Sunday, August 17, 2025

A EUROPEAN WAKE UP ????

 

"WE WILL BURY THE PALESTINIAN STATE: EUROPEANS WILL HAVE NOTHING MORE TO RECOGNIZE!"



= Statement made the day before yesterday by Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance and Settlement Development. These are not empty threats: he is simultaneously approving the construction of 3,400 housing units in the E1 area. For 29 years (since 1996), all Israeli governments have backed down in the face of international pressure and have renounced colonizing this absolutely strategic E1 area.
• Why is this a historic shift? 1) Because the E1 zone will permanently isolate the Northern West Bank (Ramallah - Nablus) from the Southern West Bank (Bethlehem - Hebron); 2) Because the E1 zone will completely isolate East Jerusalem (where 400,000 Palestinians live) from the rest of the West Bank. More details here: https://orange-juditha-6.tiiny.site via Daniel Seideman

• His supremacist accomplice Ben-Gvir went to Marwan Barghouti's cell yesterday and told him, on camera: "We will annihilate you, we will erase you."
• Why is this important? 1) Because these are the first images of Barghouti released in years and because he appears VERY thin. 15 days ago, I signed a text with 172 personalities to remind everyone that the release of the "Palestinian Mandela" is the only political option available to restore the Palestinian Authority and restart a negotiation process. If Barghouti suffered the same fate as Navalni, if he dies in his cell, this political perspective disappears. https://lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/08/02/une-liberation-de-marwan-barghouti-par-israel-serait-essentielle-pour-avancer-vers-la-paix-et-une-solution-a-deux-etats_6626344_3232.html

• Yesterday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel traveled to Somaliland to negotiate the "relocation" of Gaza residents. The day before, Netanyahu confirmed on CNN that Israel is "negotiating with several countries right now," adding that "anyone who wants to help the Palestinians should open their doors to them." The plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is therefore officially accepted at the highest level. As a reminder, on August 9, Trump confirmed on camera that he plans to recognize Somaliland if it accepts those expelled from Gaza.

• On i24NEWS English Netanyahu said yesterday that he felt "invested with a historic and spiritual mission" and was "very attached to the vision of Greater Israel" (as a reminder, "Greater Israel" includes Israel + West Bank + Jordan + Lebanon + Syria + Sinai). He added that any "political solution to the Gaza war would be synonymous with capitulation for Israel." The expansionist headlong rush is clearly accelerating.

> On July 24, Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu declared on the radio that "the Israeli government is engaged in a race against time to annihilate Gaza. We are eliminating its inhabitants. Gaza will be entirely Jewish." He speaks the truth, simply and bluntly, like Smotrich, like Ben-Gvir, like Netanyahu. Nothing is hidden, everything is assumed.

>> Faced with this absolute emergency, Germany decided on August 8th to impose an arms embargo on Israel. This was a historic decision, with far-reaching consequences (Germany accounts for 30% of arms imports to Israel). Norway, which holds the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, canceled all of its investments in Israel on August 11th.
>>> What is France doing? It "strongly condemns" the plan to annihilate Gaza (August 8); it "expresses its deep concern about the heavy price paid by journalists in Gaza" (August 12); it supports "the deployment of a temporary international stabilization mission in Gaza" (August 12); it has not yet reacted to the announcement of the colonization of the E1 zone.
• If Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Noël Barrot & France Diplomatie wait for the official proclamation of the State of Palestine on September 21 at the UN, they will no longer have anything to recognize, as Smotrich so cruelly but so rightly says.

> Pressure must increase for IMMEDIATE AND BINDING SANCTIONS on Israel a) Trade sanctions that will empty the stores in a few days and that will have an immediate effect on a geographically isolated and economically strangled country; b) legal sanctions by supporting the ICC arrest warrants and demonstrating to Israeli soldiers that they will never again be able to travel to countries that are signatories to international legal treaties; c) diplomatic sanctions by immediately banning European soil to all members of the Israeli government ("Schengen Travel Ban"); d) military and strategic sanctions: the announcement of a German embargo on arms deliveries to Israel is a decisive first step, it must be supported and amplified.

