Nadat Trump zijn ‘besluit’ bekend maakte VS troepen snel terug te trekken uit Syrië, brak er een storm van protest los bij VS politici van de democraten, republikeinen en van Israël. Alsof de bezetting door de VS van Syrisch grondgebied volkomen legitiem was….. Zoals je waarschijnlijk wel weet, is de VS illegaal aanwezig op soeverein Syrisch grondgebied…….
Snel na de verklaring van Trump verzekerde oorlogsmisdadiger Bolton al dat het zo’n vaart niet zou lopen en alsof hij Trump kon besturen, verklaarde deze dat de terugtrekking van VS troepen uit Syrië, niet op stel en sprong zou worden uitgevoerd……..
De corrupte oorlogsmisdadiger Netanyahu had het gore lef te stellen dat voor Israël de legitimatie van de annexatie van de Golanhoogten middels het verkrijgen van soevereiniteit over het gebied, de belangrijkste reden was om te protesteren tegen de terugtrekking van VS troepen uit Syrië, althans zeker niet te snel…
Het is dan ook duidelijk dat Trumps macht intussen aan banden ligt. Bolton die Trump adviseert, stelde dan ook dat de terugtrekking van VS troepen uit Syrië, gecoördineerd zal worden met de fascistische terreur- en apartheidsstaat Israël…..
(foto bij het originele artikel op MintPress News)
Overigens is er een tweede reden voor een langzame terugtrekking van VS troepen uit Syrië, waarbij Israël nogmaals een belangrijke rol speelt: Iran en Hezbollah, die beiden strijders hebben in Syrië….. Een langzame terugtrekking van VS troepen, zodat er niet een ‘snelweg’ tussen Iran en Libanon zal ontstaan, een weg waarover Iran dan wapens en ander oorlogstuig voor Hezbollah zou kunnen vervoeren richting Libanon……..
Terwijl Israël intussen al honderden gevechtsvluchten heeft uitgevoerd op Syrisch grondgebied (en dat via een illegale aanvliegroute over Libanon….), stuk voor stuk ernstige oorlogsmisdaden, waarbij Israël, als het al toegeeft een bombardement te hebben uitgevoerd, steevast het argument noemt dat men met deze bombardementen heeft willen voorkomen dat er oorlogstuig richting Libanon wordt vervoerd….. Dit in tegenstelling tot bijvoorbeeld de doelen die Israël bombardeert, meestal posities of bases van het reguliere Syrische leger……
Voorts staan de ‘gematigde’ terreurgroepen, inclusief IS, achter de wens van Israël de soevereiniteit over de Golanhoogten te krijgen en definitief aan haar grondgebied toe te voegen….. De terreurgroepen staan achter deze wil van Israël vanwege de hulp die Israël aan die terreurgroepen gaf. Zo heeft Israël meermaals Syrische reguliere troepen gebombardeerd, als zij terreurgroepen in de buurt van de Golanhoogten dreigden te overvleugelen en heeft Israël jihadterroristen die gewond waren geraakt in Syrië, opgeknapt op de Golanhoogten en in ernstige gevallen zelfs in Israëlische in ziekenhuizen……
Lees het volgende meer uitgebreide artikel, eerder gepubliceerd op MintPress News en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:
With Golan at Stake, Netanyahu, Bolton Set Trump Straight on US Syria Withdrawal Plan
January 7, 2019 at 11:29 pm
Written by Whitney Webb
(MPN) — The state of Israel seems to share at least some of the responsibility for the latest shift of U.S. Syria policy — as National Security Adviser John Bolton announced on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s call to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria would now be “coordinated” with Israel, after meeting with top Israeli officials including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
(foto bij het originele artikel op MintPress News)
Israel’s main motivation in preventing a swift U.S. exit from Syria was also made explicit by Netanyahu, who openly stated on Twitter that Israel’s push to obtain sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights – which is internationally recognized as part of Syria – was the driving factor behind Israel’s recent efforts to dramatically slow down Trump’s plan for an “immediate” withdrawal of U.S. troops currently occupying Syrian territory illegally.
