The Biden administration is poised to surrender to Iran. Israel is on its own against a genocidal regime
The invasion of Ukraine has sounded a red alert for Israel, and also presented it with an acute problem.
Israel enjoys warm relations with Ukraine, identifying with it as a small state under attack simply because it exists.
Yet it’s essential that Israel does nothing to provoke Russia. For Israel has flown hundreds of sorties against Iranian assets in Syria. Russia backs Iran in Syria. Russia has however looked the other way while Israel bombs Iranian targets.
If Russia were to withdraw this tacit permission, Israel would be at the mercy of Iran on its doorstep.
Nor can Israel rely on America if Russia were to withdraw its support. That’s because of the determination of US president Joe Biden to make a deal with Iran.
This deal, which is apparently all but finalised, is reportedly even worse than the 2015 deal brokered by Barack Obama. This one would enable Iran legitimately to manufacture nuclear weapons after a mere two-and-a-half year delay.
Meanwhile sanctions would be lifted, funnelling billions of dollars into Tehran to fund the regime’s terrorism, attacks on Israel and regional power grabs.
This surrender to Tehran took place even as the regime ramped up attacks on America’s allies and even US military bases. The more the Iranians’ aggression increased, the more the US offered them.
All this encouraged Russian president Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine, concluding that since America was abandoning Israel and its other Middle East allies to grovel to its enemy in Tehran, it would do nothing to stop him. So why are the Bidenites so wedded to a terrible Iran nuclear deal?
One answer is that they always think in terms of containment and never prevention. They maintain that a nuclear Iran is a better option than a military confrontation.
When asked how this can possibly be so, given the regime’s oft-stated aim to wipe Israel off the map, they say the world will never allow that to happen. As Jews know from bitter experience — and as we can see from events in Ukraine — this is truly lethal magical thinking.
Irina Tsukerman, a geopolitical and security analyst, suggests a more sinister linkage between Ukraine and the Iran deal. Biden could be sacrificing Ukraine in order to secure Russia’s co-operation in pushing the recalcitrant Tehran towards a deal, she argues. This may allow America to secure cheap Iranian oil, easing the squeeze on household budgets at home.
Worse still, once the nuclear deal is done, Biden may seek to handcuff Israel to prevent it from taking further military action in Syria or against Iran itself. Why? With the US hooked on Iranian oil, Biden would need to “contain” the regime and prevent it from turning the financial screw by raising oil prices.
So it’s even more imperative that Israel doesn’t make an enemy of Russia right now.
Meanwhile the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, is pursuing a deeply questionable strategy to prevent the Biden administration from throwing Israel under the bus. He has decided not to fight Biden in public but to oppose the Iran deal behind closed doors.
He thinks that in return, a grateful administration will then assist Israel against Iran. This is a grievous mistake.
Israel’s former prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, used a virtual megaphone to go over the heads of the Obama administration and warn the American people of the dangers of that Iran deal.
Bennett thinks that didn’t work because Obama went ahead anyway; Netanyahu merely became a bogeyman for the Obama administration and Israel suffered as a result.
But Obama was no friend of Israel. He would have done that 2015 deal and been just as hostile, even if Netanyahu had remained silent.
Bennett and other Israeli top brass believe Donald Trump’s re-imposition of sanctions didn’t work either, because Iran wasn’t put back in its box.
Wrong again. Sanctions actually put Iran under enormous pressure. But from halfway through Trump’s presidency, the expectation that he would lose the next election threw the regime a lifeline, since the Democrats said repeatedly they intended to return to the deal.
Now Bennett’s silence over the new Iran deal means that the American public has no idea how lethal it is. So there’s no pressure on Congress to oppose it. After all, American politicians can’t be more Zionist than the Israeli government.
The shameful fact is that anything Netanyahu did, Bennett won’t do. Bennett has turned Israel into a US vassal by ignoring warnings not to allow himself to become co-opted into Biden’s Iran policy.
Ukraine is a red flag for Israel. Aside from the belated sanctions and military aid, the West has done little more than wring its hands.
Biden’s muddled comment last week that “no-one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening” to Ukraine suggested that the US wrote off that country long ago. The suspicion is that it has done the same with Israel over Iran.
The fate of Ukraine tells us that Israel will have to fight its existential foe in Tehran alone.
@Peloni, Reader, Michael,
good points by all. Reading your discussion, I thought something before Poloni stated the following, Which I have ponder for years:
“Everyone in the West, with very few exceptions harness a great dislike, or great hatred, of Russia. It has nothing to do with globalism. The alignment against Russia cuts across all opinions on globalism, i.e. public positioning vis a vis Russia is not related in the least to their support or even vehement opposition to globalists.”
