Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
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Jeffrey Sachs on the Evilness of the Israeli and American Governments
11 December 2024, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
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Hosts: Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris; Guest: Jeffrey Sachs
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CHRISTOFOROU: All right, we are live with Alexander Mercouris, and we have with us the excellent Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
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Gentlemen, we, uh, we have about 30 minutes. We have a lot to discuss, so a quick
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hello to everybody that is watching us. Alexander, Professor Sachs, let's jump
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into it. By the way, I have all of Professor Sachs's information where you can follow him in his work in
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description box down below, and I will add it in comment as well. Alexander, Professor Sachs, let's talk about what is
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going on in Syria. MERCOURIS: Let’s go straight in, because obviously we've had dramatic events in Syria, a collapse of the Assad
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government. Assad is now in Moscow. Lots of
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news coming from Syria itself. Um, Professor Sachs, um, let's go straight in,
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since I know you have, uh, very time-limited today. Thank you, by the way, for joining us. SACHS: Great to be with you, as
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always. MERCOURIS: Tell me, let's have you tell us your views, your, your views, and then we
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can take it from there, your overall views. SACHS: I, I, I think the, uh, interesting, uh,
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starting point is a statement by, uh, Netanyahu a couple of days ago. He gave a
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press conference. He said that this is a completion of a step-by-step process
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that Israel has been pursuing, uh, and I think that that is, uh, not, uh, bragging, if I could put it in
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that odd way. I think that that is an accurate statement of what, uh, has
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happened. But it's not only an Israeli effort of the last few months with its
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war on Hamas and Hezbollah, which dramatically weakened the military
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base of the Assad government, which depended on Hezbollah for its military
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backing, but this is a, a campaign of Israel, as Netanyahu himself said, that is
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to remake the Middle East, that goes back 30 years actually. Now, let me state at
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the outset, I think Netanyahu is a madman, uh, I think what, uh, Israel has done, is, uh,
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destructive beyond belief, but the point is, uh, that there has been a plan, uh, the
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plan has been to remake the Middle East in Israel's image, if, if you will, uh, and
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already back in 1996, in a neocon paper written for the new Israeli Prime
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Minister at the time Benjamin Netanyahu, uh, called “Clean Break” [to replace the 1993 Oslo Accords, this plan by the Zionist Reaganite American Richard Perle, for Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, for America and Israel to impose “Western Values” and pure capitalism, upon the Muslim Middle East, by overthrowing and replacing pro-Palestinian — which are the predominantly Shiite — Governments there]. This was described,
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the clean break was a clean break of the Middle East, that Israel, of course
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meaning the United States, uh, militarily backing Israel, would take out Israel's
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enemies, uh, and this has been, uh, an operational plan, strangely enough, uh, at
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least since 9/11. Uh, we have a remarkable statement by
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General Wesley Clark, uh, that is very well known, that after the 9/11 attack,
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Wesley Clark visited the Pentagon and he was shown a piece of paper that said seven countries would be, uh,
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overthrown, uh, in 5 years, and the list was Iraq, Syria, uh,
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Iran, uh, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya, uh, and,
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uh, Clark expressed befuddlement and bewilderment, what does this have to do
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with 9/11, uh; and the answer was, uh, we're making the Middle East over again. This
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was the the Clean Break strategy from 1996 now to be implemented and in, uh,
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September 2001, uh, though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The decision was
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made immediately that, uh, to implement this remake of the Middle East. The first
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invasion would be of Iraq. This by itself is interesting, just as a footnote, the
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reason that they chose Iraq first was not because of Saddam or weapons of mass destruction which they knew did not
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exist, but rather there was a legal, uh, fiction that they could use, a
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1998 Iraq Liberation Act, which had been passed by Congress and signed by
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President Clinton, that made it the law of the land that Saddam Hussein should be removed from power, so they thought
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legally literally, I mean, you do something completely lawless, uh,
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initiating war, but you look for a legal fig leaf, uh, and that was, uh, why Iraq
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first, but the idea [though not stated in that law] was that Syria would be overthrown immediately afterwards, uh,
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and then immediately after that would be the rest of the list, and what, uh, has
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been explained to me by military individuals that were in the midst of
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this is that the U.S. military got tied down in Iraq in an unexpected way with the
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insurgency, so they didn't move straight to take out Assad, which was supposed to happen in
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2003. Uh, so this is quite interesting, uh, what we're seeing in the last days is
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part of a plan that goes back, uh, more than 20 years [to 1996], it’s, it sounds zany, but
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this is, this is craziness, that we're dealing with. Uh, this is a plan for
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taking out seven regimes, and maybe I'll step back and then I'll I'll take a
