Dated: 30th January, 2020 (Thursday)
The Importance of Having consensus in Collective Security and Unilateral Security Framework cannot be played down. What is the reasoning behind keeping NATO/OTAN and calling emergency UNSC (Security council) meetings? What is behind the 75 years of peace that we have in the post-modern era?
L’OTAN or NATO was created in the face of Soviet Russia’s expansive force in Europe. The ‘Western World’ or, to use Chairman Mao’s 1974 theory of ‘Three worlds’ The First World was scared of enlargement and misunderstood that the occupied territories that constituted the CIS and USSR were not ideologically aligned with Soviet Russia. In 1946 after Churchill’s defeat and Clement Attlee coming to power in 1945, the Foreign Secretary Bevan faced a crisis in the Middle East over Israel/Palestine and the 100,000 immigration cap imposed by the British.
The Israeli groups consisted of ‘The Jewish Agency; and though originally when it was formed it was intended to represent the interests of the Jewish inhabitants of a 1940s Palestine to the British Mandate but by 1946 it had overgrown its advisory role and was behaving very differently, much like a government-in-waiting. As attacks increased by Israeli groups (back then designated as terrorists) it was telling that the Jewish Agency headed by David Ben-Gurion refused to condemn these attacks, in other words David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Agency felt that the 100k immigration limit was an abuse of Israeli sovereignty and this was at a time when millions of Jews had been murdered systematically by the Nazi Germans yet here in 1946 The British Empire was in full force and forcing the jews to be rule takers rather then rule makers. Enough was enough and by now plots were made to bomb the King David Hotel – the home of the administration for Palestine (soon to be Israel). Bernard Montgomery, the wartime Field-marshall was made new High-Chief commissioner of Palestine to deal with the increasing riots and terrorist attacks. The attacks were made by nationalist groups that felt that it was not Britain’s right to tell the Jews how many people can come into the country, all nations should be self-governing. The Americans had supported the Jewish side very carefully, it all added up to their plan which was to let the British take the blows from the Zionists and then gradually when Britain’s empire in the ME was weakened, take over the Arab populations (which they did); America believed that AFTER a World War, a second one, Empires should be disbanded but they had to be very careful on this particular issue. During the wave of Zionist bombings the Americans kept very quiet.
The Bomb went off at 12:57pm at the King David Hotel. The Israeli groups had dealt the British administration a near-fatal blow and turned their attention to destroying any chance of an Anglo-American alliance in the ME & Palestine and with it, Britain’s hope of holding on to Palestine.
The Americans had been making overtures to key figures in the Middle-East since 1941 when they discovered that The British were using Arms and Monies from the Lend-Lease act to support and strengthen their Imperial conquests in Arabia and other colonial territories rather than using the funds in the correct way, to fight the battle against Nazi Germany. FDR knew of this and was alerted by a US equivalent of Britain’s 1941 committee, the Senate oversight committee or ‘War Committee’ of the maladministration that the British were guilty of. Wilkie, a leading figure in the US Delegation to gain a foothold in the Middle-East was a staunch critic of the British and was disgusted by what he saw as ‘A free nation giving funds to a country claiming to be a defender of freedoms, only for it to spend the money on strengthening its empire. This has to stop’.
By 1943 Ibn Saud had complained that the British had increased their share of Oil profits from 41% to 67% coming directly from Arabic lands which Ibn Saud oversaw. The Americans tried many times to try and convince Ibn Saud that a US-Saudi relationship would be better. The minutes taken during the meetings between Wilkie and Ibn show that Ibn Saud wore ‘British Socks’ and ‘Scottish wool’; The Americans had to persuade the Saudi Royal Family that the British were stalling and that after the war they would resume their ‘fisted rule of Arabia’.
SwS Politico 