By Mansoureh Tajik for the Saker Blog
Today, Palestine is the calibration reference with which people and nations of the world must compare and standardize the accuracy of their beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes with respect to justice, human liberty, dignity, and morality. It is the standard with which they must true-up and adjust their moral and ethical campus. To adjust accurately means to actively fight using all means available (pens, missiles, talks, and walks) against aggressions and atrocities of the Zionist entity and its backers and handlers, the Anglo-Zionist West, Inc. led by the United States of America.
The Zionist regime was established on an utterly obscene false meme of “a land without people for a people without a land.” For nearly 75 years, what heinous crimes and nefarious acts were not exacted upon the People of Palestine. In all crimes and transgressions of the Zionist regime against the People of Palestine, the collective West and their regional puppets have directly and indirectly aided and abetted. They all share the responsibility and must answer in this world and in the Day of Judgment.
In the words of Ayatullah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a speech delivered last year on the occasion of Quds Day:
“The Zionists, from day one, converted the usurped Palestine into a base for terrorism. Israel is not a country but a terrorist camp against the people of Palestine and other Muslim nations. Fighting against this ruthless and vicious regime is equivalent to fighting against injustice and fighting against terrorism. And this is a duty and responsibility of everyone.”[1]
During these 74 plus years, the People of Palestine first fought with their words, then with their shoes, then with their closed fists, then with stones and sticks, then with their bodies strapped with explosives, then with rocks, and now with missiles. Meanwhile, their so-called leaders and their so-called Arab brothers in ethnicity and their so-called Muslim brothers in religion “closed it” with the godfathers of crime and wretchedness and sold them out in one accord after another. Thusly, they helped establish and brutally maintain the largest and longest lasting concentration camp known to humanity in all of human history.
Forty four years ago, God’s blessings came in the form of an eighty-year-old man of God, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led a revolution to re-introduce the Words of God back into the politics of man. He made Qods and Palestine the one and only issue of greatest importance for the Muslims all over the planet and designated the last Friday of every Ramadan, the day of Al-Qods. His reasoning was quite clear and straight forward. His words were exact:
“Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim
I have warned for many long years the danger of despotic usurper Israel to Muslims. Nowadays, it has intensified its barbarous attacks on the Palestinian brothers and sisters. Specifically in southern Lebanon, it aims to exterminate the Palestinian resistors by incessantly bombing their homes and livelihoods.
I ask all Muslims of the world and the Islamic governments to join together and cut off the hands of this usurper and its backers. I invite all Muslims of the world to choose this last Friday of the blessed Month of Ramadan, which is also one of Nights of Power (Laylat ul-Qdr) and could have detrimental effects on the fate of the People of Palestine, as the Qods Day and through some functions and observances, openly announce their international support of legitimate rights of Muslim People. I ask God Almighty the triumph of Muslims over habitual non-believers. Wasalaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
Ruhollah Mosavi Khomeini”[2]
Aspirations and ideals cannot be realized without real, tangible, and practical means and tools, strong determination and will, and an authentic trust in God. In 1369 [1990] the Qods Force was formally established within the Islamic Revolution Guards Corp with a direct order from Ayatullah Khamenei putting Sardar Qasim Soleimani in charge and as its Commander.
To have a realistic assessment of the progress, it is useful to do a short interim assessment and a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation based on facts on the ground. And that, we shall try.
On September 9, 2015, when JCPOA agreement had just been reached and in response to some Zionist propaganda, we were promised by Imam Khamenei that an entity called “Israel” will seize to exist. He said,
“Some Zionists have said, ‘considering the outcome of the nuclear negotiations, we will be free of pestering by Iran for 25 years.’ But we tell them, ‘you will not see the 25 years in the future, in fact and, with God’s Blessings, by then, nothing of the Zionist regime will exist in the region.”[3]
So far, 6 years, 7 months, and 20 days are gone and 18 years, 4 months, and 10 days are left on that 25-year deadline. How are the Zionist entity and its backers holding up, so far? Let’s first hear a clean and bare bone report of events directly from the horse’s mouth, the big and powerful US on whose unshakable support and protection the Israeli decision makers have opened a special account. Nothing could be more revealing than a short Q&A session between a senate panel and Antony Blinken (See short video here) this last Tuesday (April 26th). It is too interesting to leave it unscripted:
Ted Cruz: Is it true that IRGC is actively trying to murder former senior officials of the United States?
Antony Blinken: I’m not really sure what I can say in an open setting but let me say generically that there is an ongoing threat against American officials both present and past.
Ted Cruz: Is it true the state department is spending roughly two million dollars a month to protect those officials?
Antony Blinken: We are making sure and we will make sure for as long as it takes protecting our people present and former if they’re…if they are under threat.
Ted Cruz: And I am assuming you agree if attempting to murder a secretary of state or a former secretary of state is a pretty damn big deal?
Antony Blinken: I would certainly agree with that. Yes.
