Emergency Middle East Updates 4 April 2024
As I write tonight, I am monitoring events and sources around the globe. We are on the precipice of uncontrolled escalation in the Middle East. If Iran retaliates against Israel, which it has every right to do, the world as we know it ends. Everything changes from that moment.
For background, as you know, things have been escalating for a long time in the Middle East. Back in October, I posted, “Israel’s Grand Strategy: The Apocalyptic Plan to Use the War in Gaza to Seize the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount,” which warned you the events now taking place would occur and would be deliberate. I was very specific about the fact the war in Gaza was the START, not the end of the conflict. Now, as time is running out for Israel in Gaza, the walls are closing in around Netanyahu’s criminal enterprise. Netanyahu knows if his staged war in Gaza comes to an end, the attention will turn back to his corruption and failure and his coalition will collapse. He’ll then be ousted and likely face prison. To prevent this, Bibi has aligned with the most fanatical elements within Israel. This disturbingly mainstream group of zealots demand the ethnic cleansing of all non-Jews from Israel and the establishment of the Third Temple. To accomplish this, a war must be started to create the chaotic security conditions where Israel can justify seizing the Temple Mount and demolishing the Dome of the Rock to construct the Third Temple. To prepare for this, I wrote that Israel was planning to sacrifice a red heifer and people laughed because they thought it was so crazy. Well, now people aren’t laughing. Israel is prepared to sacrifice a red heifer on the Mount of Olives sometime between now and the conclusion of Passover. People are finally seeing how absolutely nuts the faction in control of Israel actually is. Knowing this background, let’s talk about current events.
Israel did not want a multifront war and carefully crafted a narrative that Gaza would be an isolated and limited engagement despite it being exactly the opposite. The deception was sufficient to keep the idiots in line and provide the necessary political top cover for Washington to continue dumping massive amounts of weapons and money into Israel. Israel needed a war that it could fight in small bites in order to allow it to concentrate its military forces and it successfully achieved this portion of their military plan. Gaza was the first bite and was necessary to secure its backyard. Now that Gaza is all but bulldozed completely, Israel is prepared to escalate the war to the next level and the mask is coming off. To achieve this, Israel has carried out numerous strikes inside Syria and Lebanon killing incrementally more important people and hitting more important targets deeper and deeper in both Lebanon and Syria. It is important that you know the strikes went beyond the quietly agreed upon rules for tit-for-tat engagements to prevent uncontrolled escalation on the northern front with Hezbollah. Despite what it may appear, Hezbollah and Iran actively communicate through back channels with the US to prevent miscalculation and repeatedly communicated they did not want escalation. Nonetheless, Israel’s flagrant and repeated violations were deliberately conducted to bait Hezbollah into escalating so that Israel could justify the next stage of its war. However, neither Hezbollah, nor Iran took the bait. When this failed, Israel in coordination with the CIA, began launching proxy militant attacks in Iran using Pakistani militants located primarily in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. The CIA is also repurposing the Taliban in Afghanistan to attack Iran along its eastern border. These attacks have struck numerous Iranian facilities and killed dozens of people if not hundreds and are being done to destabilize Iran and force it into war. This too failed and Iran again responded through back channels that it did not want escalation even coordinating retaliatory strikes in advance.
With few options left to force a war with Iran, Israel opted for a strike it calculated Iran could not ignore and attacked one of Iran’s embassy facilities in Syria. This attack killed very senior officials coordinating the resistance to Israel in the region. The key giveaway here is the knowledge that these top leaders could have been targeted and killed at any time. However, Israel deliberately opted to target them in an accredited diplomatic facility. Israel chose to destroy the embassy building because it knew this was an act of war Iran would almost certainly have to respond to. Now, Iran is faced with a horrible dilemma. If it retaliates as it has every right to do under international law, Israel will cry foul and immediately retaliate against Iran kicking off a massive war in the region. If Iran doesn’t retaliate in a direct manner, it will lose face and this risks destabilizing the government. Based on the latest sources and intel, it appears Iran has communicated to the United States that it will retaliate, and the CIA believes this strike could begin at any moment. However, Iran also communicated that it would be limited and within the accepted rules of conflict.
As we sit waiting for the retaliation, Israel has Iran exactly where it wants it. Once Iran launches, Israel is prepared to retaliate with both land and sea (submarine) launched ballistic missiles. This will then initiate uncontrolled escalation. If the US does not force Israel to stand down, we could be as little as minutes away from triggering a series of events that lead to Israel conducting nuclear strikes against Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. This war will become at minimum, a massive regional conflict and at worst, a world war. Remember, Russia has security agreements with Iran, but unlike in previous episodes of escalation, I do not expect Russia to step in and stop it. Russia knows the US will be sucked into this war and bled badly. It also knows it will take Middle Eastern oil offline and make Russian oil the only game in town enabling it to set the price of oil and garner significant geopolitical leverage. When that occurs, the US will be unable to support both a war in Ukraine and a war in the Middle East. This will be the end of Ukraine unless that conflict is merged into the Middle East conflict, which is actually possible.
You may be asking yourself how other countries in the Middle East would become involved. The answer is that in the midst of this chaos, Israel is going to seize the Temple Mount. This may be as direct as simply moving forces onto it and declaring it necessary for security. However, Israel loves its deceptions so, I would not be surprised at all if an “errant Iranian” missile strikes the Dome of the Rock and destroys it. Israel would then be “forced” to secure the site, but “unfortunately,” nothing could be done, and the mosque will be destroyed. This will light the entire Muslim world on fire. Disturbingly, Israel is willing to pay the price for it and it will be steep. As such, when the entire region goes nuts, Israel will have its pretext to use nuclear weapons if it didn’t already.
This is your update. It’s ugly and in process. I hope that back channels will force de-escalation, but it’s not looking good. Bibi is willing to sacrifice millions of lives to allow a red cow to be slaughtered if it means he can avert jail and retain power. As for us back here, there will be repercussions. When Israel makes its move on the Temple Mount, Muslims around the world are going to go berserk and strike anything associated with the US or Israel. In addition, our military is going to be pulled in so we will see significant casualties and losses of ships. If not bad enough, oil is going to get knocked offline. These are just a few highlights you need to prepare for and take into consideration. All said, even if Iran can restrain itself, Israel can’t. Israel is going to force this war whether tonight, next week, or later this year. It’s coming.
Be prepared.
D.t.Y.