“When we are killed, do not say we are dead, for in fact, it is you who are dead.”
A Palestinian addressing the Muslim world
The State of Democracy
We live in times where a divided world endures the contradictions of clashing values, interests, and politics. Conventions are being redefined as new ones are established; diplomacy is reduced to a perpetual struggle between acquiescing or demurring. A disrupted global order attempts to discover fresh frontiers and new alliances in the preservation of mutual ideals and common goals. Israel and Iran go to war while the nations of the world witness the drama unfolding. Some take up a position, others remain tentative, leaving space for themselves to maneuver. The rest feel more secure in the anonymity that their silence earns them.
In these recent trials and tribulations that we, the people of the world, have had to stand witness to, we see a powerful US arrogantly exhibit contempt for global conventions by withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, regressing on several nuclear arms treaties such as the INF and the JCPOA, violating the rules laid down and agreed to by WTO and standing out as the only nation in the world to veto a resolution for halting the genocide in Gaza. One wonders what weakness the US, a global leader, found within itself to support the callous murder of hundreds of children in Gaza. The US, by its policies and conduct, is establishing new moral standards to which the world must now grow accustomed.
Starmer of the UK, Macron of France, and Merz of Germany, who collectively represent current-day imperial Europe, have given new meaning to democracy. Displaying a blatant indifference to the civil protests and the popular demand of their people in the streets of Europe, who want peace in Palestine. A travesty of Western leadership unites in implementing a diabolical strategy of “defeating Russia” at the cost of the last Ukrainian. The neo-cons in the United States, such as Lindsey Graham, have reduced diplomacy to threat and war—it’s either “my way or the highway.”
President Trump orders Iran to listen to him or “they will all be killed.” He starts a negotiation in Oman and insists that Iran stop uranium enrichment in totality, while it’s their sovereign right to do so for peaceful purposes. The international agreements governed by the IAEA allow a certain percentage of enrichment for energy projects, etc. Trump did not agree with this and replied with his standard response, “put up or shut up”— a characteristic of the Trump diplomacy. This is just as Zelensky, a comedian disguised as the president of Ukraine, threatens to destroy Russia based on funding, resources, and blind support by a prejudiced West.
This is the environment that now governs the world polity as Israel unfolds its US-requisitioned military muscle and attacks everyone in the region that it pleases, unfettered and unrestrained. One part of the world watches, stupefied, trying to make some sense of Israel’s final objectives and ambitions and to discover what would satiate it enough to let the world live in peace. The other part of the world gloats at Israel’s transgressions and encourages Israel to initiate even more chaotic havoc. The world stands divided.
The Lobbying Power of the Illegal State of Israel
Israel, founded illegally in 1948 on lands in the Middle East belonging to the Palestinians, was conveniently established after evicting the Palestinians. In one stroke, Europe was rid of its Jews, and a proxy state was created at the confluence of Africa and Arabia to control and manipulate both. Israel justifies its forced acquisition of Palestinian territory based on a biblical interpretation of a “Promised Land,” dated to the second millennium BCE. However, if seen in the context of the “Promised Land,” then Israel can and does lay claim to lands up to the Nile and the Euphrates, i.e., Greater Israel. This is reflected in the two blue stripes bordering the Israeli flag, i.e., the Nile and the Euphrates, just as the imagined map covering this land is depicted in its coins.
The Zionists of their time worked their way through the Balfour Declaration of 1917 up to Hitler’s Germany in a bid to establish themselves and control the world. Hitler desired that the Zionists leave Germany, but no one else in the world was willing to accept them, which led to the concept of Israel as an idea and then, later, a state. The Zionists, having lost their hold in Germany and Europe in the 1940s, re-established themselves in the US. The principles of controlling the world are based on the protocols of Zion—gold, media, and entertainment—now practically manifested in:
- Hollywood—Paramount Pictures, Fox Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures are all Jewish-founded and owned.
- Wall Street—Goldman Sachs, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman Brothers, and J&W Seligman are all Jewish enterprises.
- The media, such as the Times Magazines (co-founder Marc Benioff is Jewish) and the New York Times (the Ochs-Sulzbergers, who are Jewish, have majority ownership) is dominated by the Israel lobby.
