Civil Defense Perspectives vol. 38 #5
During his invasion of Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush popularized the idea of the New World Order. Today, American diplomats frequently invoke the “rules-based international order,” to which all nations are supposed to submit. The underlying assumption seems to be that the rule maker will be the World’s Only Superpower, the center of a unipolar world. The recognized physical capital might be Washington, D.C., but the ruling elite would be globalists, who might be in Davos, Switzerland, or anywhere else.
The key concept of the globalists’ World Economic Forum (WEF) is that “you will own nothing.” As with communism, private property would be abolished, and “the people” or a few megacorporations would own everything and allow you, if you are sufficiently compliant, to use your fair share for the “common good” and the good of the Planet.
Ukraine is an essential piece of the puzzle. It is believed to be the money-laundering center of globalist politicians—and is allegedly involved in biowarfare laboratories, organ and human trafficking, and baby farming. It is also a critically important geopolitical pivot, writes Zbigniew Brzezinski in The Grand Chessboard (1997), because without it Russia cannot be a Eurasian empire.
Though rich in resources, Ukraine (the Borderlands, https://tinyurl.com/2hh22jdc) has always been impoverished and its people oppressed by successive occupiers. Under Stalin, the Soviets confiscated rich Ukrainian farmland and starved the peasants in the Holodomor. Today, Ukrainians are being slaughtered in the NATO-Russia proxy war, and foreign giant agribusinesses are contending for ownership of the land (https://tinyurl.com/5bt7pf45).
Russia did not win the quick victory that it might have been expecting. But NATO’s Wunderwaffen have not turned the tide. It appears that Russia is not just a “gas station.” The sanctions intended to weaken and bankrupt Russia are instead backfiring on the economy of Europe with the loss of cheap Russian energy.
At the Valdai Discussion Club, Vladimir Putin presented a vision of a “multipolar world,” to supplant a “subset of Western elites and institutions bent on imposing their will not just on Russia but the entire non-Western world” (tinyurl.com/7wet7464).
Whatever the ultimate outcome for Ukraine, the war is catalyzing a massive geopolitical realignment—away from the dominance of the West and the dollar. BRICS is expanding, and powers such as Turkey (rebranding itself as Türkiye), Saudi Arabia, and Iran, along with China, are asserting themselves and forming friendlier relations with Russia.
And just as Western leaders’ enthusiasm for supporting Ukraine is cooling, attention is diverted to Israel.
Israel’s 9/11
Many are calling the Hamas attack on the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War a “9/11 event” for Israel, and parallels to America’s 9/11 are chilling: an apparent complete surprise, though intense long-term planning must have been required; a shocking failure of intelligence and of immediate military response; appalling mass casualties and nationwide terror; instant identification of the alleged perpetrator (Osama bin Laden; Iran); calls to go to war; increased population surveillance and constraints on liberty. Will those responsible for the events and failure to prevent them ever be uncovered? Will anyone be held accountable? Will evidence like the Towers’ steel be “recycled”?
Many, including former members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), say it is impossible that IDF did not know about the attack (https://tinyurl.com/y7c69z3u). Scott Ritter opined that Israel had massive data but had become dependent on artificial intelligence for the analysis (tinyurl.com/36tmwhfb). But why did it take IDF more than 6 hours to come to the aid of civilians? Was a stand-down order given, despite full knowledge of the barbarous atrocities that would occur? Might the regime have been seeking justification for all-out war, with all the rules of war abolished (tinyurl.com/28s99z5t)? Could the Israeli government knowingly have sacrificed its citizens to achieve a “higher” goal through a “false flag” attack?
A near civil war has been underway in Israel, according to Alistair Crooke, between the liberal, secular faction and a faction wanting to reestablish “Israel on the land of Israel,” including the West Bank. These activists want to build the third Temple on Temple Mount, which would mean destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque (https://tinyurl.com/54yftczd). Thus, there is an intense war of religious nationalism in the background.
U.S. Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has called on Americans to support Israel while telling the Israeli leader to “finish off Palestinians.” The attack was also on America, she said, and should be personal for every American.
The U.S. is sending two aircraft carriers and two amphibious assault ships to the region, U.S. special forces to rescue hostages, and the 101st Airborne to Jordan (tinyurl.com/5n8jp49p). Why? To attack Gaza? Or do globalists plan to cynically use the Jewish/Muslim conflict as a proxy war against Iran—or ultimately Russia, especially if they lose in Ukraine?
Brian Berletic states that both Israel and the Muslim Brotherhood (from which Hamas stems) were created by the British Empire, and continue to be used by its American successor in its pursuit of global hegemony (tinyurl.com/2s3z8y2x).
Martin Armstrong sees the Hamas attack and the inevitable retaliation as an effort by those controlling the Biden White House to open a second front against Russia, and possibly start World War III (https://tinyurl.com/yptcmeb9).
Iran is accused of funding Hamas, but Seymour Hersh states that Qatar sent hundreds of millions of dollars, with Israeli leaders’ approval, believing that they could control the Frankenstein monster they created (https://tinyurl.com/24wjn3hh).
Under pressure to act fast, Israel might be rushing into a trap, comments attorney Jeff Childers. “There is a lot more going on here than meets the eye” (https://tinyurl.com/yc86usmz).
One potential realignment is a split in the generally unified left wing (https://tinyurl.com/4axz3s2h). Woke young people have been very supportive of Palestinians, comparing them to poor indigenous people who had been conquered, and are being tortured, exploited, and tyrannized by the “white settlers—colonizers.” They were shocked when young hipsters like themselves were brutalized at a music Rave.
These events suggest that the goal is Orwell’s endless war.
