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An Israeli air attack on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza has killed 200 and wounded many more. Netanyahu and Biden have made the world watch this genocide helplessly.
In 2005, actor Daniel Day-Lewis visited Gaza and witnessed the arrogance and crimes of the occupation up close. He narrated his experience, feelings and position in an influential five-page article that sparked the anger of the entity and its gang. These are excerpts from it:
โThis is an apartheid state. It took me less than a week to lose neutrality. And through this I might throw stones at the tanks.โ
In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army responds to stone-throwing with bullets. He responds to bombings and attacks launched by Palestinian militants by bulldozing homes and olive groves in search of the perpetrators, punishing their families, and establishing buffer zones to protect Israeli settlements. It blocks access to villages and multiplies checkpoints, cutting off Gazans from the outside world. MSF psychiatrists try to help Palestinian families cope with the pressures of living within these borders, by treating severe trauma and listening to their stories. These visits are sometimes the only sign that they have not been abandoned.
Israeli tanks and armored bulldozers can come without warning, often at night. The noise alone, for a people forced to suffer these violations year after year, is enough to freeze the soul. Israeli snipers are stationed on rooftops. They order homeowners to leave; They don’t even have time to gather pots, pans, papers and clothes before bulldozers crush the unprotected buildings like dinosaurs trampling eggs. Those caught in the incursion area will be shot. Even those hiding inside their homes may be shot or bombed through walls, windows and roofs. The white flag carried by humanitarian workers offers little protection; We may be subjected to warning shots at least twice before the week is over.
Sometimes families do not leave the area being raided, because if they leave they will lose everything. Staying at home is a big risk. Sometimes the house is occupied by Israeli forces, and the family is forced to stay there as protection for the soldiers. Last year, an average of 120 homes were demolished per month. In the past four years, 28,483 Gazans have been forcibly evacuated; And the destruction of more than half of the usable land in #Gaza, which consists mainly of orchards. Last year, 658 Palestinians were killed in violence in Gaza, along with dozens of Israelis. This plowing, house after house, orchard after orchard, turns the community into a wasteland, scattered and combined with a stunted crop of broken glass, nails, books, and abandoned possessions. As we make our way toward the home of Abu Saghir and his family โ one of many families we will visit today โ we walk over broken histories and aspirations.
One day, Rafael Eitan, the former chief of staff, likened the Palestinian people to โdrugged cockroaches moving and floundering inside a bottle.โ In 1980 he told his officers: “We have to do everything to make them so miserable that they will leave.” He opposed all attempts to grant them autonomy in the occupied territories. Twenty-five years later, it seems to me that his position and policy have been implemented with great enthusiasm.
Watchtowers are these evil structures with malicious shadows of power all over the land. On our third day, as we stood at the torn edge of the refugee camp in Rafah, the forbidden border area between Gaza and Egypt, bullets pierced the sand a yard and a half away from where we were standing. In this place was Iman Al-Hams, a helpless schoolgirl who had been shot just weeks before. She ran and tried to hide here from the cruel death that came to her. I felt her presence. The sky shakes with its shallow, fluttering breaths of its last terror.
[Killing the little girl Iman]
Soldier 1: โWe recognized a person standing on his feet 100 meters away. Soldier 2: โA girl about 10 years old.โ
Soldier 2: โShe is behind the trench, half a meter away, scared to death. The bullets were right next to her, one centimetre away.โ
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-are-ruled-by-sociopaths-and-morons
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
OCT 31, 2023
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): https://x.com/astroloupicus/status/1719330313837723884?s=20
The response to the Gaza crisis from Western leaders, media outlets and celebrities shows very clearly that we really are led by the least among us. The least wise. The least intelligent. The least compassionate. The least insightful. We are ruled by sociopaths and morons.
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You are being offered two narratives to choose from:
Palestinians in Gaza are evil orc-like savages who just want to murder Jews and must therefore be caged and killed.
Palestinians in Gaza are thinking human beings who are reacting to intolerable abuses inflicted upon them.
Which is more believable?