Using these as platforms, today’s Zionists control more senators in the US system than President Trump, thus controlling American policy. The Zionists have used US wealth and defense equipment to empower themselves in Israel, determining Israel’s efforts towards a Greater Israel. General Wesley Clark, in 2001, is on record as saying that he was told of a plan where, after Afghanistan, 7 countries of the Middle East were to be invaded. These were Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran, which were to be demolished within 5 years.
None of these states fall into critical US national security interests, though the region’s oil resources amply compensated the US for its assertions at Israel’s beck and call. However, the pacification of the region was more in line with the idea of a “Greater Israel.” This was only a prelude to creating a conducive operational environment to facilitate an Israeli dream at US cost. Having subdued Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Lebanon, Syria was appropriately dealt with lately by allowing Abu Mohammed al-Jolani to take over Syria after a short civil war. Jolani was the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Shams (HTS), an affiliate of the IS, and there was a $10 million bounty announced by the US as a reward for his capture.
The Ongoing Israel-Iran Conflict
This stands as testimony to the moral compass that now governs the world, where facts are overwhelmed by twisted narratives and reality succumbs to perceived perceptions. And so we progress to the final part of the plan that needed to be played out, which was to attack Iran, and so on Friday the 13th of June, 2025, Israel attacked Iran. Israel also voiced its intent to expand this war to Pakistan later on to dismantle Pakistan’s nuclear capability, which has remained a source of great concern to it. As such, Iran and Pakistan stand out as the two most threatened nations today, who are seen as the last remaining resilient opposition to Israeli belligerence and who need to be cut to size. All this is happening in the face of amazing Western perfidy openly and brazenly demonstrated through false narratives, selected values, downright lies, and manipulation of facts.
The Danish ambassador illustrated to the world at large the limits of Western hypocrisy when he shamelessly stated at the UN Security Council that Iran was not in compliance with the IAEA. There is no mention that Israel is not even a signatory of the IAEA Charter and is in illegal possession of nuclear weapons, or that there had been an unprovoked Israeli attack on Iran, or that negotiations were ongoing between the US and Iran when Iran was attacked.
The G7 nations recently convened in Canada and, in a historic display of duplicity, stated that Israel had the “right to self-defense,” implying that Israel had been attacked. They said it with a straight face. Then demanded, further, that Iran must not escalate.
Changing the Global Order
Whereas Greater Israel may be the immediate objective, the conflict is part of a much bigger story. It is about the contest of the global economic order. The three major geopolitical players flexing their muscles are the European Union, with its quest for independence from the US and the Global Gateway plan; the US, aiming to contain China’s growing supremacy through its Build Back Better (B3W) program; and China, with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The first of these, the Global Gateway, is still in its infancy and can be ignored for now, but the B3W and BRI stand to contest each other vigorously. The manifestation of the BRI lies in BRICS which is a consortium of nations joining the Chinese system. The B3W challenges this and is trying to contain Chinese global economic dominance. The manifestation of the B3W lies mostly in the Western nations that make up the transatlantic system. Thus, we see the world divided as nations queue up to become members of one or the other. On one side are US-led Western nations, which include Israel and India, while on the other side are China, Russia, Turkey, Pakistan, and other smaller Asian states.
The Middle East is subservient to the West and cannot be counted as an independent entity—it will only do what they are told to do. Thus, as this array of nations faces off into two distinct groups, a quest to expand global power potential arises, especially by the transatlantic order, whose method is based on brute force, coercion, military alliances, threats, and deception. Their modus operandi is to unsettle opposing states through decapitation, regime change, use of overwhelming force, and occupation.
This is being contested by the Asia-Pacific model, which is oriented towards development, progress, prosperity, and global synergy. More and more nations are joining the Asia-Pacific order, with 150 countries now a part of the BRI, recorded in May 2025, making it 65% of the global population and 40% of the global GDP (reference 2017 figures), which is a cause of further consternation to the transatlantic order. The transatlantic group, thus, incited the Russo-Ukrainian War. It did not turn out quite as well as they thought, inadvertently managing to destroy Ukraine in their futile attempt to expand NATO. The frequent animosities displayed in the South China Sea have not translated into open hostilities as yet, but it is only a matter of time before they will. This overall global scenario coincided with Israeli strategic orientations. Israel is an important component of the transatlantic group in controlling parts of the globe that the West has ceded to it. Israel is allowed to freely go about constructing its idea of a Greater Israel within this framework.
