Is this punishment on Gaza’s civilian population, prompted by desire for vengeance? Or is it an outpouring of eschatological rage and determination?
The point about the Gaza crisis is that should everyone agree to stick their head in the sand and ignore the ‘elephant in the room’, it’s easy enough so to do. The meaning to a severe crisis is only properly understood when someone notices ‘the elephant’, and says look out; there’s an elephant stamping here. That’s where we are today. Slowly, the West is beginning to take notice. The rest of world however, is transfixed by it, and is being transformed by it.
What is the ‘elephant’ (or elephants) in the room? Blinken’s recent regional diplomacy was ‘a bust’. None of the regional leaders that Blinken met would talk further about Gaza beyond demanding stridently, ‘no Palestinian population displacement into Egypt’ a ‘stop to this madness’ – the carpet bombing of Gazans – and the demand for an immediate ceasefire.
And Biden’s calls for a ‘pause’ – softly, at first, and the more strident now – is being bluntly ignored by the Israeli government. The spectre of President Carter’s impotence during the Iran hostage crisis hangs ever more soberly in the backdrop.
The truth is that the White House cannot force Israel to do its will – the Israeli lobby holds more clout in Congress than any White House team. Thus, ‘no exit’ from the Israeli crisis is readily to be seen. Biden ‘made his bed’ with the Netanyahu cabinet and must live with consequences.
Impotence then, as the Democratic Party fractures beyond the simplistic division between centrists versus progressives. The polarisation emanating from the ‘no ceasefire stance’ is having stark destabilising effects on politics, both in the U.S. and Europe.
Impotence then, as the shape of the Middle East crystallises into sharp antagonism towards the West’s perceived accommodation of the mass slaughter of Palestinian women, children and civilians. The die may be too far ‘cast’ to brake the ongoing tectonic reset already underway. Western double standards are just too inescapably obvious now to the Global Majority.
UPDATE: With all respect for Crooke’s position, I do not see any of this situation as being a surprise. The ‘eschatological rage’ he describes is in reality an eschatological plan and a very methodical one at that. ‘Greater Israel’ = planet earth. The Israelis, joined at the hip with American neocons, are going for world domination. One could state that differently to avoid overemphasizing the Jewish component: American neocons, joined at the hip with Israeli and Western neocons, are going for world domination.
The plan was obvious in Ukraine, which was simply the most recent aggression against Russia. It’s obvious in mass migration into Western countries coupled with a slew of other anti-national policies which I see no need to list here. The plan for world domination has been obvious for decades. Today it is glaringly obvious.
Why Crooke and so many others pretend not to see it is either: 1) they fear the wrath of the neocons; 2) know that others fear the wrath of the neocons and thus go along; 3) they are trapped in a conceptual mind-control cage developed by the neocon global aggressors.
The plan is a long range one. Historically it is as old as the Old Testament. In the modern era it is well over one-hundred years old, with an acute stage beginning after WW2. This acute stage has become frenzied, inflamed, even enraged, since 2001.
Western neocons are going for world domination. They have already staked everything on it. If their plan is delayed, which I doubt, the delay will be only temporary. Western neocons are locked into a win-or-lose situation, a kill-or-be-killed situation. They will not and cannot back down. ABN
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