Mike Whitney – The Unz Review Jan 5, 2024
This week’s drone strike on senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in southern Beirut provides compelling evidence that Israel wants to expand the conflict beyond its borders. In the last few weeks, Israel has assassinated a deputy political leader in Hamas (al-Arouri), a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, (Sayyed Razi Mousavi) and “nearly a dozen senior Iranian military officials” (Fox News) at an airport in Damascus. At the same time, Israel has launched multiple unprovoked airstrikes on Lebanon and Syria. All of these incitements suggest that Israel is exploring ways to expand the hostilities beyond Gaza in order to plunge the entire region into war.
C’mon @nytimes. Subheader suggesting a regional war “could draw in the US” like it’s being led versus leading. The @DeptofDefense is very much creating this moment. Don’t position it as responsive. It’s very proactive. pic.twitter.com/qmYrmjcfn6
— Dr. Michael Shank (@Michael_Shank) January 4, 2024
Israeli provocations across the Middle East are an attempt to draw the United States deeper into a region-wide conflict. Israeli leaders know that their country will not become the dominant regional power unless its enemies –mainly Hezbollah and Iran– are severely weakened. But Israel also realizes that its enemies will not be weakened without US assistance. Thus, the US must be put in a situation where it feels compelled to engage Iran and Hezbollah militarily in order to rescue its closest ally in the Middle East. If Israel opens up a two-front or three-front war with its enemies –as it is currently trying to do– then the United States will be forced to intervene on Israel’s behalf increasing the probability that Israel will emerge as the regional hegemon. That is the underlying goal of the current operation.
None of this, of course, has anything to do with “defeating Hamas” which was the pretext Israel used to obliterate Gaza and push its population towards the Egyptian border. The real objective is to change the basic power-dynamics in the Middle East in a way that best suits Israel’s interests. Here’s an excerpt from an article at the BBC that was filed on Wednesday:
At least 103 people have been killed by two bomb explosions near the tomb of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on the fourth anniversary of his assassination by the US, Iran’s state media report. State broadcaster Irib said dozens more people were wounded when the blasts hit a procession near the Saheb al-Zaman mosque in the southern city of Kerman…. Videos showed bodies on a road and ambulances rushing to the scene….
Wednesday’s incident comes amid heightened tensions in the region after the deputy leader of the Iran-backed Palestinian group, Hamas, was killed in an apparent Israeli drone strike in Lebanon. At least 103 dead in bomb blasts near Iran general Qasem Soleimani’s tomb – state TV, BBC
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— Emelia 🇸🇪 (@Bernadotte22) January 2, 2024
Is Israel responsible for the terrorist attack in Iran?
The evidence is not conclusive, but it certainly fits with the pattern of recent assassinations and drone attacks in neighboring countries. The bombing incident has also infuriated the Iranian people who have flooded the streets in droves demanding retaliation. Again, the public reaction fits perfectly with Israel’s goal of provoking an emotional over-reaction that draws Iran into a direct confrontation with Israel. Keep in mind, the Biden administration has two carrier groups deployed to the region that are prepared to come to Israel’s aid at a moment’s notice. So, if Iran does respond (with missile attacks or airstrikes) the US is perfectly positioned to join the fray. This might explain why Netanyahu continues to bomb his neighbors with impunity. He knows that Uncle Sam “has his back.”
❗️Multiple casualties reported in Baghdad following US airstrikes on the PMU headquarters at the Iraqi Interior Ministry complex, among them a high ranking resistance leader.https://t.co/VGOJDS5iKu pic.twitter.com/TYJyGhCLyK
— Daniella Modos – Cutter -SEN (@DmodosCutter) January 4, 2024
BREAKING | Multiple casualties reported in Baghdad following US airstrikes on the PMU headquarters at the Iraqi Interior Ministry complex.
Here’s more from Aljazeera:
Israel has launched attacks on positions in Syria and Lebanon, as part of its ongoing campaign against opposing militaries and armed forces in the Middle East.