Ted Cruz: There have been multiple public reports that we asked them to make a simple promise not to murder a former secretary of state and they refused. There is nothing classified about that. If they are actively refusing, saying, ‘no we are going to keep trying to murder your former secretary of state,’ the idea that our negotiators are sitting in Vienna saying, ‘okay, that’s great, how many more billions we can give you.’ That doesn’t make any sense. So, I just want to know the factual question. Did you ask them stop trying to murder the former secretary of state and they sit there and tell you, ‘NO. No, we are going to keep trying to murder him.”
Antony Blinken: Of course, within the context of any engagement we have directly and indirectly with the Iranians, one of the strong messages we send to them is they need to stop targeting our people. Period. And here are the facts as I mentioned a few minutes ago.
Ted Cruz: But, did they tell you no?
Antony Blinken: Again, I am not going to characterize what they said. They know what they would need to do to address this problem and that’s pretty straight forward. But we’ve seen these attacks go up 400% from 2019 to 2020 after we got out of the nuclear agreement, after we designated IRGC, after we killed Soleimani for whom no one is shedding any tears. Those are the facts. We have to deal with the facts in terms of what represents a threat to our people and how we can…[cut off by Ted Cruz]
Ted Cruz: Let me ask about Nord Stream 2…”
I would like to open a parenthesis and say that there is a very simple solution here that you are overlooking Mr. Blinken. Extradite every single one of those criminals to the Islamic Republic of Iran. We promise to conduct a fair trial (fairer than any trial you will ever offer any of your own journalists) here in Iran in a very open, transparent, live, and public to the world. We give our words of honor to be fair and, unlike you, our words and pledges mean something to us. Close parenthesis.
Anyway, the Zionist regime’s enabler regime cannot even guarantee the safety of its own officials let alone the security of an illegitimate entity suffering from Aggressive Compulsive Savagery Disorder (ACSD). Even when they provide their state of the art protective shield, its sub-par performance is unimpressively costly. How many more “concussions”, refinery fires, pin-point hits on your bases, spy dens, and sensitive locations do you need to have in order reach a sober and wise conclusion? What will it take?
Perhaps a simple math from your own books is more useful. In the 6-day fire exchange between Hamas and the Zionist regime less than a year ago, estimated cost of the short-range Qassam rocket fired by Hamas was somewhere between $300 to $800 each. In contrast, estimated cost of Iron Dome’s interceptors was between $50,000 and $100,000 each. According to Benny Gantz, the regime’s defense minister, the Iron Dome missile defense system had recorded more than 1,000 interceptions since the start of the military operation in the Gaza Strip on May 10. [4] That averaged to $75 million dollars in 6 days with great many rockets hitting their intended targets. I know money is not everything but don’t you do all these for your love of material wealth?
Or, perhaps we should add a little oomph to the mix. I tried to make a very simple conceptual drawing of the facts on the ground in and around the occupied Palestine based on a short video made in Hebrew (see here) and released by the Nojaba Movement of Iraq. As the saying goes, a picture says more than 1000 words. This is 1000 + 36:
In the short clip, Nojaba poses an excellent and noteworthy question to the occupiers of Palestine. It asks: “Hamas and the Islamic Jihad alone brought about the Saif al-Quds [The Sword of Al-Quds]. In an expanded war, how are you going to protect your “protective shield?!” Touché, Nojaba!
The clip closes by a very real and truthful announcement: “War with Israel will no longer be a war limited to a country in the east of the Mediterranean Sea. Rather, the Zionists will face a front consisting of warriors whose limits are heavens and of non-Palestinian nations. In that, it will be astounded and overwhelmed.”
Yesterday, Ayatullah Khamenei, in his speech [5] for Al-Quds Day on Friday (April 29, 2022), gave a very concise and hopeful prognosis. He announced: “today, an ‘undefeatable will’ in Palestine and the entire West Asia has replaced the ‘undefeatable army’ of the Zionists. And this criminal military has been forced to re-structure its tactical formation from offense to defense.” In his speech delivered in Arabic, he directly addressed the Palestinians and all in the Islamic and Arab world, he made several critical and noteworthy points that are important to review as they relate to global current affairs and illuminate the path in the near future. Below, I have translated specific segments for your study:
“We are spending the Qods Day this year while all signs point to the emergence of a new equation in today and tomorrow of Palestine. Today, the ‘undefeatable will’ in Palestine and all regions of West Asia has replaced the ‘undefeatable army’ of Zionists. Today, that criminal army has had to change its formation from offensive posture to a defensive one. Today, in the political arena, the biggest supporter of the usurper regime, that is [US] America itself has suffered consecutive defeats: defeat in Afghanistan, defeat in maximum pressure against the Islamic Iran, defeat against Asian powers, defeat in controlling the world economy, defeat in managing its own internal affairs, and a deep divide in the [US] American ruling establishment.”
