The evolution process of occupation & West Asia Identities

The creation of the Zionist regime inside the geography of the Islamic world was based on the basis of a colonial plan which Jewish society as an instrument to scatter domination throughout the Islamic world and this concept itself is a prelude to overshadow hegemonic rule over the entire globe. The following is a brief overview of the occupation of Palestine; including: goals; Method; Occupying criminal behavior as well as the history of the resistance and struggles of the Palestinian people and regional societies.

- The Origin of Human Civilization: Archaeological Findings Emphasize Human Civilization Begins in western Asia region. Scientists believe that the long history of civilization plays a major role in the scale of demands and quests of the regional societies in their worldview.

- The origin of divine religions: All divine religions are originated from the Western Asian region, especially the three religions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, were born in this region. The divine religions aimed for bringing justice to order and expand it, which was in contrary to the interests of the colonial powers.

Geopolitical position: The West Asiais the junction of the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, and therefore of great strategic importance.

- Important communication routes: The most important communication routes in the world such as Hormoz, Bab al-Mandeb, Suez Canal, Dardanelles strait and Bosporus straits, as well as the historical Silk Road are located in the West Asia region.

- Energy sources: The West Asiaregion has the world's largest oil and gas reserves, which is a huge fortune. The industries of world's financial powers are in desperate need of oil and gas reserves in the region.

- Underground mines: The West Asiais also very rich in minerals, sulfate, iron, manganese, zinc, etc. These are points of interest and sources of wealth in the region and needed by the global economy.

- The center of formation of the world religious civilization: According to the teachings of the divine religions, the formation of a divine full global civilization which is based on justice is inevitable, according to the concepts introduced by both Christianity and Islam, West Asia (Middle East) will be the center of the new civilization.

Colonial goals in the region:

• To dominate over straits of the region:

Hormoz Strait: A waterway between Iran and Oman that connects the Persian Gulf to the Oman Sea and is one of the most important waterways in the world. About 50% of the world's needed oil reserves are transported from this waterway.

Bab al-Mandeb: A waterway between the Asian country of Yemen and the African countries of Eritrea and Djibouti, south of the Red Sea, which connects the Gulf of Aden with the Oman Sea and the Indian Ocean. It has long been a hub for merchant and military ships. Since the construction of the Suez Canal, the importance of this Bab al-Mandeb has increased.

- Suez Canal: A waterway on the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) that was created in 1869 and connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The waterway is the fastest shipping route in Europe and Asia, and currently accounts for more than 7% of global trade. Prior to the Suez Canal, European merchant ships had to circumnavigate the African continent to reach the Indian Ocean.

- Bosporus Strait: A waterway that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The strait separates Asia from Europe and also divides Turkey into Asian and European parts.

- Dardanelles strait: Dardanelles waterway is located in northwestern Turkey and connects the two Aegean Sea and Marmara Sea. In fact, ships have to cross this waterway to reach the Black Sea and vice versa.

• To dominate over region's energy resources

Oil: West Asia has the world's largest oil reserves. Oil reserves in the West Asia, are estimated at more than 73% of the world's oil. About 50% of the world's oil needs are supplied daily from this region.

Gas: Gas considered as a very valuable and strategic commodity, which has large reserves in the West Asia and is the most important source of income in some countries, such as Qatar.

Mines: The West Asia’s rich in mineral resources such as iron ore, manganese, potassium, sulfur, etc., which are of great importance to the global economy requirements.

• The Downfall of the Ottoman Empire

  An empire that lasted for about 500 years in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Serbia, Ukraine, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the empire was rival to British colonialism and European powers in general. Due to the location of all important waterways in the region (except the Strait of Hormuz), in controlling this empire, the trade of European countries, especially in the field of spices, silk and cotton, was associated with high problems and costs.

• Preventing the re-formation of Islamic civilizations

Western colonialism is always concerned with the re-formation of Islamic civilization. Islamic civilizations had successfully challenged Western societies in various arenas such as political, military, and economic in different eras. The last was the Ottoman Empire, which paved its way to the heart of Europe. Accordingly, preventing the formation of a new Islamic civilization has always been a priority for Western colonialism.

• Expanding and deepening Western influence in the region

Preventing the formation of a new Islamic civilization in order to seize over the rich regional natural resources, requires that colonialist leader maintain a lasting influential presence in the region. Apart from forming puppet and dependent regimes, forming a garrison regime is essential to help spread the influence of western colonialism. "The establishment of a colonial Jewish garrison in Palestine is vital to British interests," emphasized the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the first decade of 19th century.

• Expanding the global hegemony of the West

Given the characteristics of West Asia, such as its specific geographical location, energy resources, and natural resources, the region was named Heartland or the heart of the world, by the colonial regime and according to them, maintaining a lasting influence in this region is vital to scatter their role over the entire globe.

Capacities that potentially provide space for influence of colonialism in the region:

- Plurality and dispersion of ethnic groups: Different ethnic groups live in the West Asia such as Persians, Kurds, Arabs and Turks. This diversity of ethnicities and their distribution in the geographical environment has been considered as a ground for division and segregation.