As MintPress noted at the time of Trump’s withdrawal announcement, Israel’s influence on Trump’s Middle East policy and Israel’s push towards containing “Iranian influence” in Syria would mean that Trump’s plan to withdraw troops over the alleged defeat of ISIS would likely never materialize if it was opposed by Tel Aviv.
This was apparently and not surprisingly the case as, soon after Trump’s announcement that he planned to bring U.S. troops home from Syria last month, Israel’s government announced that it would dramatically rev up its direct involvement in the Syrian conflict in the U.S.’ absence. That involvement had so far been limited to hundreds of unilateral airstrikes on Syrian government and military targets over the course of the nearly eight-year-long war. Israel’s threat of escalation revealed Israel’s unwillingness to see foreign pressure on Damascus reduced.
Israel’s military — currently headed by Netanyahu, who is also serving as Israel’s defense minister — made good on this promise to increase its military involvement in Syria soon after, using civilian airplanes as cover to launch airstrikes on Syria on Christmas Day.
However, Israel’s reaction to Trump’s announcement appears to have been much more extensive than its decision to increase its airstrikes targeting Syrian territory. After meeting with Netanyahu and the director of Israeli intelligence, Bolton noted on Twitter that the “U.S. drawdown in Syria” would now be “coordinated” with Israel. Also on Sunday, Bolton announced that the U.S. had no timetable for troop withdrawal from Syria and that the troop withdrawal was also conditional.
I met w/ PM @netanyahu, the Director of Mossad, & the Israeli Atomic Energy Commissioner. Discussions included our ongoing efforts to expand & enhance our historic partnership w/ Israel, our mutual response to the threat from Iran, & the coordinated U.S. drawdown in Syria.
This is just the latest indication that the state of Israel is acquiring unprecedented influence over U.S. troop deployments in the region, as the commander of U.S. European Command (EURCOM) noted last year that Israeli generals — not American generals — have the power to deploy U.S. troops to Israel to fight on Israel’s behalf. Now, Bolton — after meeting with Israeli officials — has stated that Israel’s government will also wield tremendous influence over whether or not U.S. troops will be leaving Syria.
Spotlight on the Golan Heights
In publicly discussing his meeting with Bolton on Twitter, Netanyahu noted that a key topic of ongoing discussion with Bolton regarding Syria would involve Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights, a plateau bordering Israel, Lebanon and Syria that Israel has occupied since 1967 and later annexed in 1981.
Netanyahu announced that he and Bolton would be traveling together to the area on Monday and added:
The Golan Heights is tremendously important for our security. When you’re there you’ll be able to understand perfectly why we’ll never leave the Golan Heights and why it’s Heights
and why it’s important all countries recognize Israel’s
sovereignty over it.”
And you have backed Israel’s right to defend itself which we exercise constantly. It’s important to know that we have the backing of our great friend and ally the United States of America.
Tomorrow we’ll go up to the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights is tremendously important for our security. When you’re there you’ll be able to understand perfectly why we’ll never leave the Golan Heights and why it’s important all countries recognize Israel’s sovereignty over it. pic.twitter.com/ejgMbbcd5V
As MintPress has
noted in the past, understanding the significance of the Golan
Heights is in many ways key to understanding why the Syrian conflict
was engineered by foreign powers in the first place. This is because,
with the Golan Heights in mind, Israel hatched
a plan
in 2006 to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by creating
sectarian strife in the country with the hopes that whoever succeeded
Assad would be willing to relinquish Syria’s claim to the
territory.
Yet,
this plan was never designed to be enacted by Israel but instead by
the United States. The U.S. eventually adopted the plan and the
communications of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed
it was a driving factor in U.S. policy leading up to the genesis of
the Syrian conflict. One of her leaked emails,
published by WikiLeaks, stated that “the best way to help Israel
deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people
of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.”
That
same email also noted that “a successful intervention in Syria
would require substantial diplomatic and military leadership from the
United States.” It added that “arming the Syrian rebels and using
Western air power to ground Syrian helicopters and airplanes is a
low-cost high-payoff approach.”
Unsurprisingly,
official recognition of Israel’s annexation of the Golan was
prominent among the regime-change promises touted by Syrian “rebels.”
