Finally, Israel did it with a little help from her Moslem enemies. Attacked by Hamas last October, the Jewish state lashed out with her usual all-or-nothing determination that left little standing in its bulldozer-style attack upon the Palestinian lands.
At the beginning, most countries “understood” why the Jewish state was going after all or nothing. But, gradually, the IDF’s take-no-prisoners strategy, which did not differentiate between armed opponents and non-combatants, including children as young as still in the cradle, helped to dilute the world’s sympathy to Israel’s cause.
To add insult to injury, the Gaza carnage terrifyingly mobilized the nuclear-weapons armed fundamentalist Iran, with the Tehran mullahs launching a saturation long-range missile attack on the Jewish state after the IDF bombed the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus (the bombing, Israel said, was ‘a mistake,’ a claim that was rejected by Iran and, even, by many in the Western world, who, of course, kept their doubts private).
This chain of events is already beyond control. High and low on the international power grid warn that a global war is now a terrifying possibility ante portas outshooting fears of the neo-Soviet attack on Ukraine being the most likely trigger of a third world war.
This burgeoning risk of a global Armageddon has caught the Greek government of PM Kyriakos “Koulis” Mitsotakis by surprise despite growing signs of dangerous potential escalation visible with the naked eye.
Greece, a country that refused to diplomatically acknowledge the state of Israel until the 1990s, has grown into a bosom buddy of the Jewish state willing to overlook any and all Jewish excesses against the Palestinians.
In return, Israel has “gifted” Mitsotakis with advanced prying-eye technologies deployed to monitor private communications of all and sundry (Mitsotakis and his cohorts refuse that such ‘assistance’ was offered, but many independent observers have verified the use of such technologies by the Koulis regime) as well as other goodies of obscure, but “helpful,” use.
Such “being forever friends” with Israel comes at an increasingly steep price: Greece has been saturated by US assets pushing substantial material reinforcements to Netanyahu et. al. and has sent one of her warships to participate in the Western naval operation in the Red Sea protecting international shipping that carries cargoes of strategic importance to the Western world. Hellenic Air Force aerodromes are filled to the brim with US military aircraft and Greece’s armed forces have been ordered to “assist” US military operations via an “all aboard” mobilization.
This comradeship comes on top of the scandalous transfer of Hellenic Armed Forces weapons to the losing Ukrainians, a “solidarity” move that has left Greek forward Aegean islands practically “naked” to the piratical appetites of neo-Ottoman Turkey.
The Mitsotakis government has diligently avoided vituperative descriptions of what the IDF is doing in the Palestinian lands and takes cover behind the various UN and major power pronouncements regarding the ongoing carnage. And Greek government strategists (whose competencies leave a lot to be desired) remain either silent or deliver the usual inane generalities that suggest nothing but the depth of confusion of the Greek administration.
Attempting to “wargame” Greece’s predicament in a hypothetical world war is, to put it plainly, a walk in the dark.
Given her strategic geographical location, Hellas will be immediately in the sights of the enemy coalition just like she was from the outset during WWII—and her politicians, irrespective of ideological inclinations, will be presented with a battle only real adults will be able to play with hopes of even marginally positive outcomes.
Against this backdrop, we, in this almost always unlucky land of miracles, can do nothing more than hoping and praying to escape with least amount of war damage.