Zuhdi Shubeitah
العربية

An Old Tale

The article examines Paul D. Wolfowitz’s strategic ideas and influence, notably his advocacy of U.S. military dominance and tactics such as presenting Arabs with faits accomplis.

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The Theory of Dialogue After Shock-Making

23 -7-2018

· The mathematician from New York University, the American thinker Paul D. Wolfowitz...a Polish Jew...born in 1943 in Warsaw, he held many political and military positions, especially in the Pentagon, and is the author of the theory of the United States’ ultimate military dominance...and an opponent by all means of the emergence of powers competing with the United States, especially the European Union....an expert in inventing threats and manufacturing them. The originator of the idea of recruiting "occasional clients" in threat areas, and recruiting "الحلفاء المناهضين", and the idea of teams of "the frightening experts"...and one of the theorists of the idea of not focusing on the probability of an event, so much as focusing on the severity of its consequences....He contributed to drafting a new system for the neoconservatives.

· This strategic-military theorist of the United States until recently...of whom "Dennis Ross" was one of his team members when Ross was young and an expert on Soviet affairs, and later became a negotiator on the Middle East issue during Clinton’s presidency..........Paul Wolfowitz proposed, another idea for the principles of dealing with the Arabs, based on his experience with them in previous missions in the Middle East, that the best method to open any subject with the Arabs is to "place them before a fait accompli" from which the dialogue with them begins......

· This is one of the foundations of the idea of "the Deal of the Century" ...and the declaration of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem and considering it the capital of Israel...

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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “An Old Tale” (English translation of «الحكاية من زمان», originally published 27 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/an-old-tale

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