The Israeli-Neo-Con project for the Middle East: Lebanonisation, not Democratisation

The term 'Lebanonisation' refers to the lebanese civil war between the different sects and religions in Lebanon which started in 1975 and lasted 15 years resulting in the near total destruction of a fragile nascent nation, in addition to disparitions, deaths, massacres and expatriations. This war came to a halt only for a short period (10 years) after which recent rising tensions in the region achieved a new state of political, economic and social precariousness leaving Lebanon in a limbo over its future.
Now Iraq has been going through the same process. From a prosperous and secular country providing its citizens with the basics of health care, education and infrastructure to a less prosperous but still unified and politically stable dictature after having been weakened by wars and sanctions, Iraq is now descending into hell since the March 2003 american invasion spiraling every day and at every suicide bombing into a civil war from which it may never recover.
Now you may say that things may be different in the two countries in waiting, Syria and Iran. I bet you not and I will tell you why. People with nice and positive projects, like the ones avowed by Bush and the neo-cons for the middle east to bring democracy and development, don't destruct in order to implement their projects. They don't bully and they don't kill. Bringing a democracy to a country should never be a killing enterprise.

However, I have every reason to believe that the killing enterprise going on in the middle east is here to last and is not to bring democracy and prosperity but only destruction and misery. I always defended the idea that the whole american enterprise for the middle east was to destabilize the region even further and to plunge the countries into a prolonged state of chaos in order to let Israel have its way as an imperial power whose wandering, under tremendous pressure, into an internationally sponsored peace process with the Palestinians was so short lived that nobody now remembers that glorious, and not so far, time.

Since Oslo and even before, the zionist project was officially transmutating from a 'survival' project for the state of Israel to an imperial project for the entire region. In fact the zionist project for Israel was never a 'survival' project as Israel wanted us to believe, it was always an imperial project. The official transmutation came when Israel realised in 1982 - after it won the two wars against Arab countries (1967 and 1973), after the departure of Palestinians from Lebanon, the weakening of the Movement for the Liberation of Palestine by the Lebanese civil war and the free ride Sharon was able to take into palestinian camps in Lebanon in 1982,assassinating children and women left behind by Palestinian militants ousted from Beirut with Arafat under international 'guarantees' on the security of their civilians in the camps - that they have no reasonable force in the middle east to oppose their imperial project. However, Israel is a tiny little country surrounded by a legion of oil rich countries and outnumbered by Arabs and its might can be insufficient to conduct its imperial project. It needed to weaken Arab countries and the only way to do so is to play on their ethnical and religious differences, to break these countries into sects wary of each other and ready to wage internal wars as it happened in Lebanon. Everybody knows by now the prominent role Israel played in Lebanon's civil war training the christian Phalangist militia inside Israel and supporting their war efforts against other Lebanese sects.
Israel knew it could not conduct such a project alone for the entire region without the United States, its long term ally, and probably could not have done so without the awaited but rapid military demise of the Soviet Union, the other superpower player in the middle east. It could not do it by itself taking the risk of enduring an international outcry and opprobrium for meddling in internal Arab countries affairs at such a large scale. So here comes the neo-con project for the greater middle east, plunging the region into civil wars and destructing their social fabrics, therefore sending them into a prolonged state of underdevelopment and internal tensions while Israel can thrive and reign without pressure for a long time to come.

I am not the only one musing on such a highly conspirational hypothesis. There are documents written and facts on the ground to substantiate it. We are living a nightmare in the middle east and the only thing that tells me that in fact this is reality and not a nightmare is that 'I know I am not dreaming because I can't sleep anymore'.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is reality as it is. I ask you to look at the big picture, not to focalise on one regional problem at a time, to look at them all. I ask you also to take a historical perspective on what is happening now in the middle east.

And I ask you to read the article that inspired me to write this post.

''Yinon's strategy was based on this premise. In order to survive Israel must become an imperial regional power and must also ensure the break-up of all Arab countries so that the region may be carved up into small ineffectual states unequipped to stand up to Israeli military might. Here's what he had to say on Iraq:
"The dissolution of Syria and Iraq into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon is Israel's primary target on the Eastern front. Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run, it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel.
"An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and Lebanon.
"In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul and Shiite areas in the South will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north."''