Given Israel’s track record under US leadership, it is difficult to predict that a temporary ceasefire with Hamas, or even Hezbollah, will last long. But what remains persistent in the popular imagination of global citizens is the Palestinian resistance, which enjoyed support from two other non-state actors.
International media has portrayed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ansarallah (Houthis) as proxies of Iran, but following the developments in Syria in the first week of December 2024 that led to Iran’s overthrow, The role itself has so far been marginalized. We’re talking about the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Despite the Zionist state suffering thousands of casualties and losing hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles, and other weapons, Israel was unable to achieve its objective of eliminating these three extremist groups, especially Hamas. There is near consensus among independent military experts that there was no such thing.
Houthis are still at war
Gaza was destroyed, and so was southern Lebanon, but it is also true that in the 77 years since Israel was founded, there has never been a war in which Israel was so militarily, materially, and industrially destroyed. But the far-flung Houthis still manage to fire missiles deep into Israel almost every day. Not only that, they effectively blocked all ships of the Western Allies and Israel from entering the Red Sea. Yemenis continue to target US warships and even aircraft carriers.
The fact is that Shiite Iran has perpetuated resistance from Palestinian fighters (overwhelmingly Sunni) for many years. Is it not true that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran on July 31st while attending the swearing-in ceremony of the new president?
The Sunni world has long isolated Palestinians. Turkey, seeking to assert itself as the leader of the Muslims on earth, allowed Azerbaijani oil to be shipped to Israel during a 15-month period of genocide in the Zionist regime’s Gaza and southern Lebanon. Oil-rich Shiite-majority Azerbaijan is Sunni Turkey’s best friend in the region. The oil is sent to the Turkish coast through a pipeline.
Iran may have made strategic mistakes and cannot approve of every action taken by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, but they do not betray their objectives and urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to establish a relationship with Iran. It is true that Japan was forced to accept such a humiliating ceasefire with the US. He vowed to wipe it out.
If Western media reports are to be believed, all this was made possible thanks to direct pressure on Netanyahu from none other than US President-elect Donald Trump. this fact confirms the truth
Outgoing President Joe Biden was leading the war in the Levant, and Prime Minister Netanyahu was nothing more than a tool used for the greater interests of Western imperialists. This has been going on ever since
The 19th century, when Britain, France, and later the United States planned new states carved out of the Ottoman Empire. They exploited Europe’s Jews, who were facing untold misery, as cannon fodder to achieve this goal.
Iran’s new scope
Despite temporary setbacks against Iran, it is true that close economic and military ties with China and Russia pose a major challenge to Western countries. China was importing 150 cars in 2023.
The country, which provided 1 million barrels of oil from the United States and was its second-largest importer, decided to stop purchasing fossil fuels from Washington. The Chinese government will now import oil from Iran, Russia, and Venezuela, all three countries on the U.S. deep state’s target list. But if the combined forces of the United States, Western allies, and Israel are unable to take down the thousands of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ansarala fighters, will they have the courage to attack Iran directly?
China’s move was a major blow to the United States, which has imposed tariffs on its own products.
The United States wants Europe to reduce its dependence on Russian oil and buy more from Russia. This is causing a rift within Western countries. Russia’s pipeline to Europe through Ukraine was shut down, but the latter had to suffer economically. The Russian-German pipeline was reportedly blown up by the CIA during the first months of the war with Ukraine.
The new Trump administration has a formula for getting out of the chaos in the Middle East and the Black Sea.
Changing scenario
History has strange ways. In the past 16 months, the scenario across West Asia has changed dramatically. One month after the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor idea was discussed at the G20 summit in New Delhi on September 9, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. Hezbollah soon joined the war, followed by Ansarala.
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the subsequent American exodus from Iraq, Iranians have used the Iraq-Syria-Lebanon corridor to send arms to Hezbollah and Hamas. For this reason, the Tehran regime was well aware of Bashar al-Assad’s tyrannical rule and did not view him as an enemy. The objective was indeed to fight the larger enemies, Israel and the United States;
Iran ignored some of the realities in Syria. This gave Western countries and their Muslim allies in the region the opportunity to launch baseless and false propaganda that Bashar is surviving only with the support of the Islamic Republic. The fact is that it was with Russia that Syria had old military relations since the Soviet era. There are still bases in Syria, and the new government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa did not want to disturb the Russians. The only time Iranians were involved was during the war with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which was initially said to be an American invention. Currently, Iran is approaching the government led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to allow it to use the corridor to support its allies. However, it seems unlikely that Iran will receive this permission, as the Syrian regime is strongly controlled by Western countries as well as Turkey.
difficult to predict
It is not easy to predict what will soon happen in Gaza, but privately Muslims around the world, 90 percent of whom are Sunnis, have offered support to the Hamas cause, which has so far involved Iran. It doesn’t change the fact that we acknowledge that. It is the ruling class of these Islamic countries that is dancing to the tune of the West. If forced to choose between Israel and Iran, these mean-spirited dictators and monarchs in the region will choose friendly relations with the former.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have briefly won in Syria, but his image has been tarnished. This is largely because he chose to side with the West at such a critical juncture, when US-led Israel was losing on all fronts.
No, no one in Iran sheds tears over Bashar’s exit. Articles are starting to appear in Iranian media about Bashar’s failure to heed advice from Iran to talk with rebels. In fact, he was more confident of aid from Russia, which he also gave up.
If Mr. Erdoğan had not been a Western party to the regime change in Damascus at this point, he would not have been singled out for criticism. He was less concerned about the genocide in Gaza and more involved with the Ukrainian and Russian plays. He only occasionally paid lip service to the Palestinian cause.
Another paradox
Similar contradictions can be traced back a century ago, when, unlike now, the Ottoman Turks were on the other side of the fence. No, anti-imperialist forces did not support the Ottoman Empire out of love for the Ottoman Empire. They also received support from Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, which started the Khilaft movement in the early 1920s because of the British’s dirty play.
Just months after the Allied forces suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915, Britain and France incited Arabs to revolt against the Ottoman Empire in the Hejaz, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Palestine. We provided full support. .
It is not that Arab grievances against their Turkish rulers (such as against Bashar in Syria today) were not genuine. Yet, because of the timing of the rebellion and the help they sought from Britain and France, few today appreciate their position.
Those who started movements in favor of Khilafat in India and other parts of the world were well aware that they could not save Khilafat from extinction. Yet they wanted to expose the hypocrisy.
The British and French colonialists left behind the state of Israel, which is the root of all problems.
More than 108 years later, Arabs are still accused of collaborating with Lawrence of Arabia, the British spy who played a huge role in the fall of the last Islamic empire. The Arabs could have won a lot of favor if they had fought the Turks on their own much later, rather than when the Allied forces were on the brink of collapse.
In decades to come, the heroic struggle and sacrifices of the Gazans and the support they received from Iran, Hezbollah and Ansarullah will be history. And the betrayal of Sunni Arab countries will not be forgotten. Ironically, Turks have learned no lessons from the past.
