In 2009, after reading these lines, I couldn’t put down what this person had written:
“In the 2010s, the conflict between the US and Islamic fundamentalists will disappear, and there will be a second Cold War between the US and Russia. During this period, Central and Eastern European countries will move closer to the US due to Russian geopolitical threats. In the 2020s, the collapse of Russian domination and the fragmentation of China will plunge Eurasia into general chaos; Chechnya and other Muslim regions and Tibet will become independent, while Taiwan will become effective against China… In the 2030s, three major powers will emerge in Eurasia: Turkey, Poland, and Japan. Turkey will expand its sphere of influence and become a regional power, as it was during the Ottoman Empire. Turkey’s sphere of influence will extend to the former Ottoman territories and northward to Russia and other former Soviet Union countries, reaching into the increasingly fragmented Arab world.
George Friedman isn’t just writing these lines for no reason! But if the same person claims that Israel attacked Qatar without America’s approval, or even knowledge, then we need to pause.
Friedman is the child of Hungarian parents who narrowly escaped the Holocaust; he is a geopolitical forecaster and international relations strategist. In 1996, he founded Stratfor, a consulting firm that publishes classified information, and now runs Geopolitical Futures. His analyses on Israel were widely respected.
Is it out of a desire to protect America, or to support Israel’s policy of diversion? Friedman began to assert, almost impulsively, that Israel was engaged in a life-and-death struggle against terrorism. This struggle is, in reality, Netanyahu’s attempt to remain in power by making concessions to extreme Zionist parties in order to escape, as far as possible, from the lawsuit filed against him for allegedly taking bribes and stealing public assets. While this reality is voiced by many party leaders in Israel, Friedman’s presentation of it as Israel’s struggle for existence, to put it mildly, does not suit him. He says Netanyahu will emerge from this struggle by “destroying” Israel; but presenting the issue as a struggle for all of Israel prevents us from seeing possible solutions.
According to Friedman, Netanyahu did not ask Trump whether to attack Qatar; he did not even mention it. “Because,” says Friedman, “you don’t ask a question when you don’t know the answer!” In other words, according to Friedman, if Netanyahu had asked Trump for permission to attack Qatar, “a positive response was not guaranteed; that’s why he didn’t ask.” This line of reasoning refutes the notion that the US is a 100% supporter of Israel; and to me, it just looks like an operation to somehow “exonerate” (clear) the US in Qatar’s eyes.
Israel’s attack on Qatar (as revealed by Israel’s Channel 14 Television itself, despite its denials, through aircraft flight maps) The fact that US and British tanker planes refueled Israeli jets in the air during their 1,700-kilometer flight deeply shook the confidence not only of Qatar but of all Arab countries that view America as a reliable ally (let’s not say “destroyed,” but…).
How could it not be shaken? Qatar is the country where the Central Command (CentCom) unit is based, which is still waiting in the wings to divide Iraq and Syria in order to establish an independent so-called Kurdish state in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and all the Gulf countries, fearing Iran’s Shiite Crescent stretching from Yemen to Lebanon, have given CentCom bases and signed every document from defense cooperation to the Abraham Accords!
And at a time when Israel is in the crosshairs of the Arab and Muslim world, both its people and its government, due to the Gaza Genocide and the ethnic cleansing campaign in Palestine, Trump looks up at the sky and says, “I had no idea!” What Israel said or asked behind closed doors is unknown. But you don’t have to be a Friedman to guess that Trump said, “You didn’t ask us, you didn’t tell us!”
Source: https://www.milliyet.com.tr/yazarlar/hakki-ocal/cevabini-bilmedigin-soruyu-sorma-7445886
