Digest #16: A ‘Zionist’ Palestine, Iran ‘bombs’ Al Udeid & The United States of NATO
In the last week Iran 'attacked' US bases, Canadian PM Carney called for a Zionist Palestine and NATO cosied up to the US.
Political Alchemy Digest is a look at a selection of news stories from a Muslim viewpoint.
In a slightly romanticised Hollywoodesque version of medieval times, war and peace would be decided simply by two people, mainly men, meeting in the middle of the proposed battlefield and agreeing terms. If those terms were not acceptable to both sides there would be war.
They would then meet again some time later, most likely surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of rotting corpses of their own brethren who had perished in the war, to either concede or agree terms for peace.
These were times when ideas such as honour, chivalry and respect meant something. A man’s word would be worth more than his life. War was real, even as a leader you could touch, feel and smell it.
Today all that chivalry has been replaced by Donald Trump, gone are the days of gentlemanly agreements, now the world hangs on every word of Donald Trump’s Truth Social account.
Bashed out in BLOCK CAPITALS, with the juices of a McDonalds Double Whooper Burger still dripping from his sausage fingers. Fingers that inadvertently at one point spelt his own name wrong, a post he later corrected.
It may sound nauseating but this is what the world has become, discuss tactics on Telegram groups, threaten assassination, declare war and enforce peace on social media.
God Ble$$ America!
Eventually Ai will automate all of this and there will be no need for Donald Trump, sent to pasture at Mar-a-Lago forever to sift through stolen top secret documents for the rest of his life.
Iran ‘bombs’ Al Udeid
After the US of A ‘Bunker Bombed’ Iranian nuclear sites at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. The world watched as to how Iran would react. What these bombs actually did or didn’t do we will come back to.
At one point last Monday (23rd June) as Iranian missiles were sent towards Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, aljazeera was reporting air raid sirens in Iraq and Bahrain, combined with news from other sources suggesting Iran was closing the straight of Hormuz.
It was all every exhilarating, just as I was about to reach for the popcorn and settle down for a night of missile watching, a quick VAR check however revealed most of that news to be as Donald Trump would put it “Fake”.
The attack on the Al Udeid airbase was real, but with no one at the base and all but one of the missiles being intercepted it resulted in zero damage, rendering the attack pointless.
The images below clearly show the base had been cleared out as early as June 17th.
Source: Clash Report on X
News emerged that the Iranians had told the Americans about the attack leaving a rather bad geopolitical aftertaste. All of this confirmed by Trump, you guessed it on social media.
The message signed off nicely with BLOCK CAPITALS just to be sure we knew exactly who this man was.
Such is political spin that the Pentagon hailed Iran attacking an empty airbase as an even bigger victory by claiming it had deployed the “Largest Patriot Missile Salvo In U.S. Military History” to defend Al Udeid. A little much considering there was nothing there to defend and from all reports there were less than 15 missiles fired.
Point to note the missing hypersonic missiles, based purely on range they could have hit the air base.
This was clearly a pre-orchestrated show by the Iranians for domestic consumption, a little like when Pakistan attacked the Indian airbases which were most likely empty during their recent conflict.
Despite an agreed ceasefire the Zionists continued to hit Iranian targets in the 12 hours that remained for the ceasefire to come into play. This frustrated Trump to the point where he dropped his own F-bomb on live TV.
As if by scripted decree when the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei made his first appearance after the US attacks on Iran, he too claimed victory.
“The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a slap to America’s face”
The absurdity of that statement can only be matched by the fact there is such a thing as a slapping competition. Power Slap can be viewed on Rumble.
In Lebanon images showed Trump begging Khamenei for mercy. Geopolitics for the masses is more about PR than hard facts.
Getting back to the damage done to Fordo where the massive Bunker Buster bombs were dropped; according to Trump the site was ‘obliterated’.
The US administration followed this up by publishing a list of experts who backed up Trump’s assessment. This list is far from independent it ranges from those working within Trump’s administration to those in Trump’s political pocket like Rafael Grossi, Chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA). Who’s initial questioning of Iran’s compliance with the IAEA gave the Zionists the green light to attack in the first place.
All this despite early assessment from US intelligence suggested the facility at Fordo hadn’t been ‘obliterated’ and that Iran’s nuclear program has been put back a few months.
