Wednesday News Breakdown | Iranian Consulate Attack and the Land Bridge Agitprop

Okay. There's only two things that I wanna talk about today. Both of these are gonna be within the context of a strategy, which I'm not sure what the name is, if it has a name, but it amounts to a tactic of making matters worse deliberately. There as a way of distracting from an already bad situation, like say, addressing a toothache by smashing someone's, fingers with a hammer. In other words, you're you're you're losing support in a battle, so you provoke a larger battle so that imminent defeat in the, other battleground gets lost at the chaos.

Attention is diverted, you can potentially, even elicit, support that you'd lost because of a a larger conflict. You need support for a larger conflict. So this is a very common tactic of the Israelis. It's extremely important, to the Zionist project that they can be perceived as victims, perceived as weak, and in a constant existential need for support and protection. You know, Israeli military historian Martin Van Krivold famously stated that the weak always win against the powerful.

Now aside from the technical practical reasons for this in terms of asymmetric warfare and the flexibility of guerrillas and so on, one of the reasons that he cited was simply that the weaker party in a conflict will always have the perception of moral high ground as they're the ones who are being attacked by a much greater, much stronger power, I e they're being bullied. And when the, power disparity is so great, then the stronger party will always be perceived as the aggressor. So even a tactical win, is gonna be a major public relations defeat. And this will further be exacerbated if the weaker party successfully endures the attacks of the stronger party, which which which just makes the stronger party appear incompetent. So an easy win, against a weaker enemy makes you look bad.

And a and a failure to achieve an easy win against a weaker enemy also makes you look bad. So it's a lose lose scenario. Well, that's the situation that Israel is in right now. They're perceived globally, as a genocidal aggressor against a much weaker opponent, an opponent, that they have dismally failed to defeat after six months of an indiscriminate, unprecedented campaign of wanton violence in Gaza. No one sees the Israelis as weak anymore.

No one sees them as a victim, but they do see them as incompetent, if not completely insane. The path being taken by their neighboring countries, the Arab countries, has actually only amplified the impression of berserk Zionist aggression and brutality. The Arab world has exercised stoic restraint. The Muslim world overall has taken the proverbial high road in this, situation. They've been maintaining their existing agreements.

They've been engaging in diplomacy, and they've been diligently pursuing redress through official institutions of international law like the United Nations. All of this has undermined Israel's self characterization as being under existential threat, and it serves to keep the spotlight squarely, on the outrageous atrocities that they're committing in Gaza. Israel is being offered no excuses, as there's no rationales for their savagery, and they're losing sympathy all around the world by the hour. So how to solve this problem? Well, by making matters worse deliberately, by escalating the conflict, and by trying to start fires all around the region.

If they succeed in doing this, then Gaza will be obscured in the ensuing conflict, in the ensuing chaos, and Israel will be able to recover its bankrupt narrative of existential threat, which brings me to the first story that I wanted to talk about, and that is the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria. First, let's clarify what this bombing was, and then we can talk about why they did it. Bombing a consulate or bombing an embassy is a war crime in international law. Attacking the Iranian consulate was a violation of article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. It was a violation of the Rome statute.

It was a violation of the Geneva Conventions. It was a violation of, article two section four of the United Nations Charter. It was a violation of international humanitarian law and customary international law. And Israel should be brought before, the International Court of Justice and tried for these crimes. Now The United States almost immediately disavowed, any prior knowledge about the attack on the consulate claiming that Israel did not tell them what they plan to do in Syria, who they plan to attack, and so on, only that they did plan to carry out some kind of an attack in Syria.

What kind of response is this? I mean, even if we take their disavowal at face value, The United States is complicit in the commission of a violation of international law because Israel has no legal right whatsoever, to carry out any sort of an attack against Syria. Washington was bound by law to warn Israel not to bomb anyone in that country whether they knew it was the consulate or not. But trying to distance themselves from the, from the consulate attack shows that they know perfectly well, that this is a crime, that represents a violation of multiple rules in international law, but they didn't condemn it. Until now, they haven't condemned it.

They should have said the same thing that they would have said if Russia, had bombed the American consulate anywhere in the world. It's exactly the same crime. And America's failure to condemn it and to endorse criminal charges against Israel for that crime just reiterates again that The United States is shamelessly hypocritical in the selectivity of when and why and for whom they invoke international law. But again, what kind of a response is this? How is that a good response?

Again, just taking it at face value. It means that you don't know what Israel is doing with the weapons that you're giving them. They feel no obligation whatsoever to inform you that they're about to make you an accessory to the bombing of a consulate in a third country. That they're about to pull you in to what could and should and I think probably will be another case at the ICJ. And potentially a multitude of civil cases against your own weapons companies that are supplying your Zionist colonial henchmen.

