{"id":36641,"date":"2018-08-14T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36641"},"modified":"2018-08-14T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:33:54","slug":"the-deal-smelling-a-rat-arabs-sense-a-coming-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36641","title":{"rendered":"The Deal: Smelling a Rat, Arabs Sense a Coming Humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"The Deal: Smelling a Rat, Arabs Sense a Coming Humiliation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/08\/13\/or-41225.jpg\" alt=\"The Deal: Smelling a Rat, Arabs Sense a Coming Humiliation\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/08\/13\/deal-smelling-rat-arabs-sense-coming-humiliation.html\">The Deal: Smelling a Rat, Arabs Sense a Coming Humiliation<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Iran sanctions have officially been cast. These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level. I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What on earth does this tweet from President Trump \u2013 \u201cI am asking for World Peace\u201d \u2013 mean? It does not at all gel with NY businessman pragmatism: that he wants to diss Obama; or, that he wants to implode Iran in order to recover US energy dominance; or, that with Iran\u2019s implosion, the hitherto obstructed path, would thus be cleared for all Sunni Arab states desirous of normalising and trading with Israel\u00a0\u2013\u00a0so to do.<\/p>\n<p>But the extravagant capitalisation of WORLD PEACE implies that Trump has some wider vision, behind this new American \u2018war of choice\u2019 on Iran. \u2018WORLD PEACE\u2019:\u00a0It strongly suggests Trump leading us toward a definite destiny: not just for America, but for all humanity (\u2018no less\u2019). It is an apocalyptic vision. (i.e. an event that implies something not bad, but rather that the implosion of Revolutionary Iran, somehow will bring human\u00a0Salvation).<\/p>\n<p>The conviction that the crimes and follies of the past can be left behind in some all-encompassing transformation of human life is a secular reincarnation of early Christian beliefs. The very idea of \u2018an event\u2019 which transforms humanity and leads to \u2018Salvation\u2019 owes to religious conviction \u2013 in this case the Jewish apocalyptic current (of which Jesus was an adherent) that was assimilated into early Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>Is this religious eruption Trump\u2019s own? Or, did he absorb it from Ivanka\u2019s conversion to Orthodox Judaism; or, has it emerged out from Trump and Pence\u2019s Evangelical base?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deal: Smelling a Rat, Arabs Sense a Coming Humiliation \u201cThe Iran sanctions have officially been cast. These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level. I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!\u201d What on earth does this tweet from President Trump \u2013 \u201cI am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14457,19428,7844,441,1049,522,8203,827],"class_list":["post-36641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-arabs","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36642,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36641\/revisions\/36642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}