Saturday, 25 May 2019

THE “BALOCH LIBERATION ARMY” IS A FOREIGN-BACKED FEUDAL TERRORIST GROUP

THE “BALOCH LIBERATION ARMY” IS A FOREIGN-BACKED FEUDAL TERRORIST GROUP

May 23, 2019Asif Aziz

The so-called “Baloch Liberation Army” issued a video ultimatum to China over the weekend to discontinue its CPEC development projects in Pakistan’s Balochistan or face a renewed wave of terrorist attacks against its interests there, with this message unambiguously proving that the group is far from the “national liberation movement” that it purports to be but is really just a bunch of regional feudal terrorists that are doing the Hybrid War bidding of foreign powers.

South Asia As The Center Of The US’ “Pivot To Asia”

The US’ much-discussed “Pivot to Asia” was naively assumed by many to mostly concern East and Southeast Asia as America finagled to “contain” China there, but the reality is that South Asia seems to be taking the central focus in this new strategic paradigm. The US’ alliance with India is a geopolitical game-changer in Eastern Hemispheric affairs because it positions the South Asian state as the key component of the “Chinese Containment Coalition” that’s gradually being assembled against the People’s Republic, which in turn marries the two Great Powers’ interests and makes the US a stakeholder in India’s regional security. Accordingly, the overlap of interests that both of these allies have in stopping China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) has taken the form of the Hybrid War on CPEC against that global vision’s flagship project, ultimately manifesting itself in the upsurge of terrorist attacks committed over the past year by the so-called “Baloch Liberation Army” (BLA).

The Tip Of The Spear

While purporting to be a “national liberation movement” and being treated as such by the Mainstream Media, the BLA is really just a bunch of regional feudal terrorists that are doing the Hybrid War bidding of foreign powers. It’s enough to pair their directly stated objectives with the tacit ones of the US and India to realize this, especially keeping in mind the group’s latest video ultimatum to China over the weekend to discontinue its CPEC development projects in Pakistan’s Balochistan or face a renewed wave of terrorist attacks against its interests there like the recentGwadar hotel storming that it proudly claimed credit for. There should be no doubt among objective observers that the BLA is an anti-Chinese terrorist organization tasked with being the tip of the US’ “Pivot to Asia’” spear by waging the Hybrid War on CPEC and destabilizing BRI as part of one of the most important proxy conflicts in the New Cold War, with the US and India also doing all they can to publicize the group’s goals and generate sympathy for them among the international audience.

Unreformable Feudalists

That second-mentioned point is actually much more difficult to do than it may seem because the BLA doesn’t even make a pretense of supporting anything “noble”, instead openly saying that it’ll continue carrying out terrorist attacks against civilians in order to forcibly drive out foreign investment from this historically underdeveloped province so as to safeguard the feudal structure that has survived there for centuries. Unlike the US’ usual terrorists of choice, the BLA aren’t pursuing a religiously fundamentalist vision but a separatist one, albeit a future where the traditions of the past predominate to the detriment of the locals’ socio-economic development. Baloch culture is still very tribal and controlled by chieftains who the locals are expected to remain loyal to, even though those communal leaders sometimes behave more like feudal lords by treating those below them as their personal property and depriving them of their wealth.

Chinese-Driven Socio-Economic Changes

That’s begun to change in recent years, however, as billions of dollars of Chinese investment flooded into the region and consequently saw the construction of modern-day transportation, health, educational, and social infrastructure through CPEC. China knows that Pakistan is theglobal pivot state because of its irreplaceable role at the crossroads of Eurasia’s many countries and civilizations, with its province of Balochistan being the fulcrum of this entire vision because it hosts the CPEC terminal port of Gwadar, hence why it’s investing so heavily in its potential all across the board. Be that as it may, some of the traditional feudal lords feel threatened by these changes because they know that their power over the people will naturally decline as the province becomes more developed, which is why they’re more than eager to engage in acts of terrorism against their homeland and its Chinese partner in order to preserve this failing system in which they have a key stake.

The Amero-Indian Proxy War

The US and India are well aware of this state of regional affairs and are attempting to exploit it to the utmost, taking advantage of the fact that this terrorist campaign is actually decades old but is being revived in response to CPEC and resultantly receiving a bunch of global news coverage because of it unlike before. To be clear, the Pakistani state is meeting the needs of the local population and addressing their various grievances, so those who are engaging in the BLA’s terrorism aren’t “freedom fighters” but loyal feudalists who are treasonously cooperating with foreign powers in order to suppress their own people. Even so, that angle of their campaign is conspicuously left out of the Mainstream Media’s coverage and only the anti-Chinese one is emphasized for reasons of “political convenience” since there’s a clear contradiction between the “democratic” principles that the US and India allege to support and the anti-democratic goals being advanced by the BLA.

BRI-Aid + PBU + Veterans = Democratic Security

It’s therefore important for Pakistan and China to draw international attention to the feudalist goals that foreign-backed Baloch terrorism is trying to achieve, as well as to highlight their own joint actions in bettering the lives of the local people there. The most effective “Democratic Security” (anti-Hybrid War) measure that could be implemented in the province is to promote patriotic organizations such as Dr. Jumma’s Pakistani Baloch Unity (PBU, formerly Overseas Pakistani Baloch Unity before its recent rebranding) and establish a workflow where Chinese humanitarian aid (“BRI-Aid“, the author’s name for this proposed concept modeled off of USAID) is distributed to the locals through the Baloch veterans of the Pakistan Armed Forces who could act as reliable conduits between civil society and the state. The creation of this interconnected structure linking together Chinese aid, local patriotic organizations, and reliable veteran conduits between the two would go a long way towards stabilizing the region, and this model could even be transplanted upon perfection to other BRI countries where similar Hybrid Wars are being waged such as Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

Concluding Thoughts

China’s multibillion-dollar investments in Pakistan’s Balochistan are helping its people move from feudalism to the future, but some stakeholders in the old system militantly refuse to go along with this progressive process because they stand to lose power once their “subjects” are socio-economically liberated. In turn, they’ve renewed their terrorist campaign in the region with foreign assistance from the US and India in exchange for prioritizing these two Great Powers’ anti-Chinese objectives in the Hybrid War on CPEC, which explains why the so-called “Baloch Liberation Army” would so audaciously brag about its desire to kill as many Chinese and other civilians as possible yet doesn’t fear being branded as the terrorist organization that it truly is by the Mainstream Media. Far from being the “national liberation movement” that they purport to be, these fighters are nothing more than regional feudal terrorists who are doing the bidding of foreign powers, but the combination of kinetic and non-kinetic “Democratic Security” measures by the Pakistani state, its Chinese partners, and local patriotic organizations can eliminate this Hybrid War threat once and for all.

By Andrew Korybko
Source: Eurasia Future

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Another Saudi Massacre in Yemen: At Least 12 Martyrs in Taiz

By Staff

The toll of the latest Saudi crime against Yemeni civilians in the Mawiyah Directorate of Taiz Province has risen to 12 martyrs, the Yemeni Health Ministry reported.

According to the ministry’s Emergency Operations Room, the list of the names of martyrs who were murdered by the Saudi warplane included seven children, with two other old people and three bodies that have not been identified yet.

Meanwhile, the list mentioned the name of one person injured.

The massacre happened when a warplane of the Saudi-American aggression bombed on Friday morning a gas station that belongs to Hasan al-Bahr in the mentioned area.

ISRAEL’S ETHNIC CLEANSING IN PALESTINE IS NOT HISTORY – IT’S STILL HAPPENING

A Palestinian protester during a demonstration on the highway between Jerusalem and Jericho against the construction of Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley (AFP)

ISRAEL’S ETHNIC CLEANSING IN PALESTINE IS NOT HISTORY – IT’S STILL HAPPENING

May 24, 2019Asif Aziz

Speculation over the White House’s “Middle East peace plan” continues to dominate media coverage of Israel and the Palestinians, the latest example coming with the announcement of a Bahrain-hosted “workshop” in June to encourage investment in the Palestinian economy.

With the exception of the Gaza Strip, however – and then only partially and selectively – minimal attention is being paid to developments on the ground in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the paradigm of military occupation alone is insufficient to understanding what is taking place – namely, ethnic cleansing.

What’s ethnic cleansing?

The recently-observed Nakba Day prompted – in some quarters at least – reflection on the mass expulsions and atrocities that accompanied the establishment of the State of Israel. But ethnic cleansing is not a historical exception in Palestine; it is happening today.

In a 1994 essay on identifying ethnic cleansing, legal scholar Drazen Petrovic stressed “the existence of an elaborate policy underlying individual events”, events, or practises, that can include various “administrative measures”, as well as violence on the ground by state and non-state actors.