They're not only trying to punish Iran here, they're punishing you, and you look emasculated and helpless to rein them in, probably because they've failed to veto the last ceasefire resolution. But okay. Now why did Israel do it? Well because of what I said earlier, what I was talking about earlier, that strategy. Escalation, basically as cover fire, basically as a distraction, as a technique for recovering the victim narrative.

By escalating the conflict, by expanding the conflict, Israel hopes to regain the impression of relative weakness and vulnerability in the eyes of the world. Because if they can successfully provoke a military strike from Iran onto Israeli territory, then they can transform themselves overnight from being the ones who are, laying siege to the ones who are being besieged. That's been a successful avatar for them for the last seventy five years. You know, in just the past six months, Israel has almost succeeded, in exercising from the collective global conscience the ghost of the Nazi holocaust. People all around the world, and more importantly, more and more people in the West are seeing Israel as the perpetrators of a holocaust in Gaza.

So Israel needs to renew their victim card, and they need to give The United States a reason not to break up with them. And provoking a war with Iran, which would immediately rope in Lebanon and rope in Syria, alongside them and likely, Yemen as well, seems to the Israelis to be the best strategy. In my opinion, that's what they're doing. No one would even talk about Gaza anymore if that happened because regional war would completely consume the world's attention. The ensuing conflict, would be sufficient to exonerate Israel for the attack on the consulate because even though that attack, is what would have provoked the war, the war itself would completely eclipse that event.

Literally everything that preceded a war with Iran would be lost to history, including the over 30,000 murders in Gaza. This seems to me to be a kind of desperate attempt by the Israelis to resuscitate not only themselves, not only Zionism, but also the neo cons in Washington. You know historically Israel has always been rewarded for aggression and violence, but the one thing that they were never able to accomplish for the neo cons was a war with Iran. So maybe they think that if they can succeed in finally making that happen, then maybe they can revive the old system and they can avert the emergence of a new global order led by BRICS. Now, related to this, I wanna talk about the story of the the the the supposed land bridge between The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel.

This story, Wallahi, is a it's a it's a case study in propaganda. You know, everyone is familiar with the, the version that spread far and wide on the Internet, and that is that the Emiratis, the Sahudis, and the Jordanians all got together to try to help Israel, circumvent the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea that that because those attacks have been cutting the Zionists off from, you know, fundamental material supplies and support and so on and crippling their economy. Making all of those countries in the eyes of the Muslims, in the eyes of the Arabs everywhere, traitors against Gaza, and traitors against the Palestinians, and hypocrites, and Zionist lackeys, and so forth. And of course creating or, exacerbating, that perception of the Arab regimes, the Muslim regimes was exactly the reason that the story was spread in the first place. Now anyone who's active in the middle nation discussion, knows this already, but the story is a complete fabrication, the story of the land bridge.

The facts are this, in the December there was two companies, one in Israel called TruckNet, and one in UAE called Pure Trans, and they reached an agreement to try to pursue a land bridge project that would enable a land transport from ports in The Emirates to Haifa in Israel over about 2,200 kilometers away. This agreement was announced on December 5, and on December 16, it was spread on the Internet that shipments had already commenced from UAE providing Israel with much needed relief. Thanks to The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. So just over ten days from the deal being made. Now let me explain something that should actually be obvious for anyone who operates and lives in the real world.

A land bridge project like that cannot become operational in two weeks. Infrastructure has to be built, roads have to either be, laid or repaired, and contracts to do that work have to be either bid upon, or negotiated with selected contractors. That process alone would generally take a number of months even under the best circumstances, much less the current climate. Now unsurprisingly, Jordan categorically denied that any such shipments are taking place or that this so called land bridge is operational in any way. The UAE for their part have threatened to nullify that deal even before it, can be built and initiated if the Israelis don't facilitate delivery of humanitarian aid and relief and so forth into Gaza.

And Mohammed bin Zayed has refused, to take any call from Netanyahu. But there were videos, that have circulated of trucks coming from Jordan into Israel supposedly to prove that the land bridge is up and running. But these shipments have been going on between Jordan and Israel for years, for twenty years. From Jordan into the West Bank and into Israel. That's part of, Jordan's treaty that Israel made or or that Jordan made with Israel decades ago.

It has nothing whatsoever, to do with this alleged land bridge. Now an investigation was done by, Mondo Weiss in February completely debunking this story as pure Zionist propaganda. That's all it is. They're the first ones to release it and, they're the first ones to put it on on the Internet and then it would just spread because of Muslims. They found out in their investigation that neither company involved in the deal are involved in any transport or shipping activities whatsoever.

And the company Pure Trans didn't even exist prior to the announcement of that project. And both owners of that company are actually Israeli citizens, so it's not even an Emirati company. The other company, TruckNet, is a digital company that provides just a platform for shipping companies, and it itself is not a shipping company. So the entire story is propaganda. Yes.

