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Who Is Really Behind The Mass Slaughter In Gaza?
Who is really behind the Israeli mass slaughter of the people of Gaza?
Here is the answer to that question:
Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.
“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”
Period.
@ Framarz | Dec 5 2023 13:50 utc | 53
Your saying, “Shia is a National Liberation Theology developed by Iranians (Zoroastrians) when Arabs (Muslims) conquered Persia. It was the most practical way of transforming the religion of enemy against him, inventing a split in the mainstream Islam,” is not historically correct.
Shi`ism arose out of the early political split among the Muhammad’s companions which led to the first civil war of 656-661. At that time, it was only a political split, with the Shi`i legitimists saying everything would be perfect if only `Ali or one of his descendants was the ruler instead of the usurping Umayyads, who ruled 661-750. The Umayyads were overthrown by a Shi`i revolt that placed the `Abbasids in power, but, as they were not descendants of `Ali, many of the Shi`is rejected them as well. Only after 750 did Sunnism and Shi`ism really develop as separate religious sects.
All of this happened within a context of mainly “Arab” Islam, as it took Islam quite a long time to spread to the non-Arabs. Of course, there was no nationalism or national identity at the time. Because the Pahlavi or Middle Persian language was only cultivated in writing by a tiny literate minority, it quickly disappeared as a written language when the Sasanian ruling family was overthrown by the Muslim invasion by 651 and continued to be cultivated only by the Zoroastrians, who dwindled to a small minority over the next three centuries. Arabic became the written language, and Persian only reemerged slowly in its Modern Persian form, starting in Sistan, mostly after 900, while Arabic remained the vehicle of the religion to this day.
Early Shi`ism was not a particular vehicle for resistance, as there were numerous Shi`i ruling dynasties, including the Fatimids based in North Africa, then Egypt (909-1171) and the Iranian Buyids in Iran and Iraq (945-1055). Also, Iran remained a majority Sunni country until 1500, when the Safavids (1500-1736) imposed Shi`ism as the state cult. That said, Shi`is did resist Sunni domination, and often were strong in mountain redoubts like Mazanderan, Yemen, Eastern Tajikistan, Badakhshan, Hazarajat, and so on, where they resisted conquest by larger empires.
It was not so much Shi`ism that became a vehicle of resistance against oppressive rulers; rather, it was all of Islam, as the conquered peoples united to turn the tables on their conquerers by adopting Islam as a liberating ideology, starting with the North African Berbers whose revolt in 740 broke the back of the Umayyad caliphate. Hence the spread of Islam. Throughout history, the Muslim clerical or scholarly class curtailed the possibilities of state building by the rulers by, for example, only allowed four kinds of taxes as legitimate, and these were utterly insufficient to fund the state, so the state always had to exist in a limbo or illegitimacy, often controlled by military dictators despised by the population. The weakness of Muslim states enabled the European imperialists to bowl them over in the modern colonial period (although the Turks fought really well in resisting in 1911-1923).
Shi`ism as a particular vehicle for liberation in the context of modern nation-states only took form in the 20th century. Meanwhile, Sunnis have had parallel movements, but none has succeeded like the Iranian Revolution, whose success, as you point out, has been mixed.
This is a really huge and complicated history, of which what I have written is only the barest summary.
Posted by: Cabe | Dec 5 2023 18:11 utc | 115
I don’t really know where to post this having watched the two Alex’s discourse on Kissinger.
https://t.me/thedurancom/14158 also is. Some tube somewhere.
‘Ambitious Man’ says Alexander. For personal gain and imperial dominance.
Ambitious for what? Did he have a legacy? Did he have heirs? A dynasty that he was building?
Or was he just a hired hand? With a Napoleon Complex?
An actual modern day Emperor Napoleon (or Rhodes , Churchill, Roosevelt etc ) hired and trained to run the Empire?
To finally help win it for his generation?
That’s what and who he was, just a hireling. A murderous psychopath raised to run the Firm.
I am a tad disappointed that the Duran boys failed to mention who hired Kissinger and who he was hothoused with and the fact that even Reagan was always part of that team.
I am also concerned that they didn’t make more of his role as Nixon’s unwanted Minder. Keeping that potus on a leash. And when he got too frisky ushering him off stage. I guess Richard had enough explosive secret recordings with Ford, Bush, Reagan and Kissinger admitting that ‘John’ had indeed been assassinated with the US DS complicity or something.
They couldn’t just put a bullet in Nixon’s head. Because he had the goods on them from inside the Oval Office. There is no other explanation to Nixon’s triumphal departure from the WH. Unbowed but ignored thereafter.
