Israel Inherits the US Hegemony in the Middle East

IN FOCUS, 28 Apr 2025

Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service

20 April 2025 – Israel is indirectly controlling a strip of the land along the Syrian border with Jordan, and is promoting a plan to create a “David Corridor” that connects Israel to the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. This is a plan for Israel to inherit Middle East hegemony from the United States, leverage the Kurds to counter Iran, Iraq (Shiites), and Turkey. （David’s Corridor: Israel’s shadow project to redraw the Levant）

2. In the Old Testament [Genesis 15.18-21], Israel is said to have been given the “area between the two rivers (from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile)” by Yahweh God. (Be aware that the light blue bands at the top and bottom of the Israeli flag represent the two rivers.) The Kurdish region is the Tigris and Euphrates basin. Israel has already made Egypt, which is in the Nile basin, a puppet [of Israel], and is also intervening in the civil war in Sudan, which is upstream of the Nile. Israel is taking control of the area between the two rivers. (Israel’s Expansion（Expansion of Israel/イスラエルの拡大）[Promised Land] [Biblical Borders of the Promised Land]   [Egypt’s Delicate Balance: Maintaining US Support While Confronting Gaza Challenges]
3. At the end of 2024, Israel supported and puppetized the Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebel group HTS (i.e. Levant Liberation Organization), which had been in hiding along the Turkish border after losing the Syrian Civil War. Then, in just two weeks, HTS overthrew the Assad regime. At the same time when HTS took control of Syria, the Israeli army invaded southern Syria and has occupied it ever since. Southern Syria is dominated by the people of the Druze, who are friendly to Israel.  （Partition of Syria, the ‘David Corridor’… What’s Really at Stake?）[5 facts about Israeli Druze, a unique religious and ethnic group]
4. It is speculated that the Israeli army plans to train the local Druze militias, and when they are ready, they will march along the Jordanian border to the Kurdish region in northern Syria to build a road and create a corridor. The Druze are a secret, monotheistic esoteric religion derived from Shiite Islam, and are viewed as enemies and heretics by Sunnis (i.e. orthodox Islam). For this reason, they have political affinity with Israel. The Druze’s native language is Arabic, and they are scattered in southern Syria (620,000 people), the mountainous region of Lebanon (250,000 people), and northern Israel (120,000 people). （Druze – Wikipedia）
5. In the middle of the 600-kilometer corridor from southern Syria, where the Druze live, to northern Syria, where the Kurds live, is the US military base at Al-Tanf, a key transportation point on the Jordanian border. The US (and Israel) triggered the Syrian Civil War in 2011, and supplied weapons and other supplies to rebel forces inside Syria (IS, Al-Qaeda, Kurds) via Al-Tanf from Jordan. (Iran and Russia have been supporting Assad’s government forces, and the rebel groups have been defeated and pushed to the Turkish border and the desert near Iraq. Since last fall, Israel has supported HTS, a part of the rebel group, and suddenly overthrew Assad, resulting in a major reversal.) （Rare Firefight Erupts Between Israeli Troops & Jolani Militants In Syria’s South）
6. This time, Trump’s America is moving out of the Middle East, and has halved the number of US troops stationed in Syria from 2,000 to 1,000 (in addition to Al-Tanf, they have also occupied oil fields in eastern Syria). It is speculated (or conjectured) that Israel is currently supporting not only the Druze in southern Syria, but also the Kurds in eastern Syria and the remnants of IS Qaeda who have fled to the desert on the border with Iraq, and that when preparations are complete, they will rise up all at once to create the David Corridor connecting Israel and the Kurds. （US Begins Withdrawing Troops From Key Base Near Syria’s Largest Gas Field）
7. Trump has removed the British, who were the masterminds of the US Intelligence Community, and brought them under his control. After his election last fall, Trump generously provided intelligence to Israel, which cooperated in the fight against the British, and Israel, which had been held back by the British, suddenly became strong and defeated Hezbollah and Assad one after another. And now, as a measure to expand its Middle Eastern hegemony, Israel has created the Corridor of David, which goes through Syria to the Kurdish region of Iraq, strengthening the Kurds and allowing them to keep an eye on Iran, Iraq (Shiites), and Turkey, which are located around them. (The new Syrian government is a puppet of Israel./シリア新政権はイスラエルの傀儡） [UK Intelligence Community: An Overview]
