Behind Qatar's crisis: Israel's plan to annex Gaza and expel all its inhabitants

I have been as puzzled as anyone about what on Earth was going on behind the sudden blockade and blackmail by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and a couple of lesser players (UAE and Bahrain) against Qatar. But today suddenly the puzzle begins to take shape with the addition of two new pieces:

1. Egypt's Parliament voted to cede two strategic islands to Saudi Arabia. The islands of Tiran and Sanafir are located at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, making that strait Egyptian territorial waters. This cession was done against Egyptian national interest and historical pride and without Saudi Arabia having ever staked any claim on those islands. Actually the cession is not about Egypt nor Saudi Arabia but about Israel, because by giving away those strategic islands, the Zionist Colony gains free access to the Red Sea via what will suddenly become international (and not anymore Egyptian) waters. 

Tiran and Sanafir islands (source: The Real News)

2. Prince Khalid Bin Farhan al-Saud, who lives outside the rigors of the Saudi courtly plots in Germany, has revealed that the conditions imposed by the USA to the current Crown Prince (heir) and effective strongman of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Bin Salman, in order to allow his raise to the throne before his (demented) father's death are that Saudi Arabia accepts the genocide in Gaza and finances the resettlement of Palestinians in Sinai, and also the internationalization of the waters of the Gulf of Aqaba.

From the Middle East Monitor:

The alleged conditions include “absolute obedience to the US and Israel and carrying out whatever they ask him to do.” Three other conditions, claimed Khalid, are stated in return for helping Bin Salman take the throne before the death of his father: “Working to settle all Gaza residents in north Sinai as an alternative homeland and Saudi Arabia along with the UAE will afford the needed funds; getting rid of Hamas and whoever supports it; and getting Sanafir Island from Egypt.”

Bin Farhan said that the last condition would make the Gulf of Aqaba international waters instead of Egyptian territorial waters, which would facilitate Israeli shipping to and from the port of Eilat. It would also help Israel to carry out a project planned to operate in parallel to the Suez Canal. A retainer of around $500 million is also involved, he claimed.

Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba (credit: Graphic Lab (ru))

For the last many years Gaza has been ruled by Hamas, originally a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, against whose elected government arose the current military strongman and President of Egypt. Both moderate islamist organizations are the main pretext for the Saudi-Egyptian aggression against Qatar. 

It is worth reminding that Turkey, whose autocratic President Erdogan seems to have been falling apart with the USA and even flirting with Russia and Iran, has rushed to protect Qatar from any possible Saudi invasion and can be perceived as a historical mild ally of the Muslim Brotherhood and even Hamas (remember the Mavi Marmara). However Turkey remains part of NATO and provides a key air base (Inçirlik, near the Syrian border) to the USA and its European vassals ("allies").

It would seem that when Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his happiness about Trump's election, he knew well what was going on behind the obvious political and geostrategical clumsiness of the White House's buffoon (so-called "President"). Only someone of the low stock as Trump would allow for such a blatant a genocide to take place before our noses.

The plan is quite apparently already ongoing, the cession of the islands is a clear sign, so we should expect that in few weeks, months at most, the plan to invade Gaza and expel all its inhabitants, more than one million people, most of them refugees from what is now Israel, will begin.

Let's not be mere spectators, let us make everything possible to prevent this new genocide.

"An act of war"? Against whom?

Several French newspaper opened yesterday with the term "guerre" (war) in their headers. Later, the President of the Republic, François Hollande, spoke to the media using the expression "an act of war". 

It is becoming obvious that the "French 9/11", again an attack not against oligarchies or the state apparatus but against common workers, is meant to direct the public opinion in the direction of war. But against whom?

The most obvious answer is the Islamic State or DAESH. However the DAESH is not a real state but a terrorist gang with only some weak territorial control, heavily disputed by the legitimate states of Syria and Iraq and many other forces such as the Kurdish militias, Hizbollah, the Iranian and Russian military and even as of late the elusive Free Syrian Army, which Moscow now claims is aiding them against DAESH. 

The DAESH however has sponsors that can be named: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United States of America and some other allies, including France itself. So is France going to declare war to the USA? To Saudi Arabia? To Turkey or Qatar? To its own secret services under NATO? It may sound like a joke but it is a very pertinent question. 

Qatar World Cup built on the corpses of slave workers

Some 900 workers have already died in the construction of the Qatar World Cup facilities, and they have just begun. 

For comparison, 25 workers died in Sochi Olympics and 6 in the World Cup works of Brazil. 

The ITUC estimates that, at this pace, the human cost of the Qatar football festival will be of at least 4000 lives.

Why do so many workers die in Qatar? It is just normal in that area (not just Qatar but all the other fascist regimes of Arabia): the legal conditions for foreign workers are those of slavery and workers die in troves as result, not even considering all the other related abuses. 

Between 2010 and 2012 at least 700 Indian workers died in the Qatar construction industry (and that is just one nationality among many). Workers are retained wages (sometimes never paid) and passport, have no legal rights whatsoever and are being forced to work at 50 degrees Celsius (122F) without even access to free water. 

This is a true working class genocide being executed with all the blessings of the Western Capitalist Empire.

