. Several captives were later
paraded in Jerusalem before being killed. The leader of the
Irgun, Menachem Begin, who went on to become prime minister of
Israel later, wrote that the Palestinians, hearing the massacre,
were seized with limitless panic and started to flee for their
lives. Deir Yassin triggered an exodus that soon emptied the new
state of 80 percent of its Arab population.

What the administration fails to understand is that it cannot
hide or ignore the huge elephant in the middle room, namely
Israel. Retired US Gen. Anthony Zinni said “my worst nightmare
would be an Al-Jazeera TV picture of American troops in combat
fighting Iraqis, at the same time the Israeli defense forces is
in the West Bank and Gaza killing Arabs. Furthermore, how can the
Bush administration convince either Congress or the Arabs that
the US cares about “the territorial integrity of Iraq” when those
same members of the administration were signatories to a document
in 1996 advising Benjamin Netanyahu of the desirability of
dismantling Iraq and any other Arab country that stands in Israel
’s way? What these same people were telling Netanyahu then and
president now is: You are stronger than all your neighbors, act
upon it. Forget the peace process; it does not serve you. Forget
international law; lead, and everybody will follow; the rest can
go to hell.”

Zbigniew Brzezinski correctly pointed out the hypocrisy of the
logic. He said, “the European press has commented more widely
than US press on the striking similarity between current US
policy in the Middle East and the recommendations prepared in
1996 by this same group of admirers of Israel’s Likud Party for
the then Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The decision of invading Iraq and going after Syria then Iran,
Saudi Arabia and Egypt has been made for the president a long
time ago.

While the neocons who have tried to legitimize and sugarcoat all
their wicked and twisted policies by false accusations and
pollgerized evidence, their true intentions remain the protection
of Israel. Israel is the core problem of the main conflict in the
Middle East. Any unjust and subjective solution to that issue
will keep the Middle East a boiling pot with Sharon as its
keeper, which is simply a joy to the neocons!