NOURNEWS/NORTH CAROLINA - Almost daily, the plot thickens, the revelations arrive. Getting lots of attention in the U.S. is the arrest by the FBI of Ghislaine Maxwell in New Hampshire for aiding and abetting Jeffrey Epstein’s long saga of exploiting underage girls for sex for years in Palm Beach, New York and on his private “Virgin” island, and quite possibly being affiliated with Mossad to gather incriminating evidence on men in high places for blackmail who took advantage of the offers Maxwell made to them. Men like Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew and maybe, but not obviously, even Trump himself, and many others. The FBI is claiming she is going to cooperate with law enforcement, and she probably will…unless she is murdered in prison or takes her own life as Jeffrey Epstein may have himself last summer, although he could as well have been murdered by prison guards.
But most interesting is the potential Israeli connection to this sordid tale which if it comes out may, along with Israel’s annexation of much of the West Bank and its refusal to give West Bank Palestinians any rights whatsoever, could become the final revelations discrediting Zionism even inside the U.S. and among lawmakers in Washington. What can Netanyahu and Gantz and their cronies be thinking? That the West Bank Palestinians are going to uproot themselves and move, say, to Jordan? And really, how can U.S. lawmakers not move en masse somehow at least to abbreviate the flow of support for Israel? Anti-racism is becoming all the rage.
Yes, the U.S. did long support Apartheid in South Africa, or got away with such support, until it became such a worldwide outrage that the U.S. was forced to change its allegiances, but Nelson Mandela was such a bright leader that he could not be dismissed. An uncompromised Palestinian leader must now emerge and the PA under Mahmoud Abbas must be canned, but even without, the Zionist project is probably doomed as it has existed for so many decades. Israel is a mess now, and many Israelis and Jews are unhappy.
This seems actually to be a time for optimism for people opposing injustice wherever. It may even be a time for Iranians and Syrians and citizens of other countries like Venezuela to become more optimistic about the future even while the U.S. continues, for Israel’s alleged benefit, to press economic sanctions and military threats and sabotage. The very fact that the Trump Administration has ramped up the sanctions, affecting much of the Levant, seems to be a sign of pure desperation as in one last huge push to get its and Israel’s way in the Middle East.
The danger is primarily that a fresh war will break out, and as horrific as that would be, it would still make Trump’s and Pompeo’s game that much more objectionable. War is something the U.S. literally cannot afford at a time when the dollar itself is being marginally shunned, especially if the Zionists are involved as they would inevitably be. Consider how American soldiers might react? Many could easily mutiny if body bags start piling up and Trump and others in Washington won’t have any political future.
What is known is that the U.S. has been rebuked at the UNSC over its efforts to extend an arms embargo on Iran in October. (Rebuked even by some of its own allies.) Russia is no U.S. ally but its UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya even went so far as to compare U.S. sanctions on Iran to the fatal boot on George Floyd’s neck in May in Minneapolis, which ignited the protests that are still ongoing across America. Pompeo completely embarrassed himself at the UNSC and did not even stay long enough to hear objections. And much of the outcry at the UNSC against the U.S. scheming and attempted arm twisting was aimed at the Trump withdrawal from the widely-admired JCPOA. It was repeatedly pointed out that the U.S. no longer has any standing with regard to the JCPOA, having withdrawn its support unilaterally to the single biggest diplomatic achievement in more than a decade.
So, it appears the world is getting very, very much closer to something very good or very bad, and it could go either way given the apparent desperation in Washington. On the one hand is the prospect of increasing U.S. impotence and irrelevance, or the prospect of a new, regional war in the Middle East. The latter would probably only hasten the fall of the American “empire.” It is critically important that countries like Iran remain careful and wisely pick their way through this American planted minefield.
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