MEDIA ROOTS — If
one looks at a map of the Middle East’s US foreign policy points of interest over the last decade, it’s obvious the objectives stated in the neo-con think tank Project for a New
American Century (PNAC)’s 2001 foreign policy prescription, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, have been carried out.
One by one, the US has strategically taken out leaders of countries that don’t quite comply with the Euro-American Imperialist agenda under the pretext of humanitarian efforts. And the last adversarial nation standing in the way of total US dominance in the region is Iran. The establishment has been sabre-rattling against Iran for years, while slowly closing in on them from all fronts with wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Now, like everything Obama does quietly, drone strikes, repression of protesters, evisceration of the people’s rights, thousands of US troops are quietly being deployed to Israel, raising speculation of imminent war between Iran and US-backed Israel.
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ENGLISH.ALARABIYA — The Middle East roils in crisis as a U.S. aircraft carrier entered
one of the world’s most important choke point for oil shipments, the
Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has threatened to close if the United
States raises sanctions against the Islamic Republic. The deployment of
thousands of U.S. troops in Israel has raised speculation of an imminent
war.
On December 20, the Jerusalem Post reported that Lt.-Gen. Frank Gorenc,
commander of the U.S. forces based in Germany, said that there will be a
deployment of several thousand American soldiers in Israel.
An Egypt-based military expert,
major general Jamal Mathloum, said that “there is a military strategic
cooperation between the U.S. and Israel since the 1980s and there is
definitely mutual understanding.” He added that the U.S. troop
deployment might not necessarily mean a direct signal of war, but that
it could be read as Israel and U.S. readiness in case of a conflict
arising in the region.
“There is already a U.S. radar station in southern Israel, and might
contain from 500 to 700 American soldiers operating there,” Mathloum
said.
But for Abdulaziz Sager, chairman and founder of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, the deployment of U.S. troops in Israel is “definitely to send a clear signal to Iran.”
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