Minimal attention is being paid to developments on the ground in the occupied Palestinian territories

The aim, Petrovic wrote, could be defined “as an irreversible change of the demographic structure” of a particular area, and “achieving a more favourable position for a particular ethnic group in ensuing political negotiations based on the logic of division along ethnic lines”.

This is an apt description of what is taking place today across the the occupied Palestinian territories, at the hands of Israeli state forces and Israeli settlers.

In multiple locations, state and settlers are working together to forcibly transform – through “administrative measures” and violence – local demographics.

Take the Jordan Valley, running down the West Bank’s eastern flank, where Palestinian families are being routinely and repeatedly forced to evacuate their homes, sometimes for days at a time, for military training exercises by Israeli occupation forces.

According to a report in Haaretz, residents of Humsa – to take one example – have been forcibly evacuated from their homes dozens of times in the last few years. “Although they return each time”, the piece noted, “some of them are exhausted and abandon their homes for good”.

No isolated incidents

In April 2014, an Israeli colonel told a Knesset committee meeting that in areas of the Jordan Valley “where we significantly reduced the amount of training, weeds have grown” – referring to Palestinian communities. “This is something that should be taken into consideration,” he said.

A resident of Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa – a small community in the northern Jordan Valley – told Middle East Eye recently: “I don’t know whether they are actually carrying out a military drill. Sometimes they evict us and do nothing. They aim to coerce us into leaving the area for good”.

Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley are just some of those threatened by Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing

Meanwhile, Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem reported earlier this month on an “upsurge in the frequency and severity of attacks by settlers” against Palestinians in the Jordan Valley.

The settlers “threaten shepherds, chase them, physically assault them, drive headlong into the flocks to scatter the sheep, and even run over or steal sheep,” B’Tselem stated, adding that “soldiers are usually present during these attacks and sometimes even take part”.

Such attacks, B’Tselem said, “are no isolated incidents, but rather part of the policy Israel has been implementing in the Jordan Valley.”

The goal “is to take over as much land as possible, while getting Palestinians to leave, which it achieves via various measures, including making the reality of living there so untenable and disheartening that Palestinians have no choice but to leave their homes, ostensibly ‘by choice’”.

Palestinians check the rubble of their house after it was demolished by Israeli authorities in the West Bank village of Jeftlek, Jordan Valley (AFP)

That reality, the NGO summarised, is “made up of coordinated attacks by soldiers and settlers”, as well as “a sweeping ban on the development of the Palestinian communities, construction, and the establishment of vital infrastructures, including water, electricity, and roads”.

Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley are just some of those threatened by Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing. Other examples can be found in Palestinian neighbourhoods of occupied East Jerusalem like Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.

Facts on the ground

On 3 May, Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Palestine, warned that demolitions in East Jerusalem by the Israeli authorities had “increased at a staggering pace”, with 111 Palestinian-owned structures destroyed in East Jerusalem during the first four months of 2019.

In these Palestinian communities, the Israeli state, judiciary and settler organisations are all part of the efforts to expel – and replace – Palestinian families.

Last November, Israel’s Supreme Court “paved the way for the settler group Ateret Cohanim tocontinue legal proceedings to evict at least 700 Palestinians living in the Batn al-Hawa area” of Silwan. The NGO Ir Amim says evictions are central to “a rapid uptake in new facts on the ground”.

By any reasonable definition of the term, Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing here: the use of administrative measures and violence by state forces and settlers to remove Palestinians from their lands and ultimately to carry out an irreversible demographic transformation of various locations.

Thus, the Israeli government – long accustomed to an absence of international accountability for such practices – will be only too happy not merely with the content of the US “peace plan”, but with the useful distraction it provides from the horrific reality behind yet more “facts on the ground”.

By Ben White
Source: Middle East Eye

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ترامب يريد العودة لمعادلات 2007

مايو 24, 2019

ناصر قنديل

– يعلم الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب ما يعلمه الجميع عن استحالة التفكير بالذهاب إلى حرب لا منتصر فيها، وعن أن القيمة الوحيدة للتصعيد الذي يشهده الخليج هي تحسين الوضع التفاوضي للأطراف المتقابلة، والواضح أن هناك تصوراً لدى الرئيس الأميركي وفريق معاونيه لما يمكن بلوغه من الضغوط الاقتصادية والمالية والسياسية والعسكرية، والتدقيق في مجموع الخطوات الأميركية، يبدو واضحاً أن إدارة ترامب تعتبر أن استعدادها للتسليم بفشل الحرب على سورية، وارتضاء العودة بسورية إلى ما كانت عليه قبل هذه الحرب يشكل تنازلاً أميركياً كافياً للقبول بعودة كل شيء في المنطقة إلى ما كانت عليه قبل ذلك التاريخ، سواء ما يخصّ الحضور الروسي أو الملف النووي الإيراني، أو الأحادية الأميركية في رسم مستقبل القضية الفلسطينية.

