In comments Thursday during an interview with Russian-language Channel
9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to confirm weeks
of reported Israeli strikes against Iraqi territory.
Asked about the matter, Netanyahu said Israel was operating “not just if needed” but also in many areas around the region where they believed
they could hit Iranian targets or interests. He added he’d given the
military “a free hand,” though he did not directly address any
particular attacks.
This lines up with satellite photos of the various targeted sites,
which reports appeared to confirm were targeted with airstrikes, and
not random explosions. Further reports suggested Israel’s attacks had
advanced approval from the US and Russia both.
Israel and the US both treat the Shi’ite militias in Iraq’s Popular
Mobilization Forces (PMF) as “Iranian proxies,” even though the groups
are formally part of Iraq’s security services. The deputy leader of the
PMF had yesterday blamed the US and Israel for the attacks. The organization’s chief contested that on Thursday, saying that there were preliminary signs of an external attack but that conclusions had yet to be reached.
These recent attacks have led the Iraqi government to try to exercise
greater control over foreign flights in their airspace. The US initially
said they would comply, but have since disavowed this.
One of the PMF forces, Hashd Shaabi, seems to be more proactive about planes flying around the capital all willy-nilly, opening fire on a spy plane near the capital of Baghdad on Thursday.
When was the last time the UN placed sanctions on Israel?
When is the last time the US didn’t veto any UN resolution that remotely rebuked anything the apartheid practicing parasite did?
The US can’t veto UN resolutions, only Security Council resolutions. The last time it didn’t veto a Security Council resolution negatively pertaining to Israel, IIRC, was December 2016.
I thought I was talking out of my ass but I took a shot. I do think our “influence” sways things though. I remember the last one was Obama abstaining.
Israel can act with impunity because they know that any response to their aggression from Iraq, Syria, or Iran would be met with instant retaliation by US. They pretty much have a blank check when it comes to weaponry and support as they own the Congress and the POTUS. Looks like we will be dragged into WWIII unwittingly by the Zionists who occupy Palestine and the Zionists who occupy the USA unless we change course NOW.
I would like to think there are those in the US military who are aware of this and would be reluctant to carry out an attack on Iran which would lead to an economic and moral catastrophe from which the USA would never recover. They have, after all, sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, not to the crazy CIC who says one thing one day and something entirely different next and thinks he’s the “chosen one” and the “king of Israel” who will bring on the apocalyptic war the neocons and Zionists crave if we let him.
Shouldn’t we be protecting our colony, I mean ally? And wouldn’t it be something to see if Israel accidently, and I use that term loosely, killed an American or two?
That has possibly already happened. However, we would most likely never know, as the military would cover it up and tell the families, etc., that they were killed in some other way and/or in another place. In war zones, such things aren’t difficult to do.
So the US spent trillions to set up the Iraqi state (such as it is) and our great ally is now chiseling away at the foundations?
Miss Lindsey Graham pushes to make any resistance to Israeli aggression a casus belli for the USA.