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Weโre being told that Israel needs to wage a relentless bombing campaign which is killing civilians by the thousands in order to eliminate Hamas because Hamas must be destroyed to achieve a lasting peace. Every part of this is transparently false.
Firstly the premise that Hamas must be eliminated to achieve peace is fallacious; peace can be achieved by eliminating the abuses and righting the wrongs which gave rise to Hamas in the first place. Thereโs no rational reason to believe Hamas would continue to exist in its current iteration or keep waging violent resistance if the theft and injustice from 1948 onward were rolled back, refugees had the right to return, apartheid abuses were ended, and people were no longer kept in a giant concentration camp where they are deprived of basic human needs.
Secondly, the premise that you can bomb people into accepting an abusive status quo is self-evidently absurd. Even if Israel kills every single member of Hamas, there will be hundreds of thousands of survivors of this onslaught who see the depravity of Israel and refuse to accept it. Do you think all these orphaned boys and all these men who saw their loved ones ripped apart by military explosives are just going to be cool with the status quo from here on out? Of course not.
And Israel knows this, which is why its preferred solution is to kick all survivors of this onslaught out of Gaza and into refugee camps in the Sinai Peninsula. It knows that nothing itโs doing will actually work and it refuses to make the reparations that will work, so its only other option is the elimination of Gazans one way or the other. Ethnic cleansing and mass displacement is not โpeaceโ by any stretch of the imagination, but it might allow Israel to keep its abusive status quo intact.
Those are Israelโs only real options for sustainable stability: either right all the wrongs which led to this or go the opposite direction and inflict far more wrongs to answer the Palestinian question once and for all. Itโs pretty clear watching all this that Israel has opted for the latter.
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The narrative managers are still struggling with the problem that when they announced that Palestinians had escaped from their concentration camp and killed a bunch of Israelis, an inconvenient number of people started asking โWait, what were they doing in a concentration camp?โ
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I find nothing less morally or philosophically interesting than pontificating on how the traumatized prisoners of a horrible concentration camp should have conducted themselves once they broke free of its confines. As far as Iโm concerned everything that happened on October 7 was the result of generations of Israeli abuse, the British decisions which made it all possible, and the American backing which has kept it going.
Israeli policies created Hamas. I donโt mean this in the usual โNetanyahu boosted Hamas to sabotage peace and undermine its more moderate rivalsโ sense, I mean it in the โThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitableโ sense. If you stomp out every possible peaceful avenue of resistance, naturally youโre going to see the rise of factions which favor violent resistance.
One of my most formative experiences in understanding this conflict happened in 2018 when I watched Israeli soldiers firing on protesters with sniper rifles and live ammo. BโTselem explicitly denounced this as unlawful. Thereโs nothing that could possibly make such a thing okay, and it was a very clear illustration of the way Israel has cut Palestinians off from all the normal pathways toward peaceful resolution.
I said when all this started that I believe the Hamas attack will ultimately be a net negative for Palestinians, but that I canโt in good conscience โcondemn Hamasโ because nobody can articulate a positive direction that Palestinians should be taking. The fact that all peaceful avenues of resistance have been cut off is not the fault of the Palestinians, and itโs not the fault of Hamas. Itโs the fault of the Israeli government.
Hamas is just what you get when you create an intolerably abusive apartheid state which keeps millions of people in a concentration camp whose inhabitants are cut off from basic human needs and makes peaceful revolution impossible. Hamas isnโt the disease, itโs a symptom of the disease. The disease is an apartheid settler-colonialist project which cannot exist without endless violence, warfare and abuse.
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I refuse to be shamed and demonized for supporting peace by people who support the murder of thousands of children.
30 Oct 2023
Renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Mate joins The Grayzone to offer his reflections on Israel’s gruesome military operation in the besieged Gaza Strip.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-israels-genocide-on-gaza-abby-martin/5838335
Oct 30, 2023
Israelโs genocide in Gaza has shocked the conscience of the entire world, with an endless flow of videos and images of Palestinian children cut into pieces by American bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes deliberately intended to destroy a civilian population.
