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Israel and The Saudis Are Artificial States, and The Cause of The Disastrous International Climate
Israel and The Saudis Are Artificial States, and The Cause of The Disastrous International Climate
What’s been the legacy of Zionism and Wahhabism in the world? And what
is the truth about their origins? To begin with, here’s an abbreviated
history of the origins of first Zionism and then Wahhabissm for those of
you who are unfamiliar.
It was the colonial powers of the late 19th and early 20th century,
particularly Britain, who actively pursued the Zionist agenda under the
guidance of powerful and wealthy British Jews such as Lord Rothschild,
resulting in the famous Balfour Declaration. The British made grandiose
wartime promises (during World War I) to create a “Jewish homeland” in
Palestine. Although mass Jewish immigration to Palestine began occurring
after World War I, it wasn’t until after World War II and the Holocaust
that the agenda was comprehensively fulfilled.
Another cornerstone of Zionist folklore is the fabled book, The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion, believed by many to be the blue-print for a global
Zionist takeover. We will come back to this point later on in this article.
It couldn’t be denied, even by the most ardent Zionist supporters, that the
influence of political Zionism along with many of the actions and policies
of their Zionist State have, aside from the long-term oppression of the
Palestinian people, contributed massively to the polarization of the Middle
East and the growth of Jihadi radicalism.
Aside from the destructive, toxic effect that the creation of the Zionist
regime had at the point of its inception (in Palestine itself, but also vis-à-
vis its juxtaposition effects on Lebanon, Syria and other neighbors), a
divisive, destructive effect has also continued through to the present day
beyond the borders of the Middle East.
The alleged Zionist Plan for the Middle East, also known as, The Yinon
Plan, was the vast strategy composed to ensure Zionist regional superiority
via the radical reconfiguration of Israel’s geopolitical surroundings through
the balkanization of the surrounding Arab [and non-Arab] nations into
smaller and weaker states.
The Clean Breakstrategy also essentially amounts to the same thing. What
we have so far witnessed in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and even Yemen can be seen
to play into this US-backed Zionist strategy quite clearly. It is particularly
relevant to note that Iraq, Syria, and Libya were three of the most stable,
modern, secular, independent, and non-sectarian Arab nationalist states,
but instead are now three collapsed, geo-sectarian, wastelands waiting to
be carved up into pieces.
Through exploring the Greater Israel Project, there’s little question that
Zionism has been a toxic and problematic imposition onto the region and
perhaps the larger world, all the more so because the Zionist regime has
been aggressively propped up, armed, and defended by its Western
patrons, especially Washington. These days, we are all shocked by Obama
Administration’s $38 billion pledge to this evil, monstrous regime.
The setting up of the House of Saud as the “royal family” and the
establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia occurred despite the fact
that agreements had been made during the war to endorse and support not
the Saudis but the Hashemites. It was the Hashemite Arabs, not the
Saudis, who had launched the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks
and had been the most involved in the campaign. Yet it was the fanatical
[and some argue heretical] Wahhabi-inspired Saudi faction that gained the
real power from the post-war situation.
The reason I reference this history is to point out that the Wahhabi-
inspired Saudi Kingdom wasn’t the sole – or even the legitimate – claimant
to that immensely privileged, immensely powerful position in the region.
In fact, it was usurped just like the way Zionists usurped their way in, in
Palestine.
And what has been the legacy of this Wahhabi-inspired Saudi Arabia and
its influence? Well, the influence on Arabia itself and much of the
surrounding region is incontrovertible, aside from the fact that the
Wahhabi doctrines have been a major influence on extremism, Jihadism,
and terrorism down to today’s ISIS – the very embodiment of Wahhabism
outside the Arabian Peninsula. Osama bin Laden himself was a Wahhabi.
Almost all Jihadi extremists, including other Takfiri groups (such as the
Salafists), follow an essentially Wahhabi ideology.
A “takfiri”, by the way, is a Sunni Muslim who accuses another Muslim (or
an adherent of another Abrahamic faith) of apostasy. The accusation itself
is called “takfir” (in Arabic), derived from the word “kafir”, meaning
unbeliever in Arabic, and is described as when “one who is, or claims to be,
a Muslim is declared impure.”
The leaflets, DVDs, websites, and journals are full of archaic and extremist
statements such as homosexuals should be burnt, stoned or thrown from
mountains or tall buildings, along with adulterers and apostates (those
who try to change their religion) proscribed a similar fate. Women are
portrayed as intellectually inferior and in need of “beating when they
transgressed”, while children over the age of 10 should be beaten if they
did not pray. Half of the literature is written in English, suggesting it is
targeted at British Muslim youth who don’t necessarily speak Arabic or
Urdu. The material, openly available in many of the mosques, eagerly
advises the British Muslims to segregate themselves from non-Muslims
who are seen as inferior.