In my opinion and Michael probably will not agree. The reason everybody is against Russia is the West needs a foil, the other, the bad guy. There must always be a negative and a positive., i.e. God vs. Satan, Good vs. Evil. The other reason and I have not researched how far back this ideal goes, but the Christian, Catholic and Protestant traditions around the world have missed interpreted a few passages in the Book of Ezkiel 37-38 and in the Bood of Revelation. They have read Russia into these passages about Rosh and Gog / Magog. Therefore if you on God’s side your against Russia.
Who these two entities are is yet to be determined in my opinion, but personally I don’t fear Russia, China concerns me more.
@Reader
Corruption in common, especially if controlled by outside parties, will accomplish this. As I have noted, the leadership of the West is completely corrupt and captured, due to earnest support or compromised positioning, by the globalists and will work their will for them.
As I noted previously, it is about Russia. Everyone in the West, with very few exceptions harness a great dislike, or great hatred, of Russia. It has nothing to do with globalism. The alignment against Russia cuts across all opinions on globalism, ie public positioning vis a vis Russia is not related in the least to their support or even vehement opposition to globalists.
Apologies for misunderstanding your position in my previous statement, it is what I understood from your own comments.
@peloni
I’ve never said that
This is what YOU THINK I said.
I wouldn’t so easily assume that there exists an evil group called “globalists” who are working to destroy or oppose the Western civilization.
I think it’s an easy way out.
I also don’t assume (and I don’t think anyone should) that the Western Civilization is the most perfect and virtuous and any and all of its possible faults come from its being corrupted by some evil people who are opposed to it.
As far as
you are correct but I wasn’t accusing all the Westerners of being globalists, I said that globalism comes from Western Civilization and at this point it is a globalist civilization.
I am sure you noticed how the US and EU governments responded in unison to the events in Ukraine, in a way which is not only completely unprecedented but also completely hypocritical (I don’t think I need to give a long list of proofs to show why this is so).
Even more interesting, I think, is the way in which many of their citizens responded to these events by beating up the Russian speaking children in schools, by vandalizing the Russian restaurants, offices, etc.
Well, these are the products of the Western Civilization (the way it is now) also, are they not?
We are not watching China during the times of Mao, we are watching “the free, civilized, democratic countries”.
@Michael S
I am not the one who came up with the term “Western Civilization”.
As far as I am concerned, it has been used to justify the wars of conquest of the “uncivilized world” by the “civilized world” the same way as the Romans justified their wars of conquest by the need to “bring the Roman Civilization to the barbarians”.
From “Western Civilization”->”Western Culture”->”Western World”
Hi, Reader
I suppose a “lecturer’ could be defined as a teacher who isn’t getting any immediate feedback from the class. Maybe if you could have been interrupting me mid-sentence, I wouldn’t have sounded like a lecturer. Anyway, thanks for the feedback you have given.
You seem to be trying to give “Western Civilization” sharp, black and white borders. Granted, you put the blame on textbooks, which I think are generally a bunch of crap nowadays (what with “Wokeness” and “Cancel Culture”, etc.). Yes, you could limit “Western Civilization” to those countries that use the Latin alphabet. That would include Turkey and Albania, but exclude Belarus and the Ukraine. Essentially, it would include only historically. Roman Catholic and Protestant countries. If that’s the case, then it’s indeed good, that no books exist about “Eastern Culture”, which seemingly would cobble together Israel, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, India, Thailand, China and Japan — something I would consider absurd. I’ve given my own take on the matter in my prior post, for what it’s worth. It’s a grey zone; define it any way you please.
It smells Western world decadence!
Bennett is not Bib and vice versa!
@Ted
Unfortunately, our age has found the support of any argument at hand to be based upon the lack of any opposition, not based upon a fair testing of ideas as in ages past, but based upon selectively excising the dissenting voices, thru ridicule, libel or censorship. I have always found a great value in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt where she describes the superiority of dueling ideas over the debasing of personalities. With time, I hope the Right and Left each regain their sense of how to respectfully discuss differences in the marketplace of ideas where truth emerges from competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse without the use of invectives or derisions, as was once the accepted norm in civil society. Til then, we will have to suffice to seek good examples where we can find them, and you have always provided a perfect example of how this deed is done well.
