“GEOPOLITICAL POLARITY”

How Israel is progressing in its expansive project in the Middle East and Iran's role in stopping it

 

Por Charles H. Slim

Since the second half of the 20th century, the Middle East scenario has become permanently more complex demonstrating how the main political actors in the region behave and are influenced by the arbitrary insertion of de facto situations, such as the state of Israel undoubtedly was in 1948.

As antecedent to this influence was the arbitrary and we could even say obscene distribution of the Middle East, carried out in 1916 by the French and the British with the so-called “Sykes-Picott Agreement” by which and under considerations of which the Arabs did not participate, both Colonial powers divided geopolitical influence by creating Arab kingdoms and nation states that would obviously be subject to the orbit of Paris and London respectively.

In this way, just as they “created” these young nation-states, they saw that they could pave the way for the aspirations of European Zionist groups who, since the end of the 19th century (inspired by their mentor Theodor Herzl) had been pressuring the United Kingdom to be will grant territories in Biblical Palestine to make a Jewish nation-state a reality. This is how in 1923 they achieved that “Declaration of Balfour.”

From a distance, it is clear that from the West (understand the US and Europe), the governments of the centers of power were always manipulating the situation board against Arab interests (even when apparently they had fabulous relations with them on the issue of oil) and in favor of a political entity composed of cadres of Jewish citizens from European countries such as Poland and of course Germany. This was how it was possible to establish a Jewish nation-state through deception, terrorism and the use of military force (financed by unfathomable funds).

Despite the fact that the United Nations had been founded in 1945 to prevent precisely the arbitrariness that had given rise to the second war, Israel was able to carry out its nationalist aspirations through aggression and the war of conquest thanks to the complicity of Western nations triumphant led by the USA. Just as the Third Reich had done, a group of Jewish nationalists would claim with blood and fire "vital spaces" for the development of a "Jewish homeland" on Arab territories with arbitrary limits based on messianic eschatology.

But as soon as that great war ceased, a new hemispheric confrontation called the “Cold War” began, which would end up splitting the world into two great blocs that would try (each on its own) to attract nations that had no other option than to recline on any of those powers. In this way, it was convenient for Israel and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf to be the western agent in the region, while Arab nations with strong nationalist and revolutionary sentiments (Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen), who had committed to fight for the The liberation of the territories occupied by Israel leaned towards the support of the Soviet Union.

From that Zionist intrusion that continued with the gradual dispossession of Arab territories in Palestine and the displacement of thousands of its native inhabitants to perpetual refugee camps, the struggle of the Palestinian Arabs (through resistance) against the violent imposition of a political entity that had been born, planned and supported from Europe and that, taking advantage of the circumstances of a horrible war (including the Holocaust), tried to establish the legitimacy to be able to proceed as they did. With this it is clear that it was not “Yahweh” in fulfillment of some prophecy of Moses -as argued by Messianic Zionists and Christian neo-Zionists - who carried out this undertaking. Even more. Its permanence as a state surrounded by hostile Arab neighbors, was sustained and continues to be sustained by the fabulous cooperation (monetary, political, diplomatic and military) of the United States and Great Britain that allowed it to access an offensive nuclear development (with more than 500 nuclear warheads in its arsenals) and to maintain a highly technical army.

Beyond the illegality represented by that military conquest of 1948, from a distance it is very clear that much less such action can have a divine or “blessed” aspect, as many still claim to argue. The war, the massacre and the theft -of Palestinian territories and properties- are an inconsistency to the commandments of the same prophet (Moses) that they usually invoke (victimization by means of) to cover the bestialities committed. The true colonial nature behind -among many others- large real estate deals has long been revealed. It is in this, that a part of Judaism around the world, embarrassed by these shameless and aberrant crimes, rejects and refuses that an earthly political entity like Israel says that it represents them.

But going to the pragmatic and in what is reflected today in the regional political reality, Israel, a nuclear power (with the beginning of its development in 1950) that rests on a gigantic conventional arsenal, aspires to be the ruling power of the entire Middle East with a projection to spread over Asia. The road in that sense has not been easy. The rise of the Khomeini Islamic Revolution in 1979 marked the beginning of a new political position outside the Arab world (influencing the Arab Shiites) that opposed and still continues to oppose his expansionist policy.

