Israel is planning to launch its expected attack on Iran before the US presidential elections are held on November 5, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
An unnamed official told the Post that waiting any longer could be perceived as weakness and that the planned strike “will be one in a series of responses” to the Iranian ballistic missile barrage that was fired at Israel on October 1, which came in response to a series of Israeli escalations.
A source close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Post that while Israel was coordinating with the US to some extent on its plans to attack Iran, it wouldn’t wait for a green light from the US. “The person who will decide on the Israeli response to Iran will be [Netanyahu],” the official said.
The report said that when Netanyahu spoke with President Biden last week, he said that Israel planned to hit military infrastructure inside Iran, not oil or nuclear facilities. The conversation was a factor in Biden’s decision to deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile battery to Israel.
The Pentagon announced Sunday that it was deploying the THAAD and about 100 troops to operate it “to support the defense of Israel.” Iran has vowed that it would respond to any Israeli attack on its territory, and the US deployment makes US troops a potential target of Iranian missiles.
The Post report noted how the Biden administration has been fully supportive of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and its dramatic escalation of airstrikes against the country. A former Israeli official said the US was “giving Israel and the Netanyahu government a bear hug, but for Hezbollah.”
“It is sending THAAD and promising all kinds of weapons that we need to finish off Hezbollah, saying that we can deal with Iran later,” the former official added.
US military and diplomatic support for Israel over the past year has fueled the genocidal slaughter in Gaza and emboldened Israeli escalations across the Middle East, and has now brought the US and Iran to the brink of war. Brown University’s Costs of War project recently released a report that supporting Israel has cost the US $22.76 Billion in just one year.
The hubris is getting bigger and bigger … I wonder: is the "west" giving Israel the rope to hang itself? The rest of the world watches, helpless and horrified.
I had that as a secondary consideration, but Biden and cohorts are old school neocon Zionists, so they are all in for the destruction and murder.
They are … but "Biden" and cohort do what they are told. Otherwise, they wouldn't be where they are.
And I can imagine that many in the old school investor class that owns most things are getting pretty darn tired of the crappy little problem child.
Hmm, I think they are the driving force.
But they won’t cry any tears for the destruction of a proxy.
Looks like Israel didn't get the memo yet, Iran isn't Gaza.
Everyone should watch the latest Alastair Crooke video on Judge Nap's Youtube channel. He explains it all again, including referring to Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff's interviews over the past couple weeks explaining the origin of the US drive for hegemony from back in the 50s up through the 70s.
Karl Sanchez has a very good piece on his Substack discussing Crooke's latest Strategic Culture post which also goes over that material, Karl provides some excellent historical background explaining how the US has always been interested in hegemony.
The Outlaw US Empire–Always THE Boss
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/the-outlaw-us-empire-always-the-boss
Alastair Crooke : Is Israel America’s Tool or Boss?
Yes. The chicken or egg argument is inconsequential when the agenda is the same.
Alastair Crooke says he knew and worked with those demons? If it were me, I would be having nightmares for the rest of my life. I wouldn't be having a life.
Karlof is a great source. And he does the most honest translations of Kremlin speeches without all of the western spin.
I'll also add that neither the neocons nor the Zionists nor the rest of the PTB care whether a war now will influence the elections, because they don't care about the elections. They know that regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans win, they will always remain in power. It's only the front people in elected office that care about elections – and fools.
The western mainstream media ALWAYS tells one side of the story, the LIE-BASED side that Israel presents to the world! The actual RETALIATION in all this was Hezbollah's response to the Gaza genocide. Everything Israel does is presented by the Lying Mainstream media as Israeli "retaliation" when in fact it is Israeli ESCALATION of a war it badly wants! If Israel is always presented as the "retaliator" the media is 180 degrees from the truth. That is their goal- to protect poor little Israel from the "terrorists"! If some group introduced exploding pagers/phones/whatever into the USA and thousands were killed or maimed, do you think the USA would NOT respond in same way? But make the victim one of Israel's many victims and it's a crime to REALLY retaliate. That seems to be the goal of the "most moral army in the world"! Spare me!
" The actual RETALIATION in all this was Hezbollah's response to the Gaza genocide" Hezbollah attack Israel on Oct 8. How was that a retaliation for a Israel counter attack that had yet to be started?
You're lying out loud again, Timothy. Should get a doctor to check on that. Psychiatrist, ideally.
He is quite on the money.
