http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/218533/russian-footprints/ion-mihai-pacepa
Navy she is dead on....
In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yury Andropov told me, a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States. No one within the American/Zionist sphere of influence should any longer feel safe.
According to Andropov, the Islamic world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. Islamic anti-Semitism ran deep. The Muslims had a taste for nationalism, jingoism, and victimology. Their illiterate, oppressed mobs could be whipped up to a fever pitch.
In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yury Andropov told me, a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world,
I am not saying the Russians would not do this. try to, or take advantage of such an opportunity, I am saying this is the standard "Russians invented/discovered XXXXXXXXX first". Andropov is taking credit for the sun rising in the east.
Moos have always been predisposed to hatred and genocide for 1) Jews, and 2) anyone else who won't lick their boots and pray to the moon god five times a day, AND they lie to everybody about it until they have the strength of numbers, then out pops the genocide genie (without a commie in sight).
Andropov's program to influence Islam would need to show results after 1973 to be credible. In fact, there were four wars against Israel before Andropov's 1972 plan was even proposed, and in one year could it have caused the '73 war? Probably not. Then several Arab Nations signed and enforced a peace that belies the "Russian influence" effect, with only Lebanon 1 and 2 against Christians the major operation after that.
Andropov didn't culture Islamic hatred for America, it was there all along, the Moos just didn't have the strength in numbers WHERE they needed it to act. When they have, they always do. The Russians had little to do with it, it's simply a matter of time.