Re: NEWS: "The Project for an Israeli Century," published in the early

This is how Pravda describes him:
 
Harun Yahua

The author, who writes under the pen-name Harun Yahya, has published many books 
on political, faith-related and scientific issues. Harun Yahya is well known as 
an author who has written very important works disclosing the imposture of 
evolutionists, the invalidity of their claims and the dark liaisons between 
Darwinism and bloody ideologies. Some of the books of the author have been 
translated into many languages.  Harun Yahya's books appeal to all people, 
Muslims and non-Muslims alike, regardless of their age, race and nationality, 
as they center around one goal: to open the readers' mind by presenting the 
sign's of God's eternal existence to them.

 

As you can see he is no more than a charlatan..his real name is Adnan Okyar, 
a.k.a Adnan Hoca and he was convicted in Turkey for series of crimes including 
extortion and rape. He is the head of a fundamentalist Islamist sect and 
especially use his network to lure young girls into his "order". Anyway..more 
can be written about him but I think it is sufficient to say that one should 
take his ideas seriously as much as he/she take Bin Laden's or white 
supremacists/Neo-Nazi's...Let me also say that this post is only to warn those 
people who do not have any idea about this guy...

Balkan




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        Subject: NEWS: "The Project for an Israeli Century," published in the 
early 1980s
        
        

        [Project for a New American Century (PNAC), meet the Project for an 
Israeli
        Century!! Even the author below makes the connections between the two
        groups interests and desires, as well as documents many items in print 
by
        this "Israeli Century" perspective.]
        
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        Behind The Scenes
        Of The Iraq War
        Behind The Scenes Of The Iraq War
        by Harun Yahua
        Pravda.ru
        4-17-3
        
        The plan for the Iraq war, which has erupted in the face of opposition
        from the entire world, was drawn up at least decades ago, by Israeli
        strategists.
        
        
        
        In its attempt to realize its strategy of destabilizing or dividing the
        Middle Eastern Arab states, Israel has Egypt, Syria, Iran and Saudi 
Arabia
        on its list of subsequent targets.
        
        As these lines are being written, the United States of America has begun
        striking at Iraq. Despite the fact that most countries of the world, and
        even the majority of the USA's allies, opposed it, the US administration
        was determined for the strike to go ahead. When we look behind the 
scenes
        of this insistence, it seems that Israel and its powerful lobby in the 
US,
        have the greatest share in the make-up.
        
        In fact, Israel's policy aimed at the fragmentation of Iraq has lengthy
        historical roots-
        
        The Age-Old Israeli Plan to Divide Iraq
        
        An ambitious report entitled "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s," which
        appeared in the World Zionist Organization's periodical Kivunim in
        February 1982 disclosed a strategy aimed at making the whole of the 
Middle
        East a kind of "living space" for Israel. The report, drawn up by Oded
        Yinon, an Israeli journalist and formerly attached to the Foreign 
Ministry
        of Israel, set out the scenario of the "division of Iraq" in these 
terms:
        
        Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is
        guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even
        more important for us than that of Syria- Iraq is, once again, no
        different in essence from its neighbors, although its majority is 
Shi'ite
        and the ruling minority Sunni. Sixty-five percent of the population has 
no
        say in politics, in which an elite of 20 percent holds the power. In
        addition there is a large Kurdish minority in the north, and if it 
weren't
        for the strength of the ruling regime, the army and the oil revenues,
        Iraq's future state would be no different than that of Lebanon in the
        past- In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as
        in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states 
will
        exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and 
Shi'ite
        areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. 1)
        
        This was not the only announcement of the Israeli plan to atomize Middle
        East, including Iraq. As Israel Shahak, the notable Israeli scholar 
known
        for his dedication to a peaceful solution in the Middle East, explained
        that Yinon was just echoing the views of Israeli hawks:
        