• It is one minute to midnight. If immediate and credible sanctions are not announced in the coming hours, the promise of recognition of Palestine next September will be null and void: Emmanuel Macron will have finally recognized a cemetery.

#SANCTIONS #CeaseFireNOW #BringThemHomeNOW

[Sources: CNN, Haaretz.com, The Times of Israel, Le Monde]

As received in French by email, translated by Google and myself, to fit our blog, for the better understanding of what is happening over there under the eyes of the entire world. 

As always, my many thanks to all.  

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

THE ONGOING HORRIBLE MASSACRE......

 


BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif

Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers,

          while  Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

On Sunday, the Israeli military killed our press colleagues, Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa.

The journalists were killed by an Israeli airstrike late Sunday local time. One minute, they were reporting on Israel’s escalating bombardment of Gaza City. And the next minute, they became victims of it.

Israeli forces bombed a tent housing the reporters near al-Shifa Hospital. The attack also reportedly killed Al-Sharif's nephew Musab Al-Sharif, who is said to have looked up to his 28-year-old uncle and wanted to follow in his footsteps as a journalist.

Barely an hour before US-backed Israeli forces killed Al-Sharif, he had warned on Twitter, “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Just weeks ago, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for Al-Sharif’s protection in the face of an Israeli military smear campaign. The vile campaign included the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee alleging that Al-Sharif was a “terrorist,” since he cried on air while reporting on the starvation of his people in Gaza.

After the attack, the Israeli military said it targeted and killed “the terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as a journalist for the Al Jazeera network,” claiming without any substantiated evidence that he “served as the head of a terrorist cell in the Hamas terrorist organisation.”

“When you read the statement issued by the army, which was well prepared before all this happened, it’s almost as if it is bragging about it,” Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid wrote.

‘Silencing My Voice’

Warnings like the one Al-Sharif wrote just before being killed have become horrifyingly familiar. Such appeals have fallen on deaf or disinterested ears in the halls of power worldwide, namely in the West, and particularly in the US. And for months, such pleas have been met with skepticism by the Western press, and particularly by the US press.

Where are the big names that proclaim themselves as brave, bold, as telling things as they are? The network figureheads, the Washington mainstays? Israeli forces have killed some 245 journalists in the past 22 months. Journalists who were also people, just like anyone else, and who had to become bigger than life, in order to justify themselves to viewers thousands of miles away. People who had been forced every single day to report on the devastation of their own land, their own families. People who would cover an airstrike that killed their children and, by sheer necessity, continue to report on the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different.

How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?

After his killing, Al-Sharif’s team published his final words on social media:

,

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif

06.04.2025

These few paragraphs, are a shorter part of the journalist letter, but it gives a fair idea of its content and sad release after his deliberate murder with his colleagues by the Israeli army. 

A sad episode of the barbaric onslaught taking place openly of all professional personnel serving in the Palestinian Gaza and to a lesser extend the under occupation West Bank, journalist, doctors, medical staff and humanitarian aid people by the thousands, it is planned to continue under different names, headings and tactics.                 As always, my many thanks to all.   

Friday, August 8, 2025

Don’t Let the Fight Against Antisemitism Fuel Antisemitism


Labeling critiques of Israeli policy and actions as “Jew Hatred” or saying global anger at the war in Gaza is a “PR problem” is precisely the wrong approach.

No matter the over-focus on Israel particularly on the political left, it is a tragic error for leaders and organizations in the Jewish community to seek to shut down debate and dissent by labeling all critiques of Israel as antisemitic.

Finally, we need people like the Prime Minister of Israel to stop dismissing all critiques of Israel as part of a concerted communications campaign to discredit Israel. He and all those who consistently label Israel's growing international isolation a “PR problem” are missing a more fundamental point.

Israel's problem isn't its PR. The problem is its policy.

