Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review Sept 20, 2022
Joe Biden ran for president in 2020 with a pledge to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, which Donald Trump had withdrawn from in May 2018 under pressure from Republican Party Jewish donors, most notably underwritten by an estimated $100 million coming from now deceased Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas casino fortune. The JCPOA might plausibly be regarded as the only major diplomatic success for the Barack Obama Administration, which featured Biden as Vice President, and it was good for the US due to its curb on proliferation, as well as being a benefit for the entire Middle East region as it made less likely a “weapons of mass destruction” arms race involving the Egyptians and Saudis.
Predictably, however, the pledge did not please the state of Israel. For three decades, Israel has been urging the United States to use force to eliminate what it refers to as the Iranian nuclear weapons program, a program that does not exist and might never have existed. The nuclear weapons threat raised by Israel might be seen as a disinformational wedge issue to bring about the complete destruction of the Iranian military capability by the United States. Israel seeks to exploit its influence over the US government and media to bring that about.
To be sure, weakening Iran and possibly even replacing its government is the most compelling issue for Israel and its powerful US domestic lobby, but the Israeli plan is much broader than that, to make the United States the junior partner providing the money and weapons in an effort to militarily dominate the Middle East. Knowing that both Donald Trump and Joe Biden were willing to concede actual US national interests in response to Israeli pressure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his replacement Yair Lapid have sent waves of top-level officials to cajole both Congress and the White House into giving Jerusalem whatever it wants.
This flow of “experts” arriving with their maps and charts in hand has increased as the realization that a politically weak and clueless Joe Biden will cave under even the slightest pressure has grown. Biden has demonstrated particular gutlessness in his recent failure to seek a full investigation and consequences for the Israeli Army murder of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, deferring to Israel’s complete unwillingness to establish some form of accountability and Prime Minister Lapid’s declaration that the current level of his army’s use of force against the Palestinians will continue. Biden has also backed down on rejoining the JCPOA, declaring that the issue is now “off the table.” Secretary of State Tony Blinken has confirmed that decision, declaring that any new arrangement with Iran is “unlikely.”
Preceding the Administration’s decision to ignore American interests in deference to Israeli concerns, there were frequent visits to Washington by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and also by other senior officials who arrived in DC to sell a product. The latest pitch involves the Iranian threat and the continuation of a free hand to attack neighboring Syria but there also has been a bizarre drive to have the US State Department declare that the Palestinian civic and human rights organizations that Israel has been shutting down are “terrorist organizations.” Even though a US intelligence and law enforcement agency review has declared that not to be the case, the Biden team is predictably waffling under Israeli pressure. This is how State Department spokesman Ned “Pencil Neck” Price responded to a question regarding the Israeli claims: “Our Israeli partners have in recent days provided us with additional information. They provided this information not only to the department but also to a range of our interagency partners. We are continuing to review this and that process is ongoing.” Price added that he didn’t want to “prejudge” the information. Pretty gutless Ned, huh? Even for you, who also excused the killing of Abu Akleh, saying “it was a horrific tragedy, but not one that should be prosecuted. This was not an intentional, targeted killing. This was the tragic result of a gunfight in the context of an Israeli raid in the West Bank.” Interestingly, Ned surely knew that there was no gunfight anywhere near where she was killed, which makes him a liar as well as a man bereft of any morality. And I love the fact that Ned declares we Americans are “partners” with Israel. Junior partners, clearly.
Israel has never provided any actual hard intelligence to back up its claims, though it has several times been caught fabricating evidence. Senator Bernie Sanders’ Foreign Policy Advisor Matt Duss tweeted after the latest round of pressure to call the Palestinians “terrorists” that “This isn’t about intel sharing or security. It’s political pressure to justify political repression. The admin knows, as our allies do, that the designations are false. The question is whether [the Biden Administration is] willing to do anything about it.”
One should consider that what for Israel, the United States, Russia, Ukraine and nearly everyone else what is passed off as intelligence is anything but. It is instead more often than not a tightly woven argument to convince other countries, the public and the media that something that is supportive of one’s policies is true and should be considered corroborative. This is how we the people have now come to see global events through the prism of an official lie factory. Another recent ploy by Israel to enable its continued bombardment of neighboring Syria is a tale of how Israeli intelligence has developed information that Iran is using Syria to construct technically sophisticated weapons that will be used against the Israelis. Defense Minister Benny Gantz, speaking in New York City last Monday, claimed that Iran has used “10 military facilities in Syria to produce advanced missiles and weapons for its proxies.”
One might observe that Gantz’s use of a map to show where the alleged facilities are located was convincing of nothing as it was a graphic produced by the Israeli government, somewhat like the dreck that is flowing out of Ukraine at the moment. And there is a bit of logical inconsistency in the tale in that Iran has its own arms industry and does not need to build weapons in Syria. There is also the question of why is Gantz speaking in New York? The answer is obvious. Israel is speaking to a gullible American audience about the alleged Iranian threat and Syrian culpability. Predictably, nothing was said about Israel’s recent war crime bombing of the international airport in Aleppo.
