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Iran-Saudi rapprochement reverberates all the way to Morocco
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On this week’s False Flag Weekly News “J-Mike” Springmann fixed his audio glitch and joined me to comment on the week’s top news stories, which were almost all variations on an overriding theme: The Anglo-Zionist Empire has gone off the cliff and, like Wile E. Coyote, hasn’t yet looked down and realized it’s about to plunge to its demise.

The neocons, who took over the empire on 9/11/2001 and have been driving it off the cliff ever since, seem to think they can lie their way out of any self-inflicted predicament. (“We’re an empire now, and we invent our own reality…”) People notice you blew the World Trade Center to kingdom come? Say it was jet fuel. Your bio-attack on China and Iran goes south? First blame batty pangolins, then the W.I.V. Sy Hersh exposes your pipeline terrorism? Start by blaming Putin, then invent some lunatic lie about a couple of lone nut Ukrainians on a private yacht with snorkels and swim fins and waterproof cherry bombs. As they say here in Morocco “ils disent n’importe quoi” (they just make stuff up) or more succinctly in Moroccan Arabic “kaytakhabbaz” (they talk nonsense).

And speaking of Morocco, I woke up in a whole new North Africa yesterday. The MENA region underwent an epic geopolitical shift Friday as China brokered an Iran-Saudi rapprochement. Israel, the biggest loser, is furious. So much for the nutty Zionist dream of dragging the Arab world into a pro-Israel anti-Iran alliance against the wishes of 99% of the people of the region.

The Iran-Saudi deal makes the Moroccan government look good. The big issue here is “territorial integrity” i.e. Moroccan sovereignty over the formerly disputed territories of the Sahara. The government in Rabat has made it clear that all other issues are subordinate. That’s why it entered into the so-called Abraham Accords—not out of any love of the Zionist entity, which is as loathed here as it is everywhere in the region, but as a matter of pure realpolitik that brought US recognition of the Moroccan Sahara.

Now that Iran and Saudi Arabia are repairing their relations, Israel’s regional leverage and indeed its prospects for survival as an apartheid “Jewish State” have been severely curtailed. So as it turns out, Rabat didn’t give much up in return for gaining a significant advantage in its campaign for territorial integrity. Fifty years from now the Moroccan Sahara will still be Moroccan, while the Zionist entity will almost certainly be gone. Moroccan historians may look back and agree that signing the despicable Abraham Accords was the least-worst option.

The China-brokered re-establishment of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia sidelines the Anglo-Zionist warmongers and raises real prospects of peace across the whole MENA region. And while most of the world’s attention is focused on hopes of ending the violence in Yemen and Syria, here in Morocco people are equally interested in prospects of dialing down tensions with Algeria. I am writing this article in an Air B&B in Saidia, less than a ten minutes’ walk from the heavily-militarized Algerian border, which has been closed for decades due to Algeria’s incessant attempts to pry the Moroccan Sahara loose from Morocco. That conflict has worsened recently as Morocco-Israel “normalization” (which is in fact totally abnormal and contradicts the anti-Zionist pro-Palestinian position of the vast majority of Moroccans) has given the Algerian regime a leg up in its efforts to rally the region in support of its position. Now that the Zionists are sidelined and well on their way to becoming a non-factor, and Moroccan sovereignty in the Moroccan Sahara is increasingly established and accepted, there is no reason why Algeria shouldn’t throw in the proverbial towel, accept that the Moroccan Sahara is Moroccan, and normalize relations with Rabat. After all, if Iran and Saudia Arabia—two nations with clashing ideologies and very different languages and cultures—can work it out, why can’t Morocco and Algeria, with their very similar languages and cultures, do the same?

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  1. I applaud China, Iran and Saudi Arabia for moving the world towards peace and diplomacy. 👏

    We will have to see whether or not MBS will be regime changed in the near future by Uncle Sam…

  2. I remember Fang Fang infiltrating the offices of a Bay Area congressman. China can bring world peace with its cadre of Fang Fangs and their charms.

  3. Notsofast says:

    first putin bringing syria and turkiye together, now the chinese bring iran and saudi arabia together, looks like the grown ups are back in charge.

    what this shows most, is that there is no respect left for the hegemon and it’s repulsive mini-me. their day is done, their race is run, on earth as it is in heaven.

    • Replies: @RealAmerican
  4. The China-brokered re-establishment of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia sidelines the Anglo-Zionist warmongers and raises real prospects of peace across the whole MENA region.

    We can hope, but let’s remember the US has a lot of cards up its sleeve, and the Saudis are never to be trusted.

    Saudis and the Turks are the worst(outside the West) when it comes to trust.

  5. Anon[141] • Disclaimer says:

    Only one country , the USA ( great Satan) recognized Moroccan western sahara. 45 countries recognize the sahrawi arab republic. In any case arabs aren’t native to the region but are colonizers who committed genocide on the natives, luckily if you adhere to islam the rest of the world accepts it happily.

    • Replies: @Biff
    , @Kevin Barrett
  6. Biff says:
    @Anon

    In any case arabs aren’t native to the region but are colonizers who committed genocide on the natives,

    What natives are you referring to? The Egyptians, who were long gone before Arabs even started to show up, or maybe the Romans? Or maybe the Carthaginians? Italians maybe? North Africa has been a busy place ya know!