Despite the explicitly genocidal rhetoric of Israeli officials, Western leaders continue to proclaim their support for Israelโs right to โdefend itself.โ
But this war on Gaza is different from past wars, not only in the level of Israeli aggression, but in the reaction on the street, from the Middle East to the United States.
Israel is losing the narrative war. Most people want to see a ceasefire and tens of thousands have protested across the US to demonstrate their opposition to Bidenโs unconditional support for this genocide.
To discuss Israelโs genocidal onslaught in Gaza ahead of a looming ground invasion and how it has the potential to snowball into a catastrophic regional war, Rania Khalek was joined by journalist Abby Martin, creator and host of The Empire Files.
Video. Rania Khalek and Abby Martin
Palestine 101, from 2021
The Ukrainian leader is now reportedly looking for scapegoats after his failed counteroffensive, the magazine reports
https://www.rt.com/news/586211-zelensky-ukraine-government-reshuffle/
Oct 31, 2023
FILE PHOTO. ยฉ Getty Images / Juan Medina
Top officials in Kiev believe that the increasingly โmessianicโ President Vladimir Zelensky has become delusional, Time magazine reported on Monday.
The Western-backed leader is expected to launch a โmajor shake-upโ of the countryโs military and political leadership, the US publication added, citing his aides.
The looming reshuffle is intended to demonstrate โaccountabilityโ for the lack of progress in the stalled counteroffensive against Russia, as well as deal with the apparently growing opposition to Zelenskyโs desire to continue the hostilities no matter what.
Zelensky remains adamant in his desire to โdefeatโ Russia on the battlefield, but his โstubbornnessโ has become borderline โmessianic,โ one of the presidentโs advisers said, on condition of anonymity. โHe deludes himself. Weโre out of options. Weโre not winning. But try telling him that.โ
The reality on the ground, however, is very different from Zelenskyโs vision of scoring an ultimate victory over Moscow, and dissent is apparently growing. According to one of his aides, โsome front-line commanders โฆ have begun refusing orders to advance, even when they came directly from the office of the president.โ
โThey [the military] just want to sit in the trenches and hold the line. But we canโt win a war that way,โ the aide said, admitting the troops were not actually โmoving forward.โ
READ MORE: Zelensky โfeels betrayedโ by West โ Time
In addition, the country is not very well-prepared for the upcoming winter, the aides suggested, adding that pinning failing infrastructure and other hardships exclusively on Russia might not work this time.
โLast year, people blamed the Russians,โ one of them said. โThis time, theyโll blame us for not doing enough to prepare.โ
To fix the situation, Zelensky is expected to launch a major reshuffle of his team shortly, with the โshake-upโ affecting both military and civilian leadership. โAt least one minister would need to be fired, along with a senior general in charge of the counteroffensive,โ the article suggested, citing the aides, who did not provide the exact names of the potential scapegoats. The move is primarily meant to create โaccountabilityโ for the lack of progress on the frontline, they said.
Kiev launched its counteroffensive against Russian forces in early June, but it has so far neglected to achieve any tangible results. In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the counteroffensive had effectively failed, resulting in minor gains and heavy losses for the Ukrainian military. According to Moscowโs estimates, the push cost Kiev more than 90,000 troops, as well as hundreds of military hardware, including assorted Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-iran-russia-set-western-trap-palestine
The only country that could possibly distract the West from Ukraine is Israel. But the US and its allies are walking into an existential trap if they think a West Asian victory will be more easily won than a European one…
Iran is able to block the Strait of Hormuz in a flash. For starters, that would be some sort of poetic justice retribution for Israel aiming to gobble up, illegally, all the multibillion-dollarย natural gas discovered offshore Gaza: this is, incidentally, one of the absolutely key reasons for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.ย
A more plausible scenario, though is that Iran-Russia โ and the new โaxis of evilโ Russia-China-Iran โ have all it takes to drag the Hegemon into a second quagmire.ย Itโs all about using the enemyโs own, discombobulated flip-flapping to unbalance him and disorient him to oblivion.
MONDAY, OCT 30, 2023
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle,
The Russia-Iran strategic partnership – with China in the wings – is laying an elaborate, Sun Tzu-tinged trap for the Hegemon in West Asia.