        The idea that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into
        small units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking. For
        example, Ze'ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Ha'aretz (and
        probably the most knowledgeable in Israel, on this topic) writes about 
the
        "best" that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: "The dissolution 
of
        Iraq into a Shi'ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the 
Kurdish
        part" (Ha'aretz 6/2/1982). Actually, this aspect of the plan is very 
old.
        2)
        
        Thus, the plan was a serious one and this has been confirmed by the
        age-old Israeli support to non-Arab or non-Muslim minorities in the 
Muslim
        Arab states. The rebellious Kurds of northern Iraq was one of these
        strategic allies of Israel. During their revolt against the Baghdad
        regime, 1961-75, they have been financially and militarily supported by
        Israel. Israelis would love to see them carve up the northern part of
        Iraq, no matter how bloody and devastating such a civil war would be.
        However, the revolt failed in 1975, after loosing the support of its 
major
        patron, the Shah.
        
        Fifteen years later, a new opportunity arose for Israel, an opportunity
        from the ambitions of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein.
        
        Israel's Role in the Gulf War
        
        Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, after his bloody war against Iran in the
        80's, invaded Kuwait in a sudden attack on August 1, 1990, giving rise 
to
        an international crisis. Israel headed the list of those forces that
        encouraged that crisis. Israel was the fiercest supporter of the 
attitude
        adopted by the United States in the wake of the invasion of Kuwait. The
        Israelis even regarded the United States as moderate, and wanted a 
harsher
        policy. To such an extent in fact that the President of Israel Chaim
        Herzog recommended that the American use nuclear weapons. On the other
        hand, the Israeli lobby in the United States was working to bring about 
a
        wide-ranging attack on Iraq.
        
        This whole situation encouraged the idea in the United States that the
        attack against Iraq under consideration was actually planned in Israel's
        interests. Pat Buchanan summarized this idea in the words "There are 
only
        two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East - the
        Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States."
        
        Israelis had also initiated a serious propaganda campaign on the issue.
        Since this campaign was largely waged in secret, Mossad also entered the
        equation. Rogue Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky provides important
        information on this subject. According to Ostrovsky, Israel had wanted 
to
        wage war with the United States against Saddam long before the Gulf
        crisis. So much so in fact, that Israel began to implement the plan
        immediately after the Iran-Iraq war. Ostrovsky reports that Mossad's
        Psychological Warfare department (LAP - LohAma Psychologist) set about 
an
        effective pro-war campaign using misinformation techniques. 3)
        
        A Mossad Agent Describes the Gulf War
        
        Ostrovsky describes how Mossad used agents or sympathizers in various
        parts of the world in this campaign. Among the tools employed in the
        campaign were the horrible massacres done by missiles launched against
        civilian targets in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. As Ostrovsky makes
        clear, Mossad's later use of these missiles as a propaganda tool was 
quite
        peculiar, since those missiles had actually been directed towards their
        targets by Mossad, with the help of information from US satellites. 
Having
        supported Saddam throughout his war with Iran, Israel was now disclosing
        his crimes. Ostrovsky writes:
        The Mossad leaders know that if they could make Saddam appear bad enough
        and a threat to the Gulf oil supply, of which he'd been the protector up
        to that point, then the United States and its allies would not let him 
get
        away with anything, but would take measures that would all but eliminate
        his army and his weapons potential, especially if they were led to 
believe
        that this might just be their last chance before he went nuclear. 4)
        
        The Israelis were so determined on this matter, and with regard to the
        United States, that on August 4, 1990, Israeli Foreign Minister David 
Levy
        issued a diplomatically worded threat to William Brown, the American
        ambassador to Israel, stating that Israel "expects the U.S. will fulfill
        all of the goals it set for itself at the beginning of the gulf crisis,"
        in other words that it attack Iraq. According to Levy, if the United
        States failed to do so, Israel would act unilaterally. 5)
        
        It would be of enormous benefit to Israel to have the United States 
engage
        in the war and for Israel to remain entirely uninvolved: and that is
        indeed what happened.
        
