As tensions are soaring in the Middle East due to the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza, US officials are warning that President Biden’s decisions could lead to a major regional war.
US officials told HuffPost that if Israel provokes a full-blown war in southern Lebanon, the consequences could be catastrophic. “Every scenario shows this would escalate into something terrible… whether in terms of counterterrorism or war with Iran,” one official said.
The official said many in the Biden administration feared unconditional US support for Israel could embolden Israeli officials to expand operations into Lebanon. Last week, Israel significantly escalated the situation by launching a drone strike in Beirut that killed a senior Hamas official who was involved in hostage negotiations.
“I’ve been trying to keep an avalanche from falling on Lebanon and so have a lot of people,” the US official said. “The problem is no one can rein in Biden, and if Biden has a policy, he’s the commander-in-chief ― we have to carry it out. That’s what it comes down to, very, very, very, unfortunately.”
Another US official said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer are “hell-bent on seizing this moment to expand the war into southern Lebanon and deliver some mythical imagined death blow to Hezbollah.”
The US has sent Biden’s energy envoy, Amos Hochstein, who was born in Israel, to try to reach a diplomatic solution between Israel and Hezbollah, but no progress has been made.
US officials also told POLITICO that the administration is drawing up plans to respond to a “protracted regional conflict.” Lebanon is just one area where Israel’s assault on Gaza is spilling out into the region, as the US and its allies are threatening to strike the Houthis in Yemen over their attacks on Israel-linked commercial shipping in the Red Sea, and the US is already in a low-level conflict with Shia militias in Iraq and Syria that could explode.
Instead of pressuring Israel to end its brutal assault on Gaza and ease tensions with Hezbollah, President Biden is opting for regional escalation as he continues to provide Israel with full-throated military and political support. The officials speaking to HuffPost reaffirmed that the Biden administration is not considering placing any conditions on military aid to Israel.
Lebanon is part of plans for a Greater Israel along with most of Syria. The USA has sanctioned both nations for years to weaken them as Israel bombed them weekly. The neocons want these Arab squatters to move on to Europe or wherever.
https://youtu.be/pEigig2qWkc?t=23
Remember their plan ro divide up Pakistan so Afghanistan had a route to the sea? Crazy people want war everywhere and medicare nowhere.
I don’t remember that. You got any links to read about this?
No, sorry, it was back at the beginning of the twenty year embarrassing opium war.
Notice Lurch in the background…………..
Look who he’s standing next to….
Your comment should be upvoted to the top. Watching that and reading below, genocide is in the plan of the US, not a random overkill or overreaction by Netanyahu. Wesley Clark should be called as a witness to the ICJ hearing.
From your link:
The Zionist Plan For The Middle East By Oded Yinon Israël Shahak [ Yinon, Oded Shahak, Israël]
The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state.
Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation.
https://archive.org/details/the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east-by-oded-yinon-israel-shahak-yinon-oded-shah/page/n2/mode/1up
Arab squatters? Be reminded that the European Jewish scum were the squatters in Europe living in ghettos until the conniving British swindled the Palestinians of their land using the decrepit UN. Ever Heard of the Irgun and Stern Jewish terrorists who were the original terrorists that were armed by the west to come to Palestine and terrorise the Palestinians and kill them like they are still doing eight years later?
You’re not very well attuned to sarcasm, are you?
“US officials [said] if Israel provokes a full-blown war in…Lebanon, the consequences could be catastrophic. ‘Every scenario shows this would escalate into something terrible….The problem is no one can rein in Biden…if Biden has a policy, he’s the commander-in-chief ― we have to carry it out. That’s what it comes down to, very, very, very, unfortunately.'”
You strongly predict “catastrophic” “consequences”? “Escalat[ion] into something terrible”? But…”unfortunately,” you “have to carry…out” Biden’s “policy”?
Lemme get this straight:
Despite your cumulative adult instincts, judgments, and fears…of Irael’s massive US-enabled war crimes burgeoning into even greater, dangerous regional war…
…you have no choice – alas! o cruel fate! – but to ‘follow orders’?
What’s. Wrong. With. This. Picture.
What is wrong is that he was elected “EMPEROR!” You don’t remember? You do as the Emperor says. He’s the leader of the “free world” and “freedom” isn’t “free.”
Since it is a long standing plot, when do we realize we are an empire of Hitlers, plural?
Nah, he was selected, not elected.
Interestingly, this “follow orders even if stupid” concept did not seem to apply when Trump ordered the troops out of Syria (initially … when they refused to do it, he decided to “take the oil”) or when Trump wanted to make nice with Russia early on.
