The next major conflict in the Middle East will be driven by ideology, not territory.
Global conflicts have increasingly been shaped less by disputes over land and more by competing belief systems, religious values, and narratives. Current developments in the Middle East, the United States, and Iran suggest that the next major international confrontation may be defined not primarily by land or oil, but by ideology. The global warfare paradigm is changing before our eyes.
The mainstream Western media environment is playing a central role in this paradigm shift. Traditional journalism, once focused on verification and balance, has increasingly been replaced by what many insiders describe as a global opinion market, where narratives often matter more than facts. This environment has had a significant impact on how the Israel/Hamas war, the situation in Iran, and broader Middle Eastern dynamics are portrayed and understood in international forums.
The truth is, I’ve gained much strength from the brave warriors, by the thousands, that are protesting for their rights right now (as you read these words) in Iran. Their fight against evil is in many ways similar to ours here in Israel, and none of us should keep silent. This includes, of course, the many human rights NGOs. I concluded that if you’re silent about Iran, you’re not on our side, and you were never about human rights in the first place. Instead, you’re mostly about the anti-Israel narrative. The anti-Israel narrative is super popular right now, unfortunately, in the world opinion market, so if you protest that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) is doing something wrong by killing protesters in cold blood, you are indirectly saying that all of Iran’s proxies are also doing something wrong. In short, if/when the Iranian regime falls, so will Hamas, and that’s why all the Gaza protestors (and international NGO’s) are silent.
What nobody seems to realize right now, though, is that all of this is leading step by step to the next big war, which will most likely be based on religion.
That’s right – a war based on ideological beliefs. Current events concur with Jewish Talmudic texts (Tractate Yoma, Midrash and Zohar) which speak about the two great historical empires: Persia (“Paras”) representing Islam, and America (“Edom”), representing Christian theology and the West. It’s clear to me that Iran and the Muslims will be pitted against the United States and the Christians.
Having said that, regarding a future strike/attack on Iran, US President Trump should take into account that the Ayatollah’s war is not against him or the US government specifically, or even against Netanyahu and his Knesset. Iran’s war is not technically against American interests or even Israel – actually against God Himself. It’s about what Americans believe in. As such, what’s about to take place, sooner or later, will ultimately be a war based on ideological beliefs. The reason is that Americans are (predominantly) Christian, and thereby glorify life and freedom, while (Shi’ite) Islam glorifies complete subjugation and/or death.
President Trump now has to deal with all this in some way.
I would add one more thing, i.e., that he should not underestimate his Iranian opponents. There are several reasons for this, off the top:
- China is actively backing Iran with weaponry and submarines in the Persian Gulf and beefed-up protection, including in the Straits of Hormuz
- Terrorist sleeper cells in the US, unwittingly let in by Obama-era doctrines, and carried forth by the Biden administration. They are just waiting for the green light
- Risks of further assassination attempts
What is clear moving forward, therefore, is that at this late stage in history, ideological/religious polarization is reshaping global warfare as we know it, and the nature of the way it’s being represented. Whether this trajectory leads to downright war or prolonged instability in the Middle East remains uncertain, but the reality is that the underlying forces driving it are already firmly in place.
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