What Do the Israeli Military, Jihadi and the West Have In Common?

In light of a recent opinion editorial in the New York Times about the Syrian refugees, I have reflected on the situation now facing the West. With the growing refugee crisis now at the border crossings in Eastern Europe, it is clear to me that millenarianism empowers the Israeli military, jihadists of all stripes, and Western influence in the Middle East.

For their millenarian sentiments bedevil them, leading them to unwittingly abandon a merciful God for the diabolical Anti-Christ, trading peace for warfare with a growing religious tone.

All parties fighting in the Middle East are confident that their warfare will usher in Armageddon, with millenarian Christians and Jews, both of whom are militant Zionists, pitted against radical Muslim fundamentalists (takfiri), who consider everyone else to be apostate.

Each side, be they Zionists or takfiri, sees themselves as God's chosen people and the other side as the Anti-Christ. On one side we have the Zionist army of God, consisting of pro-Israel Christian militants and their Zionist brethren, and on the other side,are the takfiri of Islamic State, al Nasrah Front, al Qaeda and associated militant groups - including Hezbollah and the radical elements of Hamas and ...

Historically, the Zionist militants and the takfiri have been fighting with each other over Palestine since the 1970s, when Israel launched attacks against the UAR, specifically Egypt and Syria, winning the Golan Height (West Bank) and the Gaza strip. At the time the Israeli military even occupied the Sinai peninsula, but later gave it back to Egypt because, being a desert wasteland, was not considered strategic territory by the Israeli government of the time.

Though the takfiri claim historical precedence that goes back to when Palestine was originally conquered by Muslims from 7th Century to 9th CE. In contrast, in recent years, radical Zionists in Israel have tried to rewrite history by denying Palestine ever existed, yet most Arab nations in the Middle East have referred to Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria as the Levant.

Meanwhile, in eastern Europe, the Ukraine has become a conflict between the West (secularism in the form of NATO representing the anti-Christ) and Russia (the Orthodox Church representing the militant Christ of Armageddon), even though this is a proxy war between American government and her NATO allies, and Russian government and her allies. In contrast, the radical Ukrainian militant nationalists adhering the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Protestant evangelical fundamentalism consider themselves representatives of the same militant Christ fighting against the Anti-Christ (the Russian military). Though most Ukrainian nationalists are nominal Christians, adhering mainly to a neo-Nazi form of Christianity in which white power is associated with Christ.

IMHO the mainstream media is burying this story because they don't want to frighten their consumers to death with pointless end of the world stories of Armageddon, thus proving to me the old adage that few people can handle the truth, especially when religion has mixed with politics in the Middle East from the beginning over 2500 years ago. As for the Ukrainian conflict, the New Left and far right (neo-Nazi) organizations are nationalists first. If the far right in the Ukraine radicalize further, then there might be an internal struggle between the secular left and the far right radicals. However, the Ukrainian left and right are united against their common enemy, Russia.

Meanwhile, in Europe, refugees fleeing Syria are a mix of Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims and Christians while a few of the Sunni men in Syria have coalesced into rebel militant groups. This in part is due to the secondary proxy war between Sunni and Shi'ite participants with Iran supporting the Assad regime in Syria and the Gulf States supporting the Sunni rebels.

Last year, the Sunni jihadists formerly known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and briefly as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, became a de facto nation called Da'esh (Islamic State). Consisting of a Millenarian jihadi force sponsored by the Gulf States (mainly Qatar and Saudi Arabia — due to the strong offensive by Syrian army in western Syria. Then their Western sympathizers came to eastern Syria via Turkey to the border with Iraq to fight on their side, while Western mercenaries went there and allied with the Kurds to fight the Jihadi of Da'esh.

Of course, the Shi'ite refugees from Syria bypassed Iran due to its police state. Their impression that Western Europe is the bastion of freedom fuels their walk to freedom via Turkey into Europe. For the problem with the Syrian refugees is not only the Middle East; it also has to do with European fear of Islam.