@Reader
The distinction between east and west is not that of globalist vs nationalists. The Western democracies have become lazy and incautious due to their great successes over time. This lack of cautious regard has led to many leaders, over the years, to write their own check on the public purse and the gifting was so successful that it became widespread and deep rooted. Hence it is true that the leadership of Western Societies have become warped with a ripe corruption to the point that things are flying off the rails of sanity. The globalists have exploited this corruption, captured it and organized it to work their will upon the disenfranchised people who find themselves entrapped by these authoritarian elites as they are becoming ever more enslaved to withstand the oppression placed upon them by these villains on high. The people are, consequently, not the choosers of their fate, but rather the victims of the theft of their personal dignity and inherent liberty. Hence, I would ask that you refrain from desecrating the hole of Western Civilization as globalists and request that you distinguish the wheat from the chaff as the whole group is not in line with the likes of Schwab and Gates or there would be no need of their duplicity and their circuitous swindles. People are just people, and the good and bad are well mixed in any population. They are each worthy of evaluation based not on the fidelity of their elites but by their actions and their life’s work. Their “leaders do come from the West” as you note, but those few elites are as a thimble to compare to a great lake. It is dishonest, disingenuous and completely without excuse to lazily count the captured masses with their overlords rather than judging each man by his own actions, successes and failures.
@Michael S
Thanks for the lecture but I was saying that the US patterns its policies on the policies of the Ancient Rome.
I also said that the Anglo countries and Germany were the founders and the ideologists of globalism which you found convenient to omit to make your argument stronger.
In terms of the definitions of the Western Civilization – pick up any Western Civilization course textbook and you will see who is included.
You won’t find the peoples who use the Cyrillic alphabet there.
You won’t find any textbooks on the “Eastern” Civilization, either.
Hello, Reader. You told Peloni,
The “globalists” come from all over the world, including Carlos Slim (the richest man in the world) of Mexico, Jack Ma of Red China; Claus Schwab and his young proteges like Justin Trudeau and Volodomir Zelenskyy; and of course, our Hungarian friend George Soros. None of these are from the “Anglo countries and Germany”. LIkewise, the leaders of Japan, Korea and Taiwan are very much in the “globalist” fold. I imagine these are what you refer to, in talking about “newcomers”.
On the other hand, the centers of Globalism are, as you say, centered in European cultures: Davos, Switzerland;Brussels, Belgium; Rome, Italy; London, England; New York, Washington and California, USA. These all are, as you infer, these all have their roots in the ancient Roman Empire — which is also the root of MUCH of what we call “The West”.
Even if we confine our definition of “The West” to descendants of the Roman Empire, many divergent cultural groups developed in that world: Christianity, both Greek and Latin; the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, Greco-Roman art and architecture, political ideas such as democracy and republicanism; allopathic medicine, myriad philosophies, etc.
These are not all coextensive, but one could delineate a “concensus” group: For instance, countries that often vote alike in the UN, countries which have a certain freedom of travel among them, countries which share military hardware and intelligence, or accept one another’s credentials.
Even so, this is merely a “concensus”. Politically, the US and its allies might be called “The West”; but all political parties do not equally back certain globalist agendas. There was a big difference between Presidents Trump and Biden in many respects, for instance; and Donald Trump has been said by some to be The Globalists’ nemesis. But try as he might, even Donald Trump could not shake off the globalist swamp creatures that clung to him throughout his term in office.
Having said all that, many of the common people throughout “The West” are not globalists. Their leaders certainly are — as are the common people who cling to them.
Tanna,
Thanks for the encouragement. Whoever authored the above saying, it’s an understatement. In the army, my hand-to-hand combat instructor demonstrated how to do a takedown. The idea was to take down the head; because, theoretically, where the head goes, the body should follow.
I’m a “Christian”, though sometimes I wonder what people think that term means. According to my understanding, Christians are to strive to be of “one mind and one accord”, with Jesus as the head of the body.
Being of one mind, one would think we all appropriate the same right thoughts (like the scriptures) and likewise reject the same wrong thoughts. Unfortunately, this is not an automatic process: What we think and believe requires constant monitoring, as we are bombarded by lies from what we might call the “body of antichrist” — which as the devil as its head.
At one point, Jesus rebuked his most outspoken disciple, Simon Peter, saying,
“Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”
This is the case, with many who consider themselves Christians: They claim to believe the Bible, but their lives are controlled by thoughts they get from the “fake news”they keep company with.
What we believe, ultimately controls what we do. Do we have to get a chip implanted in our hand or in our brain, to show our allegience to the “Great Fake News Maker”? Does “the beast” have to implant a communication device in us, in order to control us? No, his control begins long before that — when we live in fear because of a lying report, and trust Big Beast to save us from us. It’s not the clot shot or the chip that transfers ownership to our Enemy: it’s fear — fear of men, rather than fear of God.
I might have just lowered the “100%”, with which you agree with me, but no matter — it’s the thought that counts 🙂
@peloni
Why?
The “globalists” are not Extraterrestrials, they come from the West, mainly from the Anglo countries and Germany – these are the founders and the ideologists, maybe there are some “non-Aryan” latecomers who don’t have as much control over things.