8. Trump will not send troops, but will provide intelligence instead. Israel will not use its own military (perhaps it will not even come out in public and will remain the mastermind), and will instead strengthen and put to work the military power of the Middle Eastern minorities, the Druze and Kurds. Both the Druze and the Kurds will gladly cooperate with Israel because it will help them to repel the pressure they have received from the Sunnis, Shiites, and Turkey. If this plan succeeds, Trump, who is a hegemonist, will transfer Middle East hegemony to Israel as planned, create stability in the Middle East under “Pax Judaica” (i.e. Israeli hegemony), and pull the United States out of the Middle East. It is believed that Israel supported HTS and overthrew Assad for this plan. HTS will tolerate Israel’s construction of the Corridor of David. (Expansion of Israel/イスラエルの拡大） [ISRAELI EMPIRE AND END-TIMES: A STUDY OF “PAX JUDAICA”]
9. Islamists claims,”The rule of Israel, a murderer, cannot be stable,” and liberals/leftists (the two overlap in the United States, Europe, and Japan. In the Middle East issue, however, leftists are not necessarily atheists). However, in reality, many of the powerful people in the relevant countries are tacitly accepting Israel’s expansion of the Middle East dominance. The reason why Israel openly committed a huge crime against humanity in the Gaza War is probably to eliminate the former hegemonic power, the British (i.e. the liberal globalists, DS), when the hegemony of the Middle East is transferred from the United States to Israel. （How Israel hunts and executes Palestinian medics）
10. The British, who are the masterminds of the sole American Hegemony, curry favor with any power that tries to expand hegemony outside their own framework, pretend to cooperate, investigate their internal affairs, and destroy their hegemonic plans. This time, Israel is committing a huge crime against humanity in Gaza, while at the same time destroying Hezbollah and Assad, denting Iran, and getting Trump to advance the Abraham Accords to reconcile with the Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia. (The Abraham Peace Corridor: A strategic path to Middle East stability, cooperation）[British intelligence agencies]   [Shifting Transatlantic Tides: Anglo-American Imperial Role Reversals]    [The US-UK “special relationship” at a critical crossroads]    [Trump: We’re going to expand the Abraham Accords]
11. After having President G.H.Bush wage the Gulf War in 1990 and defeating Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, Israel encouraged the Kurds in northern Iraq to separate and become independent. The Kurds were originally made to be puppets of the British, and the British supporters in the US Intelligence Community, who did not allow Israel to intrude (to expand its hegemony in the Middle East), leaked information to the Hussein regime, inciting an invasion of the Kurdish autonomous region and causing Israel to retreat significantly. (The Iraqi Kurds, who seem likely to become independent but never do/独立しそうでしないイラクのクルド）
12. The GCC, including Saudi Arabia, will shoulder the debts owed to the World Bank and other institutions that the new Syrian government of HTS, an Israeli puppet, inherited from Assad. Saudi Arabia has also begun providing support, such as funding, to the new Lebanese government, which has stopped being anti-Israel. While Saudi Arabia outwardly says that it will not reconcile with Israel unless a Palestinian state is operational, behind the scenes it is firmly cooperating with Israel’s expansion of its hegemony in the Middle East. What Saudi Arabia earnestly wants is stability in the Middle East. The British have maintained the sole hegemony of the United States by perpetually destabilizing, dividing, and puppeting the Middle East. It is not surprising that MbS thinks that Israel (and Trump) is better than the British (and Obama).（Gulf benefactor may settle some of Syria’s foreign debt）
13. The Palestinian issue is originally a division strategy by the British to prevent Israel, their intelligence rival, from becoming a great power. The forces that are (inadvertently) puppets of the British are (intentionally) unaware of that. Despite the enormous humanitarian crimes committed by Israel during the Gaza War, few countries around the world actually sanction Israel, fearing its intelligence, and only verbally criticize it. Even some right-wing governments such as Hungary, which confront the British, ostentatiously welcome Netanyahu as a state guest. The Gaza War will destroy the British liberal hegemony system, including the ICC (International Criminal Court), while erasing the yoke that the British imposed on Israel, the Palestinian issue. （Orban’s Fiercely Pro-Israeli Policies Put Many Alt-Media Folks In A Dilemma） [Gaza is burning. UK NGOs must abandon failedHoweverdiplomacy and fight back | Israel-Palestine conflict] [Gaza and the decline of US-Western hegemony]   [2nd Place — Trapped Empire: British Strategy At The End Of The Palestine Mandate]
