The Wars of Fatima - Past as Prologue: Israel's exile and resurgence

The Wars of Fatima

The Virgin Mary's famous prophecy in her legendary apparition at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, holds the secret to understanding the unfolding of history in our end times. Her oracles can only be fully interpreted, however, in light of her role as the Heavenly Queen of Israel - God's chosen race. Only through the millennial history of Israel, in other words, can we place all modern events of eschatological significance - the world wars, cold war, and the clash between Islam and the West - in their proper context, to give us an idea of what we can reasonably expect to transpire next.

Past as Prologue: Israel's exile and resurgence

The two world wars (1914-18, 1939-45) were one giant Apocalyptic upheaval to accomplish a centerpiece of God's plan for salvation: to resurrect the nation of Israel in His promised land.

Exile (70 - 1500 AD)

Israel had been banished nearly two millennia earlier, in the year 70 AD: that year, per the prophecy of its rejected Messiah Jesus Christ about four decades earlier, the holy city of Jerusalem was annihilated in a Roman holocaust. This was God's punishment of the Jews in vengeance for their crucifixion of their own king and savior: He had engineered a brilliant power play, whereby the religious leadership of the Second Temple (435 BC - 70 AD) used Christ's execution to briefly regain partial sovereignty over the Roman occupation, unwittingly setting up their own doom a generation later, when they tried to completely eliminate the Roman presence in the aftermath of the emperor Nero's overthrow (68 AD), but were crushed in a brutal counter-insurrection campaign led by future emperor Titus.

In the inscrutable Divine Wisdom, this meant that the Jewish rejection of their own prophesied Messiah not only sent the Jews themselves into a far more permanent second exile from the holy land of Israel (the first being the 70-year Babylonian exile of 587 BC), but paradoxically became the very means by which the God of Israel was instead adopted by the non-Jewish Gentiles - principally Mediterranean and then later northern and eastern Europeans. Per a prophecy of St. Paul, a Jewish rabbi-turned church missionary, the Gentiles were "grafted in" to Israel, effectively supplanting the Israelites themselves, by accepting Christ as humanity's savior from God - that is, the God of Israel. Thus was Christianity established as a new religion distinct from Judaism.

Consequently, while the Europeans of late Greco-Roman antiquity and the middle ages thoroughly adopted the king of the Jews as their own lord savior, thereby establishing "Christendom", the Jews themselves were scattered throughout the known world, but still primarily in the Mediterranean and Near East. They thus became the people of the Diaspora, a wandering race without a firmly grounded homeland, sealing the pilgrim identity that God had always intended for them as "wandering Arameans" - that is, Syrians, because their forefather Jacob had himself been a runaway there, where he raised his twelve sons who would become the patriarchs of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Over subsequent centuries, the tense but generally tolerable relationship between Jews and Christians matured into the Judeo-Christian foundation of modern European civilization. While Jews had little or no political standing in the surrounding Christian society (based largely on their exclusion from landed nobility), they became an integral part of the socioeconomic fabric of towns and nascent cities, where they tended to concentrate and flourish in commercial activities. Their ever-adapting word-based faith, ultimately founded on the recorded scriptures handed down to them by their illustrious forebears, gave them an especially high degree of literacy and education by pre-modern standards.

Resurgence (1500-1914 AD)

Consequently, as Europe entered the modern epoch around 1500, and especially from the onset of the industrial revolution around 1750, the Jews played an increasingly prominent role, wherever permitted, in the development of ever larger-scale financial and economic institutions and networks. By the 19th century, with the American and French revolutions having drastically infused a progressive new world spirit back into the old world, they were thus uniquely positioned for both intellectual and material leadership and influence in the surging wave of secular modernity.

While Jews had always played a disproportionate, even dominant role in money-changing - hence common surnames such as "Goldman", "Silverman", "Diamond", etc. - the rise of national banking systems in the 19th century catapulted a tiny elite among them to an entirely different level. A single family, the Rothschilds, came to effectively administer the rapidly expanding credit markets of every major European state, primarily Britain (the world's principal commercial empire) and France, but with substantial operations in what would in time coalesce into the unified nations of Germany and Italy, as well. Though the sovereign leaders they advised were all Gentiles, the Rothschilds and their associates relied on a network of heavily Jewish-staffed banks, customs stations, and commercial marketplaces all over Europe to handle the ever-growing demands and complexities of industrializing trading economies.

The Jews didn't exactly invent the modern international financial system, but it's not difficult to see just why they became such big players in its dramatic scaling up across vast distances which became possible with steam and coal power. For one, they had always been prudent with money: being stateless ever since 70 AD, they simply never had the same broader societal support infrastructure enjoyed by their Gentile peers. Secondly, a broad prohibition from land ownership right up to modern times had concentrated them in commercial and administrative professions which required both literacy and quantitative ability. And finally, their identity as pilgrims without a homeland - persistent even after centuries of life within Christendom - made them uniquely suited to international as opposed to merely national activities.

Topping things off was the rapid development of a new continental Western civilization in North America: as the United States grew to rival Britain as an economic superpower in the last decades of the 19th century, Jewish emigrants from central and eastern Europe found a warm welcome and a fresh start in a far freer and more tolerant society than those they had left. As New York arose to become a virtual west-Atlantic subsidiary of London, the Rothschilds dynasty found reliable collaborators on Wall Street who were disproportionately their co-religionists, and who steadily rose in wealth and influence up to the outbreak of the First World War. By the time war came in 1914, few major banking institutions anywhere in the western Christian world - and even to a large extent in the eastern Christian world (i.e. Czarist Russia and its satellites) - were not ultimately part of a single overarching (if relatively loose) financier network with its locus in London, answerable to the Rothschilds.

This hardly meant that Jews were running the show: while overly represented in the global financial system and technically at its very apex, they didn't in any meaningful sense "control" it. Not only were the most powerful institutions on both sides of the Atlantic predominantly led and staffed by Christians, but more to the point, even the Rothschilds of the world were entirely beholden to Gentile interests and dependent on non-Jewish goodwill and favors. In other words, they were still essentially politically disfranchised, even as representative governance continued to uproot hereditary privilege.

However, the First World War was such a cataclysmic rupture, exposing such deep fault lines in the unprecedentedly advanced civilization that European Christendom had built, that the exiled children of Israel within it were thrust onto the world stage as principal agents of change.

The Virgin Mary's apparitions at Fatima in 1917 marked the critical turning point of the war - the dawn of the rise of both international communism and global capitalism. From the get-go, her own race by blood - the Jews of Israel - were at the very center of both.

Great news for Russia: White nationalism has arrived in modern America

Donald Trump's stunning coronation as the Republican presidential nominee is an unmistakable signal that white European nationalism has arrived in modern America.

This earth-shattering development - irrespective of whether Trump goes on to win the general election - has already reshuffled the deck of global geopolitics. For anyone who's followed the GOP, the writing is on the wall: we are no longer the party of spreading the universal mush of "democracy" and "freedom" at gunpoint (or dollarpoint), and it's utterly foolish to think those days can ever come back.

That's great news for Russia. The Putinist brand of populist, ethno-religious, reactionary strongman rule apparently has enough of an appeal in middle America to fundamentally alter the dynamic of East-West relations, even if this takes time.

In Syria, we already see a tiny glimmer of how relatively easy the world's problems suddenly become when the two great poles of European Christian civilization work together instead of plotting to destroy each other - and this has happened in spite of the constant Jewish neoconservative machinations to further use America as a tool for Israeli Zionist and international Jewish financial expansion, with Mr. Obama little more than their conveniently "diverse", "multicultural" minion (to be brutally honest).

Anti-Semitic? Hardly. Anti-Jewish supremacist? Absolutely. With Israel itself pretty much secure and unified - the two-state solution with the Palestinians has been a pipe dream for years now - sensible Jews the world over have nothing to complain about. An America free of blatant Zionist interference is better both for America itself and Israel; just as Putin's Russia, secure from undue Jewish oligarchic influence, actually relishes Jewish services and favors.

That leaves internationalist Jews with China, not least those who still have any affinity for Marx - and, one has to suspect nowadays, soon to be joined by Milton Friedman.

But China's not a white European civilization - it does not and will never have the white European mentality and temperament. In the long term, as the special relationship between the Jews and the Chinese evolves and matures, it will also prove a boon to the entire human family: the Oriental psyche and physique alike are too repelled by the macho fests of conquest warfare adventurism which are the special province of the Caucasian breed.

And yes, I know Japan offers an interesting counterpoint, but that's precisely why they're relegated to long-term also-ran status: their ultimate destiny lies far closer to China than to Europe, and they're already at such a point where this primeval reality will become impossible to deny or escape.

Sorry, George Soros. Your days as moneychanger-kingmaker are over. But hey, it was a nice gravy-train while it lasted - and there's a much better gravy-train coming down the pike for your kind anyway (along with everyone else). Maybe it's time to actually practice your Judaism for a change - even The Donald's grandkids looks like they will.

Donald Trump's foreign policy speech offers breath of fresh air

Donald Trump, who appears to be breaking away from the rest of the GOP pack in the race to secure the presidential nomination, delivered an illuminating foreign policy speech at the Center for the National Interest yesterday, hours after securing five solid primary state victories with overall 50+ percent of the vote (a first in the "Super Tuesdays" of this election cycle).

Though it has also been influenced by the "neocon" virus since the 1990s, the Center for the National Interest is comparatively more realist in its foreign policy outlook than the flagship neocon outlets like American Enterprise Institute (AEI), so Trump's choice of venue sends a signal in and of itself. The crux of his message couldn't have been clearer: it's time to quit the democratization business, and reenter the stability business.

Not a hard sell for anyone outside the cocoon of the Washington policy clique: if a $4 trillion expenditure in Iraq to effectively build up and stabilize a "Shiastan" satellite of Iran isn't a fiasco that screams out for a switch, just what is?

Rather, traditional American interest has always depended on an ability to work with leaders and nations with very different value systems than our own liberal democracy. That includes dictators or strongmen who can be pretty nasty to those that oppose their rule.

Trump's foreign policy outline is such a breath of fresh air because it acknowledges a simple reality: we just can't have our cake and eat it, too. Freedom and stability may ultimately be complementary for every society and not just the liberal West, but in the short term they're clearly at odds with one another in traditionalist or strictly hierarchical societies. There's a brutal and unchangeable logic to the autocracy of such countries that no amount of Western democratic proselytizing - even if backed by sheer military domination - can change within any time frame or budget even remotely acceptable to the American public.

If we can do hundreds of billions in trade with China and still deal cozily with Saudi Arabia (notwithstanding the recent tensions), just why can't we cut the best possible arrangements with any other dictatorship? It's not their lack of democracy that threatens us per se: it's their perception that they have more to gain from attacking or threatening our interests - or more accurately, less to lose - than if they just behave themselves.

Unsurprisingly, the two countries outside the US where Trump would fare best in an election are Russia (by a large margin) and China. These rival continent-sized empires speak the same language as the flamboyantly brash real estate mogul: the language of unapologetic, in-your-face authoritarianism. Having previously bragged about how he'd get along well with both Beijing and Moscow, Trump has now made it all but official that the foundation for global security going forward should be big power collaboration - a global "concert of Europe", of sorts.

Foreign policy and international affairs realists everywhere must be hearing some music at last after years of discombobulated cacophony.

Russian power continues to grow, thanks to economic realities

In the wake of the Panama Papers - the latest feeble and feckless Western attempt to destabilize the Kremlin - Russian power in Europe and the Mideast continues to grow.

The Ukraine crisis has reached a new juncture with the resignation and replacement of the unpopular prime minister and an embarrassing Dutch referendum resoundingly against Ukrainian integration into the EU. As well, in the wake of the Panama Papers exposé that president Petro Poroshenko executed shady offshore dealings as his administration buckled before the summer 2014 Russian onslaught in the Donbas, the already low public confidence and trust which plagues Kiev is likely plunging to new nadirs. As Sovietologist Stephen Cohen remarks, it's been a horrible April for the anti-Russian party in the Western ruling class (and it's not even over) - and it's beginning to really threaten with utter meltdown their pet "democracy" project to dismantle Putin's Russia.

Moscow really hasn't had to do much: it's simply waiting for the blunders of its ill-wishers to run their predictable course. No matter how long it may take, policies and strategies which are built on fundamentally false or fraudulent premises have a reliable tendency to self-destruct.

Time is on Russia's side because of not so much military or political, but economic realities. Economically, Ukraine remains a basket case in desperate need of a rapid and resounding turnaround. On the other hand, with oil prices back in the $40s, Russia isn't quite a disaster anymore, if nowhere near its former glory in the $100s. Ukraine has severed its commercial ties with Moscow at just the juncture when some of the much wealthier EU economies are increasingly tempted to dissent from Brussels on continuing the bloc's own sanctions. As it becomes clearer that Russia is a self-sufficient continental economy which can get by fine without either Ukraine or normal EU relations, even as Ukraine's capacity to flourish next to a hostile Russia is anything but sure, the balance of power will tilt further in the Kremlin's favor.

That's doubly so because the European project as a whole is increasingly exposed as a geopolitical pygmy, unable to cope with the Mideast refugee crisis precisely because cracks are undermining its brittle economic foundations. The market turmoil in January and February showed that $15 to $20 a barrel crude will sooner bring down the largest German banks than put Putin at risk of revolt; like Japan, the EU has grown so addicted to extraordinary monetary policy (QE) to prop up its finances and thereby real economic activity that it can't handle even relatively minor perturbations (which, in the grand scheme, a million or so migrants really is). This isn't even to mention the internal terrorist threat from potentially thousands or even tens of thousands of disaffected, unintegrated (and frankly, largely unwilling to integrate) young Muslim men. Or the next iteration of Grexit...or Brexit...or an Italian banking collapse and the long-term Spanish and Portuguese fiscal crises.

But even the US isn't looking so formidable anymore. The notion that we can do just fine as our rivals (China and Russia) wither away is plain ridiculous. Sure, Beijing will be squeezed by a devaluing currency (yuan), but Wall Street will get whacked as every long trade gets liquidated for shorts; sure, the Kremlin will pinch pennies with oil in the teens, but JP Morgan and Wells Fargo will get blown out of the water.

Not even our shale miracle looks so hot anymore...turns out it was mostly the hype of quick profits, new stock bubbles. and especially another orgy of investment banker underwriting fees for issuing trashy bonds. If our financier cartel wants their old margins back, they can only do so by empowering Beijing and Moscow; if they want to keep their margins from totally collapsing, they need Russian and Chinese collusion; either way, our politicians are in no position to pursue policies that effectively raid the deep pockets that control them.

The inevitable verdict: Ukraine will implement the Minsk accords as surely as Syria will form a national unity government under Assad but with significant local and regional concessions to the opposition. Both will take a while and could yet be derailed, but to speak of any significantly divergent alternative outcomes would amount to a denial of basic reality at this point. We're in a multipolar world already, like it or not: the poles may sound discordant, but that's only because they're tuning in to the same frequency.

At half-year anniversary of this blog, Syria's fate hinges on Aleppo

This blog began last October 12 and at its half-year anniversary, the Syrian conflict has changed dramatically, though not in the exact manner that just about anyone would have expected.

In a general sense, this blog accurately forecasted the success of the Russian air campaign in its central aim: to secure Assad's regime around Damascus, the Mediterranean coast, and a defensible corridor linking these most habitable core portions of Syria. Likewise, we have seen the expected further radicalization of the resistance, many of whose residual secular nationalist elements have, since the late February ceasefire, been compelled to join a peace process on terms they don't like, i.e. taking Assad's immediate ouster off the table.

Notwithstanding a recent upsurge in "moderate" rebel activity such as that of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which apparently threatens the ceasefire, there seems to be enough buy-in amongst the secular nationalist opposition to the Geneva process to give Assad a clear upper hand in negotiations, which he's now pressing with the intent of getting just enough opposition representation into a new national unity government to make it an acceptable alternative to continued armed insurrection.

That leaves Al Qaeda's local affiliate Al Nusra Front and its motley collection of jihadist allies, notably Ahrar al-Sham, as the dominant "rebel" presence still effective on the battlefield - with the FSA and other non-jihadist groups increasingly pushed to all but abandon their own residual revolutionary goals if they choose to remain in the most credible anti-regime coalition. Of course, Western media has continued to play up the possibility - already defunct all the way back in 2013 - that these "moderates" can still be a viable alternative to the Baathist state while simultaneously opposing the extremists: it just goes to show how the neocons and their minions can never bring themselves to accept failure and readjust accordingly.

In fact, whatever "moderate" forces even remain at all owe their existence exclusively to Russian and even regime goodwill and flexibility: they were given a breather since late February to enter into talks with the regime, not to restart their fantasy revolution. Now that even their provisional Islamist allies, especially Al Nusra, have turned increasingly hostile against them, it's only a matter of time - after all their showboating with the defiant banners of the old Arab Spring - that they take the only sensible path left for them, namely join those of their brethren who have already made overtures to Damascus.

That being said, it appears they're willing to give force of arms a chance in Aleppo, where they're gearing up for a final stand against the Axis of Fatima as the latter prepares an assault to recapture the city.

Thus, at this blog's half-year anniversary, Syria's fate hinges on Aleppo, both the divided and besieged city itself and the surrounding province. The Axis of Fatima's gathering offensive could in itself be a sign of confidence that the political process is gaining enough traction to further isolate Al Nusra and other implacable jihadists: another round of heavy spankings on the field should convince remaining "moderates" that their armed leverage is exclusively dependent on an unpalatable and unsustainable alignment with such extremists, who themselves are doomed to military defeat, if even by long attrition. That should bring more of them into the fold of Geneva, where the UN and even the West have all but surrendered the notion that Mr. Assad won't be a central figure in any transition to a new arrangement for the country.

Once that's achieved, the Axis of Fatima's other problems - notably ISIS and the Kurdish question (including Turkish designs) - are comparatively trivial.

As usual in war and politics, the stupid are penalized for mistaking leniency and patience for weakness and unresolve. That's what the "moderates" who have not taken advantage of the ceasefire to join peace talks, but on the contrary seized on the regime's shift of attention to ISIS (i.e. Palmyra) to improve their military position in Aleppo, are about to find out.

Clueless US could now be escalating a proxy war in Syria - against itself!

The US and Russia are nearing a de facto alliance against ISIS in eastern Syria, a development that would cap off a stunning reversal of fortune in 2016 for the Baathist regime of Bashar al-Assad, who with recent battlefield successes against ISIS is closing in on a once-unthinkable diplomatic coup: gaining legitimacy with the West as part of the anti-terror coalition.

That's especially so because terror-stricken Western Europe in particular is absolutely desperate for progress on the ground against ISIS whether in Iraq or Syria - but not surprisingly at all, US-backed Iraqi government forces have again choked bigtime, fleeing yet again in the face of the ragtag terrorist army in the vicinity of Mosul like they did almost two years ago, and badly delaying the liberation of Iraq's second city from the caliphate which was trumpeted by pro-US media as being virtually imminent a couple of weeks ago. (It now appears Washington felt pressured to hype up the whole campaign because the Russian-backed Syrian army and Iranian-led militias were making such good progress against ISIS around Palmyra in the immediate aftermath of the Brussels bombings.)

However, Turkey is clearly doubling down its resistance to the Axis of Fatima, in league with Saudi Arabia. Having secured a deal with Merkel to return Syrian refugees from Greece to Asia minor and beef up a crackdown on illegal trafficking of more migrants into Europe, Mr. Erdogan apparently feels he has enough leverage now to up the ante in his long war to eliminate Assad even if it means openly supporting Western-recognized terrorists - or at least preserve what remains of the non-ISIS jihadistan in northwestern Syria that the Axis of Fatima's February victories threatened with extermination.

Turkey's blatant support for Al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front is becoming less and less of a suspicion - even Ankara increasingly seems okay with it gradually coming to the open as a plain established fact. Among other developments, the terror group's apparent acquisition of advanced Western surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) from Turkish dealers has resulted in two Syrian warplanes being downed by militants in a month: the Saudis had specifically warned of this if they didn't force Assad's immediate resignation at the start of the Geneva-brokered political transition. Rogue Turkish officers are also reportedly recruiting for Al Nusra in northern Aleppo province to fend off the campaign of attrition by the Kurds and pro-regime forces.

Last weekend, Al Nusra opportunistically captured a weak link in the regime's siege ring around Aleppo city, capitalizing on Damascus' newfound focus on ISIS further south and east. With stepped-up Turkish materiel and Saudi monetary aid, it apparently thwarted Aleppo's pacification, but Russian air power continues to reign supreme, allowing the government to launch a counteroffensive, as they've done so repeatedly against both ISIS and other rebels in the vicinity in recent months.

Interestingly, however, as the article mentions, the US is now stepping up its own airstrikes against Nusra fighters, killing a top commander. This indicates that not merely in ISIS' heartland Raqqa governorate, but also in northwestern Idlib, American and Russian warplanes are buzzing around the same sectors to hit essentially the same enemies (one presumes in coordinated fashion to avoid targeting conflicts and redundancies).

