Israeli cargo ship MV Helios Ray spent the weekend in Dubai for repairs after a series of unexplained explosions knocked holes into it near the water level. The ship was not disabled, and no crew were injured in the attack.
Much is still not known about what happened. Defense Minister Benny Gantz declared almost immediately that there was “a likelihood” Iran was to blame, and before long Israel’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi had declared Iran definitely to blame, while offering no evidence. He mentioned Iran’s “nuclear threat” and said this was just another Iranian threat.
Even before reaching conclusions, Israeli officials were talking up a military response, saying they wouldn’t let the incident pass without retaliation. High-level meetings have been held in Israel, and all indications are that there is near uniformity in going after Iran over this.
In cases where Israel wants to go after Iran, evidence is broadly beside the point, they’ve been given a nominal pretext for military threats and action, and they’re not going to waste that opportunity on the possibility that they’re wrong in assigning blame.
Evidence may be eschewed within Israel, and with pro-Israel factions abroad, but coming up with convincing evidence would be a big step. This is likely to oblige Israel to keep the attacks limited. Since they attack so-called Iranian targets in Syria every few days anyhow, something more in that area, but bigger, is probably their first choice.
Beyond that, Israel blaming Iran for something has tended to be a way to play for diplomatic advantage with other nations, and they might use it to try to distance the US from any renewed negotiations with Iran.
Israel was attacking before this happened. So it will continue to attack, and that has nothing to do with this ship. Only stopping could be connected to being hit back.
False flag?
I am very curious to see which way this will turn.
Syria is not defending border pass with Iraq, the one US bombed. The pass has been bombed before as it is critical for shipping material and people from Jordan to Iraq and beyond.
Syria and Russia ignore Israel’s provocations. In the absence of bite, Israel is forced to find another excuse to get US involved. But for what?
One scenario I can think of — Israel will “retaliate” for the “attack” whatever it was. Retaliate means hitting Iran, and Iran will have to respond.
But to respond how and where? Since Iran is expecting Israel’s provocation — surely has a plan. But I suspect that no matter what the response is — Israel expects to bail out and US US should come in as Israel’s protector.
And then Gulf states will be in a no-win situation. Declare support for US and become combatants wide open to Iran’s attack. Or declare neutrality as Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel, only UAE and Bahrain do. These countries literally have NO DEFENSE.
UAE is in the most critical location. Bahrain is Fifth Fleet. Qatar hosts Air Force, and Turkey is there. Being Iran’s ally, it is in critical position as well.
Unless US believes that Iran can be crippled easily — I see no point in setting this up. Or Israel is just twisting US arm, forcing US to act as superior power challenging Russia and China earlier rather then later.
Israel may have concluded that US power is on the wane economically and thus militarily — and that delay to confront these powers is not the way to go. Israel feels threatened by US weakness.
In Syria, all the temper tantrum have bern met by silent disrespect. Israel sees the problem. Russia and Turkey have ousted Israeli successful infiltration of Azerbaijan — Armenia is powerless and so is Georgia. With Turkey well positioned to control Kurd expansion to Iraq and Syria Israel found itself with no room for regional maneuver.
In short Israel is more isolated and powerless to make a difference or scare neighbors then ever. Iraq is not under US control — it is hedging geopolitical orientation.
But what is the expectation? Take Iran on, get Russia and China to accept it — and the region will be properly scared into becoming subservient again.
One thing we can be sure — Israel is pushing US into war, whatever it may be. And nobody in authority is yet to decouple Israel’ i regional interests from US global interests.
We will see which way it plays out.
Nice well thought out analysis.
It’s doubtful Pentagon is thrilled at prospect of major force commitment to war with Iran. As they say, “Where’s the net?” US population showing strong signs of forever-war fatigue. And the cadre prefer to make rank war-gaming, managing “lilypads”, general’ng bush fires, and of course, golfing & boozing. Possibly it sees statusquo optimal.
I agree with you. If only it were up to them. Those decisions will be made by “civilians”.
If Israel openly attacks Iran proper, it will not matter if the US military bails them out or not.
Iran can crush the US and Israeli military in the Middle East and the Pentagon knows it. That is why they attempted ZERO retaliation for the Iranian bombing of US bases in Iraq.
So, if Israel attacks Iran it will be destroyed even if the US helps.
Therefore, I hope Israel attacks Iran and gets crushed so we can all enjoy a more peaceful world.