Apart from Israel, there is no entity on the planet capable of switching the focus, in a flash, away from the West’s spectacular debacle in Ukraine.ย
The warmongers in charge of US foreign policy, not exactly Bismarckian stalwarts, believe that if Project Ukraine is unattainable, Project Final Solution in Palestine could instead be a – ethnic cleansing – cakewalk.
A more plausible scenario, though is that Iran-Russia โ and the new โaxis of evilโ Russia-China-Iran โ have all it takes to drag the Hegemon into a second quagmire. Itโs all about using the enemyโs own, discombobulated flip-flapping to unbalance him and disorient him to oblivion.
The White Houseโs wishful thinking that the Forever Wars in Ukraine and Israel are inscribed in the same lofty โdemocracyโ drive and essential to US national interests, has already backfired โ even among American public opinion.
That does not prevent cries and whispers along the Beltway revealing Israel-allied US neocons increasing the tempo to provoke Iran โ via a proverbial false flag that would lead to an American attack. That Armageddon scenario neatly fits Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuโs biblical psychopathy.
Vassals would be forced to meekly comply. NATO heads of state have made a beeline to visit Israel to demonstrate their unconditional support for Tel Aviv – including Greeceโs Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Italyโs Giorgia Meloni, Britainโs Rishi Sunak, Germanyโs Olaf Scholz, the senile lodger at the White House, and Franceโs Emmanuel Macron.
Avenging the Arab โcentury of humiliationโ
So far, the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has shown extraordinary restraint by not taking any bait. Hezbollah supports the Palestinian resistance as a whole โ and until a few years back, had serious issues with Hamas, with which it clashed in Syria. Hamas, incidentally, while partially funded by Iran, is not run by Iran. As much as Tehran supports the Palestinian cause, Palestinian resistance groups make their own decisions.ย
The big news is that all these issues are now dissolving. Both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) went to Lebanon to visit Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in person this week. That spells out unity of purpose โ or what the region’s Axis of Resistance calls the โUnity of Fronts.โ
Even more eye-opening was Hamas’ visit to Moscow this week, which was met with impotent Israeli fury. The Hamas delegation was headed by a member of its Politburo, Abu Marzouk. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri came especially from Tehran and met two of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrovโs key deputies, Sergei Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin.
That spells out Hamas, Iran, and Russia negotiating at the same table.
Hamas has called on the millions of Palestinians in the diaspora, as well as the whole Arab world and all lands of Islam, to unite. Slowly but surely, a pattern may be discerned: could the Arab world โ and great swathes of Islam – be on the verge of significantly uniting to avenge their own โcentury of humiliationโ โ much as the Chinese did after WWII with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping?
Beijing, via its sophisticated diplomacy, is certainly hinting at it to key players, even before the ground-breaking, Russia-China brokered Iran-Saudi rapprochement was struck earlier this year.
That by itself wonโt thwart the perpetual US neocon obsession to bomb critical infrastructure in Iran. Worth less than zero when it comes to military science, these neocons ignore how Iranian retaliation would – accurately โ target each and every US base in Iraq and Syria, with the Persian Gulf an open case.
Peerless Russian military analyst Andrei Martyanov has shown what could happen to those expensive American iron bathtubs in the Eastern Mediterranean in case of an Israeli-threatened attack on Iran.
Moreover, there are at least 1,000 US troops in northern Syria stealing the country’s oil โ which would also become an instant target.
Ali Fadavi, IRGCโs deputy commander-in-chief, cut to the chase: โWe have technologies in the military field that no one knows about, and the Americans will know about them when we use them.โ
Cue to Iranian hypersonic Fattah missiles โ cousins to the Khinzal and the DF-27 – travelling at Mach 15,ย and able to reach anyย target inย Israel in 400 seconds.ย ย
And add to it sophisticated Russian electronic warfare (EW). As confirmed in Moscow six months ago, when it comes to military interconnection, the Iranians told the Russians at the same table, โWhatever you need, just ask.โ The same applies vice-versa because the mutual enemy is one and the same.
