This article was first published in New View magazine issue #119 April-June 2026

under the title : Jews, Arabs, and the English-speaking World (1)  - The Israel-Iran War 2026

Once again, in the Middle East those often called “the Peoples of the Book” – Jews, Christians, and Muslims – are at war, disturbing the peace of the world. This time it is Jews and ‘Christians’ versus Muslims, but it is also Sunni Muslims in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia versus the Shia Muslims of Iran and their co-sectarians in the Gulf States, Lebanon and Yemen. Sunni and Shia in Afghanistan and Pakistan may yet also join in, as may Azerbaijan and Turkey, both of which stand to gain from a break-up of Iran and/or the weakening of its power as a state. The war would not be happening, however, if Israel’s powerful English-speaking ally, the USA, had not agreed to attack Iran with Israel.

After 40 years of urging America to attack Iran and overthrow its regime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel seems to have finally been given what he wanted. And why did he want that? Because he regarded Iran as “an existential threat” to Israel. As a militant Muslim theocracy, the Iranian regime under its first Ayatollah and Supreme Leader, Ruhollah Khomeini (1979-1989), had made clear that it could not accept the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and its occupation of Palestinian lands which the Iranian theocracy saw as a crime of European (Jewish) colonialists backed by western Powers, notably the US and UK, expropriating Muslims of their lands. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad (2005-2013) repeatedly stated that crimes against Jews in Europe during the Second World War should not have been used to establish a Jewish state in the Middle East, expropriating Muslims of their land. The Iranian regime was thus opposed to the Zionist regime in principle, while the Israelis were therefore bound to see in Iran their most formidable enemy in the region.

The Israelis had already managed to secure nuclear material from the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson (President John F. Kennedy had been opposed to Israel becoming a nuclear Power) and were able to construct nuclear weapons. It has been known for decades that Israel has nuclear weapons; Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu was abducted from Italy and imprisoned in Israel for 18 years in 1986 (11 of them in solitary confinement) for releasing information about Israel’s nuclear weapons – but the Israeli government has always refused to say anything about them or to allow any inspections of its nuclear facilities by a body such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In such a situation, given that Israel, founded by Zionists, was not going to give up its undeclared nuclear weapons but was very public about declaring itself to be a state for the Jewish people rather than a state for both Jews and Arabs, and given that the Islamic Republic of Iran was not going to give up its opposition to this Zionist state, which it saw as imposed on the Muslim world from Europe by the Western Powers, it was almost inevitable that Iran, unwilling to tolerate a situation in which Israel should be the only state in the region with nuclear weapons, would itself seek to develop them. An obvious solution would have been for the countries of the world as a whole, through the United Nations, to insist that no country in this volatile region should be allowed to possess nuclear weapons, in line with international nuclear non-proliferation strictures. But that was an equally obvious non-starter due to the power of pro-Zionist lobbies in the USA, which ensured that the US would block, through its veto in the UN Security Council, any moves against Israeli nuclear weapons.

Iran and Israel: strategies

From the early 1980s, both Israel and Iran therefore developed strategies to undermine each other’s position. Iran could not strike Israel directly overland, so it supported Shia militia groups in Lebanon (such as Hezbollah) and later, Iraq, Yemen and Syria – groups which could either attack Israel directly or attack the forces of Israel’s backer, the USA, which had built up its own network of military bases across the Middle East. Iran also provided money and weapons to the Hamas organisation and later administration in Gaza, despite Hamas being a Sunni, not a Shia Muslim organisation. For its part, Israel took to killing 18 Iranian scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear energy program by terrorist assassinations and airstrikes.¹ It has supported Iranian dissident rebel groups such as the leftist Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), conducted airstrikes against Iranian allies in Syria and Lebanon, invaded southern Lebanon in 1982 and 2006 and attacked Iranian forces in Syria. Israel has benefited from its cultural power abroad – through Jewish-owned organs of mainstream media and Jewish journalists, writers, TV and filmmakers etc., to keep up a steady stream of anti-Iranian propaganda for 47 years since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which led to the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Three years later, the Oded Yinon Plan was created in Israel to neutralise, undermine or destroy all of Israel’s potential enemies in the region.² One by one, over the next 40 years, all the goals of the plan were achieved, but only with the aid of the USA: peace was made with Egypt and Saudi Arabia; the regimes in Iraq, Libya, and Syria were destroyed and left in fragmented chaos – until only the regime in Iran remained.

