For Israel what matters most are the neighbors.\u00a0 From the early beginning this is the usual story of violence and counter-violence read two ways.\u00a0 The Israeli reading is violence against a Jewish homeland becoming a state, legitimized by the shoa <\/em>in general; and counter-violence to defend that emerging state.\u00a0 The Arab reading is an Israel established by violence, the Nakba<\/em>, and counter-violence to contain the expansion of that state.\u00a0 A typical example of two truths that do not add up to one Truth.\u00a0 The result is an endless, fruitless, angry exchange of accusations about who started what, where, and when.\u00a0 A Truth would go beyond fruitless quarrels, identifying a stop. an end to escalation, acceptable to both; like 4 June 1967 with swaps.<\/p>\n However, that symmetry breaks down when Israel still expands– invades-occupies-lays siege–on ever more Arab-Palestinian territory.\u00a0 And even more so when visions of a Greater Israel take shape:<\/p>\n In search of recognized and secure borders?\u00a0 Only by forcing Arab-Muslim states into submission, dissolving them into mini-states, using internal fault-lines (see Oded Yinnon, “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties”, Kivunim<\/em>, Feb. 1982).\u00a0 The list would certainly include Pakistan, a doubly artificial construct, and a nuclear power.\u00a0 Deep Israeli-Indian, Mossad-RAW, cooperation against Pakistan follows. Assuming that Lebanon and Iraq–like Palestine–are fragmented, that Jordan is kept for a possible Scenario 1 Palestinian state, that Libya is steeped in internal provincial-clan-racial-religious fights, what remains of the 7 are Syria, Iran and Egypt.\u00a0 Israeli press mentions a partition of Syria into 4 states: Shia Alawite, Sunni, Druze and Kurdish (in the Northeast).\u00a0 Egypt, Tunisia are resilient.<\/p>\n The approach to Iran–no colonial construct, fault-lines (Kurds, Azeris. Arabs in Khuzistan) but less vulnerable–is bombing, based on US-Israeli division of labor, the shared accusation that Iran is close to their status as nuclear powers, and the shared, fabricated lie that newly elected Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Tehran 25 October 2005 “Israel must be wiped off the map”.<\/em>\u00a0 He never said that, but quoted Khomeini: “The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time” and mentioned three examples of such regimes: the Shah of Iran, the Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein.\u00a0 History tells us that regimes come and go; countries, even states remain.<\/p>\n They use self-fulfilling predictions as political strategy, like the Israeli “facts on the ground”.\u00a0 CNN ran a text before\u00a0 invading Iraq 19 March 2003: Iraq – the unfinished war<\/em>.\u00a0 And now, against Islamist Hamas (as opposed to nationalist Fatah): You talk about a two states solution but do not recognize Israel’s right to exist. <\/em>\u00a0Could it be that they do not recognize the present regime?<\/p>\n The US strategy in the region is to use existing states and bend them to their economic purposes–like imposing private central banks in all 7–is doomed to fail because of inner fault-lines.\u00a0 The Israeli strategy is more intelligent, using fault-lines to fragment states.<\/p>\n In all these cases how much fragmentation is by US-Israeli design and how much by inner tensions will sooner or later be better known.<\/p>\n What would be the Arab-Muslim counter-strategy?<\/p>\n Do both, and the Arab-Muslim world is more resilient than today.<\/p>\n __________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n First <\/em>published on <\/em>28 Jan 2013<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Join the<\/em><\/strong> BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/em><\/strong>campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n DON’T BUY<\/strong> PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> BARCODE<\/strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> 729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0DO YOUR PART! 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<\/a> Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of <\/em>TRANSCEND International<\/a> and rector of <\/em>TRANSCEND Peace University<\/a>. <\/em>He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.<\/em> Galtung\u00a0has mediated in\u00a0over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues<\/em>, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages, including <\/em>50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/a> published by <\/em>TRANSCEND University Press<\/a>. His book, <\/em>Transcend and Transform<\/a>, was translated to 25 languages<\/em>. He has published more than 1700 articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters and over 500 Editorials for <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>. More information about Prof. Galtung<\/a> and all of his publications<\/a> can be found at transcend.org\/galtung<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n