Guest Post by Pepe Escobar
The war against Russia in Ukraine and the Israeli “war on terror” in Gaza are just parallel fronts of a single, horrifyingly evolving, global war.
You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors
And the land that I cultivated
And you left nothing for us
Except for these rocks…
If I become hungry
The usurper’s flesh will be my food.
– Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish
It’s by now confirmed that Egyptian intel warned their Israeli counterparts only 3 days before Al-Aqsa Flood that something “big” was coming from Hamas. Tel Aviv, its multi-billion dollar security apparatus and the IDF, “the strongest army in the world”, chose to ignore it.
That configures two key vectors.
1) Tel Aviv get its “Pearl Harbor” pretext to implement a remixed “war on terror” plus a sort of Final Solution to the “Gaza problem” (already in effect).
2) The Hegemon abruptly changes the narrative away from the incoming, inevitable, cosmic joint humiliation of the White House and NATO in the steppes of Novorossiya – a strategic defeat that configures the previous humiliation in Afghanistan as a masked ball in Disneyland.
The total blockade of “human animals” (copyright Israeli Defense Ministry) in Gaza, in fact a civilian population of 2.3 million, has been imposed this past Monday. No food, no water, no fuel, no essential commodities.
That’s a war crime and a crime against humanity, thrashing the four basic principles of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) – everything duly applauded or at best completely ignored by NATOstan and its assorted oligarch-controlled mainstream media.
Christians, Muslims, Jews and other ethnic groups lived peacefully in Palestine for centuries until the imposition of the racist Zionist Project – complete with all the Divide and Rule attributes of settler colonialism.
The Nakba is an old memory of 75 years ago. We are now way beyond apartheid – and entering total exclusion and expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.
In January 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu himself stressed, “the Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel.”
Now, the IDF sent no less than an order to the UN to completely evacuate all residents of northern Gaza – 1.1 million people – to southern Gaza, close to Rafah, the only border crossing with Egypt.
This forced mass deportation of civilians would be the prelude to raze all of northern Gaza to the ground, coupled with expulsion and confiscation of ancestral Palestinian land – edging closer to a Zionist Final Solution.
Welcome to Sociopaths United
Netanyahu, a sociopath with a proven track record, can only get away with serial war crimes because of total support by the White House, the “Biden” combo and the State Department – not to mention inconsequential EU vassals.
We just witnessed a U.S. Secretary of State – a low-IQ functionary out of his depth on every single issue – going to Israel to support collective punishment “as a Jew as well”.
He said his grandfather “fled pogroms in Russia” (that was in 1904). Then came the direct – Nazi – connection to “my stepfather survived Auschwitz, Dachau and Majdanek”. Impressive, that’s three concentration camps in a row. The secretary is obviously oblivious to the fact that the USSR liberated all three.
Then came the connection Russia-Nazis-Hamas. At least it’s all clear.
Internally, Netanyahu is only able to stay as Prime Minister because of especially two rabid ultra-Zionist, racist, supremacist coalition partners. He named Itamar Ben-Gvir as National Security Minister and Bezalel Smotrich as Finance Minister – both de facto in charge of proliferating settlements all across the West Bank in industrial scale.
Smotrich has been on the record saying that “there is no such thing as Palestinians because there is no such thing as a Palestinian people”.
Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, in record time, are on their way to double the settler population in the cantons across the West Bank from 500,000 to one million. Palestinians – de facto non-citizens – number 3.7 million. lllegal settlements – not formally approved by Tel Aviv – are popping up all across the spectrum.
In Gaza – where poverty hovers at 60% and youth unemployment is massive – UN agencies desperately warn of an impending humanitarian catastrophe.
Over 1 million people in Gaza, mostly women and children, depend on UN food assistance. Tens of thousands of kids go to UNRWA schools (UNRWA is the agency for Palestinian refugees).
Tel Aviv is now killing them – softly. At least 11 UNRWA workers have been killed this past week (including teachers, a doctor and an engineer), at least 30 kids, plus 5 members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.
To top it all up, there’s the Pipelineistan angle – as in stealing Gaza gas.
At least 60% of the vast gas reserves discovered in 2000 along the Gaza-Israel coastline legally belong to Palestine.
A key consequence of the Final Solution applied to Gaza translates as sovereignty over the gas fields switched to Israel – in yet another massive trampling of international law.
The Global Majority is Palestine
Amid the horrifying prospect of Israel depopulating the entire northern half of Gaza, live on TV and cheered on by hordes of NATOstan zombies, it’s not far-fetched to consider the possibility of Turkiye, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen and the Gulf monarchies joining together, at various levels, to create overwhelming pressure against the implementation of the Zionist Final Solution.
Virtually the whole Global South/Global Majority is with Palestine.
Turkiye, problematically, is not an Arab nation and has been too ideologically close to Hamas in the recent past. Assuming the current Netanyahu gang would engage in diplomacy, the possible best mediation team would be formed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egyptian diplomacy.