The USA and Israel also assisted to split Sudan, which then fell into ongoing civil war, and by seeking to suppress potential anti-Israel forces in Sudan. In 2019, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – also known as Hemedti – the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are backed by Israel and the United Arab Emirates in their war against the Sudanese government of Khartoum in Sudan’s ongoing civil war, signed a deal with a Canadian lobbying firm Dickens and Madson, founded by former Israeli intelligence agent and arms dealer, Ari Ben Menashe, to provide political (lobbying) and military (weapons) support to Hermedti in his fight against his civil war rival, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan.  The strategic location of Sudan’s Red Sea coast would enable Israel to monitor sea lanes and counter influence from Iran or China, which has had a major military base further down the Red Sea in Djibouti since 2017. In Sudan, Israel’s Foreign Ministry  has been building ties with General al-Burhan, while Israeli military Intelligence (Mossad) leans more towards Hemedti’s RSF; whichever of the two men come out on top, Israel will seek to benefit. The RSF has also expressed support for the normalisation of relations with Israel and the signing of the ‘Abraham Accords’, the organisation  which President Trump’s first Administration set up in 2020 to bolster Israel’s position in the Middle East and northeast Africa by normalising Israel’s relations with Muslim rulers. Most Sudanese oppose normalisation, which is why Israel has looked for military men like Hemedti to champion its cause in the country through fomenting civil war. Israel also backed separatists in Muslim majority Somalia who set up their own breakaway state called ‘Somaliland’ – to date recognised only by Israel – and are favourable to joining the Abraham Accords. Such fragmentation of states potentially or actually hostile to Israel is a key aspect of the Oded Yinon Plan.

Iran is a multi-ethnic state; Persians make up only 51% of the population, the other minorities being Azerbaijanis (24%), Gilaks and Mazandaranis 8%, Kurds 7%, Arabs 3%, Lurs 2%, Balochis 2%, Turkmens 2%, and other groups in smaller percentages: including Armenians, Jews, Assyrians, ad Qashqai (see map above) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran]

Donald Trump’s Jewish Connections

The Administrations of Presidents Bush and Obama were reluctant to take on Iran, but Donald Trump is a president who is far more beholden to Jewish interests than Bush or Obama; his whole career has been built up with the support of those interests, beginning with the Jewish lawyer Roy Cohn in the 1970s, who became a mentor to Trump and taught him a number of aggressive business techniques.³ Trump’s Jewish links extend into his own family; his eldest daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner, son of Jewish real estate mogul and convicted felon, Charles Kushner (later appointed ambassador to France by President Trump who had pardoned his crimes in 2020). Trump made Jared and Ivanka Senior Advisors to the President in his first term (2017-2021). In his second term, Jared Kushner has, together with yet another Jewish real estate billionaire, Steve Witkoff – both of them ardent Zionists – been Trump’s chief negotiator for major crises such as Ukraine, Gaza and Iran (until the outbreak of the current war with Iran).

The Jewish casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson (d. 2021), another close friend of Trump’s, proposed in 2013 “that [then]President Obama should scrap nuclear negotiations with Iran and instead fire a nuclear weapon into ‘the middle of the [Iranian] desert’”. Of Adelson and his wife (now widow) Miriam, Trump “boasted that Miriam and Sheldon Adelson were ‘responsible for so much’ during his first term including when he ‘terminated the disastrous Iran nuclear deal’, the deal negotiated in 2015 that limited Iran’s nuclear enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief.” It was at “the behest of Sheldon Adelson [that] Trump pulled out of the Iran deal in May of 2018, ending American diplomacy with Iran and ushering in harsher American sanctions on Iran designed to pave the way for regime change.” “Trump boasted earlier this year that ‘Miriam gave my [2024 Presidential] campaign, indirectly and directly, $250 million, she was number one’, and credited her for when he claimed to have ‘terminated Iran’s nuclear program [in June 2025] with, things called B-2 bombers’”.⁴