Tricky Dicky!!
What is a further glaring failure is to not mention Kissingers mentor!
‘While attending high school and college, Kissinger worked at a shaving brush factory. He pursued accounting while at City College of New York; however, his studies were cut short when he was drafted to fight in World War II.
Kissinger’s fluency in German helped him rise through the army’s ranks, out of the infantry, eventually landing him in military intelligence. The Jewish refugee was thus put in charge of tracking down Gestapo officers, and later of overseeing the denazification of parts of Germany.’
Enter – ‘Kissinger’s Kissinger: Dr. Fritz Kraemer
Dr. Fritz Kraemer was the most influential German in the Pentagon from 1952 to 1978. Geostrategic Advisor to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff in the U.S. Department of Defense. The true “Dr. Strangelove” – complete with monocle and walking stick, a last Prussian on the Potomac River in Washington DC.
A German emigrant to the U.S., born in Essen in 1908, with a Christian denomination but Jewish roots. Kraemer, an intellectual with two PhD’s, scraped a living as farm worker for five years. In 1944 he was conscripted and thus became a U.S. citizen.
Kraemer discovered and mentored two U.S. Secretaries of State: Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig. In 1944, he met the 19-year old soldier Henry Kissinger who had also emigrated from Germany. He formed – as “Kissinger’s Kissinger” – his thinking and world outlook and fought with him in the 84th U.S. Infantry Division for the liberation of Europe. Kissinger himself writes about it in the new book “True Keeper of the Holy Flame” by Hubertus Hoffmann.
Kraemer placed young Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Haig with newly appointed National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger in the White House. ‘
‘Henning-Hubertus Baron von Steuben puts Fritz Kraemer alongside one of his ancestors Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, the first Inspector General of the U.S. Army under George Washington: “Steuben and Kraemer have, at the intervals of two centuries, put their mark on the United States Army as officers through their deeply rooted Prussian values such as integrity, honour, discipline and duty for their homeland and coined the United States Army with their spirit.” ‘
‘After leaving the army, Kissinger enrolled at Harvard University and began to refine his political thought. He became active in politics as a foreign policy adviser to Nelson Rockefeller, an affluent, liberal Republican from New York. After Rockefeller lost the 1968 Republican primary to Nixon, Kissinger jumped ship and began working for the soon-to-be president.’
‘President Richard Nixon is heard in the last set of his White House tapes making anti-Semitic statements in discussions with visitors to the Oval Office and by telephone.
The 340 hours of tapes, which cover from April 9, 1973 to July 12, 1973, were released Wednesday by the Nixon Presidential Library. They are the last set of tapes that will be released by the library.
In a phone discussion in mid-April with Henry Kissinger,’
‘who at the time was the national security adviser, Nixon expresses concerns that Jews would torpedo an upcoming US-Soviet summit. If that happened, Nixon said, “Let me say, Henry, it’s gonna be the worst thing that happened to Jews in American history.” He added, “If they torpedo this summit — and it might go down for other reasons — I’m gonna put the blame on them, and I’m going to do it publicly at 9 o’clock at night before 80 million people.”
He continued: “They put the Jewish interest above America’s interest, and it’s about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he’s an American first and a Jew second.” ‘
[ Nixon’s only failure was that he didn’t realise the difference between the Zion empire and its Masters and the Jewish religion. He appears not to have even referred to Zionism! Not even been aware of its lineage back to at least the early C19th. Or even its veiled role over previous times. Even I. The setting up of the Independent America and the civil war that led to the USA.
Maybe there are other tapes never to be released that did speak to that and allowed him not suffer the same fate as ‘John’. ]
‘When asked about appointees, Nixon tells presidential counselor Anne Armstrong there should be “No Jews. We are adamant when I say no Jews. … But Mexicans are important. Italians, Eastern Europeans. That sort of thing.”
Nixon accused the Jews of holding American foreign policy “hostage to Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union,” and added that “the American people are not going to let them destroy our foreign policy — never!”
Future presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush are heard in conversations recorded on the tapes offering Nixon support during the Watergate affair.
Nixon on previous tapes was heard making anti-Semitic remarks about Jewish politicians and others.’
And in the final failure of continuity there was a no mention of Kissinger’s ‘heir’ of imperial Zionist police – Brezinsky! And the headless hyenas that came after Clinton ,Bush Jnr, Blair the neocons right up to today. They who are filling their boots as their Empire collapses around kissingers not yet shrivelled remains.
Come on Duran guys ! Could you do better? Anyway I’ll possibly post it to another thread as it only barely seems to stick to topic here?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Dec 6 2023 1:46 utc | 183
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