The Israeli cabinet position of “strategy affairs minister” is primarily meant to focus around planning for a war with Iran. It’s a full time job, and it mostly involves pushing the US to threaten Iran more often.
The current minister, Yuval Steinitz, is at the forefront of Israeli officials expressing “concern” tonight at the new US war on ISIS, which they see as potentially getting in the way of long-term US hostility toward Iran.
Steinitz shrugged off ISIS as a “five-year problem,” while declaring Iran a “50-year problem with far greater impact,” and that more moves to stop Iran’s nuclear program ought to come before the new war.
The White House has sought to assure Israel that the new war won’t make them any less unreasonable in their negotiations with Iran, which Israel didn’t want to take place to begin with, but they can take some solace in the fact that the US seems unwilling to make a final deal with Iran.
Other Israeli officials expressed further concern that the US and Iran are on the same side in the ISIS war, with Iran already deploying troops to help Iraq before the US arrived. The “concern” seems to center on the belief that Iran would benefit from ISIS’ defeat, the same reason Israel has long looked the other way on ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria.
Maybe the US should man up and carry a bombing campaign against Israel. The only way to shut that rabid dog up. The world is burning in the ME and they are concerned people will hate Iran less.
The land grabbing war criminals in Israel should be subject to the same sanctions that they have managed to get us to put on Iran. Failing that, a bombing campaign should be initiated, just like the one that Israel wants us to do to Iran, against Israel, until they renounce their nuclear weapons and withdraw to the pre 1967 borders. How is that for justice?
The wars that the US wages in the Middle East appears to be in the name of Israel only. What valuable assets Israel has that we depend on….? ZERO.
Israel — A tool to maximize profit
Israel is, in substance and essence, the organized will of the power combine that created it and hire most all of Israeli politicians as paid actors, namely the corporate rich who own the Western war materials industry and oil industry.
For Israel and the Islamic State have this in common, they were both created to maximize vengeance driven terrorism — and thereby maximize profit in the trading of war materials for Middle-East oil.
At Kerry's big meeting with Sunni nations, they all backed away. They signed only the most tepid document, Turkey would not sign even that, and both Egypt and Jordan openly said they have other problems that come first.
Even the Iraqi Shiites are not fully supportive. Sadr just said that opposition to "the occupiers" comes first — that means us.
The ONLY nation willing and able to support us is Iran. That isn't because they like us, it is because they are already fighting the same enemy.
In this, Israel is worse than a leech, it is actively undermining the US interests. Cut them loose, and let them find a new government that will make peace with Iran and the other Arabs instead of expanding settlments, expanding Golan, and mowing down all of their neighbors as if grass or cockroaches, both things they call their neighbors.
petulant little snots: we don't want you to like them