And then there is the ongoing issue of Trump’s connections to the disgraced Jewish pedophile and probable agent for Mossad (Israeli Intelligence), Jeffrey Epstein, an issue which Trump has tried hard – but as yet failed – to dismiss since his second term began, and an issue which may yet bring down his presidency in America’s 250th anniversary year (since its Independence in 1776). Certainly, many of his former supporters, such as media personalities Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, and former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, now openly question whether Trump is an ‘America First’ or an ‘Israel First’ president. The evidence from the files of Jeffrey Epstein, which have still not all been released in their entirety despite the promises of Trump Administration officials, is already considerable that Epstein was an Israeli agent who, together with the British Jewish socialite Ghislaine Maxwell (now in prison in the US and daughter of the late Robert Maxwell, a confirmed Mossad agent), was running a sexual blackmail racket to entrap and control powerful members of the British and American elites in the interests of Israel. Due to all these Jewish connections in his life and career, in his first term as President, Trump moved the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and formally recognised the city as the capital of the State of Israel. (The embassy had been in Tel Aviv, Israel’s largest city; Jerusalem had NOT been the internationally recognised capital since 1950. Israel seized West Jerusalem in 1948 (the UN Partition Plan in 1947 had provided for it to be administered internationally] and seized East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 6-Day War in 1967.) Trump also cancelled the nuclear energy deal with Iran that the Obama Administration had secured, but he has done little to reduce the 750 military bases abroad in 80 foreign countries and colonies (territories), which cost US taxpayers at least $80 billion a year.

Total US aid to Israel 1948-2025 is $300 billion – $124 billion of that has been in military aid. US aid to Israel currently stands at $3.8 billion a year ($500 million on missiles alone), over 70% of which is required to be spent on purchases of US military equipment. 78% of Israel’s arms purchases since 2000 have been from the USA.⁵ A US law passed in 2008 by the George W. Bush Administration, and buried under the innocuous-sounding “Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2008” (PUBLIC LAW 110–429⁵ – 15 Oct. 2008: Nb. at the height of the global economic crisis that autumn) required, under TITLE I, Sec. 201, the U.S. government to maintain Israel’s “qualitative military edge over military threats to Israel”. “Since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas on October 7, 2023, the United States has enacted legislation providing at least $16.3 billion in direct military aid to Israel. … Of the total, $6.7 billion is for missile defence.”⁶

‘De-dollarisation’

Besides the enormous profits for the US military-industrial complex⁷, three other factors ought to be mentioned with regard to the current Israeli-US war against Iran. Two will be discussed below, in this first part of the article, and the third, more deep-rooted factor will feature in the second part, in the next issue of New View. The first of the three factors is the American elite’s determination to crush ‘de-dollarisation’ i.e. the bid to end the status of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency in which most of the world conducts its international trade. In March 2023, China successfully mediated an agreement to restore relations between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, a remarkable achievement that no Western country had been able to secure since the founding of the Iranian Islamic Republic in 1979. A year later, it became clearer what was behind China’s strategy. On 1 January 2024, the original BRICS economic group of nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa – accepted Iran and Saudi Arabia into BRICS, along with other new, permanent members United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Ethiopia. Given Iran’s ‘weight’ in world energy markets, Russia and China were now a big step closer to their goal of ending the US dollar’s primacy as the world’s reserve currency (China and Russia already trade oil in yuan and rubles) and removing the control of the international financial system by Wall Street and the City of London which has existed for about 150 years. This is something Washington DC cannot allow because the reserve currency status of the dollar requires countries around the world to do their international business in dollars and thus underpins the US economy, keeps inflation low in the USA and helps maintain American global power. It also enables the US government to raise trillions of dollars at minimal interest rates and with virtually zero risk on international capital markets and doing so in US dollars issued by the US Federal Reserve. This is called “exorbitant privilege” in financial circles.

Saddam Hussein [Iraq 2003], Muammar Gaddafi [Libya 2011], and Nicolás Maduro [Venezuela 2026] have all paid the price for trying to move away from trading in dollars. The US attacks on each of their countries were framed by the US government and by media throughout the West in moral terms: weapons of mass destruction, protection of civilians, the war on drugs and of course, the liberation of a people from a brutal dictator. The American attack on Iran is most likely aimed at foiling the Russo-Chinese strategy and at weakening China itself, because China imports around 70% of its total oil and gas needs, with a significant portion from the Middle East, particularly Iran, which provides 13.4% of total Chinese oil imports. Moreover, the Persian Gulf region in chaos would mean a harsh economic blow to Chinese interests.

The modern era and the primacy of economic life

During and after the First World War, Rudolf Steiner described in many lectures how since the 15th century, the world has been moving into a period of history which will be dominated for many more centuries by economic thinking rather than by religion as in the ancient Near East (3rd – 1st millennium BC) or by political and military thinking, as in the Greco-Roman period (8th century BC – 15th cent. AD). In this ‘economic period’, he pointed out, it is the English-speaking peoples who rise to power and seek to maintain it, mainly through economic means as we have seen since the 17th century, and when these means do not suffice, they then resort to war, but usually taking great care to mask their economic motivations for war by professing moral and humanitarian concerns.

