A Big Shift in the Middle East

The first consequence of the Israeli massacres in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen is not the one we expected. To this day the criminals in power in Tel Aviv are continuing their conquest with the weapons they are given. The transformation came first in Israel itself and in the Jewish diaspora, forcing the IDF to accept an unwritten ceasefire in Lebanon, while benefiting from Washington’s help to move the fighting to Syria. The Ukrainian and Lebanese fronts have merged and moved to Syria.

Thierry Meyssan
December 3rd, 2024  (leer en castellano)

In recent years, the Israeli peace movement has been dismantled, a conflation between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism has been maintained, and finally the narrative of the clash of civilizations has been spread. These three errors prevent us from seeing and understanding what is happening in the Middle East.

The peace movement of Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, no longer exists. Its goal was to make Israel the spiritual and moral center of all Jews, a neutral state on the model of Switzerland, with international security guarantees, and a permanent symbolic international presence. Goldmann, who had denounced the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem rather than an international tribunal (which fact allowed the revisionist Zionists to mask their relations with him), negotiated a just and lasting peaceful coexistence with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and with that of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat. Goldmann was even arrested in Israel.

The historian Bernard Lewis was an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu when the latter was Israeli ambassador to the UN. In 1957, he dreamed up the the "Clash of Civilizations" strategy for the National Security Council of the United States (of which he was a member). This idea was about presenting an inevitable confrontation between Western and Islamic civilizations, then Chinese civilization, and so on, in order to justify successive Western wars. His assistant, Samuel Huntington, a former collaborator of the South African secret services of apartheid, popularized this strategy, in 1993, by giving it the appearance of an academic observation. And he was paid by the CIA for this propaganda work. Although his work is an intellectual mishmash that does not stand up to analysis, it has seeped into our minds. This stupid theory is used today by Benjamin Netanyahu to justify his wars on “seven fronts” in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. Yet the same Netanyahu allowed himself to be photographed in September 2014 at the Ziv Medical Center in Zefat visiting 500 Al-Qaeda officers who were being treated in Israel [1]. Thus, it is possible to come to an agreement with jihadists when they massacre civilians in Syria, but not to come to an agreement with Palestinians when they demand a state. 

 

 Benjamin Netanyahu congratulates his al-Qaeda allies, hospitalized in Israel, for their fight against the Syrian Arab Republic.

Natan Sharansky [2], who was Deputy Prime Minister under General Ariel Sharon, created the narrative that it was the Palestinians as a whole and not some Israeli leaders who were refusing peace. Then, he invented the idea that Iranian revolutionaries wanted to throw all Israeli Jews into the sea (while Jews live peacefully in Iran and are represented in Parliament). Finally, he organized an international media campaign to create a confusion between “nationalism”, “Zionism” and “revisionist Zionism”, which would then equate “anti-Semitism” with “anti-Zionism” (from this perspective, the Israeli daily Haaretz would be anti-Semitic). In 2004, Sharansky wrote with Ron Dermer, a dyadic book, The Case for Democracy, to assure us that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Dermer became Israel’s ambassador to the United States (2013-2021), then Minister of Strategic Affairs (2023 to today), a position in which he organizes the fight against the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement in the world.

Natan Sharansky continues his work discreetly today, both in the United States and in Ukraine where he was born, via the Institute for the study of global antisemitism and policy (ISGASP). This American association is abundantly funded by Ron Dermer’s ministry. It is the organization, for example, that organized the hearings at the Congress of the rectors of the major universities to force them to repress the demonstrations against the massacres in Gaza for anti-Semitism.

It goes without saying that Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington, Natan Sharansky and Ron Dermer are not "Zionists", but "revisionist Zionists".

A reshuffling of the deck in the Middle East

In this atmosphere of widespread lies, the positions of each community in the Middle East are changing. This is a consequence of Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to conquer the north of the Gaza Strip and the south of Lebanon. Gradually, all political actors, including Israeli Jews, have realized that Israeli military operations have nothing to do with the stated goals: the liberation of Hamas hostages and the return of Israelis in the north of the country to their homes. The Netanyahu coalition is continuing the colonial project of Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940): the creation of an empire in the Levant, from the Nile to the Euphrates.

This project has no connection with the ancient Kingdom of Jerusalem, which consisted only of the holy city and its immediate suburbs, but aims to restore the ancient Assyrian empire as Jabotinsky’s patron, Benito Mussolini, wanted to restore the ancient Roman empire.

A response to the challenge of a new fascist wave of conquest in the Levant was behind the words of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the joint summit of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, on November 11 in Riyadh, as well as those of the editor of the Israeli daily Haaretz, Amos Schocken, at the conference Israel After October 7th: Allied or Alone?, on November 27 in London.

All the protagonists agree on this observation, even if most avoid referring to the historical links of Jabotinsky and his disciples with the fascists and Nazis. However, Westerners still refuse to open their eyes and instead treat this conflict as if it were ethnic rather than political, as if it pitted Jews against Arabs.

Three elements play a particular role in the change currently underway:

• The victory of Jacksonian Donald Trump in the United States over the Straussian coalition of Kamala Harris. The former intend to substitute trade wars for military wars, while the latter wish to provoke Armageddon.

• The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which have undeniable control of their neighbors’ airspace, are proving incapable of the slightest victory on the ground. They have no discipline and many of their men behave like thugs. In the context of the defeat of the Straussians in the United States, they no longer have as many weapons and are probably short of many of them. Finally, several of its units, which have witnessed the crimes of some of the others, are now on the verge of rebellion.

