Funny that people believe the unification of 14 Palestinian factions represents some sort of watershed moment in the Middle East peace process. Set aside the fact that this should have happened over forty years ago at best, a more significant geopolitical realignment would involve some sort of mutual defense pact of actual Arab nations instead of the fledgling factions of a fledgling population currently under siege. If that is too much to ask, then perhaps if the 14 factions had been organized to fight, we could plausibly imagine we are getting somewhere.
But the China brokered Middle East initiative is just China making a soft-power play in the region with absolutely no leverage. These are just more illusions.
Cut to Bibi Netanyahu addressing Congress to a record 55 standing ovations. Which optics do you prefer? The flaccid legislative unification of insignificant political factions as some sign of Israeli weakness or the thunderous Israeli reception in the US Capitol as a sure sign of Israeli strength? That is, if the university protests and global outrage have had any impact on anything at all, then surely Israel would face some sort of loss of standing or influence over the US war machine. But no such loss of standing has taken place. Israel is stronger than ever which means, ergo, that Palestine and the Palestinian cause is at a nadir. Only silver-lining, chicken-shit, anti-false flag Leftists believe that the destruction of Gaza is a sure sign of some magical and upcoming Palestinian victory.
Moreover, in a matter of days, it has become obvious that Trump is no longer a shoe-in to become the next American President. Those on social media who instantly believed, in light of the Trump assassination attempt, that he could ride the optics of a fist-pump into the White House are now haunted by the ghost of Kamala.
Some might retort that Kamala is unelectable because she is not well-liked. But not well-liked by whom? The masses? This hardly matters. And what exactly is so unlikeable about Harris? Her cackle? But her cackle has thus far been played up in the media. That is the only reason you yourself know or feel she is unelectable. The Big Lie Propaganda Machine (BLPM) has convinced you so mostly because they wanted Biden in in 2020.
But now that they want her in office, the BLPM will milk white-guilt progressives by presenting a wholly “competent” colored woman as candidate thus allowing Liberals to believe that America is back on the right side of history. Even if deep-down in their hearts they don’t like Kamala, Liberals will surely vote for her because now, the BLPM will convince them that this is their true path to inner atonement and salvation.
Propaganda polls already show that Kamala can beat Trump! The BLPM needs just six weeks to convince everyone that Kamala is extremely electable. They had a far taller order convincing America that a dead man was a viable candidate. I’m speaking now of 2020. Not only did they do so, they stole the votes needed to make up the slack.
The only two anomalies you need remember about 2020 is that Trump is the only President to lose an election after earning more votes in his re-election run than his initial (2016) campaign. Also, a dead man received the most votes of any President ever. If you think these anomalies are perfectly explainable because of mail-in voting, you are truly an imbecile. Or rather, these two anomalies could only occur because mail-in voting leads to gratuitous voter fraud.
But Trump is no longer any sort of renegade candidate or hope for the American white-trash working class. He has been fully co-opted by Israel. Israeli power, as an immateriality which is nonetheless real, is a perfectly suitable vantage point from which to begin assessing the global political landscape. Trying to circumscribe the obvious leads to more distortions and misreading of geopolitical power dynamics (see above re Palestine). Israel is the real elephant in the room. The sliver-lining, chicken-shit, anti-false-flag Left wants desperately to believe that Israel is not so strong and that Palestine is not so weak (when the opposite is true). They equally want to believe that either Trump or Harris’ electability depends on the voters. This is totally hopeless. It depends on what the BLPM can convince voters to believe, not on anything voters themselves believe.
Sheldon Adelson went against the mainstream in his late financial support for Trump in 2016 and Trump won. Adelson sat out the 2020 election but now his widow is back offering full financial support (to the tune of 100 million dollars) to the Trump campaign.
This points not to a certain Trump victory but to a behind-the-scenes battle between competing factions of Israeli-firsters. One faction believes the best way forward is for Israel to leverage fake peace and justice movements like BLM moving forward while continuing to pay lip-service to a two-state solution; another faction is more aggressive and sees an historical opportunity to have it all—meaning the total annexation of Gaza and the West Bank into greater Israel and end of discussion over any two-state solution forever. They want this as badly as the American pilgrims wanted to clear the frontier.
As far as the Israeli interest is concerned, there is wisdom on both sides; either continue largely behind the scenes risking less exposure in dominating the world (i.e. hiding behind social justice movements and continuing to milk the world’s sympathy as eternal victims of the holocaust) or take up this one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to establish the imaginary Old-Testament boundaries of Israel once and for all.
Trump is the candidate that will allow the latter plan to proceed; Harris will do largely the same but more diplomatically, offering up human rights talking points and a veneer of civility to the so-called Middle East Peace Process.
Palestine is already gone by the way. The Gaza strip is now unlivable and will require 50 years of Marshall-plan type investments to get going again. Who in their right mind would finance this? China is interested in improving existing hellholes in Africa; they won’t go near Palestine.
Lastly, I’ll say that the arrival of China as a potential broker in the Middle East further allows pathetic Arab countries (like Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar) to avoid doing anything at all. Doesn’t anybody think that this is a regional issue, that these countries (after seeing Syria, Libya, and Iraq destroyed in less than a decade) ought to be able to retaliate and fight for their interests themselves? The loss of Hong Kong, Shandong, and Manchuria was enough for the Chinese. But somehow, the loss of three oil-rich lands in quick succession are not enough for the Arab world to end their century of humiliation (which will soon turn into centuries).
Why is everyone intent on blaming America for this mess? Pinning the blame on America is another propaganda trick. If the Arab world cannot mobilize to confront the regional power (Israel), the Palestinians are shit-out-of-luck forever. The Saudi-Iran détente was a bit promising but this must translate into an Arab NATO or military defense alliance in order to alter power relations in the Middle East. And I don’t mean an Arab NATO designed to confront Iran (which is the wet dream of both Israel and the US) but an Arab NATO to confront Israel.
Mao Zedong wised up in 1927 after the KMT massacre of 30,000 Comrades in Shanghai. When he said “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” he meant there is no “non-violent” means to national liberation. He had no illusions of “negotiating” with colonial powers. China is strong today because of it.
Yet we still believe a viable two-state solution is possible via negotiation. In short, we believe the Palestinians can somehow manage to wrench power not from the barrel of a gun but through the efforts of diplomacy. The Arab world needs a Mao figure and revolutionary military machine in order to change the status quo. Nothing else really counts. We have been legislating ourselves in and out of hope since at least 1948. No legislative framework will save the Palestinians. This is a matter of hard power; unfortunately, the Palestinians have none.
You say the Palestinians have no hard power: do you deny that they are beating Israel +West in Gaza, the North and in the shipping lanes? Do you deny that Iran has proven Israeli air defences to be useless? There is a long way to go - this is a war of attrition. And obviously the sacrifice being imposed by the colonisers on Gazan civilians (and those of the West Bank) is horrific - making their role in the resistance both incredibly heroic and utterly tragic. But have no doubt, Israel is losing. A two-state solution will be fig leaf for the evacuation of Israel, and its inevitable collapse. A one-state solution, as in South Africa or Algeria will prevail, and European Jews will remain only on sufferance and after great penitence.