Middle East
Return to Common Sense
August 14, 2019
Section:
Foreign – Middle East
“Iraq and
Afghanistan today are the central front
in the Global War on Terror and both have achieved success after long
battles, both militarily and politically, but Iran continues to foment terror
across many countries in the Middle East.”
“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came
and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.” Golda Meir.
Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):
Economic, social and political
globalization has passed most of the recalcitrant Arabic Middle East by.
- Despite an early
history of innovation, few inventions and little science has come from
Islam.
- At one time or
another, bankrupt ideas have been embraced: fascism, communism, Baathism, Pan-Arabism, and most recently, Islamic
fundamentalism.
- The one constant over the last 75 years has been Arab/Islamic
heinous acts of barbarism many times targeted at fellow Muslims.
Israel has been under siege since it was
formed by the UN in 1948.
- “Palestine”
was first formed by the Balfour Declaration in 1917, refined by the
Feisal-Weizman Agreement in 1919, then refined again by the San Remo Resolution in 1920.
o
The state of Palestine has never existed in the
past.
o
Palestinians are not an indigenous group.
- The League of
Nations drew up the Palestine Mandate in 1922.
- The United
Nations declared independence in 1948, followed immediately by attacks by
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq in their War
of Liberation.
o
The final dissolution of the British Mandate
resulted in a “two state solution” Transjordan being split
into the two states of Jordan and Israel; the Hashemite
kingdom in response to Arab populations and a Jewish state that granted
citizenship to all residents, including the Arabs living within its new
borders.
- In 1956 Israel defended
itself in the Suez War.
- In 1967 Israel
defeated Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon again in the “Six Day War.”
o
The final Israeli borders
were determined after the Six Day War
as the defensible borders proving national security (including
“West Bank” and “Gaza Strip”).
- From 1968-1970
Israel fought in the War of Attrition.
- In 1973, Israel again
defended itself against Egypt and Syria in the Yom
Kippur War.
- From 1978-2000
Israel fought in the Lebanon War.
- Arabs are taught to hate Jews beginning in grade school.
o
Terror technique of suicide bombing was extensively
used in Israel from 1982-1986.
- In 2006 Israel fought
in the Lebanon War to drive Hezbollah away
from the rocket launch sites.
o
UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has
been in place since 1982 and ineffective in south Lebanon enforcing resolution
forbidding Hezbollah attacks.
o Hamas
and Hezbollah answered concession with rocket attacks and kidnapping.
o Hezbollah
locate military in populated areas creating human shields, violating Article 58
of Protocol 1.
o Israel
pursued Hezbollah in populated areas which is permitted by Article 28 of 4th
Geneva Convention.
o Hezbollah has undermined and taken over the Lebanese government.
- In 2006 Israel
withdrew from Lebanon and gave the Gaza Strip back to the Arabs.
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Israel built a security fence on the Lebanon
border, which has reduced attacks by 90%.
o
Hamas has undermined and taken over the
Gaza government.
- United States
has attempted repeatedly to mediate Arab-Israeli peace.
- Over 51,000
fatalities since 1950, which ranks 49th among histories
conflicts.
- After the victory in the
Six-Day War of 1967, Israel's recapture of Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria
was, for the Palestinian Arabs, "an economic and civil rights boon."
o
The entire population of 65,000 were granted
permanent residency status.
o
Arab living standards improved: employment, GDP, literacy, schools
and universities, life expectancy (48 in 1967, 72 in 2000), infant mortality,
clinics, sewage, electricity and health insurance.
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The
“Palestinians”
of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza exercised political freedoms that were nonexistent
in the rest of the Arab world, including freedom of association, freedom of the
press, enfranchisement of women, and the ability to seek the protection of the
Israeli court system.
- Palestinians have
repeatedly rejected opportunities for peace:
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In 1917, the Balfour Declaration mandated an Arab and Jewish
homeland which resulted in Arab riots and jihad against the Jews.
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In 1937, the Peel Commission offered a two-state solution which
was summarily rejected and resorted to a violent jihad.
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In 1948, the UN
recommended a Partition Plan dividing the
territory in half, but a Arab Liberation Army was sent
to annihilate the Jews.
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In 1967-68. The Khartoum Resolution and the Allon Plan
were rejected.
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In 1993, the Oslo Agreement offered a two state solution, but
Arafat rejected it.
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In 2000, the Camp David Agreement offered a West Bank-Gaza
Palestinian state, but Arafat walked out of the agreement.
o
In 2001, the Taba Map was turned down by Arafat.
