Recently after the Hamas genocidal attack against Israel — many of its powerful neighbors, have expressed loudly & clearly their opposition to an Ayatollah led Iran empowered with Atomic weapons of mass destruction and the missiles of delivery to the Capital cities of Middle East and beyond in Europe and even Russia, and America.
Are we going to leave that rogue nation go unchallenged?
Why Iran you might ask ?
Because Iran is not only the patron of all terror in the Middle East today, but also the ultimate decision maker, the money-bags, and the main motivator behind Hamas, Hezbollah, and many other groups of bloody terrorist murderers…
So in an untypical fashion, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Bahrain, have all come together to express their concerns that they share over Iran’s nuclear program, its ballistic missile advancements, and its wanton, destructive, and deranged, terrorist activities all across the Middle East.
One can imagine that the joint regional position on these issues will likely be used to exert greater influence on the United States to act decisively, in order to remove Iran’s nuclear capabilities before it is too late to act.
However strong the message, and powerful the coalition of messengers — the question remains:
“How much of that message, will the US President Joe Biden, understand, comprehend, and consequently heed ?”
Maybe Mrs Jill Biden need to be briefed, as I am sure it has already happened…
And maybe this understanding could infiltrate the idea of peace in the surrounding countries of the Middle East, and with American strength of seaborne and airborne power, we can stop the Iranian revolutionary guards from creating a mini-state on the borders of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan, after the vacuum of power in Gaza is fully expressed…
Furthermore, the Biden administration should understand that the situation is no longer the same as it was during Obama’s presidency, whose footprints the current occupant of the White House and his entourage blindly follow.
And even though his predecessor, President Trump may have earned a somewhat negative reputation for being flat-footed — we must admit that he has succeeded in changing the perception and the balance of power in the Middle East, and with it any impact Iran has within it and especially within all the MENA region countries.
The Biden handlers must learn and believe that the Gulf states are no longer weak, but rather emergent as strong contestants on the global stage. Because today, countries like Bahrain, punch far above their weight despite their small geographic size, and thus they have become influential, by playing a major role in the neighborhood, such as supporting Egypt in its fight against the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorism, and by participating in the war against Iran’s proxy militia waging civil war in Yemen.
The United Arab Emirates were also able to succeed in changing the military and political equation in Libya, and in imposing a reality that made the world stand with Abu Dhabi, by demanding the expulsion of Turkey’s incoherently savage terrorist militia from western Libya.
With the support of the Gulf states, Sudan now is more secure, even though the civil war rages on…
Please keep in mind that it was only through the mediation of the Gulf states, and the Abrahamic accords between Israel & Saudi Arabia, that Morocco and Sudan entered the circle of peace with Israel.
Still important to recall that the Arab world’s economic and military power is currently still concentrated in the Arabian Gulf, and all Arab countries view the Gulf Cooperation Council member-states as developed, successful, and prosperous.
However, it is not clear that America will not undermine its own interests in the Gulf in order to favor Iran — as it did with the Obama administration. Yet, what the Biden admins, the Pentagon, and Washington should remember, is that if the Gulf states are forced to make a firm decision, they will do so – just as they did during the Obama presidency.
In March 2011, the GCC responded to a request from Bahrain by sending its “Peninsula Shield Force” the PSF, to assist the Bahraini government in defeating Iranian backed riots in the country, which were ostensibly supported by Obama’s administration. Times like these cannot be forgotten, and now the Emirates and Bahrain have found a strong and resolute ally in Israel.
Over the years, this ally has not changed its position and has continued to refuse any negotiations with the Iranian regime. However, the US has and will continue to change its positions – and allies – with every change of the way the wind blows, with every bump on the road, with every terror attack, and of course with every seasonal change of its Presidency and every change of its Parliamentary assemblies’ majorities.
