Investment Imperialism & the future of Israel

I mean, either you understand it or you don't understand it. The the the coercive controlling power that is part and parcel of investment that comes along this that accompanies investment. I mean, I think it's strange to not understand this. It's kind of a disaster, frankly, if you don't understand this because it means that you don't understand anything about colonization. You know, neither traditional colonization nor the current techniques that are being used against the global South.

I mean, you don't comprehend the power of money, I'm not sure what version of reality you're living in, but it's not one that can enable you ever to intelligently discuss or intelligently analyze the world that the rest of us live in if you don't understand how money works with relation to power. Because look, when any country invests in another country, say a billion or 10,000,000,000 or what have you, they invest in this sector or they invest in that sector. Well, that's not a gift. It's not charity. It's investment.

It's buying essentially. It's purchasing a part of that sector of your economy. And the point of investment is to get more money back than you invested. You invest in order to get a return on your investment. So FDI, foreign investment, foreign direct investment can actually end up resulting in a net outflow of capital from the recipient country.

Not to mention that through this investment, a company or a country can undermine local companies. They can boost the company the the company that they invested in to where it outperforms all of the others and expands its domestic market share. And then it becomes dominant in its sector with the profits then essentially being, extracted from the domestic economy into the, economy or into the accounts of the foreign investors. That's how it works. All of this is quite basic, and this has been a major tactic by the West for subjugating and dominating the countries of the global South.

FDI, foreign direct investment, has been like a syringe that they tell you is an injection of medicine, but it's actually used to, draw blood. Everyone understands this or at least everyone should understand this. The West certainly understands it and that's why they view Chinese investment anywhere in the world, as a threat to their influence. Because it is. It is a threat to their influence because they know how investment works.

It gives a country influence. So again, either you understand this or you don't. And if you understand it, then you will also understand that this is how it works for everyone, not just Westerners. Not just Americans, not just British, not just Europeans, not just white people. And it doesn't only work for Russians, and it doesn't only work for Chinese.

This is just how it works. Period. But it seems like there are some people, who seem to think that it doesn't work, for Arabs. Somehow it doesn't work that way for Arabs. Mostly other Arabs and other Muslims think that way.

There seems to be an irrational inferiority complex and an outdated, but for some reason, dearly held belief that our countries can never be influential, that our leaders can never operate with independence and sovereignty. They they they can't believe, that the power and influence of money, the coercive and controlling power of investment, follows the same principle when Arabs do it. When Muslims do it. Particularly, they can't believe, that it operates according to the same principles when Arabs do it in relation to the West. And they think it's absolutely unthinkable that it could ever work that way in relation to Israel.

In this way of thinking, the West, Europe, you know, The United States, The UK, etcetera, they're historic colonizers. They're historic colonizers of the Muslims and the the Arabs and the global South. They think that apparently, they're just simply too powerful, they're too superior, they're too clever, they're too rich to ever be subject to the same tactics that they've used on us. Well, no. But in their minds, Israel, for example, is apparently some sort of weird anomaly, and it's not subject to the same rules of geopolitics and economics as any other country.

They think it's immune. It defies the physics of market forces. Israel is magical somehow in their mind, in their thinking. It's mythical. But the, the practitioners of economic or, investment colonialism, they know perfectly well that it works no matter who's doing it.

They don't dismiss the economic power of the GCC, and they don't dismiss how their investments are expanding their sphere of influence, even into their own Western countries. That's why you see article after article expressing concern over Arab investment in The UK and in Europe and so on. And why in fact these investments are in reality impacting western policies vis a vis The Gulf, vis a vis the Khaleed. That's happening. That's a reality.

But I don't know. Some people still have it in their head, that investment, is somehow a display of friendship. I don't know if you've ever been in business. I mean, there are there are there are ways that investment, can be carried out, so that it's, less hostile or less malicious than others. I mean, it can be done in ways that do not overtly equate to intrusion invasion and economic occupation.

You know, ways that can carry varying degrees of local benefit. And that will depend on the the the intentions of the investors themselves, And it will depend on the terms and conditions that are set by the recipients. But at the end of the day, what you are always talking about is penetration and expansion of foreign influence in your country, which inevitably and unavoidably changes the priorities and the position of your government and of your elites towards the investing country, and towards their own populations as well. Because now their own interests include the interests of their investors. The priorities of their investors and so on.

I mean, feels very rudimentary to even have to explain this to be honest. I mean, look, the the the GCC countries, some examples of their investment in Europe, the Qatar Investment Authority, the QIA, they invested €300,000,000 in Spain's banks, their troubled savings banks, basically a bailout. A billion dollars of investment, in a joint fund focused on, Greek, small to medium sized enterprises. The Abu Dhabi, sovereign wealth fund. They, started a partnership in France to the tune of €300,000,000, also for, small and medium sized enterprises.

