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Two Middle East Outlooks
Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor and dimwit, had written a laudation of his own and his bosses foreign policy for the November print edition of Foreign Affairs. The piece was finalized before the war in Palestine had begun.
The Sources of American Power
A Foreign Policy for a Changed World
Excerpts:
Indeed, although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades.
The progress is fragile, to be sure. But it is also not an accident.
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[The president's] approach returns discipline to U.S. policy. It emphasizes deterring aggression, de-escalating conflicts, and integrating the region through joint infrastructure projects and new partnerships, including between Israel and its Arab neighbors. And it is bearing fruit.
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This disciplined approach frees up resources for other global priorities, reduces the risk of new Middle Eastern conflicts, and ensures that U.S. interests are protected on a far more sustainable basis. Challenges remain. The Israeli-Palestinian situation is tense, particularly in the West Bank, but in the face of serious frictions, we have de-escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years of its absence.
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Alastair Crooke, who has personally negotiated prisoner exchanges between Hamas and Israel, has published a rather bleak outlook.
Escalations Cannot Be Stopped – The White House Is Rattled; Escalations Might All Fuse Into ‘One’
The reality of the necessity of war is permeating widely the consciousness of the Arabic and Islamic world.
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It is no coincidence that Netanyahu flourished a map of Israel during his General Assembly address last month in which Israel dominated from the River to the Sea – and Palestine (indeed any Palestinian territory) was non-existent.
Tom Friedman in his NYT reflections may fear that just as NATO’s impaired performance in Ukraine has ruptured ‘the NATO myth’, so too the 7 October Israeli military and intelligence collapse and what happens in its wake in Gaza ‘might explode the entire pro-American alliance structure’ in the Middle East.
The confluence of two such humiliations might break the spine of western primacy. This seems to be the gist to Friedman’s analysis. (He likely is correct).
Hamas has succeeded in smashing the Israel deterrence paradigm: They were not afraid, the IDF proved far from invincible, and the Arab street mobilised as never before (confounding western cynics who laugh at the very notion of there being an ‘Arab Street’).
Well, that is where we are – and the White House is rattled.
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This is what worries the White House Team. They are deeply unconfident that an Israeli invasion of Gaza will put ‘Humpty’ together again. Rather, they fear that events may go badly for the IDF, and further, that the images relayed across the Middle East of Israel using overwhelming force in a civilian urban setting will revolt the Islamic sphere.
In spite of western scepticism, there are signs that this insurrection in the Arab sphere is different, and resembles more the 1916 Arab Revolt that overthrew the Ottoman Empire. It is taking on a distinct ‘edge’ as both Shi’a and Sunni religious authorities state the duty of Muslims to stand with Palestinians. In other words, as the Israeli polity becomes plainly ‘Prophetical’, so the Islamic mood is turning eschatological, in its turn.
That the White House should be floating kites about ‘moderate’ Arab leaders pressing ‘moderate’ Palestinians to form an Israeli-friendly government in Gaza that would displace Hamas and impose security and order shows just how severed is the West from reality. Recall that Mahmoud Abbas, General Sisi and the King of Jordan (some of the region’s most pliable leaders) pointedly refused even to meet with Biden after the latter’s Israel trip.
The anger across the region is real and threatens ‘moderate’ Arab leaders, whose room for manoeuvre is now circumscribed.
So hotspots are proliferating, as are attacks on U.S. deployments around the region. Some in Washington claim to perceive an Iranian hand, and are hoping to expand a window for war with Iran.
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Should Israel enter Gaza (and Israel may decide it has no choice but to launch a ground operation, given the domestic political dynamics and public sentiment), it is likely that Hizbullah will incrementally be drawn further in, leaving the U.S. with the binary option of seeing Israel defeated, or launching a major war in which all the hotspots become fused ‘as one’.
In a sense, the Israeli-Islamic conflict now may only be resolved in this kinetic way. All efforts since 1947 have seen the divide only deepen. The reality of the necessity of war is permeating widely the consciousness of the Arabic and Islamic world.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/chomp-chomp-gulp-gulp/
It’s been several years since it has become obvious that Jim “Biden Will Never Be The 2020 Nominee” Kunstler is either
1. Brain dead or
2. Controlled opposition.
In this article he doesn’t even make an attempt to conceal it.