In other words, these orders that can’t be refused seem to always be in the direction of more war and chaos …
Been no different under bush,. . Yawn
Biden leading us? It’s not him it’s the people behind the throne instructing the mummy. Regardless, yes we are heading into a catastrophe.
Arabs should be thankful to Mr Hitler. Thanks to him their fate is not so miserable as it could be.
What?
You sound like the same fascist scum currently calling the shots in Israel.
“The problem is no one can rein in Biden, and if Biden has a policy, he’s the commander-in-chief ― we have to carry it out.”
Ive seen Biden shake hands with the air and discuss his leg hair with kids. Are you sure Biden is in charge?
Policies are institutional problems, not individual ones.
Indeed. That’s why I highlighted that quote.
I mean do they have to “carry it out?” When Trump was in office he ordered the U.S. military to get out of Syria and the Pentagon basically told him to get fucked. So I mean…..
I think it’s great he wanted to get of northern Syria, but then trump said this:
‘On Sunday, when detailing the U.S. special forces raid against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Trump said U.S. troops would remain in Syria to secure “massive” oil reserves and even put up “a hell of a fight” against any force that tried to take them.
“We should be able to take some also, and what I intend to do, perhaps, is make a deal with an ExxonMobil or one of our great companies to go in there and do it properly,” he added. ‘
They basically told him that getting out was not an option, so he came up with an alternative. But what Frank said was right … Trump’s orders were very frequently slow-walked or stopped by the system.
I would guess they came up with the alternative too.
There were video clips of Jeffries actually admitting he was repeatedly lying to Trump about the number of troops we had in Syria. I think you mentioned that he was spineless in his dealing with the deep state. He was in love with swamp creatures. Everyone he hired was a swamp creature.
That was after he ordered them out and was told to pound sand. He had to save face with his supporters somehow so that was his schtick. First he did this:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-announce-us-withdraw-troops-syria-official/story?id=59906876
Then a little less than a year later when it was clear they weren’t carrying out his orders he said this:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/keeping-oil-syria-trump-considered-war-crime/story?id=66589757
Classic Trump. Ok you won’t carry out my orders then I will implicate us all in a war crime. LOL. Just to be clear I don’t think Trump was implicating the U.S. in a war crime as a strategic move to get them to carry out his orders (he’s not that smart), but rather trying to save face as I said above.
And I guess Rex Tillerson (former executive of Exxon-Mobil, including president of Exxon-Yemen) had nothing to do with it?
I don’t know, but he had been out of the Trump admin for about 8 months when Trump made this statement.
You mean the guy who said that Trump was a “f*cking moron”?
Lol! Yes, well all the former presidents made oil executives happy in the past decades. I wonder what they said about George W.
I wish he had brought up the fact that they weren’t obeying his orders every time he opened his mouth back then like he brings up the “rigged election” every time he opens his mouth today(and for the last 3 years). But he’d probably either be dead, or we would have actually left Syria.
All this is to point out that the POTUS is only tangentially “in charge.” There was a silent coup that brought the fascists to power after they killed Kennedy, and has been running the show ever since.
But isn’t that what I was saying in my original comment?
Yes, and I was agreeing with you by way of the Trump example, but then you wanted to disagree with yourself for some reason.
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs: You Tube: https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/07/us-foreign-policy-is-a-scam-built-on-corruption/
Trump order the troops out of Northern Syria not out of all of Syria.
Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from Syria. Not northern Syria, Syria.
And then he didn’t do it.
Then he said we were there to take the oil. And we did.
citation?
That was only because Trump was happy to get credit for the order and happy not to have to deal with the consequences of his order.
Do you really think a credible threat to clap the first disobedient three-star in irons, disgraced, court martialed, no pension, no Raytheon board seat, will get anything other than an instant “yessir”?
Biden Is Leading the US Into a Major Middle East War
really. like Iraq, Afghanistan & Syria?
i guess we should pretend that papa Bush, Clinton, Bush jr, Obama and Trump all had clean hands when it came to the middle east.
It’s not about past or future madmen. It’s about the crazed lunatic accepting his handlers’ insane plots of arson across the globe at the present.
The ME
Russia
China
South America
Etc etc etc
The problem is ALL of us, virtually universally…
Not all.
Not the children without limbs and the like as a start
Leftist media have always hidden the fact that Biden is prone to aggressive outbursts and insults and hates listening to others, except for the media bosses and paymasters of course.
He reminds me of former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown in Britain – so aggressive that they wrote an ad for an assistant who could work in a “conflict-prone environment,” or something like that. Or Meghan Markle, whose assigned staff in Britain kept quitting as she was aggressive toward them, and everyone dreaded the assignment.