Itโs all about the Strait of Hormuz
The heart of the matter in any Russian-Iran strategy is the Strait of Hormuz, through which transits at least 20 percent of the worldโs oil (nearly 17 million barrels a day) plus 18 percent of liquified natural gas (LNG), which amounts to at least 3.5 billion cubic feet a day.
Iran is able to block the Strait of Hormuz in a flash. For starters, that would be some sort of poetic justice retribution for Israel aiming to gobble up, illegally, all the multibillion-dollar natural gas discovered offshore Gaza: this is, incidentally, one of the absolutely key reasons for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Yet the real deal will be to bring down the Wall Street-engineered $618 trillion derivative structure, as confirmed for years by analysts at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, as well as independent Persian Gulf energy traders.
So when push comes to shove – and way beyond the defense of Palestine and in a scenario of Total War – not only Russia-Iran but key players of the Arab world about to become members of BRICS 11 – such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE – do have what it takes to bring down the US financial system anytime they choose.
As an old school Deep State higher-up, now in business in Central Europe, stresses:
โThe Islamic nations have the economic advantage. They can blow up the international financial system by cutting off the oil. They do not have to fire a single shot. Iran and Saudi Arabia are allying together. The 2008 crisis took 29 trillion dollars to solve but this one, should it happen, could not be solved even with 100 trillion dollars of fiat instruments.โ
As Persian Gulf traders told me, one possible scenario is OPEC starting to sanction Europe, first from Kuwait and then spreading from one OPEC country to another and to all countries that are treating the Muslim world as enemies and war fodder.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudaniย has alreadyย warnedย thatย oil to Western markets could be put off because ofย whatย Israel is perpetrating in Gaza. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has already called, on the record, for a total oil and gas embargo by Islamic countries against nations โ essentially NATO vassals – that support Israel.
So Christian Zionists in the US allied with neocon asset Netanyahu threatening to attack Iran have the potential to pull down the entire world financial system.
Forever War on Syria remixedย ย
Under the current volcano, the Russia-China strategic partnership has been extremely cautious. To the outside world, their mutual official position is to refuse to side with either Palestine or Israel; call for a ceasefire on humanitarian grounds; call for a two-state solution; and respect international law. All their initiatives at the UN have been duly sabotaged by the Hegemon.
As it stands, Washington has refused the green light for the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza. The main reason is the immediate US priority: buy some time to expand the war to Syria, โaccusedโ of being the key transit point for Iranian weapons to Hezbollah. That also doubles as re-opening the same old war front against Russia.
There are no illusions in Moscow. The intel apparatus knows well thatย Israeliย Mossad agentsย have beenย advising Kievย while Tel Aviv was supplyingย weapons to Ukraineย underย seriousย US pressure.ย ย Thatย infuriated theย siloviki and may have constituted a fatal Israeliย mistake.
The neocons, for their part, never stop. They are advancing a parallel threat: if Hezbollah attacks Israel with something else than a few sparse rockets โ and that simply wonโt happen – the Hmeimim Russian Air Base in Latakia will be โeliminatedโ as a โwarningโ to Iran.
This does not even qualify as children playing in the sandbox. After the serial Israeli attacks on the civilian Damascus and Aleppo airports, Moscow did not even blink before offering its Hmeimim facilities to Syria โ complete with clearance for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) cargo flights, according to some Russian intel sources. Netanyahu will not exactly harbor a death wish by bombing a fully A2/AD (anti-access/area denial) Russian Air Base.
Moscow also clearly sees what those expensive American iron bathtubs in the Eastern Mediterranean might be up to. The response has been swift: Mig-31Ks are patrolling neutral air space over the Black Sea 24/7, equipped with hypersonic Khinzals, which would take only six minutes to visit the Mediterranean.
Amidst all this neocon-drenched madness, with the Pentagon deploying a formidable array of weaponry plus โundisclosedโ assets to the Eastern Mediterranean, whether the target is Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Russia, or all of the above, both China and North Korea โ part of the new American-concocted โaxis of evilโ – have indicated they will not be mere bystanders.
