Marwan Bishara – Al Jazeera Oct 9, 2023
Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept 22, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the past three decades sounding the alarm about Iran’s nuclear programme and threatening to attack the country on countless occasions. Most recently in September, he said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that Tehran must face a “credible nuclear threat” before his office corrected the record to “credible military threat”.
After Hamas’s attack on October 7, Netanyahu may finally be able to act on his threats. The gruesome scenes in southern Israel have provided the Israeli prime minister with the necessary pretext and international backing for a wider response.
Netanyahu has both a political and a personal stake in all this. A drawn-out regional conflict would block or at least postpone any official accountability for his utter failure to prevent Hamas’s attack from happening in the first place and could also put his multiple indictments on corruption charges on an indefinite hold.
Overnight, he transformed from a failed and embattled prime minister to a wartime leader, with opposition parties clamouring to join him in a national unity government.
He declared war and ordered an immediate retaliation against Hamas’s stronghold in Gaza. The Israeli army unleashed a vicious campaign of bombardment on the overpopulated Gaza Strip, killing more than 500 people, and preparing for a potential land invasion.
Netanyahu has not elaborated on the next phases of the war, but he has received the unconditional support of Western governments to do what it takes, as long as it takes, to “defend Israel”. The administration of US President Joe Biden has gone even further, providing Israel with more arms and ammunition, dispatching its most modern and sophisticated aircraft carrier, the Ford, along with a number of destroyers to the Eastern Mediterranean, and beefing up other forces stationed in the region, enough to start World War III.
Biden’s motivation for the escalatory deployment is, reportedly, strategic deterrence, meant to ensure that “no enemies of Israel can or should seek advantage from the current situation”. But historically, Israel has never allowed any foreign boots on its soil, and is in no need of the US armadas to take on Hamas.
Biden’s incentive, therefore, could also be political, ie to ensure that the GOP doesn’t exploit the Israeli drama at his expense ahead of the presidential elections in 2024. Already, Republican opponents have tried to link Biden’s recent prisoner swap deal with Iran, which involved the unfreezing of $6bn in Iranian assets, to the Hamas attacks.
But Netanyahu and his fanatic ministers may have something very different in mind for the US deployment, that goes beyond military deterrence and political posturing. He may try to widen the scope of the war to include Iran.
His government has already accused Iran of supporting and directing Hamas’s operation, as it has previously done about other Palestinian attacks on Israelis. Scores of Israel supporters and neoconservatives, as well as media pundits in the US and Europe, have joined in by making the case for Iranian involvement.
The Wall Street Journal even reported – based on interviews with unnamed local sources – that Iranian officials and members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were directly involved in orchestrating and planning the attacks over several weeks.
US officials have said they haven’t seen evidence of Tehran’s involvement, yet.
For its part, Iran has called the attack a spontaneous Palestinian action in self-defence, but officials have not tried to hide their glee at Israel’s misfortune. They have expressed confidence that the attack will deter further Arab, meaning Saudi, normalisation with Israel, and eventually lead to its downfall.
Meanwhile, Iran’s ally the Lebanese Hezbollah has praised the Hamas operation and engaged the Israeli forces in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms, threatening greater involvement if Israel enters Gaza.
Iran and its allies’ temerity may well come back to haunt them, just as Israel’s hubris did – leading to its utter humiliation at the hands of Hamas fighters. Neither Iran nor Israel is learning from history, as they continue to escalate their proxy conflict towards war.
For years, the Israeli army and secret services have sabotaged the Iranian nuclear programme and targeted Iranian assets abroad. Iran for its part has supported various client armed groups in the Middle East, attacking US and Israeli allies.
Despite his bluster and bravado, Netanyahu couldn’t and wouldn’t attack Iran, without a green light and support from the US. But the bloody attacks are a game-changer, giving the Israeli prime minister the perfect opportunity to realise his fantasy of crushing Iran, by tricking the Biden administration into war.
This will not be easy considering Biden’s presumed commitment to end “the forever wars”, reflected in the humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. His administration has also moved to prioritise the great power competition with China and Russia, especially after the latter’s invasion of Ukraine.
But in reality, the US has not withdrawn from the Middle East, it has merely moved around its forces and military assets in the region. Biden himself has vowed to “not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia, or Iran”.
Once the case against Tehran’s role in the attacks has been fully articulated by Israel and the US, they might first try to pressure it into facilitating the release of Israeli captives taken by Hamas – a top priority for Netanyahu.
If Iran refuses and chooses to use Hezbollah as leverage against Israel, this could well trigger a wider confrontation that draws in the US with incalculable consequences. Unfortunately, in the adulterated world of Washington politics, unconditional US support of Israel is the only thing that Republican and Democrats agree on.
It is crucial to remember that the situation in 2023 is vastly more challenging and complicated than the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which ended in utter disaster for the US and Iraqis. A repeat against Iran is sure to be far worse for all concerned.
“Set-up” would be a noun, and no-one can make America fight except its own bitch nature
Jew land wants TOTAL control of the middle east and they will get the US to do the job
Mass Shootings Are Fake !