- Religious diversity: The region consists of a large diversity of religious followers from different religions, such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism. Colonialism sees this religious diversity as an opportunity to scatter its influence in the region. West Asia has a vast diversity of religious followers. In particular, this diversity among the followers of the three Abrahamic religions is enormous and a ground for foreign interference, discord, and religious strife.

- History of conflicts based on ethnicity and religion: The history of the West Asia consists of large records of ethnic and religious conflicts. These conflicts have institutionalized a kind of mistrust and enmity among some of the followers of these religions.

- Distribution of wealth resources:

Some countries are very rich in resources such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and others are poor countries such as Jordan and Yemen. The unequal distribution of wealth provides a goo opportunity for foreign intervention in the region.

- Draw geographical boundaries and access restrictions:

The borders of countries are drawn in such a way that some countries have restrictions on access to other countries in the world. These restrictions have created insecurity in the region.

- Quest for power and sovereignty in tribes and clans:

Some tribes and clans in the region, are often triggered by foreign powers to declare independence from mother country to form a new state based on a specific ethnic.

Colonial activities to thrive goals

- Sending spies to the region to learn more about communities to plan for infiltration under the name of Orientalism.

- Sending undercover individuals such as physician, military advisor, arms manufacturer to influence political and social structure of the societies in the region.

- Forging alliance by bribing and providing financial interests for puppet rulers in puppet regimes, in order to maintain domestic support from inside the region.

- Triggering regional states to confront each other with the aim of weakening the military and economic sections of regional communities, such as the call for war between Ottomans and Iran’s Safavid dynasty.

- Triggering ethnic groups and tribes within regional states to declare independence from mother state, such as the independence of Qatar and Afghanistan from Iran.

- Organizing domestic revolts against regional powers such as the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

- Military attack on countries in the region to weaken, overthrow, disintegrate and eventually colonize them.

- Defining crisis-prone geographical borders with the aim of managing continual confrontation of formed governments, which makes them more dependent on colonial powers.

- Planning and organizing European Jews to leave the continent and immigrate to Palestine under the Zionist occupation.

- Assisting the occupation of Palestine by Jews and eliminating resistance potentials in Palestinian society with the help of forming British military government inside Palestine.

- Assist in the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine and organize to continue political, military, economic support for the survival of Israel.

Israel from theory to establishment

• Zionist movement management

Since 1880, when the first Zionist movement in Europe was formed under the name of Zionist lovers; Colonialism put a series of measures to establish a Jewish garrison government in Palestine: Organizing European Jews in the Zionist Movement - Increasing pressure on Jewish communities to emigrate from Europe in the anti-Semitism project - Establishing a Jewish Agency and a National Fund A Jew by the name of Kern Kaimat - The transfer of Jews to Palestine at different times - The establishment of Jewish agricultural and industrial complexes in Palestine.

• Managing the downfall of Ottoman Empire

- Managing multiple wars with the Ottoman Empire (Russians wars with Ottomans - Iranians wars with Ottomans - Britain's wars with the Ottomans - France's wars with the Ottomans)

- The management of internal uprisings against the Ottomans (Arab uprising led by Sharif Hussein - the influence of the Jews of Dunameh in the political, military and economic pillars of Turkey, which later led to the revolt of the young Turks and the fall of Abdul Hamid II)

- Launching the First World War and organizing large-scale attacks on Ottoman lands and at the same time organizing internal uprisings

- The plan to dismantle the Ottoman Empire in 1916, known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, between France and Britain

- The official announcement of the colonial plan to establish a Jewish garrison government in Palestine with the announcement of the British Foreign Office, known as the Balfour Declaration that Britain agreed to form a Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1917.

- The establishment of British military rule in Palestine after the expulsion of Ottoman rulers by Arab rebels led by Sharif Hussein about a month after the Balfour Declaration

• The formation of the Zionist state in Palestine

- Determining British guardianship over Palestine with the mission of fulfilling the Declaration Balfour by the United Nations and introducing a British Jewish military personnel named Herbert Samuel as head of state.

- Extensive transfer of Jews to Palestine and confiscation of Palestinian lands to Jews and at the same time suppression of Palestinian protests (Boragh uprising - Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam uprising, etc.) and providing military training and equipment to Jewish terrorist groups such as Argon; Hagana; Palmach and Stern, with the help of British military government.

- Adoption of Resolution 181 of the UN General Assembly, known as the Palestinian Partition Resolution. According to the resolution, Palestine was divided into three Jewish (55%), Palestinian (42%) and internationally controlled areas, namely Jerusalem (3%). However, the Palestinians made up more than two-thirds of the Palestinian population, and in many areas where Jews were introduced, there were either no Jews or minorities.

- In 1948, Britain declares the end of its sovereignty over Palestine. Meanwhile, a large amount of weapons and military equipment remained with the experienced Jewish soldiers trained by the British Army in Palestine. The same militia of the Zionist terrorist organizations such as Ergon: Hagana; Palmach and Stern, later founded the Israeli army.

- Simultaneously with Britain's withdrawal from Palestine; Ben-Gurion, who later became Israel's first prime minister; announced the establishment of Israel and ordered an attack on Palestinian towns and villages, which was accompanied by a large-scale massacre of Palestinians and the displacement of 800,000 people.

