The Iranian agenda under its governing, non-Arab Shia, totalitarian theocracy is the annihilation of the one and only Jewish state, Israel. This position has numerous supporters within the Muslim world and Iran certainly supports its rhetoric with actions both politically and militarily using proxies such as Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. Of lesser significance but undoubtedly a threat to Israel are Iraqi Shia based militias.
Since October 7, mainstream media has provided saturation coverage to the Gaza conflict and the numerous protests being staged globally. The United Nations continues to ignore decades long conflicts in Syria, Yemen, the Sahel, Central and Western Africa which have resulted in millions of deaths due to war and starvation. Gaza is the one issue that commands more coverage, commentary and focus than any other conflict and the vast, vast majority of the coverage both from mainstream media and the political elite is from an anti-Jewish state bias. This has resulted in anti-Zionism becoming the new antisemitism and Jews once living in relative security in western democracies are now gearing for their safety as those western governments are too frightened to bring to justice the perpetrators of criminal acts against Jews. The attacks on Jews come from an organized collective of anti-Israel Muslims and those on the far left.
Israel and her supporters are lacking in public relations guile, knowledge and media savvy to effectively challenge the overwhelming, daily onslaught. A few of us undoubtedly have the competencies to do this but naturally are rarely given the platform to do so.
The Gaza conflict has exposed if nothing else, mainstream media corruption, professional incompetence, personal bias of reporters and outright lies. I could point to numerous examples from all media output in the United Kingdom, certainly all the left leaning networks in the USA and the Arab propaganda channel Al Jazeera. There is absolutely no point of resubmitting examples to Blitz readers as other neutral and indeed pro-Israeli publications keep a daily track and report on all such examples.
What the media reports however is just as important to scribes like myself as what the media does not report and purposely ignores. Let me explain.
Since the outbreak of hostilities in Gaza, all reported Palestinian deaths are the elderly, women and children and the pictures of those killed serve as heart rendering emotional propaganda usefully and purposely promoted to support the Palestinian cause. And this has worked a treat as those in the west wave Palestinian and Hamas flags and support antisemitic slogans and chants. We have never seen reports of the deaths of Hamas operatives which are estimated to be approaching twenty thousand. Hamas as a military force has been terminated, hopefully forever. The hundreds of rockets fired into Israel once daily has trickled down to one or two a week indicating that Gaza will no longer pose a military threat to Israel. In effect Iran’s proxy, Hamas has been defeated and Iran has had a limb severed. Israel’s allies know this and Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Morocco are thrilled. Indeed, though keeping quiet, the UK, Italy and France are also overjoyed. Despite the rhetoric coming from Turkey, they too are overjoyed as Erdogan sees himself as the potential leader of the Muslim world. His egomania diving him to achieve what Nasser and Saddam Hussein failed to achieve. In all this, to date, the Palestinians in Gaza, Hamas and Iran are the losers and this appears to be the political, economic and political trajectory. Why? Just as the media fail to report the military devastation of Hamas, they have also failed to report events these last two weeks that have exacerbated this position.
Iran is reliant too on the Houthis in Yemen providing military support in their war against Israel but this objective once a real possibility as shown by Houthi missile attacks has been totally destroyed. How is that you ask? Simply because these last weeks have seen Yemen and especially the geographical areas where the Houthis are based, totally devastated by flooding. Hundreds killed; livestock wiped out; infrastructure already shockingly inadequate, further destroyed; thousands missing; hundreds of thousands displaced; no electric; filthy sanitation; disease affecting tens of thousands and the flooding is expected to continue. Like the biblical floods that destroyed the enemies of the Children of Israel, Yemen too in these last few weeks has suffered similar natural disasters. And totally ignored by mainstream media. Iran has in fact had yet another limb severed.