    • Replies: @dorane
  7. @Anon

    There is no “Arab race” in North Africa. Everyone here is a mixture. Berbers/Amazigh, the biggest contributors to the gene pool, are dominated by white-looking Eurasians who migrated to North Africa 10,000 years ago, but also include plenty of people with other DNA including sub-Saharan, European, and Middle Eastern. “Arab” refers to language not ancestry (though imaginary/ascribed ancestry plays an important role in culture and belief). And the main language of writing, education, and scholarship here is Arabic and has been for over 1000 years. So essentially everybody including educated Sahrawis, Berbers, Tuareg, etc. is “Arab.” The BS about “Arabs colonizing Africans” is propaganda invented by colonialists to justify their conquest and looting of the native Arab-Islamic peoples.

    In reality, as opposed to mythic imagination, any difference between “Arab” and “non-Arab” North Africans refers only to education. All educated people are “Arabs” to the extent that they have learned classical Arabic. That includes Sahrawis and indeed the people of Mauritania and Mali, and has nothing whatsoever to do with skin color or DNA.

    • Replies: @Al Ross
  8. dorane says:
    @Biff

    Er, the Berbers, forced to convert at the point of a sword by the armies of Islam. Thought everyone knew that.
    Ala fikra (by the way), nice to have reportage from/on the Kingdom. Does this Barrett guy live here, or is he just slumming? He’s right about the Morocco + Algeria logic, but Algeria’s gov’t. is nasty and the country full of retrograde dimwit fanatics – better to keep the borders closed.

  9. Moroccans are despised in Europe and for good reason

  10. Anon[413] • Disclaimer says:

    I will say that in your favor you were bright enough to make your predictions 50 years into the future where you will likely be long gone before their failure. So many of your fellow travelers have made 10 year predictions over the past 75 years regarding the demise of Israel only to be proved wrong over and over. Imagine outnumbering jews more than a hundred to one and still losing. Hss there been a more impotent group in history ??

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  11. Bombshell w/ Seymour Hersh: US Blowing Up Nord Stream Was ‘Act of War’

  12. ATBOTL says:

    I’m so glad to see “MENA” taking off in popular usage. It’s vitally important that white people have a catch all term for Middle Eastern & North African people so we can distinguish them from ourselves.

    • Replies: @Dumbo
  13. Fifty years from now … the Zionist entity will almost certainly be gone

    We must beware of wishful thinking, of course, but we must never lose hope.

  14. Anonymous[593] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anon

    Imagine outnumbering jews more than a hundred to one and still losing. there been a more impotent group in history ??

    Isn’t the question of Jewish power over the west asked here like…every other day?

    But thanks for reminding us that historical tolerance of Jews carries with it serious liabilities. It always helps to keep these things in perspective.

    • Replies: @Anon
  15. Anon[550] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous

    1 Jewish country, 57 Islamic countries. 14 million jews , 1.5 billion Muslims . Has a group ever been cucked this hard before ? …..its unprecedented really.

    But coping kevin barret thinks that after a 7 year hiatus in relations iran which by itself outnumberes Israel ten to one and Saudi Arabia which outnumbers israel five to one will cause Israel’s downfall in 50 years………why didn’t they cause the downfall of Israel in the timeframe of 1948-2016 when they also had relations ????

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    , @traducteur
  16. Dumbo says:
    @ATBOTL

    ??

    We don’t need a term to “distinguish them from ourselves”, we can easily see that visually that they don’t look like us. Not to mention the language and religion. MENA or not MENA, they have to go back to their own countries, which are not completely bad. Why are so many Moroccans in France, when Morocco seems to be a reasonably ok country?

  17. Dumbo says:

    Fifty years from now … the Zionist entity will almost certainly be gone

    I don’t care so much for Israel (in fact, I’d rather all Jews were over there, than in the West plotting against White Christians). But I hope also that, 50 years from now, all MENA in Europe are back to their own countries too, and Europe is White and Christian again (Pipe dream? Yeah, maybe. But I care more for the existence of European countries as European than for Israel or the Arab countries).

  18. Anonymous[344] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anon

    …..its unprecedented really.

    No, not really. The non-Muslim west is even larger and more materially developed and it still can’t manage to wrest itself of Jewish control.

    But then your argument is flawed from the onset by presupposing that large numbers alone will bring victory.

    Maybe you should try another hobby.

  19. @Anon

    1 Jewish country, 57 Islamic countries. 14 million jews , 1.5 billion Muslims

    Sounds like one heck of a demographic problem. So many goyim! It’ll take a really substantial effort to exterminate them all.

  20. camus10 says:

    saud family will face blowback for going off the zog policy. imagine a HAARP incident followed by regime change

  21. Al Ross says:
    @Kevin Barrett

    Thank you for that pellucid clarification , KB.

    If I may emulate your logic re ” educated people ” , all Indians , Pakistanis and Afro – Caribbeans who speak English, due to historical Imperial Presence, have been genetically transmogrified into Englishmen.

    Surely not ?

  22. Al Ross says:

    The Iran / Saudi accord leaves open the possibility that the self – flagellating Iranian, son – in – law supporters might , painlessly, in the diplomatic sense , meet with the similarly masochistic Easter Parade RC Filipinos.

    Now That’s (((Abrahamic))) Ecumenicalism.

  23. Al Ross says:

    Interesting new development in Malay Muslim tolerance :

    The State Govt of Selangor’s Religious Dept. announced that Muslims in the state would not be permitted to attend weddings in Churches for fear of instantaneous combustion – style , conversion.

    Still allowed in Kuala Lumpur , it being a Federal Territory so what remnants of the capital’s rare social and racial mixing are thus preserved , for now.

    Of course , the Selangor Sultan is the Head of Religion in his eponymous State and the titular authority in matters of Islam, so his Highness may reverse this regional fatwah.

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