The Chinese Navy is for all practical purposes shielding Iran from a distance. Yet even more forceful has been a statement by Premier Li Qiang – something unusually blunt and rare in Chinese diplomacy:
“China will continue to firmly support Iran in safeguarding its national sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national dignity, and will strongly oppose any external forces interfering in Iran’s internal affairs.โ
Never forget that China and Iran are linked by a comprehensive strategic partnership. Meanwhile, Russian Premier Mikhail Mishustin has reinforced the Russia-Iran strategic partnership in a meeting with Iran’s First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber.
Remember those rice eaters from Korea
Pro-Iran militias across the Axis of Resistance, are keeping a carefully tempered degree of confrontation against Israel, close to guerrilla hit-and-run. They wonโt be engaged in massive attacks yet. But all bets are off if Israel invades Gaza. Itโs clear the Arab world, for all its massive internal contradictions, will simply not tolerate the civilian massacre.
Bluntly, at the current incendiary juncture, the Hegemon has found the offramp from its Project Ukraine humiliation. They erroneously believe that the same old Forever War rekindled in West Asia can be โmodulatedโ at will. And if two wars turn into an immense political albatross, as they will, what else is new? They will simply start a new war in the โIndo-Pacific.โ
None of that fools Russia-Iran and their ice-cold monitoring of the flipping and flapping Hegemon every step of the way. Itโs enlightening to remember what Malcolm X was already predicting in 1964:
โSome rice eaters ran him out of Korea. Yes, they ran him out of Korea. Rice eaters with nothing but gym shoes, and a rifle, and a bowl of rice took him and his tanks and his napalm, and all that other action heโs supposed to have and ran him across the Yalu. Why? Cause the day that he can win on the ground has passed.โ
October 28, 2023
With the newly formed โaxis of evilโ consisting of Russia, China, and Iran, the Israel-Palestine War might be a graveyard for the American Empire.
The strategic alliance between Russia and Iran, with China lurking in the wings, is setting up a complex, Sun Tzu-inspired trap for the Hegemon in West Asia.
Other than Israel, there is no force on earth that could quickly divert attention from the stunning mess the West has created in Ukraine.
Not exactly Bismarckian stalwarts, the warmongers in command of US foreign policy think that if Project Ukraine is unachievable, then Project Final Solution in Palestine could be a piece of cake when it comes to ethnic cleansing.
A more likely scenario is that Iran-Russia, along with the newly formed โaxis of evilโ consisting of Russia, China, and Iran, possess the necessary resources to force the Hegemon into yet another maze. The key is to unbalance and disorient the opponent to the point of forgetfulness by using his own, disoriented flip-flapping.
Even with American public opinion, the White Houseโs idealistic belief that the Forever Wars in Israel and Ukraine are part of the same grandiose โdemocracyโ movement and crucial to US national interests has already backfired.
That doesnโt stop the screams and murmurs throughout the Beltway that expose US neocons who support Israel as they quicken the pace to incite Iran by planting a โfalse flagโ that would result in an American strike. The Armageddon scenario is a perfect fit for the biblical psychopathy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Vassals would be forced to meekly comply. NATO leaders, including Greeceโs Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Italyโs Giorgia Meloni, Britainโs Rishi Sunak, Germanyโs Olaf Scholz, the elderly lodger at the White House, and Franceโs Emmanuel Macron, have been hurrying to Israel to show their unwavering support for Tel Aviv.
Avenging the Arab โcentury of humiliationโ
Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance movement, has thus far shown incredible restraint by refusing to accept any bait. Hezbollah backs the Palestinian resistance movement in its entirety. However, until a few years ago, it had severe disagreements with Hamas, with which it fought in Syria. However, while receiving some funding from Iran, Hamas is not controlled by Iran. Even if Tehran backs the Palestinian cause, the resistance organizations in Palestine have the last say on matters of policy.
The good news is that these problems are starting to get resolved. This week, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas travelled to Lebanon to pay a personal visit to Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah. That expresses unity of purpose, or the โUnity of Fronts,โ as the Axis of Resistance in the area refers to it.
