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The Greater Israel Project is the long term agenda of Revisionist Zionists within the hard-right Likud Party of modern day Israel. It is Israel’s lebensraum, their utopian dream of territorial expansion. It was part of the original platform of the Hatzohar political party, (Alliance of Revisionist Zionists) founded by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and promoted by Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and first President Chaim Weizmann.
Territorial expansion means capturing resources, and the Greater Israel Project’s main goal is to control the Middle East’s energy resources and the gas and oil transit routes. Ten countries in the Middle East account for only 3.4% of the area, but contain 48% of the world’s known oil reserves and 38% of natural gas reserves.
In terms of specific countries, Saudi Arabia holds the largest oil reserves in the Middle East, with 297.7 billion barrels in 2018, accounting for 17.2% of the world’s total proved oil reserves. Other major oil reserves in the Middle East are found in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
As for natural gas, the Middle East holds 40% of the world’s conventional gas reserves.
Greater Israel cannot be achieved without conquering Iran, because Iran is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the transit route of about 30% of the world’s total oil and gas consumption. If Israel were somehow able to subdue Iran, the Strait of Hormuz would fall under Israel’s control.
Iran Missile Attack
Israel launched an airstrike on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, Syria, on April 1, killing several top commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Iranian officials in the building were allegedly meeting with Palestinian militant leaders at the time of the attack.
Iran retaliated on April 13 with a drone swarm and airstrikes. Iran’s attack involved approximately 170 drones, over 30 cruise missiles, and more than 120 ballistic missiles. Israel and the US claimed the operation was defeated, but other commentators told a different story.
American military analyst Scott Ritter, said in an interview with George Galloway, that Iran responded shrewdly in its retaliatory attack over the weekend. Iran sent a clear message to Israel and the U.S., that it has the military capacity to evade any of Israel’s anti-missile defences.
From Scott Ritter’s Substack:
“On April 13-14, 2023, this system failed. In short, the combination of US and Israeli anti-ballistic missile defence capabilities deployed in and around the Negev desert made the Israeli air bases located there the most protected locations in the world from threats posed by ballistic missiles.
And yet Iran successfully struck both locations with multiple missiles.
The global strategic implications of this stunning Iranian accomplishment are game-changing—the US has long struggled conceptually with the notion of what is referred to as “A2/AD” (anti-access/area denial) threats posed by hostile ballistic missiles. However, the US had sought to mitigate against this AA/A2 threat by overlaying theater ballistic missile defense architecture like that had been employed in Israel. The failure of the combined US-Israeli defense systems in the face of a concerted Iranian missile attack exposed the short-comings of the US ballistic missile defense capabilities world-wide.”
Based on the success of the attack, it is apparent that Israel would have an extremely tough time conquering Iran.
Gaza Natural Gas Reserves
The Gaza Marine natural gas field is located in water about 36 kilometres (22 mi) offshore at a depth of 2,000 feet (610 m). The field was discovered in 2000 by British Gas Group, and it is estimated to contain more than 1 trillion cubic feet (28.32 km3) of natural gas, valued at about $3 billion.
Israel announced on October 29, 2023, that it awarded 12 licenses for exploring additional offshore natural gas fields to six companies, including British Petroleum and Italian energy giant Eni.
Israel and Egypt have already conducted talks in 2022 to develop the gas field, with some consultation with Hamas, though obviously the “consultation” is only informing Hamas that they are going to exploit it, because Palestinians are not allowed access to the area. Citizens of Gaza are only allowed to fish within a six nautical mile limit (11 km) from the coast. Violators are fired upon.
CIA Mercenary Group FogBow Building Pier
The US navy has concocted a dubious plan to build a temporary pier on the shore of Gaza, allegedly to provide humanitarian aid by cargo ship. The project will enlist over 1000 soldiers who will build a floating dock to moor to incoming vessels. Cargo will be unloaded to the dock and then ferried to a temporary pier for offloading to transport trucks.
This is a complete fabrication. Israel has reduced access to transport trucks at the main border crossing in Rafah. There are usually from 500 to 650 trucks permitted into Gaza each day, but now that number has been reduced to a mere 150 trucks per day. This is not sustainable, considering the dire condition of the population, who are starving to death with over 75,000 wounded.
The plan is being coordinated by a company called FogBow, that suddenly appeared on February 24, 2024, registered in Switzerland. Adding to the intrigue, it is run by former US Marine Corps, Sam Mundy and former CIA agent, Mick Mulroy, who is also co-founder of the Lobo (Wolf) Institute, that claims on their website: “Lobo Institute advises, consults, and teaches on current and future conflicts, how to end conflicts and prevent their recurrence, and how to help those most affected.”
A wolf in sheep’s clothing who claims he only wants to help is the stuff of fairy tales.
A more plausible explanation is that FogBow is a private mercenary outfit providing a floating US naval base to offload military and construction equipment to prepare for further escalation in the region and the subsequent reconstruction of Gaza. Another possible reason for the port may be to evacuate en masse the entire population of Gaza and transport them to other regions. Israel has already asked Egypt to accept 2,000,000 Palestinians. Israel offered not only to pay for it, but they would also wipe a significant portion of Egypt’s national debt of $160 billion through the World Bank.
