HE WILL ALSO INVADE THE BEAUTIFUL LAND...The U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance - Part III

THE WEST'S INTRUSION INTO THE LAND OF THE PATRIARCHS--NOTHING BUT TOTAL VICTORY! The West's fascination with the Holy Land--the "Beautiful Land" or "Glorious Land" (Daniel 11:41)--be it for "hidden/material" or "prophetic/spiritual" treasures, has climaxed at the apex of the modern era in America's most recent intrusion into Iraq. The last Caliphate, the Ottoman Turks, collapsed at the close of World War I. On December 11, 1917, British Field Marshal, Edmund Allenby, dismounted, and walked through Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate, in honor of the three great religions as the Allies eventually wrested control of the Levant from the decrepit Ottomans--thusly, was this member of the Axis Powers dismembered. "By December, 1917, Allenby had moved upwards from Egypt and captured Jerusalem. As the first Christian conqueror of the Holy City since the Crusades, Allenby ordered his troops to dismount as a mark of respect when they entered the city." (PBS, Lawrence of Arabia). "Jerusalem - The Endless Crusade" is a perennial struggle between Jews and Gentile World Powers--as well as a spiritual tussle amongst three of the world's great religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The ascendancy of the West in the modern era commenced in earnest with the discovery of the New World. "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (PBS Special, 2005) converged to give the West world dominance, which it owns to this day--that now includes the Middle East! It can be further stated that "The Coming of the West" into the Beautiful Land in the Modern Era began many centuries prior to the British Empire's "flying machines" over the skies of Jerusalem--causing the astonished Turks to drop their weapons and flee--Allenby capturing the Holy City without frying a shot! "The process of European penetration was gradual and complex (the Venetian traders in the early Thirteenth Century; Vasco da Gama et al.); but there were, nevertheless, clearly identifiable turning points. In the sixteenth century, for example, the Ottoman Empire voluntarily granted a series of concessions called the 'Capitulations' to European powers - concessions which gave the Europeans decided advantages in foreign trade in the empire. Another turning point was the invasion of Egypt in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte. Hoping to cut Britain's lines to India and cripple its maritime and economic power, Napoleon crushed the Mamluks (who governed Egypt under Ottoman suzerainty) and briefly occupied the country. By defeating Egypt, then still part of the Ottoman Empire, Napoleon exposed the inner weaknesses, both military and administrative, of the sultans, shattered the myth of Ottoman power, and inaugurated more than 150 years of direct political intervention by the West. "Europe's worldwide nineteenth-century search for raw materials, markets, military bases, and colonies eventually touched most of what had been the Arab empire. In 1820 Great Britain imposed a pact on Arab tribes on the coast of the Arabian Gulf; in the 1830s France occupied Algeria; in 1839 Britain occupied Aden, at the strategic entrance to the Red Sea; and in 1869 Ferdinand de Lesseps, with the backing of the French emperor, completed what would become, and still is, one of the key shipping arteries of the world, the Suez Canal." (The Coming of the West, Islamic City) The British and French occupied a growing sphere of influence--colonialism--of the region under the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 until the end of World War Part II of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Alliance designates the leadership of the West shifting from its Eurocentric colonial base in the Middle East, to its present aegis under what has become the military and ideological arm of the West: The United States of America. The projection of commercial, socio-political, and military power throughout the region by the USA--working in concert with allies in the area (viz., Israel) since the Suez War of 1957--clearly places America as the force de jure in the Glorious Land. This preeminent posture is driven by America's insatiable quest for below-market oil prices which enables the West under its American leadership to sustain its extraordinary consumptive economy. Securing the region's treasures enabled the West to win the Cold War. Now, frustrating American dominance--politically and geographically--is a resurgent Islam determined to expunge the West from these Holy Lands through Fatwa and Jihad. We will continue to elaborate upon the West's leadership vis-