It’s not the media coverage that needs to change, it’s what Israel is doing and has been doing since 1967. Getting a better PR firm to explain the occupation of another people and the denial of their equal rights won’t solve the problem.

Yes, there is antisemitism throughout the world. It will never fully disappear, and it must be continually fought.

As we address that hatred, let’s also take a long look in the mirror and ensure that the state that is the national home of our people is acting in a manner that accords with our values and advances our interests.

If it is not, let’s speak out.

In doing so, we will not just be standing up for what is right and in our own interest, we'll be demonstrating the important distinction between what this extreme right-wing government of Israel is doing and what the majority of Jewish people who care about the state and people of Israel actually believe.

And let’s ensure that, in the way we react to those who are not Jewish and raise concerns that many of us share about Israel's policies and actions, we aren’t inadvertently fueling the flames of antisemitism.

 

Few paragraphs of a longer article by the talented and very realistic Jeremy Ben-Ami, analyzing this particular side of the general situation between Israel/Palestine, their wars, occupation, terrorism, apartheid, genocide and mass population transfers, and their impact on the entire area surrounding them, all under the complicity of some other political leaders and the blind eyes of the rest of the world. 


"The Nazification of Israel has begun. That's where it should be filed. This is a country that has gone completely off the rails. The more you see it in operation, the more it looks like Nazi Germany."
— John Mearsheimer, widely respected political scientist

I copied these words, as very indicative of certain aspects of the conflict and the ways it's been conducted, and the last decision of the war cabinet to invade the entirety of Gaza and Gaza city, against the advise of their own army chiefs, and perpetuate their massacres and ethnic cleansing.

signaling the beginning of a new era of accountability in global politics.

The Growing Global Criticism of Israel’s Actions

   

  as always, my many thanks to all my good readers. 

Sunday, August 3, 2025

SAD DAYS FOR ACADEMIA .....

 

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump

Rashid Khalidi

Fri 1 Aug 2025 12.00 CEST

Dear Acting President Shipman,

I am writing you an open letter since you have seen fit to communicate the recent decisions of the board of trustees and the administration in a similar fashion.

These decisions, taken in close collaboration with the Trump administration, have made it impossible for me to teach modern Middle East history, the field of my scholarship and teaching for more than 50 years, 23 of them at Columbia. Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer”, but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June.

Specifically, it is impossible to teach this course (and much else) in light of Columbia’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition deliberately, mendaciously and disingenuously conflates Jewishness with Israel, so that any criticism of Israel, or indeed description of Israeli policies, becomes a criticism of Jews. Citing its potential chilling effect, a co-author of the IHRA definition, Professor Kenneth Stern, has repudiated its current uses. Yet Columbia has announced that it will serve as a guide in disciplinary proceedings.

Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state, Israel, and a political ideology, Zionism, with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred, it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel, and the ongoing Palestinian Nakba, culminating in the genocide being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza with the connivance and support of the US and much of western Europe.

The Armenian genocide, the nature of the absolute monarchies and military dictatorships that blight most of the Arab world, the undemocratic theocracy in Iran, the incipient dictatorial regime in Türkiye, the fanaticism of Wahhabism: all of these are subject to detailed analysis in my course lectures and readings. However, a simple description of the discriminatory nature of Israel’s 2018 Nation State Law – which states that only the Jewish people have the right of self-determination in Israel, half of whose subjects are Palestinian – or of the apartheid nature of its control over millions of Palestinians who have been under military occupation for 58 years would be impossible in a Middle East history course under the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former selfIt is not only faculty members’ academic freedom and freedom of speech that is infringed upon by Columbia’s capitulation to Trump’s diktat. Teaching assistants would be seriously constrained in leading discussion sections, as would students in their questions and discussions, by the constant fear that informers would snitch on them to the fearsome apparatus that Columbia has erected to punish speech critical of Israel, and to crack down on alleged discrimination – which at this moment in history almost invariably amounts simply to opposition to this genocide. Scores of students and many faculty members have been subjected to these kangaroo courts, students such as Mahmoud Khalil have been snatched from their university housing, and Columbia has now promised to render this repressive system even more draconian and opaque.

