HEZBOLLAH MUST BE STOPPED

Originally posted by noodly: ↑

Yep. This article shows how deep the Soviets tentacles were.

https://www.readcube.com/articles/1...;text=incited the Muslim world against the US.
A couple of the first paragraphs

SOVIET RUSSIA, THE CREATOR OF THE PLO AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
by Wallace Edward Brand
How Soviet Russia created the "peace process" and incited the Muslim world against the US. The "peace process" is now, after some 20 years after OSLO, is known to be no more than a charade. The revelations of the highest-ranking Soviet bloc defector, Major General Ion Mihai Pacepa, show that the peace process is, and has from the outset, been nothing but a charade.
It all started with the creation of a fictitious "Palestinian People" who allegedly demand political self-determination. This collective noun was created by the Soviet disinformation masters in 1964 when they created the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the "PLO". The term "Palestinian People" as a descriptive of Arabs in Palestine appeared for the first time in the preamble of the 1964 PLO Charter, drafted in Moscow. The facts in the preamble to the Charter were affirmed only by the first 422 members of the Palestinian National Council, handpicked by the KGB.
Why in Moscow? The 1960s and 1970s were the years the Soviets were in the business of creating "liberation organizations": for Palestine and Bolivia in 1964, Columbia 1965, in the 70s "The Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia" that bombed US airline offices in Europe, and "The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine that bombed Israelis." But the PLO, was by far its most enduring success. Major-‐General Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest ranking defector from the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. He has written that for nearly four decades, the PLO has been the largest, wealthiest, and most politically connected terrorist organization in the world. For most of that time, it was held in the firm grip of Yasser Arafat’s iron fist. But Arafat was not the fierce, independent actor he posed as; he was completely dependent on the Soviet KGB and its surrogate Warsaw Pact intelligence services for arms, training, logistical support, funds, and direction. According to Pacepa his KGB handlers included Vasali Samoylenko, Vladimir Buljakov, and Soviet"Ambassador" Alexander Soldatov. Arafat's closest friend and head of PLO intelligence, Hani Hassan, was actually an agent of the DIE, the Romanian subsidiary of the KGB. Pacepa was its head. He speaks not from opinion but from his personal knowledge.
In the PLO Charter preamble, they actually had to use the phrase "Palestinian Arab People" to exclude those Jews who had retained a presence in Palestine since Biblical times and had been a majority population in Jerusalem as early as 1845. Romanian Communist dictator Ceausescu, at Soviet urging, persuaded Arafat to abandon his claim of wanting to annihilate the Jews in Israel in favor of "liberating the Palestinian People" in Israel.

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I believe the Soviet Union - the first state to formally recognize Israel - had expected Israel to become a socialist bulwark in the Middle East and when they realised that was not going to happen they started to double deal. It’s this I think we are seeing

sadly I believe that people fail to grasp the complexity of history in the Middle East, with competing political interests. The Middle East sits geographically in a position that makes it a prize to Eastern Europe and the west and of course its rich oil fields make political influence a necessity.

But Israel is a problem in so many ways. It doesn’t much like being told what to do, it’s a largely populated by people which history and religion have demonised over millennia and it sits inconveniently in the middle of an Islamic world. The latter was not so serious until the rise of fundamentalist Islam no matter the resistance of Arab states to the establishment of Israel. Over decades shifting loyalties and alliances, religious intolerance, and desire for power has created far deeper divisions than many realise

i think people have not fully understood the aspirations of post war Jordan or the involvement of Egypt either. Iran is interesting simply because their indigenous population was not Arab and they have firmly in the minds the greatness of the Persian empire however long ago that was. And yet here they are with a fundamentalist Islamic agenda. One might have expected that from Jordan maybe but not necessarily from Iran

imo it’s a mess but to blame it solely on Israel or the US as some like to do fails to take account of these competing interests and dynamics