Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif deleted a social media post in which he had described Israel as “cancerous” and “a curse for humanity” following deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon that killed more than 300 people and wounded nearly 1,200, in what Israel said was just 10 minutes of strikes that were carried out immediately after the US and Iran agreed a temporary truce.
“Israel is evil and a curse for humanity, while peace talks are under way in Islamabad, genocide is being committed in Lebanon,” Asif wrote on Thursday in the now-deleted post on X.
“Innocent citizens are being killed by Israel, first Gaza, then Iran and now Lebanon, bloodletting continues unabated,” he had written in the tweet. “I hope and pray people who created this cancerous state on Palestinian land to get rid of European jews burn in hell.”
“The original ending of Syriana was George Bush going into Congress and i was going to use the actual footage from the Iraq War declaration and he’s going to declare war on Iran. Inotherwords, the end of the movie would be the president of the US declaring war on Iran.
Okay 2003, this goes up the flag pole with the studio & the producers and everyone is like you’re insane…there isn’t going to be a war…Meanwhile my no.1 cohort & source for all this stuff is the ex-Iraq bureau chief…so all his pals are Iran hands. They all said to me, from the first moment of research on Syriana - Iraq is a sideshow” ~Stephen Gaghan
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“…It’s a small world, like anything, there’s only a few guys who pull the strings. The power players in the world of oil, arms, Middle Eastern foreign policy…it’s like less than 200 people and they all know each other…”
Netanyahu can’t seem to shut up about Israel being/becoming a superpower, so everyone…Jewish, Non-Jewish, Zionist, Christian-Zionist, Anti-Zionist, Antisemite…clearly understands this threat. More ominous in the context of theocracy
However, Greater Israel should be seen as a geopolitical and strategic concept as much as a territorial one. The acquisition and control of land is, in many respects, the obvious and easy part. Israel’s prime minister is pursuing something both more ambitious and more sophisticated than the simple control of territory – a project of dominion that is made up of new alliances, underwritten by hard power dependency.
In the days preceding the Iran war, two influential former Israeli security figures writing for the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security observed that, from the point of view of key regional Sunni states, overthrowing the Iranian regime or weakening it significantly would establish Israel’s status as the “dominant regional power”.
Achieving this necessitates not only collapsing Iran but simultaneously weakening the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – and making them dependent on Israel for security and energy export routes. In other words, the war’s spillover impact of GCC states being hit by Iranian drones and missiles can be seen as an intentional design feature for Israel, not a regrettable side-effect.
A recently published piece in Hebrew from two high-ranking figures at the official strategy institute of the Israel Defense Forces helpfully filled in some of the blanks. They argued that Israel’s military would not only conquer territory directly, but also achieve “operational control even in areas far from Israel’s borders, without occupying and holding territory”. Israel would be granted “a superior status as a kind of ‘queen’ of the jungle” (it is not uncommon to hear the rest of the Middle East referred to as “the jungle” in Israeli political discourse), establishing “a regional order that will further Israel’s goals”.
In recent speeches, Netanyahu has started referring to Israel not only as a “regional superpower”, but “in some respects, a global superpower”.