Over the course of the war, rebels have, in their bid to
overthrow Assad, offered to “trade”
or sell the
Golan Heights to Israel in exchange for military aid or an
Israeli-imposed “no-fly zone.”
This
also helps explain why Israel was so eager to fund, arm and aid
“rebel” groups along the Syria-Israel border, as it offered the
justification for the Israeli occupation of a “buffer zone” that,
according to Syrian opposition sources and Israeli-American NGOs, was
“intended to keep the Syrian army and its Iranian and Lebanese
allies as far away from Israel’s border as possible, as well as
solidify Israel’s control over the occupied Golan Heights.”
However, the success of the Syrian military’s efforts in southern
Syria forced Israel to abandon its buffer zone and seek other means
to strengthen its claim to the territory.
The
Golan: What’s in it for Israel?
Israel
created this plan to weaken or overthrow the Syrian state largely
because it is eager to cement its claim to the Golan Heights. In
order to accomplish that, regime change in Syria is essential, as the
international community still
refuses to
recognize Israel’s seizure and continued occupation of the Golan as
legal. This bars Israel from commercially developing the area’s
rich resources, which explains Israel’s willingness to go to war
over a seemingly small
and insignificant tract of land. However, a new Syrian government,
one more “friendly” to Israeli interests, could officially
relinquish Syria’s claim to the Golan, paving the way for the
complete and official annexation of the territory by Israel.
At
the time the plan was created, the main motivator for Israel was the
Golan’s freshwater reserves, as the Golan is one
of three sources of
freshwater available to the Israeli state — and is the largest in
size and most abundant, as it includes the mountain streams that feed
Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) and the headwaters of the Jordan
river.
This
makes this area even more important to Israel, given that Israel is
in its sixth
year of
a drought so massive that a NASA study called it the worst drought in
the region in nearly
900 years.
Thus, the water resources of the Golan Heights are essential to
Israel’s existence as well as its expansionist ambitions.
Though
recent Israeli investment in desalination plants have since reduced
its dependence on Golan water resources, the discovery of oil in the
Golan in 2015 dramatically strengthened Israel’s resolve to gain
complete sovereignty over the occupied territory.
The
oil reserve discovered in the Golan Heights is estimated to contain
“billions of barrels” of crude oil that could turn Israel –
which currently imports the vast majority of its fuel – into a net
oil exporter. Yet, because the Golan Heights are internationally
recognized as being under occupation and not an official part of
Israel, the commercial extraction and export of this vast oil reserve
cannot move forward — until this status changes.
As
a result, only exploratory wells have been drilled, mostly by
a division
of Genie Energy Co.,
a U.S.-based oil company connected to Rupert Murdoch, Jacob
Rothschild, Dick Cheney and former CIA Director James Woolsey, among
other powerful individuals in the U.S. and the U.K.
The
involvement of such influential figures in future oil extraction
endeavors in the Golan Heights – dependent as they are on Israel
acquiring sovereignty over the territory — likely explains why the
U.S., as well as the U.K., has been so willing to help initiate and
then perpetuate the Syrian conflict, which is soon to enter its
eighth year.
Geopolitics
First: The America-Israel Mideast axis
While
Netanyahu’s statements show that the Golan Heights is a key driver
for Israel in its refusal to let the Syrian conflict wind down, it is
important to note that Israel and its allies abroad are also
interested in the partitioning of Syria in order to keep the country
weak and conflict-ridden for the foreseeable future. This call to
partition Syria as well as other countries in the region, such as
Iraq, dates back to the Yinon Plan that was developed in 1982 and
seeks to partition and weaken other regional states through the
engineering of sectarianism, in order to allow Israel to emerge as
the region’s sole superpower.
This
is worth pointing out, given Israel’s recent effort to take control
of the U.S. troop pull-out (or lack thereof) from Syria, as the U.S.
State Department is also promoting a plan as of this past weekend
that would push for the partition of northeastern Syria were U.S.
troops to begin to withdraw from Syrian territory.
Thus,
the announcement that the troop “withdrawal” will now be
coordinated with Israel and that the U.S.’ new policy for
northeastern Syria will involve partition shows that another “America
First” Trump policy has quickly morphed instead into an “Israel
First” plan.
By Whitney
Webb / Creative
Commons / MintPress
News / Report
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