To ensure that reactions are contained and responses restricted to any transatlantic expansion through NATO or Israel, it was important to defang Russia. A conventional effort through the Ukrainian proxy state was mounted against Russian bombers that were part of their nuclear delivery system. This violated the international agreement, where bombers had to be displayed on the tarmac and, as such, monitored by all sides.
The MI6, CIA, and especially the Mossad jointly participated in this drone attack, destroying 41 bombers. It was an asinine idea that has led to serious repercussions for Ukraine. This was a typical Israeli innovation with Mossad’s signature written all over it that we now see also unfolding in Iran. Along with this drone attack on Russian airbases, India, too, was encouraged to mount an offensive against Pakistan on the 6th of May 2025 with Israeli support and physical presence, while a benign US smiled on in encouragement.
India received its just rewards, and a ceasefire was announced on the 10th of May. The intent was to test Pakistan’s resolve and capacity to defend itself, which, if it failed to do so, India could strike deeper and destroy Pakistan’s nuclear facilities. It did not happen. The attacks on Pakistan were part of shaping the environment for future attacks on Iran by Israel. Israel attacked Iran despite India’s failure to create the desired effect/environment in Pakistan.
The US tried to restrain Israel in the wake of the Indian failure, hoping to postpone Israeli attacks till India was in a position to do the necessary at an opportune time. India had openly announced that it had unfinished business with Pakistan to attend to and that it did not recognize the ceasefire that it had itself begged for. Nevertheless, Israel went ahead, and the US quickly announced that they were not part of this attack on Iran, since it is assumed they did not think the environment was appropriately shaped yet.
The question is, had Pakistan been defanged, would the US have taken a different position? Yet, now that it appears that Israel has been surprised by the ferocity of Iran’s response, the US has begun posturing with its fuel tankers and naval fleets as a coercive step in bullying Iran to prepare for a ceasefire. It may lead to the US joining the war against Iran, but if it does, it is threatening the Asia-Pacific order, where Chinese interests are critical. In such an eventuality, it is expected that China and Russia would react, and we would be looking at WWIII.
Western Hypocrisy and the Global Order
The unfolding of this drama began on the 12th of June, 2025, when the Board of the IAEA decided to accuse Iran of not complying with the governing regulations. The IAEA discovered this omission suddenly after certifying Iran’s full compliance over the last 30 years. The IAEA is a political body and not a technical one, and as such, it is politicized by US influence, just as most other international organizations are. The announcement by the IAEA led to Israel launching a horrific attack on Iran within 24 hours of their announcement. The stated objective was to facilitate a regime change and to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The real objective was to progress towards the idea of a Greater Israel for the Zionists and to influence a wider swath of area in Asia for the US-led transatlantic global order. Regime change has been the usual pattern established by the US-Israel duo, i.e., cultivate people who are aggrieved with their government, create an environment for insurgency and civil war, mount an attack on the country with standoff weaponry and air supremacy, use the local insurgents to overwhelm the government, and then install them as the representatives of that state—pliant, obedient, compromised, and totally under US-Israeli control.
This was the pattern followed in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and recently Syria. It failed in Afghanistan due to popular resistance, and it did not get the success it was looking for in Pakistan, despite a regime change, because the people are resisting it even to date. The insurgency is usually conducted through proxies who are the IS, Al Qaeda elements and affiliates, TTP, BLA, etc., who are funded, resourced, armed, trained, and directed by intelligence agencies. The agencies usually involved in these clandestine activities are the CIA, Mossad, RAW, and MI6.
On account of this open duplicity and hypocrisy displayed by the West in general and the US-Israeli nexus in particular, the United Nations cannot state a common definition for terrorism that can be universally acceptable—how can it? If Israel murders children in Gaza as a state policy and Syria loses 600,000 of its people for a regime change ordered by President Obama, what would the definition of terrorism be?
Israel recruits dissidents and infiltrates Iran to conduct assassinations of key government officials and pursues vehicle-borne bombs in the streets of Tehran, destroying whole buildings to kill a single person in callous indifference to the scores of civilians, women, and children that it murders. The West is silent as the Iranian embassy is bombed in Damascus in violation of standard international norms; there is not a whimper from the IAEA as Israel violates established international conventions and strikes nuclear facilities in Iran.
Western hypocrisy stands out just as their prejudices and biases always do when dealing with Russia, China, and the Asian bloc, as if these are children of a lesser God. The US has now demonstrated its lack of reliability as a responsible state and can no longer be trusted. With 4.1% of the global population, the US wants to commandeer, control, and dictate to 95.9% of the world’s people.
