{"id":57032,"date":"2012-09-25T07:20:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T07:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=57032"},"modified":"2012-09-30T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T21:54:39","slug":"israel-seeks-war-on-iran-to-keep-lid-on-911-by-kevin-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=57032","title":{"rendered":"Israel Seeks War on Iran to Keep Lid on 9\/11, by Kevin Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pictures and captions by Lasha Darkmoon\u2014Sept 24, 2012<\/h1>\n

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"This is good for Israel". Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Almost every politically-aware person on the planet is puzzled by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s bizarre obsession with Iran. Netanyahu is risking his political career, his reputation, and Israel\u2019s future by intervening in the US presidential elections.<\/p>\n

He is using all of Zionism\u2019s considerable might \u2013 including organized crime assets like \u201cLas Vegas Godfather\u201d Sheldon Adelson \u2013 to force Obama to attack Iran; or, failing that, to make sure that Obama is defeated by the Zionist puppet Romney. There are even rumors of Israeli-sponsored assassination attempts on Obama.<\/p>\n

Even the rabidly pro-Zionist Jewish Daily Forward<\/em> has editorialized:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to recall a time when an Israeli prime minister has inserted himself into a presidential election campaign in the way that Benjamin Netanyahu has. It\u2019s even harder to recall a time when a trusted ally openly urged the American president to undertake a questionable, unpopular and highly risky war. We sure hope Netanyahu knows what he\u2019s doing, because the stakes for him \u2013 and for the two nations he professes to care about the most \u2013 could not be higher.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jewish Daily Forward<\/em> has good reasons to wonder whether Netanyahu knows what he\u2019s doing. The editorialist cites polls showing that the American people strongly oppose attacking Iran, even if war breaks out between Iran and Israel and only US intervention could save Israel! These polls show that American voters no longer give a damn whether Israel, which has chosen to live by the sword, finally dies by the sword. As Dave Lindorff observes, Netanyahu\u2019s mad obsession with pushing the US into yet another unwanted war for Israel \u201cmay have fundamentally undermined the long-standing \u2018special relationship\u2019 between the US and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

And still Netanyahu continues on this seemingly suicidal course. He even orders the Mossad and its CIA assets including Gladio veteran Terry Jones to unleash a rabidly anti-Islam film, spammed into the faces of every Muslim on the planet via millions of dollars of computer server time and intelligence agency expertise \u2013 an obvious attempt to fan the flames of Islamophobia and pave the way to a US war on Iran for Israel. Obama, who is on record saying he hates Netanyahu and that Netanyahu is a liar, and who knows that Netanyahu manufactured the \u201cInnocence of Muslims\u201d crisis to try to get Romney elected, responded by refusing to meet with Netanyahu in New York, and going on the David Letterman Show instead. A more blatant snub could hardly be imagined.<\/p>\n

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"I am in charge if America, understand?"<\/p><\/div>\n

So, what in the world is Netanyahu really up to? Does he actually believe that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, even though the CIA has certified that it does not?<\/p>\n

Of course, he doesn\u2019t really believe such nonsense. Even hard-line Israeli strategists admit that Iran appears to be only developing nuclear expertise, not actual weapons. Furthermore, Iran has not attacked another nation in centuries.<\/p>\n

Since the \u201cnuclear crisis\u201d is a hoax (like alleged Iraqi WMD in 2003), then what is the real reason for Netanyahu\u2019s Iran obsession? Is it the Iranian government\u2019s support for anti-Zionist resistance groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and its calls for an end to Zionism through free and fair elections?<\/p>\n

Perhaps. Iran\u2019s open commitment to principled anti-Zionism represents the nearly unanimous position of the people of the Middle East, who have never accepted the genocidal Zionist entity as a legitimate state. Israel has been able to bully every other government in the region into shameful silence. The Islamic Republic of Iran will not be silenced. Threats to level Iran with bombs seeks to send a message to future Middle Eastern governments: Do not give a voice to your people\u2019s resistance to Zionism, or else!<\/p>\n

But while starting a war might seek to punish Iran for its anti-Zionism, such a war would carry terrible risks for Israel. In the impossible event that all goes well for Israel on the battlefield, the suffering of the people of Iran would probably shame the world into turning against Zionism even more sharply than the world turned against apartheid in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

But there is no guarantee that things would go well for Israel on the battlefield. Iran has the capability to riddle Israel with rocket attacks, or even to take out Israel\u2019s Dimona nuclear facility and perhaps render Israel and much of the surrounding region permanently uninhabitable. And Israel does not have the capability to seriously damage Iran\u2019s nuclear energy program without US help. If the US intervened on the side of Israel, Iran could shut the Straits of Hormuz, and possibly sink many, if not all, of the ships there with Sunburn missiles, driving gasoline prices over USD 10 a gallon and paralyzing the world economy.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Iran has the capability to massively attack the US bases that surround it, killing thousands, if not tens of thousands, of US soldiers. A US president, especially one who dislikes Netanyahu and puts America\u2019s interests ahead of Israel\u2019s, would be very unlikely to help Netanyahu attack Iran<\/p>\n

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Though these 45 American bases threaten Iran, Iran nevertheless has the ability to destroy each of these bases with its long-range missiles, inflicting death on tens of thousands of American soldiers. Iranian anti-ship missiles (like the deadly Sunburns) can easily sink America\u2019s huge aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, drowning 7000 marines on board each ship.\u00a0 (LD)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire lake will become a killing field\u2026the Gulf will run red with <\/em><\/strong>American blood<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u201d \u2014 Military specialist Mark Gaffney.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Given that a war on Iran is an all-loss proposition for Israel, why is Netanyahu fanatically fanning the flames of war, to the extent that even his American Zionist cheering section is baffled and embarrassed by his behavior?<\/p>\n

Some question Netanyahu\u2019s intelligence, arguing that he is just a furniture salesman who has been promoted far beyond his level of competence. While there may be some truth to this \u2013 I certainly wouldn\u2019t want to overestimate Netanyahu\u2019s intelligence \u2013 I don\u2019t think he\u2019s quite that stupid. I think Netanyahu has a very good reason to prefer war with Iran, despite all its risks, to peace. I think he does know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu needs the 9\/11-triggered 100-years-war on Islam to continue for the very good reason that if it does not, the State of Emergency still in place in the US will be lifted, and Americans, unencumbered by the National Security restrictions of wartime, will quickly learn what really happened on September 11th, 2001. That possibility poses a very real existential threat to Israel \u2013 and to Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

As Alan Sabrosky, former Director of Strategic Studies at the US Army War College, told Press TV: \u201cI have had long conversations over the past two weeks with contacts at the Army War College, at the Headquarters Marine Corps, and I have made it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100 percent certain that 9\/11 was a Mossad operation.<\/strong> Period. If Americans ever know that Israel did this, they are going to scrub them off the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

And even if Israel were \u201cscrubbed off the earth\u201d peacefully through a one-state solution, Netanyahu would certainly hang for his role in the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

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Natanyahu is using Zionism\u2019s influence \u2013 including organized crime bosses \u2013 to persuade Obama to attack Iran; or, failing that, to make sure that his Zionist puppet opponent wins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","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\/57032","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\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57032"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57494,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57032\/revisions\/57494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}