An acquisition of 5% of Italy's largest bank in, 2017. Kuwait, their investment fund, their sovereign wealth fund. 75% of their investments 75% of all of the investments from Kuwait are in Europe and North America. That's a massive amount of money that they're pumping into those economies and getting something back. These investments have significantly contributed to the economic ties between the GCC and Europe, particularly in the areas of finance, in the area of infrastructure and energy.

GCC firms have $15,700,000,000 pounds invested in The UK as of four years ago. There are around 600 GCC owned businesses in The UK, supporting something like 25,000 jobs, and that number tripled, in just ten years. These investments are strategic, and even the West knows it. They know that it's strategic, but they can't do anything about it because they need the money. Because as I've said, and I've I've I've explained many many times, they have already subjugated their own countries to the OCGFC, to the owners and controllers of global financialized capital.

They've subject, subjugated themselves to people who don't who only care about revenue, only who care about profits and dividends. That's given a a a tremendous advantage to any Gulf state, to any Muslim country, or to to any country at all that possesses significant sovereign wealth funds, and possesses the intelligence to employ their capital strategically. As I've said several times, there's simply no reason for anyone to think that their approach to Israel would be any different than their approach to Europe, and their approach to The United States. And there's no reason to think that it would have different results. DCC countries have expanded their influence and and their control in the West, across the Middle East, across North Africa, and in fact across the entire continent of Africa by means of investment.

This is all part of a strategy that recognizes the reality of the shift of the global economy to the South and to the East, and the changing balance of power as a result of that. This this changing balance of power is also leading to the subjugation and, the irrelevance of Europe. This changes the whole global dynamics, power dynamics, and the genocide in Gaza is destroying Israel economically. How do you think that plays into this strategy of, expanding their influence? The the government spending of the Israeli government, has increased by at least 40% since October 7, while their revenues have decreased significantly.

Their budget deficit has tripled since October 7. You know, the total state budget of Israel is is only $160,000,000,000, and roughly half of their GDP is government spending. But they're entering a a a bottomless debt cycle this way. You know, they're and their most successful sectors, the high-tech sector and the r and d sector, they barely pay pay any taxes. And a massive proportion of the companies in those sectors, are actually not even Israeli companies, but American companies and other western companies.

Did you know that foreign investment into the tech sector in Israel has plummeted since October 7 from a billion dollars to just $300,000,000, and dual citizen Israelis have been fleeing from that country by their hundreds of thousands for nine months. And between that and the government calling in, reservists, well, their workforce is completely depleted. Tens of thousands of foreign workers have left the country as well, and they were mostly doing jobs that Israelis don't even wanna do themselves anyway. So who's gonna do those jobs now? I'm telling you, you have to start looking at the cold hard facts if you want to consider geopolitical strategy.

Israel is not sustainable and it never was. And they're coming to the end of the road for Zionism. It's the end of the road for Zionism. So many sectors, whole chunks of their economy, Wallahi, are gonna be up for grabs. You know, Israel has always been a dependency of The United States.

Everyone knows that. But the key point here is that it is a dependency. It is a dependent economy. After eighty years, it has still never achieved any meaningful economic independence. It's complete failure as a country.

And if you don't understand how investment works, how investment does not equal love and friendship and upliftment, no, it's not charity, it's not kindness. If you don't understand that, then you won't understand how investment in that failed economy, that failed Israeli economy, that failed country. Well, that's the easiest and the most effective strategy imaginable for domination. Again, the practitioners of economic domination understand this very well. Like I said, that's why western countries are fearful of investment from the Khaleed, from the out of states, and Chinese investment because they know perfectly well what investment means.

They know it means influence because that's the way they've always used investment. So they know how it works. Look, sovereignty in the real world today belongs to the OCGFC. It belongs to the owners and controllers of global financialized capital, not to states, not to governments, and Israel is no different. Zionism is an obstacle just like any, ideologically driven government is an obstacle.

So the OCGFC are at war with any ideology that interferes with their sovereignty, with their authority, which is why there's a cold war going on right now between the OCGFC and the neocons, between the OCGFC and any nationalists. And yes, between them and the Zionists. They want every government to sell off state assets. They want to reduce the public sector as much as possible. They want everything to be privatized in every country.

They want everything to be put on the auction block. Oh, yes. In my opinion, the the the genocide in Gaza is gonna make Israel a helpless target of neoliberal dismantling. The public sector in Israel accounts for a huge portion of their economy. From telecommunications to transport, to energy, to healthcare, ports and airports, water and waste management, on and on and on.