“The polls indicate that nearly 70 percent of the Palestinians in 1948 and 1967 areas and in external camps encourage the Palestinian leaders to take military actions against the usurper regime. This is an important phenomenon because it means the Palestinians are now fully prepared to oppose the usurper regime and this now keeps the fighting organizations’ hands open so that any time they determined necessary, they could enter into action.”
“The Zionist regime, even though it is out of breath, continues its crimes and is attacking the oppressed and killing unarmed women, children, the old, and the young. It imprisons and tortures them. It destroys homes, farms, and belongings of people. But the liars and false claimants of human right in Europe and [US] America who are making such fuss in the matters of Ukraine have sealed their lips with silence about all these atrocities and crimes in Palestine. They not only do not defend the oppressed, they help this blood thirsty wolf. This serves as a great lesson for the affairs of the world of Islam and on the top of that the issue of Palestine. You cannot rely on these racist and hostile powers and you must not rely on them. Only with the power of resistance rooted in the teachings of the Quran Al-Kareem and the rules of beloved Islam, we can solve the problems of the Islamic World and on the top of that the issue of Palestine.”
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is the supporter and on the side of the Resistance front. It is the supporter and on the side of the Palestinian resistance. We have always said this and we have acted upon it and we have insisted on it. We condemn the “normalization” movement as treason and we condemn the naturalization policy. That some Arab governments have told [the US] America to speed up the resolution of the Palestinian issue, if by that they mean [for the US] to remove all obstacles in stabilizing the usurper regime before departing from the region, then, firstly, they have committed treason and have brought shame to the Arab world. Secondly, they have shown their stupidity because a sightless cannot serve as lead for another sightless.”
I would like to take a moment and make a few specific points about what the above statements in bold might mean. These are my thoughts based on observations and overall evaluation of different developments here. As with any human thought, the possibility of error is always there.
• Regarding the US’s “defeat against Asian powers” (1st paragraph in the above quote), it indicates the Islamic Republic of Iran has already determine the United States to be the loser of its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine regardless of how things develop further. That is decidedly a shared view among great many different thinkers here.
• Regarding the statement, “this now keeps the fighting organizations’ hands open so that any time they determined necessary, they could enter into action” (2nd paragraph), it means the Resistance can move from a position of solely defensive (defense and retaliation whenever attacked) to offense. This is a key development in the direction of escalation. To clarify this important point further, I need to refer to a segment in another speech by Ayatullah Khamenei, delivered a few months back before the staff and the commanders of the army and the air force. He said (I translate):
“Our enemies, the enemy front –because the enemy is a front, a gigantic front—today has grasped onto a hybrid offensive. The enemy’s offensives are a hybrid offensive. That means, it includes economic dimensions, political dimensions, security dimensions, media dimensions, diplomatic dimensions – from all directions they have begun a hybrid mass offensive. In response, we, too, must have a hybrid movement. Our movement must be a hybrid movement. We must try hard in all dimensions. Of course we must defend but we cannot always remain in a defensive posture. Our enemy conducts offense. We must conduct offense as well, in all fields: in media, in economy, and in security arenas. The thinkers are responsible in here. Those who are thinkers and are of responsibility and action, especially the officials, in any of these arenas that they can perform, they must.”[6]
So, this shows an official shift for the activists and all those in the Resistance camp.
Yesterday, Sardar Qa’ani, who became the Commander of Quds Force after Sardar Soleimani’s martyrdom, too, lifted a bit of curtain and revealed corners of the Zionist regime’s shaky position with minimum touch-ups or prettification. He dared them to tell the truth to their own people:
“The criminal regime is disgraced and is not ready to man up and tell the truth even to its own people. A few months ago, news got to the regime that two unknown drones were coming towards them. They began to fly 41 military fighter aircrafts and reconnaissance drones and they had them circle around for hours from dusk to dawn. The aggressor entity in its entirety and all its people got discombobulated. They kept on asking what was going on. They weren’t man enough to give any answers about what happened, whether the drones had come or not, to whom they belonged, or what the purpose was. They lied to their people and said, ‘we had a drill.’ So, from where did they receive the information and the operational capacities later on? Be a man and give an answer to your own people. Besides, the heroic Hizbollah sent a drone for about 100 kilometer into a land that has the most concentrated defense and detection equipment and systems. It circled there. It took films. It took photos and finally returned. Why do you claim then that if a mosquito flies over, we could hit it?! Can’t you answer your own people and others?”[7]
And he had this advice to the people in the occupied Palestine:
“To the people who do not belong to this land and we consider all of them usurpers and criminals, we have only one message: Get your brain working. The regime’s life is almost up. Before your houses in Europe and [US] America, where you used to conduct your wretched lives, get too expensive and sold and before the houses you’ve usurped get dirt cheap, I advise you to sell your houses in the Occupied Land and return to your original place.”
