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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Will <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> ensure that history
repeats itself? </span></font></b><font size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>09/10/2009 06:00:00 AM GMT<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>As
with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, there is no
direct threat to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><i><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'>By Jeff Gates </span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The lead-up to the first U.S.-Iran talks in three
decades saw a replay of the same modus operandi that induced the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> and its allies to invade <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> in March
2003. Then as now, the invasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>
is consistent with a regime change agenda for Greater <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
described in a 1996 strategy document prepared by Jewish-Americans for
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>As
with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
the threat of weapons of mass destruction is again marketed as a causa belli.
As with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
the claim is disputed by weapons inspectors and intelligence analysts. The
Iraqi program had been shut down a dozen years before the invasion. In <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>, there
is no evidence that uranium is being enriched beyond the low levels required
for energy and medical purposes.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Reports
of a “secret” processing plant failed to note that <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>
suspended uranium enrichment from 2003 until 2005. Seeing no change in the
political climate except more sanctions and more Israeli threats to bomb its
nuclear sites, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>
began building and equipping a new facility.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>As
with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, there is no
direct threat to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
As with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, mainstream <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> media focused not on <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>—the only nation in the region
known to have nuclear weapons—but on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Enrichment is relatively
easy compared to the steps required to design, build and reliably deliver a
nuclear warhead. Activity around each of those steps can be readily detected.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>U.S.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged that even if <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> were attacked, that does nothing to alter
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
nuclear prospects—except provoke them to develop the very weapons that
the evidence suggests are not now being produced. Is this a calculated move
to exert pressure on <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tehran</st1:place></st1:City>?
Or to provoke them? Or is this a move by <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State>
to buy time from an “ally” that threatens an attack—with
disastrous effects on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
interests and those of its genuine allies?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>To
catalyze a climate of insecurity among Jews, pro-Israelis periodically claim
that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposes to “wipe <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> off
the map.” A correct translation confirms that what he urged is that
“this occupation regime over <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:City>
must vanish from the pages of time.” Akin to the widely sought demise
of the oppressive Soviet regime, that proposal enjoys the support of many
moderate, secular and non-Zionist Jews who have long recognized the threat
that Jewish extremists pose to the broader Jewish community.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>No
one can explain why <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>,
even if nuclear armed, would attack <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> with its vast nuclear
arsenal estimated at 200-400 warheads, including several nuclear-armed
submarines. In mid-July, Israeli warships deployed to the Red Sea to rehearse
attacks on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
As in the lead-up to war with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is again beating the war
drums. This is the same adviser who, four days after 9-11, advised G.W. Bush
to invade <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Citing
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>’s
“covert” facility, Wolfowitz claims it is “clear that <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
rulers are pursuing nuclear weapons.…Time is running out.”
Without a hint of irony, he argues that <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>
(not <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>)
“is a crucial test of whether the path to a nuclear-free world is a realistic
one or simply a dangerous pipe dream.” In calling for “crippling
sanctions,” Howard Berman, Jewish chairman of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, expressed similar concerns as did Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
senior Republican on the Committee and also Jewish.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>If
pro-Israelis cannot induce a war with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>,
the ensuing stability will enable people to identify who fixed the
intelligence that deceived the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
to invade <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Only one nation possesses the means, motive, opportunity and stable nation
state intelligence to mount a covert operation over the lengthy period
required to pre-stage, staff, orchestrate and successfully cover-up such an
act.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The
evidence points to the same network of government insiders and media
proponents now hyping <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Who benefitted from war with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>?
Who benefits from war with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>?
Not the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> or its allies
unless, despite the evidence, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is viewed as an ally–rather than an enemy within.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><strong><b><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Can the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
muster a breakthrough strategy?</span></font></b></strong><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Like
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> does not
have a military solution. Nor does <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Geopolitically, the
greatest casualty of war in the region was the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> – its
credibility tattered, its military overextended and its finances devastated
by a debt-financed war that Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz projects
could reach $3,000 billion. Compare that with the speedy exit and a $50
billion outlay that Wolfowitz assured policy-makers could be recovered from
sales of Iraqi oil.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Those
who induced that invasion persuaded Americans to commit economic and
geopolitical hari-kari. No external force could have defeated the sole
remaining super power. Instead the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
was deceived—by a purported ally—to defeat itself by an
ill-advised reaction to the provocation of a mass murder on <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> soil.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The
only sensible and sustainable solution is one that serves unmet needs in the
region while also restoring the credibility of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> as a proponent of informed
choice and free enterprise. While making transparent the common source of the
deceit that induced the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to war, policy-makers can also lay the foundation to preclude such duplicity
in the future. That requires consultation among the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> , its
true allies and those nations in the region most affected by this treachery.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Only
a design solution can counter today’s systemic sources of conflict,
including the extremism fueled by extremes in education, opportunity, wealth
and income. As with the fixed intelligence that induced the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> to war in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, those sources of conflict
are obscured by a compliant and complicit media with an undisclosed
pro-Israeli bias.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>A
transnational network of think tanks could expose in real time how facts are
displaced by what “the mark” can be deceived to believe. With the
media dominance of pro-Israelis in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.K.</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> and other Western allies,
that task must include the capacity to show how this deceit operates in plain
sight yet, to date, with impunity. Absent such transparency, systems of
governance reliant on informed consent will continue to be manipulated to
their detriment by those who hide behind the very freedoms that such systems
are meant to protect.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Running
parallel with that transparency initiative must be an education program that
deploys the best available technology to close the gaps in learning that
sustain extremes in opportunity. Only a truly international effort can
succeed in that essential task. Only trans-cultural education can preempt the
mental manipulation that induced war in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
and now pursues war with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>
as proponents of The Clash of Civilizations gradually transform that concept
into a reality.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>What
we now see emerging is yet another example of how wars are induced in the
Information Age. Why would anyone expect modern warfare to be waged in any
other way? As the common source of this duplicity becomes transparent, the
solution will become apparent.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Lasting
peace requires a Marshall Plan able to accelerate the transition to the
Knowledge Society. This systemic challenge cannot be addressed absent a
systemic strategy. The restoration of friendly and cooperative relations must
include the practical steps required to heal this widening divide with
education at the core</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><i><font size=2 color="#666666" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#666666'>-- Jeff Gates is author of Guilt By
Association, Democracy at Risk and The Ownership Solution. See </span></font></i></em><a
href="http://www.criminalstate.com/"><em><i><font size=2 color="#666666"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#666666;
text-decoration:none'>www.criminalstate.com</span></font></i></em></a><em><i><font
size=2 color="#666666" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#666666'>. </span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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