Comments on The Pensive Quill: Pushing Al Qaeda to Take on Hezbollah

The Hamas leadership is well down the same track a...

2013-05-21T16:50:16.067+01:00

The Hamas leadership is well down the same track as the Provo's already. It's particularly saddening to see them siding with the Muslim Brotherhood's regional agenda rather than one that would better serve the Palestinian people. Just like the republican leadership in Ireland power within the occupation system, probably along the lines of autonomy within the 1967 borders is becoming an increasingly attractive option for Hamas. No doubt they'll settle for even less the experience of our own peace process is anything to go by

It says a lot about the western controlled sunni r...

2013-05-21T13:55:20.922+01:00

It says a lot about the western controlled sunni regimes that all resistance to Israel is coming from shia Iran, shia Syria and shia Hezbollah. Even the arming of Palestinians is coming from shia populations in the middle east. What will the Palestinians do if the shia line is cut.If there is no resistance, there is nothing to negotiate with. They could end up like the provo's, with nothing but their tails wagging between their legs.

Great article that outlines just how hypocritical ...

2013-05-21T11:13:43.085+01:00

Great article that outlines just how hypocritical and confused the situation is in the Levant…..the West is indirectly fighting Iran in Syria and with the backing of the Gulf States either reduce or remove the influence of Shia muslims nad replace with Sunni.
One aspect of all this is what ‘system of government’ is envisaged to replace Assad? If I were an Israeli, I seriuosly consider which would I prefer on my doorstep, Assad’s regime or Al Qaeda and the various Jihadst groupings? For if Assad is removed who do you think these groups will turn their attention too after that? Israel will not only be trying to contain Hezbollah but will also have to contend with a new front coming from Syria whcih has failed to grasp the tenants of the Geneva Convention and from a westerly direction, a front, as yet unspecified, but coming from Libya and Egypt…..the noose is tightening on Israel and all they can can come up with is try and get the hangmen to fall out!

That was an instructive article but I feel not eno...

2013-05-18T10:52:06.905+01:00

That was an instructive article but I feel not enough attention was paid to the role of outside agencies in the Syrian conflict, in particular that of the British and Americans. Even the role of their regional allies in Turkey and the Gulf Monarchies is not fully explained - nor their role in destroying Libya. For none of this would be going on without them, this is not a civil war but a foreign intervention directed by the intelligence communities of Washington and London - those masters of puppets we're all too familiar with here. Yet remarkably Assad is winning and thus we now have these scare-stories about a crazed dictator on the verge of defeat prepared to use chemical weapons against his own people. Kuwaiti babies in incubators anyone? WMD in Iraq? His own people? 75 per cent have indicated in neutral polls that they'll vote for Assad in the next Presidential elections - something the 'democratic' US cannot possibly countenance and thus efforts to remove him must be stepped up.

Israel has long been a partner of the Gulf Monarchies, as they are both proxies of US foreign policy interests in the Middle East. But what we're seeing now is an unholy alliance on all parts against the common enemy - the 'Shia Crescent'. Why? For the Saudi's it's about naked sectarianism, the Shia are seen as heretics by the extreme Salafists which rule in KSA and are to be destroyed; for the Turks it's a way to rebuild Ottoman influence in the area at the expense of Iran; for the Americans it's about encircling and cutting off the Iranian regime, which is to be destroyed at all costs because it dares to offer a successful, independent alternative model for development than that US interests require to continue its hegemonic grip over the World Economy (separate development cannot be allowed - just ask Nicaragua, just ask Cuba, just ask the Chileans); for the Israeli's it's about their recent defeat at the hands of Nasrallah's Hezbollah, for make no mistake when the IDF was chased out of the Lebanon it was a strategic disaster for Tel Aviv. They can't possibly afford that the occupied Syrian Golan, where over a third of their fresh-water supply is sourced, could be next on the cards. The invincible army of Israel not so invincible after all then. And thus we see now this war of deflection in Syria. Destroy Syria and you severely weaken Hezbollah, they who dared to defeat the supposed mighty armies of the Israeli state. Time to bring out Al Qaeda.

As I say it was a great article but the intricacies of the Syrian conflict go way beyond simply Jihadists internal to the country looking for regime change. They are only the spearhead of a much wider conspiracy. What's really going on is that the US needs rid of Iran and its regional allies because it won't submit to the Central Banking system it uses to perpetuate its World Order - the same crime committed by Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and the Sudan. There's no coincidence here; for America there's nothing worse than the threat of a bad example. Also the Israeli state as a client, quasi-military base for US foreign policy interests has for the first time been defeated in military battle by a handful of poorly armed fighting men in the Lebanon, this is a strategic disaster for the World Order and thus rebalancing is required. Assad has been selected to pay the price, only they hadn't bargained on the strength of his resistance or the will of his people. Because the Syrian people recognise that this now is about the basic survival of their way of life. They don't have to look too far to see the chaos America leaves in its wake - Iraq and Libya aren't a million miles away.

Syria has become a life and death struggle for the World Order but the problem is Bashar Al-Assad will not go down without a fight. I say unashamedly death to the World Order and independence for peoples everywhere! Long live Syria! Long live Bashar Al-Assad!