The visit of Hamas to Moscow this week, which was greeted with helpless Israeli anger, was even more eye-opening. Abu Marzouk, a member of the Hamas Politburo, led the trip. Ali Bagheri, the deputy foreign minister of Iran, travelled specifically from Tehran to meet with Mikhail Galuzin and Sergei Ryabkov, the two main deputy foreign ministers of Russia.
This indicates that Russia, Iran, and Hamas will be talking at the same table.
Millions of Palestinians living abroad, the Arab world, and all Islamic countries have been urged to unite by Hamas. Gradually, a pattern emerges: might the Arab world, including large portions of Islam, be about to come together in a major way to get revenge for their own โcentury of humiliationโ? This would be similar to what the Chinese did following World War II with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
According to Oxfam, starvation is used as a weapon of war by Israel against civilians in Gaza, and around 104 trucks a day would be required to supply food to Gaza to solve the problem.
Beijing is definitely implying it to important parties through its astute diplomacy, even prior to the historic Iran-Saudi rapprochement that was mediated by Russia and China earlier this year.
That wonโt stop the US neocon obsession with bombing Iranโs vital infrastructure on its own. These neocons, whose military scientific acumen is less than none, fail to recognize that Iranian retribution will precisely target every US base in Syria and Iraq, with the Persian Gulf being a prime example.
Unmatched In the event that Israel threatens to strike Iran, Russian military researcher Andrei Martyanov has illustrated what might happen to those pricey American iron bathtubs in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Furthermore, the oil of Syria is being stolen by at least 1,000 US forces stationed there, making them an immediate target.
The deputy commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ali Fadavi, got right to the point: โWe have technologies in the military field that no one knows about, and the Americans will know about them when we use them.โ
Cue the Iranian hypersonic Fattah missiles, which are related to the DF-27 and Khinzal. They can travel at Mach 15 and can get to any location in Israel in 400 seconds.
Furthermore, incorporates advanced Russian electronic warfare (EW). Regarding military cooperation, as was revealed in Moscow half a year ago, the Iranians at the same table instructed the Russians to โask for whatever you need.โ Because the mutual enemy is the same, the same holds true for the opposite.
Itโs all about the Strait of Hormuz
Every Russian-Iranian strategy revolves around the Strait of Hormuz, which is the passageway for at least 20% of the worldโs oil (about 17 million barrels per day) and 18% of LNG (liquified natural gas), or at least 3.5 billion cubic feet per day.
Iran has the quick ability to close the Strait of Hormuz. First of all, that would be a poetic justice retaliation against Israel for its illegal goal of using all of the natural gas found offshore Gaza, which is worth billions of dollars. This is also one of the main reasons behind the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
The true goal, however, will be to topple the $618 trillion derivative structure that Wall Street created, as independent oil dealers in the Persian Gulf and analysts at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have affirmed for years.
Therefore, in a time of dire needโfar beyond defending Palestine and in the event of a total warโnot only do Russia and Iran possess the capability to topple the US financial system, but so do important Arab nations who are set to join the BRICS alliance, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
An ex-Deep State official who is currently doing business in Central Europe emphasizes:
โTHE ISLAMIC NATIONS HAVE THE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE. THEY CAN BLOW UP THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM BY CUTTING OFF THE OIL. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO FIRE A SINGLE SHOT. IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA ARE ALLYING TOGETHER. THE 2008 CRISIS TOOK 29 TRILLION DOLLARS TO SOLVE BUT THIS ONE, SHOULD IT HAPPEN, COULD NOT BE SOLVED EVEN WITH 100 TRILLION DOLLARS OF FIAT INSTRUMENTS.โ
One scenario, as traders in the Persian Gulf informed me, is that OPEC would begin to impose sanctions on Europe, starting in Kuwait and working its way up to all of the member states and ultimately to all nations who view the Muslim world as adversaries and weapons of mass destruction.
Iraqโs prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, has already issued a warning, stating that Israelโs actions in Gaza may cause a disruption in the supply of oil to Western markets. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the foreign minister of Iran, has previously publicly advocated for an all-out boycott of gas and oil by Islamic states against NATO vassals that back Israel.