And there’s more, as there always is with Israel. The Israeli government is also running full speed with brand new claims about an alleged secret Iranian nuclear weapons program. The information was presented to the US and German governments by Prime Minister Yair Lapid with the claim that it “proves the Iranians are cheating as we speak.” Lapid told the Germans that the Biden Administration had hardened its stance against Iran vis-à-vis the JCPOA negotiations in response to the new information. What the new intelligence consists of might lead to some speculation, but Israel’s claims along those lines have been frequent for the past twenty years and also regularly found to be both malicious and fabricated.
Finally, who says that the Israelis and their rabid Jewish supporters in the United States don’t have a sense of humor? A story making the rounds in the Jewish media in the US and featured in the Jewish News Syndicate asks the question “[Why] 21 years later, [the] US still doesn’t recognize Iran’s role in 9/11.?” The discussion features Caroline Glick and David Wurmser, two noted neocons and Israel-firsters. Wurmser is of course described as “an expert on Middle East affairs” rather than as a Zionist extremist while Glick, who lives in Israel, is among the most rabid journalists calling for “deterrence and containment” of Iran, with the US military doing the heavy lifting. Glick also recalls 9/11, stating that “America’s willful blindness to Iran’s role in global terrorism, including in the September 11 attacks, is part of the collective amnesia about the events of September 11.” When I stopped laughing, I continued reading to see if the two honorable Zionists would also mention the Israeli art students who were all over the place spying on the US and the five Israeli dancing Shlomo “movers” who clearly had prior knowledge of what was about to take place and were seen celebrating the sight of the burning twin towers. And then there was the quote by then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning 9/11 that “We [Israelis] are benefitting from one thing, and that is the attack on the twin towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.” So, Israel actually had a motive. Makes you wonder… Who really did 9/11?
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org
Now the real masters step out from the shadows.
Biden is hopelessly compromised and even though Israel has been a 100 year nightmare for this country, Ol’ Joe is locked up by the Chicoms and especially our masters from Israel. Nary some action from our Congress, they all owe their jobs to the yids who throw the shekels their way.
Clearly, we’ll have nothing but be happy……should be no Dems and Republicans, we need a single agency called the AzzClowns to represent us. Israel is behind the Ukraine war and we can keep giving the Ukes money hand over fist, our political class is made up of bonafide idiots. Yet, 50 million Americans can’t get enough of our tormentors. We screwed ourselves, nobody else to blame. We’re aiding Ukraine so Israel can take over that territory at our expense. 2% of our population and they own us……pathetic.
“More Disinformation from Israel”, that’s called a pleonasm.
JUDAISM IS AN AFRICAN RELIGION. WHO ARE THESE JEWS ???,,
Tartars.., etc
Mystic and Yogi
When Biden was VP, Obama was pressured into bombing Iran. Obama refused, and an Atlanta Georgia Jewish publication called for his assassination. The editor had to apologize and resign, but was not charged with calling for the assassination of a sitting president.
https://www.jpost.com/International/Atlanta-Jewish-newspaper-calls-for-Obama-assassination
“Israel should send Mossad agents to assassinate President Barack Obama because of his anti-Israel policies, the owner of a US Jewish newspaper wrote in an article that drew widespread condemnation on Friday.
Andrew Adler, the publisher of The Atlanta Jewish Times, wrote a column that appeared in his newspaper on January 13 in which he argued killing the president might be justified because he posed a threat to the Jewish state.”
Mark Glenn (Ugly Truth) weighed in, he said Amerika might be the great whore of Israel, but the whore refuses to commit suicide.
With pedo Joe there will be no resistance, so we are all in grave danger. OBiden needs to be removed ASAP before he really xxxxx us all – like a nuclear war with Russia.
TEL AVIV (Mossad?) flyes to
polish Rezow . so we see on which
side they are !
I ask friends here to pay attention to what I’m going to repeat and clarify:
Deterrence Doctrine in game-theory has 4 main issues:
1- Balance of terror: To be able to scare your enemy!
2- Flexible response: In case of an enemy action, having the ability to choose from a large list of different response options to surprise the enemy.
3- Big Retaliation/pay back: Being able to respond to an enemy action with a bigger counter-action.
4- Total war: Being able to drag the situation or escalate to total annihilation or total war
These four are simple and easy to understand and if a country is capable in them, then they can engage in pre-emptive actions.
Both Israel and US no longer can act preemptively against Iran, because Iran has achieved complete deterrence… in layman terms: “Not all the options are on the table!” : ) and that is why they try to cause unrest within Iran and take covert actions, and Iran also responds covertly.
Now this is very important so please pay attention:
Having nuclear weapons is considered as a deterrence against nuclear weapons or something of equal destructive power, but you also need to have the second-strike capability for example submarine-launched-nukes to ensure MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) even if you get nuked first! However even so the enemy is not deterred tactically. Imagine two countries have deterred one another from using their nukes but one side is superior with tactical weapons, so they have the upper hand.
