If you search for the individuals who held the most powerful
positions in history, you'll find them to be not those who sat on the throne
and uttered commands in full view of their subjects. Rather, you'll find them
to be the unseen individuals who whispered in their ears when no one was
watching, and no one was hearing what's being said.
Yes, there were a few individuals, such as Niccolo
Machiavelli and Grigori Rasputin, who held a public position in addition to
being advisers to the sovereigns they served, but they were a rare exception.
Most of the others preferred to remain anonymous as far as the general public
was concerned, and remain mysterious in the eyes of the sovereigns that
employed them.
They asked for and were given a place they quickly shrouded
in mystery and called it sanctuary. They went into it alone, and let it be
known they performed secret rituals that put them in touch with a supernatural
force that revealed the future to them. They claimed that this relationship
gave them the knowledge and wisdom that made them indispensable to the
well-being of the sovereign, and to the security of the empire ruled by the
sovereign. They thought of themselves as the anointed inviolables, and wanted
the world to know it.
By the time the Age of Enlightenment had reached Europe – around the seventeenth century – that position
was officially taken off the rolls. But the sovereigns and everyone below them
remained as superstitious as the people of ancient times … as indeed, many
people are to this day. At the time, the people did not have a system of
horoscope like what we have today, but they had the seers who looked into the
stars and told those who paid them what the future held for them and their
families.
Eventually, education developed to such an advanced stage
that society did away with the supernatural force said to inform the anointed.
Society replaced the force with books that were put at the disposal of anyone
who cared to read them and learn about the things that interested them. From
that point on, knowledge and wisdom were no longer monopolized by the few.
Still, human nature being what it is, there are charlatans
even today, who pretend to have special gifts that make it possible for them to
connect dots and see the future better than anyone else. The sad part is that
some people believe them and contract them to tell the future. In reality,
however, the charlatans do more than get paid for their quackery; they weave
their own agenda into the fake message they deliver in fulfillment of the
contract.
You can see an example of that in the article that came
under the title: “By All Means, Take Mosul but...” and the subtitle: “ISIS,
like the matador's red cape, distracts from the truly mortal danger – a nuclear
Iran chanting 'Death to America .” It
was written by Mark Helprin, and published on October 24, 2016 in the Wall
Street Journal.
To see what Helprin is getting at, it is useful to recall
the historical context in which his current discussion was forged. The year was
2003, and America had just
destroyed Iraq
according to a plan that was drawn a decade earlier by agents of the Jewish
establishment. Actually the plan included the destruction of Syria and Iran
too, but this part remained an aspiration only because the pretext that led to
the invasion of Iraq
proved to be a baseless Jewish fabrication.
The Jewish dream never died, however, being the very thing
that Helprin is expressing in his article. Actually the Jews got part of their
dream fulfilled because the events in Iraq
metastasized and spilled into Syria ,
destroying it as badly as Iraq .
What remains to be destroyed for the full dream to be realized, is Iran . The irony
is that for every pound of loss suffered by Iraq
and Syria , there has been a
corresponding ton of gain made by Iran . The reality is such that some
people already describe Iran
as a superpower that's getting stronger by the day.
In fact, this is what Helprin is doing in his article besides
urging America and its
allies to destroy Iran
before it will be too late to do so. Here, in condensed form, is what he says
in that regard:
“Much more befitting of the power and history of the U.S.
and its allies would be to sever and destroy the bridge that Iran has built
from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean … This entity will have the oil wealth of
Iran and Iraq; ports on the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, and Indian Ocean …
If this power turns its eyes south to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Middle East
will be entirely transformed”.
This is the articulation of Helprin's Jewish agenda, woven
into a set of predictions made to look like the scholarly work of a learned
man.