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The ins and outs of war.
A myriad of seemingly
unrelated events and loose ends are converging in a manner that points in the direction of a
huge win for Russian diplomacy in the Middle East, and we only need to
connect the dots to see this scenario unfolding.
What dots, one might ask?
Henry Kissinger made it law for America to protect Israel. In his shuttle diplomacy trips in the lead up to the Camp David agreement, Kissinger has basically removed the USSR from the position of a superpower and a key partner on the negotiating table between Arabs and the Israelis and reduced its role to zilch. The ensuing
dismantling of the USSR and the emergence of the so-called "New World Order" meant that Israel was to maintain its military superiority.
However, with the rise of
Axis of Resistance in general and
Hezbollah in particular, Israel's technical military edge proved unable to provide Israel with any real security. As a matter of fact, it seems to have done just the opposite. Israel has never ever been under the kind of existential threat that it faces now, with an
estimated hundred thousand Hezbollah missiles, if not more, poised to hit Israeli targets as far as Eilat.
And because America had been such a biased supporter of Israel for so long,
it has lost its stature as a non-partisan arbitrator and mediator. In reality therefore, whilst America tried as hard as possible to enable Israel to impose its own peace, under its own terms, in practice, it has not been able to provide Israel with any peace under anyone's terms.
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