Rudolf Steiner points to the deeper background to this situation in that humanity as a whole has been descending for many millennia from a continuous awareness and immersion in a spiritual reality more deeply into earthly reality. As it has done so, humanity has gradually abandoned its spiritual concerns and plunged into material ‘interests and delights’, hence the growth of materialistic and economic thinking, the increase in atheism, the abandonment of traditional religion and the decay of politics etc., especially in the West, where these processes have proceeded faster than elsewhere. The descent of humanity from realms of spirit light down into increasingly dark levels of matter   - and into subterranean levels with the exploration and exploitation of the mineral realm – has been necessary in that, had we only stayed connected within a spiritual realm, we would have remained as ‘children’, subject to our vastly more powerful ‘parents’ (i.e. several hierarchies of spiritual beings who are all far more intelligent and conscious than us). It has been in the darkness, as it were, that we have found our individual freedom, although great spiritual beings and great human beings have accompanied us into this darkness so that we would not completely lose our way and become entirely subhuman. Such great human beings were called in the past saints and sages. The greatest spiritual being was the Being known as Jesus Christ who, according to Steiner,⁸ lived a full human existence for three years until His Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension – events Steiner referred to collectively as ‘the Mystery of Golgotha’.

He showed that In addition to the many spirits whose lights have helped us find our way in the dark, there have also been spiritual forces – traditionally called ‘evil forces’ – whose task it has been to push us further down into the moral and cognitional darkness, yet in doing so they actually contribute to our freedom through the wakeful resistance to them that we are able to bring to our dealings with them in order to find the way forward. Steiner reveals how, since the last two decades of the 19th century, these spiritual beings have been especially active in human thinking, so that the materialistic and economic thinking and motivations that have been growing since the end of the Middle Ages have greatly increased, notably along with our technological ‘progress’, enormously accelerating these developments.⁹ Steiner pointed out that human beings who serve these spirits, sometimes consciously but often unconsciously, are particularly to be found among the elites of the English-speaking peoples in their political and economic leadership circles. This phenomenon does not mean, of course, that there is something especially wicked or evil about individuals in the English-speaking countries, but only that English-speaking culture as a whole has had a particular task or mission, so to speak, to foster material development in this phase of history, the approximately 2000 years from the 15th to the 36th centuries, which astrologers call the Age of Pisces and Steiner named the ‘Age of the Consciousness Soul’ (a time when human beings would gradually become aware of themselves not as mere personalities but as individual spirits experiencing a material existence). From Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton on through James Watt, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, to name just a few, and on to Francis Crick, Steve Wozniak and Sir Tim Berners-Lee¹⁰ in more recent times, it is obvious that this task has been a hallmark of English-speaking culture.

The phenomenon referred to above also does not mean, however, that the leaders of the nations or groups who have opposed the English-speaking peoples over the past 200 years or so were necessarily saints or laudable figures – in many cases far from it – but rather, it means that there is a certain drive to personal self-centredness in Anglophone culture that is rooted in the notion that “I only have this one life and so I must enjoy this world, which is only a material world, as much as I can, and if necessary, by setting aside the interests of others, even though I recognise that other individuals have the same basic motivation as me” – which tends to make ‘islands’ of English-speaking people who all too easily come to regard others as ‘rivals’. This ‘rival’ mentality underpins the English-speaking world in its competitiveness in politics, business and sports.

It is an historically observable trait of English-speaking culture that it breaks down traditional collectivist affiliations and attachments and makes people into personal, and more or less alienated, isolated (‘insular’, so to speak) ego-beings – but it does not take them further; it leaves them there, in an isolated, but very personal condition, in a world considered by such isolated ego-beings to be only material. The aim of those who lead English-speaking culture and its economically-focused motivations is – paradoxically, for the sake of promoting the ‘freedom’ of such egocentric – beings – to turn the whole world in this same direction, to lead all of humanity not to the sun-inspired ‘sol-ation’ of the I, in which the human I would be united with the sun of Christ, but rather, into ‘the desert’ of isolation, as it were, where the individual is faced with one, two, or all three of the same basic temptations as Jesus Christ faced when, as is described in the Gospels, He went into the desert for 40 days after His Baptism by John, and was tempted three times by demonic spiritual beings of the type mentioned above. Such beings assault us today with analogous temptations; questions they might ask would be such as: are you willing to risk destroying yourself mentally or physically by casting yourself into the pleasurable abyss of material self-indulgence? Are you able to boost your ego so much that you try to rule the world or at least, that part of it which surrounds you? Why not prefer what is ‘dead’ (the inorganic, mineral condition) to what is living (the organic world, including ourselves) and choose, through the ‘magic’ of technology, not merely to live but to exist, by exercising the power that technology gives?

