Biden Tells Netanyahu US Won’t Support Attack on Iran

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1. More CYA while Biden and Netanyahu figure out how to escalate the war in a manner that doesn’t subject Israel to even more massive missile attack. Iran used a tiny fraction of its capability and Hezbollah only fired 40 rockets out of its arsenal estimated at 100-150,000 rockets, drones and precision missiles.

   I’m sure the Iranian attack rattled a lot of nerves in Israel, not least among the population where the notion that “the IDF will protect us” was even more undercut than it was by Hamas on October 7. Videos of Israelis scurrying for shelter as the sky lit up with missiles and Iron Dome explosions didn’t help the image Netanyahu wants to project.

   1. There’s absolutely no benefit for USA to create a major escalation with Iran.
      Even Dubya said no to Israel wanting to target Iran

      1. Dubya actually made some attempts to resist Israeli influence (I think his words were “f*ck them”), but was under constant pressure.

   2. … and picture the outmigration. Soon there’ll only be Hasidim … ? All Israelis with an ounce of wit can see (if not the immense barbarity and injustice) their polity, given the circumambient hostility, is unsustainable. Only lunatics would wish to persist in such an environment.

      1. Are you sure the ones leaving are not lunatics either?
         Where do you find Israelis who are not lunatics if over 90% of them support genocide?

         1. While they’re all small minded tribalists, come to personal and economic security, and that bites. Upper middle-class suburban, the gilded_ghetto, and thoroughly secular, take that away and they’re out of here.

2. Way to go Joe!

3. Netanyahu will continue to provoke and escalate. I don’t see any reason why he wouldn’t

   1. Reason 1: the USA may abandon them if they continue pushing it beyond reason. Israel is after all a tiny colony, a tool, not a super-power.

      Reason 2: next time Israel may be flattened without any warning. Iranian missiles can reach Israel (and beyond, Western Europe even) in a matter of minutes and, while the “dome” may have been efficient against slow moving drones, it is essentially powerless against ballistic missiles.

      The only reason why the Zionists want to escalate is because they’re extremely desperate and would love to force the USA into direct war against Iran, which would be the only slim chance for the Zio camp winning. This is particularly true of Christian Zionists, who imagine that nuclear armaggedon equals the second coming of Christ, a very dangerous delusion for the whole world.

      1. The Iranian attack seems to have had three purposes, all of which it likely succeeded at:

         1) To retaliate in a measured, not especially escalatory way for the embassy attack;
         2) To gather important information on what obstacles a genuine all-out attack would encounter; and
         3) To draw down Israeli stocks of air defense munitions, probably making it easier for Hezbollah to conduct successful small attacks.

         I’m opposed to war, period, of course, so I don’t consider the Iranian attack a good thing. But in the scheme of things, it was far from the worst thing I’ve seen in the last week.

         1. I didn’t see any other option. It seemed like it was almost scripted to avoid escalation, so it was good in that sense. I think it might have prevented war. At least for now.

            1. It’s fairly typical of how the Iranians act.

               For example, in response to the Soleimani assassination, they warned the US there would be a retaliatory strike, and conducted a limited retaliatory strike.

               They don’t want to let attacks go unanswered, but neither do they want to keep the cycle going. So they respond in ways that prove they CAN respond, but that don’t offer a lot of justification for their opponents to call for another round.

         2. It was not exactly proportional. It was enough, though. Analysis of the Israeli response indicates it cost Israel several billion dollars, and, it allowed Iran to see where the radars are turned on, where the reponse came from, what missiles were used in the response.

         3. Only on antiwar.com is 3-400 missiles & explosive drones fired into Israel considered “measured” and “not especially escalatory”. I suspect if Israel turned around and did the same thing today the tone and tenor on this website would be vastly different.

            1. Considering that it followed Israel’s unprovoked attack on an Iranian consulate, it is quite measured.

               The Israelis aren’t known for measured responses. Their solution to any problem is overwhelming force that they think would subdue the natives and more importantly make Israelis feel good about themselves.

               It never works but humans never learn.

            2. If Israel turned around and did the same thing, I’d have about the same opinion — that it’s a bad thing, but basically just a tit for tat.

         4. I’m also opposed to war (unless it is liberation war, of course) but do you know that the night that Iran stroke Israel, Israel did not murder hundreds in Gaza and kids could sleep without bombings in their tattered tents above the ruins for a night?

      2. According to the BBC Iran fired 120 ballistic missiles yesterday with only 5 getting through and none doing significant damage. I hate the Zionist regime, but Iran’s ineffective attack erased a lot of the damage to Israel’s strategic standing inflicted by Hamas’ tremendous victory on October 7th.