Russia: on Israel vs. Hamas
Russian reporting has focused on the military rather than the humanitarian aspects of the attack, according to analyst Gilbert Doctorow. It was not simply a rampage by enraged savages, but required sophisticated planning, with “a certain military objective in mind: namely to provoke the Israeli government and draw it into the lair of urban, guerilla warfare in Gaza.”
He observes that: A latest generation Israeli tank was destroyed by a grenade dropped by a drone. Hamas outfoxed Israeli intelligence by returning to 19th century methods of communications, couriers and face to face meetings, in place of electronic means that Israel can intercept. Fairly rudimentary bulldozers were sufficient to break through the billion-dollar Israeli wall, and a combination of firearms and drones neutralized the sensors and cameras protecting Israel from Gaza raids (tinyurl.com/wwwpbzna). This has been described as a total humiliation for Israel—something it had never experienced before, even in the devastating 1973 Arab-Israeli war (tinyurl.com/yc3ewhc4).
The “silence of the bears”—Russia has never been so silent about a Middle Eastern war, writes John Helmer—shows how thoroughly the Israelis have burned their bridges to formerly pro-Semitic Vladimir Putin, and how far, if silently, he has moved to the side of the General Staff in their assessment of Israel as hostile, on the enemy front along with Ukraine, the U.S., and NATO (https://tinyurl.com/msjr7avv).
“Russia has and needs excellent relations with the Arab world,” Doctorow writes (op. cit.). Russia is a partner of Saudi Arabia in OPEC in which they jointly set production targets and price targets for the global oil industry. Russia has close relations with the United Arab Emirates; it now uses the UAE dirham as a currency for settling import-export transactions. Russia is closely aligned with Iran as a fellow member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It has close ties with Syria, having single-handedly saved the government of Bashar al-Assad from the radical fundamentalist fighters that Washington was arming, and also with Iraq. Putin’s official position is that the Israel/Hamas issue can be solved only with implementation of the UN resolution on creation of a fully sovereign Palestine state.
Considerations for bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza residents, who are being deprived of food, water, fuel, electricity, and medicines by Israel, include a blockade-busting convoy by Turks and Russians running the gauntlet of U.S. naval assets. “Will the Americans and Israelis risk a nuclear exchange trying to stop them?” (Helmer, op. cit.).
New Strategic Landscape in the Middle East
In 2023, four main factors have contributed to a major change in the geostrategic map of the Middle East, writes Srdja Trifkovic: (1) the rise of China as an important regional player; (2) détente between Iran and its Sunni Arab neighbors; (3) the decision of four key Arab countries to join the BRICS economic group; and (4) the declining importance of the dollar in the oil-rich states’ trade transactions (tinyurl.com/2t6pe2r5).
Tehran and Riyadh were reestablishing diplomatic relations after years of hostility—with China as the intermediary.
Among other attractions, China does not try to impose its values, or to condition political, economic, and security agreements on the acceptance of its doctrines. In contrast, the U.S. relentlessly promotes weaponized homosexuality, transgenderism, and all the rest of the post-postmodern agenda of wokedom. Beijing explicitly rejects “hegemonism” (the West’s “rules-based international order”). China’s Global Security Initiative was launched last winter with the openly stated objective of “peacefully resolving differences and disputes between countries through dialogue and consultation.”
China is already the main trading partner of Saudi Arabia and Iran, and by far the biggest investor in the Middle East.
Trifkovic concludes that “America has ‘lost’ the Middle East, and that is a very good thing for America, for the Middle East, and for the rest of the world.”
Is the Use of White Phosphorus Lawful?
According to Human Rights Watch, Israeli forces used white phosphorus in military operations in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10 and 11, 2023, respectively. White phosphorus, which can be used as a smokescreen or a weapon, can cause severe burns. Its use in densely populated areas of Gaza potentially violates the requirement under international humanitarian law that parties to the conflict take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian injury and loss of life. Incendiary weapons are governed by Protocol III to the Convention on Chemical Weapons (CCW). Palestine and Lebanon have joined Protocol III, while Israel has not ratified the protocol. Israeli use of white phosphorus in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza (Dec 17, 2008–Jan 18, 2009), though intended as smokescreens, caused dozens of civilian casualties and generated domestic and international outrage. In 2013, Israel promised not to use it in populated areas except in extreme circumstances.
White phosphorus causes severe burns, often down to the bone, that are slow to heal and likely to become infected. If all fragments of white phosphorus are not removed, they can reignite when exposed to oxygen. White phosphorus burns on only 10% of a human body are often fatal. It can also cause respiratory damage and organ failure. Muscles and other tissues frequently develop contractures (https://tinyurl.com/4vz2knht).
Collective Punishment
The plan, apparently admitted to by Danny Ayalon, an advisor to Netanyahu, is to drive everyone out of Gaza and destroy it—unless Hamas surrenders unconditionally. “That’s the definition of collective punishment,” stated Marc Lamont Hill, who was fired by CNN in 2018 for making an “anti-Israel” statement.
The plan appears to be to forcibly resettle Palestinians in the Sinai, a vast unpopulated desert. But the people don’t want to go there, and Egypt doesn’t want them, writes Simplicius (tinyurl.com/zycfhfu5).
Alexander Dugin writes: “One must not overlook the eschatological dimension of events”: for the Jews, messianic prophecies, and for the Muslims, the concept that Israel and Zionism represent the Dajjal, comparable to the Antichrist. “Both sides are fighting for something unattainable” (tinyurl.com/52s33fyk).
Simplicius asks: Why now? He suggests that there’s the sense that Israel is running out of time as Arabs gain strength and population, and Israel hopes that a Black Swan event will save it.
Consider the implications of collective punishment: If all Palestinians are guilty of Hamas atrocities—after all, they could have risen up and overthrown the authorities, i.e. had an insurrection—what about the rest of us if our elected government commits a “war crime”?