Israeli policies in support of ISIL will backfire: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Scott Bennet, former us army psychological warfare officer & counter-terrorism analyst based in San Francisco, to ask for his take on Tel Aviv regime’s backing of anti-Assad militants in Syria.

A rough transcription of the interview follows.

Press TV: There has been evidence before that Tel Aviv has supported these insurgents. Evidence has been trickling in for years now for the last four years. Now, what is Israel’s objective in getting involved with these militant organizations?

Bennet: Well, it is no surprise. It has been coming out in policy website and papers slate.com and foreignpolicy.com. Israel has been giving aid and comfort to the ISIL militants, the radical anti-Assad regime militants for the purpose of destabilizing the Assad regime in order to create another country of chaos, similar to Libya and Iraq, in order to generate a Wahhabi-Salafist entity there that can then be used to create instability in Iraq and the Shia-sympathetic government there with the ultimate goal of course, of destabilizing Iran.

It is a very dangerous precedent; it is a similar historical precedent to WW I and I think it is going to backfire actually. I think that whole policy, it runs against the United States, runs against the constitution and the American people I think are increasingly becoming aware of it.

America really is in a quiet civil war and it is going into a quiet revolution because we in the United States have no aggression or anger at Iran; it is just that the American people have been traumatized by the propaganda of ‘Iran is a blood-thirsty merciless savage country that wants to destroy America and you know it always rails death to America.’ That is all Americans have heard and in my opinion that needs to be reversed because it is a lie and it is against the personality and the culture and the traditions of Iran and America has backed its Saudi, Wahhabi and Salafist political regimes for oil and energy resources and Israel is part of that and I think it has run out of its course and the American people have constantly been looking to alternatives.

Press TV: But doesn’t it seem like these are polar extremes; Zionist regime in bed with extremists?

Bennet: Well, the Israelis believe that the most dangerous threat to them is an organized country with an organized military and government. These Wahhabi, Salafist terrorist radicals and Bedouin tribes are nothing but a bunch of wild Indians without a government, without any leadership. So they are not a threat, they are easy to take out.

What the danger is to Israel, as they see it, is Syria, is Iran because they are organized, they are culturally rich and they have rootedness and they have a following.

They have had that policy for a long time. They have purposely tried to set up Shia vs. the Sunni fight ever since September 11, 2001.

Their agenda in the early 80s was to create this warfare between Sunni and Shia and that is what they think they are safest by but September 11 is sort of changing that whole language because people are coming to the awareness that the whole Middle East crusade, the hegemony empire that America was set on was all a lie and it was based on false flag attacks that really the American government is being increasingly scrutinized for because they have participated, and the intelligence community has participated and the American people are catching on.

So we are in a quiet revolution and Americans do not have animosity towards Iran, Russia or China. It is just the government actors that the United States has propagandized those countries so badly.

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