Not to mention land development, real estate, property, and so on. All of these things are gonna be up on the auction block. They're gonna be all on the auction block of privatization. And whoever buys them, buys control, buys influence. But Israel is gonna be, like I said, spiraling into a a a whirlpool of debt.

And someone can even buy that debt. And if they buy that debt, again, they buy control. You have to start thinking with your mind instead of just feeling with your heart if you want to defeat your enemy. Because listen, if you don't understand what I've been saying, then you've never understood how your enemy defeated you in the first place. And you don't understand the situation that you're in right now because look, this isn't the the seventeen hundreds or the eighteen hundreds.

Colonization today, empire building today, imperialism today is achieved primarily through economic means, by means of investment and by means of debt. They colonize your market, they colonize your economy. You know how they say that the the that the FBI is the domestic instrument of control in The United States and that the CIA is their instrument of foreign control? No. The FBI deals with you at home in America, but FDI deals with everyone outside of America, foreign direct investment.

That's how they dominate. Well, again, anyone who has the money can do the same thing. We can do with our money to you what you've been doing with your money to us. And that means that the Arabs, the Muslims, the Khaleid can do, the same thing to Israel. They can do the same thing to Israel what they've been doing to Egypt, and what they've been doing across the region.

They want to dominate, and they want to control, and they want to spread their, sphere of influence. And not only is Israel not excluded from that plan in my opinion, it's absolutely key to that plan. And with every passing day, Israel becomes even more and more vulnerable to economic conquest. I'm telling you, this is not only feasible, it's inevitable. Look, Israel's a colony.

It's a settler colony. A colonialist project. Well, a colonialist project is supposed to generate money for the colonizing power, not drain money from it. Israel was a good investment in the past, you know, in in the in the post world war two era when The US economy was run exclusively on the basis of the military industrial complex, and when nationalism still ruled the day Before the rise of multinational corporate power, which led then to the rise of a national private sector, elites in the form of the OCGFC. And it still worked when there was the, the baby boomers and so on.

When the West was still producing consumers and workers at above replacement rates. Well, that's all changed. So today that system, the whole post world war two system is obsolete. Just using Israel to funnel American tax dollars to American weapons companies is not the same thing as Israel generating revenue for America. No.

Israel is just a pretext for moving American money from one place to another. From one from the American people's pockets into American companies accounts. That's not bringing new money into the American economy. Well, that's what a colony is supposed to do, and Israel's not doing it. It's supposed to extract wealth and resources from the colonized and deliver them to the colonizing power.

Israel doesn't do that. They just take. And in terms of having a pretext for funneling tax money into the American weapons sector, well, in my opinion, over the next decade or so, at least, the whole continent of Europe is gonna provide that pretext. You know, it shouldn't seem strange to you that the owners and controllers of global financialized capital are abandoning Zionism and are abandoning Israel. I mean, is happening after and because, they have already abandoned the West.

They've already abandoned nationalism and loyalty to their own countries. And they've done that out of a conviction in the internal logic, of their class. What's good for business is the highest principle, and everything else just falls by the wayside. So why shouldn't Zionism? Why shouldn't Israel?

They already threw Europe under the bus. I don't blame anyone, if the world is changing too fast for you to keep up. But I'm trying to tell you about how things have changed and how things are changing. Because to be honest, I hear, some opinions online that sound like something that might have been an informed opinion thirty years ago, but it's completely out of touch with reality today. Listen, the way you thought that the world worked even ten years ago, is out of date in 2024.

I would even say that there have been so many changes, that have happened just since the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict. That if you have an opinion that is based on how power dynamics were just three years ago, you might as well be talking about the Warsaw Pact. You need to catch up. Now, you know, someone asked me in, I think it was in the comment section. It was a good question.

He asked me, isn't what the Saudis are doing and what The UAE is doing, isn't that just an another form of, imperialism? Because, you know, I've talked about how, how these countries, the the Gulf countries, UAE and Saudi Arabia and so on, they're using their economic power, and The UAE specifically is using even violent power in places like Sudan. But they're using their power to spread their influence and control across the region. And they bought a massive influence in Egypt, in Jordan, in Lebanon, and they wanna do it in Syria, which is one of the things that's behind the normalization with Bashar al Assad. And they've spread their influence across North Africa and East Africa and beyond, even deeper into Africa, and even all the way to Indonesia and Malaysia.

And they're doing it by means similar to and sometimes in conjunction with the the International Monetary Fund. So isn't that imperialism? It isn't that bad? But look, we're talking about lands that were historically an integrated Muslim empire already that got broken down, that got broken apart and divided by western imperialism and colonization. So I mean, is that imperialism to revive cohesion between formerly cohesive countries and peoples between Muslim lands?