That, however, changed dramatically ever since the illegal invasion and
occupation of Iraq in 2003, the NATO conspiracy in Libya, and the
bloody war that has been imposed on Syria since 2011. Consequently, all
these countries are now infested with all manners of barbaric religious
extremisms.
The so-called “Islamic State”, aka ISIS or ISIL or Daesh that has been
injected into Syria and Iraq is essentially a movement that has 100%
ideologically flowed from the Wahhabi doctrine of Saudi Arabia. ISIS is
essence is Saudi Arabia without an embassy!
That connection is further exacerbated by the fact that Saudi and Qatari
arms and funding are largely behind these Wahhabi and Salafist savages,
with the wars in both Syria and Libya largely bankrolled by the Saudis and
Qataris and the emergence of ISIS largely being a consequence of that. It
has been reported, for example, that Wahhabi preachers from Saudi Arabia
are frequently in Aleppo, Syria, preaching to the armed savage Jihadists to
carry out a “holy war” against the Syrian state at all cost.
Yet, while the likes of Afghanistan and Iraq were subject to invasion (and
the latter to deliberate near total destabilization), and the overthrow of the
governments of Syria and Libya (two countries that had little, if any,
influence on the growth of global Jihadism) were openly encouraged and
aided by the major Western governments and Saudi Arabia – no doubt
partly due to its wealth and value to Washington and her allies – have
never at any point been subject to any threat or been held to international
scrutiny over the cynical and methodical dissemination of extremist
doctrines across the Muslim world.
While the Seven Pillars of Wisdom can be questioned for accuracy in some
regards, even his detractors and enemies couldn’t refute the vital role
played by the Hashemites in the revolt. It is a historical fact that the British
government of the time promised the Hashemite Arabs far more than they
delivered after the war.
However, Hussein was ousted and driven out of Arabia by the Sauds; a
rival clan with whom the Hashemites already had bad history, having
earlier fought against them due to radical religious differences, primarily
the fanatical doctrines of Al-Wahhab. Though the British had supported
[and utilized] Hussein from the start of the Arab revolt, they decided not to
help Hussein repel the Saudi attacks, which eventually seized the key cities
of Mecca, Medina and Jeddah. With it went the hope of a Hashemite-ruled
Arabia, though Hussein continued to use the title “Caliph” even in his exile.
In the aftermath of the WWI, the Arabs had found themselves freed from
centuries of Ottoman rule, but instead were under the colonial rule of
France and Britain, despite British war-time promises that this would not
be the case. When these colonial mandates eventually ended, the sons of
Hussein were made the kings of Transjordan, later simply called Jordan, as
well as Syria and Iraq. However, the monarchy in Syria was short-lived,
and consequently Hussein’s son Faisal presided over the newly-established
State of Iraq.
But these were mere conciliatory offerings compared to what had originally
been intended and desired by the Hashemites. It was the Saudis who were
the real winners, being installed into a powerful kingdom that has lasted to
this day and shows not the slightest sign of weakening.
The book, The Memoirs of Mr. Hempher, aka The British Spy to
the Middle East, aka Confessions of a British Spy, has been
regarded by some as a forged document; the document purporting to be
the account of an 18thcentury British agent, “Hempher”, of his
instrumental role in founding Wahhabism as part of a conspiracy to
corrupt and eventually destroy Islam. This book first appeared in 1888 in
Turkish. It has been described as an Anglophobic variation of the
book, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Protocols have been widely translated and disseminated and is still
regarded as factual and historical in much of the Muslim world, informing
a great deal of the prevailing Middle-Eastern view of the Jews and the
Zionists. Those who refute the validity of the book cite it as a massive
contributing cause of Jew hatred in nearly all Muslim societies and
beyond. Unfortunately the Nazis, like many in Muslim societies today,
were intemperate, incapable of separating Zionism as a corrosive globalist
political force from Jews as a people.
Back to Islam, let us remember that this religion wasn’t always regarded
with the kind of stigma that it now has, but rather the opposite. Islamic
societies were historically perceived as having been intellectually and even
scientifically enlightened at a time when western Christianity was
characterized by superstitious backward-mindedness, inquisitions, torture,
mass persecutions, execution pyres, and utterly ridiculous doctrines and
proclamations.
Why were the Saudis not brought to task when 15 of the 19 supposed
hijackers on September 11 were allegedly known to originate from Saudi
Arabia, not Iraq? Or were these supposed 15 patsies a valuable resource
that Washington could cash in as its trump card, for example “the 28
missing pages from 911 report” that we have all heard so much about
lately, in order to gain a geopolitical advantage over the Saudis and
figuratively pull the rug from under them just as they did with Egypt’s
Mubarak in 2011? The list of curious questions goes on and on.