May they hear and obey before it is too late for them. May God grant us prayers in freed Al-Aqsa Mosque very soon. Amen and والسلام
References:
[1] Sayyed Ali Khamenei, “Televised Speech on the Occasion of Quds Day,” Last Friday on Ramadan, 1442; Ordibehesht 17, 1400 [May 7, 2021]. Accessed online at: https://khl.ink/f/47798
[2] Ruhollah Mosavi Khomeini. “Message to Muslims of Iran and the World about choosing the Qods Day.” Sahifehye Noor, Vol. 9, Page 267. Accessed online at: https://emam.com/posts/view/1850
[3] Qods News Agency, “Why the Zionist Regime will not see the next 25 years.” News Code: 345824. Available online: http://qodsna.com/fa/345824
[4] Abdel-Raouf Arnaout. “Israel incurs heavy costs intercepting Hamas rockets: Cost of Iron Dome’s interceptors estimated between $50,000 and $100,000 each.” Anadolu Agency, May 17, 2021. Accessed online at: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-incurs-heavy-costs-intercepting-hamas-rockets/2244205
[5] Sayyed Ali Khameni, “Televised Speech on the Occasion of Quds Day,” The Last Friday on Ramadan, 1443; Ordibehesht 9, 1401 [April 29, 2022]. Accessed online at: https://khl.ink/f/50118
[6] Sayyed Ali Khameni, “Speech on the visits of the commanders and staff of the Air Force and the Air Defense of the Army.” Bahman 19, 1400 [February 8, 2022]. Accessed online at: https://khl.ink/f/49572
[7] Mehr News Agency. “Sardar Qa’ani’s advice to the Zionists: Return to your previous lands.” Ordibehesth 9, 1401 [April 29, 2022] @ 12:08 pm. News Code: 5478238. Accessed online at: https://www.mehrnews.com/xXzFN
La guerra que comenzó en Ucrania finalizará en Palestina
“Palestine is the calibration reference…with respect to justice, human liberty, dignity, and morality.”
And also of the Christian faith. Because even if the Palestinians don’t realize it, they’re fighting for the Christian faith against a people pretending to be Hebrews that are undermining the New Covenant of Christ, just like their shills are doing against Christian Russia.
https://cufpa.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/the-palestinian-struggle-is-christianitys-struggle/
Long live palestine and the palestinians!
God chose the Jews to be subjected to His strictest rules for a very good reason…
and the Jews love to tell everyone only about the chosen part while doing everything they can to circumvent the rules, proving God’s reason to be correct.
When Jews rejected Jesus, they ceased to be “chosen.”
Mansoureh Tajik
I hear, you talk lots of sense. But Mansoureh Tajik if we as human forget what humanity is , then what really can be archived. Criminals or perhaps I should say forces of atrophy rule the world. who’s fault is it ? We can talk about crimes committed by the West (they enslaved my people )but the question is don’t we as the non West believe in the concept of hierarchy. My sister, perhaps there is something deeper about human nature that needs addressing . We are told those in Ukraine are blond & blue eyed hence are not supposed to go through what they are experiencing. The blond & blue eyed, at the same time, believe Palestinians are no human & killing them is ok. How does one solve such a problem ?
Nothing incenses me more than those Zionist collaborators among the Government and Intelligence Services of Lebanon. Collaborators of Satan in general! Talk about selling your soul.
UN Resolution 181 remains the sole basis for a lasting peace and the only internationally recognized boundaries between the 2 states.
Which two states? There is only one state, by the name of Palestine.
Exactly Elten. People that talk about two states have an agenda or are ignorant. There is only one legal state, the nation of Palestine.
Thanks for the article. Iran is, geopolitically, a very important component of the new Eurasian world order. It might not be an economic/technological powerhouse like China , Russia or India, but its geographic location compensates for its shortcomings. It would be good to see more cooperation amongst the countries of Asia for an end to the hegemony of the US dollar. At the same time there’s this large segment in the Iranian society traditionally attached to the West, which nowadays is mainly represented by the so-called Eslahtalaban or reformists, who will do all in their powers to make Iran continue to depend on the west and US-dollar in trades, particularly, oil exports. Well, hopefully, this trend will be changed soon.
they have pledged allegiance
to the land across the sea
making sure that they have healthcare
thanks to you and me
they don’t have to pay for
university… is free.
the gifts keep going on.
gory gory halejuha
gory gory halejuha
glory glory halejuha
the shit keeps going on
they own our politicians
banks and media too
there is nothing we say
or hasbara’s on you
you cannot run for office
lest you represent the jews
this shit keeps going on
they can sink our ships
and shoot our sailors as they swim
we pretend it didn’t happen
cuz we know that it was them
but there’s nothing we can do
cuz they own us through and through
this shit keeps going on
we know they kill their neighbours
and lock them up inside
of an open air gulag
committing genocide
anyone who mentions it…
professional suicide
and the whole world looks away
we must fight their battles
until the end of time
killing who they say
inventing silly crimes
even thoughthe rest of us
stand in a bread line
we must defend the jews
gory gory halejuha
gory gory halejuha
gory gory halejuha
this shit keeps going on
Jerusalem Day is framed by Muslims as Islam vs Zionism, but I think Palestine is a much bigger issue because it neglects the Christians who made Jerusalem famous. Without the spread of Christianity from Nazareth to Jerusalem to the rest of Syrian Palestine; then to Damascus to Greece and to Rome by St.Paul; and then from Rome to the rest of the world, Palestine would have remained an insignificant province of Syria.
