Rafah and the Future of Zionism

Okay. With regards to Rafah, there's been a cacophony of saber rattling. You know, the Israelis are threatening. Egypt is threatening. The GCC is threatening.

Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, everyone. Everyone is raising the rhetoric to epic proportions. Now that typically means that not much will actually happen. When countries start saying to each other, you know, if you do this and that, then we'll do such and such. It's kinda like engaging in a battle rap instead of a fist fight.

But it's obviously always still extremely dangerous. It's still a dangerous situation particularly when one of the battle rappers is an actual psychopathic lunatic like Netanyahu. You know, Israel carpet bombed Northern Gaza, Central Gaza and they drove everybody to the South and now they're threatening to bomb Rafah. They're saying that everyone in Rafah should evacuate. Over a million people should evacuate without having anywhere to go.

Obviously, of course, the idea is and always has been to drive them into Sinai, to force Egypt to cooperate with the Zionist expulsion of the Palestinians and take them into Egypt, take them into Sinai. Basically, Netanyahu is actually providing evidence for the prosecution in this ICJ case against Israel for genocide. You know, even Joe Biden had to say that this is over the top and excessive. The EU criticized Netanyahu's plan for an for an assault on Rafah. The UK, the UN, everyone, everyone thinks that Netanyahu's out of control, even Hillary Clinton as if anyone asked him.

Blinken, the last time he visited Israel, he was meeting with opposition politicians And he even met with some of Netanyahu's staff behind his back which outraged him. So it looks to me like they're trying to engineer some kind of a mutiny because again in my opinion, little by little western politicians I think are starting to get the memo from the OCGFC that Israel needs a regime change and that the smart money is on de escalation and ultimately that Zionism is not viable moving forward. Because as I said many times, Zionism and the instrumentality of Israel only had a function in the post World War two global order and that order is being scrapped. Now as I've said before, the transition is bumpy and I don't think that politicians necessarily understand how they're supposed to proceed since after all they have multiple paymasters and after those paymasters they have their constituents and those constituents expect a certain type of rhetoric and certain types of actions and certain types of behavior. So politicians are trying to please a lot of different interests at the same time.

That makes it a bit confusing. In a strange way, that's even the case with someone like Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock or any of these other asset management companies. Those are the controllers of capital in the OCGFC. There's a kind of a democratic element even to how they use their power and influence because they can't pursue or promote policies that only benefit one faction of their clientele or that mostly only benefits one faction. If that policy is also detrimental to a greater proportion of the clients in their portfolio.

So you know a company like Blackrock, well it consists of like basically every major multinational corporation on the planet. So their interests span across every economic and industrial sector. So they can't only think about what's good for Raytheon for example, you know. And this organization of the OCGFC into institutional structures like BlackRock and like Vanguard and so on, this is a relatively new phenomenon. It's kind of like a union of billionaires.

And that's exactly what they do. They organize the competing interests of capital in accordance with what will benefit the most members of that billionaires union. And currently I believe that the consensus is that de escalation is preferred to a region wide war or to even to regional instability because again the center of gravity of the global economy shifting to the South and to the East. Europe is over or anyway, Atlantic Europe is over and the centrality of The United States as an imperial power, as a colonizing power is being deliberately diminished. But these changes are happening very rapidly.

The paradigm shift has been abrupt and I think that the recalibration that's necessary in order for politicians and governments to function, the recalibration can't quite keep pace with how fast the changes are taking place. But yes, I think everyone knows that Netanyahu is out of his mind. Netanyahu knows he's out of his mind. And that's because he's desperate. He's desperate for one thing because everything that he built his political career on, his persona, his whole existence doesn't work anymore.