        Israel Forces the USA to War
        
        However, the Israelis were actively involved in the United States' war
        plans. Some US staff officers involved in planning Operation Desert 
Storm
        received fine tactical advice from the Israelis that "the best way of
        wounding Saddam was to strike at his family."
        
        The Mossad-inspired propaganda campaign reported by Ostrovsky set up the
        necessary public backing for the Gulf War. It was again Mossad local
        assistants who lit the touchpaper for the war. The Hill and Knowlton
        lobbying firm, run by Tom Lantos of the Israeli lobby, prepared a 
dramatic
        scenario to convince members of Congress on the subject of war against
        Saddam. Turan Yavuz, a noted Turkish journalist, describes the incident:
        
        October 9, 1990. The Hill and Knowlton lobbying firm organizes a sitting
        in Congress on the subject of "Iraq's Barbarities." A number of "eye
        witnesses" brought to the session by the lobbying firm maintain that 
Iraqi
        troops killed new-born babies in the hospital wards. One "eye witness"
        describes the savagery in enormous detail, saying that Iraqi soldiers
        killed 300 new-born babies in one hospital alone. This information 
deeply
        disturbs the members of Congress. This works to President Bush's
        advantage. However, it later emerges that the eye witness brought by 
Hill
        and Knowlton to Congress is in fact the daughter of the Kuwaiti 
ambassador
        to Washington. Nevertheless, the daughter's account is sufficient for
        members of Congress to give Saddam the nickname "Hitler". 6)
        
        This leads to just one conclusion: that Israel played an important role 
in
        the United States' to wage its first war on Iraq. The second one is not
        much different.
        
        The Pretext of "War Against Terrorism"
        
        Contrary to popular belief, the plan to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam
        Hussein's regime by force was prepared and placed on Washington's agenda
        long before the genesis of the "war against terrorism," which emerged in
        the wake of September 11. The first indication of this plan emerged in
        1997. A group of pro-Israeli hawkish strategists in Washington D.C. 
began
        to put forward the scenario of the invasion of Iraq by manipulating the
        "neo-con" think-tank, called PNAC (Project for The New American 
Century).
        The most notable names in the PNAC were those of Donald Rumsfeld and 
Dick
        Cheney, who as defense secretary and vice-president would be the most
        influential figures in the George W. Bush administration.
        
        An article titled "Invading Iraq Not a New Idea for Bush Clique: 4 Years
        Before 9/11 Plan Was Set" written by William Brunch and published in the
        Philadelphia Daily News, sets out the following facts:
        
        But in reality, Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and a small band 
of
        conservative ideologues had begun making the case for an American 
invasion
        of Iraq as early as 1997 - nearly four years before the Sept. 11 attacks
        and three years before President Bush took office.
        
        An obscure, ominous-sounding right-wing policy group called Project for
        the New American Century, or PNAC - affiliated with Cheney, Rumsfeld,
        Rumsfeld's top deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Bush's brother Jeb - even urged
        then-President Clinton to invade Iraq back in January 1998. 7)
        
        Is Oil the Real Objective?
        
        Why were the PNAC members so determined to attack Iraq? The same article
        continues:
        While oil is a backdrop to PNAC's policy pronouncements on Iraq, it
        doesn't seem to be the driving force. [Ian] Lustick, [a University of
        Pennsylvania political science professor and Middle East expert,] while 
a
        critic of the Bush policy, says oil is viewed by the war's proponents
        primarily as a way to pay for the costly military operation.
        
        "I'm from Texas, and every oil man that I know is against military 
action
        in Iraq," said PNAC's Schmitt. "The oil market doesn't need disruption."
        
        Lustick believes that a more powerful hidden motivator may be Israel. He
        said Bush administration hawks believe that a show of force in Iraq 
would
        somehow convince Palestinians to accept a peace plan on terms favorable 
to
        Israel- 8)
        
        This, therefore, is the principal motivation behind the plan to attack
        Iraq: to serve Israel's Middle East strategy.
        