• Occupational and stabilization measures

- Less than a few hours after the announcement of the establishment of the Zionist regime, some colonial powers such as United States and the Soviet Union, recognized Israel as an official state, despite the Zionists were a minority groups and controlled less than 5.5 percent of the Palestinian geography.

- The Zionist army carried out organized massacres with the aim of expanding the occupied territories and evacuating towns and villages from the Palestinian population, of which the crimes of Deir Yassin and the Kafr Qasim are well-known examples.

- The Zionist regime foundation was structured by war, during the years 1948; 1949; 1956; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1973; 1981; 1982 Wars the regime was engaged in wars with Lebanon; Egypt, Syria and various Palestinian groups, and as result of benefiting political support and military support received from the colonial powers Israel managed to occupy the entire geography of Palestine and parts of Syria and Lebanon.

- This period of crackdowns in the Arab world; resulted in Egypt's surrender to Israel by signing the Camp David Reconciliation Agreement in 1978. Eventually this phenomenon carried out the frustration of Palestinian militant groups which were based on leftist, Marxist and nationalist values. The groups began to step-by-step retreat from the arena of struggle and entered the stage of surrender against the Zionist enemy.

• Israel's Downfall from theory to now

• The Islamic Revolution of Iran and the priority of Palestinian Cause

- The Islamic Revolution in Iran took power in 1979. The Israeli embassy in Iran was dismantled, and the world's first Palestinian embassy began work in Tehran which was inaugurated by Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The slogan "Israel must be annihilated" became a strategy for the Islamic Revolution in Iran's regional and international policy.

- Resistance movements were born again this time inspired by the Islamic Revolution. The groups emphasized Islamic teachings in Palestine and the region: Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas - Lebanon's Hezbollah are among these movements. Some regional leftist movements also reformed ideological strategies.

- Colonialist regimes in response against the massive support to the Islamic Revolution and the spread of Islamic movements in Palestine and the region in the first place; led the Ba'athist Party of Iraq into a large scale war against Iran. With the help of use of extensive propaganda, they described the war as a religious and ethnic war to divert Palestine's priority from Iran's political strategies and, in next step, with the help of Oslo Accords prevented Islamic resistance to grow stronger. But Iran still maintained the Palestinian cause as a priority, with the help of training and organizing Lebanese youth; they established a strong resistance movement in Lebanon that forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon territories.

- In Palestinian territories, two large scale intifada (1987 and 2000) were performed, which resulted the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza and bringing an end to 38 years of occupation in Gaza. The resistance group in Gaza known as Hamas became well known as deterrent power against Israeli occupation. With the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, the resistance was officially known as a legitimate movement against the Oslo compromise movement and quickly gained public attention and support.

* Wars of Downfall

- The Zionist regime's army has always been considered as the most important tool for implementing occupation goals led by the colonialist regime. They always strengthened and modernized the Israeli army, but this army lost its effectiveness against the Resistance Front in 2006. By creating asymmetric warfare, the Resistance Front practically challenged the superiority of the Israeli army's weapons and equipment and managed to defeat the modern army of Zionist regime failing to achieve its military goals. The 33-day war in Lebanon was the starting point for this military downfall. Three failed attempts of imposing wars against Gaza in 2008-2012 and 2014 truly narrate the defeat of Israeli war machine.

* Attempts distract or eliminate resistance

- The wave of Islamic awakening in the Arab societies and the inability of the dictators provided an opportunity for colonialism to increase the cost of resistance in the region by activating Takfiri terrorist groups and to line out Palestine out of the priority of the Islamic world. But Resistance movements were mobilized to bring assistance to war against terror in Iraq and Syria. Effectively they managed to undermine the dangerous colonial plot and disabled it, while maintaining Palestine as a priority.

- Increasing pressure on Iran under the pretext of sanctions on nuclear activities and isolating the country was another strategy by colonial powers to eliminate resistance in the region. Iran managed to bring world powers to the discussion table and signed the nuclear deal. In this way Iran effectively thwarted some of colonial goals of isolating Iran in international societies. Iran decided to maintain independent economy.

- Increasing military movement in the Persian Gulf was implemented with the aims of limiting Iran’s military movement. Israel's attack on the Syrian T4 base, which resulted in the martyrdom of a number of Iranian forces was replied by launching 40 missiles on Israeli bases in Golan Heights. The US violation of Iranian airspace was replied with an immediate reaction which shut down of America’s most expensive and sophisticated drone. The seizure of an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar by the British royal navy was accompanied by the seizure of an English tanker in the Persian Gulf. The assassination of General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq by the United States was responded with a heavy Iranian missile attack on the largest and most important US regional base known as the Ain al-Assad military base. In fact, Iran has sent a message to colonial powers that the Resistance Front led by Iran has adopted the strategy of “Put a finger behind the trigger” this policy has brought back hope in the hearts of Islamic societies and the region has moved towards comprehensive resistance uprisings. The issue has made colonialists to think twice before entering any intervention or military movement in the region. In other words, the region started to have no room for Israel.