• The Jewish diaspora, which until now supported Benjamin Netanyahu without flinching, is finally managing to distinguish its support for Israeli Jews from the crimes of their government. Since Netanyahu was indicted by the International Criminal Court on November 21, the solidarity between Jews, which developed over centuries of persecution by the goyim, no longer applies. Many Jewish personalities, who had previously remained silent, have publicly distanced themselves from the crimes committed on the “seven fronts” and against the UN.

Iran has abandoned General Qassem Soleimani’s “Axis of Resistance” strategy, according to which Tehran helps and coordinates all the independent armed groups fighting against the colonization of the region. It refused to help Lebanon during the Israeli invasion, and then a faction in power transmitted to Israel the coordinates of the main military leaders of Hezbollah so that they could be assassinated.

At the same time, Tehran and Tel Aviv have staged their antagonism, each claiming to be ready for a decisive fight. Yet the two Iranian attacks (Operation "Honest Promise" on April 13 and October 1) and the two Israeli attacks (on April 19 and October 26) caused almost no human damage, even if the military of both sides took advantage of them to test the enemy's defenses [3]. A secret agreement between Washington, Tehran and Tel Aviv has become evident.

On the other hand, Tehran has renewed ties with the Iraqi Kurds. President Masoud Pezeshkian went to Iraq in September to meet not only the Talabani tribe, but also the Barzani (pro-Israeli).

In Iraq, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of the Shiite community, spoke out to deliver a confused message showing that he no longer knew what to expect from the Islamic Republic.

In Yemen, Ansar Allah, convinced of Iran’s turnaround, took steps to protect its leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, from the fate of Hassan Nasrallah.

In Turkey, as usual, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan explores the various possibilities open to him, without committing himself here or there. After slowly getting closer to his Syrian counterpart, he authorized arms deliveries to the jihadists of Idlib so that they could resume the fight against the Syrian Arab Republic. At the same time, he sent emissaries to talk to Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the PKK who has been imprisoned since 1978. Whatever the result of those talks, it is unlikely that “Apo” will support NATO and Israel as his movement does today.

Iran’s about-face and Turkey’s double-dealing have suddenly put an end to the euphoria of the BRICS summit in Kazan a month ago [4].

In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad immediately supported the Lebanese and its Hezbollah allies when they were abandoned by Iran. Historically, Lebanon is only a governorate of Syria, and from Assad's point of view, Syria is responsible for the security of the Lebanese. He has therefore both given shelter to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Israeli bombings and transferred the few weapons he has to Hezbollah.

In response, the IDF destroyed all the roads and bridges leading to Lebanon, then, with NATO, they unleashed the Idlib jihadists on Aleppo, taking and occupying a large part of it. The city was defended by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who withdrew without a fight.

To everyone’s surprise, the Idlib jihadists have state-of-the-art weapons, financed by Qatar, and a plethora of drones operated by Ukrainian operators.

The constants of the revisionist Zionists

A constant in the behavior of the revisionist Zionists is to destroy the material evidence of their lies. Thus, Benjamin Netanyahu had the schedules of his meetings changed on October 7, 2023. He hoped that this would make it easier to deny having helped carry out the attack on his own citizens.

The Israelis know that he helped Hamas, from his appointment as Prime Minister in 2009 until October 7. He assured that his strategy was to favor Hamas to fight against Yasser Arafat’s PLO. His first official decision was to cancel the extradition request of Moussa Abu Marzouk, at the time the highest leader of Hamas, who was detained in the United States. Other events have shown that his objective was not to destroy the PLO, but to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. So in 2018, when the Palestinian Authority stopped paying civil servants in Gaza, he made a deal with Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas military leader in Gaza who was then imprisoned in Israel. He gave money first secretly, then officially via Qatar. In four years, he paid Hamas $2.5 billion so that it could build its network of tunnels and arm itself.

 

Audrey Azoulay, former French Minister of Culture and current Director-General of UNESCO, delayed the meeting of the commission for the preservation of historic sites to allow the IDF to destroy Lebanese archaeological sites.

 

In doing so, Netanyahu and Hamas obtained the support of the Anglo-Saxon secret services, faithful to the strategy set out in 1916 by Lord Herbert Samuel, whose son Edwin was a companion of Jabotinsky: to ensure that neither the Jewish state nor the future Palestinian state could ever ensure their security alone.

 Another constant in the behavior of the revisionist Zionists is to destroy the archaeological evidence of their imposture. Thus, still in 2009, the second decision of Netanyahu who became Prime Minister was to dig tunnels under the Temple Mount in order to be able to dynamite the Al-Aqsa Mosque. In recent months, he has destroyed all the archaeological remains in southern Lebanon, Crusader or Ottoman, and even tried to destroy the temples of Baalbeck, the greatest sanctuary of the Roman Empire. In doing so, he continued the destruction carried out during the Gulf War of the site of Babylon, or during the Syrian war of the remains of Aleppo and Palmyra. Everything must be done so that the claim to the land, from the Nile to the Euphrates, appears legitimate. 

 

Notes

[1] « Plus de 500 jihadistes soignés au Ziv Medical Centre », Réseau Voltaire, 22 novembre 2015.

[2] « Natan Sharansky, idéologue de la démocratisation forcée », Réseau Voltaire, 24 février 2005.

[3] « Les enchères israélo-iraniennes masquent la réorganisation des alliances au Moyen-Orient », par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau Voltaire, 5 novembre 2024.

[4] « À Kazan, l’ordre du monde a basculé », par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau Voltaire, 29 octobre 2024.

 

Source: https://www.voltairenet.org/article221562.html