Israel Gets What It Wants
All They Are Saying Is Give War A Chance
I awoke to the news that Israel has bombed Iran, focusing on nuclear enrichment facilities and military targets. For the U.S. and Israel, war always finds a way.
The U.S. is claiming that Israel alone is bombing Iran, but of course Israel is using U.S. weaponry, intelligence and logistical support, and political cover at the United Nations. The planes may be Israeli, but the U.S. government is complicit in the attacks, just as the U.S. government is complicit in genocide in Gaza.
At Eunomia, Daniel Larison has an informative article on the “insanity” of the Israeli/U.S. attack on Iran. A few points come to mind here:
+ Israel is allowed to have 90-200 nuclear bombs, but no other country in the region is allowed to have any. I guess that’s because Israel is so clearly peace-loving?
+ Iran is the latest target of Israel’s quest for regional dominance. As far back as 2003, if not earlier, Israel (and U.S. neocon “warriors”) always wanted to go to Tehran. Baghdad was supposed to be both a cakewalk and a stepping-stone. Two decades and several disasters later, these “real men” finally achieved their dream of war with Iran.
+ The success of Israel in getting the U.S. government and military to do its bidding is nothing short of phenomenal. Iraq? Greatly weakened. Syria? Greatly weakened. The same with Libya. And now it’s Iran’s turn to be “greatly weakened,” i.e. bludgeoned with bombs made in the USA.
+ Iran will likely strike back. U.S. media will frame these attacks as “unprovoked” and “anti-semitic.” See this grimly amusing article by Caitlin Johnstone about future headlines at the New York Times.
+ One thing is certain: Israel, like the U.S., has an irrational belief in the efficacy of bombing, an efficacy largely disproven by military history.
+ One might recall how the U.S. conspired with Britain in 1953 to overthrow Iran’s democratically-elected leader, replacing him with the Shah, leading to 25 years of a repressive police state until the Shah was finally overthrown. I wonder how Americans would feel if Iran conspired in 1953 to overthrow Dwight D. Eisenhower as U.S. president, replacing him with a petty dictator who ruled through secret police?
Here are a few responses by prominent U.S. politicians to Israel’s attacks on Iran. I just love the “game on” reference by Senator Lindsey Graham. Has there ever been a more abject and delusional chickenhawk than him?
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, minutes after reports of the operation began, “Proud to stand with Israel.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) soon followed, saying, “Game on. Pray for Israel.”
Cotton later added that “We back Israel to the hilt, all the way,” adding that if “the ayatollahs harm a single American, that will be the end of the ayatollahs.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), said “Israel IS right—and has a right—to defend itself!”
Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said, “We stand with Israel tonight and pray for the safety of its people and the success of this unilateral, defensive action.”
“I am also praying for the brave U.S. service members in the Middle East who keep America safe — Iran would be foolish to attack the United States,” Risch continued.
U.S. members of Congress seem to think they swore an oath to Israel, not the U.S. Constitution. And, given all the money they receive from AIPAC and similar pro-Israel lobbying groups, maybe they have sold their souls to Israel.
Once again, all they are saying is give war a chance.
Israel gets what it wants, Bill, because Israel wants exactly what America’s MICIMATTT wants. That’s why it exists.
Since its conception, inception, and creation, Israel is now and has ever been a Strategic and Tactical Forward Operational Base for First the British and then the American Empires’ military, economic, and political interests [as in domination] in that part of the world with all its fossil fuel and other natural resources; and its strategic and tactical geographic proximity to, first, the Russian Empire, and then the USSR, and now Russia.
In other words, that “quest for regional dominance” is not Israel’s, but America’s.
And of course, Washington is claiming that it had nothing to do with Israel’s attack on Iran. Just like it claimed that it knew nothing about Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian airfields. Anybody who actually believes that deserves to have Trump as their President and the future for this Nation that that portends.
And Iran has been in America’s crosshairs since long before 2003 and all those “Real Men” who wanted to go to Tehran rather than Baghdad. Like since 1979 when The Shah was run off his throne. We started that by bankrolling Saddam’s War with Iran shortly thereafter, and have been waging a protracted conflict with it ever since. It looks like the new generation of America’s “Real Men” will get a chance to fulfill that 2003 vision. And will no doubt fail.
In any event, this is shaping up to be one of the most interesting Friday the 13th Weekends in a long, long time.
First, on Friday Israel may have, for all intents and purposes, very effectively started World War III. And second, Saturday features POTUS Maxximmuss XLVII’s Birthday Parade, and some 1800 planned “NO KINGS” protests nationwide against his Parade, his Rule, and him.
One can only guess what it will take to give America’s Ruling Political Caste’s boy “Corporal Bonespurs” what he needs to declare some sort of a “National Emergency” and impose Martial Law.
An interesting F-13 Weekend, in deed and indeed.
This just sickens me. My husband puts on the local news in the early morning while getting ready for work. I cringe as I try to block out the skewed reporting, as Israel is always defended and Iran is always presented as maniacally evil. Here is how the local news station reported this story: "Iran launches drone strike on Israel; Israel on high alert", then on to the next story with no mention that Israel bombed Iran first.