You have stated that no “red lines” have been crossed by these decisions. However, Columbia has appointed a vice-provost initially tasked with surveilling Middle Eastern studies, and it has ordained that faculty and staff must submit to “trainings” on antisemitism from the likes of the Anti-Defamation League, for whom virtually any critique of Zionism or Israel is antisemitic, and Project Shema, whose trainings link many anti-Zionist critiques to antisemitism. It has accepted an “independent” monitor of “compliance” of faculty and student behavior from a firm that in June 2025 hosted an event in honor of Israel. According to Columbia’s agreement with the Trump administration, this “Monitor will have timely access to interview all Agreement-related individuals, and visit all Agreement-related facilities, trainings, transcripts of Agreement-related meetings and disciplinary hearings, and reviews”. Classrooms are pointedly NOT excluded from possible visits from these external non academics.

The idea that the teaching, syllabuses and scholarship of some of the most prominent academics in their fields should be vetted by such a vice-provost, such “trainers” or an outside monitor from such a firm is abhorrent. It constitutes the antithesis of the academic freedom that you have disingenuously claimed will not be infringed by this shameful capitulation to the anti-intellectual forces animating the Trump administration.

I regret deeply that Columbia’s decisions have obliged me to deprive the nearly 300 students who have registered for this popular course – as many hundreds of others have done for more than two decades – of the chance to learn about the history of the modern Middle East this fall. Although I cannot do anything to compensate them fully for depriving them of the opportunity to take this course, I am planning to offer a public lecture series in New York focused on parts of this course that will be streamed and available for later viewing. Proceeds, if any, will go to Gaza’s universities, every one of which has been destroyed by Israel with US munitions, a war crime about which neither Columbia nor any other US university has seen fit to say a single word.

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.

– Rashid Khalidi

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University and author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

No comment, except that it's a sad reminder of a very unfortunate situation playing nowadays in the US, between the actual administration and practically all higher education institutions, attacking even education and public k-12 systems and pertinent research.       As always my profound many thanks to all.  

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

" OUR GENOCIDE ".....

 

 The top ISRAELI human rights organization just declared Gaza a genocide and released a 70+ page report. READ IT HERE.🕊️

B’Tselem has spent 35 years documenting the Israeli occupation. Now, for the first time ever, they say it plainly: Israel is committing genocide.


📜 What Is Genocide — And Why This Fits

Genocide isn’t just killing. It’s a coordinated effort to destroy a people in whole or in part — through:

  • Mass killing

  • Starvation

  • Forced displacement

  • Preventing births

  • Psychological destruction

  • Systematic degradation of living conditions

As B’Tselem explains:

“Genocide is one of the gravest crimes in international law… legally and morally, genocide can never be justified under any circumstances — including self-defense” (p. 4).

Israel is guilty of every one of these acts. And not just accidentally. Deliberately. Systematically. Proudly. You would struggle to find ANY DEFINITION of genocide that they don’t meet.


🟥 What’s Happening in Gaza Isn’t a War — It’s a Process of Annihilation

Since October 7, Israel has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians in Gaza — the overwhelming majority of them civilians. 29% were children. (p. 19)

Another 138,520 people have been wounded — often left to die without painkillers or anesthesia. (p. 16)
Hospitals have been bombed. Medical workers assassinated. Children have had limbs amputated without anesthesia. (pp. 22–23)

The healthcare system has collapsed. Babies are dying of diarrhea. Pregnant mothers can't deliver. Starving children are freezing to death in tents. (pp. 23, 36, 53)

“It is reasonable to assume that the entire population of the Gaza Strip… is currently experiencing severe, lasting mental and bodily harm” (p. 16).

They bombed hospitals, schools, water systems, wheat mills, and power grids — not by accident, but by policy.

