By Abdul Masih —
When Israel was proclaimed a nation in 1948, Arab-Muslim states joined together to wipe out the nascent Jewish state.
In a stunning reversal, almost all Arab nations have officially joined Team Israel. In the sequel to the 12-day air war of June in which Israel spanked Iran, the nations of U.A.E., Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait and even Syria are now on Israel’s side fighting against Iran, the Great Terror Promoter.
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia — which tried to portray itself as neutral as the U.S. massed assets for the attack against Iran — started moving troops towards Bahrain. Pakistan, which shares a border with Iran, threatened its Shi’ite neighbor against attacking.
Befuddling fence-rider Qatar — officially a U.S. ally while simultaneously promoting Islamism and giving safe have to international terrorists — has reportedly shot down drowns launched from Iran. Syria moved troops to its border with Lebanon to keep Hezbollah militants from Lebanon out. For its part, Lebanon FINALLY set up check points to crack down on Hezbollah operatives in its borders.

Everybody is jumping on the victory band wagon. It turns out that everybody was pissed off at Iran, and now that it’s clear how the brawl is going to end, have lost their fear of Iran and want a piece of the action to drive nails into the regime’s coffin.
That means they’re on Team Israel.
Israel started beating up the Iranian regime. The U.S. followed with Operation Midnight Hammer that bunker-buster bombed Iran’s underground nuclear weapons site last June. The United States current operations are code-named Epic Fury.
Still, Iran’s neighbors feared the potent Shi’ite regime — until now.

What to expect? These Arab-Muslim nations appear likely to sign peace treaties with Israel, following 2020 Abraham Accords signed of United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Saudi Arabia, with a fanatical past, was coy about signing; it may be the first to sign out of the rubble of the current conflagration.
Part of the story behind the tremendous upsurge in Israel’s standing with previous enemies is the Great Muslim Divide, Sunni vs. Shia. Saudi Arabia and most Muslim nations are Sunni, Iran and its proxies are Shia. Shi’ites are the minority.

Sunnis and Shias pretty much hate each other. They accuse each other of heresy and engage in bloody fights whenever they can.
They come together, at times, to provide a united front against enemies of Islam, frequently Jewish and sometimes Christians. Hence, Qatar provides safe have to Iranian Shi’ite terrorists, as does Afghanistan.
But as Muslim losses have piled up in its wars against Israel, Muslim leaders who resigned themselves to grudgingly sign peace with Israel. This provides them with prosperity with Israeli partnership, but it’s never popular on the street, where anti-Jew hate runs strong as part and parcel of Islam. (While signing peace with Israel on the one hand, Egypt publicly scapegoats Israel for all its problems.)
In a way, it has been easy for the Sunni nations to join Israel because they’re swatting down their hated Shi’ite enemies. In fact, events in the Middle East may now represent the end of Shia altogether.
The Iranian public keeps saying in videos released via Starlink that they don’t want Islam, that Islam was imposed upon them by invaders. Iranians may revert to their previous religion Zoroastrianism, may become atheist, and some are turning to Christianity.

Certainly all the centers of Shia are at an all-time low after wanting to portray themselves as the heroes of Islam by being the only ones fighting against Israel.
Of course, Hamas, the PLO and Fatah are NOT signing up for Team Israel. But with no outside supporters (like Iran), they may be forced to lay down their weapons and accept a future of peaceful coexistence.
We now know what Iran’s Doomsday Weapon is. Prior to the attacks started Saturday, Iran threatened ominously war unleashed in the entire region. Trump was not impressed. “We’ll see,” he deadpanned when asked about it.
The Doomsday Weapon was to unleash 500 ballistic missiles and 2,000 drones against any and all Arab neighbors who cooperated, even minimally, with the United States. Hence, they launched against Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

If it was meant to punish, intimidate or make regret, these attacks backfired. They only served to unify everyone against them, including nations that previously were semi-friendly towards Iran (like Qatar).
The opening salvo of the current strikes against Iran was to hit the Supreme Leader‘s palace when about 40 of his top officials were gathered to make a big decision (apparently they felt safe to meet during the daytime since air strikes come at night. The CIA informed the IDF of the meeting, and Israel acted.) Ali Khamenei died in the strike.
In the days since, an estimated 2,000 targets have been struck including regime leadership, ballistic missiles and nuclear sites. Ten or 11 Iranian Navy ships have been sunk.
Iran’s state T.V. was reporting how they were still operational right when bombs fell and took them off the air. Since then, hackers have taken over the channel and are broadcasting speeches of Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah deposed by the Iranian Revolution of 1979, who proposes to lead Iran’s transition to a democracy.
Israel struck a compound as leaders were voting for the new Supreme Leader.
Tousi T.V. reports that the CIA has been arming Kurdish forces in Western Iran to be the U.S.’s boots on the ground to do the hard work of chasing down and eliminating every Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps member (numbering 190,000) loyal to the cause of supplying terrorism to the world.
Increasingly desperate and isolated, Basij demonstration-suppression paramilitaries began shooting at Iranians on balconies and rooftops when they shout “Death to the Supreme Leader” and “Long live the King!”
Sources: Tousi T.V., Fox News, others.



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