Sweden had a Social Democrat prime minister who was just the same, Göran Persson, with aides and lots of ministers quitting because of his outbursts.
Hillary Clinton is known to snarl at people in her vicinity, forcing security staff to keep at a certain distance and demanding that they hide or turn away from her when she passed them by in the WH hallways, as she especially hated seeing men in uniform. After a 2016 interview where for once she got a few tough questions, she screamed at aides in the waiting room and threw a glass at a young woman.
There seems to be a pattern here.
It’s hard to take this seriously since while reading your past comments, you think everything is socialist. I don’t think you know what a socialist is.
“Leftist media have always . . .”
As if you had the slightest idea what would constitute “leftist media.”
FJB
FTA
Army man?
I have no doubt at all that the Obama/Biden regime will escalate and lead America to further humiliation and disaster in the Middle East.
It is comical how incompetent these imbeciles are.
But if war and chaos are the plan, they are very competent, no?
No, they suck at that too
I read this last night and then couldn’t sleep. Imagine if msm actually reported what is happening, maybe other people would wake up.
Sleep? You didn’t lose it until last night? You’re much stronger than I am!
Every time they call him, “leader of the free world,” I get an urge to vomit, but not only today’s breakfast–EVERY BREAKFAST I’VE EVER HAD!
Which part, leader or free world, . Neither are really useful
You got me, Wino! Excellent point. Free drinks tomorrow.
He ain’t the leader of his household let alone the leader of the free world…!
https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/07/us-foreign-policy-is-a-scam-built-on-corruption/
When it c0mes to Israel and the USA, there are NO international laws to curtail their human rights violations apparently! This, not Hamas or whichever “terrorist” group, is the problem here!
Netanyahu knows he’s toast when the fighting stops. He might do anything. But, Israel found out the hard way what it means to invade Lebanon in 2006. If he cannot provoke an attack, he may have trouble selling the idea of invading Lebanon again.
One might think that losing the war in Ukraine, an inability to control the Houthi, a resurgence of Somali pirates, and global contempt towards his unconditional support of Israel might give him pause. This would be a no-brainer for a rational man in full control of his faculties. But therein lies the problem.
The Democratic Party is right behind him, vote for vote. War party.
It was totally predictable – and predicted – that a big regional war would result from the Oct 7 attacks. The Gaza action is only the opening act. Right now, the big players are just positioning themselves on the battlefield, waiting for the order to go.
This is all long before anything in oct
Lead?!… He’s being led.
Whether Joe is gone psycho or Mossad is in possession of the Epstein tapes on Pedo Peter doesn’t really matter, he simply hasn’t the power single-handed direct the Deep State against its policy. Trump tried repeatedly without anything to show for it. These supposed administration contrarians are just doing the standard CYA.
Wait until you read this by Jeffrey Sacs: https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/07/us-foreign-policy-is-a-scam-built-on-corruption/
Yes, K St. governs the US at the behestm and for the benefit of big Capital. That’s why power has to be returned to the states, a federated republic of sovereign states as Madison envisioned and Lincoln destroyed.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/07/us-foreign-policy-is-a-scam-built-on-corruption/
Genocide Joe has worse things for us coming next. The estimated casualties in the Israeli attack on Lebanon are about 500,000 dead civilians.
If the Gaza killing and starvation and lack of medical services continues, it could also multiply quickly to similar figures.
We have not seen a tenth of the killing Genocide Joe is set to help.
Where did you get that number?
I would like to know too. Sounds a little incredulous to me….(how about that! I agree with you on something)
Also today:
Democracy Now
“Biden’s Refusal of Gaza Ceasefire Could Drag U.S. into Middle East War”
Breaking Points
“100 IDF Soldiers WOUNDED: US FREAKS As Israel Hezbollah War LOOMS
“if Israel provokes a full-blown war in southern Lebanon” If Lebanon qui firing rockets into Israel that will help prevent a war.
Or just stop bombing babies in Gaza
Or killing Hamas negotiators.
Timmy doest get it. Cant see two sides at once.
Genocide and war crime will be the Biden legacy.
He needs to be removed from the Presidency.
This article claims that Biden is planning to expand the current conflict into a regional war. I am skeptical. I’m no fan of Biden, but he seems to be in very bad shape mentally. Is he even capable of doing what this article alleges he is planning to do?
He only needs to be capable of delegating the planning. That’s what presidents do.
He is fronting for who knows who is standing behind him, he always was a warmonger, but his dementia limits him to signing of the bottom line.
Someone has their hand up his butt making his lips move.
Blinken, the security state run the country. Biden always the willing frontman.
P.N.A.C.
