After a 48 hour period over the weekend during which Israeli forces attacked five distinct factions in three separate countries, Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now seeing Israel at serious risk.
Netanyahu is now demanding that the international community “act immediately” to halt Iran from its attacks on Israel. Notably, those targets of Israel were mostly Shi’ites, and therefore Israel perceives them as mostly in league with Iran, but there were no attacks against Israel over the weekend.
Indeed, the only hint of an Iranian attack on Israel was the Israeli military’s allegation that Iran was going to do so, which they created as a justification for their Saturday attack in Syria.
Rather, if Israel is facing substantial risk of attack at all at this point, it would surely be from a group like Hezbollah looking to retaliate for Israeli attacks against them. The weekend salvos clearly put Israel at risk, and potentially on the path toward a regional war.
Given that, it takes some nerve for Netanyahu to “demand” the international community do something on his behalf. It may, however, point toward a very specific endgame he is working toward.
The past couple of Israeli invasions of the Gaza Strip went poorly from a political standpoint for Netanyahu because in both cases, the Israeli press spun them as Palestinian aggression, but peace deals were worked out before a popular, bloody war even got off the ground.
In this case, Netanyahu may be trying the same thing, hoping he can get some political points in the lead up to the election and hoping that he can get international diplomats to keep it from escalating into a practical problem, and then try to get more credit for being able to aggress against most of his neighbors with impunity.
There is no lower form of people than those that relish causing others pain & suffering as a form of gratification. It’s an incredibly odious form of sickness, doubly so when the stricken are children…
Germany was on the ball ready to defend itself when Poland attacked them in 1939, too. Poland was such an obvious threat, the world should have done something about it before Germany had no choice but to shoot back.
Careful, there’s a guy who visits here regularly who argues something like that very seriously. 🙂
The man is insane, first he attacks 3 countries over the weekend, then he threatens the countries he attacked with more strikes if they responds……..then he ask the International community ( Israel`s western buddies ) to protect Israel.
What`s even more insane is the UN and International community`s lack of condemnation.
I fully agree with you, Jim Bim. Bibzy Nutty&Yahoo’s indeed insane .. First of all, he attacks 3 nations over the weekend, then he threatens those nations he attacked with more strikes if they respond; and then he asks the International community (Israel’s Western buddies) to protect Israel. What’s even more insane is the UN and International community’s lack of condemnation? Are the UN and International community afraid of Nutty&Yahoo, that they had to remain silent while he wages aggressive wars?
They are all bought puppets, corrupt and with big ego.
Their role is to create an illusion that they work for the people and democracy…but reality is…….they serve the elite and their corporations.
Israel attacks numerous neighbors, breaking things and killing people, using explosive-laden drones which Israel has in their previous official statements correctly referred to as “terrorism.” Now they expect the international community to clean up the mess. Indeed they should, by eliminating the safe haven for terrorism. Time for a UN peacekeeping force occupying Israel!
Crying wolf way too many times.
One minute Netanyahu is a tough guy throwing his weight around the next he is a victim, a wimp pleading for sympathy. He reminds me of you know who.
It’s hard to decide the bigger threat to Israeli civilians:
1. Hezbollah’s 100,000 rockets and missiles that will overwhelm the iron dome in approximately 15 minutes or.
2. This fuckin lunatic who is baiting the launch of such a barrage.
The only decent thing about Netanyahu is that he makes idiots like Trump appear to be reasonable.
Nope. He’s trying to get Trump specifically to intervene and attack Hezbollah.
This is not just an election ploy – although he obviously can expect that a new war will help him retain power – even if he has to postpone the elections. But if Israel has to fight Hezbollah, then he needs the US to directly support Israel – otherwise it will backfire on him.
Which indicates to me that he may *already* have an agreement with Trump to do so – because otherwise it would be a huge risk for him to invite a new war with Hezbollah which Israel can’t win. I doubt Netanyahu is crazy enough to risk a new war before an election any more than Trump would – unless the fix was already in.
I find it amusing that people think there will be no new war in the Middle East because Trump doesn’t want to risk his election – but they assume Netanyahu is willing to risk a devastating war with Hezbollah in order to win his election.
What’s wrong with this picture?
What a coward?! He’ll be voted down in the next month election…