Palestine is more important than geopolitics. It is a truism that Jerusalem and Palestine exist in a Heavenly as well as an Earthly dimension: the Holy Land is where all 3 billion Peoples of the Book (Christians, Muslims and Jews) focus their hope of building a better world — building The Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.
This is a noble cause, but just a where to start, the list is endless, the options are not.
“Jerusalem Day is framed by Muslims as Islam vs Zionism, but I think Palestine is a much bigger issue because it neglects the Christians who made Jerusalem famous.”
Excellent point. The issue is fundamental and touches all decent people who aspire to a dignified life.
And Zionism cuts across all religions and groups worldwide, especially Islam. Adherents are found among Reformist Iranians, Wahabis, Muslim Brothers, etc.
I would be pleased to see a rebranding to include not only neglected Christians, but all who are spiritually or morally on the side of Operation Z. The Ukrainian war has really exposed Israel; they have come out from the shadows to fight openly on the Anglo-Zionist Empire (AZE) side. It has similarly forced all to take sides, including China and India.
A better way to reframe Jerusalem Day might be ‘Moral coexistence vs Forces of Satanism and Chaos.’ These are concepts easily understood and appreciated worldwide. But it requires both Iran and Russia to exit their insular shells, to draw upon the vast reserves of their Faith and civilizations, and to internationalize and to publicize the issue to the same degree as the AZE enemy propagates its own interests. Right now is a fertile time.
I agree with you Dr Maroudas. You are making a very rich poetic connection here.
You write “Palestine is a much bigger issue.” Yes because, as you imply, politically it has become an active nerve running inside the religious mythologies shared by millions upon millions of people, and multiple religions. Palestine, in the sense I think you mean it, has become a politically alive hot wire that animates a multiplicity of currently active religious mythologies. It gives us, or more forces upon us, a story that is both religiously and politically real at the same time. The struggle for Palestine has simultaneously meaning in both the spiritual and political worlds. And the process is drawing the world into itself. This I believe is why Dr Maroudas would write “Palestine is more important than geopolitics.”
“Jerusalem and Palestine exist in a Heavenly as well as an Earthly dimension: the Holy Land is where all 3 billion Peoples of the Book (Christians, Muslims and Jews) focus their hope of building a better world — building The Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.”
So the massed religious aspiration draws the attention of billions of people. Which means they all bring their own specific formula for transcendence and need to see it manifest in “Jerusalem.” This is setting up a process where all the religions come to get their inner reality shaken down, simply due to the building contradictions between them. Accordingly the politics in “Palestine” are becoming hotter all the time. Heated by a fusion pressure driven by competing religious world views. Palestine is putting the religions themselves under pressure.
And out of that pressure and pain emerges an acutely defining dialectic: Capitalism’s Empire of Lies, allied with Talmudic Zionism, together pushing back as mightily as they can, forcing an ever intensifying contradiction with the fullness of Islam, reinforced by Iranian Shia spiritually activist socialism. Which in turn ties in the allegiance of Christian Russia and Communist China.
Moreover the Russian government has now made it clear that its new transformational struggle (revolution) is intended to free the world from the “Empire of Lies.” Is that revolutionary enough to qualify for a mythic connection?
In that regard I find it very interesting to read on this site indications of Russian troops advancing West and holding banners calling for a final great fight against the greatest spiritual evil. Apparently Russian Christianity feels itself at war. President Putin has defined the target spiritually and is organizing a global political-economic assault. In the process the Russians are starting to name the enemy in a way I believe Dr Maroudas would find profoundly compelling.
So Russia arms are leading the way and instigating a global transformational process. Drawing into unitive cohesion the combined spiritual force of Russian Christianity, Chinese Marxism, and Shia Islam, along with a hosts of others, all to finally meet their dialectical antagonist in Jerusalem. Why and for what?
Well Dr M did say “Jerusalem” means building the kingdom of Heaven on Earth. So, if I am reading him right,
the issue of “Palestine” itself forces those colliding and contending religious visions to clarify themselves. Which makes “Palestine” a diamond covered in someones shit. So, more important than geopolitics?
Dear Doctor: I delight in your Christian poetry. i have been enjoying your posts for years and so often you make richly cultured connections which touch me and draw me out.
There is no “holy land”. That patch of dirt is no more “holy” than Haiti or Siberia or the Gobi Desert. God created it all in six days for his own good pleasure and gave his creature man dominion over it to be a steward.
