US, Israel and Europe created IS and other Islamist movement in order to "fragment" the Arab and Muslim world
Op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily:
“I will not add anything new if I say that terrorism has no color, religion, race or sex. Yet responsibility requires [us] to turn [our] attention to those who laid the foundations and created organized terrorism, and they [are]…the adherents of the principles of ‘creative anarchy,’ or ‘constructive anarchy,’ who are eager to divide up that which has already been divided in the Arab homeland, in order to build their new Middle East, and [they] are acting in coordination with the Israeli occupation state.
These elements produce their means of destruction in every period in history, and dress them in religious, ethnic or racial garb, creating, together with them, views, ideas and goals contrary to the interests of their nations and world peace…
The Islamic organizations and movements created by the US, Israel, Europe and their allies in the Middle East, beginning with the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, through IS, [Jabhat] Al-Nusra, Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis, Jaish Al-Ummah, and others in 2013 and even earlier, were designed to serve as arms [of the West], with the aim of fragmenting the unity of the [Arab] nations and countries of the Arab homeland and serving the aims mentioned above. In addition, they were designed to act towards maintaining the Israeli occupation state, and to forge an alliance against the Palestinian national project and the Arab national revival.”
Notes: ‘Creative Anarchy’ or ‘constructive anarchy’ are terms coined by former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2006 to describe the initial stage in the political reconstruction of former dictatorships as part of the Anglo-American roadmap for a ‘New Middle East’.
Jabhat Al-Nusra is a branch of Al-Qaeda operating in Syria and Lebanon.
Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis (Supporters of Jerusalem) – A Sunni, Al-Qaeda affiliated Jihadist terror group active in the Sinai Peninsula. In 2014, many of its members swore allegiance to the Islamic State, changing the group’s name to Wilayat Sinai (Province of Sinai), while other members remained loyal to Al-Qaeda. The group also has a branch in the Gaza Strip known as the Islamic State in Gaza. The group has carried out numerous terror attacks against Israel and Egypt, including an attack on a bus in Eilat in 2011, in which 8 Israelis and 3 Egyptian soldiers were killed, an attack on the Egyptian Security Directorate in Mansoura in 2013, in which 16 were killed and 134 injured, and the Taba bus bombing in 2014 that killed 4. In January 2015, the group killed over 30 Egyptian soldiers in attacks in North Sinai.
Jaish Al-Ummah – can refer to one of the two following organizations: An active jihadist group based in Gaza or a coalition of small rebel groups in Syria. There is no known relation between the two.
“I will not add anything new if I say that terrorism has no color, religion, race or sex. Yet responsibility requires [us] to turn [our] attention to those who laid the foundations and created organized terrorism, and they [are]…the adherents of the principles of ‘creative anarchy,’ or ‘constructive anarchy,’ who are eager to divide up that which has already been divided in the Arab homeland, in order to build their new Middle East, and [they] are acting in coordination with the Israeli occupation state.
These elements produce their means of destruction in every period in history, and dress them in religious, ethnic or racial garb, creating, together with them, views, ideas and goals contrary to the interests of their nations and world peace…
The Islamic organizations and movements created by the US, Israel, Europe and their allies in the Middle East, beginning with the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, through IS, [Jabhat] Al-Nusra, Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis, Jaish Al-Ummah, and others in 2013 and even earlier, were designed to serve as arms [of the West], with the aim of fragmenting the unity of the [Arab] nations and countries of the Arab homeland and serving the aims mentioned above. In addition, they were designed to act towards maintaining the Israeli occupation state, and to forge an alliance against the Palestinian national project and the Arab national revival.”
Notes: ‘Creative Anarchy’ or ‘constructive anarchy’ are terms coined by former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2006 to describe the initial stage in the political reconstruction of former dictatorships as part of the Anglo-American roadmap for a ‘New Middle East’.
Jabhat Al-Nusra is a branch of Al-Qaeda operating in Syria and Lebanon.
Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis (Supporters of Jerusalem) – A Sunni, Al-Qaeda affiliated Jihadist terror group active in the Sinai Peninsula. In 2014, many of its members swore allegiance to the Islamic State, changing the group’s name to Wilayat Sinai (Province of Sinai), while other members remained loyal to Al-Qaeda. The group also has a branch in the Gaza Strip known as the Islamic State in Gaza. The group has carried out numerous terror attacks against Israel and Egypt, including an attack on a bus in Eilat in 2011, in which 8 Israelis and 3 Egyptian soldiers were killed, an attack on the Egyptian Security Directorate in Mansoura in 2013, in which 16 were killed and 134 injured, and the Taba bus bombing in 2014 that killed 4. In January 2015, the group killed over 30 Egyptian soldiers in attacks in North Sinai.
Jaish Al-Ummah – can refer to one of the two following organizations: An active jihadist group based in Gaza or a coalition of small rebel groups in Syria. There is no known relation between the two.