“Israel has systematically destroyed much of the infrastructure that enables local food production… 80% of cropland, 70% of greenhouses, and 95% of cattle were destroyed.” (p. 31)

They used starvation as a weapon of war:

“UN experts asserted in January 2024 that ‘the starvation inflicted on the civilian population in Gaza is unprecedented.’” (p. 32)

And then — after months of hunger — Israel and the United States built fake “aid distribution sites” designed to kill.

“UN representatives described these distribution sites as ‘death traps,’ where exhausted and starving people were forced to stand in extreme conditions… 758 people were killed, and more than 5,000 injured at the food sites alone.” (p. 33)

That is genocide. Not only in result — but in intent.


🧠 Genocide Is Not Just a Crime of Death — It’s a Crime of Dehumanization

The B’Tselem report lays out, step by step, how Israeli politicians, soldiers, and media figures systematically dehumanized Palestinians to justify this genocide.

It includes dozens of genocidal quotes. Here are just a few:

Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Defense Minister (Oct 9):
“We are fighting human animals… there will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, no water.” (p. 66)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister (May 2025):
“We are destroying more and more homes. Gazans will have nowhere to return to.” (p. 47)

Avi Bluth, IDF Central Command General:
Ordered troops to “shoot to kill anyone approaching from Gaza” — pregnant women included. (p. 27)

Brigadier Kalifa Bar Dado:
“We will crush every one of them… annihilate it… pursue them in homes, tunnels, streets… until it is destroyed.” (p. 69)

These are not fringe lunatics. These are senior Israeli officials.


🇮🇱 And It’s Not Just Gaza — It’s the West Bank. It’s East Jerusalem. It’s Inside Israel.

That’s what makes this genocide so dangerous.
Because it’s not isolated. It’s expanding.

“The same logic being applied in Gaza — ethnic cleansing, destruction of living conditions, indiscriminate killing — is now being implemented across the West Bank and inside Israel.” (pp. 6–7)

Across the West Bank, settlers and soldiers are displacing entire Palestinian communities. Villages are burned. Children are shot. Homes bulldozed.

“Between October 2023 and June 2025, at least 48 detainees died in Israeli custody. Many were tortured. Most were held without trial.” (p. 61)

Inside Israel, it’s just as brutal — especially for Palestinian citizens of Israel:

“In 2024 alone, 230 Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed in crime-related violence — most victims of state neglect and firearms flooding.” (p. 30)

This is not just genocide. This is a total war against Palestinian existence — physical, political, cultural, historical.


✝️ They’re Burning Qur’ans. Bombing Mosques. Destroying Churches.

The B’Tselem report documents extensive targeting of religious sites:

  • 206 archaeological and historical sites destroyed, including some 5th-century Christian churches. (p. 56–57)

  • Mosques bombed while people prayed.

  • Copies of the Qur’an burned — intentionally — by Israeli soldiers. (p. 57)

  • Stray dogs eating decomposing bodies in public parks. (p. 54)

This is not war. This is desecration.
And every day, the silence of so-called moral nations grows louder.


📚 Even the Schools Are Gone — 658,000 Children Out of Class for Over 18 Months

“90% of all schools in Gaza were damaged by April 2025.” (p. 55)
“As of June 2025, none of Gaza’s schools were operational.” (p. 55)

Children are traumatized. Malnourished. Displaced. Grieving.

“A December 2024 study found that 96% of Gaza’s children showed symptoms of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation.” (p. 25)

You tell me what that is if not a coordinated plan to wipe out a people.


🧱 But This Didn’t Start in October — It Started in 1948. And It’s Been Building Ever Since.

The report dedicates an entire section to what it calls “Genocide as a Process.” (Section 5)

That process began long before Hamas. Long before this war.

It began with:

  • Ethnic cleansing during the Nakba

  • Institutional apartheid

  • Mass incarceration without trial

  • Demographic engineering

  • Military occupation and settler violence

B’Tselem traces this decades-long history with chilling clarity:

“The genocide now underway in Gaza is rooted in a long-standing regime of separation, ethnic cleansing, and systemic violence that has governed all areas under Israeli control since 1948.” (p. 71)

This is not a sudden aberration.
It’s the final form of a system that was always designed to erase Palestinian life.