         1. PS – Per the data in this very site, Israel themselves counted some 200 projectiles, most of which were drones. Missiles are numbered as “dozens” only.

         2. Well, according to the BBC… Remind me why I quit reading that outlet more than a decade ago. Ah, because it was hyper-Zionist and very untrustworthy. I replaced with Aljazeera and then with Russian media. Neither is great but BBC is a heinous pamphlet.

            My understanding is that all missiles hit target and that most of what Iran launched were slow-moving drones.

            Mind you that I don’t think Iran shot 120 ballistic missiles, AFAIK they shot some 300 everything of which most were slow-moving drones. BBC may have taken the drone figure and turned it into “ballistic missiles”? Hmmm…

4. Time to get out of Israel…….

5. https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/the-missiles-of-april?utm_campaign=post
   The Missiles Of April. Authored by Scott Ritter.

6. Israel didn’t defend itself, the USA, Jordan, UK etc., defended Israel, defended the Genocidal Maniacs, defended the slaughtering of women, babies, children, defended the ILLEGAL Occupation of Palestine, defended the Lawless Terrorist State of Israel. Totally disgusting that the World’s Peace, World’s survival is depending on so called “FAKE” Democracies, nothing but a bunch THUGS.

7. Biden is following the Neville Chamberlain policy of appeasement with the predictable same results. His fear of producing a wider war will in fact lead to a wider war down the road. Iran threatens more war if Israel counter attacks. And Biden responds by showing public fear of such a war. Iran and its side kicks, don’t fear Joe’s famous “Don’t” quotes. This is not a good long term plan.

   1. “Iran threatens more war if Israel counter attacks.”

      While pretending the Israeli attack on Iran’s consulate didn’t happen. Already practicing the bullshit that will be crammed down the public’s throat ad nauseum in the coming days. You’re such a good little soldier.

      1. Yeah, enemies of the US and Israel always attack without provocation. I have noticed there is no mention of Israel’s attack on Iran’s consulate as a precipitating factor.

         1. Iran’s leaders have held their breath for a long time. Their scientists assassinated. On Iranian soil. Oil tankers pirated. A general assassinated while on a peace mission in another country. On and on it goes (went). The attack on the Consulate was too much to ignore.

            1. Too much to pass by…! Nothing has been ignored or forgotten…!

      2. “Unprovoked!” “Unjustified!” Pardon me. I’m about to throw up.

   2. More brain dead scarification.

      To the Neocon lunatics, anybody who does not roll over for the Yankee Empire is the reincarnation of Hitler. Every politician that hesitates to immediately commit to yet another war is the reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain.

      1. Agreed and add to the end of your paragraph, Or a “Putin puppet.”

   3. Iran has no expansionist policy, Israel does. Iran is not being genocidal, Israel is (and has been all the time since its inception). You got everything wrong: it’s Israel which is not just appeased but actually encouraged to commit the worst evils.

      1. Ask Iran’s Kurds and Bahai.

         1. Ask these folks: https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/11/armenian-christians-siege-israel/

         2. OK, fair enough. And do not forget the Baloch and other ethnic minorities with the rightful right to secede, just like the Lakota from the USA for example. As Basque I totally support such struggles, and that’s exactly why I also support Palestine.

            However, the understanding of most people is from established borders and Iranian borders are old ones, we like them or not. Therefore they’re not being expansionist right now, under the Islamist Regime, maybe in the distant past, while Israel knows no bounds and annexes land and, crucially, genocides people, all the time.

            The case of Kurds in Iran is like my own Basque secessionist case: 100% legitimate but not signifying recent active expansión by Spain and France but distant historical one and with no ongoing democide (although in the case of France there’s intense cultural genocide for sure).

   4. ‘Arab monster in the baseme…?’ Hon’? ‘s’that layabout uncle timmy of yours – been scaring the children with his stories again…He’s so ‘ill’ he can’t remember t’flush? I’m thinking it’s high time we got’im a big ol’ male nurse t’slap his mouth real hard when he gets that way.

      1. LOLOL

8. Iran gave Israel plenty of time to respond to the attack by announcing it fired the drones hours before they reached Israeli territory, and Tehran said it gave other regional countries a 72-hour notice.

   I recall the US saying an attack was imminent in that time frame. Either Iran isn’t very good at this, or they really didn’t want an escalation.

   1. The 2nd, I think … which makes the successful hits more “in your face” than ever … as in “we told you we were going to hit you and we did and you can’t stop it.”