Strategies

It is for this complex of reasons that those who steer the English-speaking world feel they must dominate the whole world, so that the whole world will come to think and act like them and therefore they must prevent – as they have sought to do – any challenge to their domination, and to the US dollar, by Russia and China, powers they consider to be outmoded and regressive – as in some respects they are. The attack on Iran is therefore a prelude to the next phase of the ‘containment’ of China and of its economic expansion, and if that fails, it will be a prelude to the eventual war against China. Meanwhile the war against Russia, through the use of the West’s proxy regime in Ukraine, has been going on since 2014, when the USA prompted a coup d’etat in that country against its democratically elected president and sought to seize Russia’s naval base at Sevastopol in the Crimea. Both Russia and Iran are key allies of China, the de facto leader of the BRICS group. China, which depends heavily on Russia for its energy, and to a lesser extent on Iran, has over a billion people and is the workshop of the world in modern times; Russia has 144 million people, its ally Belarus 9 million, and Iran 92 million – a total of 1,245 million. ‘Against them’ are America (341 million) and its satellites the EU (450 million), Japan (124 million), S. Korea (52 million) Canada (41 million), Australia (27 million) New Zealand (5 million) and Israel (10 million) – a total of  around 1,110 million. A moot question is which way India (1.4 billion) will jump, as well as the rest of the (non-Shia) Muslim world (about 1.7 billion), Central and South America (about 487 million), and most of Africa (about 1.1 billion).

In contrast to the grand global strategies of China, Russia, and America, Zionist Israel has its own agenda, part of which – the Oded Yinon Plan – I mentioned earlier. The other part is the plan for ‘Greater Israel’, which is rooted more in religious motivations than in military strategy. In the 1930s, militant Zionist groups such as Betar and the Irgun regarded the lands of the Palestine Mandate¹¹ together with Transjordan as ‘Greater Israel’, but ‘The Movement for Greater Israel’, which began after the Six-Day War in 1967 – when Israel conquered the whole Sinai Peninsula up to the Suez Canal – advocated for Israeli possession of the supposedly biblical lands from “the brook of Egypt [the Nile] to the River Euphrates” (Genesis 15:18-21).

The Likud Party led by Menachem Begin, which first came to power in 1977, adopted this vision, as did Benjamin Netanyahu, who said in August 2025 to Israel’s i24News that he feels very connected to “Greater Israel” (being the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank as well as parts of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.) Netanyahu himself, however, is not religious, although his paternal grandfather, Nathan Mileikowsky, was a rabbi and a Zionist activist and writer. ¹² Many soldiers in the Israeli army, the IDF, wear patches on their uniforms showing maps of “Greater Israel”¹³, and the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, in an interview with Tucker Carlson in February 2026, even said “it would fine if Israel took it all”¹⁴, meaning all the lands associated with ‘Greater Israel’ – from the Nile to the Euphrates delta, which would mean Israel conquering large parts of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, as well as all of Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon. Since the genocidal attacks on Israel by Hamas on one day – 7 October 2023 – and the subsequent two-year genocide of Gazans by Israel, there has been much evidence in social media and in Israeli media of a very visible degrading of moral sentiment in Israel with regard to the Palestinians and Arabs in general, a ruthless dehumanisation. It is not therefore surprising that many Israelis might feel now that ‘this war with Iran is our moment to realise Greater Israel’, and furthermore, to build the Third Temple on Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which would necessitate the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, the third holiest site in Islam, and the Al-Aqsa mosque, which have stood on that site since the 7th century. For many Jews, especially Orthodox Jews, the coming of their mashiach (messiah) must be preceded by the rebuilding of the Temple (the ‘House of the Lord’) in the very same place where the previous two temples stood on the Temple Mount – the first temple, built allegedly by King Solomon in the 10th century BC and the second temple, built by Zerubbabel c. 516 BC. There are many Orthodox Israelis who see all these events as presaging the coming of their mashiach, just as there are Christian Zionists in the USA who see them as signs of the “End Times” and the Second (physical) Coming of Jesus.¹⁵

