{"id":251030,"date":"2022-03-17T17:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251030"},"modified":"2022-03-19T08:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T08:19:41","slug":"misconceptions-from-ashraf-marwan-to-zelensky-and-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251030","title":{"rendered":"Misconceptions – from Ashraf Marwan to Zelensky and Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk March 16, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Jerusalem 1973<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ashraf Marwan is a controversial figure within Israel\u2019s intelligence community. Some regard him as Israel\u2019s best ever Arab spy, others see him as an Egyptian spymaster who\u00a0misled the Israeli military ahead of the 1973 war that\u00a0was a military\u00a0 disaster for the Jewish state.\u00a0 In June 2007, Marwan \u2018fell\u2019\u00a0 from the balcony of his London house. His wife and many commentators accused the Mossad of the assassination.<\/p>\n

Marwan was born in 1944 to an influential Egyptian family. At the age of 21 he married\u00a0 Mona Nasser, president Gamal<\/em> Abdel<\/em> Nasser\u2019s<\/em> second daughter and secured his place in the corridors of power in 1960s Cairo.<\/p>\n

Following its humiliating defeat in the 1967 war, Egypt started to prepare its military to take back the Sinai peninsula.\u00a0 Marwan was privy to Egypt\u2019s best-kept secrets; its war plans, detailed accounts of military exercises, original documentation of Egypt’s arms deals with the Soviet Union and other countries, military tactics,\u00a0the minutes from meetings of the high command, transcripts of Sadat’s private conversations with world leaders, etc. All of that allowed him to provide Israel with invaluable information about the coming war.<\/p>\n

The intelligence that Marwan provided to the Mossad made its way to the desks of Israeli political and military leaders and shaped Israel\u2019s so- called post \u201867 strategic \u2018concept\u2019 \u2013 the belief that Egypt\u2019s Sadat wouldn\u2019t launch a war against Israel unless his minimum requirements were fulfilled. Without long-range attack aircraft and long range Scud missiles, Israel was made to believe, Egypt could not overcome Israeli air superiority and would not launch a war.<\/p>\n

The reports that Marwan provided to Israel contained precious information that, although accurate, systematically contributed to Israel\u2019s misconceptions about Egypt\u2019s aspirations, plans and capabilities.<\/p>\n

In April 1973, Marwan persuaded the Mossad that Egypt planned an attack on Israel in mid-May. As a result, Israel raised its military to red alert, but that May war never happened. In late September, Marwan once again convinced the Mossad of an Egyptian plan for an attack, but this time the Mossad had lost its credibility and until the last minute, the IDF military chiefs treated Marwan\u2019s information with suspicion. They basically ignored him.<\/p>\n

A few hours before it began, Marwan provided the Mossad with a final warning that a war was about to launch. Late on the 5th of October 1973,\u00a0 Tzvi Zamir, the head of the\u00a0 Mossad, met Marwan in London and learned that a war would start the following\u00a0 day at 6pm. The war did indeed start the next day, four hours earlier than predicted. The 1973 war is considered by Israel to be its most humiliating and scandalous military blunder. Israel was totally unprepared. IDF battalions on the frontline were exposed to a full-on Egyptian and Syrian assault. They were wiped out within hours. Some rightly argue that it is only because the Egyptian and Syrian armies had limited plans in terms of territorial gains that Israel survived this war militarily and exists to this day. Most Israeli military commentators agree that it was not the IDF generals who saved the country but the foot soldiers on the ground who fought heroically with their backs to the wall.<\/p>\n

General Eli Zeira, then Director of Israeli military intelligence is regarded as a major contributor to the 1973 military blunder. Zeira claims that it was Marwan\u2019s\u00a0 earlier misleading information that led to\u00a0 Israel\u2019s \u2018misconception\u2019 of Egypt\u2019s true intentions. Zeira argues that Marwan was a \u2018double agent\u2019 or more rightly, a skilful Egyptian spymaster,\u00a0 who brilliantly managed to deceive\u00a0 the Israelis into a delusional \u2018misconception\u2019 of the conflict. Those who believe that Marwan was assassinated by the Mossad tend to accept General Zeira\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Kyiv 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For months and months America, Britain and NATO warned the Ukrainians that Russia was planning a war. The Americans in particular have made it clear that they were privy to information, that although it couldn\u2019t be\u00a0 shared with the general public, indicated that\u00a0 Putin was planning an imminent attack.\u00a0 Naturally, not many people bought into these repeated American warnings: by now American and British intelligence have been involved in too many blunders and spectacular lies (among them phantasmic WMD in Iraq and chemical attacks in Syria)\u00a0 that no one, including the Ukrainians, has taken these military institutions seriously. It was also evident\u00a0 that, even more than Ukraine or Russia wanted or needed a military conflict, it was\u00a0 Washington and London\u00a0 that\u00a0 desired one. Ukraine has become an energy hub following\u00a0the discovery of large reserves of gas and oil within its territory. The West saw it as an alternative to Russia as the major gas supplier to Europe.<\/p>\n