Source: Smithsonian Magazine.

Saudi Arabia asks Israel to attack Syria

The Machiavellic leader of all Islamist Fascist groups, the Theocratic Dictator of Saudi Arabia, has asked formally, albeit secretly, to the Genocide and Apartheid Regime in Palestine (Israel) to attack Syria, according to Al Manar (reflected by Webguerrillero[es]). 

In the secret diplomatic note the Saudi Theocrats would have asked Israel to keep sending weapons to the Islamist Fascist terrorist groups in Syria, where they seem to be losing the war by moments. Almost simultaneously, a conference of Islamist Theocracies, so-called "Friends of Syria", met in Qatar (whose "illustrated" dictator owns Al Jazeera), where they issued a communication emphasizing the urgency of sending weapons to the Islamist terrorist in Syria, while babbling about the need of a "political solution".

Azawad: from Joder Pasha and Faidherbe to Al Qaeda the new imperialism

According to Algeria¹, the infiltration of Jihaddists from Libya into Azawad (Northern Mali) has been financed by key Western allies, namely Qatar and Morocco, benefiting from the pointless military coup of a US puppet general last year, which led to the independence of Azawad, soon captured by the internationalist fundamentalist forces of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (West), originally the Salafist Front. Ironically now France and the USA have launched a military intervention against the very forces deployed by their dearly allies. 

Morocco has got since independence diffuse claims on Mali (it also used to claim West Sahara, Mauritania and large swathes of Algeria). The imperialist rationale behind it comes from the colonial expedition of Joder Pasha (also Judar, Yuder), a Castilian renegade (originally Diego de Guevara, born in Andalusia) arguably nicknamed on his favorite swearword: "joder" (fuck), who, after purchasing some cannons to England, launched a trans-Saharan campaign against the Songhai Empire... and won. Sadly for the Moroccan imperialists the profits of this colonial enterprise in search of the fabled gold of Sudan, parallel in all to European trans-Oceanic one, were little and gradually the Moroccan rule over Azawad vanished.

But the autocrats of Morocco, reveling as they do on history, myth and tradition, as well as an all-pervading police state, probably still dream with exerting their influence across the Ocean of Sand. In any case, the two aforementioned dictators, along with Saudi Arabia and others of their ilk, have for long financed Islamist Fascist terrorist forces in the hope of reaping some benefits and keep at bay the ghost of rationalism that would destroy their golden thrones of vanity and greed. 

This policy is of course supported in general terms by their Western allies, notably the USA, France and Britain, as well as Israel, who only see opportunities for military meddling in this sock-puppeteering farcical game.

This was most obvious in Afghanistan, where the farce of Al Qaeda and the criminal inside job of the 9-11 attacks, provided a pretext for US and NATO intervention in Central Asia, a key region of the international chessboard. For some time now the USA has sought to consolidate their presence in Africa, the only continent that holds no US bases... yet. The Mali war is probably such engineered opportunity and France is playing their role as good major ally with a consolidated presence in the region. 

So far many West Africans, unconscious, cheer French intervention. Even in Azawad itself the many people already offended by the Islamo-Fascist tyranny, that has forced women to wear veil, stumped hands, leashed backs, cut heads off and destroyed venerated shrines, will welcome anything... really. 

The very Tuareg activists of the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MLNA) almost do. They wow to fight against the Islamists who they could not contain much less defeat for lack of decent weapons (they have always said: give us weapons that we will take care of the fundamentalists ourselves and gladly so). However they want a comprehensive agreement with Mali that ends a war that has lasted for too long. 

But what Tuaregs and Songhai want is not too important for Mali, much less for any of the geostrategical players involved: France, the USA, Morocco and Qatar (at least). They probably do not even truly want to conquer Azawad at all, a most challenging endeavor without doubt, what they want is a pretext to consolidate their influence and military presence in the region. 

So the Azawadis (and by extension other West Africans probably) have a very rough ride ahead while the masters of puppet Islamo-Fascism laugh in their golden palaces.

PS- And who was Faidherbe, you may ask? Why, of course... the founder of the French colonial empire in West Africa, who conquered Kayes to the Toucouleur Empire, allied with the dominant ethnicity of modern and historical Mali: the Bambara. In a sense he can be considered the founder of modern Mali and also of the ongoing bombings by French airplanes of the millenarian cities of the Niger Bend.

¹ Correction: I first said wrongly that the source was the MLNA. It is the Algerian government in fact (taken from Basque newspaper Gara, printed edition).  

Qatar: poet sentenced to life in prison for crying freedom

The same power that sustains that sometimes interesting Aljazeera throws into jail a poet just for disliking absolutism, no matter how "illustrated" it may be (not much, it seems obvious now).

On November 29th, Mohammed al-Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, was tried on charges of incitement “to overthrow the ruling system”, and “insulting the Amir”.  

He was arrested in November 2011 following the publication of his “Jasmine Poem”, which broadly criticized governments across the Gulf region, saying “we are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive elite”.  

The sentence (life in prison) has caused fear and outrage in the emirate and its surroundings. 

Source: Jaddaliyya (includes an emotive recitation of the Jasmine Poem in the original Arabic).