“The [Israeli army] struck military infrastructure belonging to the Syrian Army,” the Israeli military said in a post on the social media platform X on Tuesday.
“[Israeli military] fighter jets also struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon,” it added, promising it would “continue to operate against any threat to Israel’s sovereignty”.
The latest attacks, which occurred between Monday and Tuesday, marked a spike in tensions between Israel and neighbors it has said have links to its enemy, Iran. Israeli army launches attacks on targets in Syria and Lebanon, Aljazeera
Why is Israel doing this? Why are they provoking their neighbors even while they are conducting a major operation against the Palestinians in Gaza? Don’t all these incitements suggest that Israel wants to widen the war? Here’s more from Aljazeera:
A drone strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold, killed senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday. The drone hit a Hamas office, leaving six people dead, Lebanon’s state news agency reported.
Hamas confirmed the death of al-Arouri and called it a “cowardly assassination” by Israel, adding that attacks on Palestinians “inside and outside Palestine will not succeed in breaking the will and steadfastness of our people, or undermining the continuation of their valiant resistance”. Who was Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas leader killed in Beirut?, Aljazeera
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— Emelia 🇸🇪 (@Bernadotte22) January 3, 2024
The assassination of al-Arouri was no more ‘a spontaneous act of revenge’ than the attacks on Syria, Lebanon, or Gaza. They’re all part of a Grand Plan to redraw the map of the Middle East by provoking Israel’s enemies and then drawing Washington into the hostilities. That is the basic strategy in a nutshell. Here’s how political analyst Arnaud Bertrand summed it up on Twitter:
Israel is doing its very best to trigger a regional war by bombing Lebanon and Iran left and right, presumably to get the US more involved in the fighting as some sort of Hail Mary, but neither Lebanon nor Iran nor the US are taking the bait. Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
Bertrand is right; Israel is trying to drag the US into a war of its own making. He’s also right in saying that Iran and Hezbollah have shown great restraint (so far) and have resisted the temptation to retaliate. But how long will that last? After all, they can’t allow Israel to pummel them forever without responding in kind. And they can’t simply roll-over and play dead either. And, that’s not what they’re doing. What they’re doing is following events as they unfold so they have a better idea of Israel’s broader strategy. They are biding their time while Israel moves its troops out of Gaza and up to the northern front where they are likely to clash with Hezbollah militants sometime in the next two weeks. That appears to be what is going on.
Meanwhile, the western media is trying to prepare the public for another conflict in the Middle East by reiterating the claim that a “regional war” may now be inevitable. Check out these recent headlines and see if you can detect a recurrent theme:
- U.S. strike in Baghdad raises specter of wider regional war, Washington Post
- Attacks Heighten Fears of a Wider War for the Middle East and U.S., New York Times
- ‘I’m afraid that we are really approaching a regional war,’ says Lebanese Foreign Minister, CNN
- Escalation in the Middle East: the danger of a regional war is growing, Guardian
- Blinken Set For Israel Visit As Regional War Fears Mount, Barrons
- Blinken Heads to Middle East As Risk of Broader Conflict Grows, VOA
- Blinken heads to the Mideast again as fears of regional conflict surge, AOL
Get it? The media is preparing the public for a wider regional war in the Middle East. Articles like these are being used to persuade the masses that conflict is unavoidable and resistance is pointless.
But, in whose interests are these articles being written? Whose geopolitical agenda is being promoted? Which country stands to benefit from a misinformed American public walking sheeplike into another deranged conflagration in which millions die and nothing is gained?
Why, Israel, of course.
From the looks of things, Uncle Sam is going to be asked to provide the military muscle for a lunatic operation that will pit US firepower against Hezbollah and Iran, neither of who pose any threat to American lives or US national security. The objective of this misguided war will be to eliminate Israel’s enemies so that Israel can “secure the realm” and assume the role of regional hegemon, the undisputed ruler of the Middle East.
