| The Bernard Lewis Balkanization Plan |
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| Written by Paul Sholtz | |
| Wednesday, 09 January 2008 | |
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The breakup of Iraq into three semi-autonomous states is not a new, recent development, an outcome falling out of the recent U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Rather, the breakup of Iraq (itself formed out of the remains of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI) has been a driving globalist policy goal since at least 1979, when Bilderberg member Bernard Lewis unveiled his plan for balkanizing the Middle East (including Iraq).
It's no secret that Iraq has been steadily descending into civil war
and anarchy since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, and it's increasingly
common to hear talking heads in the corporate media "suggest" the idea
that perhaps the best "solution" to the Iraqi quagmire would be to
simply let Iraq fall apart into three separate, semi-autonomous states.
However, what many people do not realize is that this idea of breaking up Iraq into three separate states was devised and agreed upon long before the first U.S. troops landed in Iraq in 2003 (or even before the U.S. led invasion in Kuwait in 1990-91). All that's happening now is that the public relations industry is swinging into full gear to convince you that an outcome (an outcome that has already been decided upon long ago) is really the outcome that "you" desire to see. The man who came up with the idea of balkanizing Iraq is named Bernard Lewis, an octogenarian "policy expert" on the Middle East based at Princeton University in the USA. Born in London, Lewis specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West. He is perhaps best known (academically) for his works on the Ottoman Empire, and for coining (in the popular media) the phrase "Clash of Civilizations." The Lewis plan for the Middle East was first unveiled to the "public" at the Bilderberg Meeting in Baden, Austria on April 27-29, 1979. In this presentation, Lewis proposed the fragmentation and balkanization of Iraq, Iran and Pakistan along regional, ethnic and linguistic lines -- especialy amongst the following groups: * The Arabs living in the oil-rich Khuzestan province of Iran (i.e., the al-Ahwaz Project) * The Baluchis in what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan (i.e., the Pakhtunistan Project) * The Kurds in what is now Iraq, Iran and Turkey (i.e., the Greater Kurdistan Project) * The Azerbaijanis, in Russia and Iran (i.e., the Greater Azerbaijan Project). The the book "Hostage to Khomeini" (Dreyfuss and LeMarc, 1980, NY: New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company, p. 157), the authors outline the Plan's methodology: According to Lewis, the British should encourage rebellions for national authority by the minorities such as the Lebanese Druze, Baluchis, Azerbaijanis, Turks, Syrian Alewites, the Copts of Ethiopia, Sudanese mystical sects, Arabian tribes .. the goal is the break-up of the Middle East into a mosaic of competing mini-states and the weakening of the sovereignty of existing republics and kingdoms .. spark a series of breakaway movements by Iran's Kurds, Azeris, Galuchis, and Arabs .. these independence movements, in turn, would represent dire threats to Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan and other neighboring states. Interestingly, there are also indications that the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War may have been part of the broader Bernard Lewis Project. Lewis made his initial presentation/recommendation to Bilderberg in 1979, just before the war started. Direct evidence suggesting the British origins of the Iran-Iraq War, and of the plan to carve up Iran into a series of mini-states, was reported on in the New York Times soon after the war began ("British in 1950, Helped Map Iraqi Invasion of Iran", by R. Halloran, NYT, Thursday, Oct 16, 1980), but was largely ignored. Some points raised in the article included: * A detailed invasion plan had been prepared for the Iraqi armed forces in 1950 by the British military advisors in Iraq; a full 30 yhears before the invasion of Iran by Saddam Hussein. * The main draft of the plan had been in preparation by the British since 1937; the main axes of advance detailed in the plan corresponded exactly to the Iraqi invasion on Sep 22, 1980. * The main objective of the war plan "called for Iraqi forces to occupy Khuzistan province and then negotiate an armistice with the Iranian government that would include relinquishment of the province to Iraq .. also liberate the Arab-speaking people living in Khuzestan." Significantly, successive changes in the Iraqi government over the next thirty years did not alter the major objectives of the British plan, these were simply updated as time progressed. Bernard Lewis is one of the leading forces behind the drive for a "Thirty Years War" in the Middle East, and for a "Clash of Civilizations" between the West and Islam. He is a key advisor to Cheney on Arabic and Islamic affairs, and frequently participates in private dinner seminars at the VP Residence at the US Naval Observatory. So much for Constitutional "checks and balances." For more please consider signing up to the newsletter at http://www.kingsbenchletter.com/        |
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