To add insult to injury, the above-mentioned pier is being built with the rubble from the bombed buildings that Israel destroyed. The bodies of thousands of dead Palestinians are still buried in the rubble, and the memory of this will no doubt haunt the pier for its entire existence.
Netanyahu Unveils Plan to Construct Settlements
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brazenly announced April 17 his plans to construct new settlements outside of Gaza with a $5 billion ($19 billion shekels) investment. The five-year plan is backed by Germany and the UK. He was careful to say the investment was outside Gaza, but those Jewish areas do not need rebuilding because they were not bombed into dust—another fabrication.
“The Hamas terrorists wanted to uproot us—we will uproot them while deepening our roots. We will build the Land of Israel and protect our country,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The Ben Gurion Canal Project
The Suez Canal funnels 12% of global trade and 30% of global container traffic. It generates over $9 billion in revenue every year, and approximately 22,000 ships flow through the canal annually.
The proposed Ben Gurion Canal would re-route marine traffic up the Red Sea, where the canal, beginning at Eiliat, would terminate at the port at Ashkelon, just north of Gaza. It would move ships through a wider canal that would allow ships to move in both directions at once. The Suez Canal allows traffic in only one direction at a time.
This is in addition to the “Red Med” (Red Sea-Mediterranean Sea) project, part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative to connect the port of Eilat to the port of Ashdod via train and 63 bridges and tunnels at a cost ranging from $6.5 billion to $13 billion, according to Israeli think tank, BESAR.
China and Israel have cooperated on multiple infrastructure projects. China built the new port at Haifa in 2021 at a cost of $1.7 billion ($5.5 billion shekels). It is operated by the Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), and it enables larger classes of cargo ships, carrying 18,000 containers or more, to dock in Israel.
China has more Belt and Road Initiative projects with Israel than with any other country in the region. These include projects in AI, medicine, telecom, Smart City and cybersecurity. It is apparent that Israel and China are fully in bed with mega-plans to integrate the entire Eurasian continent.
The New Middle East
All of these projects are part of a broader “New Middle East,” a term first used by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in June 2006, in Dubai. Rice said it would be achieved through “constructive chaos,” a phrase she repeated a few weeks later during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when the 2006 Lebanon War broke out.
In an article in GlobalResearch.ca, geopolitical analyst Mahdi Nazemroaya commented, “This project, which has been in the planning stages for several years, consists in creating an arc of instability, chaos, and violence extending from Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria to Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Iran, and the borders of NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan … This constructive chaos—which generates conditions of violence and warfare throughout the region—would in turn be used so that the United States, Britain, and Israel could redraw the map of the Middle East in accordance with their geo-strategic needs and objectives.”
Just over six months ago, on Sept 22, 2023, at the United Nations General Debate, Prime Minister Netanyahu held up a map and he outlined his plan for a “New Middle East,” where Arab nations would normalize diplomatic relations with Israel and leave out the Palestinian issue.
The map he held up, showed Israel, but no Palestine. This is Israel’s idea of “peace.” Netanyahu proclaimed that “Palestinians must stop spewing Jew-hatred and finally reconcile themselves to the Jewish state.” Translated, this means Palestinians must roll over and die, and let Israel steal everything they own and expel them from the region. If they do not comply, it is “Jew-hatred.”
Netanyahu argued that the new rapprochement with Saudi Arabia was the beginning of a new era. Netanyahu made it clear with his map what normalization really means: eliminating Palestine from the region and legitimizing Greater Israel, all with the approval of Arab regimes.
In conclusion, it can be observed that Condoleezza Rice’s “constructive chaos” is nothing more than threatening the entire region with World War 3, and using it as leverage to push for greater territorial gains and greater regional control for Israel and the United States. The Arab nations are being forced to either accept the annihilation of Gaza, and get onboard with Israel’s restructuring of the Middle East, or face a major war.
Palestine is the pawn’s sacrifice in Israel’s grand game of chess. We are at a moral crossroads that will decide the future, not only of the region, but also of the whole planet. Will the Arab nations accept the sacrifice, and carry on business as usual, or will they show some spine and risk World War 3?
The whole world is watching Gaza to see which road we will go down.
“I sing hallelujah. It’s my duty, my job, my mission. It’s my mission to win as many people as possible, whatever the previous attitude, to the righteousness, the greatness, the centrality of the cause of Palestine, the cause of Gaza, which is the moral centre of the world. If you fail the test on the issue of Palestine, on the issue of Gaza you failed a very important test indeed, on which, I believe you will ultimately be judged in this life and the next.”
—George Galloway, MOATS
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Featured image: A view of Palestinians as they try to continue their daily life amid Israeli attacks at the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Jabalia, Gaz on February 17, 2024 [Dawoud Abo Alkas – Anadolu Agency]
