The US has deployed an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East to demonstrate support for Israel amid soaring tensions on the Lebanon-Israel border.
The Pentagon announced that the USS Wasp arrived in the eastern Mediterranean Sea last week. The deployment comes amid fears of a full-blown Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon as Israeli forces and Hezbollah continue to trade fire across the border.
A US official told The Associated Press that the deployment was “about deterrence,” but the US show of force could embolden Israel. The US insists it’s working to prevent a war in Lebanon, but Middle East Eye recently reported that Washington conveyed to Lebanon it would ultimately support Israel if it went ahead with an invasion.
The Wasp is carrying a US Marine Corps Expeditionary Unit and is sailing along with the USS Oak Hill, a dock landing ship. US officials told NBC News last week that one purpose of the Wasp’s deployment is to stand by to evacuate Americans in the event that a full-scale war breaks out along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Another US official told AP that the deployment of the Wasp was comparable to the US sending warships to the region in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel and the start of the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
The US said the purpose of building up its forces in the Middle East after October 7 was to prevent a regional war. But the brutal assault on Gaza sparked other conflicts across the region, including the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping, which led to a new US bombing campaign in Yemen.
We are become the lowest of the low, promoting, financing the wholesale murder of women and children. Words fail when it comes to the depravity on daily exhibit by this administration.
I'm thinking that the Military Industrial Complex is a bipartisan operation, as will be WWIII.
Until the state of Israel was founded we had only friends in the Middke East, no enemies. Hmmmm
Is this true or simply an assertion? My understanding is western barbarians have been attacking western Asia for many centuries.
As did militant Islam in Spain and the lower Slavic nations,
Jake,
Your racism is showing
A mere unbiased recital of historic facts. There was war between the Islamic and Christian world.
You are such a big liar. Making up things does not make you expert.
HAHAHAHA
70 years ago, Bethlehem was 86% Christian. Today that number is a mere 12%. The Israeli government built a wall around Bethlehem and annexed the land for settlements
You are such delusional and conveniently ignoring history. Militant Islam in Spain. That is outright disgusting lie.
“The Muslim period in Spain is often described as a 'golden age' of learning where libraries, colleges, public baths were established and literature, poetry and architecture flourished. Both Muslims and non-Muslims made major contributions to this flowering of culture”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/spain_1.shtml#:~:text=The%20Muslim%20period%20in%20Spain,to%20this%20flowering%20of%20culture.
What on earth does that have to do with whether Muslims "attacked" Spain? They did.
It’s a quote from a wise fellow
Until 1964, the US sold no arms to Israel. The dissection and apportioning of the crumbling Ottoman empire occurred way before the founding of the state of Israel,as did British activities in Sudan,Iraq and Egypt and French aggrandizement in North Africa.Israel was not responsible for the 1953 coup in Iran. The US was quite content to make the area safe for petroleum interests.,nothing todo with Israel.
1964, after the Zionists and their allies got rid of JFK, who was opposing Israel and its attempts to steal US uranium and tech to make a bomb.
Zionists, a 5th column in the west.
Prove it.
Start with Jacob Leon Rubenstein, AKA Jack Ruby.
Them see Reuben Efron AKA Ruvelis Effronas, the guy who opened Oswald’s mail.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-jfk-documents-reveal-assassins-cia-monitor-was-jewish-spy-reuben-efron/
On 17 May 1901, Herzl met with Sultan Abdul Hamid II,[51] who turned down Herzl's offer to consolidate the Ottoman debt in exchange for a charter allowing the Zionists access to Palestine. Wikipedia
Without the US ISrael would not have been established
”During the early 1960s, the U.S. government sought to establish a regional arms limitation agreement in the Middle East. The initiative lost steam in early 1965 after it was disclosed that the U.S. had been indirectly supplying weapons to Israel via West Germany since 1962, under the terms of a 1960 secret agreement to supply Israel with $80 million worth of armaments. The remainder of the agreement was fulfilled publicly, following its disclosure by the U.S., with Israel receiving shipments of M48 Patton tanks in 1965 and A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft in 1968” Wikipedia
And so?