Parkland was FAKE !
See the proof at CVHOAX.COM
With only reading the headline, it sufficiently states what has been relentlessly championed by Israel: asking, prodding, cajoling America to join Israel in another war in the middle east. Not against Palestine, which America has been a partner for some 75 years, 75 years of war by organized Zionist jews, but the next, new war against Iran.
What a ruination to be aligned with such a terrorist state, a state established by war and terrorism, continued by war and terrorism and now, ever more, with the control of the narrative here in America and abroad, Israel’s call for aid and association is answered by America.
Complicit? No. A partner with Israel. An equal with Israel. Israel’s face, character and morality is your face, America.
It’s not so regional .. an ongoing world operation takes place against the Khazarian mob, globalists and other European based Nazis not to mention the moloch worshippers .. now we have two fronts here .. a while back somebody said: “they saved Israel for the last” let’s see.
Now the bad guys all lack ammunition, including Israel.
Good movie, in front of our eyes.
The Nazi USA will fall like a sack of shit because well… they’re nazis and that’s what nazis get you see the alien invasion coming in 2024 organised by the Nazi US government will mark the end of humanity because Nazi aliens will Nazify the earth and now they’re trying to start a Nazi world war against our saviour from Nazism Vladimir Putin
Slimy satanic scuzball putrid fetid p0s enemy Israel did USS liberty attack, they are ISIS terrorists, They FUNDED HAMAS, they did 912 with our stinking CIA, they raped murdered and blackmailed with mossad Epstein op, stole us nuclear secrets and material
… yeah. I say nuke tel Aviv NOT Tehran.
the jews deserve everything that came to them
yes
does a bear shit in the woods ?
is the pope a pervert ‘
and is carl jones A C*NT ?
YES TO THE ABOVE
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The Jews attacked their own bretheren, sacrificial lambs. A false flag, in which, Palestinians get the blame. Nuttyyahoo will demand support from Zionists all over the world to donate and send troops for these Jewish wars. Indeed, little gay buttboy Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran, many in the beltway anxious to link Iran in so they have a justification to attack.
I do not know if this is a false flag, but many are saying it is. It may very well be and I will tell you why. Was it a Let it happen on purpose (LIHOP) of Made it happen (MIHOP)?
1. For the past 2 decades Israel has been trying hard to get the USA to attack Iran.
2. Israel did 911, it was called a New Pearl Harbor. This Hamas attack is being called Israel’s Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a LIHOP by FDR to get the USA in the war.
3. Christopher Bollyn says Netanyahu was one of the architects of the 911 WTC attack, a MIHOP, he is the current PM of Israel, his regime under attack by half of the Israelis, and since he was the brains behind one false flag, well he could easily be the brains behind the latest one.
4. Thus the Hamas attack is probably not an intelligence failure, it is a LIHOP or MIHOP.
Here is an example of a LIHOP, the original Pearl Harbor was no surprise attack as FDR claimed:
https://jaredblakedicroce.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/8actionmemo.jpg
Here are 2 examples of a MIHOP, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, and Israel engineered the 911 attack to kickstart the War of Terror:
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The Hamas militants who killed the concert goers could of easily been Mossad operatives, attacking their own, breaking a few eggs to generate world sympathy for Israel, and for Netanyahu to finish ethnic cleansing Gaza.
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ISRAELIS ARE SKILLED AT FALSE FLAGS AND PINNING THE BLAME ON THE VICTIM, THUS THE “SURPRISE” HAMAS ATTACK MUST BE EXAMINED IN DETAIL
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Dr. Ball MD?
Is that you CJ? Nazis? You clowns on this site wouldn’t know or recognize a Nazi if one smacked you in the face. The Jews have done a wonderful job convincing the goyim that Nazis are the enemy.
yes he could start a false flag nuke missile against aircraft carrier USS Ford
claiming it was a missile from persian golf direction + so dragging USA
into a war against Iran . Israel master of deception + false flags !
it would be also a NATO case when it not already is .
@ERIK BLESSING
israhell has lot of tactical nukes !
and they use them as they already had !
Let us remember when the Iranian military captured a crack supposed hard ass seal team a while ago and the footage of them crying in front of camera. They got home but if the US attempts this shit with Iran many Americans won’t be going home. The US can’t create a no fly zone over Iran. The US couldn’t even get close to land on the Iranian plateau. Putin just met the Iraqi leader and you can bet the north south corridor is supported by Iraq. Israel and the US are living in Dreamtime when it comes to Iran. The US put a carrier in the straights and another one close to NK but they can’t capitalise on those moves.
Isis has regrouped in Syria but the numbers are minimal. The west is faggotry fem central when it comes against man it instantly loses.
The USA special forces is deployed in Gaza, and the aircraft carrier is sitting right there. All this was planned long ago and it is planned to destroy all Palestinians from Palestine, making it Khazaria #2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cmbB-blloY
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israel has always used false flag attacks
to get the people of the UK behind another war on the people in germany
Rothchilds man winston churchill did the first bombings on london himself
yes we did it same as the 7/7 bombing
sure as Carl Jones is a commie lunatic