Hello John and Doves,
Iran is
definitely on the move.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard are
in Yemen in command of the Houthis now and Iran attacked
Pakistan territory and Pakistan (a known nuclear country)
struck back. And Iran missiles struck Iraq and the
Iraqi government isn't happy. Things just moved to a
new level in the Middle East.
Iran and Pakistan have both recalled
their ambassadors. .
Iran certainly isn't being
subtle..hiding behind proxies like it was. This is
new.
"Commanders and advisors from Iran's
elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are on the ground in
Yemen and playing a direct role in Houthi rebel attacks on
commercial traffic in the Red Sea."
"The Middle East is blowing
up. More militias and militaries are launching
attacks against more countries, for more reasons, than the
region has seen in decades - by some measures, in
more than a century, since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire
during and after the First World War."
Many of these recent strikes and
incursions from the region's most largest, most violent, and
contentious current war - the one between Israel and
Hamas. But others are only peripherally related, if at
all. And a few are downright puzzling."
"In any case, the list amounts to
what Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute calls
"an insane scale of cross-border conflict."
So what's going on - Wars and Rumors
of Wars?
Israel attacking Gaza and Lebanon.
Hamas and Hezbollah attacking
Israel.
Jordan and Iran attacking Syria.
Iran attacking Iraq.
Yemen's Houthi's attacking ships in
the Red Sea.
U.S. and Britain attacking Houthi's
in Yemen.
Iran attacking Pakistan. (with
ballistic missiles and drones)
Pakistan attacking Iran. (with
Air Force and artillery) (So they've cancelled their
joint naval war games now.)
And Biden's national security
adviser Jake Sullivan said on September 29, 2023 that the
Middle East was quieter than it's been in 2 decades.
"The Middle East is "an arc
of failed or failing states. Four countries are
mired in civil war. Egypt..is teetering on the brink
of default (Egypt owes $29 billion in external
debt that needs to be repaid next year), while Lebanon
is enduring one of the worst economic crises in modern
history. The list of calamities goes on,
and the Middle East only looks quiet if one ignores
it. But that is exactly what the Biden administration
has tried to do."
"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
was ignored. Key diplomatic posts were unfilled:
The administration didn't bother to appoint an ambassador to
Egypt until this March. Last year I asked an American
diplomat to describe his country's Syria policy. He
shrugged and laughed. His job, he said, was to keep
the Middle East off Biden's desk, echoing words I have heard
repeatedly from American officials since 2021."
"This was America's flawed
conceptzia. It thought expanding the Abraham Accords
and reaching a truce with Iran would allow it to disengage
from the Middle East (so America could focus on Europe and
Asia). But a conflict that America tried to ignore has
now pushed the Middle East to the brink of a broader war,
fueled by Iran and its proxies. The new Arab-Israel
security alliance is nowhere to be found: Most Arab
states are too weak to play a role in the crisis, leaving
America to rush troops back to a region it wanted to
leave. "Their job was to keep the Middle East away
from Biden's desk by supercharging all the 'good' tracks in
the region, while pushing away the 'bad' stuff was how one
acquaintance, who works on Middle East policy, put it
shortly after the Hamas attack."
Things can move quickly over
there. Going from bad to worse.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance