They do so in the hope of a turnaround in fortunes for the Palestinians who for the past two and half years have been subjected to the ferocious intensity of Israeli genocide. As we follow the news from the Middle East the cherished hope that Israel's bellicose bloodlust might be stymied can seem forlorn.
Not sick of wars, Israel has started yet another. It is the primary source of instability in the Middle East. As Iranian leaders gathered last week to discuss the talks with US officials, Mossad, through its intelligence operations, acquired knowledge of the meeting. It then alerted the CIA and suggested that an attack on the Tehran compound while the meeting was taking place would result in Iran's key leaders being killed. Trump gave the green light for the war which US officials, borrowing from Vladimir Putin's war manual, are now denying is a war. Instead they insist it is some form of special military operation
Like an earlier Israeli attack in Qatar aimed at the Hamas peace delegation, this was not an action designed to prevent war. Its aim was to prevent a negotiated peace emerging.
Donald Trump, the fascist-leaning President of the US, offered the following justification for what the New York Times and Time Magazine both claim is the eighth military intervention of his second term in the Oval Office.
That seems a very apt description of the Israeli state - bloodthirsty, terrorist and in possession of nukes.
The mass murder of around 150 Iranian schoolgirls is very much a ploy from the Israeli terror textbook - the terroristic intimidation of a people through murdering its children. Israel and the United States proceed with the lawlessness of Mexican drug cartels and are every bit as contemptuous of human rights. Any claim that an intelligence operation can identity the location of a top level Iranian meeting but not distinguish between a girl's school, and a military facility rings spurious.
Israel officials have been briefing media outlets that there are three objectives in the war on Iran:
Trump too has called on the Iranian people to seize this supposedly once in a generation opportunity to rise up and overthrow the regime. Those of us old enough to remember the first war on Iraq can recall President George Bush senior at the end of Operation Desert Storm proclaiming to Iraqis:
Not sick of wars, Israel has started yet another. It is the primary source of instability in the Middle East. As Iranian leaders gathered last week to discuss the talks with US officials, Mossad, through its intelligence operations, acquired knowledge of the meeting. It then alerted the CIA and suggested that an attack on the Tehran compound while the meeting was taking place would result in Iran's key leaders being killed. Trump gave the green light for the war which US officials, borrowing from Vladimir Putin's war manual, are now denying is a war. Instead they insist it is some form of special military operation
Like an earlier Israeli attack in Qatar aimed at the Hamas peace delegation, this was not an action designed to prevent war. Its aim was to prevent a negotiated peace emerging.
Donald Trump, the fascist-leaning President of the US, offered the following justification for what the New York Times and Time Magazine both claim is the eighth military intervention of his second term in the Oval Office.
This is the duty and the burden of a free people. These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons.
That seems a very apt description of the Israeli state - bloodthirsty, terrorist and in possession of nukes.
The mass murder of around 150 Iranian schoolgirls is very much a ploy from the Israeli terror textbook - the terroristic intimidation of a people through murdering its children. Israel and the United States proceed with the lawlessness of Mexican drug cartels and are every bit as contemptuous of human rights. Any claim that an intelligence operation can identity the location of a top level Iranian meeting but not distinguish between a girl's school, and a military facility rings spurious.
Israel officials have been briefing media outlets that there are three objectives in the war on Iran:
- destroy nuclear capacity
- destroy ballistic missile capacity
- give Iranians the opportunity to implement regime change
Trump too has called on the Iranian people to seize this supposedly once in a generation opportunity to rise up and overthrow the regime. Those of us old enough to remember the first war on Iraq can recall President George Bush senior at the end of Operation Desert Storm proclaiming to Iraqis:
There's another way for the bloodshed to stop, and this is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside.
Iraqis took him seriously, uprose and received no help from the US. Their reward for listening to a blow hard US president was merciless massacres. Iranian citizens would be very foolish to rush to the streets in their eagerness to topple a repressive regime in response to fake promises from Donald Trump.
On day two of the current war on Iran, Netanyahu said that the US involvement “allows us to do what I have been hoping to do for 40 years – to deliver a crushing blow to the terror regime.”
Alon Pinkas, who served as Israel's consul general in New York two decades ago, had this to say about Netanyahu's hopes.
Alon Pinkas, who served as Israel's consul general in New York two decades ago, had this to say about Netanyahu's hopes.
The man responsible for the worst catastrophe and calamity in Israel’s history, October 7, 2023, the man who marketed himself as “Mr. Security” and a world expert on combating terrorism, was at the helm and accountable for the worst debacle since Israel was established.
The only way to redeem himself was to turn that calamity into a region-altering strategic triumph. For that he crucially needed the U.S. But if he was wrong on Iraq, wrong on the original Iran nuclear deal, wrong on urging Trump to withdraw from it, wrong on his Gaza policy—relying on Hamas to avoid negotiations with the Palestinian Authority—and profoundly wrong on the Palestinian issue writ large, is it possible that he is right here? Whatever he whispered to Trump, the template is more likely Iraq 2003 than Venezuela 2026.
What seems clear is that this is an Israeli-driven war. That the Zionist state continues to wield such malign influence and perfidious power over the foremost military on the planet, despite being globally lambasted because of genocide, could easily cause us to despair, resign ourselves to swimming against the deadly currents churned up by massive military might financed by the super rich.
Our efforts might appear small but as the eighteenth century Conservative thinker Edmond Burke observed: 'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.'
Despite the setbacks, the ongoing Israeli wars, the massacre of school children, the continuing genocide in Gaza, Drogheda Stands with Palestine will not make the mistake identified by Burke of doing nothing.
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