As happened with Marwan in 1973, someone \u2018helped\u2019 the Pentagon to build a \u2018concept\u2019 of an \u2018imaginary Russian campaign.\u2019 In American\u2019s\u00a0 delusional war plan, Putin would capture Ukraine\u2019s Russian speaking regions in the East and might also attempt to seize some ground in the south to create a land\u00a0 passage\u00a0 to Crimea. This war would have come to an end within a short time as its military objectives were limited. Ukraine would accept the Russian territorial gains\u00a0 as it would allow Ukraine to rid itself of its most problematic and contested regions. Russia would be condemned but, in this scenario, when peace prevails, Ukraine would be able to join the EU and maybe even NATO and most important, become Europe\u2019s\u00a0 prime energy supplier.<\/p>\n

This \u2018concept\u2019 of a war may well have been\u00a0 induced by a Putin \/ Marwan figure. It misled the Americans and the Brits to build a completely wrong strategic and geopolitical vision. The Ukrainian military was foolish enough to follow the Pentagon\u2019s intelligence scenario and deployed its elite units to the East. Those units\u00a0prepared themselves for an express war on some disputed but defined territories.\u00a0 But that wasn\u2019t the war that\u00a0 happened. Instead what transpired was tragic for Ukraine and its military. Just before the 24 February Russian invasion, it became clear that Russia had extended its military drills to Belarus. Days later, Russia launched its military campaign.\u00a0 Russia\u2019s main effort was launched from Belarus and it was aimed at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv not the Eastern regions as predicted. In a simple move, the Russian Army basically managed to cut off most of the\u00a0Ukrainian Army\u00a0 far from the capital and with no supply routes or logistical support from the West.<\/p>\n

By attacking Ukraine from Belarus, the Russians copied Hitler\u2019s Belgium manoeuvre. In 1940 the\u00a0French waited for the German Panzers on the vastly fortified Maginot Line. But the Germans bypassed the Maginot Line and went into France through Belgium and headed straight to France\u2019s soft belly\u00a0and Paris. That left the French military stranded at the Maginot line and exposed from the rear as the enemy was then behind them. It would have helped if American, British and Ukrainian generals had spent some time learning military history or even watching\u00a0some relevant\u00a0 Youtube history channel documentaries.<\/p>\n

Why did these military leaders badly misjudge Putin\u2019s plans and Russian strategic objectives? As happened with Marwan in 1973, someone or something planted into American, British and Ukrainian decision makers a complete misconception of Russian intentions. This blunder has caused a total disaster for\u00a0Ukraine, its people, its military and the\u00a0 integrity of its land.\u00a0 It was their complete shock at the Russian decision to invade Ukraine\u00a0 from Belarus\u00a0 that led the West into panic and rapid escalation in sanctions and language.\u00a0 For the West the situation is hopeless. Even if NATO would have liked to support the Ukrainian forces; it literally can\u2019t. The European nations who promised to supply military equipment to the Ukrainian army\u00a0can\u2019t do so as the Ukrainian army is cut off in the East. If you\u00a0 don\u2019t believe this, ask a simple question.\u00a0 How was it possible that the 60 km Russian convoy was stopped, standing still like sitting ducks for 10 days without being attacked? The answer is simple. The Ukrainian army is unable to\u00a0 engage in a concentrated military effort. It is limited in its capacity to \u00a0attack Russian logistics and it certainly cannot launch a counter attack. Misconception comes with a price, especially when your leaders engage in relentless\u00a0 warmongering. Yet, as in Israel 1973, in Ukraine in 2022 it isn\u2019t the generals or the\u00a0mini oligarch -actor\/president who can save the situation. It is the resilient heroic \u00a0fighters on the ground. They don\u2019t seem to give up and fight to their last drop of blood.<\/p>\n

Moscow 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Russian military\u00a0\u2018achieved\u2019 its goals in just two days: it cut out the Ukrainian army and dismantled its ability to defend the country, let alone secure the area around the\u00a0 capital. The Ukrainian air force lost its control over Ukraine\u2019s skies on the first day. Command centres around the country were destroyed. Despite these losses, despite its clear military superiority, the Russians haven\u2019t won the war, far from it, a decisive victory isn\u2019t on the horizon.<\/p>\n

