Islamic StateSeumas Milne, director of strategy and communications for British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, suggested the existence of complicity between Israel and the Islamic State during a conference on the Middle East in June 2005, according to a recently revealed video. by journalist Iggy Ostanin.This type of conspiratorial statement, which is gaining followers among the Western left, although foolish, is very common in the Arab and Muslim world, notes analyst Jonathan Spyer, in a Facebook message.Spyer suggests that the intention of this myth is to exonerate Sunni political Islam and Arab political culture in general from any responsibility for the fact that such a type of criminal organization arises from within its own ranks.Milne does not belong to this last category, Spyer indicates, but seems to support the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and the Assad regime, and consequently reproduces the latter’s trite claim that Sunni jihadists or “takfiries” act in complicity with the Jews. or the Zionists, where the “Resistance” or “Muqawama” (euphemism for Hezbollah) are whom Israel perceives as enemies.Spyer closely observed the situation at the height of the Syrian civil war when in the area bordering the southern Golan there was an enclave controlled by the Army of Khaled ibn Walid (an affiliate of the Islamic State). It was a tense border, with frequent raids and exchanges of fire. In the north, Sunni rebels were more concerned about Assad’s forces and the relationship with Israel was one of “indifference or pragmatic alliance.”Spyer maintains that the principle governing Israeli strategy is quite simple: don’t attack Israel and the Israelis won’t attack you. This is a concept that Egyptians and Jordanians have understood. Israel is not interested in what kind of absurd or dysfunctional political philosophy governs its confused neighbors. Whether it is an absolutist monarchy like in Jordan or a suffocating dictatorship like in Egypt, the analyst points out. It does not even matter whether they adhere to the racist beliefs of the supposed ritual impurity of Jews as predominates among Hezbollah and its allies, or to the repeated claim that Israelites are descended from monkeys and pigs, as maintained by Hamas, the Islamic State and other related jihadist groups. But if he attacks Israel, “he will die.”Post navigation