Without digressing too much and not complicate an already very complex
issue, it should be kept in mind that one of the most prominent 9/11
conspiracy theories is the Phillip Marshall Theory which concludes that the
WTC attacks were a US-Saudi-Israeli plot and not a mere Al-Qaeda
operation. Two central and recurring features of most 9/11
conspiracy research are the possible involvement of Saudi agencies and the
possible involvement of Israel’s Mossad in collusion with a broad array of
US agencies.
Putting that to one side, however, the point is that when we look at the
history of the Middle East, it becomes increasingly difficult not to wonder
if the divisions, general toxicity, the wars, and apocalyptic scenarios that
are reaching their apex here at the beginning of the 21st century may have
been orchestrated far back in history, having always been intended to
reach this point. That is the view many have of The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion – that the supposedly “hoax” document actually made this
clear to a large extent.
The more one studies history, the more one wonders if the truth about
Wahhabism and its origins may not just be a similar tale, but a concordant
operation, with these two ideologies – Wahhabism and Zionism – both
operating hand-in-hand to create the toxic conditions in the region that we
have today.
Both the Zionist State of Israel and the Wahhabi Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
could be regarded – and are regarded by many in the Middle East – as
artificial states imposed upon the region and kept in place by Western
powers (primarily Washington) for the purposes of a long-term agenda of
God-knows-what. Just as Israel is armed to the teeth by its Western
patrons, so too is the Saudi regime, which is currently decimating the small
nation of Yemen in an illegal war and using almost entirely British or
American weaponry – without one word of condemnation from Western
governments.
It is also increasingly evident that the Wahhabi and Zionist states have
common interests and work hand-in-hand in many regards. This can be
seen for example in their shared anti-Iran policies and their shared
involvement in supporting the extremist ISIS war against the Syrian
government.
In the September 14, 2016 issue of the Politico Magazine, the Neo-Con
Zalmay Khalilzad (former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, the UN,
and now the seemingly front man for the Saudi lobby in Washington)
stated the following: “…. Israel and Saudi Arabia share a similar threat
perception regarding Iran, and that old hostility need not preclude
greater cooperation between the two states going forward. The Saudis
stated with unusual directness that they do not regard Israel as an enemy
and that the kingdom is making no military contingency plans directed
against Israel….”
“This time, in the course of meetings with King Salman, Crown Prince
Nayef, Deputy Crown Mohammad Bin Salman and several ministers, one
top Saudi official admitted to me, “We misled you.” He explained that
Saudi support for Islamic extremism started in the early 1960s as a
counter to Nasserism—the socialist political ideology that came out of the
thinking of Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser—which threatened Saudi Arabia
and led to war between the two countries along the Yemen border. This
tactic allowed them to successfully contain Nasserism, and the Saudis
concluded that Islamism could be a powerful tool with broader utility.”
While Saudi religious influence can’t be cited as the sole force behind the
rise of fanaticism and extremism in the Middle East and much of the
Islamic world beyond, it is a central factor, along with US foreign policy
and the Zionist State of Israel. And if all of those factors were to be viewed
operating in concert with one another and taken as one, then it would
obviously be the principal driving force behind the terrible events in that
part of the world.
Even if you wanted to cite other causal factors instead – for example,
populations being oppressed by various dictatorships – the argument
could be made that those dictatorships have historically been propped up
by either Saudi or US influence (or both) at some time or another (though
not Gaddafi – and look how that ended up for him). If we look at the
historic events of the so-called “Arab Spring” or better put Arab Chaos,
some tend to forget that Bahrain, for example, had its own popular, grass-
roots protests by civilians asking for basic rights and liberties.
It is an established fact that the Saudis and their satellite client states have
been funding and orchestrating the ultra-violent ISIS terrorists in Syria
since the very beginning of that conflict. And it’s evident that Israel too has
been involved in aiding the Syrian rebels. It is therefore quite reasonable to
wonder if a Zionist/ Wahhabist agenda is being played out in unison with,
of course, Washington Neocon backing.
This isn’t, by the way, an attempt to all-out vilify Saudi Arabia or the Saudi
state – which itself may be facing significant danger from Jihadi extremism
– but more specifically its hard-line religious clerics and networks. The
extent to which those networks are tied to the state itself is unknown. But
there is almost certainly some degree of collusion involving highly-placed
people in the state.
Once you’ve familiarized yourself with the history, you cannot help but
view the bitter sectarianism, wars, divisions, and bloodshed of today
without perceiving the large shadows of Zionism and Wahhabism looming
over them. And that’s before we even factor in the issue of Shia Islam. This
is also particularly interesting in light of the fact that US policy in recent
years has been to aggravate a false and contrived Sunni-Shia conflict in the
region as much as possible. The Israeli intelligentsia is also majorly
involved in fueling this geo-sectarian conflict.
The bleak picture is one of a societal and political cancer seeded at the
dawn of the 20th century and reaching its deadliest point at the beginning
of the 21st: An agenda that pre-dated World War I which may bring about
World War III itself.