Now that it’s clear that Israel needs U.S. help defending its own airspace, does this mean the U.S. gets to call the tune in the Middle East? From Steven Sahiounie at strategic-culture.su:
It has become abundantly clear that achieving long-term stability in the Middle East requires solving the Palestinian issue and ensuring the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bowed to pressure from some of his own generals and political allies to attack Iran after Iran’s massive bombardment of Israel, which ended with no causalities or damages. The Israeli military claimed 99% of the projectiles were brought down.
But, ultranationalist Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir described the Israeli strike on Iran as “feeble” or “lame”.
Israel has come under huge international pressure from the U.S. and other Western allies not to take any action which risks turning the long-running proxy war between Israel and Iran into a direct conflict.
Israel started this latest cycle of violence after a striking the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, which killed six Iranian officials and six Syrian civilians who were passersby.
The October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas set the region on edge, met by the Israel revenge attack which has now killed almost 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mainly women and children.
The war in Gaza is six months old, and with no end in sight. Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon trade almost daily strikes on each other. The Houthis in Yemen have captured or hit ships connected to Israel in the Red Sea as a sign of their support for the Palestinians.
The fear is that the Middle East is on the brink of an all-out war, with global as well as regional dangers.
The root cause of all these incidents and violence in the region is the ongoing occupation of Palestine. The people of Gaza and the West Bank live lies of oppression, and now genocide in Gaza. They are deprived of all human rights, while their Jewish neighbors live a modern lifestyle condoned and supported by the democratic western nations.
With all that money we have given our “indispensable” ally?
I thought they were like all smart n’ stuff so why can’t they build their own?
Just reading that 22 women and children KIA in Rafah strike as more free money is coming from Uncle Sugar.
(h/t-AP + IL)
In another browser window there is the Barry’s foreign policy legacy is why the world is paying a high KIA price.
A feature to the burn it all down clown crew.
Breaking from The Colonel Fwance has sent troops to 404. (h/t-DM)