In 2013, Rashid Khalidi published a book, "Brokers of Deceit: How the US has Undermined Peace in The Middle East". The duplicity of the United States with respect to Israel and its Middle East neighbors has been obvious for all the world to see. But while most of the world has turned its head to look the other way, it gets harder to do as time goes on. Something has got to give – today, tomorrow, next year. And when it hits the fan, it won’t be pretty. This game is just about over, and America and Israel will find themselves more and more isolated.
Iran should take out Tel Aviv, but they won't. At least it should demand Israel destroy its huge stockpile of nuclear weapons (250). Israel is the threat in the middle east, the biggest threat to world peace and should be stopped from getting everyone there killed by their arrogance and stupidity.
Thank you so much Aaron, for this excellent and thorough report and also for squarely focusing on Trump as the man (I would say multiple men or powers behind the orange straw man called Trump) behind these alarming "sudden" Israeli attacks on Iran. We/they are playing with big fire.
Connecting some important dots....
After 2001 General Wesley Clark said the US was planning to attack/regime change Iraq first (we, Halliburton, Chevron and its offshoots now, still, own Iraq's oil fields), followed by actions against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. The list got longer. But guess who's left? Israel is and always has been since it was planted in ME and weaponized first by the British and then the US doing exactly what the US tells it to do via billions of dollars in weapons and intel (without which Israel is nothing, could do nothing). The big clinically mad egos like Netanyahoo are stroked to think they are in charge. But they are a proxy state of mercenaries trained to kill since preschool. Expendable.
The US's most effectively learned foreign policy seems to be to keep all eyes elsewhere, trained on its proxies - Israel, Ukraine, the mercenary armies in Sudan, mercenary ISIS armies in Syria (created and armed by the US in Iraq) and now lured by a fat payroll into Gaza to destroy all Civil structures from within to cause complete chaos and collapse on defenseless people, as well as those the US strategically calls "terrorists" (depending on the day and current US "interests"). And to NOT LOOK at the oligarchic, colonial, megacorporate, multibillion dollar weapons industry that fuels the endless wars of the hungry ghost called the USA and "allies". Domination, resources, vast profits on top of vast fields of OIL. Iran has the 4th largest oil reserves in the world. The US has been salivating over it for a very very long time, as long as Venezuela.
I could be wrong, I'd like to be wrong. Yet I'm surprised by how many people continue to keep their eyes and analyses circling around whatever the narrative and whomever the US & MSM cleverly cultivates and deflects it's inflammatory and divisive hyperbole towards. But I do believe US hubris is increasingly out of control and about to meet its match. Flying too close to the Sun, or in this case nuclear reactors, is beyond dangerous.
Complementing Aaron, the brilliant Brian Berletic explains that this invasion, including the deceptive use of U.S. diplomacy, is all part of a detailed plan laid out in public policy papers decades ago and followed faithfully ever since by each and every U.S. presidential administration since, regardless of party or campaign promises. Part of the plan is maintaining the useful pretense that Israel and AIPAC are somehow forcing the U.S. to do something it doesn't really want to do. He lays it all out in this interview with Rachel Blevins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvszK5nt2Ow
One refrain of Iranian opponents of concessions to Washington is the fate of former Libyan leader, Ghaddafi. Most of us recall that Afrocentric oil-rich Libya, trusting the US and the UK's promises of improved relations, dismantled its nascent nuclear program, only to be devastated by a Western invasion that toppled Ghaddafi.
And Saddam Hussein's 2003 overthrow would not have been possible before US-led near total disarmament (and severe sanctions) rendered Iraq defenseless.
Iranian opinion leaders also point to Washington's abrupt recent reversal of ironclad support for Ukraine and abandonment of European allies to argue against trusting the US.
Other precedents include America's infamous 1991 promise that NATO would not expand eastward to Russia. Etc, etc.
Taking account of this history, Iranian leaders would be INSANE to give in to American demands now in exchange for lifting of sanctions. They already tried that with a less erratic president Obama (Nobel Peace Prize laureate, no less) and got screwed big time.
The US and Israel have effectively declared war on Iran. Trump has destroyed any bit of credibility the US might still have had, not only with the recent unprovoked attack on Iran just days before the scheduled resumption of US negotiations with Iran in Oman, but also with the recent Ukrainian attack on Russian nuclear deterrent forces one day before scheduled talks between Russia and Ukraine in Instanbul. The US was complicit in both of these attacks.
As for Iran, its leadership has been deeply embarrassed again by the Israeli attack and allowing the US to lull it into negotiations. Iran must now realize that the end goal for both the US and Israel is not just regime change, but regime destruction. So will Iran allow this state of war against it to continue as it refuses to develop a real deterrent? Or will it realize that failure to develop nuclear weapons has brought on this attack and will surely guarantee more such attacks? A recent article in ‘The Cradle’ states that if the JCPOA snap-back sanctions are imposed on it, which seems likely, Iran will withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty and move toward nuclear weapon development. Recent IAEA “findings” on Iran appear to make such a scenario more likely.
Another weapon Iran has refused to use to protect itself is its control of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. A threat to close this vital waterway would threaten the West with a major rise in oil prices and possible worldwide recession. Not only would this endanger Trump and his political coalition, but it would also point out the danger that Israel and its Zionist supporters in the US have brought about by their reckless war mongering. But such a threat is only effective if Iranian leadership has the will and resolve to back it up. We shall see.
We are complicit in a scurrilous Pearl-Harbor style attack, where diplomacy was misused as a cover for aggression. This day will live in infamy.
And as Max Blumenthal has said - Israel is a cancer on the face of humanity. And we are the blood that feeds it.