It’s a pipe dream.
palestine is looking to take israel to the international court
if this happens the amount of compensation due since the murderous take
over since 1948 will be massive
Nutenyahu says the US will have to pay it
why ? why should they ?
Rothschild has half the worlds wealth let him pay after all israel was his play ground
The US is not being ‘duped’ as that implies that the US has sovereignty. It doesn’t – Israel completely controls the US. The dupes are the American voters who don’t see it.
“Is Uncle Sam Being Duped Into Fighting Israel’s War?” The wagged dog. Business as usual.
So you raise your boy as best you can with all the values you hold dear, you teach him right from wrong, to study hard and lead a healthy lifestyle, you instil principles in him you know to be honourable and moral, to treat others with the same respect you’d expect from them and, in time, your boy enters adolescence and then manhood. You do not object to his aspiration to become a good soldier or marine, proudly and dutifully serving under the flag you’ve always called ‘Old Glory’.
Then, before you or he knows what is happening, he finds himself in a C-17 heading east to fight – and possibly die = for the child-butcher Netanyahu in the dirtiest of all dirty wars. Except it’s not a war – it’s genocide. If you’re OK with that, I’m sure you have your reasons why. Personally, I can’t think of any, not a single one.
Where do the Nazis have their stationary aircraft carriers?
Well, the UK, Gibraltar, Cyprus, Israel, Japan, Guam, Diago Garcia, Falklands, and there are others. You’ll note that four are essentially British, if not run and financed by the US.
Israel does what it does, because London and Washington wants them to do it.
Bibi is a useful idiot, and he’s still in power until they tell them to get rid of him.
No matter what, Netanyahu and ewe will be going to prison, so keeping him in place is a no brainier.
We hear so much about Epstein and his blackmailing operation for Mossad, but GHW Bush also set up his own intel service which was embbeded in the CIA and NSA, and only reported to him. I am sure his mates Clinton, Obama, and son had access to this private intel. They had smut files on everyone, and on the rare occasion they had no dirt, they killed them, like wife and husband judges killed, because they couldn’t be bribed.
MI6 does the same here with the press, notably Murdoch and phone hacking and the Leveson farce. Even attacks on Israel are carefully designed to split opinion, but the pro Israel view will get the most airtime.
This article is classic counter propaganda.
Take Russia preparing to rebel the Nazi UKraine ragime from attacking Eastern UKraine and then Crimea. This was a legal proactive move.
The Nazis never do this. They let something happen, or false flag, and then they get public support, even if it’s just the fake news making it up, and then they react.
“Is Uncle Sam Being Duped Into Fighting Israel’s War?”
As above, Israel is doing what the US Nazi regime wants. The US has lost virtually all Middle Eastern support, they got whipped in Syria and China is waving it’s peace wand all over the place. Uncle Sam needs a storm, and Israel is providing it.
If Israel is going to survive after things settle down, if they settle down, then we could see Israel become the next Western Berlin with most stuff airlifted in, and sealed borders.
More speculaton, drama and propaganda but it looks like the Federal Corporation is in the process of being dissolved abroad too ..
Let’s be honest:
Regardless of U$$A being a (((Tribe Infested))) hell-hole…
it’s NOT that hard to “dupe” DUMB Yanks.. 🤭
Does a bar sit in the woods? Yes and it’s the only good bar in my area of Amerika.
Uncle Sam is the imp of the self-chosen tribe of decay…and has been since the federal reserve was installed, you know like a toilet? You don’t hear much about imps lately…
Is this rhetorical question, or just a piss take?
Neither Israel nor the Globalist/Satanic Cabal manipulating it, are hiding what their plans for humanity and the world are, it has been in your frigging face for over three years now, if not more.
“The objective of this misguided war will be to eliminate Israel’s enemies so that Israel can “secure the realm” and assume the role of regional hegemon, the undisputed ruler of the Middle East”. No!!!, it föcking isn’t, but Ze G’kheat kheazet and total Kontkhol akh, as zey have been telling yoo evekhy föcking day fokh yeakhz now!!! stoopid Useless Eatekhz!!!