There are also many Muslims who have long felt that a war by the United States and Israel against Iran will lead to a world war, and the coming of the apocalyptic Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the deceitful messiah), a being who corresponds somewhat to the Antichrist  The Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, Muslims believe, will be defeated by the Mahdi and the prophet Isa (Jesus) when they return before the Last Judgement. Steiner was very clear, however, that the Second Coming of Christ is already occurring, but in the etheric world, the invisible world of forces which informs all life  and that some human beings will have been able to perceive the Christ in this realm since around 1933 and more will do so as time goes on. According to Steiner, the physical Incarnation of Christ occurred only once, nearly 2000 years ago. From this perspective, the ‘Christian Zionists’ eagerly awaiting what they believe is a second physical Coming of Christ are, therefore, deluded, as are the Jews awaiting the rebuilding of their Temple and the coming of their Messiah, who already came in the flesh 2000 years ago, recognised by many but not by most.

The final factor relating to the war between Israel and Iran has to do with the much wider issue of ‘Semitic’ – that is, both Jewish and Arab – influence in the English-speaking world in particular and in the West in general since 1500; for both Jews and Arabs consider themselves descended from the sons of Abraham: Isaac and his older half-brother Ishmael, respectively. Jews and Arabs and most of the other peoples in the Near East belong to the Semitic group of peoples, although Iranians, Egyptians, Armenians, Azeris and Turks do not. ‘Semite’ and ‘Semitic’ are words that do not apply only to Jews. This issue of Jewish and Arab influence in the English-speaking world explains why the Middle East and Palestine have come to play such a significant role in modern history and why the region is turmoil once again today. It deserves an article in itself, so the second part of this article will appear in the next issue of New View.

NOTES

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinations_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists

2 Published in February 1982 in the Hebrew journal Kivunim (“Directions”) and entitled ‘A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s’. the plan was drawn up by Oded Yinon, an advisor to the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and also a former senior official with the Israeli Foreign Ministry and a journalist at The Jerusalem Post newspaper. Kivunim was published by the World Zionist Organization’s department of Information in Jerusalem. Yinon argued that the Arab states were a ‘temporary house of cards put together by foreigners’ and he concluded that “Israel should aim to bring about the fragmentation of the Arab world into a mosaic of ethnic and confessional groupings”. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan

3 https://www.biography.com/legal-figures/a60776177/roy-cohn-donald-trump-friendship

4 https://the307.substack.com/p/how-the-war-with-iran-was-bought

5https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Naval_Vessel_Transfer_Act_of_2008#SEC._201._ASSESSMENT_OF_ISRAEL’S_QUALITATIVE_

MILITARY_EDGE_OVER_MILITARY_THREATS.

6 https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-aid-israel-four-charts

7 One single Patriot anti-missile air defence system costs $8.5 billion and includes: six launchers, two radar stations, 56 missiles and various items of supporting equipment, spare parts and technical assistance. See:

https://en.defence-ua.com/news/us_reveals_shocking_85_billion_price_tag_for_patriot_with_6_launchers-15703.html

8 See Steiner’s lecture cycles on the Gospels of John (1908 Collected Works GA 103), Luke (1909 GA 114), Matthew (1910 GA 123) and Mark (1910/11) GA 124.

9 See R. Steiner, The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, fourteen lectures 1917, GA 177 and The Challenge of the Times, six lectures 1918, GA 186.

10 Francis Crick (1916-2004), English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, co-discoverer of the helical form of the DNA molecule. Steve Wozniak (b. 1950), electrical engineer, computer programmer, inventor, co-founder of Apple Computer. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, (b. 1955) computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web, URL, HTML, HTTP.

11 The land of Palestine, formerly belonging to the Ottoman Turkish Empire, mandated to Britain to administer by the League of Nations in 1919 and ruled by Britain until it withdrew unilaterally in 1948.

12 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahu-embraces-greater-israel-vision-including-parts-jordan-and-egypt

13 https://www.eyerys.com/sites/default/files/the-greater-israel-map-2.webp

14 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OUul77JGqEE

15 Two of these American ‘Christian Zionists’ are pastor John Hagee, leader of Christians United for Israel (10 million members) and Paula White-Cain, Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor, who frequently ‘speaks in tongues’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJVS9RsIrN8  and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPnh3u1vBs