📉 The Cost of This Silence Is Global

The report ends with a warning.

It’s not just about Gaza. It’s about the world.

“The international community’s failure to act… may reshape the norms of global conduct and international law… and turn the post-WWII order into a starting point for the targeting of civilians.” (p. 87)

This is not just about Palestinians anymore.
It’s about what kind of world our children will inherit.

I remember when I first called it genocide.

People mocked me. Said I was exaggerating. Said I was “emotional.” Said I was lying. Said I was an antisemite. They said I was trying to get Jews killed, Said Shaun King.
But now, Israel’s own leading human rights organization — B’Tselem — has published a 70-page report that leaves no room for doubt.  A brilliant copy stating the main lines of this report, by the talented  Shaun King thenorthstar@substack.com

Monday, July 28, 2025

THE WAY IT'S DEVELOPING .....

 

Epstein's Web & Trump's Rage: The Week America's Elite Trembled

From Billionaire Pedophiles to Besieged Free Speech: Unpacking the Scandals Rocking Washington

We don’t get many small pleasures during this hellscape timeline that we’re all enduring.

As such, it’s important to “live in the moment” and acknowledge the few wins. After a decade, it seems Donald Trump is weakened and vulnerable. The Epstein scandal has opened up massive fissures within the MAGA movement and emboldened Rupert Murdoch, a real-life supervillain, to sharpen the knives and go into attack mode.

The WSJ is dropping bangers every other day, and now a majority of Americans across the political aisle are fixated on this perverse web of Epstein’s pedophile cabal. Trump, thankfully, has done himself no favors by behaving like the shadiest and guiltiest man on Earth the past two weeks.

If Pam Bondi told him he was in the files, that means the Trump Administration has been lying to us for nearly two months and engaged in a massive cover-up. However, none of his distraction attempts are sticking. If anything, they are opening up more questions, and corporate media is finally doing its job and following the cookie crumbs, leads, and evidence that were out in the open for the past two decades.

Unfortunately, we’re also witnessing our corporate institutions, like Paramount, and Ivy League universities, such as Columbia, voluntarily bend the knee to Trump and further embolden his authoritarian agenda. However, journalists, comedians, cartoonists such as South Parkand even Jerome Powell, are becoming bolder in their public critique and mockery of the aging King.

I'm not commenting on this part of a longer and more detailed article, the first very factual part of the article is indicative enough. It portrays an entire developing ugly scene, that could backfire big time.  

My many thanks to all. 

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL NAILS IT.....

 


Analysis of Prince Turki Al-Faisal's latest article!
👇🤔


*Nuclear Chaos and the Comprehensive Compliance Equation*

Naji Al-Ghazi / Political and Economic Researcher

Prince Turki Al-Faisal wrote an important article in The National, marking a pivotal moment in Gulf political discourse and the broader Arab world. Coming from a figure of Prince Turki's stature—a former security official, diplomat, and son of King Faisal—the article elevates it from an opinion piece to a strategic message addressed to Western capitals.
What he said was not an emotional outburst or propaganda, but rather a systematic and profound critique of the structure of the international system, centered on the fact that the Dimona reactor is not just a nuclear facility, but living proof of the collapse of the principle of international justice, and the transformation of the "rules-based order" into a tool of nuclear apartheid, punishing the weak and protecting the strong.

*First: Dimona as a symbol of the fall of international nuclear legitimacy*

The prince points out that Israel possesses a complete nuclear arsenal outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and outside the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency. This in itself is not new, but what is new is that this description comes from an official Gulf figure, with unprecedented clarity, coupled with an indirect—but extremely dangerous—call to apply the principle of justice through force: "If we were in a just world, B2 bombs would have rained down on Dimona."
Here, the prince is not just talking about a moral principle, but about a complete legal collapse: when a country is allowed to violate the non-proliferation regime for decades, without any inspection or accountability, while others are threatened with bombing for even considering peaceful enrichment, the international system is dead.

