American Projects for the Region

American administrations have worked, and continue to work, to prepare and present projects and plans to paint the reality and the future of this region called the Middle East — the Arab countries in particular, as most of these countries are located in this region. This is with the goal of re-ordering the region geographically by ripping up existing maps to replace them with geographical units on the basis of ethnicity, sect and ideology. Any fragmentation of the Arab countries and weakening of the Arab ummah includes easy access to achieve American and Zionist interests economically, by ensuring American control over oil sources and pathways and control over the formulation of the ummah’s present and future. For this purpose, ground, sea and air military bases have been established in many countries in the region and their seas. In an economic context, they also work to establish a Middle Eastern market where the Zionist entity has a prominent central role.

These projects also aim to liquidate the Palestinian case and preserve the security of the Zionist entity by pushing for a settlement of the Arab-Zionist conflict in accordance with the Zionist vision. This is the aim of these projects as well, and especially the Middle East project, which took American and Zionist media devices and promoted through them concepts and implications that remove the Arab character from the Arab countries. This is because they have accepted any label other than the true name — the Arab world — of what is the region of the Middle East.

Of course, we return to emphasize that these projects were based on the arrogance of power and might to try to continue to impose hegemony and control over the capabilities of the ummah in light of the absence of Arab unity. It was the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush that had the greatest interest in launching these projects and taking practical measures to achieve them. Against this background, the administration launched an aggressive war against Iraq under the false pretext that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. This war resulted in a complete change in the conditions of this Arab country, where the fall of the regime and the disintegration of the state, its institutions and its society planted seeds of discord and division among the people as a first step in realizing a new Middle East. However, thanks to the valiant Iraqi resistance that confronted the occupying American power and the overwhelming popular support in the Arab countries for this resistance, as well as the complete rejection of this war of aggression, this step has been aborted. This has impelled the United States of America to search for a way out of its crisis instead of the implementation of its project.

The Syrian Arab Republic had a prominent role in the failure of this step through its support of the Iraqi resistance. This pushed the American administration — and with it, France, for well-known political and economic reasons — to exert pressure on Syria through issuing decisions from the UN Security Council targeting it. Resolution 1559 was issued by the UN Security Council (dominated by America) in September 2004, which aimed to weaken Syria by pushing it to leave Lebanon. This decision aimed to weaken the Lebanese national resistance as a strategic ally of Syria and to use Lebanon as a platform to contain attitudes that reject American projects. In this context, it is possible to understand the dimensions of the American war of aggression as a Zionist tool against Lebanon and its resistance on July 12, 2006. This was confirmed by the secretary of State in the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice, in Beirut in the first week after this war was triggered, where she clearly announced that we were witnessing the birth of a new Middle East.

Indeed, a new Middle East was born, but not according to American standards as planned. This Middle East became hostile to American projects because of the steadfast resistance that caused the goals of this political war to fail and also because of the supportive Syrian stance for this resistance. This made the Bush and Obama administrations look down on Syria and the resistance; intensive efforts are being made to deviate Syrian policies from its path of rejection of American and Zionist projects and its supportive stance toward the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance that faces the Zionist enemy. This resistance has a strategic alliance with Iran, which in turn supports the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon and rejects the establishment of a Middle East under American-Zionist hegemony. The Bush and Obama administrations failed to amend Syria’s policy despite the use of various means, especially through political pressure in resolutions and laws like the Syria Accountability Act, blockades and Resolution 1559, as noted above. The international tribunal for the assassination of Hariri launched aggression in Lebanon. The Obama administration, with tools from its allies, clients and officers, proceeded to work on the Arab employment situation and the popular movements in many of the Arab nations.

The administration has embarked upon producing a similar outcome in Syria. It recruited media, pens and Syrian opposition, as long as they were linked to American projects. All of this is to punish them for their positions, on one hand, and to weaken and force them to change their national political track, on the other hand, or to otherwise work on toppling the regime. Yet despite the painful course of events in Syria, the success of the American administration — and with it, the Zionists and many of its partners — may have a high cost. Paying terrorist gangs to destabilize Syria’s security and stability has failed so far, and will fail in the near future, in order to subjugate Syria and make it yield to American requirements. Syria will remain committed to its national and pan-Arab positions, and its resistance to colonial, imperialist and Zionist policy in the region. They will do this by wrapping the Syrian Arab people around a leadership that will adopt this policy. Syrian leadership defused the American concern over freedom, democracy and reforms when it responded to popular demands for legitimate and just drafting of democratic governing laws, beginning with election law, party law and media law, just as it took several actions to serve the goal of political, economic and social reform and combat corruption in all forms.

We say it seems like the Western colonial powers, especially the United States, are not yet convinced to quit the practice of colonial methods based on force and the position of superiority against the people of the world. They still believe, despite setbacks and the failures they have suffered in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, as well as Libya, where their forces haven’t succeeded in toppling the regime despite murder and aggression and destruction continuing for months. Yes, they still believe in their ability to impose their will on people aware of the dimensions of the goals of their projects, which makes them resistant to their policies and makes them work to isolate the tools that practice murder and the destruction of national institutions in exchange for a handful of dollars stained with the blood of military and civil citizens.

The masses of people targeted are also aware that confrontation with the American-Zionist projects requires a consolidation of national unity, an adherence to national resistance and the mobilization of energies in the battle of confrontation and victory over American projects to forbid them from achieving their goals.