It's like trying to put a a floppy disk into a USB port. And on the other hand, I think he's looking at the real possibility of prosecution. You know, just like American politicians and just like Larry Think, he has multiple interests that he has that he feels he has to serve and he has to choose now which one will ultimately be able to protect him and prolong his existence in politics or so he thinks and keep him out of prison. And he's choosing the fanatic Zionist hardliners and he's doing that not because it's the smart move but because people always revert to their training and to their habits when they panic. They act on reflex and the fanatic Zionist hardliners have always been his go to supporters.

So I think at least partially it's a reflex because it's clearly not the intelligent move. He's placating the hardliners and he probably thinks that he's also sketching out an exit strategy for the war which is something that has never been clear to anyone since October 7. He said that he will continue the war until they eradicate Hamas and everyone knows that you can't eradicate Hamas. So instead of that, he's redefining the eradication of Hamas as an assault on Rafah, bombing Rafah, decimating Rafah, which is something that can actually be done. So he's basically saying once we decimate Rafah, then we've won.

He's putting a tangible achievable objective as the definition of victory so that he can claim to have succeeded. Now again, don't know if he actually thinks that he can get away with it or not, you know, because again he is a psychopathic lunatic. So he may actually be serious. But if there's any trace of sanity in his deranged head, then I would guess that he is announcing the assault on Rafah precisely to elicit the response that he's gotten. In other words, the Egyptians saying that Camp David will be over, the peace agreement would be over, the peace agreement with Jordan would be over, the saying that anyone who's supporting the genocide will bear the consequences of supporting the genocide.

Not just those who are committing it, but those who are supporting it, which means obviously The United States and the collective West. Syria and Lebanon and Hezbollah and the Houthis all saying that they'll attack Israel and so on. I think that's what he wanted. He wants to highlight the massive chaos that is in his power to unleash on the region so that then he can be persuaded or rather bribed to back down. I suspect that he announced the Rafah assault as a bargaining tactic.

But I'll say it again, you never know because Netanyahu is demonic. And Israel has made it a policy for decades to do unthinkable violence, specifically to create a perception of unpredictability, you know. Their approach to security policy and foreign relations is modeled on Cypress Hill, insane in the memory. What you talking about, SA? Don't you know I'm local?

That's their approach to diplomacy. If you recall, one of the things that Blinken floated a few months ago, was the idea of Egypt, taking responsibility for security in Gaza, basically occupying Gaza on behalf of the Israelis. Sisi flatly rejected this proposal. But Netanyahu might be trying to force this into being because those are basically the options. I mean, either Egypt will accept fleeing Palestinians into Sinai and thus become partners with Israel in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza or they move into Gaza themselves and become an occupying security presence.

I don't personally see Egypt entering a war with Israel. The entirety of BRIC's strategy has been to contain the conflict as much as possible, to prevent the escalation of the conflict as much as possible. So I don't believe personally that Egypt will enter into combat against Israel. But if they do a full scale assault on Rafah, that would probably result in the cancellation of all diplomatic and political relationship between Israel and Egypt. I think they would suspend that.

Know, I have talked before about the likelihood that in fact all existing peace agreements with Israel may be suspended. That there's a desire for them to be suspended precisely so that they can be renegotiated on better terms. Negotiated through a process that does not include or any way that sidelines The United States. So new peace agreements could be negotiated to the disadvantage of Israel. Peace agreements and so called normalization which will be dictated to Israel by BRICS, by the Muslim nations and by the global South.

So if they do indeed proceed with an assault and an occupation of Rafah, I think that might actually happen. But again this is it's an insane idea and everyone is telling them so. I mean you have an open case of genocide against you at the ICJ and now you wanna accelerate the genocide? Literally bomb the last section of Gaza to which your bombing campaign since October 7 has driven people to seek refuge. And you're gonna do that in front of everyone, in front of the world, and against the will of every country on earth.

Even even your sponsor. It's maniacal. Reportedly, I saw that there's supposed to be a meeting on Tuesday tomorrow between Qatar, Egypt, the Israelis, the CIA to try to seek a way to avert this threatened attack. And I guess we'll just have to wait and see how those talks go, but I think that the threats that have been made mostly are a tactic for influencing the tone and the objectives of these talks and over the political dialogue overall. It's hard for me to believe really that they're serious about proceeding.