Both the IMF and the World Bank were founded and are controlled by the Americans.
The US government in its policy follows the Ancient Roman Empire.
There was a government official a few years ago who actually said it publicly.
The Western Civilization is an artificial construct created to propagandize and ensure the Western domination – see the British colonial policy/methods, etc.
@ Michael S.
This time we are in complete agreement. I believe it was Mark Twain, who said; “Mankind does something like 90% of his living between his ears”.
@Reader
This is an overstatement. The Globalists have worked to move their minions into positions of power throughout the West, and Schwabb has stated as much. The Western Civilization, however, is built upon the structures that are currently being dismantled by these fifth columnists to complete the control of the West by Globalists. If the Globalists were Western Civilization, this would hardly be needed.
As far as I can tell, the globalists ARE the Western civilization.
@ Peloni
Ukraine, NATO, and the Most Fateful Error of American Policy
If USA and Russia are Implacable Foes, all Lines of Inquiry Lead to NATO
Alex Markovsky and I wrote these. He did most of the writing.
Regarding your point, I agree. Americans are still influenced by a cold war mentality. They accept China much more readily than they do Russia..
I was surprise by their intensity.. I didn’t think the right was against diversity of opinion. But they were really angry and wanted to shut me up.
@Linda
Please explain. Is Russia “represented by the WEF?
Reader, you said,
Zech.14
[1] Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
[2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle
“all nations” = the “world community”
Pretty simple, huh?
Linda, There have been many “mark of the beast” theories over the years. “Digital IDs” is popular nowadays. Twenty-five years ago, I knew a man who refused to take on a Social Security number, thinking that was the “mark”. Then the “chip implant” became popular; then Mike Lindell and others thought the Clot Shot was the mark.
The mark is on either the forehead or the palm of the hand. These are symbolic of thoughts we appropriate, on the one hand, and things we do, on the other. Read how those images are used elsewhere in the Bible: God said His people had foreheads that were adamant — they wouldn’t allow in the prophet’s words; and He said he would therefore make the prophet’s forehead like adamant, so he would be protected from their words. Concerning the hand, we have the example of God creating the worlds by the power of his hand.
The “mark” is internal and spiritual; it’s what we choose to believe and what we choose to do. People who heed the words of men (like Claus Schwab) rather than God, and do what they say, already have the “mark”.
What scares me is the prospect of the “world community” doing to Israel the same thing they are doing to Russia now under a convenient pretext.
The situation in Ukraine shows that there is no honor among thieves, and Israel cannot trust anybody in the world.
I hope there are people in Israeli government who are taking notice of this and who will try to adjust the country’s economy to serve the needs of the population rather than of being export oriented.
Changes in Israel’s political structure will also need to be made.
Russia will withstand it – it is a huge country whose people are very tough, patriotic, and used to great hardship.
Russia also has huge gold reserves, little debt, a good relationship with China, and it produces its own oil and gas, and huge quantities of grain, has many other resources, some of them unique, and it can turn its economy around fairly quickly to serve its domestic market.
Israel would be in a terrible situation if something like this happened to it.
Melanie Phillips misses the forest for the trees.
Zelensky is a graduate of the Young Leaders program of the WEF, just like Justin Trudeau – both fighting for the New World Order of the global totalitarian managerial state.
Klaus Schwab and his Young Global Leaders are an essential component of the debacle. I listened to Zelensky’s address at the 2020 WEF annual meeting. He absolutely invited the WEF to invest in Ukraine. He said the investments are an issue of personal survival for Ukraine and profits for the WEF. Russia and Ukraine are both leveraged to the World Bank, and being run by the globalist managerial state represented by the WEF.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the globalist two-step, the pivot from pandemic to war, and now the duped virtue signalers are moving from wearing masks to waving Ukrainian flags. Russia and Ukraine are like Coke and Pepsi – both companies appear to be competitors, but they are owned/controlled by the same parent companies. Investment behemoths BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street are themselves owned/controlled by Rothschild/Rockefeller/British royals. Follow the money – always follow the money.
It is all part of globalism’s manipulative, social engineering, psyop of fear – people are no longer terrified by Covid – now it is war and war shortages. It is a shell game, and the con is to deflect attention from the shell with the pea.
For me WWIII is already here. It is the globalists against Western civilization. It is asymmetric warfare – the shots fired from a syringe, not the barrel of a gun. The political theater is a lethal shell game: COVID19 -> Ukraine/Russia -> but the pea is under number three -> the digital IDs for total social control. GAME OVER.
LG
Brilliant analysis from Melanie as usual.
Let’s hope Israel’s mediation efforts do some good. It is certainly flattering to Israel that both Ukraine and Russia want Israel to mediate.