India has just stabbed itself in the head as a leader of the Global Majority: their leadership does seem to get a hard on when facing Israel.
Then there are the Big Sovereigns: the Russia-China strategic partnership.
Russia-Iran are themselves connected by a strategic partnership – including at all state of the art military levels. The Iran-Saudi rapprochement mediated and clinched by China has led, this week, to Mohammad bin Salman and Ebrahim Raisi on the phone, for the first time ever, coordinating their unwavering support to the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. Syria’s Bashar al-Assad has just visited China, received with full honors.
China’s trademark diplomatic sophistication – way beyond Al-Aqsa Flood – amounts to supporting legitimate Palestinian rights. The whole Arab world and the lands of Islam clearly feel it – while Israel and NATOstan are impervious to nuance.
With Russia we reach heavy metal territory. Earlier this week, Israel’s ambassador to Russia, Alexander Ben Zvi, was finally received, after several attempts by Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. It was Israel who practically begged for a meeting.
Bogdanov cut to the chase, bluntly: Ben Zvi was warned that the IDF plan to literally destroy Gaza, expel the indigenous population and practice the ethnic cleansing of those “human animals” was “fraught with the most devastating consequences for the humanitarian situation in the region.”
That advances a quite possible scenario – whose consequences can be equally devastating: Moscow – in collaboration with Ankara – launching a Global South-supported blockade-busting operation against Israel.
It’s no secret – apart from the modus operandi – that Putin and Erdogan have discussed a possible Turkish humanitarian naval convoy to Gaza, which would be protected from an Israeli attack by the Russian Navy out of its Tartous base in Syria and the Russian air Force out of Hmeimim. That would raise the stakes to unforeseen levels.
What’s clear already is that the Hegemon proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the Israeli “war on terror” remixed in Gaza are just parallel fronts of a single, horrifyingly evolving, global war.
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This is something I try to stress whenever I can, especially when people say this conflict is some sort of ancient religious / tribal feud.
That just simply isn’t true, these groups have have been waring against each other since Christ was delivering newspapers. A little historical research can be time well spent.
Since Jesus recruited professional fishermen for a future “miracle” or two..
Technically, long before Christ. Most modern Israelis aren’t really Hebraic Jews in the ancient historical sense. There is but a small remnant left in the whole of the entire world. I read some place that there may only be 144,000 of them.
its time the khazarians were booted from Palestine
And, they all lived in peace….reeeeee
They say the same shit about Spain before Queen Isabella kicked the Muzzis and Money-Lenders out. None of it is true.
ISABELLA OF SPAIN
BY WILLIAM THOMAS WALSH
To the Spanish Christian, descended from a long line of
crusaders and taught from the cradle the glories of the
perpetual war that could end only in the complete reconquest
of Granada, any mention of the Moors was likely to conjure
up recollections of the historic alignment of the Jews on the
side of the enemy. What the children of Israel had done
once, their descendants might do again. In any tribunal
that could compel the Conversos to be loyal and besides make
them pay a goodly share of the expenses of the imminent
war, the Old Christians saw but a beautiful example of
poetic justice. The Jews had invited the Moors into Spain;
let the sons of the Jews pay for driving them out again.
King Fernando is said to have made some such argument
to the Queen.
https://www.libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D981C1329EC86A7E
Muslims and Jews, two sides of the same coin. At least on the surface the Jews aren’t clamoring for death to infidels, but neither group is to be desired…especially not in Christian (what used to be Christian anyways) countries. At least we now understand the real reason for all the wars and vaccinations and failed economies. Escobar gets right the fact that the globalists are waging war on native populations with global governance the unstated goal.
The Hegelian dialect writ large. Ask why the borders are open, the invaders supported and encouraged by the regime in DC and you begin to see the reason for said open border….alas, this ‘army’ of invaders that they plan to use on us natives is also going to destroy ‘them.’
The IDF is the strongest military in the world? What?
Sure, without western influence, Islam could wipe Israel out in a heart beat. Just do the math.
The Palestinians should declare nationhood at the Yew En. As it is now a state actor, Israel, is fighting a stateless people. One side has the most modern equipment, intel, and assistance; while the other has only small arms.
Nothing like a “fair fight” between enemies while one party engages in ethnic cleansing and genocide.
This monstrous crime against humanity; particularly as it originates with the Jews, will be remembered for all time as the sea change of perception: “plucky” Israel turning into the very same Nazi’s they were once victims of.
and FJB.
China agrees with you….
‘Injustice’ against Palestinians can’t continue – China
The Jewish nation is no longer “homeless,” and Palestinians also deserve statehood, China’s top diplomat has said…
China’s top diplomat insisted that the “root cause of this question lies in the long delay in realizing the dream of an independent State of Palestine and the failure to redress the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian people.”