      1. I think that too. The crack about them being “not very good at this” was said in jest. It was ovious they didn’t want escalation.

         1. From what former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said, what was fired off overwhelmed the Israeli system. He believes that if Iran really wanted to do some damage, a coordinated attack by Iran and Hezbollah would overwhelm the Iron Dome, creating real havoc. Israel is anxious to get us involved (of course we have been involved since 1953).

            1. Ok, go ahead and tell your people to try overwhelming the Israelis air defenses.

               I think they should really try. Who knows, they may take Israel in 3 days…

               Or or, get their assess kicked like they have never had before.

               Go, tell them.

   2. I think they felt a response was required but didn’t want to escalate the situation. Now we’ll see if Bibi wants to push farther, which would not surprise me.

   3. The latter is surely your answer…! How couldn’t it be with prior notification…?!

   4. They don’t want an escalation. Israel does however.

   5. I would think they don’t want an escalation, it was all a show. I can see Netanyahu banging his bloodied fists on a table thinking, ‘Damn it, what do I have to do to get the Iranians to respond to draw the U.S. into the war”?

      1. More like tossing his cream cheese coated bagel against the wall, ala Trump tossing his food against the wall.

      2. Imagine the scars. He’s been doing it since ’92.

9. See how easy that is?

   Now stop the genocide. Genocide Joe? Listening? Nah.

   1. Trump is listening. Never to be outdone, Trump also has a plan. MGGA. …What’s that? You will see. He’s busy printing hats with the label, “Make Genocide Great Again!”

      1. He above all will do everything to make sure the Christian right are happy. So…whatever Likud-Israel wants.

         1. He just told the Christian Right to go f*ck themselves on abortion. He knows (or at least believes) he has their votes no matter what he does.

            1. In Bizarro World Trump is our last, best hope for restraint and diplomacy in the White House.

   2. Operations to recover hostages are quite just.

10. I love how Israel is skipping around the fact that Israel started this tit for tat by bombing the Iranian Consulate (sovereign soil) in an act of war, killing people. I love how the media is going along with this as well. Poor Israel, the world is against it, that is the story ad nauseam. Israel has killed Iranian scientists. I am sure Israel was involved in the drone strike that killed General Soleimani in 2020.

    1. Their present time starts when they’re attacked…!

       1. This is a trusim: Neocon argumentation is based upon historical narratives that begin at a point in time most beneficial for their current rhetorical needs.

    2. The Israelis invented the term “Unprovoked and Unjustified!”

    3. You should read about the Iranian proxies fighting Israel for decades but you won’t because you are just here to support dictators and hate on US, Ukraine and West.

11. And here I was moving boxes of Cheetos into my bunker…

    1. Keep them well stored, you may still need them. This is not over.

       1. I’ve been told about a Tony Montana shootout moment for decades. Still waiting…

    2. Too much salt. Your blood pressure, you know………….

       1. Drink plenty of filtered water and you should be ok.

12. Iran’s retaliatory attack was justified. But it was a stupid mistake.
    Militarily Iran’s attack was ineffectual. But politically, it was a
    disaster that hurt Iran, the axis of resistance and the Palestinians.
    Yesterday almost 100 members of Congress were calling for cutting or restricting military aid to Israel. By Monday many of them will be
    calling for increased emergency military assistance to the Zionist
    regime. The massive Iranian missile attack was almost completely blocked by US funded Israeli defenses. There was negligible damage to Israel and almost 100% success in intercepting the Iranian drones and missiles. It made Iran appear weak and Israel appear like a victim to the gullible public in the US and the G7 nations. It made it seem like US expenditures on Israel’s “defense” are justified.

    For the past six months support for US military aid to Israel has been eroding while international and US solidarity for the Palestinians has been increasing. I fear that much of that work was undone by Iran’s ineffective attack yesterday.

    Iran’s ineffective attack played into the Zionist game plan by shifting the focus from Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the Israeli-Iranian conflict. After six months of push back, American public was waking up to the reality of Israeli genocide in Gaza and questioning and rejecting the pro-Zionist MSM narrative. By massively attacking Israel, Iran has given the MSM and Biden ammunition to revive the phony narrative of Israel as the victim of Iranian aggression.

    As with everything in the Middle East, the Palestinian people will be the main victims of Iran’s attack. I understand that Iran believed that Israel’s escalating acts of terror against Iran required a strong response, especially after the attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus. But the truth is that for those who choose to escalate conflict, the consequences of war are almost always worse than the justification. In hindsight, Iran and the Palestinians would be better off today and tomorrow if Iran had not attacked Israel yesterday.