Interesting how bloodthirsty people are on an “antiwar” site.Sometimes it takes two to tango.
Some of us “antiwar” people understand reality and know that certain countries will NEVER stop their wars of aggression unless they are forced.
It is like reasoning and pleading with a crocodile dragging you under water. You cannot talk your way out of it. It will not stop until dead.
No amount of diplomacy will work with Israel. They have proven that for over 70 years. Therefore, to achieve peace these countries must defend themselves and destroy a relentless invader.
Sometimes, sadly, there simply is no other way.
“70 years” ?
1.It was the Arab countries who invaded Israel in 1948.
2. It was the Arab countries who hosted and sponsored terrorist incursions against Israel for 70 years.
3.It was the President of Egypt who in 1967 said”our mission is to destroy Israel”blocking international waterways, and provoking the 1967 war.
4.It was the Arab countries who launched a sneak attack in 1973.
5.It was Iran who repeatedly stated their intents to destroy Israel, attacked embassies and community centers, and tries to mass their proxy armies on the Northern Front.
6.”Relentless invader”-many of the People in Israel are quite native to Israel and surrounding countries.
Get your facts straight .
Ah, the Zionist apologist unmasks.
The Arab states just attacked poor Israel for no reason, eh? Not the fact the Israel was created from stolen lands and genocide.
Or the fact that Israel was never going to be content with such a small stolen country as the Greater Israel project shows.
The Arabs knew Palestine was only the beginning of Israeli theft and they were right because of the attempted theft of the Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights.
Get YOUR facts straight.
1.There were Jews living in Israel since before the birth of Jesus.
2.There were hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Arab lands who’s ancestors were there before the birth of Islam-they were driven out and came to Israel.
3.Zionism is good-people purchased lands to live on-just as anyone else does.
4.The Israelis accepted a partition plan giving them tiny bits of land-Arabs rejected it.
Sinai was used as a staging ground by Egypt for war and terrorism-they used it as a weapon and lost it-agreed to peace and got it back.
4The Arab lands and Iran once had Jewish populations-where are they now-victim of race riots and pogroms-long since gone-but that is not genocide in your view.
Your selective history is well known, it has been drilled into our heads for decades.
Under number one — no Jewish population — lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years prior to Arab conquest of Jerusalem. It was the Arab conqueror that brought eight Jewish families into Jerusalem to start, and expanded immigration into the city under the new, benevolent rulers. They were HARDLY benevolent — they just wanted loyal population and administration to marginalize former rulers, Christian population.
And it was not the first time in history that it happened. Romans, having conquered Levant gave power to Jewish administrators and temples in order to marginalize previous Greek-controlled system. That ended rather badly for all concerned.
As for Jewish people who came to Israel after its founding — what happened to Yemeni children? Why has the mystery of their disappearance been hidden for so long, and why now the few surviving relatives are offered compensation provided they drop the lawsuits?
Aren’t you keeping up with the news?
And Jewish population today fares much better in many Arab countries than Christians.
There are no saintly populations anywhere on this planet. There were atrocities and inhumane acts committed by all ethnicities and all religions. No point trying to make Jewish people any different.
We should all count our blessings for being alive.
“Jewish population fares much better in many Arab countries”–where?
Oh please, stop. This litany of
blaming is really, really tiresome.
You would be more credible if we do not on a daily basis read the endless headlines of olive trees destruction, vegetable stands being tossed by Israeli soldiers just for spite, homes demolished, crops flooded, wheat fields burned, people killed, maimed, deprived of essentials, fishermen killed, children on the beach killed. Day after day, after sickening day.
No need to defend the occupation and the naked lust for expelling Palestinian people to take their land. Such things have been done in history over and over again. But those who did it, were no hypocrites, and did not play victims.
Since nobody on this planet seem to really care to — why not?
Where was your concern when Israeli children were slaughtered by terrorists? Where is your concern when Hamas burns Israeli wheat fields, and fires rockets at peaceful settlements? Where did you get the fantasy that Iran is an innocent purveyor of peace?
Please, reduce the violins . I am wretched about any child that has to suffer.
But we as adults must know the difference between right and wrong. Considering the scope of Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians ever since Israel has been founded, it is a miracle that Israel did not suffer severe consequences internationally or domestically.
