Vanessa Beeley Lays Out Trump’s Plan for the Middle East

Vanessa Beeley Lays Out Trump’s Plan for the Middle East

14 November 2025, posted by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

I post this here because Vanessa Beeley, who is in Lebanon but has previously lived in Egypt, and in Gaza, and in Syria, and has visited extensively in Iraq, and in Iran, is, in my opinion, the best — the deepest-penetrating and the most reliably true — of the reporters on the Middle East, and I have never found her to have reported anything that is false.

“Vanessa Beeley | “ISIS Is On A Good Recruitment Drive”: Why Al-Jolani Grip On Power Is Tenuous”

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How to

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describe how things are here um following the

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welcome given to Al-Qaeda uh at the White House and the very clear

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indication that Jolani was going to be president, Ahmed al-Sharaa for those that

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um don’t know him as Abu Muhammad al-Jolani formerly with ISIS in Iraq and

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then of course he co-founded Nusra Front in Syria which is effectively al-Qaeda

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in Syria and that hasn’t changed despite all of the rebranding and remodeling of

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his image by MI6 and CIA. Um, so

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basically how I’m relating that to Lebanon right now is that he’s been absorbed into um

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the so-called anti-ISIS coalition, which is sort of a double psyop because of

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course, yeah, the US is behind the creation of ISIS anyway. They control the ISIS elements

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both in Iraq and inside uh Syria. Probably 30 to 40% of Jolani’s takfiris [jihadists]

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forces either are uh you know proudly ISIS in that they wear the ISIS insignia

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on their uniforms or there are many of his uh HTS [Syrian Al-Qaeda] forces particularly the

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foreign takfiries um defecting to ISIS because they perceive that Jolani is

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drifting away very rapidly from his takfiri origins and from the idea of

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creating a caliphate uh in Syria and in the region generally. So ISIS is

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actually on a pretty good recruitment drive at the moment. Um the fact that

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Jolani is being brought in by Trump to

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uh allegedly fight ISIS. I I say allegedly very very sort of pointedly

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there because that’s literally a form of cannibalization for for Jolani with

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regards to the forces that are um as I said comprise probably the majority of

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the takfiris that have been conducting the massacres in the coastal areas and also resettling in the homes of the

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coastal area communities that were effectively ethnically cleansed. So he’s

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been resettling these uh foreign extremists into the coastal areas into

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areas in Damascus in HTS, and and in Hama. Um so for me

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things here have been you know they’ve continued as normal. There are rumors

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now that after the failure basically of the Trump administration

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and Tom Barrak uh his economic hitman um to persuade the Lebanese government

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to disarm Hezbollah and the basically and the resistance factions or

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to use the army against their own people in Hezbollah, um and the resistance

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factions across Lebanon, because Hezbollah has support outside the Shia

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community of course also within the Christian communities, the Sunni uh communities and so on, as it does within

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the army itself. You’ll often find a brother in one

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family in the army and another brother in Hezbollah for example. And so, um,

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for me, what is now happening, is Israel is ramping up, as Tom Barrak said that he

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would tell them to do if, uh, the Lebanese government wouldn’t pull its finger out basically, um, and, um,

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disarm Hezbollah, then the doors would be open to Israel to come in and do the

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job uh, on behalf of Washington and Saudi Arabia and the Zionist block. And that effectively is what is now

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happening, is that Israel is ramping up the aggression in the south that’s carried out a number of bombings over

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the last few days. Um and now we see Tony Blair, the famous Tony Blair who’s

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also sort of been dredged up to deal with the Gaza file, is now allegedly

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according to a report in Al-Akbar, in Lebanese media, he’s also going to come

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into Lebanon to try and pick up the pieces of of what Tom Barrack couldn’t succeed in doing. And of course, the

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ultimate plan is to create this so-called buffer zone um to provide security for Israel in the south, which

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again, of course, means uh land grab, displacement of people from southern

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Lebanon, and this creation of what is euphemistically called a free trade zone, which of course means complete

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colonization of that area, takeover of that area, which also of course runs in

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parallel with the plan to do that to Gaza to to create uh a free trade zone in Gaza, which will be a component of

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the India [and] Middle East economic corridor. um that was always the plan and and all

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you know even Trump’s latest so-called peace scam um incorporates elements of

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that original plan to effectively turn Gaza into this central free trade zone

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using um Gazan uh gas reserves of course Palestinian gas reserves um turning Gaza

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into a series of smaller concentration camps, which is effectively what they’re

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heading towards now, where they can uh — the Palestinians that want to remain that agree to be completely deradicalized

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and to abandon any dreams of statehood can remain as slave labor effectively

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for the industrial zone that would be created by the Zionist block, which includes Gulf states like Saudi Arabia,

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UAE, Qattar and so on.

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MY COMMENT: As I documented in 2017, the thing that had caused the U.S. to refuse to agree with Russia about Syria was that Russia was bombng both ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria, but Obama refused to stop backing Al-Qaeda in Syria (which was America’s main force trying to overthrow Syria’s President Assad). Anyone who believes what the U.S. Government says about the Middle East and about America’s objectives in the Mijddle East, believes a lot of lies.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.