    1. Time will tell whether it was wise or foolish. It is sometimes the case that you have to smack the bully in the face, otherwise you’re subjected to more abuse.

       What the act was Not was “ineffective” … a large number of anti aircraft was used up, the myth of Israeli inviolability was destroyed, and Iran showed it has missiles that can fire through if needed. There’s a reason why US is telling ISR to cool it …

       1. I hope my analysis is proven wrong. But you don’t launch the most massive missile attack in human history to get the other side to waste ammunition unless you are committed to quickly following up with a second strike before the US inevitably resupplies Israel. Iran has wisely tried to avoid a war with Israel and the United States while defending its territory and vital interests and supporting the Palestinian resistance and its regional allies. It is hard to balance all those objectives. Before yesterday Israel was becoming the most isolated regime in the world. The EU countries were turning against Israel and in the US pressure to cut or restrict military aid to Israel and stop supporting the Zionists diplomatically was building. Last week the UN Security Council was debating the genocide in Gaza and the US was isolated and Israel was a pariah. Today the security council is discussing Israel’s accusation of Iranian aggression with the US, UK and France united again and Israel playing the victim again. I sympathize with the Iranians, but it looks like they made a big mistake here. Like the US/NATO aggressive provocations against Russia, Israel’s aggression against Iran was designed to provoke Iran into retaliation that would lead to the war that the Zionists want and that Netanyahu needs to stay in power and out of jail. In both cases resorting to war made a bad situation worse for Russia, Iran and the Palestinians.

          1. “the most massive missile attack in human history”

             Highly unlikely.

             1. That is what some pundits are saying. 400 missiles and drones. Has Russia ever launched that many in one barrage? there are no other contenders that I know of.

             2. Suspect the shock and awe attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan contained more tonnage.

             3. Don’t know about Russia, but the first day of Desert Storm included nearly 3,000 air sorties, a great many of which culminated in missile launches.

             4. At least three carrier groups. Strikes around the clock. Missiles launched from ships. The “golden bb” didn’t have a chance in h*ll.

             5. Yeah, my first knowledge that the war had started was when my First Sergeant came to my post and informed me that the booms I was hearing were from the USS Missouri launching Tomahawks.

             6. You are right about desert storm.Still, Iran launched one of the biggest missile attacks in human history, probably the largest in the 21st century in terms of number of launches, not tonnage. Al Jazeera reports Iran launched the largest number of drones ever used in one attack. Very few missiles got through and the damage to Israel was negligible. To many Americans and European people who have been won over to opposing military aid to Israel the attack demonstrated the effectiveness and necessity of US military support for Israel. Iran’s justified but ineffective attack is a setback for the antiwar movement in the US and Europe. And that is a setback for the Palestinian resistance. Iran was provoked into doing an action that hurt the axis of resistance and strengthened supporters of US aid to Israel.

             7. The V1 ansd V2 attacks during WW II only saw a few missiles coming over each day,but for a longer period of time.

             8. Any day Russia gets particularly angry at Ukraine is more massive than this controlled strong warning.

             9. Extremely highly unlikely.

             10. If it is highly unlikely that the recent Iranian missile attack was the most the most massive in history, it should be easy for you to provide an example. Care to take a swing at it?

             11. January 17, 1991 would be a good candidate. March 19, 2003 (when 40 cruise missiles targeted a single compound in the first few minutes, followed by 24 hours of near-continuous missile launches from both ship and aircraft) would be another.

          2. I don’t ever recall the US, the UK, France and Germany saying anything about Israel aggression against Iran. They’re all like parrots repeating the Israeli propaganda.

             1. US/G7 gov’ts and their people support Israeli aggression vs. Iran. But people in US/G7 gov’ts oppose the genocide that the US and Israel support in Gaza. Over the past six months the Palestine solidarity movement has successfully undercut public MSM generated sympathy for Israel and successfully portrayed Palestinians as victims of genocide, colonialism and apartheid. Iran’s unsuccessful strike is likely to rekindle sympathy and support for Israel among the people of the Western countries and especially the USA. This will hurt the Palestinian people and their cause.

             2. It’s too soon to tell. I hope cooler heads will prevail. But when it comes to the US and friends, they usually don’t.

    2. Please, it doesn’t matter at all what a bunch of congresspeople say in the USA, it doesn’t matter at all if they raise the bar of US funding for the genocidal colony, all that has been all the time active. Or didn’t the USA rush to aid with the Gaza genocide? What matters is that the USA is scared of escalation because all their efforts of decades consolidating their stranglehold in the Middle East may go down the drain in a matter of weeks or even days if that happens.