Israel argues that if Iran gets nukes they will have an open hand to completely wipe them off the map, but in reality Iran already can wipe them off the map with just missiles and drones, or by a few missiles landing on Dimona reactor or the Negev Nuclear Research Center. Israel has no geographic depth to be able to sustain even a mild aggression from Iran. Now when you study the deterrence doctrine the shallowness of Israel’s argument becomes crystal clear. Israel already has nukes but they can’t strike Iran’s nuclear facilities! They only make empty threats; conversely Iran is not interested in directly wiping Israel off the map because these crazy bastards have nukes! Besides time is not on the side of Israel as it is surrounded becoming weaker and weaker every day, Israel is in shambles today but they don’t want you to know, just the fact that they’ve had many elections in a few years is telling! various hacker groups have left no orifice of Israel unseen! You can find photos of the bad teeth of the Mossad chief on the internet! Israel has even failed to control its own cities, every day sirens are heard in the occupied Palestine and Israelis have to regularly go to bunkers, they have serious demographic issues too, constant stress! Hamas or Islamic Jihad in Gaza are still strong. Then they have to deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syrian army, the Shia-Coalition in Syria and Iraq, even Hooties of Yemen can launch cruise missiles and drones at Israel; in this dire situation they make empty threats against Iran. Though they are heavily active in their covert war and are doing their best to create wars around Iran, in particular with possible upcoming war between Armenia and the artificial state of Baku (Azerbaijan) with Erdogan of Turkey taking the Baku’s side! Recently there were clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan too. Interestingly Christian Armenia’s only real ally is Iran.
Note that both Israel and Saudis blame failing against their opponents on Iran, because it is less damaging in the eyes of the world to have suffered a blow from the “head of the octopus” rather than some smaller groups!
They can’t hide the truth about Iran drones either, all they are doing is just damage control, today US, NATO and Israel have no real effective countermeasure against small and medium sized drones of Iran, they are going to introduce some new tech to Ukraine but those will be new and have to be tested against Iran’s lower tier drones! Iran has not even used the better ones yet: Arash-2 (shark style suicide drone) and Shahed-191 (based on US RQ-170).
US and Israels latest strategy against Iran is: “Death by a thousand cuts!”
https://www.axios.com/2021/08/27/naftali-bennett-joe-biden-meeting-iran-strategy
This means that whenever they’ve been doing against Iran, they do all together at once! As you can see right now! : )
There is more… but I won’t bore you any more and it has become very long.
my two tomans
“Glick also recalls 9/11, stating that “America’s willful blindness to Iran’s role in global terrorism, including in the September 11 attacks”….that comment shows the world who is the master of lies and chaos. And we in the West are the people of the damned for allowing these stateless immoral vagabonds into our countries.
A couple of days ago, Spiegel released an article with the title: “How Ukrainian women are exploited in Europe”, but this does not explode in the Mass Media! – Just to give you a perspective: For example if you search in Google “Mahsa Amini” you get about 12 million results depending on your location and in Farsi “مهسا امینی” you get nearly 50 Million results which are accumulated just in two days! What about “Shirin Abu Akleh” the woman journalist that Israeli sniper killed not long ago? Search her name in quotes and you get at most 22K results!
The unrest in Iran is not the first nor the worst and likely it will be over in next 2-4 days…. but while mass-media has people focus on the unrest in Iran, field realities show that a massive civil unrest is brewing up in occupied Palestine and Israel is on high alert; some of the other countries that have involvement in directing and leading the unrest in Iran are also going to have their own unrest such as Saudis!
The plan to take back Golan heights is still on the table. If Israel’s plan of creating a war between Armenia and artificial state of Baku (Azerbaijan) materialize… Iran will be forced to defend Armenia and take over Nakhjavan region and also invade Zion infested Baku once and for all; while Turkey has to mainly focus on Greek… still Turkey might support Baku or even try take over northern Syria. For Iran to invade artificial state of Baku it would take 100K soldiers at most and Iran will still be able to fight on multiple other fronts simultaneously. Georgia too is between Armenia and Russia. As you can see this is a Powder Keg, look at the world map!
If they cause this war, Iran will also open new fronts in Persian Gulf against Bahrain and other lilliputian slave Arab countries. Then that’s a clear World War, you can be sure China also to attack Taiwan when there will be many flashpoints globally.
Excellent analysis mr…two tomans.
You can use the singular term for “your master,” as the ignorant butt pirating sons of Satan are not in control of anything, as it’s all a show. Principally as a whole we shouldnt, even sarcastically dont say such things, as you lump everyone together, so they don’t even own the stinky meatsack their in. They’ll be complaining from he’ll soon enough. all words are powerful, I am Christ’s Jesus’s .bought and paid for.. some cannot control their words, and makes worse others situations.
If someone does a really genius evil thing, its them !
Always is, almost.