Israeli Attack: Desperate Bid to Save Failed Syrian CampaignTony Cartalucci, Contributor Israeli warplanes have attacked a target close to the Syrian-Lebanese border following several days of heightened warnings from government officials over Syrias stockpiles of weapons. It also stated: Israel has publicly warned that it would take military action to prevent the Syrian regimes chemical weapons falling into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon or global jihadists fighting inside Syria. Israeli military intelligence is said to be monitoring the area round the clock via satellite for possible convoys carrying weapons. In reality, these global jihaidists are in fact armed and funded by the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel since at least as early as 2007. They are also in fact the direct beneficiaries of Israels recent aggression. The Israeli suspicions of weapon transfers of course, remain unconfirmed, because the purpose of the attack was not to prevent the transfer of chemical weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, but to provoke a wider conflict aimed not at Israels defense, but at salvaging the Wests floundering proxy terrorist forces inside Syria attempting to subvert and overthrow the Syrian nation. The silence from the United Nations is deafening. While Turkey openly harbors foreign terrorists, arming and funding them with Western, Saudi, and Qatari cash as they conduct raids on neighboring Syria, any Syrian attack on Turkish territory would immediately result in the United Nations mobilizing. Conversely, Turkey is allowed, for years, to conduct air strikes and even partial ground invasions of neighboring Iraq to attack Kurdish groups accused of undermining Turkish security. It is clear the same double standard has long applied to Israel. It must be remembered that as far back as 2007, it was admitted by US, Saudi and Lebanese officials that the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia were intentionally arming, funding, and organizing these global jihadists with direct ties to Al Qaeda for the explicit purpose of overthrowing the governments of Syria and Iran. Reported by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his New Yorker article, The Redirection, it was stated (emphasis added): To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabias government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda. Of Israel it specifically stated: The policy shift has brought Saudi Arabia and Israel into a new strategic embrace, largely because both countries see Iran as an existential threat. They have been involved in direct talks, and the Saudis, who believe that greater stability in Israel and Palestine will give Iran less leverage in the region, have become more involved in Arab-Israeli negotiations. Additionally, Saudi Arabian officials mentioned the careful balancing act their nation must play in order to conceal its role in supporting US-Israeli ambitions across the region: The Saudi said that, in his countrys view, it was taking a political risk by joining the U.S. in challenging Iran: Bandar is already seen in the Arab world as being too close to the Bush Administration. We have two nightmares, the former diplomat told me. For Iran to acquire the bomb and for the United States to attack Iran. Id rather the Israelis bomb the Iranians, so we can blame them. If America does it, we will be blamed. It may interest readers to know that while France invades and occupies large swaths of Mali in Africa, accusing the Qataris of funding and arming Al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups in the region, France, the US, and Israel are working in tandem with the Qataris to fund and arm these very same groups in Syria. In fact, the US-based think-tank, the Brookings Institution literally has a Doha Center based in Qatar while US-Israeli citizen Haim Sabans Brookings Saban Center conducts meetings and has many of its board of directors based likewise in Doha, Qatar. Doha also served as the venue for the creation of the Wests most recent Syrian Coalition, headed by an unabashed supporter of Al Qaeda, Moaz al-Khatib. These are part of the brick and mortar manifestation of the conspiracy documented by Seymour Hersh in 2007. The Wall Street Journal, also in 2007, reported on the US Bush Administrations plans of creating a partnership with Syrias Muslim Brotherhood, noting the group is the ideological inspiration for linked terror organizations including Al Qaeda itself. In the article titled, To Check Syria, U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim Brothers, it states: On a humid afternoon in late May, about 100 supporters of Syrias largest exile opposition group, the National Salvation Front, gathered outside Damascuss embassy here to protest Syrian President Bashar Assads rule. The participants shouted anti-Assad slogans and raised banners proclaiming: Change the Regime Now. The NSF unites liberal democrats, Kurds, Marxists and former Syrian officials in an effort to transform President Assads despotic regime. But the Washington protest also connected a pair of more unlikely players the U.S. government and the Muslim Brotherhood. The article would also report: U.S. diplomats and politicians have also met with legislators from parties connected to the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Egypt and Iraq in recent months to hear their views on democratic reforms in the Middle East, U.S. officials say. Last month, the State Departments intelligence unit organized a conference of Middle East experts to examine the merits of engagement with the Brotherhood, particularly in Egypt and Syria. It describes the ideological and operational links between the Brotherhood and Al Qaeda: Today, the Brotherhoods relationship to Islamist militancy, and al Qaeda in particular, is the source of much debate. Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders cite the works of the Brotherhoods late intellectual, Sayyid Qutb, as an inspiration for their crusade against the West and Arab dictators. Members of Egyptian and Syrian Brotherhood arms have also gone on to take senior roles in Mr. bin Ladens movement. Yet despite all of this, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, along with Israel and Turkey are openly conspiring with them, and have now for years been arming and funding these very sectarian extremist, terrorist groups across the Arab World, from Libya to Egypt, and now in and around Syria. Israels fears of these terrorists acquiring chemical weapons is absurd. They have already acquired them with US, NATO, British, Saudi, Qatari and even Israeli help in Libya in 2011. In fact, these very Libyan terrorists are spearheading the foreign militant groups flooding into Syria through the Turkish-Syrian border. What Israels strike may really mean. Indeed, Israels explanation as to why it struck neighboring Syria is tenuous at best considering its long, documented relationship with actually funding and arming the very global jihaidists it fears weapons may fall into the hands of. Its fears of Hezbollah are likewise unfounded Hezbollah, had it, the Syrians, or the Iranians been interested in placing chemical weapons in Lebanon, would have done so already, and most certainly would do so with means other than conspicuous convoys simply crossing the border. Hezbollah has already proven itself capable of defeating Israeli aggression with conventional arms, as demonstrated during the summer of 2006. In reality, the pressure placed on Syrias borders by both Israel and its partner, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoans Turkey in the north, is part of a documented plan to relieve pressure on the Western, Israeli, Saudi-Qatari armed and funded militants operating inside Syria. The above mentioned, Fortune 500-funded (page 19), US foreign-policy think-tank, Brookings Institution which has blueprinted designs for regime change in Libya as well as both Syria and Iran stated this specifically in their report titled, Assessing Options for Regime Change. In addition, Israels intelligence services have a strong knowledge of Syria, as well as assets within the Syrian regime that could be used to subvert the regimes power base and press for Asads removal. Israel could posture forces on or near the Golan Heights and, in so doing, might divert regime forces from suppressing the opposition. This posture may conjure fears in the Asad regime of a multi-front war, particularly if Turkey is willing to do the same on its border and if the Syrian opposition is being fed a steady diet of arms and training. Such a mobilization could perhaps persuade Syrias military leadership to oust Asad in order to preserve itself. Advocates argue this additional pressure could tip the balance against Asad inside Syria, if other forces were aligned properly. page 6, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution. Of course, airstrikes inside Syria go beyond posturing, and indicate perhaps a level of desperation in the West who appear to have elected their chief villain, Israel, to incrementally intervene just as they had planned in regards to attacking Iran also documented by Brookings in a report titled, Which Path to Persia? In regards to Iran, in Brookings Which Path to Persia? report, it states specifically (emphasis added): Israel appears to have done extensive planning and practice for such a strike already, and its aircraft are probably already based as close to Iran as possible. as such, Israel might be able to launch the strike in a matter of weeks or even days, depending on what weather and intelligence conditions it felt it needed. Moreover, since Israel would have much less of a need (or even interest) in securing regional support for the operation, Jerusalem probably would feel less motivated to wait for an Iranian provocation before attacking. In short, Israel could move very fast to implement this option if both Israeli and American leaders wanted it to happen. However, as noted in the previous chapter, the airstrikes themselves are really just the start of this policy. Again, the Iranians would doubtless rebuild their nuclear sites. They would probably retaliate against Israel, and they might retaliate against the United States, too (which might create a pretext for American airstrikes or even an invasion). page 91, Which Path to Perisa?, Brookings Institution. And in this statement we can gather insight behind both Israels otherwise irrational belligerent posture throughout its brief history, as well as its most recent act of unprovoked aggression against Syria. Israels role is to play the bad guy. As a regional beachhead for Western corporate-financier interests, it provides a foot in the door to any of the Wests many desired conflicts. By bombing Syria, it hopes to provoke a wider conflict an intervention the West has desired and planned for since it tipped off Syrias violent conflict in 2011. Israel should be expected to commit to increasingly desperate acts to provoke Syria and Iran as its leadership represent directly corporate-financier interests abroad, not the Israeli people, or their best interests (including peace and even survival). For the people of Israel, they must realize that their leadership indeed does not represent them or their best interests and is able, willing, and even eager to spend their lives and fortunes in the service of foreign, corporate-financier interests and global hegemony. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 