The United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, and other supporting actors of war-making are stepping up their war game in Ukraine and the nearly one-year-old war in Gaza.
Despite several years of public demonstrations, sessions at international forums, and peace rhetoric, after two years, the Russia-Ukraine war worsened, and 11 months of a genocidal war on Palestinians by Israel is further escalating.
In a spin of events, America and Western allies accused Iran of transferring short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to aid its war with Ukraine—which Tehran countered as Western hypocrisy, “baseless and false.” America and the E3 (Britain, France and Germany) imposed multiple sanctions on Iranian entities and individuals.
“Once again, America and Europe acted based on false information and flawed logic,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, on the X platform.
“Iran has not sent ballistic missiles to Russia. Period,” he said. “All sanction addicts should ask themselves: How is Iran able to build sophisticated weapons and sell them according to your claim? Sanctions ‘r’ not the solution but part of (the) problem,” he said.
None of the countries provided evidence of what they deemed Tehran’s “dramatic escalation,” and the weapon has not been observed on the battlefield yet, reported Al Jazeera.
Consequently, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Affairs Minister David Lammy announced increased financial and military aid to Ukraine. In a joint press conference with Ukraine’s foreign minister, the U.S. is giving $717 million, and the UK is providing over $782 million worth of support.
“The bottom line is this: We want Ukraine to win,” Mr. Blinken told reporters in Kyiv. “And we’re fully committed to keep marshaling the support that it needs,” he said.
Mr. Blinken and Mr. Lammy expressed an all-in as long as it takes position which for some observers means another forever war. However, this war is also bringing the Western world on a collision course and trigger point for World War III or what scripture calls the War of Armageddon.
While resources and war-ware are scaled up for Ukraine and for Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians, where civilians are dying in droves, world leaders claim peace as their endgame. But they are perplexed about solving world crises.
This can be understood in the context of a universal change directed by Allah (God), warned the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam.
“Tyrants of the world have to be sat down and a government from God has to be established so that the suffering of humanity will end,” Minister Farrakhan posted on Twitter (now called X) in January 2017.
The Minister’s remark was one of many he has given over decades of cautioning world leaders about the dire consequences of their decisions.
For several decades collectively, Minister Farrakhan and his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, warned that a “Universal government of peace” is ultimately being established to eradicate the burden of corruption, injustice, inequality, and wicked world rule.
Since the inception of “conflict preventive” bodies like the United Nations and then NATO—in the aftermath of World War II—wars have saturated the earth. The 20th century was a century of war.
Now in the third decade of the 21st century, they are discussing crises if left unabated, which could spark World War III. All of the speeches, pledges and posturing about desired peace amounts to lip service, and the world is still gravely close to nuclear conflict. Countries speak peace but cannot achieve it.
“We do not hope for peace as long as we add to the war that which serves as fuel to a fire,” wrote the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad on page 209 of his preeminent and prophetic book, “The Fall of America,” published in 1973.
“The fire cannot go out as long as we keep it burning by adding more fuel. A dying, burning fire is increased when more fuel is thrown into it,” he wrote.
It is hypocrisy for America and its allies to bellyache about Iran aiding Russia while sticking to its “ironclad” commitment to arm Israel in its genocidal war on the Palestinians. Since the war began 11 months ago, America never ceased providing war ware to the occupier state. The Biden administration had consistently approved weapons sales to Israel even at times circumventing the U.S. congressional process doing so.
Critics have long argued such assistance from the U.S. only adds to the crisis of death and destruction and fuels the fire of a rapidly expanding war. An hour into midnight on Sept. 10, Israeli air strikes hit a displacement camp west of Khan-Younas filled with sleeping Palestinian civilians who never woke up again. The area in the Al-Mawasi region of Gaza was a “designated safe zone” for civilians.
An infographic issued by Quds News Network said “20 tents burned and swallowed” the families inside. Forty people died, 60 were critically injured, and dozens are missing underneath the blood-covered sand. Gaza Civil Defense crews dug with their bare hands to retrieve victims.
“The massacre turned the place into a pool of blood mixed with torn-out tents, broken toys, pieces of flesh and bones,” reported Quds.
The Israeli Defense Forces are suspected of dropping U.S.-made 2000 lb.-MK rockets, which embedded 30-foot-deep craters into the ground and a horrific scene of flesh and blood.
Besides endless bombardment of Gaza, including in designated “safe zones,” that killed over 41,000 Palestinians, Israel is trading live fire across its northern border with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. Local media said on Sept. 10, Israeli warplanes bombed a home in the Southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh leaving more carnage.
“The strike happened just after midnight and caused a fire. The people were buried in the sand. They were retrieved as body parts,” Attaf Al-Shaarshe, an eyewitness, told the Associated Press.
Before that massacre, Israel dropped missiles on Syria, killing 18 people and injuring 37 others on Sept. 8. Residential areas were hit, destroying infrastructure, including roads, communications, electricity and drinking water, reported Syria’s Sanna News Agency.
“The brutal aggression indicates that this criminal entity seeks further escalation in the region,” said Caretaker Prime Minister Hussein Arnous, addressing Syria’s Council of Ministers on Sept. 10.
“The act also indicates that the Israeli occupation entity is in a major predicament and trying by all means to export its domestic crises to the region as a whole,” he said, “because of its inability to achieve any goal from its aggression against the Palestinian people other than killing children and women,” Mr. Arnous added.
With the relentless genocide in Gaza and now dispatching its killing machine to the West Bank, Israel is pushing the region to the brink of a critical crisis. If Israel’s Western enablers fail to curb these criminal provocations, they’ll share responsibility for the consequences—and be held accountable.
Israel’s bloodletting marches forward with America’s less-than-tacit approval. When it comes to Israel, Washington is slow and measured in reacting to its flagrant behavior. Critics argue America practices a policy of hypocrisy concerning Israel. The “harm Americans” and we’ll respond at a time and place of our choosing refrain isn’t applied to the Zionist state. There is a double standard.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called out the Biden administration on double standards in handling American citizens killed by Hamas versus Americans killed by the Zionist state.
In a Sept. 6 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, CAIR called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate and prosecute Israeli officials, soldiers, and settlers responsible for committing violent crimes against Palestinian-Americans.
“Now that the Department of Justice has demonstrated its ability and willingness to prosecute Hamas crimes against Israelis and Israeli-Americans in the Middle East, it is imperative that the Justice Department bring the same uncompromising legal rigor to bear in prosecuting crimes committed against Palestinian Americans by Israeli soldiers and settlers,” Robert McCaw, CAIR government affairs director, wrote in part.
“Just as it is wrong to kill Israeli American civilians overseas, it is wrong to kill Palestinian American civilians overseas, and all perpetrators of such crimes must be held accountable,” he wrote.
Mr. McCaw wrote, “if the Justice Department continues failing to hold Israeli politicians, soldiers, or illegal settlers accountable” for the “torture, land theft, and murders they have committed against Palestinian Americans,” it sends a message that killing Americans overseas will not be punished if those Americans are of Palestinian descent.
For instance, when Israeli Americans died and were captured in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led incursion on Israeli settlements, there came a swift response. In contrast, when Aysener Eigi, a 26-year-old Turkish-American activist, was shot dead by Israeli forces while protesting the illegal settlements, days passed before any strongly worded denouncement and call for accountability was issued.
A recent graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle, Ms. Eigi was volunteering in the Occupied West Bank for the International Solidarity Movement. Eyewitnesses said Ms. Eigi was shot by a sniper’s bullet to her head after the protests ended.
The initial reaction from the U.S. was to allow Israel to “investigate” the situation. But after days of public pressure to do more and claims by the Israeli military that the shooting was “not intentional,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced a condemnatory statement.
“No one should be shot and killed for attending a protest,” Mr. Blinken told journalists in London on Sept. 10. “No one should have to put their life at risk just to purely express their views. The Israeli security forces need to make some fundamental changes in the way they operate in the West Bank, including changes in their rules of engagement,” he said.
Despite his sternness toward Israel, there weren’t any “change or else” comments. Economically and militarily the U.S. is Israel’s top supporter. Whether Mr. Blinken’s words meant anything or only more political double-speak remains to be seen.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan cautioned referencing scripture that every nation will be judged out of their own books and recorded deeds. Both their good and evil actions will be weighed on the scale of justice ultimately by Allah (God). Peace rests on the question of justice and as the biblical book Hosea 8:7 warns in part: “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. …”