“…the little slab of land on the Mediterranean at issue is in the possession of one group of people and another group of people wants to drive them out.”
He is, of course, right, if he admits that
1. The “little slab of land” is Gaza and that part of the West Bank still remaining to Palestine and
2. It is the zionazi pseudostate that wants to, and openly talks about, driving the Palestinians out to Sinai and Jordan so it can take over everything.
“There is no “two state solution” because there is only one place in that place.”
I agree. The one place is Palestine. It was always Palestine. The ziofilth are colonial oppressors of extremely recent vintage.
“Islam won’t even go so far as to acknowledge that something happened there, or that it matters.”
It isn’t just “Islam”* saying so:
https://www.unz.com/article/what-really-happened-on-7th-october/
*15% of the Palestinians are Christians, as is one of the main Palestinian resistance movements, the PFLP. Kunstler is careful to avoid saying so either because he doesn’t know it or because it would spoil his narrative.
“The reason Israel is where it is is because Western Civ treated the Jews abominably in the 1930s and 40s. The result, establishing a state of Israel in its historic location, was a power move, of course, by the powers who won the Second World War, but it had the imprimatur of a sacred duty.”
Let’s unpack all the contentions in this paragraph:
1. The zionist project began in the 1890s, and the zios did the rounds of Eastern Europe demanding the governments of the day oppress their Jews to compel them to emigrate to Herzl’s planned Judenstaat.
2. The original zionist demand was for the Judenstaat to be situated in Uganda, but the Brutish colonial occupiers of Uganda refused to hand it over.
3. The Balfour Declaration was in 1917, granting a so called Jewish Homeland in Palestine. WWII ended, as even Kunstler might be aware, in 1945.
4. It was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz and when it did, in Jan 1945, Aleksandr Werth’s reports were dismissed as “Red Propaganda”.
5. The zionists cooperated closely with the nazis through the 1930s (the Haavara Agreement), and the zionist terrorist outfit the Stern Gang wanted military assistance from Hitler to fight the British Mandate in Palestine during WWII.
6. One of the last surviving original zionists, Uri Avnery, has written that the zios themselves didn’t care anything about the so called Holocaust until after WWII.
“It looks like the Islamic nations that surround Israel like a child in an alligator pit have made the calculation that now is the time to gobble up the little interloper.”
The”Islamic nations” had been betraying Palestine for decades, normalising relations with the zionazi pseudostate, even allowing diplomatic relations, while the zionazis routinely murdered Palestinian children, health workers, journalists, and random civilians, turned Gaza into a concentration camp, planted illegal rabidly racist settler filth all over the West Bank, and instituted more overt apartheid than the South African regine ever did. The “little interloper” is a blood soaked American proxy which is paid $125 per second by the American Empire in subsidies, and that’s in normal times, while being given total immunity and protection for its endless crimes, including against America itself. And far from the “Islamic” nations ganging up on “Israel”, even the Vichy Fatah regime in the West Bank is doing all it can to block mass protests against the zionazi occupation and its genocide in Gaza.
“Jihad is in the offing.”
Define jihad, Kunstler. And while you’re at it, why did the zionazi pseudostate treat headchopping jihadi cannibals fighting Assad in its hospitals before said cannibals were driven out of south Syria? Why did ISIS, the most infamous “jihadi” gang of all, only once fire on a zionazi outpost….and promptly apologise, according to the zionists themselves?
“They could neutralize the command network of Hamas pretty much the same way they got the Black September ringleaders of the Munich Olympics massacre, 1972…”
The zios can’t even fight lightly armed HAMAS and IJ resistance fighters face to face. What makes Kunsty imagine they are the same as the zios of 1972?
Maybe the same mental delusion that makes him repeat that removing Joe Bidet is right round the corner?