But as it stands, the global politics is such that Israel can exercise its intent to chop up into tiny pieces any contiguous Palestinian land, and convince as many of them as possible to leave. To that end Israel has thousands upon thousands rules. For example, a Palestinian that gets a scholarship to study abroad cannot come back home.
As I said repeatedly, why not stop the empty talk of “two state solution” and get on with one state as it factually already is? Perhaps there are still too many Palestinians?
So with all the advantages of global indifference to the fate of Palestinian people, and all the inexorable march to their demise — why just cannot you be happy? Enjoy all that the global politics has given you — all the privileges and the blessed state of impunity?
Why insist with claim that Israel is the victim we should be sorry for?
The only country I care for is my country, I have no other. All others, Israel included, should be treated with respect , should they deserve it.
We have plenty of our problems, and worrying about Israel should not be one of them.
Yes, it does take two to tango.
And the Israeli regime is among the partners who evince no interest whatsoever in ending the dance. If peace breaks out, the US welfare checks might stop coming. To Israel, to Egypt, to the Palestinian Authority, etc. Therefore peace must not, under any circumstances, be allowed to break out.
Yes, the welfare should be ended. Yes, both sides should give each other a fair break. This does not eliminate the fact that Iran, has its own, non-peaceful agendas.
All regimes have agendas. Most, if not all, of those agendas are non-peaceful. That doesn’t make all those regimes and all their agendas the plausible business of the US regime.
A few MIRV tipped Jericho Missiles could if need be, send Iran back into the pre Cambrian era-not that this would be a good thinkg.
Your belief in Israeli military superiority is adorable.
So, how did the invasion of little Lebanon go in 2006 and what happened to all those “invincible” Merkava tanks?
Israel taking Iran back to the stone age when they can’t even handle Lebanon?
Hahahahahahahaha!
Again, war is hell and you seem to lust for WW3 . Rest assured, there will be no victors, except for armchair generals like yourself.
This is what worries me. As far as I know MIRV has barely been tested, in a limited way. Ballistic missiles are no match any more for newest missile defense systems. The belief in newest war technology is not justified. There are many untested technologies, and many gaps. We actually cannot claim that any party in earth knows the capabilities and strategies of others.
A lots of unknowns and surprises.
The finest Russian anti missile systems have already been defeated. Some ICBMS will get through.
I am no expert, but I follow military affairs the best I can. I am not aware of finest Russian anti-missile system being defeated? By any chance, do you remember which one and what was the occasion?
The RussianS-300 and s-400 air defense missiles have not prevented Israeli attacks on Syrian terrorist targets.
The fact Israel still illegally bombs Syria does not mean Russian air defense has been defeated at all.
Those systems you mentioned primarily defend Russian military installations and Damascus. They are not designed for the small missiles Israel launches from fighter jets cowardly hiding behind commercial jets over Lebanon.
But, most of those little missiles are shot down by other systems designed for that like the Pantsir system.
If Israel wasn’t afraid of Russian air defense, they would not hide behind other jets and simply bomb Damascus wholesale.
I do not believe Russian missile
defense systems are deployed in Syria to defend any terrorist sites!
Just to be clear — you are claiming that Russia’s advanced missile defense systems have been defending terrorist sites, and Israel has defeated those systems?
Syria’s military has a number of S-300 and other layered systems, and have been used successfully to defend their own military facilities.
I also do not know of ANY terrorist group Israel attacked. Not one attack was conducted on ISIS, HTS Al-Qaeda or a number of by now defeated Salafi militants. Not one.
As far as I know only groups Israel bombed are Shia militias — and those have all been fighting ISIS in both Syria and Iraq. That is in my understanding opposite from being “terrorists”.
As far as I know Shia groups in Iraq are part of Iraqi armed forced, paid by Iraqi Army.
I wonder — why does not Israel take up the issue with US — so that Iraq can explain why it feels necessary to place Iraqi militia on Iraqi border crossing with Syria?
Israel claims that it is killing Shia terrorists that are Iranian proxies, while Iraq or Syria can easily provide information on the victims to reassure Israel that Iran is not creeping up to its borders. Why not try some diplomacy?
As far as I know no S-400 has seen action thus far in Syria, or anywhere.
S-500 and S-600 are not deployed outside Russia.
I care not for military or militarism, and wish we have no reason to talk about it. But I worry about gung-ho excitement about “our” superiority and “their” inferiority, as this is a typical foolishness that tempts people into wars.
