A few days ahead of his meeting with President Biden, Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with The New York Times and said he will continue covert attacks against Iran and will oppose any US efforts to revive the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.
Israel has a long history of taking covert action against Iran, but Israeli leaders usually aren’t so candid about it. The Times report said that Bennett plans to present Biden with a new “strategic vision” for Iran that includes more “clandestine attacks” on Iran, including what Bennett referred to as “the gray-area stuff.”
One of Israel’s recent attacks on Iran targeted the Natanz nuclear facility in April. It coincided with the start of indirect negotiations between the US and Iran to revive the JCPOA and was a clear effort by the Israelis to sabotage the talks.
Another aspect of Bennett’s vision is for Israel to strengthen ties with Arab countries in the region that oppose Iran. Forming an anti-Iran coalition was part of the reason for the Trump administration-brokered Abraham Accords that led to Israel normalizing with some Arab countries, including the UAE and Bahrain.
“What we need to do, and what we are doing, is forming a regional coalition of reasonable Arab countries, together with us, that will fend off and block this expansion and this desire for domination [by Iran],” Bennett said.
Bennett favors many of the same policies as his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu, but he wants to take a different approach. Netanyahu publicly clashed with the Obama administration when the JCPOA was negotiated in 2015, which Bennett hopes to avoid.
Bennett said he will continue expanding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, something the Biden administration says it is against. The Israeli leader also ruled out the idea of peace talks with the Palestinians.
That’s not particularly covert, but whatever.
LOL, yeah. It’s covert since the terrorist activities are likely done by spies or proxies, most likely the MEK, as opposed to uniformed soldiers, but it’s all the same in Fourth Generation warfare. Follow the money.
The US should get out of this bad manipulative relationship quickly. Just make the decision and do it.
One country we claim to be a state sponsor of terrorism although they don’t seem to be very good at it. This country we surround with military assets and sanction into economic misery. Another country openly admits to continuing their “covert” actions that have included assassinating scientists, sabotaging nuclear facilities and bombing oil tankers. This country we give $3.8 billion dollars per year and veto all resolutions condemning those “covert” actions at the UN.
He will scream when he gets the same things done back at him. He’ll say they are aggressive war and require attack on Iran. In fact, that hypocrisy is a major reason for him to do it, to incite.
Building a ‘coalition’ of Arab states will go real well, ‘would you guys like to be canon fodder while we take shots a Iran from your territory?’. Look at how well that worked out for the U.S. when Israel started bombing the PMU in Iraq. We were the ones that took the hit.
Expect retaliation from Iran…! It’s not like Syria…!
Now we’ll see if that tail will still wag the dog.
The blatant aggressive attacks against Iran predicated on the false accusations of their development of nuclear weapons while simultaneously denying the well known fact of their possession of such weapons shows the rampant hypocrisy of this truly criminal country. If they want to show the world otherwise, let them open their program to international examination and inspection.
WTF does Been-Nut mean by “reasonable Arab countries”? Ones that are handsomely paid off by Amerikkka to play nice with Isra-hell and not utter a peep when Palestinian babies and children are annihilated by Zio bombs?