– الانسحاب الأميركي من التفاهم النووي مع إيران، وصفقة القرن، والضغط على الصين لتحجيم صعودها الاقتصادي والتقني، والسعي لتحديد سقوف نمو الحضور الروسي في المعادلات الدولية والإقليمية، عناوين تندرج تحت الفكرة الأميركية نفسها بالعودة إلى معادلات ما قبل الحرب على سورية، يوم ذهب وزير خارجية عمان إلى طهران يحمل عرض إدارة الرئيس جورج بوش ومن خلفه المحافظين الجدد، بما يشبه عرضاً جديداً حمله قبل أيام، وفيه الاعتراف بالملف النووي الإيراني السلمي، وبنفوذ إيراني في العراق وأفغانستان ومياه الخليج وسوق النفط والطاقة، مقابل خروج إيراني من فلسطين.

– يتوهّم الأميركيون أن ما جرى في المنطقة يقبل العودة إلى الوراء، وينسون أن الحرب تشبه الشطرنج في كل شيء إلا في أن الجولة الثانية تبدأ من حيث انتهت الجولة الأولى وانه تستحيل إعادة الحجارة إلى حيث كانت قبل بدء الجولة الأولى، ولو كانت أميركا قد خرجت منتصرة لما تجاهلت ذلك، بل لبنت على انتصاراتها رؤيتها لما سيأتي، وثمة الكثير من الأشياء تغيّرت منذ عام 2007. فأميركا فقدت الكثير من أسباب قوتها بعد الحرب على سورية كأول اختبار قوة حقيقي للحرب الناعمة والحرب الذكية والفوضى الخلاقة منذ حربي العراق وأفغانستان. وهي تخسر حلفاءها من تماسك الموقفين الأوروبي والتركي حولها، إلى التآكل الذي أصاب قوة حليفيها الرئيسيين في المنطقة، «إسرائيل» والسعودية، ومثلما لم تعد أميركا كما كانت ولا بقي حلفاؤها على ما كانوا، فروسيا والصين وإيران وقوى المقاومة لم يعودوا كما كانوا، بل زادوا قوة وهم جميعاً في حال صعود نوعي استثنائي يصعب إلغاؤه وتجاهله.

– سيكتشف الرئيس الأميركي كمعاونيه، أن الحشود لن تغير شيئاً من الوقائع، وان الحرب الباردة المستمرة سيصعب تحويلها إلى حرب ساخنة دون خسائر شاملة تصيب الجميع، ولكن نتيجتها قد تكون نهاية وجودية لبعض حلفاء واشنطن مقابل حجم خسائر خصومها، وأن التوتر سيصيب سوق النفط بالأذى وسيصيب حلفاء واشنطن من جهة موازية، لكنه لن يصيب إيران وحلفاءها. وهو استنزاف باتجاه واحد، وأن مساعي التهدئة ستتم وفقاً لمعايير ما جرى من تغيير، لا ينفع في إلغائه التهديد بذريعة الكيميائي في سورية، ولا بتصنيف المزيد من المقاومين على لوائح الإرهاب، لأن الوجود الأميركي في المنطقة يقترب من لحظة معاملته كاحتلال ينبغي أن يرحل. ووصفة الرحيل هي المقاومة التي توشك أن تبدأ، وتنتظر الإشارة بأن زمن السياسة قد انتهى، وبيد واشنطن أن تشد على زناد وتطلق الطلقة الأولى كي يحدث ذلك ببساطة وترى ما لا تتوقع أن تراه، فقبل ستة وثلاثين عاماً كان الاحتلال الإسرائيلي في بيروت وكانت الحاملات والناقلات والطائرات والمارينز والمبعوثون، وحدث ما يعرف الأميركيون جيداً أن ما سيحدث اليوم إن سقطت السياسة سيتخطاه بالكثير الكثير.

