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On the strategic meaning of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm

2024-10-13

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text traken from the @parstodayrussian Telegram channel

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The goal of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm in simple terms:

The US sought to connect the West and East of the world through this route. The traditional way of traveling in the world is the blue route in the photo, which goes through Yemen.

The new route goes through "India, Arab countries, Israel, Europe", which is marked in red and is called IMAC. The most important effect of the new route was that Israel would become the world's transportation gateway, in addition to economic profit, this route would make other countries dependent on Israel. Naturally, if Israel became the gateway to world trade, other countries would have to recognize it. And this meant strengthening the Israeli regime and weakening Palestine.

And the Palestinians had two choices, either submission and destruction forever, or an action that disrupts the plan, and the Palestinians courageously decided to stand and fight, as always.

As always, yes. The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, ‘tis said. Courageous is not the word I would have used, given the entirely predictable outcome of their decision.

This is how Operation Al-Aqsa Storm was conceived.

The strategic goal in this interpretation has already been achieved.

A bit early to judge, I think.
In fact, Iran, through its proxies, has thwarted the long-term plans of the US and Israel to reorganize the Middle East to their advantage. Everything that followed is the aftermath of the collapse of these plans.

In the end the landscape of Israel’s attackers will be riddled with pits filled with rubble, while Israel will be standing tall with a working economy and a working port. At that point all sorts of re-evaluations will be clearly necessary — and the Abraham Accord countries will be at the head of the line.
The most interesting thing is that these plans could have been realized if Israel had pursued a more flexible policy towards Palestine,

…Russia may think that is a minor bit of propaganda, but in truth those are Satan’s own words bearing the stench of Hell. Go fuck yourself with a rusty fencepost, Boris. Sideways.
but instead of economic growth, it is now reaping losses, population outflow, and growing isolation.It is worth noting that this was done primarily by Hamas. There are two ironic moments here. On the one hand, Hamas was created with the actual assistance of Israel to split the Palestinian cause. On the other hand, Hamas was hostile to Iran until the mid-2010s and sided with Assad's enemies during the Syrian war.

But underestimating Hamas's capabilities has already led Israel to failure in the 2021 war and the fall of the then Netanyahu cabinet.

And Iran in 2016-2017 was able to settle its conflicts with Hamas and make friends between Sunni Hamas and Shiite Hezbollah, drawing Hamas into its Axis of Resistance. This became possible thanks to the efforts of General Qassem Soleimani to expand the Axis of Resistance. And now, Soleimani has been dead for 4 years, but his cause lives on and wins.

It is also worth noting that Iran's support for the Houthis is also his doing. As are the agreements with Russia on its participation in the Syrian war. As is the creation of a huge Shiite militia integrated into the Iraqi state. And this strategy is now beating the American-Israeli plans to create transport corridors through Israel and normalize relations with part of the Arab world.

Posted by:badanov

#2 non-Muslims are always trying to connect the dots in ways they comprehend

Because they don't themselves see the world through a massive religious brainwashed lens of Islam they cannot imagine that Islamists do the things they do because they believe in Islam.

This wasn't why Hamas planned October 7 for years.

They are obligated under the rules of Jihad to make violent war when possible against the unbelievers, especially against Jews and especially to take back any land previously colonised by Islam but lost.

The reason they made October 7 a savage orgy of sadism was specifically to provoke as brutal a response as possible from Israel, to tempt their military to drop their professionalism so they could get great propaganda out of it which they spread through the West through their Muslim Brotherhood embeds and Al Jazeera alumni in our media. And through the NGOs they control.

They are in Australia, UK, USA, France, Germany - everywhere.

So they can cut off diplomatic and economic support from Israel and get the Muslim world to fight against them.

So far their plan is working quite well. We've had weekly protests in Sydney and Melbourne ever since October 7. In support of Hamas. Yes.

And anti-semitism i've seen it everywhere, in front of my face, jews attacked in the streets. The police do nothing. The major political party the Greens only talk about "Palestinians". The politicians only refer to this ugly anti-semitism with "there can be no anti-semitism or Islamophobia" even though nobody has been harassing muslims - they are the ones doing the evil.

And I know this is going on in the UK you can see the evidence of it everywhere and in France - these places have SO MANY muslim migrants that the collective unconscious is all on their side.

So the goal of the Operation Al-Aqsa Storm was NOT geopolitical

It was religious. All their actions are religious. They want to wipe out Israel because they think Islam should rule and Jews have no self-determination because of Islam.

It's really that simple.

This reminds me of all the people who tried to explain 9/11 by reference to Osama's complaint about american troops based in Saudi or the wars we fought in iraq etc.

All bs.

He only put those grievances in for religious reasons, namely because you are not allowed in Islam to conduct offensive Jihad without being ordered by a rightly-guided Caliph. The last caliphate was the Ottoman empire which ended after WWI. So there's no Caliphate and therefore no offensive Jihad.

So you're only allowed defensive Jihad - which means, Osama needed a list of complaints for a casus belli to make it a defensive jihad, in order to fulfill his islamic requirements.

Bin Laden orchestrated 9/11 to show the Islamic world the "strong horse" could hit america so they would all return to 6th century literal Islam.

He picked 9/11 because all Muslims know that's the date that Jan Sobieski broke the Muslim seige at the Gates of Vienna and marked the turning of the tide against Islam. He was showing them the tide has turned against us now.

And guess what? He was right. He gloried in it after saying this:

"I heard someone on Islamic radio who owns a school in America say: 'We don't have time to keep up with the demands of those who are asking about Islamic books to learn about Islam.' This event made people think about true Islam, which benefited Islam greatly."

Osama bin Laden, bragging of the 9/11 attacks during a video-taped November, 2001 meeting.

Western people try to offer geo-strategic reasons or economic reasons because for them religion is not that important. I could be a christian today but I might change to buddhism, or be an atheist doesn't matter it's all the same, a private matter.

Western people cannot comprehend the level of religiosity coming from Islam, it's an evil we defeated centuries ago.

If we ignore Islam in this way we are going to LOSE like 56 nations before us did, and our grandchildren will be suffering the horrible nightmare of Sharia maybe for the next 4000 years until it dies out and morphs into something else

Posted by: Anon1 2024-10-13 04:47

#1 The strategic significance of "Al-Aqsa Storm" is that majority o Israelis now understand that "peace" with "Palestinians" is impossible. Therefore, we are going to make peace without "Palestinians".

p.s. Both Russia and USA think that Iran is a mighty regional power, and compete for Iranian alliance. Actually, as Israel will soon demonstrate, they're a bunch of crotch scratching monkeys.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-10-13 01:11

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