        This fact has also been identified by other Middle East experts. Cengiz
        ?andar, a Turkish Middle East expert, for instance, describes the real
        power behind the plan to attack Iraq thus:
        
        ... Who is directing the attack on Iraq? Vice-President Dick Cheney,
        Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice.
        These are the "senior level" backers of the attack. Yet the rest of the
        iceberg is even richer and more interesting. There are a number of
        "lobbies."
        Heading these lobbies are the Jewish Institute for Security Affairs 
team,
        pro-Likud and Israeli-right and known for their close relations with US
        arms manufacturers. These have close relations with the "arms lobby,"
        Lockheed, Northrop, General Dynamics and Israeli military industries ...
        JINSA's fundamental principle is this: America's and Israel's security 
are
        inseparable. In other words, they are the same thing.
        
        JINSA's objective is not solely the overthrow of the Saddam regime in
        Iraq: it also supports the overthrow of the Saudi Arabian, Syrian,
        Egyptian and Iranian regimes with a logic of "total war," and the
        subsequent importation of "democracy." ... In other words, a number of
        American Jews on the same wavelength as the most extreme factions in
        Israel at the moment comprise the hawks in Washington. 9)
        
        The Israeli Strategy for The Muslim Middle East
        
        In short, there are those in Washington who are encouraging a war aimed
        first at Iraq and then at Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran and Egypt. The most
        distinguishing feature of these is that they are lined up alongside, and
        even equivalent to, the "Israeli lobby."
        
        No matter how much they speak of "American interests," these people are
        actually supporting Israeli interests. A strategy of waging war against
        the whole of the Middle East and turning all the peoples of the region
        against it cannot be to the United States' advantage. The adoption of 
such
        a strategy can only be possible if the United States is bound to Israel,
        by means of the Israeli lobby, which is profoundly influential in this
        country's foreign policy.
        
        It is for these reasons that behind the strategy which began to be set 
in
        motion after September 11 and is aimed at re-arranging the entire 
Islamic
        world, lies Israel's strategy for dominating the Middle East. Ever since
        its foundation, Israel has aimed at restructuring the Middle East, 
making
        it manageable and secure to itself. The search for security is of 
course a
        legitimate one, but the way that Israel chose to achieve this end is
        wrong: From the beginning, Israel decided to establish security behind 
an
        "iron wall" that would separate itself from the Arabs, and most 
important
        of all, protect the lands that Israel occupied through methods of
        invasion, colonization and depopulation. This strategy of reaping the 
wind
        had its consequence as a century of constant clash between Israelis and
        Arabs. Had Israel chosen a peaceful path to secure its existence, by
        building good relations with its Arab neighbors and refraining from
        aggression, Jews and Muslims could peacefully co-exist in the Middle 
East,
        as they have done before for centuries.
        
        However, the radical Zionist ideology still denies any chance to peace 
and
        relentlessly tries to transform the whole Middle East to create a 
"living
        space" for Israel. It has been using its influence in the United States
        for that purpose in recent years, and to a large extent directs
        Washington's Middle East policy. The post-September 11 climate gave 
Israel
        the opportunity it had been seeking. Pro-Israeli ideologues who for 
years
        had been propounding the falsehood that Islam itself - not some militant
        radicals who use Islam as a shelter - posed a threat to the West and the
        United States, and who encouraged the mistaken concept of a "clash of
        civilizations," have been trying to incite the United States against the
        Islamic world in the wake of September 11. As early as 1995, Israel 
Shahak
        of the Jerusalem Hebrew University wrote former Israeli Prime Minister
        Rabin's obsession with "the idea of an Israeli-led anti-Islamic 
crusade".
        Nahum Barnea, a commentator from the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot,
        stated that same year that Israel was making progress "[to] become the
        Western vanguard in the war against the Islamic enemy." 10)
        
        All that has happened in the years which have followed is that Israeli
        hawks have made their intentions even clearer. The political climate in
        the wake of September 11 prepared the ground for this intention to be 
made
        a reality.
        