The Russian war planners fell into the same trap as their counterparts in NATO and Ukraine.\u00a0 They also held a\u00a0delusional misconception of Ukraine.\u00a0 The Russians overestimated the support they would find amongst the population and Ukraine\u2019s political class. They grossly underestimated the Ukrainians\u2019 will to defend their land.\u00a0 They underestimated the Western reaction to their campaign. They grossly underestimated the world animosity towards Russia, its leaders, its Israeli\/Russian oligarchs. They couldn\u2019t envisage the present solidarity with the Ukrainians and their resistance. They certainly couldn\u2019t see Zelensky, the actor, morphing into a Che Guevara character: in their eyes and for good reason, he was seen as a comical character and a political puppet. The modernist old fashioned Russian generals didn\u2019t understand that in a world shaped by Tik Tok and Zuckerbergs, all it takes for a male actor who was dancing\u00a0 in high heeled shoes to become an iconic \u2018freedom fighter\u2019 is simply a\u00a0 matter of makeup and costume.<\/p>\n

The Russian\u00a0were\u00a0 mistaken on most fronts. But being clumsy, heavy, miscalculated and delusional is not new to Russia, it may even be engraved in the Russian operational mode. Throughout its history Russia was caught sluggish and dysfunctional in battles against enemies who were superior technologically, tactically and spiritually. Remember that at one point the Soviets almost lost their capital to the 3rd Reich. Their allies (USA and Britain)\u00a0 betrayed them,\u00a0 but despite that, it was the USSR that\u00a0 won the big war and chased the defeated German army all the way from Stalingrad to Berlin. The Russians are somehow resilient, or at least used to be.<\/p>\n

I Misconceive Therefore I am<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Being trapped in misconception is probably inherent to the human condition. Projecting our own faults on others is often the means by which we bring disasters on ourselves. But in 2022, the Ashraf Marwans do not stop at just manipulating\u00a0 leaders or generals. In the world we happen to find ourselves in, the incessant\u00a0 duplicity is designed to enslave\u00a0 us all.\u00a0 We are repeatedly trained to be tormented by \u2018global disasters\u2019 from \u2018Climate\u2019, to \u2018Covid\u2019 to \u2018Russia\u2019 to Energy, to the Economy\u00a0and back again. We are kept in a state of constant collective hysteria, united against our (global) \u2018public enemy\u2019 at the time. Unsurprisingly, this \u2018universal\u2019 panic mode is set to make the rich richer.<\/p>\n

It seems to me as if those who detected\u00a0 the deep propagandist misconception that that was pushed by Fauci, Bill Gates and Bourla also tend to be suspicious\u00a0 about the continuum between Biden (the father and the son), Johnson and\u00a0 Zelensky.<\/p>\n

It is not a matter of Left or Right, it isn\u2019t a matter of education or cognitive ability. It is a clear division between Jerusalem and Athens that is now dividing us and may as well leading us into a global civil war. Jerusalem within that context (as defined by Leo Strauss), is the city of revelation. It sustains itself by maintaining tyranny of correctness, legalism (Torah and Mitzvoth). Athens, on the contrary,\u00a0 is the birthplace of\u00a0 (Western) philosophy. It is all about skepticism, the ability to think for yourself. While Chomsky and Dershowitz\u00a0 tell you what to say – what is right and who is wrong, Kant and Heidegger teach you how to figure out things by yourself.<\/p>\n

To survive\u00a0 the Marwans and defeat misconceptions, scepticism isn\u2019t\u00a0 just a tool, it is an existential necessity. Yet such scepticism is almost impossible to maintain, it entails constant regression and a consistent questioning of your most elementary thoughts and findings.<\/p>\n

Jerusalem is winning, at least at the moment, and for obvious reasons. It is easier to train people to act like sheep and be politically correct than to encourage\u00a0people to think for themselves and allow for unpredictable results. Accordingly, the survival of the skeptic is a lone war that resembles\u00a0heroic insurgency, it is a guerrilla battle.<\/p>\n

Maybe it is time to accept that the true meaning of globalisation is the acceptance that\u00a0 there is no refuge, no safe haven, no escape. Even when you see it all, the lies, the propaganda, the tyranny of correctness, Jerusalem and the decline of the West as we know it, you are still locked together with the rest of humanity in a vessel spiralling down to impact.<\/p>\n

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