{"id":274298,"date":"2023-10-10T05:14:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274298"},"modified":"2023-10-12T06:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T06:33:56","slug":"wsj-joins-neocons-to-instigate-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274298","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Joins Neocons To Instigate War On Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 Oct 9, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Updated below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The neo-conservatives want to blame Iran for the current war in Palestine\/Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>They have for years tried to instigate war against it. Now they again see a chance. But its not a big one &#8211; yet.<\/p>\n<p>Yossi Melman is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yossi_Melman\">very well connected<\/a> Israeli author:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yossi Melman @yossi_melman &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yossi_melman\/status\/1711253641573584970\">5:33 UTC \u00b7 Oct 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">IDF spokeperson Brig-General Danny Hagari said that there is <strong>no indication of an Iranian involvement<\/strong> in the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/10\/08\/israel-hamas-intelligence-middle-east\/\">Biden administration scrambles to deter wider Mideast conflict<\/a> &#8211; <em>Washington Post<\/em> &#8211; Oct 8 2023<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Asked whether Hamas may have acted in partnership with Iran to disrupt the effort to broker a Saudi deal, Blinken said \u201cthat could have been part of the motivation. Look, who opposes normalization? Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But, he said, \u201c<strong>we have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Fear not, say the neocons, we still have the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> to carry water for us:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-israel-hamas-strike-planning-bbe07b25\">Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/WMlUa#selection-4239.0-4239.52\">archived<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> &#8211; Oct 8 2023<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">DUBAI\u2014Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas\u2019s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Officers of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions\u2014the most significant breach of Israel\u2019s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur War\u2014those people said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Details of the operation were refined during several meetings in Beirut attended by IRGC officers and representatives of four Iran-backed militant groups, including Hamas, which holds power in Gaza, and Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group and political faction in Lebanon, they said.<\/p>\n<p><em>WSJ<\/em> authors in Dubai(!) have access to &#8220;senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/10\/wsj-joins-neocons-to-instigate-war-on-iran.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>WSJ Joins Neocons To Instigate War On Iran<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though IDF spokesmen have stressed that there\u2019s no evidence of Iranian involvement in the current Gaza\/Israel conflict, the Wall Street Journal is striving to convince readers otherwise  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274300,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274298\/revisions\/274300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}