January 17, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today warned Israeli leaders that if they go forward with their plans to conduct large scale military operations inside the Gaza Strip, they will be unleashing chaos throughout the region, and sabotaging any hopes of a regional peace breakthrough. "It would be insane, suicidally insane," LaRouche commented.

LaRouche issued the warning after Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) received indications from Israeli and U.S. intelligence sources, that a recent meeting of the Israeli security cabinet, following President George Bush's recent eight-day visit to the region, had approved massive military operations into Gaza, to uproot Hamas command and control, and assassinate leading Hamas figures. According to both the Israeli and American sources, Labor Party leader and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak has been one leading proponent of the Gaza strikes, arguing that no two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is possible, so long as Hamas remains a strong and popular force among Palestinians, and retains control over Gaza.

During his meetings with regional leaders, President Bush had attacked Iran as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, and had made other equally bellicose comments, while ostensibly pursuing a final status peace deal between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Israeli sources, with close ties to the Olmert government, warned that the Israeli war plans against Hamas presence in the Gaza Strip, could careen out of control, and spread to a second northern front, if Hezbollah carries out rocket attacks against Israel in sympathy with Hamas. Under those circumstances, the sources warned, Israel could be drawn into a fullscale war against the Palestinians, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Syria. According to some Israeli contingency plans, Iran could also be a target, if evidence surfaced of further Iranian military support for Hamas or Hezbollah. This is the kind of regional chaos and war, advocated by Bush Administration figures like Vice President Dick Cheney. Lyndon LaRouche has identified such an all-out destabilization as fundamentally made-in-London, in pursuit of the British policy of using "managed chaos" to create a post-nation state, "post-Westphalian" world system. LaRouche has warned Israeli leaders that they are considered to be throw always by this hardcore Anglo-American crowd. Therefore, any impulse to launch large-scale military operations into the Gaza Strip, which would serve as a trigger for the larger permanent conflict, must be dropped, immediately. Such folly would almost certainly lead to the destruction of Israel, LaRouche concluded.