The buffer-state screening Israel is falling and the US and Russia provide an international instrument deferring indefinitely a liberation of the Quneiṭra area, illegally occupied by the Jewish State in 1967
“This is our first indication of the US and Russia being able to work together in Syria”. These are the words of US Secretary of State, who emphasises a new concept in international law. According to it, two foreign States agree to work together on the ground of a third State without the consent of the latter legitimate government (this is certainly true for the US). A real occupation under a military threat of two nuclear powers that, just as nuclear powers, claim the right to enter the affairs of another UN member country when and as they wish. To put it, let’s take the international treaties regulating relations among internationally recognised states (albeit with a thousand contradictions and unilateral interpretations), and let’s make of them waste paper in the name of a nuclear supremacy. Following this logic, the Islamic Republic of Iran would do well to aim decisively towards the acquisition of a nuclear weapon, at least to defend itself against any threats from an aggression by Israel, which is already a nuclear power, even though this can only be said in the Chanceries basements and in an absolute aloofness of some overpaid cautious international analysts (the leading actors of conferences and resulting parties in the society life, for instance).
Of course, the issue is not new. We witnessed a same pathetic pantomime when in 2003 President George W. Bush, heading 49 countries in their role of useful idiots and followers of muscle doctrines of a “human rights champion” (the Abū Ghraib rights, in order to understand each other), invaded Iraq illegally (even according to the UN) to the point of destroying the state institutions and replacing them with illegal institutional bodies resulting from foreign occupation. All those 49 countries today claiming not to have a responsibility of this “liberation”, in fact, an illegal operation from the point of view of the international law and ethically currish (but the latter point of view really does not matter much in the Western civilisation!), are responsible for it. Even the faintest Italy participated in this arbitrary occupation and appointed its own personalities to head Iraqi institutions in the Nāşirīya area (casually, an operating area of the Italian oil company), of course for humanitarian purposes and for protecting human rights!
Now that the Islamic State is going to be defeated mainly at the hands of the Iranians (those who, according to the grotesque US President, would be “terrorists”), there is a certain nervousness among the Chanceries. After all, the country that dared to rock the balance of Sykes-Picot Agreement was just convenient to all, for all conceivable trade that could cross it to the advantage of developed countries, from oil to narcotics, to the sale of human organs. But what did it matter? The Raqqa Caliph was always responsible for all things. The public opinion of the world could be calmed down. Any disaster could be attributed to him. And so, even the most ignominious governments on the face of Earth could justify any disgrace happening in their own territory.
And now? What the bad Caliph aimed to, first of all breaking the balance of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, is ready to be done by the good Western democratic powers. Tillerson’s proposal to create no-fly zones in Syria is a prelude to a division of the nation into sovereign areas no more responding to the central government, just as it was done in Iraq by the establishment of Kurdistan (outlined more or less within the borders of the original no-fly zone). You cannot say a project is missing. Meanwhile, if the Caliph lost his war on the ground, at least he is winning (with the complicity of the great powers) in order to rock the Sykes-Picot Agreement. In this, he was a precursor, now endorsed by USA and Russia. His enemies, his occult friends? History will tell you!
And Israel? Its concern has long been cut by the knife! In fact, the fall of Raqqa eliminates that comfortable “filter zone” that kept away not only the Iranian military danger but also a memory revival of a “manu militari” and once again illegal occupation of the Golan Heights and the Quneiṭra Governorate (map below). But, you know! Memory, which is an asset of the Jewish people, lacks in the European and Western peoples. And after all, the Islamic State has never represented a danger to Israel. Indeed, when a few years ago groups adhering to the Islamic State popped up in the Holy Land, they did not attack Israel (their number one enemy, according to the soap-boxes speeches and the conferences that matter), but they attacked Ḥamās. That says a lot!
Today Tel Aviv shows an interest (and makes it known through its informal channels of propaganda and intelligence) to dismember all the territories bordering the Jewish state. Thus, it favours any stance proposing a State to any existing ethnic or religious minority: a Druze State, a `Alawite State, a Yazidi State, a Kurdish State, a Greek Melkite State, and so on for hundreds of existing minorities. Of course, the Jewish State must remain unified. You don’t know why nobody, even among the above-mentioned analysts, has ever suggested an Ashkenazi State, a Sephardic State, a State of Mizrahim, and so forth on the same line of thought.
On this trend line, Trump and Putin also give a hand to Israel, establishing a de-escalation zone in South-West Syria, in the regions of Dara’a, Quneiṭra and as-Suwaydā’, setting the stages for a division of the already battered Syria. Congratulations! Perhaps to understand something, one should investigate the relationship between the two statesmen, which is not clear at all: enemies, adversaries, allies, perhaps the one bound to the other by a relationship of dependence, at least a psychological one? But maybe it would be time to waste. The script has been always the same for over 70 years.
The “Divide et impera” motto always works!