His Majesty Klaus has already done his bit of pedagogy, explaining what his fetish bird “Ze Phoenix” is all about; you fikhst have to burn down and destkhoy evekhysing, and only zen, can you staakht “Bueeldeeng Beck Bettaah”
Verstehen Sie?
LIES
Unprovoked I say October 7th is still provocation form Here to Eternity.
I’m not a Jew I’m just an observer.
Every Palestinian citizen should be killed to prevent this from happening again.
The US & Israel are governed by the same supranational cabal of Jews. The Israel Overlords are simply employing their various CIA-Mossad-FSB-MI6 created black op terror orgs. i.e., Isis/Hamas/Houthis/Alqaeda to dialectically advance their WEF/WWIII agenda. Likewise, all these Muslim/Arab nations (Iran/Egypt/Syria/UAE/Yemen/Saudi Arabia/Lebanon etc) have all been established, infiltrated or usurped by Donmeh/Commies/Jews/Masons–just like the governments of NATO & BRICS. Now you know.
That it’s Syria, sit there and do nothing and not retaliate against the Jewish scum. That should do it!
What a nonsensical article. Israel has proven it can act with impunity. Hezbollah have shown themselves to be a paper tiger and the rest of the Islamic world stands by mouthing platitudes and wringing their hands. Oh yeah and lets not forget tough guy Turkey. And Egypt could move its troops into Gaza today and stop the Israeli advance. But , of course, they don’t really oppose the genocide of Palestinians.
Slimy satanic scuzball putrid fetid p0s Israel started as Irgun terrorists and are isis terrorists today and funded Hamas and staged this recent false flag event and should be NUKED and crime minister widdle whiny baby Nitwityahu p0s FUNDED HAMAS and should be shot in the face. Period
Of course the Zionist state and its world-wide partisans want America to make more war for Israel. Its leaders have been calling for that for years, decades, openly, vociferously.
Those Israeli leaders and the whole propaganda operation has sought to link, to bond to lead a narrative that the jewish people, especially of Israel, are with the non-Jewish world, culturally, historically, spiritually, religiously… on and on.
But consider how the jewish religious leaders really regard the non-jewish, as ultimately either slaves or to be dead; as inferior in so many ways, too many to list here; that jews are sacred and literally, that is actually, literally of God’s substance. All others are rejected. Jews are “chosen”.
So, no wonder that the Zionist state, its partisans, and its idiotic, Shabbos goyim, the bought-and-owned grovel about to promote another war for the Greater Israel.
America, the partner in genocide, is the most slavish, duped stooge of all of the subservient to Israel. It has Joe”I’m a Zionist”Biden as President, on and on and on. including a spokesperson who pontificates that the accusation of genocide has, “… no merit…”
What leadership! What lies! What slaves to a foreign power.
How many times..
Just nuke that shitty little ‘country’ that should never have come into existence, not even putatively. The world will be a better place forever after.
i thought that pillock carl jones said he would not post any more
his nartzi stuff is no longer funny
some one please kick him in the balls
Thanks
Hugh Jarse: when did I say that I wouldn’t post here again? I don’t know about Huge Arse, but you certainly have a Small Brain. Your comment has been filed, and could be passed onto the police/regulators.
All the good times…
“Is Uncle Sam Being Duped Into Fighting Israel’s War?” … What do you mean, “duped”? Uncle Scam and the Jewnited States happily and willingly jump right in to do the bidding of Satanic Jewry and Israhell. The Jewnited States criminal cartel gave its soul to Satan a century ago and has been n the wrong side of history in every armed conflict ever since.
Just yesterday I was driving to meet some friends for lunch and passed a house flying the Jew banner. As soon as the grid goes down, someone should set that house on fire and gun down anyone that tries to run out of it. It’s a large older stately farmhouse, so not garish enough for a Jew, so it must be occupied by dangerously deranged treasonous “Christian Zionists”, THE stupidest mother-f*ckers to ever take a breath. Anyone who supports Israhell supports terrorism and anyone who supports Jewry supports a satanic cult hell-bent on the degradation and destruction of everything and everyone else. Period.
