Tag: Middle East wars

Guest Post by Nick Giambruno

On October 7, Hamas, an armed Palestinian militant organization that controls the Gaza Strip, launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

It was the most significant attack against Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which started almost 50 years ago to the day.

Now, Israel has formally declared war for the first time since 1973.

The Middle East is on the precipice of a regional war that could eclipse the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Many people don’t appreciate how close we are to a catastrophe of historic proportions that will touch everyone.

Remember, American support for Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War was the catalyst for the OPEC embargo, which caused the first oil shock. The oil price roughly quadrupled, from around $3 per barrel to about $12 in a matter of days.

Continue reading “Middle East Wars and Oil Shocks”

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

What we are doing in Gaza we know how to do in Beirut,” declares Israeli Defense Minister.

Putin could have prevented the coming world war by quickly dispatching Ukraine in 2014 and by providing air defense systems for Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza against Israel and Washington’s air strikes.

I would be more optimistic that we have a future if Russian media and foreign affairs analysts, such as Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Russian Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense policy, could dispense with their rose-colored glasses that protect them from reality, and face up to facts.  The massive amounts of aircraft, air defense systems, warships, troops and nuclear missile submarines the US is pouring into the vicinity of Israel is not intended for use against Hamas.

Continue reading “The War for Greater Israel and Reassertion of US Hegemony Is About to Begin”

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

The latest reports support my thesis that the Israeli-Hamas Conflict is a Continuation of the 9/11 Plot.

This article from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz describes the enormous amounts of arms and ammunition Washington is assembling around Israel and reports the arrival of transport ships and aircraft for evacuations of Americans from the Middle East. This is evidence that Washington intends a much larger conflict than the one in Gaza.

Continue reading “The Neoconservatives and Israel are reopening the Middle East Wars”

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan

In this new century, leaders of both parties have plunged our country into at least five wars in the Middle and Near East… None of these wars has produced a victory or success for us. But taken together, they did produce a multitrillion-dollar strategic and human rights disaster.

In October 1950, as U.S. forces were reeling from hordes of Chinese troops who had intervened massively in the Korean War, a 5,000-man Turkish brigade arrived to halt an onslaught by six Chinese divisions.

Said supreme commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur: “The Turks are the hero of heroes. There is no impossibility for the Turkish Brigade.”

President Harry Truman awarded the brigade a Presidential Unit Citation.

In 1951, Turkey ended a neutrality dating to the end of World War I and joined NATO. In the seven decades since, there has been no graver crisis in U.S.-Turkish relations than the one that erupted this week.

Continue reading “Is a New US Mideast War Inevitable?”

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan

“Assad must go, Obama says.”

So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011.

The story quoted President Barack Obama directly:

“The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. … the time has come for President Assad to step aside.”

France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s David Cameron signed on to the Obama ultimatum: Assad must go!

Continue reading “How the War Party Lost the Middle East”

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

“The Kurds have no friends but the mountains,” is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds.

As their U.S. allies watched, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters were run out of Kirkuk and all the territory they had captured fighting ISIS alongside the Americans. The Iraqi army that ran them out was trained and armed by the United States.

The U.S. had warned the Kurds against holding the referendum on independence on Sept. 25, which carried with 92 percent. Iran and Turkey had warned against an independent Kurdistan that could be a magnet for Kurdish minorities in their own countries.

But the Iraqi Kurds went ahead. Now they have lost Kirkuk and its oil, and their dream of independence is all but dead.

Continue reading “Are Our Mideast Wars Forever?”