By Kevin Barrett, for Maghrebi.org
The phrase “clash of civilizations” was coined by Zionist MI6 advisor Bernard Lewis in his 1990 essay “The Roots of Muslim Rage.” In that article and elsewhere, Lewis portrayed Islam in general, and Muslim irredentism in particular, as a major threat to Western civilization. Lewis’s work paved the road to the 9/11 false flag operation and subsequent “War on Terror”—in reality a barely-veiled war on Islam.
While posing as a pro-West geostrategist, Lewis was covertly serving a racist, anti-European, anti-American messianic-millenarian Jewish supremacist agenda. Hardline Zionism, as represented by Lewis and his friend and protégé Benjamin Netanyahu, is not a secular nationalist movement, but a fanatical Jewish heresy dating back to 1496. In that year, Rabbi Don Isaac Abarbanel published the first volume of his Messianic Trilogy calling for Jews to foment a cataclysmic war between Christianity and Islam. After the Christians and Muslims had destroyed each other, Abarbanel wrote, a world-conquering Jewish messiah would arise to enslave all non-Jews and make the world a paradise for the Chosen People.
Netanyahu’s father Benzion, a Princeton professor, was an acolyte of Abarbanel. So, we may surmise, was Bernard Lewis. Abarbanel’s project—a Jewish plan to incite a cataclysmic clash between Christian and Islamic civilizations in service to messianic Jewish fever dreams—was brought to fruition on September 11, 2001.
Twenty-five years later, that project has encountered a major obstacle: Islamic Iran’s geography-enhanced military prowess. The Zionist-occupied United States has effectively lost its war on the Islamic Republic. American decision-makers, among them the orange baboon in the Oval Office, are facing a stark choice: abject surrender on one hand, and unleashing apocalyptic destruction on the entire Middle East on the other. The messianic-millenarian Zionists naturally favor the latter option.
If the US follows Israeli orders and carries out a massive strike against Iranian infrastructure, Iran will unleash even greater destruction on all regional countries complicit in the American war of aggression. Facing the prospect of the total and permanent demolition of their countries, which would revert to barely-inhabitable desert following the loss of their electrical and desalinization facilities, Gulf Arab leaders are beginning to realize that their Zio-American self-styled protectors are not friends, but mortal enemies.
That is why on August 26, 2026, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement. Though it achieves plausible deniability by masquerading as an attempt to protect the Saudis against Iran and its Axis of Resistance allies, the MJDA is, in reality, primarily aimed at deterring Israeli expansionism. By committing Pakistan’s nuclear forces to the defense of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the MJDA erodes Israel’s power to threaten those two nations, and potentially other regional nations, with nuclear obliteration. Lacking a regional nuclear monopoly, the Zionists will be unable to launch future wars of aggression aimed at establishing a Greater Israel by stealing everything between the Nile and Euphrates rivers, as their Bronze Age tribal deity Yahweh ordered 2500 years ago.
The MJDA’s covert purpose was recently hinted at by Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus. On September 25, Kurtulmus announced that the pact is intended to expand and include the whole Muslim world, and that he hoped Iran would join. The region’s real enemy, he said, was Israel and its “hostile policies”—a euphemism for Jewish-supremacist genocide, expansionist aggression, and messianic-millenarian madness.
The prospect of a pan-Islamic MJDA is bad news for Zionism, but good news for Islamicate civilization. As Samuel Huntington wrote in The Clash of Civilizations, the Islamic world has “bloody borders.” What Huntington failed to mention is that in virtually every case, those borders are bloody because the non-Islamic has been aggressively encroaching on, and plundering, the Islamic side. Muslim majority nations coming together to defend their interests and take sovereign control of their own resources, as Iran did with its 1979 revolution, would enhance global peace and stability by putting an end to centuries of aggression from the non-Muslim side.
A pan-Islamic MJDA could also help reduce Muslim-on-Muslim strife. As US occupation forces withdraw from the Persian Gulf region leaving “Israel” incapable of aggression, and allowing energy-rich Muslim nations to control their own resources, the root cause of the current conflict between the sovereign Axis of Resistance and the American-occupied vassal states will disappear.
Maghrebian Reverberations?
Here in the Greater Maghreb, a similar dynamic could bring peace between Morocco and Algeria. Morocco, lacking Algeria’s energy resources, has felt the need to tilt toward the West in order to survive. If both nations eventually join the MJDA, enjoy security guarantees, and seek diplomatic solutions under its auspices, the ridiculous conflict between these two states whose language, religion, and culture are essentially identical might finally be put to bed.
I live in Saidia, Morocco, and can walk along the beach to the Algerian border in less than half an hour. But like other residents of Eastern Morocco with family in Algeria, I would have to cross the Mediterranean and then re-cross it to visit people who live just a few minutes’ drive from my house.
Ongoing Algeria-versus-Morocco hostility is absurd economically as well as socially. Both countries would reap tremendous benefits from opening the border and declaring a free trade zone. Morocco could benefit from Algeria’s energy endowment, while Algeria would gain from Moroccan agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure, and human resources. Together, the two countries would constitute a regional powerhouse, and the nucleus of a regional common market that could eventually be extended to include Libya, Tunisia, and Mauritania.
Will the Islamic Ummah successfully ward off the divide-and-conquer plots that have kept it weak and exploitable? And if so, will the Maghreb region play a key role in this epic transformation? The short answer to those questions is: insha’Allah.
