It is happening the way it was supposed to
happen. The people of the Persian Gulf region have responded to their inborn
common sense, and have come to realize that their interests lie not in outdoing
each other but in helping each other overcome the poisonous climate brought to
the region by an imperialist predator whose interest is to dominate the region
and everyone in it.
You can see how this is unfolding in the
article that came under the title: “Iran Extends Goodwill Gestures to Its
Enemies,” and the subtitle: “The Trump administration's 'maximum pressure'
against Iran is unintentionally bringing the Middle East together.” The article
was written by Matthew Petti and published on August 6, 2019 in The National
Interest.
In the past, the Americans never
understood what was happening in the Persian Gulf, and they don't understand
what is happening there even now. They committed massive blunders then, and
they are poised to commit massive blunders again. In fact, America's
understanding of what is happening –– not only in the Persian Gulf but in the
entire Middle Eastern region –– has been derailed and sent down the ravine of
ignorance for at least half a century.
What the Americans are missing is that the
people of the Middle East –– like the countries of Africa and Asia that
suffered under colonialism –– wanted nothing more and nothing less than being
left alone to develop and catch up with the economic and technological progress
that moved ahead of them, leaving them behind. Alas, it did not take these
people long before they realized that the road ahead was not going to be as
smooth as they would have liked it to be.
The harsh realities were that both
external and internal forces played a major role in making the road ahead, a
very difficult one for these people. The external realities were numerous,
among them: (1) the rivalries between the big powers; (2) the interference by
smaller players looking for freebies on which to scavenge; and (3) the
neocolonialist groups, were all out there plotting to halt the progress of
those countries. Internally, the “family feuds” that erupted between the rulers
of the various countries added to the difficulties they had to overcome while
trying to inch forward and modernize.
At the start, the countries of the Middle
East –– like everyone else on the planet –– had such a high regard for America,
they called on it to help them overcome whatever problems they encountered. But
they soon discovered that what they thought was a cure for their ills, was the
poison that aggravated their ills. Rather than help them solve their problems,
America made them worse.
For example, they called on America to
chase Saddam out of Kuwait only to see a decade later that America had fallen
under the control of Jews who ordered the Iraq 2 campaign, and messed up the
Levant like no demon could have done it. They also asked America to help them
get rid of the terrorists in Libya only to discover that the Jews were there
instigating America to effectuate regime change, a move that turned Libya into
a haven for terrorists that no terror organization could have accomplished on
its own.
And then, a new and ominous development
started to bubble-up to the surface, threatening the whole region. It was a
feud that started between Iran and the Jews of Israel; a feud that quickly
morphed into a standoff between Iran and America. The problem is that the
Americans proceeded along the propaganda lines that were fed to them by the
Jews. Listening to lies and exaggerations constantly whispered in their ears
about a deadly struggle between the Sunni Arabs and the Shiite Persians,
America fashioned a policy for the region that turned out to be as useless as a
skunk in your backyard.
Though there has always been a rivalry
between the two branches of Islam, they never fought a deadly war as did the
Christians, for example. In fact, all Muslims lived side by side for more than
a thousand years without anyone but the experts knowing there were two branches
of Islam. It was only late in the twentieth century that the ethnic rivalries
between the Arabs and the Persians –– adopting the European political
ideologies and mimicking their destructive behavior –– began to shed light on
the fact that the Arabs were predominantly Sunni whereas the Persians were
predominantly Shiite.