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In 2005, Israel
dismantled all settlements and Army withdrew from
Gaza, which was used this land to launch rocket attacks against civilian
targets.
o
In 2008, the Olmert Peace Offer was rejected by Abbas.
o
In 2019, Trump’s
Peace to Prosperity economic plan was
rejected.
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a
constitutional monarchy.
- The Emirate
of Transjordan was established in 1921, and became a British protectorate.
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Transjordan split into the two states of
Jordan and Israel; Jordan as the Arab state and Israel as the Jewish
state, granting citizenship to all residents, including the Arabs living within
its new borders.
- In 1949,
Jordan was renamed to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
- After
the country captured the West Bank during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and then lost it
to Israel in 1967 and renounced its claim in 1988.
- Jordan
became one of two Arab states to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1994.
- A secular
Jordan Option has emerged under Mudar Zahran to replace the monarchy.
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Work
with Israel rather than be in confrontation with Israel
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Grant
citizenship to all Palestinians wherever they may live.
o
Offer
an open-door policy for the return of all Palestinians.
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Replace
UNRWA as the provider of services to all Palestinian refugees.
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Invite
the two million refugees to emigrate to Jordan to
receive their services which include social security, healthcare and education.
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Reaffirm
the Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel with the Jordan River as the
international boundary.
o
Rewrite
Palestinian textbooks to reflect in the main the Jewish narrative with
appropriate nods to the Arab perspective.
Palestine has never been a discrete Middle East country.
- When Britain defied the terms of the League of Nations in 1923 and
created the protectorate of TransJordan from the
territory earmarked for Israel, it artificially established a de facto
Arab state which the West Bank was never intended to be a part of.
- When the UN proposed its 1947 partition plan, further dividing up
the Israeli allodium, it was rejected by the Arabs who responded by
launching a massive attack against the fledgling Jewish state.
o
UN non-binding Resolution 194 allowed refugees to
return “to live in peace with their neighbors.”
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Arab “Palestinians” never advocated for statehood
while Gaza Strip was ruled by Egypt and the West Bank by Jordan.
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Right of Return also applies to Jews who were forcedb to flee oppression.
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Official UN sources place the number of Arab
refugees as a result of the 1948 war at 726,000.
·
The number of Jews expelled from Arab countries, since Israel was
formed, totaled 856,000.
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ADEN -- 8,000 in 1948 to 0 today.
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ALGERIA -- From 140,000 to 0 today.
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EGYPT -- From 75,000 to 100.
IRAQ -- From 135,000 to 60.
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LEBANON -- From 5,000 to 50.
o
LIBYA -- From 38,000 to 0 today.
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MOROCCO -- From 265,000 to 3,500.
o SYRIA - - From
30,000 to 100.
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TUNISIA -- From 105,000 to 1,100.
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YEMEN -- From 55,000 to 200.
- United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is
a relief and human development agency, providing education, health care,
social services and emergency aid to 5 million Palestine refugees living
in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip.
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UNRWA was specifically created to maintain the
refugee status, not to end it.
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As of January 2010, UNRWA cites 1,396,368 registered
refugees in camps and 3,370,302 registered refugees not in camps.
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There are millions of Palestinians who are not
refugees.
- Palestinian Authority, a crypro-political
construct invented by the West with Arab backing that has necessarily
proven incapable of governing, controlling its bellicose factions and
creating the conditions for peace and normal civil life.
o
Arab “Palestinians” claim all of Israel as their
homeland
o
PLO, Hamas, and Islamic Resistance Movement are
based on jihad as only solution.
- The Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) contains
the following Ten Commandments to be followed by Palestinian Arabs in
denying Jews any claim to sovereignty in any part of Palestine, pursuing
Arab supremacist claims to all of Palestine, nullifying international law
recognizing that the Jews have the right to nationhood similar to the Arab
Nation and absolutely precluding the possibility of any
“two-State” solution:
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Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinian Arab
people and an integral part of the great Arab homeland and the people of
Palestine is a part of the Arab Nation
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Palestine with its boundaries that existed in the
time of the British Mandate is an indivisible territorial unit.
o
The Palestinian Arab people possesses the legal
right to its homeland
o
Armed struggle is the only way to liberate
Palestine.
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The Palestinian Arab people affirm its absolute
resolution and abiding determination to exercise its right of self
determination in Palestine and sovereignty over it.
o
The partitioning of Palestine in 1947 and the
establishment of Israel
are fundamentally null and void whatever time has elapsed
o
The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate Document and
everything based upon them are deemed null and void.
o
The claim of historical ties or religious ties
between Jews and Palestine does not tally with historical realities nor with the constituents of statehood in their true sense.
o
Judaism is not a nationality with an independent
existence
o
The Jews are not one people with an independent
identity but citizens of the state to which they belong.
- Metula News Agency defines “Palestine”
as “A small piece of paper
stuck on Arab maps and atlases to hide Israel.”
Arab-Israeli conflict is governed by some
long term realities:
- Arab leaders
have no interest in genuine peace in Israel.
- Israeli-Arab
peace will come on the Arabs’ timetable.
- All minorities
living within the Arab world are under siege.
- The Arab world
is not about to make an exception for Jews.
- Arab regimes
also demonize non-Muslim and non-Arab peoples living beyond the Arab
world.
- The concern of
so-called “moderate” regimes with the threat posed
by radical forces in the region has not altered these realities.
Considering the wealth that Arab
countries enjoy, their economies have under-performed.
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Traditionally Arab counties have experienced
one-man/one-family rule or, in the case of Iran, theocratic rule.
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As a result of such stagnant leadership, education
suffered tremendously.
·
Lack of education and creative spirit among a
nation’s citizenry clearly contributes to its lack of economic
prosperity.
·
For the prior 20 years, per capita income growth in
the Arab Bloc averaged a stagnant 0.5%.
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For the prior 20 years, unemployment was three
times the world average.
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The United Nations Development Study cited three
deficits as serious obstacles to human development in the region:
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lack of freedom (the Freedom Index ranks the Bloc
last in civil liberties);
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lack of empowerment of women (half cannot write);
o
lack of knowledge.
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Wealth accumulation for the average citizen starts
with freedom: Freedom begets knowledge, which begets stability via the rule of
law, which begets a flourishing of human development and initiative, which
begets economic prosperity.
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Arabs enjoying the greatest human rights and
quality of life live not in the Arab world but in democracies such as Israel
and the US.
Afghanistan was the first country
engaged in the War on Terror.
- Taliban was an Islamo-fascist organization that hijacked the Afghan
government.
- Osama bin Laden
was reported to use Afghanistan as the Al-Qaeda base of operations.
- A representative
democratic government was created to replace defeated Taliban elements.
- Coalition forces
seek out and destroy terrorist elements anywhere they are found.
Pakistan signed up as one of the first
allies in the War on Terror.
- Pakistan is
known to have nuclear weapons.
- Pakistan has
provided reluctant support to ongoing efforts in Afghanistan.
- Pakistan has negotiated a separate peace with northern region, Wakistan, allowing a new al Qaeda base.
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Evidence has been uncovered that terrorists are
being trained for attacks outside Pakistan.
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Attacks in Afghanistan are being staged in
northwestern Pakistan.
Iraq is recovering from its war, has
elected a representative government, but needs time to mature.
- Four reasons were justified for the war in Iraq and each was proven
during the reconstruction:
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Iraq repeatedly violated the UN resolutions and
expelled the UN inspectors in 1998.
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Evidence of Iraq WMD weapons and development
programs were uncovered awaiting the opportunity for reconstituting their
development programs.
o
Evidence has been uncovered to implicate Saddam
Hussein training and supporting Islamo-fascist
terrorist organizations.
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The war freed 25 million Iraqis and reconstruction
is underway to build a stable pro-American democracy.
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The Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Phase II Iraq Report substantiated all the
reasons that President Bush cited as rationale for invading Iraq:
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Nuclear weapons program:
"generally
substantiated by intelligence community estimates."
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Biological weapons,
production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories: "substantiated by
intelligence information."
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Chemical weapons:
"substantiated
by intelligence information."
o
Weapons of Mass Destruction
overall: "generally
substantiated by intelligence information."
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Delivery vehicles
such as ballistic missiles: "generally substantiated by available intelligence."
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Unmanned aerial vehicles
that could be used to deliver WMDs: "generally substantiated by intelligence information."
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Iraq's support for terrorist groups
other than al-Qaeda: "substantiated by intelligence information."
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Iraq provided safe haven
for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists with
ties to al-Qaeda: "substantiated by the intelligence assessments."
o Iraq's
contacts with al-Qaeda: "substantiated by
intelligence information."
- Lies about Iraq continue to be repeated despite easily disproven:
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We took our eye of the ball in Afghanistan by going
into Iraq, thereby allowing the Taliban to regain the advantage.
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Bush lied about the war and entered it under false
circumstances of fears of WMD and Iraqi ties to al Qaeda.