Syrian Army begins amassing troops in southern Aleppo for new offensive

By News Desk

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2019-05-25

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:45 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has begun amassing troops in the southern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate as they prepare to launch a new offensive at this axis near the Idlib Governorate.

According to a military source in Aleppo, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) sent reinforcements from the provincial capital, Damascus, and Homs to the southern countryside of the province. The reinforcements have reportedly arrived at the key town of Al-Hadher.

The source told Al-Masdar that the Syrian Arab Army is preparing to launch an offensive around the key town of Tal Al-‘Eis, which they briefly captured during their late 2015 offensive. The Syrian Army would later lose the town when Jaysh Al-Fateh launched a big counter-attack from Khan Touman.

This new Syrian Army offensive is expected to begin in conjunction with their upcoming operation to capture the strategic mountaintop town of Kabani. The Syrian Army has already launched a number of attacks on Kabani, but they have yet to begin their main assault on the town.

With a new front opened up in northwestern Syria, the Syrian Army troops in northwestern Hama should receive some relief as most of the jihadist and Turkish-backed rebels are currently concentrated at this axis.

Please note: The header photo is a stock image from 2016.

Farage vs. Corbyn - Richie Allen and Gilad Atzmon delve into the post-political condition

May 24, 2019 / Gilad Atzmon

Richie is joined by the musician, author and political commentator Gilad Atzmon. In a provocative and insightful article on gilad.co.uk this week, Gilad writes; “How it is that once again a right wing populist has won the minds and hearts of working people? How is it possible that Jeremy Corbyn, who was perceived by many of us as the greatest hope in Western politics, has managed, in less than three years, to make himself an irrelevant passing phase? How is it possible that the Right consistently wins when the conditions exist for a textbook socialist revolution? Nigel Farage, Britain’s Donald Trump character, is by far the most significant man in British politics. Farage stood up against the entire political establishment, including the media and the commercial elites and has promised to change British politics once and for all. So far, it seems he is winning on all fronts.” This is a must-listen interview.

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One Day in Gaza - must watch!

May 23, 2019 / Gilad Atzmon

This Frontline documentary was scheduled to be broadcast on PBS stations across the United States on May 14, 2019, but it was pulled at the last minute. The BBC, the co-producer, aired it in Britain. However, the BBC act relentlessly to remove this video from the net. I urge to download this video and to spread it by every possible means. You can also find the video here: https://ifamericaknew.org/cur_sit/view-the-frontline-documentary-on-gaza-that-pbs-pulled.html

Look what they are doing to Palestine youth:

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Former French Diplomat: Israeli Leaders Want Washington to Engage on Their Behalf in a “Proxy” Military Adventure Against Iran

Created on Friday, 24 May 2019 20:52

(ST)– As a businessman lost in a foreign land, Trump doesn’t care about the art of diplomacy and is unable to have any empathy with the aspirations and feelings of other countries, according to the former French diplomat Prof. Michel Raimbaud, who believes that the “unpredictable President” proved to have adopted as a guideline number one at least for the beginning of his mandate “to destroy everything that Obama was proud of” and considered to be the bulk of his work, externally as well as internally, including the lessening of the conflict with Iran.

The veteran diplomat told the Syria Times e-newspaper: “Any state is good if buying American arms, and bad if refusing to do so or resisting the pressures or the interests of Washington. On this basis, Iran, deeply involved in the Syrian conflict and supporting the legal government along with the Hezbollah, is a Devil belonging to the Axe of Resistance, and having a “strategic” partnership with Russia.

Last but not least, Iran is of course perceived in the States as being a pitiless enemy of Israel.”

He pointed out that all the reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) do certify that Teheran has perfectly complied with the obligations imposed by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA).

A crazy story

Nevertheless, Trump’s administration decided on the 8th of May 2019 to withdraw from the Treaty and impose drastic economic sanctions on Iran, accused of developing a ballistic and atomic Program, under the pretext that the Islamic Republic itself had withdrawn (in retaliation).

“For a couple of weeks, America repeatedly threatened to come to War and managed to escalate the political and military tensions in the region. Let’s read to Trump’s tweets or listen to statements by high-ranking US officials (National Security Advisor John Bolton and State Secretary Mark Pompeo to begin with)…There is no doubt that America poses a threat to Iran and to the region at large, and not vice versa,” Prof. Raimbaud said.

