Judge Nap had a fascinating discussion today with Alastair Crooke which revolved around the war of attrition that the Axis of Resistance is waging against America and Israel. I’ve transcribed/edited about 15 minutes of the 35 minute video. In the portion below Crooke explains that the Axis of Resistance is a fluid networking of like minded nation states but also less formal movements, which look to Iran for guidance based on Iran’s track record of success in resisting the American Empire. Nevertheless, this Axis is not run in a top down manner but by consensus. It is based asymmetric forms of warfare that keep up a constant pressure, but with shifting points at which the pressure is applied. In this way it maintains the escalatory initiative.
It's been puzzling to me that the trend toward multi-polarity is never mentioned by the mainstream press. The elephant in the room for hegemonic Westerners? Below is a post lifted in whole from Xoaquin Flores - New Resistance channel on Telegram. Quite intriguing to me, if for nothing else the blatant admission:
(Begin)Yemen's revolutionary government said they were collaborating with Russia and China against the West
Ali al-Kahum, a member of the Politburo of the Ansar Allah movement, said that there is constant interaction and exchange of experience in various fields between Yemen, the Russian Federation, China and the BRICS countries.
“This is necessary in order to drown America, Britain and the West in the swamp of the crisis around the Red Sea, so that they become bogged down, weakened and unable to maintain unipolarity,” he said.
The shift to multipolarity, according to al-Kahum, began with the Special Operation in Ukraine and accelerated with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Changes in the balance of power threaten Western hegemony. (End)
At the least, US is still using the same ol' playbook while failing to acknowledge that we're in a whole new game.
A one state of Palestine solution had not come to my notice before, but it's an attractive one to me (not that I'm anyone.) Wonder what that wd put all our AIPAC financed pols championing the banning of Tik Tok 'cuz China'?
So hard to keep track in this tiny response box. Hope I made some sense!
BTW, I've advocated the single state solution for years on other forums. Unrealistic as it may be. It's about changing hearts and minds that are in the grip of ideology.
"Ideology — that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago.
He knew. How can a large group of people justify mass murder and torture purely through a self-righteousness they accredit to themselves via a common ideology? Not all that long ago we asked this about Nazi Germany and their treatment of the Jews and other minorities: "Oh, if we had been there, we never would have fallen prey to such evil!" How horribly ironic and tragic that we now are again asking this of the Israelis and their treatment of a minority - even after so many of their ancestors experienced this very thing as the victims! This should be instructive and a warning to us all that this is an under recognized facet of human nature that all are prone to and which must be guarded against.
Has anyone considered? Israel is a creation of Globalism and has been the ME Globalist outpost. Globalism/TELEVISION is obsolete/dead now that DIGITAL has swamped/is ubiquitous worldwide, so how does Israel continue as a viable state? In other words, this is a spiritual/religious war not a geopolitical one. How does Israel remain in existence in the DIGITAL paradigm?
It's at least the fourth or fifth time this guy has made essentially the same comment. He seems to have an idiosyncratic interpretation of what the term globalism MEANS.
Good stuff. What is Iran's position on non-Islams living in a single Palestinian state? Would non-Islams face pressure to convert to Islam? Would they be treated as second-class citizens? How has this played out in Iran over the past 50 years, as an example of what Jews could expect if there was a single Palestinian state without special (superior) preference for Jews?
Iran is something like what used to called a "confessional state" in Europe. The linked article doesn't discuss this, but my recollection from reading elsewhere is that Jews and perhaps other religious minorities, do live under various legal disabilities.
However, Iran is Iran. Meaning, it's not Palestine and its majority population is mostly Persian, Turkic, and Kurdish. Iran has its own long history, including Jews and Christians. It's brand of Islam is distinct from what's found in Palestine. So looking to Iran for a model of what to expect is probably not the way to go.
A one state Palestine would start out as 50/50 Jewish/Arab (mostly Muslim, but some Christians). Different Arab countries--as opposed to Turkish or Irainian countries--treat religious minorities differently. Lebanon is one example, Egypt is different, etc. As I noted in the post, several Gulf States in particular have become much more accommodating to their growing Christian communities, although outside of Lebanon there are restrictions of various sorts.
Here is the best article I could find on the overall situation:
I would expect that a One State Palestine would be relatively freer from the religious standpoint than Israel has been. No more Jewish persecution of Christians, for example.
