The ongoing tension between Iran and Israel can be understood in the context that the latter views itself as the vanguard of Western Civilization in the region. The Israeli representative stated as much on 14th August 2024, during an emergency UNSC meeting convened to discuss his country’s bombing of Al-Tabeen school that killed about 100 civilians. Israel and The West cannot foresee themselves backing down until the entire region is brought under neocolonialism.

Suspense in the Middle East

The European’s apartheid mentality is on full display in the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict, where the thought of Iran responding to Israeli violation of its sovereignty is unacceptable, but Israeli killing of 40,000 Palestinians and displacing over 1.9 million is completely okay. On August 13th, 2024, Britain, France, and Germany threatened Iran to refrain from retaliating against Israeli’s assassination of Hamas Leader, Ismail Haniyeh in July 2024, which also constituted a violation of Iran’s territorial integrity. However, these countries did not condemn Israel’s action against Haniyeh or the Gazans but have continued to arm and invest in Israel’s war. Meanwhile, the US approved the sale of $20 billion worth of weapons to Israel to continue or amplify its genocide well into the future. An undeniable apartheid attitude is apparent where the west allows Israel to kill whoever it wants while baring victims from defending themselves, in a move calculated to bring the entire region under The West’s control through Israel. The proposed India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a convenient guise for this plan.

IMEC and Moses’ Civilizing Mission

IMEC is a vehicle designed to give the US, Western Europe, and Israel power to use India and the Arabian Peninsula to ‘Contain China’ and ‘Isolate Iran’. The........

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