How ironic that both the refugees and most of Europe nominally believe in God, be they Christians, Jews or Muslims. Indeed, this is what is common to millenarians regardless of their faith: they worship God.

In response to the refugee crisis, my solution is to propose that the Christian politicians of the West practise two of Christ Jesus' commandments: love your enemy and practice charity towards them.

Any other solution may eventually prove that the West is not yet sympathetic to the plight of the Syrian refugees, especially in Hungary.

YMMV

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References:

Commentary about mainstream media hiding the Millenarian ideology common in the Israeli military: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/mainstream-Israeli-colonel

NY Times article mentioning the Israeli colonel's millenarian comment: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/opinion/thomas-friedman-revelations-in-the-gaza-war.html?referrer

The Catholic definition of millenarianism: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10307a.htm

Timeline of the name Palestine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_%22Palestine%22

Islam and Millenarianism: http://science.jrank.org/pages/7870/Islamic-Millenarianism.html

Russia-US talks on Syria do little to stem flow of refugees: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-u-s-talks-on-syria-do-little-to-stem-flow-of-refugees-1.3236891

Quick facts: what you need to know about Syria crisis: http://www.mercycorps.org/articles/turkey-iraq-jordan-lebanon-syria/quick-facts-what-you-need-know-about-syria-crisis

UNHCR factson the crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486a76.html

Robust, coherent Europe response to Refugee crisis still urgently needed: http://www.unhcr.org/55f817399.html

Make War No More in the Middle East (satire)

This article is not an anti-religion rant; it is an anti-war message. For my purpose for hurting the feelings of religionists, especially the post-Christians, is to spill my figurative guts about the forever war started by Christendom against the Muslims with the First Crusades.

All the Western powers that be are doing are perpetuating this war, rather than peace because they are forcing Western democracy on the Muslim nations and the Jihadis are also complicit in all of this too.

When the West admits that the War on Terrorism is a religious war against secularist globalism by the jihadis such as ISIS, that will mark their willingness to confront the truth.

Indeed, the Catholic Church has to make amends to the Muslim nations, and put their support behind the West and their UN and NATO forces.

As seen through jihadi eyes, the UN and NATO peace-keeping forces are viewed as a secular Crusade that threatens the integrity of world's only believers of God Almighty, ISIS and their al Qaeda and Taliban allies.

I condemn the Catholic Church for the trouble in the Middle East since the First Crusades, which was a mad grab for land, fame and power as well as removing unwanted lesser nobility so that the regal elite of Europe could vie for the honor of being offered kingdoms for forcibly converting the Teutonic, Gothic, and savage barbarians such as the Huns and Mongols.

As well, the Church failed to stop its petty wars in the Holy Land where it implemented proxy wars which still play out today. Indeed, the Crusades is the reason of why the Muslims are divided between jihadis and its Salafi origins within Saudi Arabia and the rest of Islam, both Shi'ite and Sunni.

Why do you think Christians are being persecuted today? Because of the delusion called "a healthy ego" and the rise of narcissism that gives rise to the arrogance of individualism. Even the public education system in the West promotes the ideals that is seen by the jihadis as "decadent hedonism" e.g. abandoning overdressed tradition for nearly-naked modernism.

Back over a thousand years ago, the First Crusade was when the current war against jihadis began &madash; back when the Saracens were growing more civilized in their conquered lands, two hundred years after Mohammed's death circa mid -7th century and continuing until the modern era.

It is indeed the epitome of a forever war; not in 1947, though.

For the rise of the state of Israel is actually a continuation of the rivalry between the French and the English, which was started when the Normans conquered England so long ago that only legends of that time remain.

Thus the proxy war that Bashir Al-Assad of Syria mentioned in an interview recently originally began with the Frankish and the English nobles founding a handful of kingdoms in the Holy Land.

Today, both France and England continue their rivalry in the Middle East to this day through their dealings with the US, Russia and China.

As well, the jihadism, the Salafism and the Islamism are also not new: they began right after Mohammed's death and continue on to this day.

It is time for the Church to continue to make amends with the Muslim nations, and to admit its part in this abuse of power starting with Charlemagne circa 768 CE.

For it is the backing of the State by Religion that is truly an evil: for example, the current case of the Orthodox Church in Russia. In their arrogance, the Russian Orthodox Church shows signs of corruption. Putin's pogrom against homosexuality is no different from the anti-gay rhetoric from the pulpits of Christendom in the Byzantine Empire. By scapegoating the LGBT community, the world's religions are distracting us from the fact that nobody really cares if a person is gay except to exercise control over their private affairs.

Likewise, the Muslim nations exercise control over the lives of its community with a big obsession with cleanliness, as though washing the hands and feet is enough to truly be clean.

No religion's hands are truly clean when it comes to war if they cannot turn their swords into ploughshares.

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Originally posted August 31, 2014 at 4:52 PM PDT

References:

Background for First Crusade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade

Background for Charlemagne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne

Background for Jihadism, Islamism, Salafism, and Wahhabism:

Jihadism started circa early 19th century in the Fula Jihads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_jihads

Islamism begin in early 18th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism

Salafism developed in the latter part of the 10th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement

Wahhabism arose in the 18th Century:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Abd_al-Wahhab

Thank You, Automakers of the World (satire)

Thank you, automakers of the world, for your continued support of the Assad regime in Syria.

With your help the shabiha aligned with Assad Inc have done a remarkable job of making Assad Inc a remarkable killing machine. Please continue to send more cars to Syria so that Shabiha militias can do drive-by shootings in an effort to keep Syria safe for Assad Inc.

Thanks to the makers of Lexus, Mercedes Benz, Nissan sports cars, Fiat, and other fine luxury car makers, Assad Inc will be able to pay shabiha youth $15 a day to make Syria safe for 70 percent of Syrians who still support Assad Inc.

Thanks also to Syrian crime cartels throughout the EU, Asia and North and South America who deal in car thefts and illegal exports to Syria to support the luxury car market in Syria.

Thanks also to the makers of white trainers, both Adidas and Niké. Indeed, thanks to manufacturers of luxury goods.

Blood is on all your hands!

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References:

Inside Assad's death squad:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9307411/The-Shabiha-Inside-Assads-death-squads.html

Wikipedia entry of shabiha:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabiha

Ghosts of Syria: diehard militias who kill in the name of Assad
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/31/ghosts-syria-regime-shabiha-militias

Assad's Not-So-Secret Weapon: Loyal Syrian Businessmen
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323528404578453043883699474

Rami Makhlouf, Bashir al-Assad's maternal cousin and Syrian businessman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami_Makhlouf

The Cat Has Rabies (satire)

Meeting with President Bush in 2001, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, an ally of Saddam Hussein at the time, offered to mediate a resolution between the United States and Iraq. There is an Arab proverb, the New York Times reported the Yemeni president as saying. If you put a cat into a cage, it can turn into a lion. Mr. Bush responded that he had no intention of reconciling, a senior administration official said.

"This cat has rabies," Mr. Bush said, referring to Mr. Hussein, and then added with a bluntness that was said by officials in the room to have shocked Mr. Saleh, "The only way to cure the cat is to cut off its head."

My opinion is the cat was given rabies in the form of military aid by America and earlier the UK. This is a pattern of UK and later American involvement in the Middle East that is tied to oil.

Indeed, Big Oil in the hands of the West and dominated by America is thus a threat to the Middle East and Muslim nations in Africa, according to Al Qaeda. Hence the ISIS' takeover of oil assets in Syria. This also explains the rebels in Libya, their takeover of oil assets in three ports, and the North Korean oil tanker.

NATO's limited role in the Libyan Civil War in 2011 and the failure of the US State Department to secure its embassy in Benghazi a year later are directly related to the current troubles in Libya today. Libya itself is slowly breaking up with not only ethnic tension arising from the Berber community of western Libya but also among Arab tribal clans based on the three classical provinces of ancient Libya: Tripolitania in the west, Cyrenaica in the east and Fezzan in the south.