Let me expand on that: https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/07/us-foreign-policy-is-a-scam-built-on-corruption/
Hey hey Mr J, how many kids will you kill today?
Joe Biden is the most warmongering president since George W. Bush.
Both politicians have relied on lies and deception to start and wage war.
During an election year, especially when a politician in power is low in the polls, anything can be expected.
Political corruption takes many forms.
And the same people that advised Bush are still there and now advise Biden. The whole Kagan cabal, the PNAC gang, what is left of it, is still at it, and Biden was a big supporter of the Iraq war. He is a WAR CRIMINAL on par with Hitler.
Biden is just a speach reader. . . When his meds kick in anyways
Obama, trump years. Just repositioning. . .
“The problem is no one can rein in Biden, and if Biden has a policy, he’s the commander-in-chief ― we have to carry it out. That’s what it comes down to, very, very, very, unfortunately.” In other words, “We were just following orders”. Only SOME countries can get away with that reasoning when committing or condoning atrocities.
Executing illegal orders in war, are war crimes, Joe does execute illegal orders from his neocons and Netanyahu with impunity, he is as guilty as Hitler was.
Biden was reigned in long before he was president.
“Israel significantly escalated the situation by launching a drone strike
in Beirut that killed a senior Hamas official who was involved in
hostage negotiations.”Killed the man whose signature is on all of the instruments of negotiation! This is a terrific interview of Max Blumenthal by Judge Napitolano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nENBRE8ykvM
That is not surprising, Biden is a real war hawk. There has never any kind of thoughtfulness from him about war and the human costs , no introspection or a word of wisdom from the man. Not now and not before his dementia, never as far as I know.
All the man knows is money, campaigning and more wars, never a word of wisdom from the man. He is not a Mensch.
Biden is a mediocre amateur who was elevated to his current position by people who know how useful he would be.
The same people who lifted Trump, the conman, in the same position as long as he was useful.
yep
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs: https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/07/us-foreign-policy-is-a-scam-built-on-corruption/
He just reads the speaches
Couldn’t he at least get better speech writers?
War resistors unite. Work out a plan to create nonviolent friction sufficient to help whoever the west attacks next and at the same time devise a new constitution for a real democracy.
Israel assassination of one official didn’t succeed in starting a full blown war with Lebanon, so CNN now reports Israel assassinated one more in Lebanon, and another in Syria. They’ll kill whoever they have to to totally destroy US interests in the region, maybe the world.
Biden is just doing god’s work and fulfilling his plans for the end of the world.
“ A suspected Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels the region attempting to prevent the outbreak of a wider war.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/1/8/israel-war-on-gaza-world-must-look-says-wael-dahdouh-as-son-killed
File it all under: Self Fulfilling Prophesy.
Hitting the Hezbollah commander in Beirut will be a game changer. Nasrallah already said any assassinations are a red-line. The Hamas official assassination was bad enough – this one on a Hezbollah commander almost guarantees a major Hezbollah response. Hezbollah dropped, what, sixty missiles on that Israel airbase? That’s 0.06 percent of what Hezbollah can drop on Israel (maybe half that if some estimates are correct.)
EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL OUT AND CALM THINGS DOWN, NOW. WE ARE ON THE. VERGE OF POTENTIAL CATACLYSM. We ALL must act in concert, together.
Too late, we are in knee deep.
Unfortunately the only thing we can do in concert is sing. The US electorate has zero control of its government and we alternative types are not even a pimple on the backside of the US electorate. So concentrate on surviving the situation rather than changing it.
Israel seems to be doing their best to get a larger conflict. How long can Hezbollah stand by and watch the slaughter in Gaza? Plus throw in these pinprick assassinations. I can’t imagine a giant war in the ME would help Biden get reelected certainly BiBi is no pal of Joes. If I were running the show I would pull on Israels chain soon and hard.
The Israelis are even bigger idiots than Biden and his neocons are.
They do want a larger war. Maybe the point isn’t about getting FJB re-elected, maybe it is about starting a war so the elections don’t even happen, they are shut down entirely. We are at the point of massive suckiness… no matter who wins, we are screwed. The left wins, the right will feel it was stolen, the right wins we’ll go back to “peaceful” protests burning things down. We aren’t picking fights with goat herders. They don’t even have to send men to fight on our soil, a few cyber attacks or an EMP and we go back to the 1800s.
This is a real nightmare, there is no way to remove a demented dangerous man from the office of the presidency with his finger on the red button ready to destroy the planet?
That is really crazy.
Woman with significant brain injury helps to utilize PEACE. ME! I have Wernickes Encepholopthy. NO JOKE!