The demonic Jews long ago killed Kennedy to clear the way for their nuclear weapons production. They are determined to take everyone else with them. So, when Mecca and the House of Saud end in a sea of molten sand, what of Islam? There is nothing “holy” about anything on earth except the lives of people and people were to be good stewards of animals and plants as well. The religion based on death and earthly pleasures is not worship of God – Father, Son, and Holy Ghost – who created mankind, made in the image and likeness of God to be steward of the creation. People, not places, are important to God who created every one of us.
Well… chickens coming home to roost. Among many other things it looks to me like Donald Trump has a well earned fatwa on his head, for murder most heinous. The Empire of Lies is also the Empire of Stupidity and doesn’t seem capable of realizing that people the world over have had a bellyful of their bullshit. It would do the US well to withdraw into their own borders, multipolar like, face their coming economic collapse, and plant potatoes and wheat to feed their people whilst trying to aquatint themselves with God and truth. Aside from Russia and Iran, China is already resolved, and India and Pakistan seem to mulling things over. There will be no shortage of boots on the ground or technical capabilities and resist western hegemony. Western divide and rule is now about divide and chaos and I don’t think any semi sensible nation sees that as in their best interests. As for the Zionists, by way of deception thou shalt commit suicide, should become their new Mossad motto.
Thank you, Ms. Tajik, for your analysis, quotes and references.
Great article. The Pen is mightier than the sword and Pens of power are marching now.
The Ayatollah’s statement: “Some Zionists have said, ‘considering the outcome of the nuclear negotiations, we will be free of pestering by Iran for 25 years.’ But we tell them, ‘you will not see the 25 years in the future, in fact and, with God’s Blessings, by then, nothing of the Zionist regime will exist in the region.”
To a religious leader, his word is “his bond” so to speak. If he loses his word, he loses the basis of his authority, so the word of an Ayatollah is very reliable. When the Ayatollah says “25 years”, he is not fooling; he is not posturing. Based on the information he has, that is his conclusion, right or wrong. Here is a video of the Israeli army marching on an important occasion and showing the lack of martial spirit characteristic of great armies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3tRxJQR6Js
It’s the Generals. That’s almost like how we marched in high school once a year without practice; we merely walked in order.
Here is the Iranian army marching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue20yiIY9DU
The two-state solution is the best (possible) outcome for Israel’s Zionist goals, and the reason is the Israeli army.
A 2 State solution frankly seems impossible if we mean the historical definition of a State and the land over which it exercises exclusive authority. “2 states” over one land just does not make sense to anyone, certainly not to me. The only possible out I see for the Zionist is a kind of exempt “Jewish state” in Palestine and perhaps extending into Muslim lands. It would be up to the Palestine and the key Muslim nations to see if and how such an arrangement can or should be even made for the defeated Zionists. What is for important though is that Palestine won or will win within the next 20 years, and the people of Palestine are qualified concerning what to do next .
What would the “exempt Jewish state in Palestine and perhaps extending into Muslim lands ” be like?
The Palestine cause is just, and they deserve help.
Israel is an Apartheid regime, and deserves punishment.
I understand why Iran had a revolution and got rid of the previous monarch.
Bit this text is just a bunch of nonsense, pro-war propaganda, mixing politics with religious fanatism, and actively promoting terrorism.
My solution for Israel-Palestine conflict: respect UN map, have political integration where the votes of Palestinians matter as much as the votes of Israelis, use Defense money to rebuild Palestine. Don’t tear down new colonates, instead populate them 50% with Palestines and 50% with Israelis that go through a process where radicals (from both sides) are excluded.
And the key for long term peace: USA and Iran must stop using Israel and Palestine for their proxy war. Schools must have both Palestinian and Israeli kids to create now the friendship that will ensure all their future.
Make Jerusalem a city-state ruled by UN and Blue Helmets, completely neutral for all visitors. A city that doesn’t belong to this or that side. A city that belongs to all.
And because I’m no “miss universe”, here’s the ugly part: sentence to life prison all the radicals that cause disturbs. And expell from the territory one family of side A each time there’s a casualty on side B caused by a member of side A family. And vice-versa.
Prognostic: it will never happen. USA wants a.proxy. Iran wants a.proxy. Hatred dominates. Vengeance is never ending. There’s too much religious fanatism on both sides. And there’s only one territory for two people. It will end when one of the people ceases to exist, or when both anihilate each other. Because you’re that stupid!
Look at Armenia and Azerbaijan. They hate each other, they make war, they set the map and make a peace deal. They have peace for 30 years.
You guys in Palestine can’t have peace for 30 days. I guess you’re better that way… ” oh my dear ayatolla, give me missils” – that sh”t is as RIDICULOUS as Zelensky.
As in Donbass there’s only a Russian army because idiot Ukronazis attacked first and refused peace, I ask you, Palestinians, the same: would Israel bomb you if you accepted peace and didn’t attack? And when did Israel’s expansion beyond UN’s map started? Do you remember something you did back then?