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pause and turn it back over to you Alexander, but why, uh, why do this, and
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Netanyahu spelled this out in his book in 1996 Fighting Terrorism and then in a
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rather remarkable speech that he gave in the United States on September 20th
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2001 just after 9/11. He said don't fight
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terrorists by fighting the terrorists, you fight terrorists by fighting the
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states that support them, so Hamas and Hezbollah are backed by Saddam Hussein,
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they're backed by Assad, they're backed by Iran. Uh, in fact, it wasn't just the
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Iranian axis of resistance back then, it was all of these states around, uh,
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Israel, that were supporting the Palestinian cause, and
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Netanyahu's idea backed by the crazy violent repulsive neocons — I hope I'm
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being clear — in the US government, uh said, yes we will remake the Middle East
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by war, one after another, and, if you think about it, of course, Iraq was
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2003, the war on Assad started in 2011, not everyone is aware of operation
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Timber Sycamore, but this is the CIA operation to overthrow Assad under Obama,
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and everyone should understand, it doesn't matter Democrats Republicans, nice people
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not nice people, America has one foreign policy, uh, of continuity, and it is, has
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nothing to do with, Democrats and Republicans, so Assad, uh was 2011, the war
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started but they didn't succeed in overthrowing Assad because he had backing from Russia which started
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especially in 2015, uh, then if you go down the rest of
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the list, Somalia, well that was attacked by us proxy by Ethiopia in 2006, Sudan
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the United States broke Sudan into pieces, uh, literally dividing it into
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Sudan and South Sudan, with the clever ploy of the United States to put all the
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oil reserves in South Sudan, uh, not in North Sudan, which is now bankrupt and in starvation, and in Civil War Libya, in 2011, uh Lebanon of course invaded
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repeatedly by Israel including just recently, uh, so, actually this vision has
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been carried out and this is what Netanyahu was crowing about a couple of days, we
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have remade the Middle East, we've done it step by step, so just we should have
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no doubt that this is part of a long-term strategy. Of
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course there are cameo appearances by Erdogan, he
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wants Turkish influence in Syria, this definitely plays a role, I don't mean to
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minimize that, but this is part of a longstanding plan, and the immediate
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collapse which none of us saw coming — I don't know anyone that saw this except,
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I suppose, inside the Israeli intelligence community and uh no doubt
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CIA and a few others. Hezbollah was the the backstop of, uh, the Syrian
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regime, and the idea was, uh, of course, by
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attacking Hezbollah and Lebanon and drawing Hezbollah forces uh into Lebanon
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and blocking the resupply of Hezbollah through the active bombing of Syria in
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recent weeks and through this military action this was the the way to bring
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down the regime. It happened, I'm sure, much faster than anybody anticipated. Now
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Israel is invading Syria from the southwest into the Northeast. Where it
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stops, who knows? There are crazy people in Israel who say go on to
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Damascus. MERCOURIS: Well what they're going to do, it seems to me, is that they're going to create chaos all around themselves, uh,
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chaos is a very very difficult thing to control. …
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“Israel is critical, and the reason it’s critical is that it’s the bulwark for us in the mid-east; it’s almost like an aircraft carrier in the mid-east, Israel is our ambassador, it’s our presence, it’s our beachhead in the mid-east; it gives us ears, eyes in the mid-east, it gives us intelligence; it gives us the capacity to take influence in affairs in the mid-east. If Israel disappeared, Russia and China would be controlling and they’d control 90% of the world’s oil supply, and that would be cataclysmic to national security.”
Here is a superb description by Mercouris of the situation in Syria as-of December 10th.
The entire U.S.-dominated world; which is to say the U.S. Government and the Governments whose foreign relations are controlled by it; which is to say the U.S. empire, the U.S. and its colonies; is basically the Government that was installed on 25 July 1945 and continues to this day, and it’s the Government that also created Israel in 1948. This is therefore one Government, but Israel remains dependent upon the U.S. Government, for its continued existence. For example, Israel’s slaughter of Gazans is being done with U.S.-made weapons and military intelligence, and so it is actually a joint U.S.-and-Israeli operation. Israel’s Jewish News Service reported on 27 November 2023:
Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.
“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”
Furthermore, in many of the U.N. Security Council votes regarding Israel, and even U.N. General Assembly votes, only the U.S. is protecting Israel from legal penalties, and from Resolutions condemning it. Israel is therefore already perilously close to global isolation, whereas the U.S. is the largest empire in all of world history. Israel may possibly control the U.S. Government, but the U.S. Government is unlikely to commit suicide in order to protect it (and, unlike with regard to the member-nations of NATO, there is no U.S. treaty-commitment to Israel).
So, the real center of what ails the entire world is not Israel, which is merely a regional power, but the U.S., which is still the only global superpower. Consequently, efforts such as to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (or “BDS”) Israel hit the wrong mark, if they even hit it at all. Indeed, just as RFK Jr. expressed, Israel is the primary force that carries out in the Middle East the U.S. policies there. In that sense, such movements as BDS are either gutless or ill-targeted, like firing a gun at a person’s toe, when the real target is the person’s head.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