14. President Erdogan’s Turkey is hostile towards the Kurds (PKK), the largest minority in the country. Israel’s creation of the David Corridor to support the Kurds should be a major threat to Turkey. However, Erdogan is tacitly accepting Israel’s expansion of hegemony. Until last fall, the new Syrian government’s HTS was tucked away in Idlib near the Turkish border as a loser in the civil war, and was looked after by the Turkish Intelligence Community. Israel must have spoken to Turkey, which was in charge, before supporting HTS and overthrowing Assad. Turkey tolerated Israel turning Syria into a puppet of Israel and reconnecting with the Kurds without stopping it. Why? (Arabs and Turkey secretly help Israel/こっそりイスラエルを助けるアラブやトルコ）
15. That also becomes clear when one thinks about why Erdogan is hostile to the Kurds in the first place. Erdogan defeated the secular liberals (Kemalists) who had been in power in Turkey until then, and is planning to use Islamism to restore the Ottoman Empire (the-then Middle East hegemony). Turkey was defeated by the British in World War I and divided and ruled the Middle East, and the shrunken Turkey was reborn as a pro-British modern state by the Kemalists who are hostile to Islam and anti-feudal. (That is why Kemalists prefer the Japanese Choshu Meiji government, which overthrew the feudal Edo Shogunate and created a strong pro-British modern state.) (Turkey joins the ranks of China and Russia/中露の仲間入りするトルコ）
16. Erdogan, who overthrew the pro-British Kemalists in 2000 and took power, wanted to make Turkey a hegemonic power in the Middle East. However, in order to obstruct this, the British (i.e. the authoritative American and European media sources) criticized Turkey, raising the issue of “Kurdish human rights.” After World War I, it was the British (or the British supporters) who divided the country into four while inciting the Kurds to create a nation, and then used humanitarianism to undermine the four countries (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria) by claiming that they were oppressing the political activities of the Kurds. Humanitarianism is politics disguised as the question of good and evil. (Unfortunately, the humanitarians in Europe, the United States, and Japan, who are unaware of that and are taken in, are fools.) （Harvard sanctions pro-Palestinian group after anti-Israel protest）
17. For Erdogan and other right-wing Turkish leaders, the Kurdish issue under the British (American) hegemony was a British plot to destroy them. But now that the British hegemony has been destroyed, Israel, which has been handed the Middle Eastern hegemony by Trump, is trying to seize Syria and reconnect with the Kurdish region. Israel, which will destroy the humanitarianism of the British hegemony in the Gaza War, is a realist and will not criticize Turkey’s oppression of the Kurds. However, Israel may support the Kurds and seize the territory from four countries, including Turkey, to establish a state. If that happens, Israel could become a greater threat to Turkey than Britain. （Israel and Turkiye in Syria: No clash, just a division of spoils）
18. Despite all that, however, what could Israel gain from weakening Turkey and allowing the Kurds to establish a state? If Turkey views Israel as its enemy, Turkey will become a threat to Israel that should be weakened. However, if Turkey accepts Israel’s hegemony in the Middle East, Israel will prioritize friendship with Turkey over the establishment of a Kurdish state. It seems inevitable that the United States will transfer hegemony in the Middle East to Israel. In that case, it would be better for Turkey not to view Israel as its enemy, but to only criticize it verbally and secretly maintain friendly relations with Israel and to show its gratitude. In fact, Erdogan thinks as such and continues to trade with Israel even after the Gaza War began.（Will Turkey’s mortal ‘enemy within’ lay down arms after a century of conflict?）
19. Israel and Turkey have recently made moves to adjust their interests in Syria. Turkey will recognize HTS (which is actually an Israeli puppet) control of Syria in exchange for maintaining some military bases in Syria. If Israel and Turkey maintain their relationship, a border will be established between the Kurds under Israel and Turkey, and the conflict between the Kurds and Turkey will decrease and the situation will stabilize. （Turkiye and Israel Clash Over ‘David’s Corridor’ Plan）
20. Not only Turkey, but also Iran and Israel will settle along the similar lines. Trump, Israel’s ally, has recently been trying to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue (allowing low-concentration uranium enrichment) and reconcile. It is being touted that Israel is angry because Trump is soft on Iran. However, this is probably Netanyahu’s acting. Netanyahu himself is leaking the discord between the United States and Israel.（Who leaked Israel’s attack plans against Iran’s nuke program and why?）
21. If Israel reconnects with the Kurdish region of Iraq and Iran tolerates Israel’s sphere of influence adjacent to Iran, Israel will forgive Iran (to maintain a cold peace). The Israeli (and Kurdish) forces that have come to Iraq can attack Iran immediately. Iran’s counterattack power is weak. Israel’s superiority will become permanent. The conflict between the peace faction and the war faction within the Trump camp is also being publicized, but this is also an act to hide Trump’s strength. （JD Vance Vs. The NeoCon Boomer Hawks On Iran Policy）