I’ll always be against Apartheid and support peaceful resistence (that could give much more, and much stronger, supporters to the cause). But I’ll never be on the side of a lunatic that writes a text like this one. It’s the Azov NeoNazi equivalent in the Muslim world…
“I’ll always be against Apartheid” “The Palestine cause is just, and they deserve help.
Israel is an Apartheid regime, and deserves punishment.”
These other quotes of your own comment cast doubts about the two quotes above: “would Israel bomb you if you accepted peace and didn’t attack? And when did Israel’s expansion beyond UN’s map started? Do you remember something you did back then?” “You guys in Palestine can’t have peace for 30 days.” “It will end when one of the people ceases to exist, or when both anihilate each other. Because you’re that stupid!” “There’s too much religious fanatism on both sides.” “But this text is just a bunch of nonsense, pro-war propaganda, mixing politics with religious fanatism…” You appear much more anti-Palestinian than anti-Israeli; whereas these are all the criticisms you have for Israel, there are several more you have for Palestine that are not included in this quotes paragraph.
“My solution for Israel-Palestine conflict:..political integration where the votes of Palestinians matter as much as the votes of Israelis…a process where radicals (from both sides) are excluded.” “Schools must have both Palestinian and Israeli kids to create now the friendship that will ensure all their future.” Make Jerusalem… A city that doesn’t belong to this or that side. A city that belongs to all.” “And because I’m no ‘miss universe’, here’s the ugly part: sentence to life prison all the radicals that cause disturbs.”
I think Ms. Tajik and myself might agree that you are like “miss universe” because the last sentence of your solution could be agreed upon, and the rest is part of the Iranian proposal for a solution, or can easily be agreed on within it. Iran proposes one country for both where Jews have equal rights and are as much citizens as the Palestinians are. Basically then, Iran proposes a solution where Jews are as free as they are in Iran, where (Iran) they are not persecuted and it’d be known if they were, and where the largest number of Jews lives outside of Israel in the Middle East.
The President of the Azov NeoNazi state is essentially an Israeli. The Secretary of State of the USA is one too.
How many US American Presidents or Secretaries of State has Israel had? Who is a proxy of whom? When has Israel fought a war for the USA?
Let me tell you what is going to happen. The Zionists and the Resistance will continue to fight, and the better man will win. No amount of hasbara will change this reality.
Cheers
“When has Israel fought a war for the USA?”
It says it is “the best friend” there but it did not fight in Iraq or in Afghanistan, right?
Who forgets how Netanyahu told Iran and the world on TV, after the attack on Soleimani but before the Iranian response, that Isarel had nothing to do with it and that the matter was strictly between the USA and Iran? He had pressured in the United States and at the U.N. for an attack against Iran so many times! He had threatened himself so many times, and now the opportunity had arrived to do just that, and he quit in that way in front of everybody. “I don’t know him”, he said in other words. It was forgotten by Israel because it threatened Iran with a military attack more than once since then, and the Iranians don’t even remind them; I suppose that’s “classy” of them, or maybe they prefer that Netanyahu comes back.
I am blond with green eyes and I care very much about the people trapped in the Gaza Strip and those being forcibly dispossessed in the West Bank. The Jews could have improved the infrastructure without the genocide of the people who lived in Palestine in 1948. It was physically possible for the Jews to have lived peacefully in the land. It was metaphysically impossible for the demonic Jews, a people inculturated with the belief that they are the master race and all others are soulless hulks to be used, abused, and killed with no consequences, to live peaceably with any other people. In that, Judaism is parallel to Islam which makes a religious rite out of killing all who do not believe as they do. But, unlike Islam, ghettos were established to protect trusting Christians from the conniving Jews who market vices catering to man’s lusts and weaknesses. Casino operators, brothels, addictive drugs, debauchery are the stock in trade of the Jew.
More sloganeering from Persian nationalists disguised as Pro-Islamic, Pro-Justice Shia. The so-called Resistance Axis does not dare attack Israel for multiple reasons including 1) the Shia in Lebanon do not support such a war at all and 2) the actual goal of Iran and its Arab Shia supporters is a Persian Shia empire. The Palestine card is only used to provide a pretext to continue its expansionist polices under the guise of an eventual liberation war of occupied Palestine which will never come. Last year, after Zionist settlers attacked Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem and Israel bombed Gaga (again), Hezbollah not only made zero statements and took zero action during these aggressions, it also made the promise that the “next time” the Zionists attacked Palestians in Jerusalem and violated al-Aqsa mosque that Hezbollah would attack Israel. Obviously, Israel and the Zionists again attached al-Aqsa this year and Hezbollah and the other Shia who are pro-Waliyat al Faqih (i.e. pro Iranian dominance) began tossing out empty slogans.
After 2006, Hezbollah admitted to not wanting to start a war with Israel. Meanwhile Israel continues to occupy the Sheeba Farms and Hezbollah does nothing about it but instead expended years, much capital and fighters for Iran’s objectives in Syria. It also worth mentioning that Hezbollah was helped by a plethora of other Lebanese groups in liberating Zionist occupied Lebanese land leading up to the year 2000. These groups represented all Lebanese confessions, not only the Shia.