Thus, the threat of assault on Iran by Christian Zionists in the US and Neocon ally Netanyahu might bring down the global financial system as a whole.
Forever War on Syria, remixed
The strategic alliance between Russia and China has been very cautious in light of the current volcano. Their joint public stance to the outside world is to respect international law, demand a humanitarian truce, refuse to support either Israel or Palestine and urge for a two-state solution. The Hegemon has duly undermined all of their UN endeavors.
As of right now, Washington has declined to approve Israelโs ground invasion of Gaza. The primary cause is the USโs urgent priority, which is to gain time to extend the conflict to Syria, which is โaccusedโ of being the main hub for the transportation of Iranian weaponry to Hezbollah. That also means reopening the old front in the conflict against Russia.
Moscow is not a place of illusions. The intelligence community is well aware that, despite strong US pressure, Israeli Mossad operatives were offering Kiev advice as Tel Aviv was arming Ukraine. That may have been a deadly Israeli error, but it incensed the siloviki.
For their part, the neocons never cease. They are putting forward a separate threat: the Hmeimim Russian Air Base in Latakia will be โeliminatedโ as a โwarningโ to Iran if Hezbollah assaults Israel with more than a few scattered rockets, which just wonโt happen.
This hardly counts as kids having fun in the sandbox. According to certain Russian intelligence sources, Moscow offered Syria its Hmeimim facilities without even blinking after Israel launched a series of attacks on the civilian airports in Aleppo and Damascus. The offer included permission for Iranโs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to fly goods. By attacking a Russian air base that is completely A2/AD (anti-access/area denial), Netanyahu wonโt exactly be wishing for his own death.
Itโs also obvious that Moscow knows what those fancy American iron bathtubs in the Eastern Mediterranean might be planning. The reaction was prompt: Mig-31Ks, fitted with hypersonic Khinzals that could reach the Mediterranean in six minutes, are continuously monitoring neutral air space above the Black Sea.
Whether the target is Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Russia, or all of the above, the Pentagon is deploying a formidable array of weaponry plus โundisclosedโ assets to the Eastern Mediterranean. Amid all of this neocon-soaked madness, China and North Korea, who are both members of the new โaxis of evilโ created by the United States, have indicated they will not be passive observers.
From a distance, the Chinese Navy is essentially providing Iran with protection. However, Premier Li Qiangโs statement, which was extraordinarily direct and uncommon in Chinese diplomacy, was even more forceful:
โCHINA WILL CONTINUE TO FIRMLY SUPPORT IRAN IN SAFEGUARDING ITS NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, AND NATIONAL DIGNITY, AND WILL STRONGLY OPPOSE ANY EXTERNAL FORCES INTERFERING IN IRANโS INTERNAL AFFAIRS.โ
Never forget that a comprehensive strategic alliance unites China and Iran. In the meantime, Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber and Russian Premier Mikhail Mishustin met to reaffirm the strategic alliance between their countries.
Remember those rice eaters from Korea
Pro-Iranian militias on the other side of the Axis of Resistance are maintaining a cautiously moderate level of hostility toward Israel, akin to a hit-and-run guerilla tactic. They wonโt be launching large-scale assaults just yet. But if Israel invades Gaza, then all bets are off. Despite its severe internal contradictions, it is certain that the Arab community would not put up with the slaughter of civilians.
To put it bluntly, the Hegemon has discovered a way out of the humiliation that comes with Project Ukraine at this explosive moment. They mistakenly think that it is possible to โmodulateโ the same old Forever War that has been resurrected in West Asia. And what else is new, if two wars become, as they inevitably do, a massive political albatross? All they will do is launch another conflict in the โIndo-Pacific.โ
All of it is irrelevant to Russia and Iran, who are keeping a chilly eye on the hegemon at every turn. Keeping in mind what Malcolm X foresaw in 1964 is instructive
Imagine hiding behind the bible to justify genocide.
Come for the corruption of the soul and stay for the contamination of the brain?
Gaza 2023
ISRAEL is BOMBING Palestinian AMBULANCES! Gaza only has about 25 ambulances left!
Putin is right:
Nation of psychopaths