"Netanyahu knows that if Israel engages in any ground war in Lebanon or Syria—or
anywhere else for that matter—Israel will lose catastrophically and show the
world it is nothing more than a ‘paper tiger’ and all bluster and threat with no
ability to back them up,”Scott Bennett, from San Francisco, told Basirat.
Scott Bennett is a US Army Special Operations Officer (11th Psychological
Operations Battalion, Civil Affairs-Psychological Operations Command), and a
global psychological warfare-counterterrorism analyst, formerly with defense
contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. He received a Direct Commission as an Officer,
held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security
clearance, and worked in the highest levels of international counterterrorism in
Washington DC and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. He has developed and
managed psychological warfare theories, products, and operations for US Special
Operations Command, US Central Command, the State Department Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, and other government agencies.
His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and
Spanish Minor from San Jose State University in California, a Master of Arts in
International Business and Public Policy from George Mason University in
Virginia, and a Ph.D. (ABD) in Political Theory from the Catholic University of
America in Washington D.C. He currently resides in California.
The following is the full text of the interview.
Basirat: Head of Israel’s far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party Avigdor Liberman
resigned as defense minister, protesting Israel’s "too-soft policy” on Hamas.
Liberman took his five-member party out of the ruling coalition and called for
new elections. Leaving the government with 61 seats in the Knesset, barely a
majority out of 120, this stirred discussion among politicians and observers
about whether Israel would have to go to elections now or wait until November
2019, the requisite date according to law. Can Benjamin Netanyahu keep the
coalition together? And if not, can he win the election and gain a fifth term as
prime minister?
Bennett: As the Middle East wars in Syria and Yemen continue to sour against the
West and degrade the reputation of Israel and Saudi Arabia in general, Benjamin
Netanyahu will be increasingly seen as a liability and problem to the Israeli
people, rather than an asset and solution. Besides the Zionist Mossad
involvement with the 9/11 attacks against America, with the rise of the internet
media has come the explosion of amateur photographic evidence showing Israel and
Saudi Arabia’s particular genocidal wars against Yemen and Syria, the unlawful
shooting down of Russian planes, and indiscriminate bombings and destruction of
civilians by Western airstrikes. All of this footage has served to incline the
public away from sympathizing or trusting the Israeli-Saudi public relations or
propaganda campaigns. Additionally, Netanyahu and his wife are coming under
increasing investigation for potential criminal irregularities and corruption
charges associated with his tenure as Prime Minister. All of this is creating an
atmosphere around Netanyahu that is becoming too toxic and odious for the public
to endure, or Israel’s reputation to survive.
Basirat: According to reports, Netanyahu has sought to avoid Gaza and
prioritizes the status quo. He wasn’t looking for escalation or to use military
force as an electoral prop, because if Israel got bogged down in an extended
fight or Israeli civilians died as a result of Hamas retaliatory rocket fire,
then his credibility would be shot. What do you think?
Bennett: Netanyahu knows that if Israel engages in any ground war in Lebanon or
Syria—or anywhere else for that matter—Israel will lose catastrophically and
show the world it is nothing more than a "paper tiger” and all bluster and
threat with no ability to back them up. We see Israel now losing aircraft in
Syria, thanks largely to the Russian and Iranian assistance to the Syrian
government. Netanyahu also knows that the American people are quickly losing all
support for America’s involvement in the Saudi-Israeli Middle East wars, or
rather genocide, against Yemen and Syria. This was demonstrated most recently by
the US Senate voting to suspend military assistance to Saudi Arabia, and Senator
Rand Paul’s speech on the Senate floor characterizing Saudi Arabia as evil, and
Iran as not a threat to America. Israel sees this as the end of its own "credit”
and blank check which has been given it by Americans. No more.
Basirat: Why do you think Netanyahu does not favor early elections?
Bennett: Early elections of course will reflect all of these sentiments and
would be a sure disaster that removes Netanyahu for corruption, graft, war
crimes, and possibly treason. The people living in Israel also recognize that
the days of endless war and expansionism of Israeli settlements is not a policy
the world will allow any longer, and Netanyahu has endangered the lives of
Israelis more than any other Prime Minister with this propaganda and lies
against Iraq, Iran, and his manipulation of America into a series of wars that
are terrible humanitarian disasters for Europe and the Middle East.
Basirat: Contrary to popular belief, the United States isn’t a major factor in
Israeli elections as the ruling coalition is breaking up and still no help from
the US to the PM. What is your take on this?
Bennett: Trump recognizes that his foolish actions of having US troops in Syria
and the firing of US cruise missiles at Syria in response to a "false flag”
chemical attack which was blamed on President Assad, but which was later proven
to be a lie and actually done by the White Helmets, is a war crime that may come
back to haunt him. He sees the Senate abandoning this war policy of supporting
the Saudis and Israel because Yemen is turning into a humanitarian disaster, and
this will become both Trump’s legacy and doom his presidency to one term if he
does not remove himself. Trump is now looking for ways to do that, while at the
same time not "losing face” or disturbing his political base which unfortunately
seems to be blindly and ignorantly pro-Zionist. However, once again it seems
this too is changing given the enormous destruction and failure of America’s
policies in the Middle East, and Netanyahu is fast becoming the scapegoat for
Americans to pin all of their blame upon. As the approaching 9/11 legal
investigations take place in New York, and the resulting Iranian legal filings
to dismiss any legal cases and judgments against them for 9/11, we could easily
see the emergence of new evidence, witnesses, and testimony which once and for
all shows the Israeli Zionist involvement in this infamous war crime, and
Netanyahu being arrested or killed for it. The last 18 years of war were clearly
started by the Zionist Likud party and betrayed the trust of the American people
with lies and wars. This is now becoming more and more apparent to Americans,
and it is Netanyahu who is being seen as the conspirator and criminal who must
not only be removed from political life but indeed removed from the earth for
his acts of evil if the earth is to have peace.
Source:Tasnim