If there is one consistent fact about Israeli military policy, it is that they are always at least sort of at war with Iran. The Syrian War, and Iran’s advisory role there has made this fairly simple, as Israel just bombs Damascus a few times a month, insisting they’re hitting Iran.
But ISIS is defeated, and like everyone else, Iran is scaling back its involvement in Syria. That’s giving Israel fewer targets, and it’s a really inopportune time for that. With the Israeli election looming, officials are all keyed up to win votes with quasi-legal airstrikes.
That’s got some analysts predicting Israel will look for other Iranian targets outside of Syria. The simplest place would be Iraq, where US media outlets have spent years calling the Iraqi government’s paramilitary forces “Iran-backed militias.”
The number of US troops in Iraq may make this somewhat diplomatically dicey, though so far Israel has been able to count on the US to sign off on whatever attacks on whatever nominally Iranian targets they choose. And if it’s a choice between that and Israel not launching military strikes on a nearby country, its safe to bet the attacks will continue.
Iran is just the current Israeli excuse to avoid making a deal with the Palestinians, while they continue to dispossess them.
If they did not have the Iran opening to exploit, in its Intra-Muslim rivalry, then they’d create more conflict with Lebanon, or claim Jordan is too unstable to fill its role as the real Palestine, or just pick another fight with Egypt over the Sinai.
The conflict with the Palestinians is central, because it is the motive for all the other conflicts, which are all manipulated to Israeli purposes in their ongoing drive to rid themselves of Palestinians but still keep all of the land they were on.
Brilliantly said, Mark, brilliantly said.
Mark Thomason ~ What you said is true on one level, but at a deeper level there is the demonic ‘Greater Israel Project’ going on that is being driven by religious spirits who are using their human pawns to bring it about (i.e. the Zionists, the Israelis, and their pawns in Washington and London). So actually it’s a religious issue. Thinking about it reminds me of the famous quote by C.S. Lewis: “Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.”
All right, Jason is flippant, but Israel really is beyond the pale and it is not antisemitic to say it.
As if israel hasn’t been working behind the scenes in a covert war for decades already!