Has it dawned on anyone the more Biden gives Ukraine and Israel – the worse it gets for them. Ukraine is utterly decimated and now Uncle Sam is out of money for the Ukraine, now nearly forgotten. So the new focus is giving Israel everything they want, money, weapons, carrier fleets. But that seems to be the limit. It is hard to imagine that senile pedo-fool Biden can make the case for us to go to war for Israel. Not in the cards. Biden is not going to war going into the election.
Biden is giving Israel the rope to hang themselves, yet the Israelis haven’t figured that out. If Bibi gets a bigger regional war then Israel is up shit creek and Biden will sit back and do nothing, watching them flail and fail. That is what happened in Ukraine and now is happening in Israel. What Biden is doing for Israel is like giving a suicidal maniac a loaded gun to play with.
Basically Israel got themselves in a trap of their own belligerence and supremacist mentality. Tiny little Israel is actually way in over its head and Uncle Sam is spent, played out from the original Gulf Wars 1 and 2. So no Gulf War 3. The whore Amerika is spent, washed up, it’s gay/woke army a joke. Amerika can’t get it up any longer, BRICS is abandoning the dollar, the national debt just shot past 34 trillion. There can be no big war for the USA, it is bankrupt, it is in a funding crisis, the interest on the national debt is going vertical.
Bibi has tricked Israel into an endless all or nothing conflict, Biden gave him everything, and the whole world is now against Israel, the Holocaust narrative now impotent. Israel is pissing off the other nations with airstrikes and assassinations. Amerika support for Israel is iffy, not a sure thing like everyone thinks, the unbreakable bond between Amerika and Israel is only a talking point. Israel has bogged itself down into it’s own Vietnam, no one really cares about Israel when it commits genocide, members of Biden’s staff resigned in protest.
Biden let the Taliban have Afghanistan. No fight left, he just walked away and gave them all of our equipment. The Biden led coalition to stop the Houthi Red Sea attacks is weak at best, no Ronald Reagan pulling up the battleships and shelling the shit out of the Lebanon coast line like 1984. Nope, notta one shell fired yet, no battleships in the theater, and the election year is on us. They issued a stern warning to the Houthis. Yawn. Maybe Biden will fire a volley of cruise missiles and blow up some Yemeni mud brick huts.
Biden is running for re-election, so it seems to me for the rest of 2024 Israel will get lip service, some money, some weapons and that’s it. Most everyone besides the religious crazies are against genocide. 500,000 Israelis have fled Israel, Jerusalem was a ghost town this Christmas, tourism is dead. Israel is up shit creek without a paddle, and the woke Left is alienated by Biden’s support for the war.
So who is duping who? People who make public policy by bombing and killing everyone are not sane. This is a contest between dumb and dumber. Pedo Biden supporting psycho Netanyahu is not sane, certainly does not help the USA in the world. The Gaza war is a big dead end for Biden and his re-election. Most Israelis want Bibi to immediately resign, but if he keeps the war going he can stay in power. Israel is lashing out at the world right now, attacking everyone – a clear sign of desperation on the cusp of madness – Bibi called the whole world anti-semitic when genocide charges were filed. It seems to me Israel is a mad dog that has painted itself into a corner, and Biden is begrudgingly helping Israel destroy itself.
So my bet is no war in ’24. Just lots of mudslinging between Ziowhore candidates.
No one can predict the future, look at all the weird shit that happened in 2023, and no one predicted it. 2024 will be the same, lots of surprises, skull duggery, false flags, lies, deceptions, assassinations, terrorist attacks, burnings, bombings, floodings, earthquakes tornadoes oh my. Life will go on.