       The attack was “ineffective” intently: it was meant as a strong warning and also as military drill, testing the capabilities of both Iranian weapons and Zionist ones in a semi-controlled environment. Iran has lots of ballistic missiles that can land on Israel (and all the way to Britain if need be) in a matter of mere minutes and the next time there will be no forewarning.

       The Palestinians are not “victims of Iran”, they are victims of Israel, the USA and their European allies. Iran is not the one bombing Gaza and murdering people in the West Bank, Israel is.

    3. Good points there.
       And I would add that Israel got a chance to really test their defenses.

13. It took out the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp] leadership in the Levant, Iran tried to respond, and Israel clearly demonstrated its military superiority, defeating this attack, particularly in coordination with its partners,” a senior Biden administration official told reporters, according to The Times of Israel.

    Another words, without US, UK, France and Jordan intercepting the majority of the missiles and drones, Israel would have been fucked by now…!

    1. Perhaps,and several enemy cites would have been slagged.

       1. There you go dreaming about genocide again

14. “Biden Tells Netanyahu US Won’t Support Attack on Iran” IF Biden said that, then probably the only thing I could agree with Netanyahu about is we both wouldn’t believe Biden.

15. Update: Israel destroyed 99.9999999% of Iran’s flying lawn mowers. But Jordan’s King finally showing himself as a Zionist was priceless.

    1. Jordan’s king did what was best for peace and for his country. He is no Zionist,just a leader of a small country trying yo get by.Zionism GOOOOOOD.

       1. Jordan didn’t want to piss off the US. They might not get bribed anymore.

          1. The US-Jordanian relationship is weird.

             During the Gulf War, they were supposedly on the US side. But nearly all the “Iraqi” mortar ammunition I came across was in boxes labeled “GHQ Amman.”

16. The USA is scared of escalation of course but there is another issue: the USA wants to keep its military bases in Iraq, the Persian Gulf, etc. and actively aiding Israel against Iran would mean losing them all (one way or another, sooner than later). The current status quo, fragile as it is, actually protects Israel much better than if the USA actively intervened against Iran.

17. Israel is facing a higher judgement then that of man/humankind.
    Enough is Enough.

    1. Its best to alive and free than dead or enslaved-that is the judgement.

       1. LONG LIVE PALESTINE!

          1. Well said and Israel too, in Peace.

       2. Right. And if you have to kill and enslave large amounts of people so you remain “alive and free”, so be it. Even if you have to starve them to death.

          1. Christians need to pay attention: https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/11/armenian-christians-siege-israel/

          2. Once Palestinians were paid wages in Israel to support their families. Both sides benefited.Now Asians will come in to work,and Palestinians will have no wages,

       3. That has been the Israeli plan for the Palestinians from day one. Deny them freedom and humanity. But you live in an alternative reality.

    2. Israel has completely ruined itself, and deservingly so. It will be left in the dustbin of history as all tyrant states have been…

       1. Then Christians need to consider this video from The Grayzone: https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/11/armenian-christians-siege-israel/

          1. The Grayzone. Haha.

             That’s another pro dictator site.
             douche!

       2. No, it has not but you wished though.

       3. Israel will recover from some nasty bug bites,and grow stronger by the minute.

       4. Perhaps you prefer Israel’s enemies,where gay people .

18. a victory for peace over the forces of bigotry and darkness.

    1. Israel IS the force of bigotry and darkness, and mass murder…glad you finally recognize this blatant fact…

       1. Its time you reversed all your ideas.HAHAHAHAHA.

          1. These are facts that the entire world has seen firsthand. My critique is of the Israeli government and military. They have pushed Israel into the abyss and beyond. There is no coming back…

             1. Go to KPFK, then to archives, then listen to The Ralph Nader Hour, April 14,2024. He interviewed Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

             2. The Arab world is now Judenrein,but millions of Arabs are functioning citizens of Israel. Who are the real bigots? Ask the survivors of Syrian Jewry.

19. Only the US can attack Iran!

    FJB and Lindsey Graham!

    1. Sorry brother, I see a typo. “FJB and FU@K Lindsey Graham!” Lindsey deserves his own “F.”

20. The US does not need to go to war because Israel picked a fight

    1. Hamas picked a fight.

21. From Grayzone: https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/11/armenian-christians-siege-israel/ Christians for the Israeli genocided better wake up.

    1. They don’t care at all.

22. This is obvious rubbish

23. ‘The US is portraying the Iranian attack as an Israeli victory”

    Iran is also portraying their attack as an Iranian victory.

24. FJB and POS obama

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