But this highlights just how potentially explosive - and not merely embarrassing - things can get in both the strained US-Turkey relationship and, much closer to home, the simmering rivalry between two bureaucratic empires right here inside the Beltway. Ever since Washington got sucked into a proxy war with itself when its CIA and Turkish-backed Syrian Arab rebels started shooting with its Pentagon-backed Syrian Kurdish rebels in Aleppo province back in February, Erdogan has been barking down Obama's nose about making a choice between Turkey and the Kurds. The problem is, Obama obviously hasn't decided one or the other - allowing his disparate intelligence and defense agencies to escalate what's essentially a proxy war with one another!

The sheer absurdity of this whole situation should be the butt of all manner of standup comedy jokes - only it's anything but not deadly serious. Just imagine: the CIA is furnishing Al Qaeda terrorists with advanced SAMs - which could be aimed at Pentagon warplanes!

All the while, weak and feckless Western Europe has become such a geopolitical sissy that Donald Trump has opened a debate about whether NATO isn't already an obsolete relic; and Turkey and Russia have very obviously opened up a new front in their proxy war as their respective vassals Azerbaijan and Armenia reignite a frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Perhaps we in America need some kind of rude awakening as to the sheer folly of our foreign policy. Things are getting awfully interesting.

As in Heaven, so on earth: how a Jewish woman runs everything

Apparently, US Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen - the little Jewish lady who effectively manages the livelihoods of the planet's 7.4 billion inhabitants - saved the global economy from a complete meltdown on February 11, 2016 - the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes (and, incidentally, the third anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's shocking resignation which paved the way for Pope Francis).

It was on that very day that the crash of oil prices - which threatened to unleash an uncontrolled death spiral of (petro)dollar deflation worldwide - was decisively arrested.

Today, the relative calm in global markets, but most significantly the major exchanges in the US, UK, Europe, Japan and China, is singularly attributable to the fact that crude oil was not allowed to drop into the teens per barrel, effectively bottoming out around $26. As well, the other hammer that would've come down had crude hit the teens - China's yuan or RMB - has been effectively propped up around 6.5 to the dollar (which has apparently been deliberately weakened since then) to prevent a cataclysmic feared 20 to 30 percent devaluation which would've blown already-depressed global trade levels clean out of the water.

No, we're not out of the woods yet; more likely, we're only approaching the actual thick part of the deep forest interior - all that's been achieved to date is we've taken a powerful pill to prevent a guaranteed (panic-induced) stroke even before we've actually set out some proximate course to reach the other side eventually.

These woods, of course, are a metaphor for the unprecedented global peace promised originally by Our Lady of Fatima in July 1917 - a worldwide stabilization brought about by the universal language of market-driven commerce, with the Jews, hardly surprisingly, at the very center.

Not coincidentally, the situation in Syria also improved markedly at virtually the same moment the world was pulled back from the economic precipice: the Axis of Fatima spent the following fortnight consolidating its gains around the critical strategic city of Aleppo in the run-up to the February 26 ceasefire that has largely held ever since.

The Axis of Fatima - Russia, Iran, Syria, etc. - is of course oil-fueled and petrodollar-based. That it's essentially been handed a geopolitical win in the Levant makes perfect sense when you consider that it was first handed a financial salve by Ms. Yellen in the form of an eased global dollar ecosystem - this, far more than any rumored or real "output freeze" agreement between Russia and OPEC, is the determinant of petro prices.

Further, on the very day the Syrian ceasefire took hold, the US also essentially pivoted its economic destiny even further to China, secretly agreeing at the G-20 in Shanghai to prop up the yuan by debasing the greenback. Years from now, this moment will likely be remembered as the one in which "Chimerica" became the permanent foundational fixture of the integrated global economy - with both its West and East wings run by the Jews (America being the New World Israel, China being the Far Eastern Wisdom sought by the ancient Hebrews of the Near East).

Things are looking pretty good for Israel - both the literal secular state in the Mideast and the figurative spiritual and cultural one encompassing most of the world (albeit still bitterly divided against and within itself); beyond this, the Axis of Fatima, being the (not so) secret link between Judeo-Christianity and Islam, is the only additional bridge to cross to arrive at the Nirvana of lasting world peace.