There is no clear rationale from Washington because the author of this attack is not to be found in either the White House or the Pentagon. This plan was cooked up in Tel Aviv decades ago.

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, admitted as much on Sunday. He gloated: “This combined effort allows us to do what I have hoped to achieve for 40 years: to crush the regime of terror completely. That’s my promise and this is what is going to happen.”

Those four decades, let us note, were also the timeframe for an endless series of warnings from Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders that Tehran was only months away from developing a nuclear bomb.

Netanyahu has been peddling this same urgent, nonsensical pretext for attacking Iran all that time. For 40 years, each year has been proclaimed the very last opportunity to stop the “mad mullahs” from obtaining a bomb – a bomb that never materialised.

And all the while, Israel’s own arsenal of nuclear weapons, undeclared and therefore unmonitored, has been an open secret.

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    3 months ago

    He’ll yeah they have! Bibi is finally realizing a dream he’s had for almost his entire political career. He finally found a US president dumb enough to accept his bullshit on faith.

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    3 months ago

    Ah yes, hundreds of thousand of Palestinian lives, and millions left with nothing of their homes but rubble.

    That’s just a smokescreen for the real deal, right?

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      3 months ago

      This whole rethoric, on every topic, of “this is just a distraction/smokescreen for that other awful thing” pisses me off.

      Everything they do is awful, everything they do is their plan. None of it is a distraction or a smokescreen.

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    3 months ago

    Israel being behind 9/11 and the stealing of (at least) the 2016 and 2024 elections are all a part of this.