He went on to say: “Trump now declares that he wants to negotiate with Iran, expecting the phone call from the Iranian leadership begging for negotiation. That’s a crazy story, but also a perfect illustration of the Nixon/Kissinger “Madman theory” which inspires – as I have noted very often – the neoconservative power in Washington in its comprehensive policy all over the planet and more specifically in the Arab and Muslim World (America must project abroad the impression that a part of its leadership consists of mad and unpredictable persons, in order to frighten and terrorize the enemies).”

He indicated that a single glance at the map of the Middle East provides the answer to the following question: “Does Iran pose a threat to the United States?”

“The Iranian Territory is physically surrounded and besieged by a dense and tight network of US bases, located in neighboring countries (including Turkey, a NATO member). And we must refer to the omnipresence of Israel in the region, as the real “Beating Heart” of the United States.”

“On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, thousands and thousands of miles away from the Middle East, have a look at the American borders or anywhere on the “new Continent and you will search in vain to discover any trace of Iranian military presence.”

The professor, in addition, affirmed that the U.S. is responsible for the tensions and the danger of Global War for the time being.

“For the many “experts” who pretend to have some doubts about the real responsibility in the tensions and the danger of Global War for the time being, in the Middle East and elsewhere, I will recall that at least one gross third, if not fifty per cent, of the military expenses in the World, must be attributed to the United States of America,” he stated.

The diplomat added: “All the strategy supporters and blind allies of America should be conscious of this reality, but I am sure that they are…It is the case for Gulf monarchies and…. of course, Israel.”

He made it clear that the relationship between Iran and America until the Fall of the Shah could be qualified as “a strategic partnership against communism”, but the situation was radically disrupted with the advent of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the assault on the American Embassy in Teheran. Since then, the atmosphere between the two countries has remained very stormy and disturbed for the last forty years.

“In this context, the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) in July 2015, commonly known as the “Nuclear Treaty” between Teheran and the Six (US, UK, Germany, France, Russia and China) had slackened the tensions with the western Partners, this appeasement being searched by Obama for ambiguous reasons. The election of Donald Trump after a campaign very aggressive against Iran marked the re-starting-point of the ongoing wave of American hostility,” Prof. Raimbaud stressed.

He referred to the fact that Trump quickly understood that he wouldn’t be in a position to govern without integrating into his staff eminent representatives of the neoconservative “Deep State”, such as John Bolton…, in spite of their frank opposition to his electoral promises or commitments.

In a response to a question about the reason behind Israel’s silence amid growing US-Iran tensions, the diplomat said: “The Israeli government (all the more with Netanyahu) used to have and has got until today many obsessions with all the neighbors, that are considered as potential enemies, beginning with Syria and Hezbollah and Iran. It is well known that the Israeli leaders are dreaming of triggering a War against Iran, one of the countries which feed their nightmare. Having succeeded to make some friends in the Gulf on the basis of a common obsession on an “Iranian danger”, they have done everything and exerted any kind of pressure and blackmail on Washington to engage on their behalf in a “proxy” military adventure against Iran. That’s what is at stake for the time being.”

He concluded by saying: “Right now onwards, why would Israel find it necessary to say something when the tension has reached its upper degree. Why to water your flowers when it is pouring down….?”

US wants to control all the oil in the world

In this context, the International criminal lawyer Christopher C. Black told us that Israel stays quiet because the US orders it to be quiet.

“The US wants to control all the oil in the world if it can and also it wants to control Iran because it brings them closer to encircling Russia,” he said.

Iran does prose a possible threat to US military in the Gulf region.

The Syrian American journalist Steven Sahiounie replied to our question about Israel’s silence by saying: “the Israeli occupation is quiet because they want to appear not involved, but in fact it was Israeli occupation who sent the photos to the US which claimed to show missiles on small boats for Iran. When all the media wanted to see the photos, the US quickly said new photos showed the missiles were returned. The US military could not afford to prove that their intelligence is coming from Israel, when everyone knows that Israel is capable of fabrications in order to promote war against Iran. Israel has to be silent and maintain a low profile.”

He underscored that Iran does prose a possible threat to US military in the Gulf region.

“There is no indication that Iran would attack the US assets, unless Iran was attacked first. Iran does not want war, but they want sanctions relief, and they know an attack will not help them, in fact it would harm them, so there is no incentive to attack,” the journalist concluded.

Interviewed by: Basma Qaddour