At this point, I honestly think that Netanyahu must be looking just for a deal that will give him immunity from prosecution Because at some level he must recognize that his political career is over. I mean the only friends he has left, the Zionist hardliners, the only friends he has left are the type of friends whose friendship is contingent upon him fulfilling basically a suicide pact. Because here's the thing, the OC GFC don't bargain. Certainly not with politicians, not with states. They don't have to.

Right now I think people in Washington are trying to save their own careers. So they're trying to figure out how to get rid of Netanyahu, and Netanyahu is trying to save his own career so he's trying to figure out a way how to not be gotten rid of. But at the end of the day for both people in Washington and people in Israel, politicians and officials and so on, they're just trying to figure out how to satisfy the OCGFC without dissatisfying whatever other interests they are accountable to. But the OCGFC don't ask. They don't bargain.

They talk in ultimatums. Paymasters don't have to negotiate with the people whom they pay. The only people that OCGFC have to negotiate with are the public, the consumers, the market. Because whether you know it or not, you are their paymasters. They don't want you to know it but it's true.

And that's why your activism, your protests, and your demonstrations, and your boycotts and so on are absolutely crucial. Pro Palestinian anti Zionist market behavior will determine the outcome of this conflict, pure and simple. This is the determining factor. You know, I just saw that, sales for Unilever have plummeted in Indonesia because of anti Israel boycotts and anti Israel market sentiment. Okay.

Unilever is one of the biggest companies in the world and they're very focused on expanding their presence precisely in parts of the world that are pro Palestine. So yes, the OCGFC can see that Zionism is a liability. Israel is turning the whole global South against the West and against western business, which is gonna make the transition to the global South, the pivot to Asia and to the global South, is gonna make that go very badly for the owners and controllers of global financialized capital if they don't resolve this problem. I mean, you know, the the the only reason that Israel was ever supported was because it was good for business. But that's not the case anymore.

That's not the case anymore because the people made it that way. The people are taking their place at the table and they're moving the biggest and most powerful institutions in the world in the direction that they want them to go. Anything and everything that you do to influence the sentiments of the market, anything and everything that you do, to send a message to business, to let them know, that their profitability, rests on whether or not they respond positively to your stance on Palestine will ultimately decide how this conflict goes. And if anyone tells you otherwise, well, they just don't understand how power dynamics work in the twenty first century. If injustice and immorality are also unprofitable, then you'll start to see things change.

You'll start to see things becoming more just and more, moral. The dollars and pounds and the euros and the ringgits and the rupiah that you spend in the market, those are all ballots and the cash registers are ballot boxes. And you better believe that those who are in power are reading the receipts and they're starting to understand that our transactions are only going to be transacted upon the principle of no justice, no profit. Don't think that that's just a slogan. No.

It's a it's an oath. It's a vow. And if you keep to this oath, if you keep to this vow, and if you're truly interested in and committed to justice, then the private sector will seek to it that you get it. Not because they care about justice but because they care about profit. And, you will have let them know, that that's the only way that they can make a profit.

And as I said, this is, not only about your buying habits but it's about overall market sentiment. So the more you do, to establish, that a pro Palestine, pro Palestinian stance is popular and prevalent, then business will respond and politicians in Washington and in Tel Aviv will get their directions from that. Your voices in the street echo in the boardroom and whatever you chant in a protest or a demonstration, well that gets translated into a memo from Wall Street to Washington. They moved power from the public sector to the private sector because they wanted to insulate themselves from the democratic mechanisms that could have potentially interfered with their plans. But Allah is the best of planners and it just made their power more vulnerable and more susceptible to popular influence.

So if you make no justice, no profit prevail in the market, then it's just a matter of time before Zionism goes the way of blockbuster video.