The Powder Keg in the Middle East Has Exploded: What Israel’s War on Gaza Means for the Rest of the World

A new war in the Gaza Strip should not be a surprise to anyone who understands what the Palestinians have been going through for the last 75 years.

The US mainstream media obviously has a biased view with mostly pro-Israel viewpoints on Israel’s latest conflict in Gaza.

However, I do believe that Israeli intelligence, namely, Mossad knew what was about to take place so that they can move forward to “wipe Gaza off the map” which has been a long-time strategy for Israeli hardliners.

Despite what is going on in Gaza, there is one important fact that needs to be told: it’s not just about Palestine, because if Israel gets its way in this war, it will begin targeting other Arab states including Lebanon and Syria, which fits into what Oded Yinon, an Israeli journalist wrote in A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties suggesting that Israel should “become an imperial regional power” and that it “should effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states.”

The strategy according to Yinon is that “the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation.” Although this was written in the 1980’s, all of it is absurd and unrealistic.

Israeli hardliners, and the Americans also (the ones in power) are hoping for a Greater Israel, but that will never occur. The resistance will become stronger throughout the Middle East as more Israeli fighter jets continues to bomb Gaza day after day.

Several Middle Eastern countries and resistance groups have been prepared for the next big war with Israel and the US including Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, Kataib Hezbollah and other factions in Iraq, Syria, and Iran.

Government officials, military top brass and intelligence agencies from the US, and NATO know that it will be a long and bloody war since Israel is going full force in efforts to take more land in Gaza thus creating more Palestinian refugees in the process.

Yinon said: create “small states” that will be easier to dominate, just like they did in Palestine. They split the territories by turning the Gaza Strip into an open air prison, and at the same-time they created a separate territory in the West Bank. Both areas are militarily dominated by Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

However, time is not on Israel’s side. They know that the US is in financial trouble with $33 trillion in debt, so I am sure that many Israeli economists know that without the US and its financial assistance, Israel will not last since they depend on almost every penny that the US government gives them.

In the meantime, Israel is trying to somehow get the US involved in the war. For the Israelis, that’s nothing new. Remember when Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu claimed to the US Congress in 2002 that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons?

“There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking, is working, is advancing towards to the development of nuclear weapons,” he continued “Once Saddam has nuclear weapons, the terror network will have nuclear weapons.”

I would say that Netanyahu was successful in getting the US in a war with Iraq. Or how about the time when Israel attacked the USS Liberty in 1967 in the Mediterranean sea during the Six-Day War which was meant as a false flag operation to bring in the US in its war against Egypt and the rest of the Middle East?

The war on Palestine was the first step in creating an imperial Israel. On July 9th, 1947, Rabbi Fischmann, a member of the Jewish Agency declared at a U.N. Special Committee of Enquiry that Israel needs to expand “from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon.”

It is also important to note that Israel has another important reason for expansion and that is to ultimately control the natural resources including oil and gas throughout the Middle East. When it comes to Big Oil, Washington and the Pentagon share similar goals with Israel when it comes to natural resources in the region.

Since the Gulf war in the early 1990s, Washington and the Pentagon along with Kurdish leadership tried to create a ‘Free Kurdistan‘ that included areas of Iraq, Iran, Syria and even Turkey to dominate the potential energy markets. In other words, the US establishment and Israel benefit in numerous ways by Balkanizing the Middle East thus making it easier to control the oil and gas fields.

So for the US-Israel partnership, it’s not only ideological, it’s also about the economic benefits of Zionist expansion that not only benefits Big Oil but also the US arms industry since Israel will need a steady supply of weapons for a very long time to maintain control over a Balkanized Middle East and that’s always a plus for the establishment.

So, it is fair to say that Israel needs the US military and its financial aid just as much as the US and its Big oil enterprises need Israel to continue its illegal occupation.

Meanwhile, worldwide protests have taken place as the war hawks, neocons, special interest groups (AIPAC) in Washington and their media mouthpieces are already pushing for US military to ultimately attack Iran.

Seems like déjà vu, but the point here is that the US will most likely get involved despite losing almost every major war they started since the end of World War II. It is assured that they will face a heavy onslaught of firepower from Hezbollah, Syria, Iran and resistance groups from Iraq that can target US bases and assets. Even Yemen can get involved in some capacity.

Russia and China are watching events very closely as their countries are also facing Western aggression on various levels including the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and if the US and its close allies in the Asia Pacific are foolish enough, they will start another proxy war in Taiwan.

Russia and China can sure try to mediate a peace agreement or a ceasefire, but that seems very difficult given how Israel sees the necessity and the long-term benefits of seizing more Palestinian territory with close to half of the Gaza strip in its sights and that’s their next step, stripping land away from the Palestinians piece by piece.

The bottom line is that the US is at $33 trillion in debt with a US dollar reserve currency that is not so popular as before, so how long can the US establishment keep up its military and economic support for Israel? No one knows for sure, but it is clear that the US and the European establishment are committed to Israel’s security, even if it means bankrupting their own citizens.

Author: Timothy Alexander Guzman

 

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November 10, 2023