The Islamists controlled by the Pentagon
At the beginning of the 1990's, the Pentagon decided to work with the Islamists, who had hitherto depended only on the CIA. This was operation Gladio B, by reference to the secret services of NATO in Europe (Gladio A [1]). For a decade, all the Islamist chiefs - including Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri - travelled on aircraft of the US Air Force. The United Kingdom, Turkey, and Azerbaidjan participated in the operation [2]. As a direct result, the Islamists - who had so far been secret combatants - were publicly integrated into the NATO forces.
Saudi Arabia - which is both a state and the private property of the Saud family - officially became the company charged with the management of world Islamism. In 1992, the King proclaimed a Fundamental Law, which stated
"The state protects Islamic Law and applies the Sharia. It imposes Good and fights Evil. It obeys the duties of Islam (...) The defence of Islamism, of society and of the Muslim homeland is the duty of every subject of the King".In 1993, Charles, the Prince of Wales, placed the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies under his patronage, while the head of the Saudi secret services, Prince Turki, took over its direction.
Comment: Israel conflates the pushback against BDS with an anti-Semitism stigma, a double punch. Deflection has always been Israel's signature move. There is a lot of ground to be made up if the BDS movement is to achieve its goals.
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