97. Gaffe Prices

Yassar Araphat’s PLO was a Soviet asset. They trained him to be an islamic communist — nee islamist.

They stood-up his PLO. The PLO is to Moscow what the Taliban is to Islamabad.

The 1967 War was driven by Soviet intrigues against Dimona. ( Spy satellites do pick up desert construction. )

The whole scheme was to trigger a combined attack against Israel during which Dimona would be occupied.

Moscow understood that an atomic Israel would be way too much for the Arabs to handle — and Moscow, too.

But, as posted previously, Israel ruined the game plan. Her intelligence services doped out Arab intentions — and provided a roadmap to success. ( The Golan being an exemplar for said intel. )

Any further pressure on Israel may cause her to revert to the August 1967 borders. That’s a certainty if Egypt militarizes the Sinai.

Gaffe Prices…

Vietnam, in 1973, made any such military insertion out of the question. Nixon’s entire strategy was to extract the US from conflict.

Bezmenov specifically cites Lebanon as a textbook example of KGB destabilization operations.

That the public mind did not perceive the PLO as a Soviet puppet is a testament to our MSM.