US intends to break up Iraq for Israel’s interests: Activist

Press TV has talked to peace activist and former US Marine, Ken O’Keefe, to get his take on the remarks made by the Secretary General of the Iraqi resistance movement Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (HHN), saying the Middle East region’s woes have only worsened ever since the onset of the US “war on terror”.

Here is a rough transcription of the interview:

Press TV: These are sentiments that have been echoed by many more than just this gentleman. Your thoughts.

O’Keefe: I have to say the language “inappropriate intentions” to describe the US policy in Iraq is very generous indeed. The intention of America effectively as a stooge for Israel is to break up Iraq. This is very well known. If we go back to Oded Yinon's strategy for Israel in the 1980s, the effective Balkanization of the entire Middle East region that surrounds Israel, so Israel can ultimately expand, this is all part of the plan. It is not an inappropriate intention; it is a direct and intentional means to commit mass murder[s] and crimes against humanity in order to expand Israel. So this is the intention.

Israel has never been attacked by ISIS (Daesh) as we all know. It has never been attacked by al-Nusra Front. It has never been attacked by al-Qaeda. How is it possible that it could never be attacked if somehow it is an enemy? It is so laughable that it is hard to believe anybody bought any of this stuff ever.             

Press TV: What kind of positive achievements has the US accomplished since the Iraq invasion? 

O’Keefe: The positive achievements are that the country's infrastructure has been destroyed; that it is breaking into three parts or more by this ongoing chaos; it has been the birthplace of so-called ISIS. I say that is positive because that is the actual plan. That is what they intend to do.

Now if we are talking about what the opposite of what they say they are going to do is, it is completely horrendous. But the idea that it is accidental or it is just mistakes - what the experts today are pushing is that the United States is not learning its lessons and it just never seems to learn. This is ridiculous. They know exactly what they are doing. And their  role is to expand Israel and the way to do that is to basically set the Middle East alight to get the Arabs to “bleed each other.” This is largely what we have seen. But thank God, there are people in the Middle East and around the world who can see this more and more for what it is; and that the Iranian influence, the genuine patriots of Iraq, Shia and Sunni, among them Kurds, there are people in this area who are learning this, understanding this. And thank God we have a real chance of getting rid of this scourge. But make no mistake about it. This whole monstrous thing that we know as al-Qaeda, ISIS and al-Nusra and so on, these are stooges. They work for the CIA and Mossad and we need to know that.  

Press TV: And ultimately you mentioned partitioning Iraq. But I want you to elaborate a little bit more on that. What is it going to take for the US to close a chapter in Iraq, pack up and go home?

O’Keefe: The plan for the Middle East is to break apart the entire region, to sow the seeds of sectarian hatred. and in this weak and fractured state with no strong leadership it is in that context that Israel will easily be able to create a provocation that will justify expansion based on the need for security of its citizens and so on and so forth. It is the same pattern over and over again, so this is how they are going to do it. They are trying to eliminate any strong leadership.

We can look very clearly at the case of Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein was a murderer and a tyrant all the while. We knew that. He was gassing Kurds and Iranians all through the Iran-Iraq war. This man was a patent criminal and a stooge for the United States to punish the Iranian people for the audacity to get rid of our puppet the Shah of Iran. All of this is very self-evident if you are going to pay attention to it. So Iran and others in the region who are genuinely fighting ISIS, all of us in the West owe you a debt of gratitude for having done this, because our influence is just monstrous, the whole way around.

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