We have no idea what is real and what is not, so starting a war is a supreme crime, as war is the cause of all other crimes committed in its name.
Nothing is predictable in war. Especially with new technologies. We will never see wars like WWI, WWII or even Vietnam or Iraq any more. New technologies will change everything, but I feel that all plans may go out of the window after the first encounter.
The Iranians won’t fall for this BS. They have no desire to attack the UAE or Bahrain. (And the UAE and Bahrain surely have no wish to be attacked!) Iran is way smarter than that. The Iranians know that the accommodations made by these two countries to the US/Israel were the result of Pompeo/Trump “maximum bribery” arm-twisting.
Meanwhile, Israel ***WILL NOT*** attack Iran directly. They would take a beating and they know it. They want the US to do it.
This is all about sucking Biden “The Turnip” into a full-on war with Iran. And while he is mentally weak, and his advisers are full-on Neocon, I suspect the Pentagon will nix any enthusiasm for getting the US into full-on war with Iran.
I know they will not fall for provocations. But it is about Biden, the establishment man without an original thought in his career to damage his usefulness.
Will Pentagon nix any enthusiasm for getting US into full-on war. No war ever starts with full-on war. But after four years of frustration with Trump brandishing his toughness — while doing nothing that neocons would call effective — they must be itching to demonstrate to the world that “America is back”.
Pentagon’s leadership over years has become technocratic, and the decisions are not made there. What may nix it is the sense that rank and file are among the US population the most averse to endless/new wars. But then, it may also be an incentive for starting one — if nothing to exorcise the spirit of Captain Crozier.
The litany of America’s lost positions globally is very long. But the remedy is not short term. The decision upon the new and angry cadre of neocons is — to strike and teach someone a lesson, or patiently analyze our position and address problems first. I am afraid neocons are shoot first, ask questions later, type of people.
And in that light I see Israel’s hysterical behavior. They simply want US to act militarily. Anything will do.
Perhaps Palestinians will evolve to a modern theory of democracy and export it to Israel, The capitalist form of totalitarian fake democracy is decomposing as rapidly in Israel as it is in the US.
When it comes to historic forces pushing mankind to-and-fro, I place little value to our self-organizing forms, be that democracy or socialism, capitalism, liberalism or any “-ism” as well.
We in US are organized on the principles of post French Revolution British order of 18th and 19th century.
Edmund Burke predicted the outcome. As much as disliked aristocracy, he realized in the tragedy of French revolution that humanity must have leadership that is not consumed by daily struggle for self-interest. Leaders that are above the fray, and can uphold what he called social contract that binds past generations to present and to those not yet born. His concept of aristocracy, not the actual failing humans is worth understanding.
As it applies today.
In American society there is no guardian of public interest. Burke’s idealized aristocracy, or theological God’s representatives — are to protect nation or a state from rapacious greed of Cesars of this world. UK slid into the world of Cesars, Cesars of industry, trade, finance, colonial wealth. And aristocracy became dependent on new Cesars, becoming the sophists defending the gutting of society.
For the early consequences, Lord Byron’s speech to the House of Lords in 1812 is illuminating.
Fast forward today, we are still stuck in the world of Cesars grabbing everything in sight, our public finances, natural wealth and people are at their disposal.
While Congress and Cesars’ media sophistry preaching our democracy is keeping population sedated. Worse, they give us slogans to advance their plunder. “Deregulation” sent thousands of factories overseas, and “Defund the Police” will privatize what is left of our public law enforcement.
We select out beacons of national interest by the power of money, irrespective of their character or accomplishments worthy of being elected to represent our common interests.
And the world has changed beyond recognition by industry, automation, communications, transport, sciences and technologies of war.
This world requires a high level understanding of what it all means to our society, and requires high level of coordination. Who will do it? Our Cesars of industry that look at their quarterly reports for guidance?
Our version of aristocracy, the Congress and Presidency — illiterate in the universe of science and technology — in panic just print trillions of dollars and throw them at the Cesars of industry — do something!
In my view only China has the mechanism to wet candidates. They cannot rise to the top without decades of proven record of accomplishments in their profession, in community and leadership skills. That has to be recognized by their peers. This is new aristocracy not abridged by the power of Chinese Cesars of industry.
This aristocracy goes to school as need be — like recently having to attend lectures in quantum physics, mechanics and applicability.
