Press TV interviewed Jeff Gates Attorney and Author of Guilt by Association regarding the US led invasions and the hidden hand of Zionism.
Press TV: Mr. Gates, Saudi Arabia has literally invaded Bahrain. What does this mean to regional security? I mean the fact that it seems any country in the region can invade another without authorization.
Gates: Well, it's very interesting. If you put a broader context on this, the patterns come more clearly into focus. Much of this started with the Wikileaks phenomena some months back. And for someone who lives in the US, the most astounding phenomena about that was within 12 hours of the first Wikileaks of US cables between our diplomatic post Israeli talks was taken off the front page, and replaced with another story like about having war with Iran. In order to really assess what's going on in Bahrain, and the broader regional instability, one has to realize the broader context. The US was taken into war in Iraq by intelligence that traced back to “pro-Israeli” forces. I think people really need to grasp this. This grand chessboard is playing out now. They are all working in the favor of our so-called special friend in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Israel's Mossad, which is their black ops outfit, has a very interest phrase. They say once the orchestra starts to play we just hum along. So once you get these dynamics in play they take on a life on their own. It's easy to focus on the narrow context of a current situation. Unless you take that broader view, it's very easy to get lost in the details of the present moment. That is what we are trying to deal with my Guilt by Association, and criminalstate.com where we try to keep track of these developments.
Press TV: Why do you think the invasion by Saudi Forces into Bahrain has gotten the appropriate international attention?
Gates: It may be in part that Saudi Arabia of course is the big prize in that domain. It's not just because of the oil, as that is the easy target for most people to focus on. That brings in the usual conspiracy theorists that talk about oil. Again, if you take a broader view, what is going on here in part is the advancing this metanarrative. You might have noticed it without a moment we moved from the coal war to the war on terrorism. Now we have the so-called clash of civilizations. If the Saudi monarchy begins a situation that develops in Saudi Arabia, for example if you have desecration of the holy shrines in Mecca, then you have really set off another whole round of violence and upset and you will further reinforce the clash of civilizations such as the West against Islam.
It you look at the source for that metanarrative it began with a person named Bernard Lewis who was a scholar at Princeton. He gave the phrase to a person named Samuel Huntington who brought it out in 93 in Foreign Affairs which is the lead foreign policy journal in the United States. By 96 when he put it in book form, there were over 100 non-governmental organizations prepared to promote that in 96. Therefore, we seemingly separated from the Cold War to the so-called clash of civilizations.
Therefore, the people who try and profile in these books and what not is people who thrive on pitting two sides against each other while thriving off the misery of both. There's nothing at all modern about that. The only thing modern is the means to deceive people and provoke people on a generally global scale. To give a broader context, just don't get seduced by the events of the moment. Realize there are other dynamics that play in the region.
Press TV: Indeed, I mean you're the Author of Guilt by Association. Let's take that term if you will. How do you associate and relate guilt by association, about the fact that Saudi Arabia literally has troops on the ground. In addition, the US is in Bahrain but not actively militarily involved in it, but still has its fifth fleet there.
Gates: When you are waging war in the sheer filed of consciousness, and that is the way this war is being waged. For example, where does a consensus reside? Where does credibility reside? Where does celebrity reside? It resides in the sheer filed of consciousness. And those who wage war by way of deception, which is the motto of the Israeli Defense Forces, they leverage their resources by doing what the Joint Chief of Staff warned Harry Truman about this group of fanatics as they call them from 1948. Truman said they did not recognize this group of fanatics and it's their term and not ours. It is not mine because he said they would draw us into serious conflicts. They seek domination in the region, and will use our armed forces to seek that domination.
Thus, the book is called “Guilt by Association” because when you are waging war in that field one of the most powerful weapons you have is the power of association. Let me give you one specific example so your listeners can understand. When you saw Collin Powell testify before the United Nations, he is a four star general was Secretary of State. He testified saying that Iraq had mobile-biological weapons' laboratories and he even had diagrams. He held up a little vile of poison. It was a very sort of persuasive kind of presentation. We now know all of that was false. However, the way this kind of warfare works is what you had was a field based phenomenon or property called credibility.
Collin Powell had certain credibility. So when you put that credibility on a global stage in front of television, his credibility blared over to give credibility to the false intelligence. That is how this works. So now, the United States because of being allied with Israel and with the Saudis, now we look like we are guilty again by association. The Israeli-Zionist enterprise has dominated our foreign policy for many years, and we really have lost control of our foreign policy. That also traces back to 1948. At the time, George Marshall was a well-known WWII General and was Harry Truman's Secretary of State. He warned him not to do it. He said if you recognize this extremist's arm play as a legitimate nation state, I will vote against you. That was the Secretary of State saying he would vote against him. Thereafter, Harry Truman went ahead in 1948, and we paid the price ourselves. People think the United States is guilty and it's not us.
Press TV: Mr. Gates, Abdullah Saleh has offered to step down. He says he will only hand over power to what he calls safe hands. What could he possibly mean by safe hands?
Gates: I think this is the grand paradox here. Again, I think if you step back a bit and put this into a broader context while keeping in mind it was the Wikileaks phenomena that gave people insight into the current administration there in Yemen. Immediately when the release came out it took Israel off the front page, and put war with Iran on the front page. I think I heard our former National Security Advisor Brezinski. He was quite well on point there. He said this was not a data dump where you release everything without any sort of pattern. These were very selected types of releases that were meant to embarrass the United States. I think they were meant to be classic, agent provocateur sort of releases.
There was nothing in there critical of Israel. All four of the editors who controlled those releases and edited them, and timed the release were pro-Israeli editors at all four newspapers in the US and elsewhere. I think what we have is quite a major psyops ongoing by people who are experts and agent provocateur incursions. This war is being waged in the sheer field of consciousness. Therefore, if you can provoke enough people to get upset, and you have an unstable government, and not an obvious successor and certainly not enough stability to hand off a government to then you got a formula for chaos and instability, which is what the Zionist enterprise has fed on for decades.
Press TV: Now with many defections by the police personnel and military officials, Sana'a is left more and more isolated. How critical is the support of the army for the regime?
Gates: That you would have to ask to the locals. I'm more looking at the broader dynamics. Certainly, when you have an autocratic regime and the military begins to defect. It's just a course of time before an autocrat falls. But then again it may be that the military steps in and takes over. You would have to have someone closer to the ground than I am to comment on that.
Press TV: Do you think the situation in Yemen is more like Egypt where the army was absolutely, critical? Or more like Libya, or is it something in between?
Gates: It's probably something in between. The Libyan situation is particularly instructive. It was very interesting to see John McCain who is one of the Israelis' assets was commenting and criticizing Obama saying Ronald Regan had invaded Libya very quickly, where Obama waited a week or so. What he didn't realize was this 1986 attack on Tripoli was actually a Mossad operation. The Mossad set up a broadcasting outfit near the Tripoli broadcasting outfit Gaddafi used, and broadcast to make it look as if Gaddafi was giving instructions to Libyan terrorists. Not long after that, an American GI was killed in a disco club in Berlin. The US, Germany and UK bashed a number of airplanes and jets into Tripoli and bombed there.
We were warned not to do this, but it was clearly a Mossad operation. Afterwards, the Mossad got together and said gosh that was easy. Now how can we turn Saddam Husain into an evildoer? We can do it. It may take us a few years but we can do it. That was 1986. Again, that gives you an idea of how long these operations are pre-staged.
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