*Second: When power rules and justice is absent*

The text—both through the prince and the accompanying analysis—points to a dangerous transitional moment: the international order is no longer based on law, but on naked power. There are no longer standards, but rather acquiescence, subjugation, and exceptions.
America, in this context, has not fallen as a major power, but it has fallen morally and strategically as a reference system. It now, according to the article, is behaving as a "rogue state," not as the leader of the free world. This description is important because it shifts the conversation from blaming American policy to delegitimizing it internationally.

*Third: The threat is not only directed at Iran*

Here's one of the prince's most astute comparisons: Why are Iran's statements about the "annihilation of Israel" considered an existential threat, while Netanyahu's repeated statements since 1996 about the destruction of the Iranian regime are not considered a counter-threat?
This is not only a dismantling of the double standard, but also reveals the true purpose of escalation against Iran: it is not a direct confrontation, but rather a tool to tame the entire region, especially the Gulf states.
Targeting Iran, as the prince interprets it, is a “symbolic punitive act,” intended to send a message: nuclear deterrence is the exclusive domain of Israel, and any attempt by others—even for peaceful purposes—will be met with bombing and humiliation.

*Fourth: Diplomatic violence*

Here, Prince Turki's speech moves from the public to between the lines.
When he says that the bombing of Iran was accompanied by billions in financial demands from Saudi Arabia, he reveals the beginning of a phase of "strategic blackmail," in which "military dominance" is used as leverage to extract political and financial gains from allies, not enemies.
In other words, targeting Iran was an indirect message to the Gulf states: “Either you submit completely to a new American-Israeli leadership in the region, or you are next.”

*Fifth: If Trump were fair, he would have bombed Dimona*

This sentence was said by the prince, "If Trump were fair, he would have bombed Dimona." This sentence itself may resonate in the Western and Israeli media because it destroys the *myth of Israeli nuclear immunity* and moves the Gulf from the position of a "spectator" to that of a bold observer who calls things by their names.
The sentence doesn't actually call for bombing Dimona, but it does implicitly say, "Either the rules apply to everyone, or no rule has legitimacy."

One of the most serious points made in the article is the prince's warning that "trust between rulers and ruled in Western capitals is eroding." He cites the example of Muslim candidate Zahran Mamdani's victory in New York, despite his anti-Israel and anti-Zionist positions.
This shift in Western public opinion—supporting Palestine, breaking the fear of lobbies, and exposing the double standards of discourse—carries a *rebound force* that will pressure Western governments sooner or later. This is a strategic asset that Arabs must build upon, rather than simply relying on intergovernmental relations.

*Sixth: The last message*

What the prince ultimately said is that the non-proliferation regime has lost all meaning. It has become a sword in the hands of the West, pointed only at its adversaries, not a tool for balancing the balance and preventing war. At the moment of truth, the Arabs are told: You are a flexible material that can be shaped as needed. The real message behind the bombing of Iran is: *You are also targeted, and deterrence is the exclusive right of Israel alone.*

The article, despite its calm tone, carries within its lines the seeds of a Gulf political rebellion against the old formula of alliance with Washington. The rhetoric of hard power, financial blackmail, and Israeli immunity are no longer acceptable.
Prince Turki's voice represents *the voice of an elite Saudi movement that has begun to reject the humiliation of sovereignty in exchange for protection.* This does not necessarily mean the disintegration of the alliance, but it does mean redefining its terms and perhaps reversing the equation: from dependency to balance.
What Prince Turki al-Faisal said in his bold lines is not just an opinion, but a *strategic document* that outlines a new phase in the relationship between the Gulf and the West, and sounds the alarm about the coming nuclear chaos if the West continues to protect the exception for Israel at the expense of the stability of the entire region.

Indeed, a powerful analysis and position of the Price, diplomatically expressed but factual and direct, addressing a situation dating some long decades, and now exploding with the latest cruel developments engulfing the entire region, and possibly the world soon. 

As always my profound many thanks to all.