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Mistakes in Iraq were legion and irreversible.
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Democratization was naïve and bound to fail,
given the realities of the tribal Middle East.
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The real winner of the war was Iran.
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President Bush’s presidency was ruined in
Iraq.
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Our military is nearly ruined and the war was never
worth the cost.
- Iran, and its
Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, have been actively involved in supporting Shia militias and encouraging sectarian violence in
Iraq since the invasion of 2003.
- Al Qaeda in Iraq
grew after invasion but has been defeated during the military surge
campaign.
Iraq today is the central battlefield in
the global war on terror and the terrorists have lost!
- Jihadists know
they can not win on the battlefield.
o
They have not won control of any territory or even
broadened their constituency.
o
After four years of near daily killings, the
jihadists have failed to alter Iraq’s political agenda.
o
Meanwhile they have suffered thousands of
casualties, with many captured.
o
Despite more than 120 suicide operations, the
jihadists have been on the defensive.
o Tribal
alliances are forming to chase al Qaeda out of Iraq.
- Jihadists have
not made little progress converting Iraq into an Islamic Sharia based society.
1. The
jihadists kill teachers and children, but schools stay open.
2. They
blow up pipelines and kill oil works, but oil still flows.
3. They
kill judges and lawyers, but Iraq’s new courts keep on working.
- Iraq’s
National Assembly gave near unanimous approval to a plan for peace and
reconciliation.
The real main contest in the Middle East
is the age-old contest of Sunni vs. Shia.
- Iran is the champion of Shia.
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Iran has all of the other Shia groups as clients: Assad's Alawites in Syria; Hezb'allah of
Lebanon; Houthi of Yemen; and the Shia
in Iraq based in Baghdad.
o
Iran is the biggest exporter of terror in the
world.
- Saudi
Arabia is generally regarded as the biggest opponent of Iran and the
leader of the Sunni countries.
o
Saudi Arabia has allied with many Sunni countries:
Egypt (the most populous and militarily strong country of the area); Turkey (a
NATO ally): Jordan; Pakistan (a nuclear power, especially if Iran succeeds
in its quest for a nuclear weapon); and other Sunni groups ranging from Iraqi
Sunnis to the formerly Iraqi Kurds.
o
ISIS is a Sunni player with extreme ideas and
actions.
Iran remains an Islamic nation supporting
unrest across the Middle East.
- Iran possesses
an estimated 125 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, 10% of world
totals.
- Iran also
possesses the second largest reserves of natural gas, after Russia.
- Iran seized 3
islands from UAE in 1992 and retains ambitions to reclaim Bahrain.
- Iran is building
its own underground nuclear weapon facilities.
o
Iran has built an extensive and
expensive nuclear infrastructure that is much larger than what would be
necessary to support a civilian nuclear power program.
o
Iran sought to buy technology
from A. Q. Khan's nuclear weapon proliferation network, which also provided
assistance to Libya and North Korea.
o
Iran continues to conceal and lie about its nuclear weapons efforts.
o
Iran rejected a nuclear deal that
would have advanced its civilian nuclear efforts, belying its claims that
civilian purposes are its only motivation.
o
UN economic sanctions to stop Iranian nuclear
development have been ineffectual.
o
UN Security
Council Resolution demands Iran suspend uranium enrichment.
- Iran is believed
to have provided sanctuary to leading Al-Qaeda terrorists.
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Iran is a leading supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah
terrorist organizations.
o
Iran’s Quds Force,
external wing of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, has been identified as a
terrorist organization supporting terrorist attacks in Iraq.
Syria has ties to several Islamo-fascist organizations.
- Syria is actively working to develop a nuclear program
o
Iraq is believed to have shipped much of their WMD
material to Syria prior to invasion.
o
Syria has developed a very close relationship with
North Korea in their nuclear development program.
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In 2007 Israel destroyed a secret plutonium reactor
to slow nuclear development effort.
- Syria has
stepped up production of chemical weapons at its al Safir
facility, including filtration systems and cooling towers, located next to
a Scud-D missile base.
- Syria provides
support to Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations.
- Syrian military
was forced to withdraw from Lebanon.
Principles:
Only negotiate with governments that
renounce terrorist organizations.
- Negotiations are
notorious for trading time to rearm for reneged concessions.
Recommendations:
Short
Term, Define the conflicts in the Middle East
as one major theater in the Global War on Terror.
- Educate American public on true nature of Islamic jihad which is
to:
o
Expel Americans from the Middle East.