The Lebanese didn’t attack Israel on the 8.Oct. They attacked the Golan Heights which is Syria.
thanks for playing better luck next time
Wrong-they fired on peaceful towns in North Israel.
The international community overwhelmingly decided on 18.Sept that those inhabitants need to evacuate and owe reparations.
The Likud is Israelis own worst enemy. The Likud is destroying Israel
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n24/266/48/pdf/n2426648.pdf
Hezbollah let it be known long after Oct 8th that the attacks would continue until there was a cease fire. The same thing that the Houthi's have said. Everyone knows Hezbollah and Israel weren't on friendly terms before, but this didn't escalate for anything other than Israel's refusal to end their ongoing genocidal response to the attack of Oct 7th by Hamas.
Return the hostages,and then Israelout of Gaza.
israel – Return the Palestinians held hostage without charges.
You can't seriously still be saying that. You need some current material.
Returning few hundred hostages is easy, but how will Israel restore thousands of dead women and children?
The Zionists very much enjoy displaying the nature of the relationship with their vassal state USA by deliberately timing some of their war crimes of choice for transitional periods in US government. We can recall that Cast Lead was timed for the incoming Obama Admin in Dec/Jan, in reaction to which during transition Obama stated as an excuse for allowing it to happen without as much as a comment that "there can only be one president at a time." He said this while acting as in effect a second president in negotiating a trillion $ of TARP funds before taking office, and while receiving the daily national security briefings habitually given to presidents-elect.
Anyone expecting different behavior hasn't been paying attention.
There is no vassal relationship.sometimes Israeli interests are congruent,sometimes not.
This is deeply frustrating to say but Israel is a truly rogue entity.
Iran can fight back and they are not deaf, dumb or blind… apparently, Israel is….
you are wrong as to who is the agressor here.
Jake,
You do realize that you parrot every single anti-Semitic trope that ever existed ?
It is the next two steps up the escalation ladder that should instill fear in all of us.
Iran will strike back substantially causing real bloodshed and then the Israeli shrieks for using nuclear weapons will be heeded.
They are trying for another coup in Iran. Who knows what will happen? There was a recent article on how high up Mossad had infiltrated Iran.
When is the coup coming in DC ? Clearly we are under the thumb of tyrants worse than that of the Hanoverian George III.
The duopoly in place is corrupt, dysfunctional and certainly does not serve the public interest. The will of the people continues to be ignored.
The PTB artfully executed the divide and conquer plan. People are more at each others’ throats than seeing who is behind the curtain, and the real enemies of their welfare.
Might as well give Netanyahu the keys to the White House. To the US fleet. …What's that? …He already has them?
“Kick the tires! Light the fires!”
It's obvious who is in charge here.
Netanyahu has told Biden what he is going to do. Take it or leave it.
How long can Biden see the US be insulted before stoping arms shipments and money to the Netanyahu government?
Touché ole!
How long? Until Jan 20 or thereabouts …
And then Bibi will have to kiss Trump's ass. Either way, there is an ass getting kissed and Israel will be getting what they want.
Yes, asses kissed or kicked … whatever works. As Nuttyyahoo said, America is a very easy thing to move.
United States could stop them any time it wanted. Anything Israel is allowed to do is because American ruling class wants it done.
If true, this is the sign of de-escalation not escalation as commented by others…!
Good thing the USA isn't Ukraine (yet) or an ASI attack on the IRI, with American assistance, could convince "war president" Biden to suspend elections until the USA isn't in a state of war any more.
I mean, unless Ukraine pays for the US elections.
Unlike the Ukrainian constitution, the US Consitution doesn’t forbid elections in time of war.
The US Constitution is presently worth the paper it's written on.
you meant NOT worth the paper? I would agree.
Where there’s a Will, there’s greedy children.
WAIT – slipped on the SHIFT key. Where where’s a will (that’s better) there’s a way.
Zelensky put that into law for personal reasons. It does not matter anyway, regime changes are easy to come by and he most likely has his tickets to fly to the French Rivera the fastest way possible, maybe riding on the back of rocket.
Zelenskyy didn't put that into law at all. The Verkhovna Rada did.
Zelansky placed Ukraine under martial law in February 2022. That invoked the "no election" clause. Your point is a distinction without a difference.
Zelansky didn't have to invoke martial law. That wasn't done in 2014 or when the Donbass republics revolted against the Kiev regime after the US coup deposed the elected President of Ukraine.
So…. while Zelansky didn't create the law, he invoked it.