Likewise, its path would be paved from 1991 after the end of the war against Iraq[1] and from then on carrying out all kinds of actions  -mostly covert- against its Arab rivals with the accession or rather, the gradual laundering of political relations with the monarchies Arabs of the Gulf and the Kingdom of Jordan (close collaborator of the USA) that does not mean the acceptance of their peoples.

But those aspirations are hampered by the presence of Iran, which unlike the Arab monarchies and pro-American regimes in the region, is the only Islamic state that firmly and unconditionally supports the Palestinian cause. That is why Tel Aviv and the international Zionist network that operates mainly in the US, see Iranian nuclear development and its advances in the field of missiles not as a threat to peace (tearful argument to try to move global opinion) but a strategic obstacle to its expansionist ambitions.

After September 11, 2001, the Anglo-Saxon “Think Tanks” linked to the neocon sector and the pro-Israeli US lobbies took the opportunity to deepen their Islamophobic arguments in favor of intervening in the Middle East that would benefit Tel Aviv's policy, especially in the one directed to crush legitimate Palestinian claims while cutting off aid from countries like Iraq, Libya and Syria, and increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Israel has reached these instances thanks to the destruction of Iraq and Libya, Arab countries that, before the -convenient- Western interventions (NATO), in addition to supporting the Palestinian cause, had the political and military potential to condition Israeli movements throughout the region. Currently with Syria distracted in an asymmetric aggression of western origin (in which Tel Aviv collaborates) and Iraq weakened by a known Status Quo and the reestablishment of relations with the oil monarchies, the way to extend to the Gulf is paved[2].

It is in this context that Iran has become fully aware of the Israeli position and intentions and has not missed several episodes in the Gulf waters that occurred in June 2019 that left Tel Aviv's black hand evident with the deductible collaboration of Emirati elements. The so-called “Abraham agreement” concluded between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in August 2020 and the secret meetings between senior Israeli and Saudi officials appear to have whitewashed this pre-existing cooperation between these regimes.

That gave Tel Aviv more airs to tighten the rope around Iran. It should not be forgotten that after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, its intelligence and attack cells operated freely on the Iraqi borders with a special point of penetration through Kurdistan. The assassination of General Qassem Soleimani (orchestrated between the CIA and Mossad) on leaving the Baghdad airport in January 2020, was conclusive proof of the intentions of Washington and Israel. Despite the evidence of continuous incursions and terrorist actions perpetrated on behalf of Tel Aviv, international organizations have not taken action on the matter. The assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh at the end of November 2020 (days after Netanyahu met his intelligence chief Yosi Cohen and King Salman in the resort town of Neom) evidenced the involvement of the Mossad, reissuing before public opinion the tactic of Israeli terrorism. Despite this, it is worth asking where was the United Nations?

It is clear that the Arab monarchical regimes have put business and the advantageous profits that an economic-financial partnership with Israel can bring forward, who in return will claim them, forget about the lawsuits for the Palestinian cause and all the crimes that were committed (that they seek to be investigated by the ICC) and are continually committed to subjugate them. On the contrary, Iran, aware of its geopolitical position and particularly of its strategic importance -of controlling the oil route through the Strait of Hormuz - does not intend to give in to this and has even taken the lead in supporting the Palestinians and the axis of Arab-Islamic resistance.

Currently it is in Syria where the rivalries between the two poles are being measured. Precisely there and since 2011 is where the plans of Washington and its allies (including Israel) to destroy the Syrian nation-state to turn it into a failed state like Iraq with the clear intention of keeping it in chaos and dependent on of “foreign aid”. In this sense, the support of Tehéran (framed in the Russian intervention) has been conclusive not only to defeat the proxies gangs that are mere pawns of the Pentagon, but also to expel those that operate with the support of Tel Aviv in the limits of the Golan Heights and the province of Quneitra.

 

 

 

 

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[1] Pensamiento Estrategico y Politico. “Leave Saddam”, By Dany Smith https://pensamientoestraegico.blogspot.com/2017/02/veteranos-de-ayer-leave-saddam-n.html

[2] The Washington post.com, Israel deploys submarine to Persian Gulf in message of deterrence to Iran, Dec. 23, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-israel-fakhrizadeh-nuclear-assassination/2020/12/23/fca9e0fe-44e8-11eb-ac2a-3ac0f2b8ceeb_story.html