{"id":274389,"date":"2023-10-12T06:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T06:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274389"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:17:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:17:31","slug":"netanyahu-wants-us-involved-in-war-ex-pentagon-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274389","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu wants US involved in war \u2013 ex-Pentagon official"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 Oct 11, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would like Washington directly involved in the conflict with Hamas because he hopes to expand the war to Lebanon and Iran, former senior security policy analyst at the US Department of Defense, Michael Maloof, told RT on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the US ordered<\/a> the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and five guided missile destroyers to the Eastern Mediterranean. According to Maloof, this \u201cmeets Netanyahu\u2019s wildest dreams.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted the US involved in this conflict,\u201d<\/em> the former Pentagon official told RT.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu \u201cwants to open up the war with Lebanon, by attacking Hezbollah\u201d<\/em> in pursuit of his ultimate objective, \u201cto bomb Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities,\u201d<\/em> Maloof added. For that to happen, \u201che has to have a Gulf of Tonkin moment, if you will.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Maloof recalled how US President Lyndon Johnson essentially started the Vietnam War by sending ships to the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964. An alleged North Vietnamese attack on two US destroyers was then used as a pretext for direct involvement.<\/p>\n

The US has also pledged to help Israel with deliveries of weapons and ammunition, with the Pentagon insisting<\/a> it has enough to do so and continue supplying Ukraine. Maloof is skeptical of that assertion, however.<\/p>\n

He also told RT it was \u201cnot surprising\u201d<\/em> that some of the weapons Washington had sent Kiev ended up in the hands of Hamas.<\/p>\n

That accusation was first made<\/a> by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence, the GUR, responded on Monday by accusing Russia of sending captured Western weapons to Hamas militants in a \u201cfalse flag\u201d<\/em> operation designed to make Kiev look bad to its backers.<\/p>\n

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied the weapons claim, but rejected<\/a> the Ukrainian insinuations of Russian involvement in the Hamas attack as \u201ccomplete nonsense.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The U.S. carrier battle group currently sailing for the Eastern Mediterranean \u201cmeets Netanyahu\u2019s wildest dreams\u201d, says Michael Maloof. The former senior security policy analyst at the US Department of Defense, says that\u2019s because Netanyahu wants to get the U.S. involved in this conflict. First in attacking Hezbollah and then bombing Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":222726,"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":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","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\/274389","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\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274401,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274389\/revisions\/274401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}