The neocons thought they were so cute by opening up another front in the new Cold War against Russia/China/Iran in Nagorno-Karabakh but what if the latest developments in Palestine is the “Axis of Resistance” playing the same game?

Since war is politics by other means, maybe the Axis of Resistance is aiming at the fault lines in Israel–where Orthodox settlers are the most bellicose while eschewing military service, while Israel’s semiprofessional military relies heavily on conscripts and reservists who are largely opposed to the present Netanyahu administration? As Middle-East analyst Alastair Crooke reports–“Israel has shattered into two equally weighted factions holding to two irreconcilable visions of Israel’s future; two mutually opposing readings of history and of what it means to be Jewish.”

Israel has always been a settler/colonial project but now it has evolved into a de facto member of NATO and the larger “western alliance”. Meanwhile there’s the global zeitgeist where similar to the first Cold War there is a battle for the hearts and minds in the Third World. And since warfare has a moral as well as political aspect, western unconditional support for Israel exposes the gross hypocrisy at the heart of the “rules-based international order”. The truth is that this moment of catastrophe could never have been reached without western powers enabling, subsidizing and providing diplomatic cover for Israel’s brutality towards the Palestinian people, decade after decade.

Of course this points to what George Orwell said about how warfare is depicted. “Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.”

Despite corporate propaganda to the contrary the emerging world majority absolutely loathes Zionism and the extreme, genocidal version of Western colonialism it represents. Overwhelming majorities in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Sudan, and Morocco—the five Arab countries whose governments were pressured into “normalization”with the Zionist entity—oppose normalization, despise “Israel,” an are cheering wildly for the Palestinian resistance. Indeed, demonstrations in support of Hamas sprouted around the Muslim world as news of the attack spread. 

One of the other reasons we might suspect that this is a counterattack is that there have been far too many ‘coincidental’ uprisings against the Western order lately. That’s why I won’t be surprised if the current confrontation is connected to the hybrid global war of East vs. West, or Global South vs. the Atlanticists.

Putin’s 2015 decision to use military power to save Syria from the Anglo-Zionists came at the behest of the great Iranian general and martyr Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani helped Putin understand that the neocon-captured Anglo-Zionists are non-agreement-capable, bent on global domination, and conversant in only one language: the language of force.

It’s no coincidence that Soleimani and his surviving team in Tehran are not only the arch-enemies of Zionism, but also the avant-garde in the march towards multipolarity. The two projects—dismantling the US-led unipolar order, and liberating Palestine—are inseparable.

There’s also good reason to think the attack was staged to disrupt the ongoing rapprochement of Saudi Arabia and Israel under the direction of Washington.  If the parties succeeded in concluding the agreement on normalization of relations, then that would put in jeopardy all hopes of the Palestinians to enjoy the support of their Arab brethren in the region for realization of their political ambitions for statehood. Under present conditions of all-out war by Israel on Hamas and the prospect of a bloody incursion into Gaza by the Israeli Defense Force, it is unthinkable for Saudi Arabia to proceed with normalization of relations.  This means, in effect, that a serious blow has been dealt to the foreign policy of the Biden administration. 

Of course all of this speculation could be completely erroneous. The Gaza attacks could be the US empire diverting attention from its imminent defeat in the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. I’ve been wondering how the Biden Administration could be able to sweep the Ukrainian conflict under the rug in the future but the attack on Israel would definitely do it.  Because nothing buys media outrage and maximum distraction like attacks on Israel. If your objective is to create the biggest media smokescreen to completely distract away Ukraine coverage, then this is the one.

The question I have about the US supporting military proxies in Ukraine and Israel is to what extent intelligence assets will have to be stretched. How much bandwidth was being used supporting Ukraine? How much will have to be transferred to Israel, not that much will be needed inside Israel but a lot may be needed to keep an eye on the region. 

The Hamas attacks are being widely portrayed as a major failure for the vaunted Israeli intelligence agencies but it also points to a US failure. They have satellites everywhere, appropriate tracking devices, military bases surrounding the region, yet in relation to the closest ally over which the American protectorate is carried out, the US special services, the State Department and the White House sure didn’t let Israel know about the eminent attack.

This all points to the fact that the US empire no longer has the power and ability to dictate events that seem to be outpacing our putative elites ability to handle.

All of the nonsense about the “end of history” seems so long ago.