Will Muslim East + BRICS Liberate Palestine?

By Kevin Barrett, for the forthcoming Crescent International, posted here in full for my paid subscribers

In the wake Hamas’s stunningly successful Al-Aqsa Storm and the genocidal Zionist reaction, the whole Muslim East-North Africa (MENA) region is ready to side with the Palestinians—and sideline the United States. Despite heavy US pressure to condemn Hamas and pave the way for a new Nakba, nobody in the region, nor the larger non-Western world, appears eager to follow Occupied Washington’s orders.

Even US vassal countries in Palestine’s neighborhood are rising up against their erstwhile master. Jordan, whose real power center is said to be the US Embassy in Amman, rejected the US-Israeli plan for a Nakba 2.0: “I think I can speak here on behalf of Jordan … but also our friends in Egypt: This is a red line … no refugees to Jordan and also no refugees to Egypt,” King Abdullah said at an October 17 press conference, where German Chancellor Olaf Schulz was pushing the Zio-American plan to expel the Palestinians.

Schulz, playing the role of Uncle Schlemiel’s hapless errand boy, had even less luck in Egypt, whose dictator Sisi, though no friend of Hamas, sharply rebuked the Zio-American plan for a Nakba 2: “What is happening now in Gaza is an attempt to force civilian residents to take refuge and migrate to Egypt, which should not be accepted...Egypt rejects any attempt to resolve the Palestinian issue by military means or through the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land, which would come at the expense of the countries of the region.” Sisi also reacted angrily to Anthony Blinken’s obligatory “my stepfather survived the Holocaust” schtick: “(Jews in Egypt) have never been subjected to any form of oppression...it has never happened in our region.”

Egypt pointedly refused to let the 600 Americans trapped in Gaza leave until humanitarian aid was allowed across the border without Israeli strafing. As of October 21, the first pathetically inadequate load, including one day’s worth of drinking water for 22,000 people (out of a population of 2.3 million) had begun to trickle in.

The slow death of 2.3 million concentration camp inmates (alongside the quicker death of thousands murdered by Israeli bombs) is covertly longed for and celebrated by the West. But the Zionist genocide of Gaza has triggered massive demonstrations across the MENA region, leaving leaders little choice but to side with their people.

Another former US vassal, Saudi Arabia, was even less obedient than Jordan and Egypt.