I don't think so. I don't think that, Muslims putting, something back together that colonization broke apart is the same thing as imperialism. No. It's just the next phase in undoing the damage that Western imperialism caused to our parts of the world. And yes, I'll say it again, in my opinion, this is going to include undoing the damage caused by Zionist colonization, which has always been just another facet of Western imperialism.

Just watch, like I said, what everyone calls normalization. If you can lift your head above the fray of rhetoric and emotion, what that's actually going to mean is economic conquest of Israel. And Israel's gonna have to abandon Zionism, and they're gonna have to abandon Jewish supremacy, which would just mean that those people in Israel who won't abandon Jewish supremacy, then they'll have to abandon Israel, and they'll just have to go home. But the way that things are going and the way things are likely to go, don't think they're gonna find much of a welcome, when they go back home either. Look, contrary to popular opinion, the OCGFC are not Zionists.

They're not any kind of nationalist except in terms of the fact that, the rich are a nation unto themselves. And that's the only nation they care about, their own class. That's the only nation they care about. Their support for Israel in the past has nothing to do with Zionism, has nothing to do with Judaism, it has nothing to do with any ideology other than self interest. But the myths of Zionism have been useful for providing some sort of non materialistic, non selfish rationale for their support, of Israel.

So all of the myths and the rhetoric of Zionism, all the propaganda, all of that has been deliberately permeated throughout the society because it allowed the genuinely and deeply anti Jewish West to camouflage their actual hatred of Jews as support for a Jewish homeland far away from them. But this being the case, the OCGFC pivoting away from Israel, and the necessity of abandoning Zionism means that all of the rank and file Western Christian Zionists and all these types, all of them are gonna need some way to rationalize to themselves how and why they don't support Israel anymore. And that's gonna be because, you know, Israel and APAC and the Jews have just been too criminal and too inhuman and have bullied pure hearted America and the enlightened West into doing whatever the Jews told them to do. That's what they'll use. They'll revert to their historically embedded hatred of Jews, as a way to convince themselves of their own innocence.

They'll distance themselves from Israel and from Zionism and claim, to have been manipulated and hypnotized by IPAC. Because they can't take responsibility or accountability for their own actions, and the classic western anti Jewish hatred will rear its head blatantly in the West once again. So the Jews will ultimately recognize that the only place that they're safe is going to be with the only people who ever did grant them safety, and that's the Muslims. And by the time that happens, the Muslims and the Arabs will have already transformed so called Israel into a regional dependency. There is no scenario in which Zionism has a future.

And there's no scenario in which, Israel does not integrate into the region and revert to being what the land always was, a Muslim and Arab majority country with a Jewish minority. That's the only future. That's the only future. And everyone who matters, everyone who has real influence, everyone who pushes the levers of long term policy, everyone who's navigating and steering the shift of the global economy to the global South, everyone can see this fact. And the Muslim lands across Africa, through the Middle East, at least all the way up to Turkey, are going to very likely form a cohesive community of nations.

And that community of nations is gonna become the center of the world economically, politically, culturally, and civilizationally. Whether that process, happens through hardship and difficulty or it's easy, it doesn't matter. That is the trajectory, Insha'Allah. That's the way it's gonna go. And in my opinion, effort to oppose this, to hinder this or to derail it, whether those efforts are made by die hard neo cons in Washington or by colonizer collaborators among the Muslims who try to sow discord in our countries, I think that any such efforts are gonna be overruled and are gonna be overwhelmed by the a national OCGFC.

Now their intention has nothing to do with supporting Islam and they have they have no interest in supporting Muslims. That's not their intention. Their intention is what it always is, which is money and power. But a stable and prosperous Muslim world, an organized and cohesive Muslim world just makes sense. It's good for business.

Once this is achieved, well, the preeminence of Islam will be beneficial for the whole planet. And I think that humanity will enter into one of the most vibrant and transformative periods in human history. And the whole era of western domination will be something that people read about in disbelief at the cruelty and the crassness and the savagery. It will be like the world was in some kind of a fugue state for centuries. Temporarily insane.

Like I've said many many times, as Muslims you should analyze current events. Analyze the time that you're living in by identifying where this period sits in the timeline, and where the events that you see fit into the story of the eventual and inevitable victory of Islam. Because I can see it very clearly. Because as as analysts, as Muslim analysts of geopolitics, current affairs, what have you, we're in a very unique position, a very advantaged position because we already know how the story ends. We're watching the movie after seeing the spoilers.

So all we have to do is is identify, how what we are living through fits into the timeline that leads to the, finale that we already know is gonna happen.