Yet, today, what needs to be made clear to Biden, if that is even possible or comprehensible by the old man, is that the Arab world understands very well, that not much separates the Iranian regime from the Nazis, because the only difference is that Iran is located in the Middle East and has imbued far more passion in it’s vehement anti-Semitism, anti-Arabism,, and in its essential anti-Americanism.
Indeed the anti-Semitic Iranian Ayatollahs, Mullahs, and Revolutionary Guards, have continuously proven to be not just anti-America, Anti-European, Anti-Semitic, and Anti-Arab, but they have been constantly proven to be terrible fascist and racist terrorists towards all Arabs and indeed all of their neighbors and the World at large.
Yet in their own corner, and just since the 1970s, the Iranians have occupied three of UAE’s islands. Iran has murdered millions of Arabs by inflicting and supporting multiple wars, such as the ones in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, and it has supported every terrorist attack in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
The citizens as well as the governors of Gulf Cooperation Countries’ member-states know that Israel was not responsible for any blast explosions in Mecca, next to the Kaaba, and it certainly was not Israel that targeted Mecca with missiles, nor was it Israel that occupied the Holy sites of both Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Nope. That was Iran and its crazed terrorists the Revolutionary Guards.
Furthermore, Israel does not bankroll militias that kill indiscriminately the people of Iraq, Bahrain, and Yemen, nor did it occupy Syria, Ahwaz, and the Emirates’ Islands.
It is rather, Iran that is responsible for all of the aforementioned atrocities, and it is the Iranian ayatollahs who continue to prove that they are the enemies of the Arab nations and of all humanity at large.
Now is the time that we should unite in order to thrive together, because the Abraham Accords have created a new and different future for the Middle East – one in which anti-Semitism is rejected, and harmony between all religions is embraced.
Yet, this is precisely what the Iranian terrorists seek to destroy. The very human need for peace, growth, and prosperity, is what they seek to eliminate.
Yet, we know now that we should stand together as one, against the one common enemy, Iran. So, regardless of Biden’s suggestion to return to “square one,” by re-joining the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, we need to move past all that because after the Hamas & Hezbollah war against Israel — we must make it clear to our leaders in America and everywhere else, that “We The People” want to coexist, and we want to fight terror together, in order to live in peace with all of our neighbors and their various Peoples.
We want that, because we want to grow, prosper, and thrive together in Peaceful Coexistence and Harmonious Interactions through Trade, Exchanges and Civil Intercourse.
And by the way, that Coexistence we keep harping about, is also the very basic recipe for common prosperity.
Because it has always been my undying belief that if we allow coexistence, cultural and religious understanding, and multiplicity of faiths to thrive in our “neck of the woods” and in our neighborhood — we shall all grow prosperous and happy in Peace.
And that is the dividend of Peace that I always speak about achieving.
Yours,
Dr Churchill
PS:
An Arab political strategist and analyst from the UAE, Amjad Taha, who is a strong young mind and a special Arabist, economist, and political luminary in the realm of global geopolitics, and the MENA region specifically, had this to say about the current conflict in Israel and its juxtaposition with Iran’s pet project Hamas & Hezbollah:
“You dared to strike at a smart & courageous nation on October 7th — committing genocide, kidnapping their children, & violating their women.
You thought they would fall, but they rose again, returning after 11 months to correct what had only momentarily slipped — their intelligence.
Now, they will send you back 1,000 years, to a time without technology, where a ringtone feels like a death knell and a beep is a nightmare.
You will be haunted by your own shadow, too afraid to use any technology, cut off from the advanced world.they will defeat you — not with bullets or tanks, but through the unbreakable will of brave, intelligent people.
During a simple cup of coffee, w/ one decisive click, they will seal your fate, & the fate of anyone near you, as well as the fate of those who dare harm their children.
This is a nation that the world respects. Hezbollah’s pager explosions & today’s IAF strikes in Lebanon, are not merely military victories — because they represent a triumph for all the nations of the Middle East, over terrorism & radicalism. And that is a victory not only for Israel, but for all who stand against terror.”
Iran exposed… as it should be.