Israel seeks to partition Jordan too

Qudsna, Ahmad Kazemzadeh:

Senior authorities of the Zionist regime of Israel, including its president, Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman have talked with their US counterparts to persuade them to back a partition of Iraq. Though a project to partition Iraq was originally tabled by Joe Biden, the Jewish assistant to the US President Barack Obama in 2006, the project at the moment would not serve the US interests.

For one thing, the US has top on its agenda to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan as part of a campaign to bolster its military presence in the East Asian in a bid to harness an increasingly mighty China. A partition of Iraq would lead the Middle East into a dark tunnel and disrupt the US campaign.

Also, the US has incurred over one billion dollars in the war on Iraq and lost over 5,000 soldiers in what it said was a US campaign for setting up a new political order in the country. The US always resorts to the agenda to defend its legacy in Iraq. If the current political order is lost, the US would have nothing to defend its record.

A new divide between the US and Israeli positions over Iraq seems to be in the making then.

Nevertheless, one may question how Israel would take benefit from a partition of Iraq especially taking into account the long distance between the two territories. The answer could be a partition of Iraq would pave the ground for the partition of Jordan, letting Israel to swap the occupied parts of the Palestinian West Bank with swathes of a partitioned Jordan. Note that Palestinians account for a majority of the Jordanian population.

It is likely that a second stage of the ISIL scenario in the region would be launched in Jordan, allowing Israel to replace a prospective Palestinian state with a Palestinian-Jordanian federation.

Those in the region, from Baathists and Kurds to certain Arab states which back the ISIL project in Iraq are actually helping Israel to advance its expansionist policies in Palestine.