22. Russia is also cooperating with Trump’s negotiations with Iran as a role to appease Iran. After Trump took office, the United States and Russia pretended to discuss peace in Ukraine, and held endless discussions in Riyadh, with the Saudi royal family in attendance, about the transfer of the Middle East hegemony from the United States to Israel. The deal is already done. Ukraine has not ceased fire as planned. (Trump and Putin will improve the Middle East/トランプとプーチンで中東を良くする）
23. Since the end of WWII, Russia has been viewed as an enemy by the British for a long time. That is why Putin is in favor of Trump destroying the British and transferring the Middle East hegemony to Israel. If the United States continues to hold the Middle East hegemony, the British will eventually return and take over the American hegemony again. Reagan, Clinton, and Obama all failed because of that. Israel will become the regional hegemon in the Middle East, a global hegemon. Israel will be on the equal footing with Russia, China, and the United States. The world will become (and already is) multipolar. This is much better for Russia. (Israel prefers Russia’s Middle East hegemony/ロシアの中東覇権を好むイスラエル）
24. (China has made more profits in its economy from the traditional global market, which is the sole hegemon. It is unclear whether the future multipolar world will truly achieve economic development, and, in fact, there are risks. Therefore, the Chinese Communist Party is reluctant to do so. That is why Trump is destroying the traditional global market with high tariffs, and pushing the Chinese Communist Party to support the multipolarity of the world order.)  (Destroying the US Hegemony with high tariffs/高関税策で米覇権を壊す）
25. When Israel allowed HTS to take over Syria, Putin invited Assad to defect to Moscow, smoothing the transition of power and doing Israel a favor. Putin strengthened the military agreement with Iran, easing Iran’s concerns about Israel’s advance into the Kurdish region of Iraq. These movements of Putin have made Trump and Israel happy. As for Iran, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has also gone to Iran to appease it. No one is opposed to Israel’s expansion of the Middle East hegemony, except for the British and their puppets. (As such, the British and their puppets might shout, “Are you going to forgive crimes against humanity!!?? We won’t forgive you, we won’t forgive you, we won’t forgive you. Chants!!!”) （Gulf-backed genocide: How Arab monarchies fuel Israel’s war machine）
26. The only one in the Middle East, who continues to be militarily anti-Israel is the Houthis in Yemen. However, this too could be overthrown in the future. In Yemen, the pro-Saudi organization (PLC) affiliated with former President Hadi, which had been losing to the Houthis for a long time, has recently been handed over power by Hadi, and with the support of the United States, it has begun to show a renewed attitude of fighting the Houthis. This could possibly be a similar trend to when HTS re-emerged in Syria at the end of last year and overthrew Assad. Israel may be deploying the HTS method in Yemen as a way of giving back to Saudi Arabia. （US Mulls Ground War In Yemen Via Mercenaries, Pro-Saudi Factions）
27. With those understandings and interpretations, as mentioned above, I have come to think that it is necessary to reconsider the history of the world after the Cold War as the dark struggle between the British and Israelis (and the multipolar factions). In that regard, I will consider those issues, including the fraudulence of the Oslo Accords, the mystery of the 9/11 incident, and the meaning of the invasion of Iraq, which was destined to fail. [The mystery of 9/11 first responders and dementia]

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Original author: After graduating from university, Sakai Tanaka started working at the Kyodo News  Agency in 1986. From 1997 he joined Microsoft Network (MSN) and in 1999, due to change of policy at Microsoft, he became an independent journalist. Tanaka has published more than twenty books on international affairs, some translated and published in China, South Korea and Taiwan. He studied at Harvard University from 2000 to 2001 and in 2005 was invited to serve as a senior researcher at the Royal Faisal Institute in Saudi Arabia. Website: tanakanews.com

Satoshi Ashikaga is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. Having worked as researcher, development program/project officer, legal protection/humanitarian assistance officer, human rights monitor-negotiator, managing-editor, and more, he prefers a peaceful and prudent life.  His previous work experiences, including those in war zones and war-torn zones, constantly remind him of the invaluableness of peace.

Translation: Satoshi Ashikaga – Google Translate

Original in Japanese:  米国の中東覇権を継承するイスラエル

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