For nearly 45+ years in my volunteer work (as a "Highly Paid Hasbarnik - still waiting for my check by the way) and as a reservist in the IDF in the quagmire of Lebanon. I began my journey to fully know the mindset of the enemy I am up against.
In doing so I read and studied the Quran and basic Arabic specifically to know the actual intentions and mindset.In doing so I found that those in leadership (Intelligence Agencies) in the West look at conflicts through a socio-economic or political lens (land, borders, resources), while the enemy I learned about looks through a theological and civilizational lens.
In my lifetime I have witnessed the transition from the PLO's secular nationalism (Fatah) to the Brotherhood’s religious absolutism (Hamas/Hezbollah). While the CIA was focused on the "Red Menace" (Communism),as they funded the "Green Menace" (Islamism) in Afghanistan. By failing to read the Quranic justifications used by the Mujahideen, they built a bridge for Al-Qaeda.
During my time in the IDF in Lebnon I conversed many times with Major Saad Haddad, the founder of the South Lebanon Army (SLA).
Haddad frequently used his radio station, The Voice of Hope (funded by American evangelicals), to broadcast to the people of Southern Lebanon. His rhetoric was designed to wake people up to what he saw as a "parasitic" force (Fatah) using Lebanon as a launchpad for their own war, regardless of the cost to Lebanese civilians.
His message was centered on a harsh, binary reality:
The "False" Enemy: The central Lebanese government in Beirut or other Lebanese factions.
He argued that the true enemy was the PLO/Fatah and their Syrian backers, whom he viewed as foreign occupiers destroying Lebanon from within.
He believed that if the Lebanese people—specifically Christians and moderate Muslims in the south—didn't realize that the Palestinian militants were an existential threat to their homes, they would be "defeated" (massacred or displaced).
I have noted how "Western Intelligence"(an oxymoron) suffers from mirror-imaging—assuming the adversary wants the same things (peace, prosperity, democracy).
By studying the Quran and Arabic, I bypassed the "Propaganda" to see the Intent. As Major Haddad argued, if you treat a theological existential threat as a mere border dispute, you have already lost.
As an "Old Guy" I can also remember the "birth"of radical fundementalistic Wahhabism -an exonym for a Salafi revivalist movement within ultra-conservative Sunni Islam.
This rebirth of Sunni Islamic belief in the 1980's began in the rural backward Sunni areas of northern Afghanistan and spread to the Madrasasim (Islamic religious schools) in Pakistan and Bangladesh. It gained momentum with the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the inept and utterly imbecilic acts by the CIA and MI-6 in their support of these Islamic extremists in the uttely stupid misconception of the Mujahideen as "Freedom Fighters" to fight the Russian which history has proven that the "freedom fighters" of the Cold War became the "Frankenstein’s monster" of the 21st century.
For all those, who have NO knowledge of the Middle East and the "Arab / Moslem Mind", it should be noted that Wahhabism, is a strict, fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, and is often cited as a contributing factor to the rise of terrorism, particularly by groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS and their best student Osama Bin Laden.
Furthermore one must note that in the context of Wahhabism (founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab) and the Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun), this concept of identifying the "True Enemy" is a central, recurring theme in their ideological development.
In the context of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the concept of identifying the "True Enemy" - the dreaded Zionists is the foundational logic of their survival and "resistance" strategy.
Some time before Operation Desert Storm in 1991, when Sadam Hussein was leading the idiots of "Western Intelligence" (an oxymoron) in circles regarding WMD. I was once asked by a forum of high ranking US "Officials" what I thought. My reply to them was:
"As you are so evidently total imbeciles who bought, hook line and sinker, the false narrative of the so called Palestinians, as per the KGB Active Measures and SIG operational plans, and have absolutely NO knowlege of the Quran and Islamic tenets. I forsee the day your politicians and citizenry will be so blinded by their "Western Cultural" sympathetic view and ignorance of the Islamic concept of Hijrah (migration for the sake of spreading Islam) that you will allow the immigration of masses of "poor refugee" Moslems (like those who fled the Syrian Civil War) into your countries who will with their tendency to have many children will one day destroy your "Western Christian Culture" from within."
In my humble opinion the West isn't just miscalculating; it is committing civilizational suicide by applying Western liberal logic to a theological framework that operates on a different timeline and a different set of rules.
I see the Abraham Accords or various "peace processes" as Taqiyya (strategic dissimulation),which follows the sted precept in the The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. In this framework, a truce is not a final peace, but a tactical pause to gather strength when the "believers" are temporarily weaker than the Kāfir.
The West thinks the conflict is about "grievances" (land, poverty, lack of a state). when in fact it is about Status. Under the basic basic tenet of Islam to subjucate and or kill the Kāfir (Arabic: كافر) "unbeliever"doctrine. The Kāfir cannot be an equal; they must either be converted, subjugated under Dhimmi status, or eliminated.
In most of the "Western World" it is one minute to midnight and the second hand is moving swiftly and it will take an awakening which those in the west have failed to comprehend.
The "awakening" of those in the west is hindered by a fundamental paradox of "Universalism" entrenched in Western Christian/Liberal culture. The West assumes everyone, deep down, wants the same "Kumbaya" ending but in reality this is a a fatal projection.
As Sun Tzu famously wrote:
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
The sentiment that "those who do not learn who your true enemy is will die in defeat" was a hallmark of Major Saad Haddad and ideological justification for his alliance with Israel
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