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‘Peace In The Middle East? That’s A Threat.’
Thanks to China's and Russia's mediation peace is breaking out in the Middle East.
Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai – 4:14 UTC · Apr 8, 2023
#BreakingNews:
The United Arab Emirates has begun withdrawing its forces from #Yemen. The Saudi-Emirati-Yemenite agreement will be announced soon.
The Middle East is solving its conflicts without the #US negative impact.
Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai · Apr 7
Great news:
#SaudiArabia will announce the end of the war in #Yemen after the Eid al-Fitr. Saudi is ending all its (high/low) conflicts in the Middle East with #Iran, #Syria, #Iraq, #Yemen & #Lebanon(not interested in the country for now) to turn towards its own development. …
Peace will also come to Syria. The foreign minister of Saudi Arabia will soon visit Damascus. He will invite Syria to rejoin the Arab League. An Arab League summit will be held next month in Saudi Arabia and the Syrian president Bashar al Assad is expected to be there.
This comes after agreements between Iran and Saudi Arabia to bury the hatchet and after agreements between Iraq and Iran to reign in a Kurdish uprising in Iran that was controlled by Kurdish forces in Iraq.
'We can't have that', says U.S. president Joe Biden. He sent CIA director Bill Burns to Saudi Arabia to threaten consequences:
CIA Director Bill Burns made an unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia this week where he reportedly aired Washington's frustrations over Riyadh's opening to Iran and Syria through mediation brokered by US rivals China and Russia.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a US official confirmed the trip to Al-Monitor. “Director Burns traveled to Saudi Arabia where he met with intelligence counterparts and country leaders on issues of shared interest," the US official said.
The official did not disclose the exact day of the trip but said that Burns discussed intelligence cooperation, especially in the area of counterterrorism. The CIA director met the country's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Burns likely threatened to withhold U.S. intelligence on terrorist groups from the Saudis. The CIA could additionally push some of its ISIS assets to make some nasty appearances in Saudi Arabia to then offer 'help' to 'fight terrorism'.
I do not think that this will work. The Saudis have had enough of U.S. interference in their region. They are looking for development and development requires peace.
Thus the U.S. is upping its threat:
The US Navy deployed a nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Middle East waters via the Suez Canal, a spokesperson revealed Saturday.
The Pentagon's rare disclosure of the location of one of its Ohio-class submarines came amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran after an American military contractor was killed by a drone attack on a US base in Syria last month.
The USS Florida arrived in the region before transiting the canal on Friday "to help ensure regional maritime security and stability," Cdr. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for the US Navy's 5th Fleet, told Al-Monitor via email.
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Last week, the Pentagon extended the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS George H. W. Bush in the Mediterranean to support US forces in the Middle East in case of further conflagration and moved up the planned deployment of a squadron of A-10 attack aircraft to the region, CNN first reported.
Meanwhile the Zionists finally have to confront their ideological core:
Sina Toossi @SinaToossi – 15:28 UTC · Apr 8, 2023
Israel's former defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon says Jewish extremists who believe in "Jewish supremacy" & seek a "big war" are influencing the Israeli government's decision-making. He likens their agenda to a "Mein Kampf" in reverse.
Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2 · 15h
Extremely important! #Israel's *right-wing* ex-Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya'alon, sheds light on Israel's most dangerous government & the supremacist ideology of its Finance & Security Ministers.
Listen to every word to understand the ongoing escalation!
video
Moshe Ya'alon describing the ideology of two current ministers: "Jewish supremacism. Mein Kampf in reverse. … To as soon as possible get to a big war. … This is what goes into the decision making process in the Israeli government."
When government ministers seek a big war they will probably get one. A civil war between 'liberal' Zionists and hard core ideological Zionists, fought on the back of Palestinians, may become a prelude to that.
@Exile | Apr 8 2023 16:57 utc | 11
UN Resolution 181 was never a solution. Here, from my On the Founding of Israel and the Slow Genocide of Palestinians is why.
In 1917 there were 690,000 Arabs (Christian and Muslim) compared with 59,000 Jews in Palestine.
Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations stated in part: “To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilisation and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.”
This “sacred trust of civilisation” was embodied in the British “Mandate for Palestine”:
The Preamble of the Mandate was as follows: “Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to entrust to a Mandatory selected by the said Powers the administration of the territory of Palestine, which formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries as may be fixed by them; and Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917 [the Balfour Declaration], by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country…”
This “sacred trust of civilisation” was adopted by the UN on its formation to replace the League of Nations in Chapter XI, entitled the “Declaration Regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories”, “Members of the United Nations which have or assume responsibilities for the administration of territories whose peoples have not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the utmost, within the system of international peace and security established by the present Charter, the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories…
Which obliterates the claim sometimes made that Palestine did not exist.
On April 2, 1947, as a direct consequence of Zionist terrorism, Britain requested to relinquish its mandate due to Zionist terrorism. Accordingly, on May 15, 1947 the UN adopted Resolution 106, establishing the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) to “submit such proposals as it may consider appropriate for the solution of the problem of Palestine”.
On September 3, UNSCOP issued its report to the General Assembly, explicitly recognizing that it was in violation of the spirit and letter of the mandates, exceeded the legal authority of the UN General Assembly (which can only issue non-binding resolutions), and with a population of 1,203,000 Arabs (65%) who owned some “85 percent of the land” and only and 608,000 Jews (33%, mostly through immigration), who owned less than 7% ran in the face of the wish of the majority and the principle of self-determination, nevertheless recommended that Palestine be partitioned into separate states with an economic union, an Arab state constituting some 45.5% of Palestine, and a Jewish state with 55.5%, with the proviso in Resolution 181 [Retrieved January 29, 2018, from
UN General Assembly (Non-binding) Resolution 181] that:
10. The Constituent Assembly of each State shall draft a democratic constitution for its State and choose a provisional government to succeed the Provisional Council of Government appointed by the Commission. The constitutions of the States shall embody chapters 1 and 2 of the Declaration provided for in section C below and include inter alia provisions for:
(a) Establishing in each State a legislative body elected by universal suffrage and by secret ballot on the basis of proportional representation, and an executive body responsible to the legislature;
(b) Settling all international disputes in which the State may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered;
(c) Accepting the obligation of the State to refrain in its international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations;
(d) Guaranteeing to all persons equal and non-discriminatory rights in civil, political, economic and religious matters and the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religion, language, speech and publication, education, assembly and association;
(e) Preserving freedom of transit and visit for all residents and citizens of the other State in Palestine and the City of Jerusalem, subject to considerations of national security, provided that each State shall control residence within its borders.
It should be noted that contra Israeli claims, this did not establish Israel (as noted above, that would have been beyond the powers of the UN General Assembly). The resolution made recommendations, which were voided by the Zionists’ subsequent activities. In any case, even if Israel wished to assert that Resolution 181 did authorize the founding of Israel, the same resolution authorized the founding of Palestine, and the article 10 requirements, every one of which Israel has violated. For a more thorough treatment of this material, I recommend The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel. (2018, January 13). Retrieved January 29, 2018, from https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/10/26/the-myth-of-the-u-n-creation-of-israel.
The Arab counterproposal of an independent state of Palestine in which the rights of the Jewish minority would be recognized and respected, and which would afford the Jewish population representation in a democratic government remained on the table when, on the expiry of the mandate, Zionist terrorists, far better armed and trained, and greatly outnumbering any other forces in the region, launched a brutal wave of genocidal attacks on Palestinians across Palestine creating a massive refugee crisis that overwhelmed the region which persists today, in part because the US justifiably insisted that the crisis be resolved by ensuring the Palestinian “Right to Return” when the High Commissioner for Refugees was formed in 1952.
At this point Israel, the world’s only apartheid state, the world’s only country without official borders, the world’s only country where the US has exercised its security council veto to protect it at least 43 times [http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/42-times-us-has-used-its-veto-power-against-un-resolutions-israel-942194703], the country with the most UN resolutions about its activities [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel] has made a two-state state impossible, by stealing over 90% of the Palestine and most of the Palestinians’ assets,
Worst of all is the impending genocide that Israel, an apartheid (separate development) state, founded in terrorism and supported by a massive theft of land and assets, has made an inevitable consequence, due to Israel having deliberately contaminated the aquifers stolen from the Palestinians by over-pumping, repeatedly exceeding the “red line” set by the Israeli water authority marking the point where salt water from the sea would enter the aquifers, meaning salination would occur, and importing millions of additional immigrants from the USSR, despite having been warned by its own water authority that the population was already unsustainable. Then, once Israel had established high capacity desalination plants to supply her own needs while turning the Eastern Mediterranean into an aquatic desert with soaring levels of brine, began pumping untreated sewage into the aquifers . . .
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