In this labyrinth of Western deceit and dishonesty, the so-called Muslim Ummah stands equally guilty, shamefully selling itself off to the highest bidder in a perverted understanding of national interests. Artificial states that would never stand the test of time sit in the US lap or under the protection of the West, making brave statements—these states may look good today but lack substance and are truly of no consequence; today they stand exposed for the laughingstocks that they are recognized to be, before the whole world.
Lessons Learnt
So, what has this conflict taught us today? First, Iran will cancel its agreement with the IAEA and then go nuclear with the intent to weaponize the capability. Second, any other self-respecting country in the region that wants to cling to its sovereignty must endeavor to establish a nuclear deterrent as soon as possible or prepare to suffer the consequences.
Third, all US-Israeli proxies must be recognized and should be handled jointly by the affected countries through a combined initiative. Fourth, it must be recognized that there will be no peace in the region till Israel is destroyed or two states are established with an independent Palestine, suitably armed and equipped to contain any further Israeli mischief. Fifth, no country should fall into the trap of regime change, and mechanisms must be structured to identify such plans and to deal with them appropriately.
Sixth, it is time for the nations of the Islamic world to come together, not because of ideology but for survival. BRICS must be expanded sans India, who should be told that it cannot be part of every organization in the world, even those that conflict with one another. Pakistan must try and join BRICS as soon as possible. The fault line is now established, defining where the two opposing ideas meet: the transatlantic order and the Asia-Pacific order, and it runs through Pakistan from the sea up to the mountains.
There must be no ambiguity where nations of the region stand—it is here or there. A mechanism must be structured by the member states of the Asia-Pacific to organize a proper governance system through a suitably structured joint coordinating headquarters. It must be mandated to manage, coordinate, plan, and facilitate interstate trade, finance, defense, and communication. Asia-Pacific, under the tutelage of Chinese leadership, will offer the globe an alternative to diplomacy through prosperity rather than military force.
The Path for Pakistan
In Pakistan’s case, the stage has already been set by the recent Indo-Pak conflict, which concluded with Pakistan acquiring an internationally acclaimed enhanced image. Thus, Pakistan must study the current environment today and establish the threats around it. It is only a question of time before Pakistan too is on the menu. Pakistan is now seen as part of an exponential threat to Israel’s dream of a Greater Israel.
Pakistan is also an important component of the BRI, viz. CPEC and thus an irritant to US interests, which see Pakistan as a Chinese proxy. India, too, sees Pakistan as a perpetual enemy that challenges its regional dominance. Pakistan needs to take immediate safeguards against this array of enemies and detractors. However, first things first, and Pakistan’s priority must be to bridge the divide amongst its people to become one strong, cohesive, unified nation. Its political outlook must emanate from the people up, carrying popular will and the aspirations of its people.
The approach to governance must be institutional in every field, and decisions must be an outcome of collective expert departmental wisdom. Pakistan must promote justice for all, merit in every department, superior education, and the well-being of its people. It’s the only way to establish national cohesion as opposed to beating a sense of patriotism into people by force and fraud.
The genuine bonds of a homogenous population produce the strongest collective resistance against any external intrusion into the affairs of the country. Being the second largest Muslim country, a nuclear state, with a population of 250 million people and the sixth largest military system in the world, Pakistan must put its house in order, first and foremost, and having done that, establish its place amongst the Islamic nations.
Pakistan can and must strive to be acknowledged within the leading nations of the Muslim world with a conspicuous presence. Pakistan must initiate a special conference with Iran, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, and others to establish a consortium of regional states. Those Islamic nations that feel vulnerable and need protection must be allowed to join, provided they embrace a mutually agreed-upon code of principles and a charter of conduct.
Those who are happy to be where they are should remain so, the pet poodles of the west and enjoy their high-rises, but should not be welcome to the comity of self-respecting Islamic states. It is time to reconsider the purpose of the OIC, an impotent, meaningless organization, which may need to be replaced. It is time for Pakistan to take its rightful place, assert itself, and exercise its true potential with which it is blessed.
This consortium must become a recognized and leading component of the Asia-Pacific order with close relations to China and Russia. Nations of this region must never remain helpless like they are, living off handouts from the West and governed by the IMF—it is time for Pakistan, too, to stand up and be counted amongst the proud nations of this region.
“The West’s post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
Philip Gourevitch
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