There are two companies that made a deal. Two Israeli companies made a deal, but absolutely nothing has come of that deal so far. And The UAE is even saying that they'll nullify the whole project. Nevertheless, the story caught fire across the Internet. Until now, we see mass protests in Jordan, taking place with people expressing outrage at their government for participating in this non existent land bridge, and accusing their government of treachery.

It's become an incredibly volatile issue, and one which has effectively incited the Arab public against their leaders, fueling rage and resentment across the Arab and the Muslim world, all because, Muslims online allowed themselves to become accidental unthinking assets of Zionist propaganda. And then add to this now that we have Iranian backed, militias in Iraq who are pledging to send 12,000 men and weapons to Jordan to, I guess, presumably burst through the Israeli checkpoint at Alunbi Bridge and undertake, you know, a a fantasy guerrilla campaign inside of Israel. Obviously, you can see where this goes. Jordanian security forces are gonna have to be they'll I mean, they'll be obliged to crack down on protesters to stop them from doing such a thing, which will just create more resentment, and then angry young men will start getting armed. And then they'll direct their violence not against the Israelis, but against Jordanian security forces.

And there you have it. Jordan will be swallowed into the amorphous wasteland of Iraqi militant jurisdiction hosting Iranian backed militants, Iranian backed armed groups, and of course inevitably ISIS will appear among them to fight back, and the whole country will collapse into violence and chaos. With Israel then, including Jordan in its targets, alongside Lebanon and Syria, again with the ultimate aim, of escalation to the point of war with Iran. And they've got us cooperating with that. They've got us facilitating that, accelerating that, all while thinking to ourselves that we're standing up for the right thing, all while thinking that we are fighting for justice.

You know, we're on the precipice of a new global order, a new approach to global affairs, the economy, international relations, and a new paradigm that will isolate and contain finally American and western domination, but we're jeopardizing all of that. We're jeopardizing the promise of a stable, peaceful, prosperous future that will see the Muslims in a leadership role such as we have not had in over a century, All because we let ourselves become vehicles for carrying the lies of our enemies, and all because we're letting ourselves become the tools that they use to dismantle the ship that we're building now to try to carry us and our countries out of the sphere of western and American influence. We're taking it apart ourselves. We're letting ourselves become the defibrillators for reviving the neocons on their deathbed. All because we just can't resist retweeting slanderous lies against our own countries.

As if thinking the worst of our own people and of our own leaders is an is is an article of faith. No. Don't hate your ummah more than you love the Kufar. Don't hate your leaders more than you love the colonizers and the Zionists. Wallahi, this is exactly why we need, to decolonize our psyches.

Literally, our future depends on it. It breaks my heart to see what's happening. It breaks my heart to see Muslims being misled and manipulated because of their good intentions. They're having their own morality, their own love for justice, their own love for Al Aqsa, their love for the Palestinians, their love for Palestine itself. They're having that used against them.

And because, you know, when you have when you have a a raging emotion, the danger is that that raging emotion can always be redirected. And if you can't suppress it, and I think that they probably have understood at this point that you can't suppress it, you can't repress it. So the only thing that you can do, the only thing that the Zionist can do, the only thing that that the neocons can do is redirect it. Because when you're in a in a in a state of passion, someone can just redirect you in in one direction, then you'll take it out in the wrong, at the wrong target. Submar, we have to have patience.

We have to have, understanding. We have to think critically. We have to think objectively. We have to think like Muslims, and don't let ourselves become, over passionate and over emotional to where we make wrong decisions, and where we just are ready to believe lies because we don't know who we we we want someone to blame, so we wanna blame the one who's the most familiar to us, which is our own leaders. We're really on the verge of ruining what can be and inshallah should be and inshallah still will be and we pray to Allah to protect that future.

A future of that that is truly a bright future, that is truly going to restore in Muslim dominance and Muslim influence in not just in our region, but even globally. But we can make decisions now, and we can take actions now that will completely undermine that and completely sabotage it and do the work of our enemies because they themselves are failing. They themselves are failing to defeat us. We're defeating them night and day, right, left, and center. We're defeating them.

And the only ones who can defeat us is ourselves, and we're letting ourselves be played. We're letting ourselves be used, as I said, as vehicles to spread Zionist propaganda. And we need to be more careful about that because there's a lot at stake. Everything is at stake for ourselves, for our children, for our great grandchildren. So that's it for today.

Again, I'm sorry that it was more of a a a diatribe than it was, an analysis, But that's what I see as happening, and that's why I think it's happening, and that's the outcome that I think that they're seeking. And at this point, I think that no one can actually revive and resuscitate and be a life support system for Zionists right now. No one is more likely to do it than Muslims themselves if we do the wrong thing because they can't they can't save themselves. They are really taking their last breaths. They're in the the death throes and so are the neocons.

And if anyone is gonna revive them, it's gonna be us because of making, unthinking decisions and taking actions that we haven't thought through. So I'll see you again, inshallah, on Sunday.