If in time due to a severe humanitarian crisis brought on by famine and regional devastation, harried by ongoing military conflict, displacement, and damaged infrastructure, Israel and its regional foe Iran were to come to the bread table and empower a true peace, with a colossal statue of Cyrus the Great on the red rocks of Susa to embody in stone the Red Rock Accord, the Middle East and its diverse people would find anchor on hallowed Achaemenid ground.

A Susa statue would represent a return to the core values of the Cyrus Cylinder, advocating for future peaceful relations and prosperous ties between Iran, Israel, and the wider Middle East to implement policies of mutual tolerance, religious freedom, and basic human rights.

Yet, Israel’s thirst for new lands, particularly through West Bank settlements and territorial “security zones” in occupied territories, acts as a primary governmental barrier to peace by eroding the feasibility of a contiguous Palestinian state and inviting regional hard-feelings.

By Netanyahu establishing defiant outposts and increased Israeli troop presence, though it’s  not without reason and has its protective merit, this policy overall fosters ongoing violence and fuels regional warfare making Netanyahu, at the end of the day, his own worst enemy.

Regional peace between Iran and Israel can and will be attained one day, if only away from the meddling hands of international partners, a scenario contrary to current U.S. intelligence goals and the elitist powers that be, to represent a future giant seismic power shift in Middle East geopolitics and symbolized by a co-funded red rocks Susa statue of Cyrus the Great.

Saudi Arabia has its own Vision 2030, as it should a sovereign nation. But the mistake is to over-Westernize that concept to a degree causing a strategic equilibrium to be unbalanced.  Western culture is in decline, its modernization is in decline, and its morals are in decline.

I live in America, within earshot of the Air Force Global Strike Command, always practicing maneuvers, but seemingly non-threatened by waves of unauthorized drone incursions, and close to massive AI data collection centers planned to know more about my eating eggs at 4am to Sinatra music, as primed by Bruce Jay Friedman’s The Lonely Guy’s Book of  Life.

Away from my scene, the Saudi goal, for new cultural heights, should foster regional stability to better embrace human competitiveness with economic influence, driving the smart engine of Saudi prosperity. PlayMaker Studios is a step in the right direction, but hard to make a 7th. century war movie on Khalid ibn al-Walid if you’re shying 21st. century ballistic missiles.

Oh, don’t you know Saudi Arabia would have to put up with Iran and Israel likely bickering over the details of such a beautiful, remarkable Cyrus the Great statue, symbolizing peace and understanding in the Middle East, but wouldn’t that be a “nice problem” to have now?

For I say to you, it would, in fact, render powerless the U.S. billionaire tech elites, who I will name shortly, labeled as “hardline” to profit from the pain and hardship brought by lucrative, self-serving plans without a “true care” in the world to the everyday Middle East citizen, and offer a secure, intelligent, integrated regional partnership due its peoples built on freedom.

Well, you say hardliners have all the power. You can’t win. I say people don’t live forever, try as they might with gifted intelligence to squeeze a little more rotten juice out of this world.

Elon Musk’s zeal is to produce more robots than humans. Which makes sense–robots don’t need “up front money” and prenuptial agreements, and allows for robots to fix printer jams and grab microwave brand popcorn for Netflix Israel, while “honey robot” rubs your back.

Scripture asks: “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Even Jeffrey Epstein, whose lifestyle made mockery of scriptural tenants, when asked by America’s Steve Bannon on camera in 2019, expressed a firm, solemn belief in the soul.

That’s where you raise the King Cyrus the Great statue as answer to the kings of the Western world, with feet of clay, and their dying fiat currency, volatile cryptos, and moral bankruptcy.

Why a monumental Cyrus the Great statue, seemingly a political theater stunt? Because it represents a beacon of hope for humanity as a world-wide declaration of peace and heritage and a nod to historical ties, human rights, and mutual understanding between the lands of Israel and Iran and its citizens. It’s that simple a concept for a complex peace settlement.

They didn’t call King Cyrus “great” for nothing, because he is the messenger of peace and justice due to his enduring polices of religious tolerance,.liberating enslaved peoples and allowed them to return to homelands, with bravery, brawn, and enlightened leadership.

U.S Congressman Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, two brash Americans most unlike King Cyrus, who likely couldn’t do one straight push-up, unless with a push-up ice cream treat sitting on a recliner watching Fox News on DVR to watch themselves self-promote their warmonger views, would entirely bash the Red Rock Accord. Just flip a lid, would they.

This April when asked about President Trump’s threat that a “whole civilization will die” in Iran, Graham indicated with “holy hell smugness” he did not give a flip about the rhetoric opposed to the value of human life, saying, “I couldn’t care less what words he uses. I want outcomes.” And Cruz, who obviously skipped demography courses at Harvard, admitted that he had no clue of the population of Iran–with America’s Tucker Carlson in 2025–and stated this month: “It’s not a war crime to blow up plants.”

Please note that Graham’s Washington D.C. political interests are financially backed by the petroleum companies make a “killing” from the war on Iran. And Senator Cruz is heavily supported and deeply vested with the petroleum industry, receiving millions for campaigns.

Trump in a White House briefing has claimed the Iranian people have begged him to bomb their life-supporting infrastructure to steer America’s people of faith, Israel’s people of faith, and Iran’s people of faith into ever-increasing and ever-costly moral failures and bloodshed.

Why would Trump make such a wild claim as to say of the Iranian people wanted the U.S to “please keep bombing” their country’s infrastructure, arguing that destruction was their path freedom? Because beyond the highly aggressive and crazy rhetoric it’s about grabbing Iran’s oil with brute, inhumane tactics, targeting hubs like Kharg Island, to rape Iran’s oil assets on their motherland and heavily reliant Chinese energy supplies, aimed at shifting global energy, security, and financial power for U.S. entities already making huge gains off the Iran war.

10 U.S.capitalist companies standing to lose financially from Iran and Israel declaring peace are: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, RTX, Northrop Grumman, Palantir, Starlink, Venture Global, General Dynamics, Exxon and Chevron.

We’ve learned Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine advised Trump and his “yes men”  officials that a military campaign against Iran carries perils, which may include significant jeopardy from U.S military engagement strikes.

But Trump seems to desire the war winds blow and is all about the disintegration of Iran and its society to grab the oil. The Iranians will survive this potential onslaught with Russia and China’s military backing. They’re prepared for it. And they will strike back. Hard.

The next consideration for a peaceful Middle East is to rethink a U.S. self-serving agenda fundamentally at odds with core scriptural tenants, true beauty, true grace, and reverential aesthetics empowering nations. Scripture advocates for a “serving heart,” not an “evil heart” as if in league with Lucifer’s gang, prioritizing holiness and kindness to others, across the walks of faith, above the tool of money, vanity, clout, and Trumpian self-gratification.

Will Israel and Iran forge a Susa peace?

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