He supported it if nothing else.
Looks like Netanyahu has been in charge of US foreign policies for decades. We, the voters, may pick and decide who of the two will be the best Shoeshine Boy. In the end Netanyahu will tip the scale for his choice.
What did Iran think the Israelis would do when they launched a missile strike on Israel? What does anyone think will happen when one country launches a military strike against another country? War, that's what happens. Both the Iranians and the Israelis must think they can win that war.
The winners will be the ideologues. The man in the street suffers .Howver ,every time Israel survives a necessary a war,it is a winner.
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How long before the neoCON warmongers attacking Russia before Russia decides, maybe with China and North Korea, to take out the USA.
The NeoCon world view has been pushing us towards war. Our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were Neocon wars. Whenever the U.S. “does something” it usually makes things worse.
Other than for those who make money off of war supplies and death.
The report said that when Netanyahu spoke with President Biden last week, he said that Israel planned to hit military infrastructure inside Iran, not oil or nuclear facilities. The conversation was a factor in Biden’s decision to deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile battery to Israel.
But if they don't, Joey will be good with that too. Remember way back when there was "growing daylight" between Biden and Netanyahu and things were "increasingly fraught" between the two?
This is from way back in the early part of the slaughter:
In the real world, Israel’s slaughter has continued unabated. On November 9, when ABC News swore that there was “growing daylight” between Biden and Netanyahu, at least 10,812 people had been killed in Gaza. By February 8, when the Times asserted that things had become “increasingly fraught” between Biden and Netanyahu, at least 27,840 people had been killed in Gaza.
So, way back when the genocide was in the early stages, Netanyahu did whatever the fuck he wanted, and Biden tried to pretend that it mattered but did absolutely nothing. It didn't matter then in Gaza, and it won't matter now in Iran.
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War Criminals Netanyahu and Biden, deciding the date to start WW111, so who is going to STOP them? Europe? UK? How about Russia? Maybe Iran? Hopefully they all stand together against the Zionist Regime, work together to destroy all Zionist, work together to STOP War Crimes. America is LOST, will do nothing, because we have a Zionist Regime in D.C. who HATE our Constitution and LOVE slaughtering Humans.
Predestination vs Free Will? It's entirely Free Will – everywhere. So just start thinking about a world without the Bidens, the Net-and-yahoos, every last one of the greedy, power-hungry yahoos.
You can do it in your spare time, at no cost. In fact the inverted cost-benefit analysis will come up smelling like Spring.
Shorter (hence less challenging): just wish the MF's gone.
I’ve often thought about the predestination versus free will debate.
My conclusion: It doesn’t matter.
If we’re predestined, and happen to believe we have free will, it’s because we were predestined to believe we have free will.
If we have free will, and happen to believe we are predestined, it’s because we don’t want to REALLY be responsible for what we do and are trying to fob off that responsibility on fate, destiny, etc.
And we really have no way of telling the difference.
What you mean We, white man? 😉
(now famous quote from Tonto to the Lone Ranger)
I hear you, of course. But I have had experiences with alternatives that have led me over the years to this point. Not the least of which is the continued support in the field of quantum mechanics for the many-worlds theory, which presents a dramatic set of possibilities for what we in the public domain interpret as free-will.
Conversations I've had with fellow physicists over the past few decades have only reinforced my view.
But you could have been entirely destined to think you saw the things you think you saw, talked with the people you talked with, etc.
Personally, I lean toward the likelihood of free will within the rules of a simulated reality (see Bostrom et al.). But perhaps I’ve only fooled myself into thinking that I reached that leaning of my own free will. Maybe there were no circumstances under which I could have ended up leaning otherwise. As for the many-worlds theory, I don’t see how that would produce a negative result on the possibility of a world in which the possibilities are all pre-programmed.
In the many-worlds theory, every world would then be pre-ordained, but there would be – according to the theory – an infinite number of them…
It interests me that the theory was a response to what Einstein maintained was a conundrum in relation to a set of experiments which seemed to imply that information could travel faster than light, possibly in fact, that the speed of communication between entangled particles could be infinite (which would imply that the particles were completely entangled).
I respectfully disagree re the question; however I agree with Tom that it doesn't matter. Because even if one believes in pure predestination, as I do, the only way to live a full and fulfilling life is to pretend to have free will. Otherwise, the pointlessness of it all becomes overwhelming.
We differ. And I don't believe that in any way is our existence pointless.
You may be right … no one knows for sure …