Steering Into a Third Intifada

May 27th, 2006 at 21:24 Björn Hallberg

Patrick Buchanan questions Israel’s “bold ideas” for peace and America’s enthusiasm over the same.

What is the Bush plan to advance our interests in the Middle East? There is none. For five years, the Bush policy has been to sign off on whatever Sharon put in front of him. And now that Bush is weak, he is not going to pick a fight he cannot win and, in candor, he does not want.

The United States alone will recognize Israel’s new borders, and her annexations of the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem as Israel’s exclusive capital. Israel will ask for and the United States will accede to Israel’s request that we commit ourselves militarily to defend Israel’s new frontiers. No Arab government will recognize the new borders. America’s Arab friends will be further estranged.

The suffering of the Palestinian people under the U.S.-Israeli sanctions regime will further radicalize them into hating us as they do Israel. The struggle between Hamas and Fatah over diminishing aid and resources will intensify, degenerating into civil war. Iran will move into the vacuum. Eventually, with aid cut off and no hope of negotiations, Hamas will revert to terror and the third intifada will begin.

Buchanan also correctly notes that the U.S. will inevitably have to pony up for the costs of Israel’s “security.” And that Europe, regardless of muslim immigrants, just doesn’t agree with Israel and will do just as the U.S. should do. I.e. side with the most profitable alternative, the one that will really advance our objective interests. It could be a fairly lonely position to defend for the U.S. after that. Buchanan doesn’t mince words of course and goes one step further, adding that this will be the principal reason for the “swift end to U.S. hegemony.”

On a sidenote, more and more people seem to catch on to the civil war strategy. It it highly likely that the scenario is one that is indeed plotted from neocon think tanks, just as the breakdown of Iraqi civil society was not only foreseen but in fact recommended and encouraged. Everything that has been done to date indicates that the plan is to increase friction within Palestinian society. Whether or not civil war is a realistic goal remains to be seen. But it is no doubt a thought that gets the criminals in Washington and Tel Avid salivating.

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