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Oct 28 2023 0:15 utc | 529
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/chomp-chomp-gulp-gulp/
It’s been several years since it has become obvious that Jim “Biden Will Never Be The 2020 Nominee” Kunstler is either
1. Brain dead or
2. Controlled opposition.
In this article he doesn’t even make an attempt to conceal it.
“…the little slab of land on the Mediterranean at issue is in the possession of one group of people and another group of people wants to drive them out.”
He is, of course, right, if he admits that
1. The “little slab of land” is Gaza and that part of the West Bank still remaining to Palestine and
2. It is the zionazi pseudostate that wants to, and openly talks about, driving the Palestinians out to Sinai and Jordan so it can take over everything.
“There is no “two state solution” because there is only one place in that place.”
I agree. The one place is Palestine. It was always Palestine. The ziofilth are colonial oppressors of extremely recent vintage.
“Islam won’t even go so far as to acknowledge that something happened there, or that it matters.”
It isn’t just “Islam”* saying so:
https://www.unz.com/article/what-really-happened-on-7th-october/
*15% of the Palestinians are Christians, as is one of the main Palestinian resistance movements, the PFLP. Kunstler is careful to avoid saying so either because he doesn’t know it or because it would spoil his narrative.
“The reason Israel is where it is is because Western Civ treated the Jews abominably in the 1930s and 40s. The result, establishing a state of Israel in its historic location, was a power move, of course, by the powers who won the Second World War, but it had the imprimatur of a sacred duty.”
Let’s unpack all the contentions in this paragraph:
1. The zionist project began in the 1890s, and the zios did the rounds of Eastern Europe demanding the governments of the day oppress their Jews to compel them to emigrate to Herzl’s planned Judenstaat.
2. The original zionist demand was for the Judenstaat to be situated in Uganda, but the Brutish colonial occupiers of Uganda refused to hand it over.
3. The Balfour Declaration was in 1917, granting a so called Jewish Homeland in Palestine. WWII ended, as even Kunstler might be aware, in 1945.
4. It was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz and when it did, in Jan 1945, Aleksandr Werth’s reports were dismissed as “Red Propaganda”.
5. The zionists cooperated closely with the nazis through the 1930s (the Haavara Agreement), and the zionist terrorist outfit the Stern Gang wanted military assistance from Hitler to fight the British Mandate in Palestine during WWII.
6. One of the last surviving original zionists, Uri Avnery, has written that the zios themselves didn’t care anything about the so called Holocaust until after WWII.
“It looks like the Islamic nations that surround Israel like a child in an alligator pit have made the calculation that now is the time to gobble up the little interloper.”
The”Islamic nations” had been betraying Palestine for decades, normalising relations with the zionazi pseudostate, even allowing diplomatic relations, while the zionazis routinely murdered Palestinian children, health workers, journalists, and random civilians, turned Gaza into a concentration camp, planted illegal rabidly racist settler filth all over the West Bank, and instituted more overt apartheid than the South African regine ever did. The “little interloper” is a blood soaked American proxy which is paid $125 per second by the American Empire in subsidies, and that’s in normal times, while being given total immunity and protection for its endless crimes, including against America itself. And far from the “Islamic” nations ganging up on “Israel”, even the Vichy Fatah regime in the West Bank is doing all it can to block mass protests against the zionazi occupation and its genocide in Gaza.
“Jihad is in the offing.”
Define jihad, Kunstler. And while you’re at it, why did the zionazi pseudostate treat headchopping jihadi cannibals fighting Assad in its hospitals before said cannibals were driven out of south Syria? Why did ISIS, the most infamous “jihadi” gang of all, only once fire on a zionazi outpost….and promptly apologise, according to the zionists themselves?
“They could neutralize the command network of Hamas pretty much the same way they got the Black September ringleaders of the Munich Olympics massacre, 1972…”
The zios can’t even fight lightly armed HAMAS and IJ resistance fighters face to face. What makes Kunsty imagine they are the same as the zios of 1972?
Maybe the same mental delusion that makes him repeat that removing Joe Bidet is right round the corner?
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Oct 28 2023 0:15 utc | 530
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