No culture can copy others. But there are principles to be understood. Then changes must follow. Democracy cannot save Israel nor Palestinians.
Israel’s vicious politics is rooted in private interest fights. Palestinians are in a cage from which they cannot escape. Democracy is irrelevant to both.
It is reasonable to search for way to pick leaders limited only by the inherited capacity of our species. If leaders who do not act from personal hunger for more power and wealth can be found, it is logical to assume the goals of such leaders would be socially and environmentally positive. Reason and logic are met by reality rather quickly following this search for leadership and China does appear to provide illumination of possible answers; it has been able to pull itself to top world power from the low of domination by capitalist drug lords backed by conscripts from the deprivations of austerity imposed by plundering their birth nations. But listen to China and you will hear pride at having the largest consumer market on Earth as the engine of their rising power based on an educated population that may be verging on able to gradually reduce itself numerically.
Chinese escape from drug dealing Boston blue bloods required leadership. The United States also required leadership to become the world-wide violent enemy of democracy and fun that it is today. China rides the positive wave of a nation that has survived the cyclical downside of empire. Capitalist leaders of european colonial decent are at the same time grasping for personal wealth as their ship sinks in the storm of collapsing empires. It appears obvious that selecting leaders from these two choices would be wisest to favor those with China’s cultural and ascendant socialist character. No one in their right mind wants leaders promoting the barbarism of war used to satisfy the mental illnesses suffered by insatiable leaders who already own the failing capitalist governments of Europe and the US.
There are of course many other side shows to the main event; the financial and territorially ambitious yapping miniature war dog of Israel is one example. Yes, the insatiable greed of minor actors is dangerous and could provide the spark of war that ends humanity. Even so, stepping back from the fray, all humans are trapped in an end game now being imposed by radical change of Earth’s life support systems. It matters nought who leads either the ascendant or declining cultural systems if the very near future requires Earthly life forms different than most of those existing today. Humans will be just as extinct as other mammals and birds when Earth restarts Life in swamps, tidal pools and estuaries.
Now, today, the question humanity asks is if there is such a thing as a collective will to survive lodged in the soul of our species. We can all see that the financial class is afflicted with insatiable want and believes it can control corporations, vast agricultural enterprises and nations from tall buildings in the centers of modern cities. We all watched as the financiers of New York, London and Berlin destroyed Greek democracy and then, like vampires, sucked the joy of life from the people. And many of us felt a surge of human pride as the distributed intelligence of Greece said No to the bankers in their sky scraper offices around the world. Then a young leader arose from the seeming chaos of resurgent democracy, kneeled before world bankers, and betrayed vital living human spirit for imagined power.
The main problem with charismatic leaders is humans are social animals who want to believe them. Making matters worse, today’s leaders are served by sycophants with university degrees that include studied methods of brainwashing innocent humans bestowed with an unasked for gift of life. Most of us are so involved with our surprise gift of life that we do not suspect there are dark force beings who manipulate innocence of societies in order to stave off the cravings of uncontrollable and insatiable wants. Most of us want to believe our leaders operate from altruistic motivation and do not suspect that the ranks of leadership are filled by mentally ill people with enslaved by cravings for power and wealth that stunt their personal ability to enjoy life. It is difficult to imagine such people exist when looking into the eyes of a new born child that may grow to become a cruel monster of war and potential destroyer of life on Earth.
Democracy is a tool for the focus of distributed human intelligence, it is far more than occasionally voting for representative managers of a centrally planned capitalist enterprise based on unending growth and eternal war. We saw how nimble democracy can be when the people of Greece said No to bankers even after the bankers turned off their cash machines. Totalitarian capitalists deeply fear this aspect of humanity.
Although Greece is over the horizon, Palestinians need not look far for their example of nimble democratic power. Albert Einstein was once offered the presidency of Israel and he turned it down. Why? He felt it would be too difficult to negotiate peace with mere humans of Palestine as a chosen one. Albert Einstein was a gifted writer and scientist who’s work has been applied widely for over a century and remains modern as well as applicable to development of a Palestinian defense turned offense using modern Einsteinian theory of democracy. Think of all those brain synapses opening and closing in Greece; a very large number of synapses turning on and off in millions of human brains and arriving at “No.” This is quantum computing in the here and now that desperate capitalists promoting artificial intelligence will not survive to see unless the existing quantum mechanics tool called democracy is used to focus distributed human intelligence.