“Israel has the right to statehood, so does Palestine,” Wang Yi stated. “The Israelis have obtained the safeguards for survival, but who will care about the survival of the Palestinians? The Jewish nation is no longer homeless in the world, but when will the Palestinian nation return to its home?”
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/injustice-against-palestinians-can-t-continue-china/
they were never victims, look at the 60million white Russians killed by the bolsheviks
I mean their motto is “by way of deception thou shall make war”….
You know, if we just bombed the Levant off the fucking map it would forever more be a topic of conversation that begins with “Remember back before we destroyed that God forsaken land?”
“Yep. Sure has been much more peaceful since we eliminated the shitheads.”
Unless you intend to impose genocide, it would not work: the survivers would simply come here and seek revenge. The problem with blood feuds is that they might have had a beginning, but they have no end.
Putin blasts ‘rules-based order’
The Western-promoted “rules-based order” is merely a cover for colonialism, as the presumed rules have never been agreed-on by anyone and are ever-shifting from one case to another, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
The president made the remarks in an exclusive interview with state-run broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) that was aired on Monday.
“Have you ever seen these rules? No, because no one has ever written them, and no one has ever agreed to them with anyone. How can we talk about order based on rules that no one has seen?” Putin stated…
The colonial mindset remains strong, he noted, with all the US talk of its “exceptionalism,” for instance, stemming precisely from it. “That is, when they say that they are exceptional in the United States, it means that there are other people, people of some other second class. How else can we perceive this? These are the rudiments of the colonial mindset, nothing else,” he added.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/putin-blasts-rules-based-order/
There are about 15 millions Jews on the planet and that number is too large for all the followers of Islam. It takes a special kind of evil to want to wipe out a race of people. How about eliminating a billion Chinese, or a billion Indians, or a billion muslims, would that not give more satisfaction for blood lust.
If we start with the jews, and follow up with the chinese (and then make doubly-sure we got the jews), and indians, and muslims
sounds like a good start
The zipperheads, dot heads and camel jockeys all together aren’t as much trouble as the jooz
The Zionist’s Talmud and Islam’s Quran advocate death to the gentile and consider Christians as cattle to be slaughtered…I only pray for the innocent and those mentioned are the devils spawn…they best just leave me alone.
They learned well from the Nazis.
the ‘Nazi,s’ are,nt what you were told they are, as General Patton said we fought
the wrong enemy, world,s gone to sh!t ever since
Israel is every bit as evil as NAZI Germany, and it deserves to be abolished. The rest of the world cannot live with these inhuman leaches.
more jew propaganda, stop spreading lies, everything americans know about WW2 is BS
the jews lied to you and yet you still believe
Israel is using the threat of an invasion of (north) Gaza to coerce the UN to pressure Egypt to open its borders to Gazans…It will NOT invade until the border is opened and camps are set up ready to receive the fleeing Gazans…
Should it then invade it will paint all those who stayed, men, women, children, as Hamas combatants, thus will slaughter without restraint…The world will be onside: “they had a chance to leave”. “II’s their own fault for staying” is how the corporate propaganda media will frame the deaths…
Israel has no resources, they know full well, that if the United States falls, they have no support. Therefore, they’re trying to grab the natural gas offshore of Gaza. The capture of those fields is a question of Jewish survival. As for the people living there, well, if God didn’t want them shorn, He would not have made them sheep.
Another resource poor country was Japan in the days before Pearl Harbor. The irony: Japan imported a lot of stuff from the US in those days.
LISTEN UP SPARKY, THE HOLY LAND NEVER BELONGED TO ANY CREATURE CALLED A PALESTINIAN. PALESTINE WAS WHAT THE ROMANS CALLED JUDEA OR ISREAL AS AN INSULT. WHAT YOU AND YOUR FINAL SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH PROBLEM BUDDIES CALL PALESTINIANS NEVER EVER EXISTED. THEY ARE THE REMNANTS OF THE MUSLEM CONQUEST OF THE HOLY LANDS AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. YOUR MUSLEM BUDDIES ARE RESPNSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF COUNTLESS SOCIETIES AND CIVILIZATION ALONG WITH ALMOST 300 MILLION DEAD AND STILL COUNTING OVER THE PAST 1400 YEARS. YOUR BLOOD CULT BUDDIES ARE THE GREATEST BUTCHERS AND ENSLAVERS OF HUMANITY THIS WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN AND THAT HISTORICAL FACT. YOU LOVE EM SO DAMNED MUCH THEN GO LIVE WITH EM AND SEE HOW LONG YOU LAST AS AN ENFIDEL. OH AND DON’T FORGET TO PAY THE JIZYA IF YOU WANNA KEEP ON LIVING.
The “palestinians” HAVE NO HOMELAND. Never did. Anyone saying differently is a lying idiot. Those people are squatters who should have been evicted 50 years ago. Israel has been far too lenient with those animals.