Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday and discussed “uniting against” Iran.
“The issue of the Iranian threat was raised, including the need for both countries to unite against it,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on the meeting. “The Prime Minister thanked the American Secretary of State for the support of the US in the fight against Iran’s axis of evil and terrorism.”
The State Department said in a readout of the meeting that the two officials discussed efforts to “deter further regional aggression from Iran and its proxies” and said Blinken “reaffirmed the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security.”
The meeting comes amid anticipation of an Israeli attack on Iran in response to the Iranian missile barrage that was fired at Israeli territory, which was retaliation for a string of Israeli escalations, including the killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was visiting Tehran.
It’s unclear how big Israel’s attack on Iran will be or when it will happen, but it’s expected to take place before the US presidential election on November 5. According to Israeli media, Israel could use a Hezbollah drone attack that targeted Netanyahu’s home as a pretext to justify more extensive strikes on Iran.
Iran has denied any role in the attack on Netanyahu’s home, which was officially claimed by Hezbollah on Tuesday. Blinken and Netanyahu discussed the attack during their meeting, according to the statement of Netanyahu’s office, which made clear Israel was still blaming the incident on Iran.
“The American Secretary of State expressed the US’s deep shock over the Iranian attempt, via Hezbollah, to eliminate the Prime Minister of Israel, and made it clear that this was an exceptionally extreme incident,” the statement said.
The US is supporting Israel’s plans to attack Iran by vowing to defend Israel from any retaliation. The US has deployed a THAAD air defense system and about 100 troops to operate it on Israeli territory, which could become a potential target of Iranian missiles. It’s also possible that the US directly supports the Israeli attack on Iran either by providing intelligence or launching strikes of its own.
Speaking of conspiracies; US/UK working together to end free speech:
Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter"
England, not Russia, is the culprit in a real foreign election interference story, as the leaked Stateside plans of an advisory group with close ties to Prime Minister Keir Starmer show
…In an explosive leak with ramifications for the upcoming U.S. presidential election, internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate—whose founder is British political operative Morgan McSweeney, now advising the Kamala Harris campaign—show the group plans in writing to “kill Musk’s Twitter” while strengthening ties with the Biden/Harris administration and Democrats like Senator Amy Klobuchar, who has introduced multiple bills to regulate online “misinformation.” Klobuchar’s office declined repeated requests for comment:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3ee09304-53d2-4aee-b0fe-bdb25589b870_904x818.jpeg
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is the anti-disinformation activist ally of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, and a messaging vehicle for Labour’s neoliberal think tank, Labour Together. Both the CCDH and Labour Together were founded by Morgan McSweeney, a Svengali credited with piloting Starmer’s rise to Downing Street, much as Karl Rove is credited with guiding George W. Bush to the White House.
https://www.racket.news/p/election-exclusive-british-advisors?r=5mz1
The only reason for hope is that they are doing such a crappily partisan job of this that the Repubs almost have to respond if they take back power. But I don't know whether the response will be strong enough … Congressional subpoenas will be a beginning, hopefully leading to prosecution.
Republicans are onboard with censoring any negative portrayals of Israel.
We have one party rule.
I don't know what leg the US thinks they are able to stand on to defend being "deeply shocked" with any attempt to eliminate Netanyahu, after having pursued exactly this policy of elimination for years and cheering on the Israeli when they do it.
The amount of hypocrisy involved apparently already collapsed under it's own weight into a black hole, sucking in it's own history.
A shame a Hezbollah rocket didn't interrupt their lovefest.
Indeed.
Not nasty enough. They deserve much worse. How about a kidnapping and a trip into one of those tunnels with some electrified steel rods at the ready. Then after that they will be put on a little fat trimming diet. When they are close to starvation, their bodies will be thrown in the street with a bulldozer waiting nearby to give them one of those dignified burials that the IDF is so famous for.
I'm deeply shocked that they are deeply shocked.
Sigh… 😉
Politics, I am shocked….!
A terrific scene! Apropos for the discussion.
Like we didn't already know that the US and Israel are "united against Iran." They have been for decades, and especially so since the Bush administration.
During Obama's time, they tried to get Syria taken out so they could interrupt the flow of Iranian support to Hezbollah. Same with the 2006 attack.
The issue, as I've said for 17 years, was how to get rid of Hezbollah first. And the only thing stopping that was an appropriate excuse couldn't be manufactured to justify direct US involvement because of Afghanistan – until Biden finally bailed on that disaster and the Biden crazies took over the government – and the Netanyahu crazies took over the Israeli government.
Now everything is in place for the US/Israel-Iran war – which will be 99% a US-Iran/Hezbollah war, while Israel continues murdering everyone in Gaza and the West Bank.
Since 1953. That was the year Ike gave the OK for the CIA (just a few years old) to concoct the coup in Iran.