The Shah was very friendly to Jews, probably to Israel also.
In 1917, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, which stated its intention to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. With the Ottoman Empire collapsing during the war, Britain captured Palestine from the Ottomans.
During the early 1960s, the U.S. government sought to establish a regional arms limitation agreement in the Middle East. The initiative lost steam in early 1965 after it was disclosed that the U.S. had been indirectly supplying weapons to Israel via West Germany since 1962, under the terms of a 1960 secret agreement to supply Israel with $80 million worth of armaments. The remainder of the agreement was fulfilled publicly, following its disclosure by the U.S., with Israel receiving shipments of M48 Patton tanks in 1965 and A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft in 1968.
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”In 1896, Herzl sensed a real-estate opportunity and came to Istanbul with a deal he thought the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II couldn't turn down.
The Ottoman state was creaking under an accumulated debt burden which by the late 19th century stood at a present-day value of $11.6 billion.
On 17 May 1901, Herzl met with Sultan Abdul Hamid II,[51] who turned down Herzl's offer to consolidate the Ottoman debt in exchange for a charter allowing the Zionists access to Palestine. Wikipedia.
When I show support for friends, I tend to make a nice meal, usually with a great desert and friends will bring nice wines…. None of us bring bombs and such.
And remember, please, it is time for all in Israel to know the love of the father, mother and son!!!
Blessed be! Then party!!!
:-}
Spreading religion to others is one cause of war
So is greed, coveting other people’s land and occupying their land, ethnic cleansing, the belief that one people are chosen and absolved while others are cursed.
As is the 750,000 Jews evicted from their homes in the Arab lands,and the Irish refusal to admit any Jewish refugees during WW2
As is the eviction of 750,000 Jewish people in the Arab world.
As are 50 million US Christian Zionists. They pray for WWIII to happen each and every day. They are best buds with Netanyahu.
Half conscious Biden and his handlers do not wish to prevent a regional war.
On the contrary, they not only want a regional war in the Middle East, but also an European war.
Why? Because the Neocons are in charge of American foreign policy in Washington DC. and they will do anything to remain in power, including provoking WWIII.
Don't expect that they will retire senile Biden and replace him with somebody who does not fall asleep while talking.
He is their puppet and that's the way they like things to be.
March 2, 2007: Neocon USA Undersectary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz told retired USA Army General Wesley Clark, the USA had 5 or 10 years to clean up all those old Soviet client regimes in Syria, Iraq and Iran. "We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran". (Democracy Now.org/Wesley Clark/Amy Goodman, March 2, 2007)
This means a partial squadron of F-35 jump jet versions, as all the "aircraft carrier" the US can spare these days. We just don't have the Sixth Fleet of old, with its two or more big carriers and hundreds of planes.
It won't enough to deter anyone… The resistance groups around Lebanon have already chosen their targets…!
Pray for the USA Navy:
June 8, 1967: USS Liberty was an intelligence-gathering ship in international water near Egypt, reading radio transmissions from both sides.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets and motor torpedo boat killed 34 sailors, wounded 75 and left 821 rocket and machine-gun holes in the Liberty.
President Lyndon Johnson [1963-1967] made all crew members swear to secrecy.
duh,times changed-we now stand ready to face nuclear war for Japan and Germany.
A US official told The Associated Press that the deployment was “about deterrence,” but the US show of force could embolden Israel.
Between the two, it sure as fuck isn't going to deter them. Of course they weren't talking about Israel when they mentioned deterence. That is only for the "designated" terrorists and not the grand champions of terrorism.
More proof that the US directly supports expanding the Middle East conflict. All this "deterrence" talk is bullcrap. As I've said repeatedly, this entire conflict has been PLANNED. October 7 and before was just the kick-off.
Those Marines will be Lebanon (or at least somewhere in Israel) within the next few months – getting pounded by Hezbollah missiles and dying.