However this is the world of Donald Trump, where his own intelligence are deemed ‘Fake News’ when they don’t agree with his own lack of intelligence.
Reports suggest the Iranians may have moved the 60% enriched Uranium before the attacks, reports that the US administration of course reject.
The latest update to this is Rafael Grossi is now saying the Iranians could be back up and running within months
"Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there,"
Grossi said on Saturday 29th June 2025
To give context as detailed earlier Grossi was part of the list of experts cited by the White House who backed up Trump’s claim of obliteration.
“Given the power of these devices and the technical characteristics of a centrifuge, we already know that these centrifuges are no longer operational, because they are fairly precise machines: there are rotors, and the vibrations [from the bombs] have completely destroyed them.”
IAEA Chair Rafael Grossi - Experts Agree: Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated - The White House June 26, 2025
The only way to understand this is through an old quote from Donald Rumsfeld as he once put it:
we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.
I could have been wrong, maybe political buffoonery existed before Trump, maybe it has something to do with being named Donald.
The United States of NATO
In some imaginary scenario where Donald Trump was independently assessed for this political competency there might be a multiple choice question that reads something like below.
As US President you are overseeing the most sensitive time in geopolitics since World War II. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte sends you a message congratulating you on the US attacks on Iran. Knowing the attack possibly violates international law and the message congratulating you on such an attack undermines NATO as being independent of direct US control. You must decide how to respond. Bearing in mind that the head of NATO publicly objected to Russia’s attack on Ukraine as violating international law. (see image for actual messages)
You have three possible options:
A. Keep the messages a secret, this is a private conversation between you and the head of NATO
B. Take said messages, screenshot them adding them to your social media for no other reason to satisfy your own sense of self importance.
C. Reply back to the head of NATO reminding him about this responsibility to be independent.
Spoiler alert the correct answer isn’t B. But for Trump it was always going to be B.
By putting the messages from Mark Rutte onto his Truth social account, Trump days before the NATO conference opened up a whole can of worms the world didn’t need.
For his part Mark Rutte when asked about the contradiction of congratulating Trump and then bemoaning Russian actions, was not very fussed dismissing any conflict of western interest. So much for international law.
Politics is truly a machiavellian affair whilst some in Europe were questioning Trump’s unilateral approach to bombing Iran, all those doubts disappeared when it came to the NATO meeting.
Leaders agreeing to Trump demanding they spend at least 5% of GDP “core defence requirements as well as defence and security-related spending by 2035”.
A bully is not a bully if he is on your side.
A ‘Zionist’ Palestine
During Trump’s inauguration as President for the second time he reiterated the United States desire to expand its territory.
As well as offering to ‘buy’ Greenland, Trump was adamant that if the Canadian’s didn’t want to do business on his terms then they might as well become the 51st State.
Back in April 2025, Marco Rubio said when asked if the U.S. still wants to make Canada the 51st state
“I think the President has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada would be better off as a state.”
When Mark Carney, the current Prime Minister of Canada came to power replacing Justin Trudeau, he was clear and adamant that Canada would do business on its own terms. In a statement issues by the Prime Minister’s office it was made clear:
"The leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the US working together – as independent, sovereign nations – for their mutual betterment,"
Trump hasn’t managed to make Canada the 51st state, but it seems his political incompetence is infectious.
Bearing in mind Carney’s desire to keep his own nation independent. He then called for there to be a ‘Zionist Palestine’ after the genocide ends. See Video below:
This statement from a man who was so adamant on the independence of his own nation, and the need to avoid any US interference. Now he is asking Palestinians to live and allow a nation of genocidal maniacs with a blood lust for Muslims, in his words ‘prosper’ in a ‘Zionist Palestine’.
Mark Carney is an intelligent man who once led the Bank of England, this is no buffoonery akin to that of Donald Trump. This is the blatant disregard western politicians now have for Muslim lives be they in Palestine or elsewhere.
To use throw away phrases like ‘Zionist Palestine’ is to make light of horrors of the past 20 months where Zionism has starved a nation to the brink of existence.
It is to now blame the victim if the Palestinians refuse to accept Zionism as anything worthy to co-exist with, let alone see it prosper.
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