Seize the Chaos

Israel, the Neocons, and their Bloody, Blundering 'Art' of War

by Dan Sanchez, October 06, 2015

http://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2015/10/05/seize-the-chaos/

Israel lacks a national motto. If its leaders are looking for a Latin one, "carpe chaos" would be an apt and honest choice.

"Seize the chaos" is half of Israeli foreign policy in a nutshell (the other half being the instigation of that chaos in the first place). Indeed, even its friends in the media cannot help but put it in such terms. For example, The New York Times recently reported about the:

"…many Israeli leaders and thinkers seizing on the chaos in Syria to solidify Israel's hold on Golan."

This refers to the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and has occupied ever since. Even the Israel-enabling United Nations considers that occupation and subsequent annexation to be unjust and illegal. Returning Golan to Syria has long been advanced as part of a potential peace deal.

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Clean Break to Dirty Wars

Shattering the Middle East for Israel's Northern Front

by Dan Sanchez, June 30, 2015

http://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2015/06/29/clean-break-to-dirty-wars/

To understand today's crises in Iraq, Syria, and Iran, one must grasp their shared Lebanese connection. This assertion may seem odd. After all, what's the big deal about Lebanon? That little country hasn't had top headlines since Israel deigned to bomb and invade it in 2006. Yet, to a large extent, the roots of the bloody tangle now enmeshing the Middle East lie in Lebanon: or to be more precise, in the Lebanon policy of Israel.

Rewind to the era before the War on Terror. In 1995, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's "dovish" Prime Minister, was assassinated by a right-wing zealot. This precipitated an early election in which Rabin's Labor Party was defeated by the ultra-hawkish Likud, lifting hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu to his first Premiership in 1996.

That year, an elite study group produced a foreign policy document for the incipient administration titled, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." The membership of the Clean Break study group is highly significant, as it included American neoconservatives who would later hold high offices in the Bush Administration and play driving roles in its Middle East policy.

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Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News' Murdoch to Drill for Oil in Syria, Violating International Law

 by Jeffrey Phillips | Jan 14, 2016

http://wearechange.org/cheney-rothschild-and-fox-news-murdoch-to-drill-for-oil-in-syria-violating-international-law-read-more-at-httpthefreethoughtproject-comcheney-murdoch-rothschild-drill-oil-reserves-syri/

While Syria is torn apart by the warring of U.S. imperialists and Islamic fundamentalists—leaving its children to die of starvation—another country plans to take advantage of the chaos by stealing resources from Syria's southern region. The theft will be carried out by the most notorious pushers of military hegemony, and they don't care that it violates international law.

Genie Energy is an American-based oil and gas company with major investors and advisors comprising a who's who list of war profiteers—Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Lord Jacob Rothschild, and James Woolsey. The president of their Israeli subsidiary is Efraim "Effi" Eitam, an Israeli military commander who called for expelling the "cancer" of Arabs from Israel.

Together, these warmongers and would-be ethnic cleansers will soon be drilling into a vast oil and gas reserve located in the Syrian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, known as Golan Heights. The move would be in clear violation of international law, specifically the Annex to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

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Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News' Murdoch to Drill for Oil in Syria, Violating International Law

By Justin Gardner on January 11, 2016
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cheney-murdoch-rothschild-drill-oil-reserves-syrian-occupied-territory-violate-international-law/

While Syria is torn apart by the warring of U.S. imperialists and Islamic fundamentalists—leaving its children to die of starvation—another country plans to take advantage of the chaos by stealing resources from Syria's southern region. The theft will be carried out by the most notorious pushers of military hegemony, and they don't care that it violates international law.

Genie Energy is an American-based oil and gas company with major investors and advisors comprising a who's who list of war profiteers—Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Lord Jacob Rothschild, and James Woolsey. The president of their Israeli subsidiary is Efraim "Effi" Eitam, an Israeli military commander who called for expelling the "cancer" of Arabs from Israel.

Together, these warmongers and would-be ethnic cleansers will soon be drilling into a vast oil and gas reserve located in the Syrian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, known as Golan Heights. The move would be in clear violation of international law, specifically the Annex to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

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As Syria Reels, Israel Looks to Expand Settlements in Golan Heights

By JODI RUDORENOCT. 2, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-israel-golan-heights.html?_r=1

MEROM GOLAN, Golan Heights — There is a building boom quietly underway in this little kibbutz, the first established after Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war.

Stone utility enclosures mark sites where a few dozen homes will soon break ground. A fallow field is slated to become, next year, a new neighborhood called Banim Bonim, Hebrew for Children Build. Near the ring road Doron Bogdanovsky, the kibbutz secretary-general, has plans approved for 100 more families to settle over the next decade.

"If a living organism does not have new blood all the time, he is going to die," Mr. Bogdanovsky, 65, said as he showed off the kibbutz, which has a waiting list because it cannot build quickly enough.

That growth is tiny compared with the aggressive development goal — 100,000 new residents across the Golan in five years — being promoted by Naftali Bennett, a senior Israeli minister and one of many Israeli leaders and thinkers seizing on the chaos in Syria to solidify Israel's hold on the Golan.

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