Every time I see the 5th columnist Blinken, I get sick to my stomach.
The worst is that smarmy creature, Miller.
I see Blinken as a traitorous foreign agent serving genocide and war against Peace.
So, "post-1990s US President", then.
Not clear in what you mean.
That prior to 90’s U.S. was more independent of such promotions.
Thank you
I mean that every US President after Clinton can be considered "a traitorous foreign agent serving genocide and war against Peace."
after Clinton?
Slick Willy had personality. Personality goes a long way. He was TIN (sic) times more charmin’ than that m.f.in’ GHW Bush in ’88-92.
We can agree on that!!!!!! But savvy analyst would expect a Zionist president would appoint a Zionists!!!!!'
Bibby tells boy scout that he's dragging him into a costly war whether he's ready or not should be the headline.
“The Prime Minister thanked the American Secretary of State for the support of the US in the fight against Iran’s axis of evil and terrorism.”
I'd say that's the pot calling the kettle black, but Iran isn't even in the same league as Israel when it comes to terrorism. NO ONE IS.
Well … "the world's greatest purveyor of violence" was not hung around the US's neck for nothing … Israel is not doing anything we did not pioneer in SE Asia, Cent America, Iraq and Afghanland and Libya, etc. …
You get more with a loaf of bread, than with bombs and other such nefarious weaponry.
Dang, with inflation, a loaf of bread almost costs as much !!
The vultures and grave diggers are joined at the hips. The annihilation of Iran has been on their to be done list for decades. They may be able to start the job before Nov. 5 and to hell with Ukraine and Europe, that is a done deal already. Biden did a great job paving the road to hell. Scorched earth is the big killers accomplishments. They are more beastly than Pol Pot.
Too bad he was't home. Some of the worlds problems would be solved.
Bibi, Beezlebub Smotrich, Ben-Gvir having lunch together. Perhaps.
"Yo, Beel, yer flies are landing on my gefilte !"
Netanyahu would be replaced with someone just as blood thirsty, just as the Hamas and Hezbollah leadership will be replaced by someone convinced that violence is the only solution.
Maybe so but I would feel better if he was dead.
"United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security.”
I wonder how many MEGATONS OF TNT EQUIVALENT TACTICAL BLAST IT WOULD TAKE TO LOSEN ITS CLAD….??? How about 200…????
Say goodbye to the American economy if Iran blocks the Straits of Hormuz. That is where an overwhelming amount of oil flows through.
NEOCON Blinker is not pro-America he is a traitor to America and needs to be prosecuted as a Benedict Arnold!
Presumably "America's Navy : A Global Force For Good" (literally the tag-line of a commercial I saw on a Seattle-based TV station a few years ago) will charge into the Strait and "reopen" it.
Tho I fully assume the IRI "closing" the strait means "anything entering this zone gets sunk by shoreline missiles" and unless the US Navy feels confident in its ability to intercept EVERY missile fired at every giant, slow supertanker, I think the IRI has the upper hand by geography alone.
Presumably "America's Navy : A Global Force For Good" (literally the tag-line of a commercial I saw on a Seattle-based TV station a few years ago)
Remember it well. Made me gag.
“A Global Force. For Good. F**king Get Used To It.”
Yeah, I was like, “Wait – why is that YOUR responsibility ?
In addition to hypersonic missiles Iran has P-3s with Harpoons missiles.
Didn't the US Navy try to protect shipping in Red Sea from the Houthis without much success? Iran is much better armed than Houthis.
Excellent point ! Pretty sure the IRI and Yemen have been exchanging enough “AWESOME US Navy ballistics hacks !” to fill a dozen long YouTube videos.
There is nothing the US Navy could do to reopen the strait to shipping if the Iranians decide to close it. Even if the US could intercept EVERY missile, the insurance companies won't insure the oil tankers if there are hostilities and the companies won't sail without insurance. Asymmetric warfare has a way of negating conventional military advantages.
Very true. Tho perhaps we may see a little “government underwriting” – the US government assuming financial liability for tanker insurance. Like during the Panickdemic – governments waived testing rules and shielded pharma researchers from liability for harms caused by under-tested “vaccines”.
I’m sure the cost of keeping oil traffic flowing is much less than the USA promising billions to insurance companies (who themselves are ALSO f**king scammers)
Thinking of these two characters, as I recall, the IDF unalives anyone trying to cross their border. Don't you suppose B.N. would also advocate for ICE & CPB doing the same at America's borders?; that is once we locked down the border to maybe 6 international points of immigration entry? (Proposing: Two at north border, one at the west coast, two at the east coast and one at the south coast.) Word would spread.
Max Blumenthal described US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as "the Angel of Death" today on Judge Napolitano's podcast. Every time Blinken arrives in Israel it inevitably results in even more massacres of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Great SLAYER song.