In 2013, Rashid Khalidi published a book, "Brokers of Deceit: How the US has Undermined Peace in The Middle East". The duplicity of the United States with respect to Israel and its Middle East neighbors has been obvious for all the world to see. But while most of the world has turned its head to look the other way, it gets harder to do as time goes on. Something has got to give – today, tomorrow, next year. And when it hits the fan, it won’t be pretty. This game is just about over, and America and Israel will find themselves more and more isolated.
Iran should take out Tel Aviv, but they won't. At least it should demand Israel destroy its huge stockpile of nuclear weapons (250). Israel is the threat in the middle east, the biggest threat to world peace and should be stopped from getting everyone there killed by their arrogance and stupidity.
I ran should use Nuclear weapons on Israel and the USA.
Accepting any promise or claim Trump makes will reveal you as a dupe or fool eventually.
Thank you so much Aaron, for this excellent and thorough report and also for squarely focusing on Trump as the man (I would say multiple men or powers behind the orange straw man called Trump) behind these alarming "sudden" Israeli attacks on Iran. We/they are playing with big fire.
Connecting some important dots....
After 2001 General Wesley Clark said the US was planning to attack/regime change Iraq first (we, Halliburton, Chevron and its offshoots now, still, own Iraq's oil fields), followed by actions against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. The list got longer. But guess who's left? Israel is and always has been since it was planted in ME and weaponized first by the British and then the US doing exactly what the US tells it to do via billions of dollars in weapons and intel (without which Israel is nothing, could do nothing). The big clinically mad egos like Netanyahoo are stroked to think they are in charge. But they are a proxy state of mercenaries trained to kill since preschool. Expendable.
The US's most effectively learned foreign policy seems to be to keep all eyes elsewhere, trained on its proxies - Israel, Ukraine, the mercenary armies in Sudan, mercenary ISIS armies in Syria (created and armed by the US in Iraq) and now lured by a fat payroll into Gaza to destroy all Civil structures from within to cause complete chaos and collapse on defenseless people, as well as those the US strategically calls "terrorists" (depending on the day and current US "interests"). And to NOT LOOK at the oligarchic, colonial, megacorporate, multibillion dollar weapons industry that fuels the endless wars of the hungry ghost called the USA and "allies". Domination, resources, vast profits on top of vast fields of OIL. Iran has the 4th largest oil reserves in the world. The US has been salivating over it for a very very long time, as long as Venezuela.
I could be wrong, I'd like to be wrong. Yet I'm surprised by how many people continue to keep their eyes and analyses circling around whatever the narrative and whomever the US & MSM cleverly cultivates and deflects it's inflammatory and divisive hyperbole towards. But I do believe US hubris is increasingly out of control and about to meet its match. Flying too close to the Sun, or in this case nuclear reactors, is beyond dangerous.
Complementing Aaron, the brilliant Brian Berletic explains that this invasion, including the deceptive use of U.S. diplomacy, is all part of a detailed plan laid out in public policy papers decades ago and followed faithfully ever since by each and every U.S. presidential administration since, regardless of party or campaign promises. Part of the plan is maintaining the useful pretense that Israel and AIPAC are somehow forcing the U.S. to do something it doesn't really want to do. He lays it all out in this interview with Rachel Blevins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvszK5nt2Ow
One refrain of Iranian opponents of concessions to Washington is the fate of former Libyan leader, Ghaddafi. Most of us recall that Afrocentric oil-rich Libya, trusting the US and the UK's promises of improved relations, dismantled its nascent nuclear program, only to be devastated by a Western invasion that toppled Ghaddafi.
And Saddam Hussein's 2003 overthrow would not have been possible before US-led near total disarmament (and severe sanctions) rendered Iraq defenseless.
Iranian opinion leaders also point to Washington's abrupt recent reversal of ironclad support for Ukraine and abandonment of European allies to argue against trusting the US.
Other precedents include America's infamous 1991 promise that NATO would not expand eastward to Russia. Etc, etc.
Taking account of this history, Iranian leaders would be INSANE to give in to American demands now in exchange for lifting of sanctions. They already tried that with a less erratic president Obama (Nobel Peace Prize laureate, no less) and got screwed big time.
Trump will be impeached third time
Then die in prison
Greatest president ever
The US and Israel have effectively declared war on Iran. Trump has destroyed any bit of credibility the US might still have had, not only with the recent unprovoked attack on Iran just days before the scheduled resumption of US negotiations with Iran in Oman, but also with the recent Ukrainian attack on Russian nuclear deterrent forces one day before scheduled talks between Russia and Ukraine in Instanbul. The US was complicit in both of these attacks.
As for Iran, its leadership has been deeply embarrassed again by the Israeli attack and allowing the US to lull it into negotiations. Iran must now realize that the end goal for both the US and Israel is not just regime change, but regime destruction. So will Iran allow this state of war against it to continue as it refuses to develop a real deterrent? Or will it realize that failure to develop nuclear weapons has brought on this attack and will surely guarantee more such attacks? A recent article in ‘The Cradle’ states that if the JCPOA snap-back sanctions are imposed on it, which seems likely, Iran will withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty and move toward nuclear weapon development. Recent IAEA “findings” on Iran appear to make such a scenario more likely.
Another weapon Iran has refused to use to protect itself is its control of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. A threat to close this vital waterway would threaten the West with a major rise in oil prices and possible worldwide recession. Not only would this endanger Trump and his political coalition, but it would also point out the danger that Israel and its Zionist supporters in the US have brought about by their reckless war mongering. But such a threat is only effective if Iranian leadership has the will and resolve to back it up. We shall see.