Actions speak louder than words. Iran is a Persian nationalist, sectarian Shia country with regional ambitions that do not threaten Israel’s interests.
“Iran is a Persian nationalist, sectarian Shia country with regional ambitions that do not threaten Israel’s interests.”
Israel says that it does threaten Israel’s interests. I think only you say that the Ayatollah doesn’t mean it. It’s no feint: “…you will not see the 25 years in the future […] by then nothing of the Zionist regime will exist in the region.”
“The so-called Resistance Axis does not dare attack Israel for multiple reasons including 1) the Shia in Lebanon do not support such a war at all and 2) the actual goal of Iran and its Arab Shia supporters is a Persian Shia empire.”
Are you referring to Hassan Nasrallah? Speeches of him are posted here now and then.
What other reason(s) is there in your view?
“Actions speak louder than words. Iran is a Persian nationalist, sectarian Shia country with regional ambitions that do not threaten Israel’s interests.”
There are some ‘axioms’ we can’t just overlook: That the Ayatollah is a religious leader whose word is unlike that of the word of a politician who is even expected to lie. That the Shia or Iran movement is not like an Obama or Zelensky political movement, for example. The religious-socio-cultural axioms are more powerful indicators than “actions” by themselves. You say the Ayatollah doesn’t really care about the liberation of Palestine and that this subject is only a pretext. If he is not religious, Middle-Eastern, anti-Zionist, etc., then maybe you are right, but he is those things and his “actions” do show it if you want to. Israel does not deny who he is or what he wants (they even exaggerate). Another iffy thing about your “actions” doctrine/principle (kind of like Marxism where men and their ideas don’t count much because material factors determine what they are about) is that then you say that Iran just seeks to be a “regional” power and has no concerns for Palestine and maybe for that matter without any spite towards Israel. If you look at actions with personal/preconceived ideas, you may construe a strictly political Ayatollah, Assad as “a traitor”, and also have your idea of what real “power” may be to the Ayatollah, which thing in reality could easily not be a “regional power” that lets Israel have its own sphere of regional power. Better to look at the personalities through their roles, speeches, interviews, doctrinal documents, and then try to understand the policy actions. (An axiom of the economist Ludwig von Mises was that actions or facts can be interpreted in an infinity of ways, and that for this reason you need the correct theory to interpret them, because actions and theory are like two sides of the same coin.)
Geopolitically who are leading the resistence against the Anglo-Zionist West are shia muslims. How noticeable in the “Muslim World” Wahhabism – with it’s dirty petrodollar – disguised as sunnism do the opposite. They devide muslims and quickly convince sunni muslims – under any justification and pretext – to hate and demonize Shias. The Wahhab lobby is the same Zionist lobby in the strategy of Anglo-Zionist West. If you replace “Muslim World” for “Arab World”, I could say “White Arab World”, the irony is even bigger.
this made me smile. the oppressed are standing, all over. i wonder…if the black people of America- my tribe- would only remove their desire to sit at the table of their “master” and instead reset- or better yet- turn over the table, how soon would the possibly of jutice be that much closer for the world?
The quotes from the Ayatollah here are extraordinary. Someone may disagree, but I wouldn’t even imagine that he is not serious or that he speaks like Western politicians do. Forget about “lies” or “feints” in a statement like this one:
“In response, we, too, must have a hybrid movement. Our movement must be a hybrid movement. We must try hard in all dimensions. Of course we must defend but we cannot always remain in a defensive posture. Our enemy conducts offense. We must conduct offense as well, in all fields: in media, in economy, and in security arenas. The thinkers are responsible in here. Those who are thinkers and are of responsibility and action, especially the officials, in any of these arenas that they can perform, they must.”
I gather from the statement below by the Commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Sardar Qa’ani, that the source that let them “know” about those drones was Iran itself:
“The criminal regime is disgraced and is not ready to man up and tell the truth even to its own people. A few months ago, news got to the regime that two unknown drones were coming towards them. They began to fly 41 military fighter aircrafts and reconnaissance drones and they had them circle around for hours from dusk to dawn. The aggressor entity in its entirety and all its people got discombobulated. They kept on asking what was going on. They weren’t man enough to give any answers about what happened, whether the drones had come or not, to whom they belonged, or what the purpose was. They lied to their people and said, ‘we had a drill.’ So, from where did they receive the information and the operational capacities later on? Be a man and give an answer to your own people. Besides, the heroic Hizbollah sent a drone for about 100 kilometer into a land that has the most concentrated defense and detection equipment and systems. It circled there. It took films. It took photos and finally returned. Why do you claim then that if a mosquito flies over, we could hit it?! Can’t you answer your own people and others?”
He wants to fight, no?
Don’t let the angry commander see the quality of this march (just saying):
Israel: Military Parade Staged to Celebrate Jerusalem Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3tRxJQR6Js