With rebels holding wells in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, the situation has deteriorated due to political infighting due to the machinations of the Muslim Brotherhood. Due to decades of the Qaddafi regime playing tribes against each other, and bribing a tribe to achieve political dominance here and there, the Libyan people are extremely weary of dictatorships. Their peaceful demonstrations in Tripoli had only turned violent due to militants' presence in the protests earlier last month.

Meanwhile, the military aid given to Israel by America to ensure its survival has resulted in criticism in the Middle East by Muslim nations and is a direct cause of the rise of pan-Arab nationalism and later pan-Muslim nationalism within the region and other hotspots both in Africa, South Asian and Southeast Asia.

Both the Afghanistan and Iraq situation only led to the rise of the al Qaeda armn ISIS to be established in Iraq, only to be exported to Syria after Arab Spring went horribly wrong there. In the case of Syria, the corruption of the Assad regime is well known, especially its exploitation of the Lebanese Civil War in the 1970s and invasion of part of south Lebanon by Israel. Indeed, Syria impoverished Lebanon during that time until it left in 2005.

Thus Assad may consider himself the savior of the Levant, yet he is only the protector of corruption and extortion. It would be interesting to see how Lebanon deals with the many Syrians who automatically became Lebanese citizens between 1980 and 2000, seeing as their citizenship was illegal due to Syrian dominance of northern Lebanon.

Back in Yemen, the "rehabilitation" of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula consists of using the militia to rout out Sunni militancy in south Yemen that favors pan-Arabian nationalism over the republican ideals of the central hegemony in Sana'a. Yemeni government uses oil dollars to bribe tribal clans in northern Yemen. In this way, the Shi'a north is placated to moderate militancy while the Sunni south is forced to accept al Qaeda ideology (pan-Muslim nationalism) at gunpoint.

Here is what the difference between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Muslim nation is: the former is a united Arab organization that is nominally Muslim but promotes a secular government (think of the failed UAR of Egypt and Syria) while the latter is a worldwide caliphate which considers the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan to be a dupe of America, promoting Sharia law based on tribal customs rather than on the Quran.

Given that Al Qaeda has submitted authority to the Taliban, and that the Taliban originate in Pakistan, it is interesting to note that Yemen is the hotbed of al Qaeda militants due to the drone attacks there. For it is they who aid the ISIS forces in Iraq and in Syria, along with militants from the Maghreb and elsewhere in the world.

Ah, the karma of Cold War politics in Afghanistan is biting us in the ass!

Get Out of Syria, Al Qaeda Terrorists! / الخروج من سوريا وإرهابيي القاعدة

السلفية هي شكل من أشكال الفاشية الدينية عند واحد من أعضائها تطالب النساء بتغطية وجوههن ويواجه الرجال مكة المكرمة خمس مرات في اليوم بعد غسل أقدامهم للصلاة.

تنظيم القاعدة يأخذ الفكر السلفي خطوة أخرى إلى يزعمون أنهم الآحاد الله المختار وأن جميع المسلمين الآخرين هم الكافرون لحظة والاسترخاء الأصولية من خلال فصل الكنيسة والدولة.

وبالتالي هذا ليس من الإسلام في شيء. لمحمد (الحمد له) لم نشن حربا ضد المسيحيين أو اليهود. بل كان يعاقب اليهود للخيانة ثقته ومنافسيه إنهاء لادعائه النبوة.

حتى معركة الجمل ليست على وشك التمرد والردة، ولكن عن نيتبيكينج على القيادة المنتخبة مقابل القيادة الموروثة، والفرق بين الخليفة المنتخب وسلالة الأئمة.

هذا هو الانشقاق من الشيعة والسنة.

النضال السوري حفر حكومة الأقلية الشيعية، وجميعهم من العلويين، ضد الأغلبية السنية.