Palestinians are desperate, too. It is completely imaginable that the huge number of synapses in millions of Palestinian brains can be put to work as a unified quantum computer that Israeli totalitarianism cannot react swiftly enough to match. This is not as far fetched as it may seem. It is also a project within China at this very moment. There the question is how to select from the daily proposals made by a billion brains and then actually implement those selected by an as yet undetermined method. It may well be that Palestinians who are crucified daily by cruel and barbaric Israelis will arrive at the same conclusion as the Greeks, and do so without a leader who can be manipulated from the high towers of capitalist finance. A social act of this magnitude could save humanity from certain extinction. Modern democracy is nimble and quite capable of solving the existential problems that no single human can even see. This is real democracy facing reality. It has never been tried before and survival of our species requires it be a success.
I appreciate the thorough analysis. I may disagree on one point only — and that is the potential for our collective conscience to be expressed through the human institutions — tools of democracy. We can all as one wish for change. But the real power of coercion will always win.
Greece is a good example. All that their faith in their democracy and new leadership accomplished — was more slavery to debt. Why? Two reasons I believe. One, the power of supra-national plutocracy is strong, and it will continue to be strong until it goes bankrupt. And second — population gets easily confused and divided. In Greece, despite all the evidence to the contrary — population favored staying in EU and keeping Euro currency. It is the fear of unknown that holds people back. The perennial problem remains — leadership. Short burning stars like in Greece, fail.
Inherited wisdom of generations failed in UK as aristocracy became overwhelmed by the power of plutocracy and its money.
Systems of corporate political parties failed as well. Elected bodies are forums for money food fights.
Confucian system of wetting candidates for various roles is very effective, but it cannot be easily applied to different cultures.
Russia has changed constitution recently that created State Council with similar responsibilities as Chinese State Council, but the membership is akin to collection of sages, based on previous roles and functions. Anything is better then nothing in insuring continuity of goals and priorities, without the distraction of daily politics.
In many other countries military serves the role of the guardian of the interests of population, not always state apparatus. Thus military is the last resort guardian of stability in countries as Thailand. And the guardian of transformations such as Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines. Or guardian of old values such as Cambodia or Laos.
Stability is the key in order to protect population from civil unrest often fueled by opposing interests. This is the most undervalued security concern.
When there is so much greed and avarice in our society today, it is hard to imagine an institution around which to rally that can change the course.
You make a strong point with the notion of stability provided by leadership during a time of imposed stress. Some countries are lucky, China is a good example of throwing out the capitalist offered alternative with good results. Russia did fairly well but installed a centralized state capitalism. The english speaking colonies and mother country all failed utterly.
I believe I see where we diverge with theoretical analysis. Notice that my Grecian example does not elect a “leader,” instead, my example of democracy in action arrived at statement of a solution by the people, who said, “No,” to the capitalist financial class.
At that point, so far, Greece was unlucky in leadership and suffered humiliation under a traitor. If they had had us as advisors, I am fairly certain we would have immediately requested the people to carry out a second, third and fourth vote to discover what the activated quantum decision computer wanted to do next. Leadership confident in its own future would guide all those synapses operating in conscious time space toward discovery of itself and what it knew at the species level to be the best next step toward a better way of life that is healthy and more fun.
I have been working on this aspect of democracy and actually attempted to become involved to help stave off the traitor, but I was on the other side of the world and the Greek people were too busy to listen. Now I have placed a tool for use by your idea of elder wisdom holders and you may wish to help apply it (There is a glitch at the moment but what is there works.) Realizing one attracts more people with sugar than long philosophical discussion one may search for the latter here https://www.constituentassembly.org/Contests/Dance_Song-2021-1.html
Hamas sure isn’t democratic now.
Agreed, though we do have a tendency to judge those under stress of annihilation as they should behave in an ideal utopia. This kind of stress is applied purposefully in the anti-democracy play book; the post revolution attack on the US by England is one example and the united capitalist attacks on Russia after its revolution is another.
How will Israel ‘respond’ to this attack, assassinate an Iranian official, bomb targets in Syria, sabotage Iranian infrastructure, cyber attack a civilian port?
Good grief, how dare Netanyahu play the victim card here. No one was killed. This was a minor act by Iran. Take the off ramp Bibi and start acting civilized.
“The ship was not disabled, and no crew were injured in the attack.”
Hallmarks of a false flag.