The Middle East has always been a tinderbox, be it the Saudi-Persian rivalries, the intra-Gulf rivalries, the Ba’ath rivalries which tore apart Syria and Iraq and who of course could forget the age-old blood rivalry between everyone in the region and Israel, the Middle East always seems to be at the edge of the abyss (total and protracted warfare). Added to the already combustible mix is the U.S. which is for all intents and purposes is the army and intelligence of Saudi and the eternal bootlicker of Israel (whom they never fail to support in their war crimes), the U.S. who have always either directly instigated or outright funded the insanity and crimes committed by their dependencies. Things, however, have gotten even more fraught as the long suspected, poorly hidden and extremely dangerous tag team has been formed, or rather confirmed, and its open existence while definitely spelling short to medium term turmoil and strife, in the end, lead to some actual stability in the region.
This tag team, or to give it a more fitting epithet would be Axis, is made up of Israel, the U.S. and House of Saud and its existence was officially revealed only a few weeks ago. The revelation of this axis took place a few weeks ago when the current Israeli chief of staff Lieutenant-General Gadi Eisenkot, gave an exclusive (in many ways as this was Saudi does not officially recognise Israel) to a Saudi newspaper, and the content of that interview present to us even more credible evidence as to why this tripartite have so destroyed the Middle East for the past decade. In the interview with the Saudi Elaph, he states, Saudi Arabia “has never been our enemy. It has not fought us nor have we fought it” (skirting the fact that Saudi has housed and funded factions that have Israeli and IDF blood on their hands). The reason for the chief of staff of the IDF skirting the issue of Saudi bloody hands becomes clear when he states that Israel is “ready to exchange experiences with moderate Arab countries and to exchange intelligence to confront Iran”. In other words, Israel is willing to cosy up to the Arab monarchic despots (because the only ones slightly ‘liberal’ have been destroyed or are the enemies of Israel) to get at Iran.
Now both countries are American allies, Israel less so because of its advanced economy and battle-hardened army, Saudi more so because they rely on oil exports which to make things worse is tied to the US dollar and neither country would dare make a move this bold alone as they both know that, while Iran may not win the war they would be definitely most noble in defeat and defeating them would mean taking Tehran (something that would make Iran-Iraq look like a playground squabble). And that is where the U.S. would come in, for the U.S. alone out of the three has the firepower and technology that would make the long slog to Tehran a little (note: a little) less bloody. The fact that the U.S. has long wanted to turn back the Islamic Revolution in Iran is not new, they have aimed for that since the Ayatollah declared ‘Death to America‘, the fact is that Operation Iraqi freedom was supposed to lead to regime change in Iran (and Syria) is not new, and the fact that almost everyone to a man in the current White House wants to crush the Iranian menace is also not new.
Saudi and the U.S. have long collaborated to stem the Iranian menace while the Israelis have also in the same period have been assisted by the U.S. to halt the imposing wave that is Iran in Lebanon, it is therefore only natural that they should collaborate all three of them together. The three nations (in spite of the ardent protestations of the U.S. and Israel) are all run by imperialist cliques, be they the Likud, Israeli Labour, Republican, Democratic or high flying members of the House of Saud, the members of these respective governments and states espouse what can only be called fascism-light at the best of times, therefore it should come as no great shock that they aim to unite and snuff out any opposition to them. Examples of this ideology are all over the place the mad and illegal invasion of Iraq (which in part was also a holywar in the region as the US president had stated), the funding of militant groups in the region by the Saudis (aimed at halting the increasing strength of groups aligned with Iran) and the 2006 Israel-Lebanon (really Israel-Hezbollah) war (which was aimed at securing the regions that would help make up greater Israel). All of them, members of this tripartite are also beholden to a version of their respective religions that have been so warped that they have taken them back in time both mentally and ethically and therefore it should come as no surprise that they all unite to bash the heathen.
Along with geopolitics, religion has a somewhat large part to play in what is going on with these three nations and there seemingly strange union. The extreme fundamentalist Christian, the practitioner of Wahabi/Salafist Islam and the believer of Zionism (the Orthodox Jews in Israel), in spite of what they all may say have so much in common that it isn’t funny. The biggest thing that they have in common is their bind and dogmatic zealotry that will, in the end, lead to total mayhem in the Middle East. With the Zionists fervently believing that they must inherit ‘Greater Israel’, with the fundamental Christians actively seeking to have the Temple rebuilt to fulfil ‘Biblical prophecy’ and with the Wahabi/Salafists believing that anyone who isn’t Orthodox Sunni (that is to say Wahabi/Salafist) is an infidel and should be put to death, it is easy to see how they could all unite around the common enemy that is Iran, the nation who through Hezbollah denies the Zionist/fundementalist Christian dream and through whose very existence makes the Wahabi/Salafists sick and perturbed to the point of insanity.
With the sabres not only rattling but actually out of the sheath and at the ready, we are seeing the region gear up for what could be a long and protracted war. The die has already been cast with the U.S. presence in Syria (which they say could last for decades), the table set by Saudi attempting (poorly I might add) to gin up anti-Iranian sentiment in the region and the troops at the ready war does not seem to be far off. With the Jerusalem statement (something that Saudi has long ago tacitly accepted) being made, it won’t take very much to get things started, most wars never really begin with a loud bang or something so obvious. This Axis must be stopped and it is my view that they will be stopped, that this the attempt at Iran/Hezbollah will be a bridge too far for the three of them (America in terms of prestige and finances, Israel in terms of blood and Saudi in terms of their throne), but the cost to the region will be so high that it would take decades to get back where they are now.
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