A false dichotomy is set up to give the appearance that US assistance is necessary. The tail, Israel is wagging the dog, US. The Israel lobby through Netanyahu already controls the US through Biden’s Jewish cabinet leaders including transgender cross-dresser Admiral Rachel Levine of the US Public Health Service.
(Note, G*d considers such behavior totally abhorrent and destructive to continuing society as He intended it, as do the Arab Christians, Moslems and other Arabs. Yet Israel and portions of Jewry love strange flesh, defending this behaviour, even boasting that Tel Aviv is the Gay Capital of the Middle East.)
https://www.insidehook.com/travel/tel-aviv-queer-epicenter
“A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment [to disguise their birth sex]; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.” Deuteronomy 22:5 (Jewish Publication Society)
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination. Leviticus 18:22 (JPS)
Israel by deception (Mossad: By deception thou shalt do war) does appear to be directly involved in these coordinated unprovoked attacks against their Arab neighbours: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, etc., which have resulted in death and destruction to non-combatants, even military members not engaged in conflict, going beyond by also killing others with them including family members, wives and children.
These Arab governments know exactly who is responsible through their intelligence services, but for security reasons are not expressing their full knowledge. They also understand the arrogant hubris displayed by Israeli leadership, and that Israel intends to do with them, for the sake of “Greater Israel” is totally obliterate all Arab populations and erase their history, like Israel has been doing with the Palestinian population since 1948.
Are not these unprovoked attacks in deception are declarations of war against the Arab peoples? Coupled with the destruction of Gazan medical facilities, urban water and electrical distribution systems, schools, shopping facilities, food storage warehouse and high rise apartment buildings, these are certainly not in the spirit of:
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the fetters of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?” G*d, Isaiah 58:6-7 (JPS)
Rather, they display a spirit akin to Sodom and Gommorah.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. Ezekiel 16:49 (JPS)
Back to deceptions, most telling was Netanyahu’s show of a map, Greater Israel, to the UN Assembly in NYC, 2022:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-map
Do the Arabs read between the lines of Israel’s actions coupled with attitudes? Of course.
Although a mystical myth to Zionist Christians (they think Gog and Magog is Putin’s Orthodox Christianity Russia,) on-line articles already hint that the Arabs know exactly who Gog is. Perhaps we may see soon the reality of “Greater Israel”?
“and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples that are with thee; I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field, to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it,” saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 39:3-5 (JPS)
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; thus they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Micah 2:1-2 (JPS)
USA is a corporation owned by Jewish bankers from the beginning as it changed hands and the 1st Bank of the US is in all caps (corporation) with 65% owned by private Euro Bank and 25% by American and 10% reserve. The US has helped overthrow France with the Jacobin Revolution, Russia with the Bolshevik revolution right in NYC headed by Jacob Schiff, WWI (listen to oldest speech by Benjamin Freedman who was one of the designers before conversion and knew of WWII), Holodomor, and the elimination of countries that did NOTHING but were not under control of the Jewish Banking Elite.
America the joke that has been at war for all but 10-12 years in it’s lifetime.
I don’t give a damn about the US puppets that are murderers for Judah all their lives and every war fought as well as near extermination of Indigenous and almost all Buffalo 60 million to under 500 and billions and billions of grassland birds or anything else they could shoot. US rail line for the opium trade into China also too Chinese as slaves for the railroads such as Herbert Hoover, then comes the Van Rosenvelt’s (originally Geldersman-Dutch Jew).
All those for the extermination of a people should be eliminated themselves and the current pandemic is a Jewish planned culling of those that they do not want (Esau created Rome per Rabbinical drivel from the lies and idiocy of their own perverse imagination with sex with babies and the Sabbath in Hebrew is Sabbat (with the BS of Shabbat and not the addition of the H). Every special holy day is a black Sabbat.
These people have never followed even their own laws of decency and have written into their garbage the most evil of any set of books I’ve ever read. It’s mostly allegory of the Torah so anyone with a literal translation knows nothing.
Jews convinced the Romans to kill Jesus.
Same game plan today?
Get others to do your dirty work?