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It's been puzzling to me that the trend toward multi-polarity is never mentioned by the mainstream press. The elephant in the room for hegemonic Westerners? Below is a post lifted in whole from Xoaquin Flores - New Resistance channel on Telegram. Quite intriguing to me, if for nothing else the blatant admission:
(Begin)Yemen's revolutionary government said they were collaborating with Russia and China against the West
Ali al-Kahum, a member of the Politburo of the Ansar Allah movement, said that there is constant interaction and exchange of experience in various fields between Yemen, the Russian Federation, China and the BRICS countries.
“This is necessary in order to drown America, Britain and the West in the swamp of the crisis around the Red Sea, so that they become bogged down, weakened and unable to maintain unipolarity,” he said.
The shift to multipolarity, according to al-Kahum, began with the Special Operation in Ukraine and accelerated with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Changes in the balance of power threaten Western hegemony. (End)
At the least, US is still using the same ol' playbook while failing to acknowledge that we're in a whole new game.
A one state of Palestine solution had not come to my notice before, but it's an attractive one to me (not that I'm anyone.) Wonder what that wd put all our AIPAC financed pols championing the banning of Tik Tok 'cuz China'?
So hard to keep track in this tiny response box. Hope I made some sense!
Sounds like a strategy to me.
BTW, I've advocated the single state solution for years on other forums. Unrealistic as it may be. It's about changing hearts and minds that are in the grip of ideology.
"Ideology — that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago.
He knew. How can a large group of people justify mass murder and torture purely through a self-righteousness they accredit to themselves via a common ideology? Not all that long ago we asked this about Nazi Germany and their treatment of the Jews and other minorities: "Oh, if we had been there, we never would have fallen prey to such evil!" How horribly ironic and tragic that we now are again asking this of the Israelis and their treatment of a minority - even after so many of their ancestors experienced this very thing as the victims! This should be instructive and a warning to us all that this is an under recognized facet of human nature that all are prone to and which must be guarded against.
Absolutely. Rene Girard wrote extensively on this subject, and flagged up the tragic dangers of mimesis.
The Talmud is not biblical. It is the very antithesis of biblical teaching. To obey the commands of Talmud is to do Lucifer's bidding.
It looks like Netanyahu is trying to force the globalist Jewish camp hand.
They tried regime change and failed, now Bibi wants to test their resolve by threatening to going all in with Hezbollah.
He knows he can’t go it alone but needs the US to do the heavy lifting, it’s a dangerous gambit.
Has anyone considered? Israel is a creation of Globalism and has been the ME Globalist outpost. Globalism/TELEVISION is obsolete/dead now that DIGITAL has swamped/is ubiquitous worldwide, so how does Israel continue as a viable state? In other words, this is a spiritual/religious war not a geopolitical one. How does Israel remain in existence in the DIGITAL paradigm?
It's at least the fourth or fifth time this guy has made essentially the same comment. He seems to have an idiosyncratic interpretation of what the term globalism MEANS.
Good stuff. What is Iran's position on non-Islams living in a single Palestinian state? Would non-Islams face pressure to convert to Islam? Would they be treated as second-class citizens? How has this played out in Iran over the past 50 years, as an example of what Jews could expect if there was a single Palestinian state without special (superior) preference for Jews?
Good point. You can read about Judaism in Iran here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Iran#Judaism
Iran is something like what used to called a "confessional state" in Europe. The linked article doesn't discuss this, but my recollection from reading elsewhere is that Jews and perhaps other religious minorities, do live under various legal disabilities.
However, Iran is Iran. Meaning, it's not Palestine and its majority population is mostly Persian, Turkic, and Kurdish. Iran has its own long history, including Jews and Christians. It's brand of Islam is distinct from what's found in Palestine. So looking to Iran for a model of what to expect is probably not the way to go.
A one state Palestine would start out as 50/50 Jewish/Arab (mostly Muslim, but some Christians). Different Arab countries--as opposed to Turkish or Irainian countries--treat religious minorities differently. Lebanon is one example, Egypt is different, etc. As I noted in the post, several Gulf States in particular have become much more accommodating to their growing Christian communities, although outside of Lebanon there are restrictions of various sorts.
Here is the best article I could find on the overall situation:
https://www.economist.com/international/2023/11/29/a-religious-revolution-is-under-way-in-the-middle-east
I would expect that a One State Palestine would be relatively freer from the religious standpoint than Israel has been. No more Jewish persecution of Christians, for example.
the constitution of Hamas still has this in it, I believe.