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Establish an Islamic emirate in Iraq and develop it
into a caliphate.
o
Extend the jihad to Iraq’s secular neighbors.
o
Win the inevitable battle with Israel.
- De-legitimize the immorality and hypocrisy of Islamic
fundamentalists.
o
Label terrorists as the cowards and “useful idiots”
that they are.
o Encourage
moderate Muslims to condemn terror as a tactic and Islamo-fascism
as the cause.
- Promote the
values of Western democratic modernity.
Endorse moderate Muslims attempts to
distance themselves from the Islamic extremists.
- Charter of
Muslim Understanding
- St. Petersburg
Declaration.
- Deobandi Fatwa.
- Promote the
values that can’t be found under retrogressive Sharia
model.
Long
Term, Support Israel defending themselves
against the terrorist organizations to the South and North.
- Destroy preemptively any WMD sites before they become functional at
producing weapons.
- Annex Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip to restore defensive borders.
- Root out and destroy all Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups.
- Restore dignity
and hope to every Arab with system or earned income and earned property
rights.
- Replace Muslim
schools with real education teaching human rights rather than jihad and
hatred.
- Close down
mosques that preach hatred and violence.
- Stop funding Middle
East governments that support and fund terrorism.
Support Jordan transition from a Hashemite
monarchy to a secular government.
- Implement Jordan
Option to grant citizenship to all “Palestinians.”
- Offer peaceful
haven for Arab refugees.
- Replace Palestinian
Authority as official administrator for Palestinian Arabs.
Pressure Lebanon to regain control
and not allow terrorist organizations to operate inside their borders
- Remove UN
peacekeepers (UNIFIL) out as ineffective meddlers and terrorist human
shields.
Pressure Syria, diplomatically and
economically, to stop support for terrorist organizations.
- Pressure Syria
to cease their nuclear development program.
o
Pressure Syria to surrender Iraqi WMDs hidden in
the days prior to Iraq invasion.
- Pressure Syria to withdraw support for Hamas and Hezbollah
terrorist organizations.
Support Pakistan eliminating
terrorist sanctuaries.
- Work with
coalition forces, including Iraq and Afghanistan, to defeat terrorists.
- Discourage Pashtun support for Afghanistan Pashtun
terrorists.
- Improve local
governance and development in the impoverished areas that have become
breeding grounds for militants.
Facilitate Iraq government maturing
to defend themselves against terrorists.
- Work with Iraqi
government to protect itself from Islamic terrorists of all types..
- Assist in defeat
of Islamic caliphate across Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.
- Interdict terrorist
supply lines from other countries.
Continue to support the Afghan
government to rid the country of Taliban and Al-Qaeda elements.
- Employ a
multidimensional strategy to rebuild security, intelligence, and
reconnaissance capabilities.
- Phase down
coalition forces as the Afghanistan government matures and defends itself.
Pressure Iran, diplomatically and
economically, to stop nuclear development and withdraw support for terrorist
organizations.
- Support UN
resolution on Iran to stop development of nuclear weapons.
o
Monitor existing agreements and enforce any
violations.
- Implement
economic sanctions as leverage to stop nuclear development.
- Consider all
options in dealing with Iranian military ambitions.
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“How to Defeat Iran and ISIS
without Getting Our Boots Dirty” by Jeffrey L. Scribner dated
September 9, 2015 published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/how_to_defeat_iran_and_isis_without_getting_our_boots_dirty.html
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“For Israel Appeasement is No Longer Appealing”
by Dan Calic dated October 16, 2015 published by
American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/for_israel_appeasement_is_no_longer_appealing.html
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“Two-state, not three state, solution occurred in 1948” by Dru Kristenev dated December 31,
2016 published by Canada Free Press at http://canadafreepress.com/article/two-state-not-three-state-solution-occurred-in-1948
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“Since when did the
Palestinians become entitled to a state?” by Ted Belman
dated January 1, 2017 published by Canada Free Press at http://canadafreepress.com/article/since-when-did-the-palestinians-become-entitled-to-a-state#
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“Seven Times Palestinians
Rejected Peace” by Jonathan R. Verlin dated
November 22, 2017 published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/11/seven_times_palestinians_rejected_peace.html
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“The real Palestinian
narrative” by Steve Postal dated July 17, 2019 published by American
Thinker at https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/07/the_real_palestinian_narrative.html
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“How the ‘Jordan Option’
will affect Israel” by Ted Belman dated
August 4, 2019 published by American Thinker at https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/how_the_jordan_option_will_affect_israel.html
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