        The Only Way to World Peace: An Islamic Union
        
        The situation may be summarized as follows: Israel's aim is to reshape 
the
        Middle East in line with its own strategic interests. In order to do 
this,
        it needs a "world power." That power is the United States; and Israeli
        hawks, thanks to their influence there, are trying to wage a militant
        American strategy against the Islamic world. Although Israel is a small
        state with a population of only 4.5 million, the plans drawn up by 
Israeli
        strategists and their counterparts in the West are directing the world
        affairs.
        
        What needs to be done in the face of this?
        
        1) "Counter lobby activities" need to be adopted in the face of the
        Israeli lobby's influence in the United States in order to develop
        dialogue between the United States and the Islamic world and to invite 
it
        to seek peaceful solutions to Iraq and similar problems. A wide section 
of
        the United States wishes to see their country adopt a fairer Middle East
        policy. Many statesmen, strategists, journalists and intellectuals have
        expressed this, and a "peace of civilizations" movement must be carried
        forward in cooperation with them. The approach inviting the US
        administration to peaceful solutions must be carried forward at
        governmental and civil society organization level.
        
        2) A reconciliation between Israel and the Muslim Middle East must be
        sought. There are many "peaceniks", i.e. pro-peace Israelis, too. Many
        Israeli statesmen, religious leader, opinion leaders and many Jews from
        all around the world are urging the Israeli state to refrain from its
        brutal occupation and accept a just peace to live along with their Arab
        neighbors. Cooperation with them, especially on the inter-faith level,
        should be initiated and encouraged. One thing should never be forgotten:
        The rise of radicalism, enmity and violence is bad for all parties.
        
        3) Alongside all this, a deeper rooted solution lies in a project which
        can resolve all the problems between the Islamic world and the West and
        deal with the fragmentation, suffering and poverty in the Islamic world
        and totally alter it: An Islamic Union. Recent developments have shown
        that the whole world, not just Islamic regions, stands in need of an
        "Islamic Union." This Union should heal the radical elements in the
        Islamic World, and establish good relations between Muslim countries and
        the West, especially the United States.
        
        This Union, can find a solution to the mother of all problems: The
        Arab-Israeli conflict. With Israel retreating to its pre-67 borders and
        Arabs recognizing its right to exist, there can be real peace in the
        Middle East. And Jews and Muslims - both Children of Abraham and 
believers
        in one true God - may peacefully co-exist in the Holy Land, as they have
        done during the past centuries. Then, Israel would need no strategy to
        destabilize or divide the Arab States. And it will not have to face the
        results of occupation in forms of terrorism and constant fear of
        annihilation. Then, both the Israeli and Iraqi (and Palestinian) 
children
        may grow up in peace and security. That is a Middle East that any sane
        person should work to see.
        
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        
        1- (ed.) Israel Shahak, The Zionist Plan for the Middle East; from Oded
        Yinon's "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties" Published by 
the
        Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc. Belmont,
        Massachusetts, 1982 Special Document No. 1 (ISBN 0-937694-56-8); 2- 
(ed.)
        Israel Shahak, The Zionist Plan for the Middle East;
        3- Victor Ostrovsky, The Other Side of Deception, pp. 252-254.
        4- Victor Ostrovsky, The Other Side of Deception, p. 254
        5- Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, Dangerous Liaison, p. 356.
        6- Turan Yavuz, ABD'nin K?rt Kart? (The US' Kurdish Card), p. 307
        7- William Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News, Jan. 27, 2003
        8- William Bunch, "Invading Iraq not a new idea for Bush clique"
        Philadelphia Daily News, Jan. 27, 2003
        9- Cengiz ?andar, "Iraq and the 'Friends of Turkey' American Hawks", 
Yeni
        ?afak, September 3, 2002.
        10- Israel Shahak, "Downturn in Rabin's Popularity Has Several Causes",
        Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 1995.
        
        
        
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