ما هو جبهة النصرة آل ولكن واجهة لهيمنة الأميركية في سوريا؟
ما هو آل النصرة ولكن تابعا لتنظيم القاعدة؟ ما هو تنظيم القاعدة في العراق وبلاد الشام ولكن واجهة لمجموعة أصدقاء سوريا؟

وتمول المنظمات الإرهابية على حد سواء من قبل قطر والكويت والمملكة العربية السعودية.

مجموعة سوريا الحرة هو في الواقع منظمة غير حلف شمال الاطلسي التي تمول تنظيم القاعدة والشركات التابعة لها لغزو الأراضي وإقامة الشريعة، والذي يشكل تحديا لحقوق الإنسان بسبب قمعها من الرجال والنساء والأطفال الذين يرغبون فقط في أن يكون حرا.

للشيعة والسنة على حد سواء أحرار عندما لا يحكم الشريعة أراضيهم. وبالتالي آل النصرة والقاعدة ليست في سوريا أن تطلق سراح أحد ولكن لقمعهم مع أحكام الشريعة.
— Translation: English —
Salafi is a form of religious fascism when one of its members demands that women cover their faces and men face Mecca five times a day after washing their feet to pray.

al Qaeda takes Salafi ideology a step further to claim they are Allah's Chosen Ones and that all other Muslims are unbelievers the moment they relax their fundamentalism by separating church and state.

Thus this is not Islam at all. For Mohammed (praise be unto him) did not wage war against Christians or Jew. Rather he punished the Jews for betraying his trust and terminated rivals to his claim of Prophethood.

Even the Battle of The Camel is not about rebellion and apostasy, but about nitpicking over elected leadership versus inherited leadership, and the difference between an elected Caliph and a dynasty of imams.

Such is the schism of Shi'a and Sunni.

Syria's struggle pits a Shi'a minority government, all of them Alawi, against a Sunni majority.

What is al-Nusra Front but a front for American dominance of Syria?
What is al-Nusra but an Al-Qaeda affiliate? What is al-Qaeda of Iraq and the Levant but a front for the Friends of Syria Group?

Both terrorist organizations are funded by Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The Free Syria Group is actually a non-NATO organization that funds al-Qaeda and its affiliates to conquer territory and establish Sharia, which is a challenge to human rights due to its oppression of men, women and children who just wish to be free.

For Shi'a and Sunni alike are free when Sharia does not rule their land. Therefore Al-Nusra and al-Qaeda are not in Syria to free anyone but to oppress them with Sharia.

I Am a Propagandist for None

For some strange reason I write more articles when I lose sleep. Then the next day I have to correct the spelling errors and fix the syntax.

Sometimes I even have to ensure two points are related to my underlying theme.

I tell you, this isn't online journalism. It is just an op-ed of contrariant politics.

It is great to be accused of spouting propaganda by a New Left activist by injecting criticism of the anti Iran and anti Assad propaganda that influenced American politicians to vote for more trade sanctions on Iran.

I am not pro Iran or pro Syria.

By supporting Kuwait and Saudi Arabia the POTUS is actually targeting a friend of Iran, Syria.

Maybe it's time for Bashar al-Assad to visit the UN.

As for me being a propagandist for Iran and Syria, I am a propagandist for none.

We need a balanced look at the Middle East situation. Obama nearly bombing Syria is proof that GW Bush's legacy is going to haunt us until the next terrorist attack.

Nairobi is just the Somali home grown terrorists vying for al Qaeda approval.

Nobody wants the Somalian gangsters to morph into terrorists because they are like new converts to the Salafi jihadi mafiya.

Pardon me. I meant to say "Islamic jihadi terrorists."

All I say is if the mass media thinks there's a civil war in Syria then its gonna be worse than Libya when the Free Syria Army wins.

It might piss off Israel.

I am more afraid the Israeli military will react with overkill, losing 1 soldiers for every 10 of Free Syrian Army and al Qaeda militia men.

So I am a propagandist of none,
And shall criticize everyone.

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