Netanyahu seeks Iran conflict, extremist reaction to knock out Obama

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Brilliant post by Andrew Sullivan off the report by AP that Israel has told the US that it would attack Iran without any warning to the US. A sinister read, but given Israel’s record during the “clash of civilizations” era, it’s hard to argue with. Extended excerpts:

So Israel would, without warning, put US troops and Western civilians at direct risk of terrorist assaults, would likely tip Pakistan into even more outright hostility to any cooperation with the West, and rally the Iranian opposition to its foul regime…. My own fear is that global recruitment for Jihad would boom as well – reversing all the gains of the last three years. The war would also galvanize Islamist parties in the new Arab democracies, giving Israel more ammunition in blocking any rapprochement between the US and the Muslim world. And following this essential blackmail, the Israeli government would doubtless rally much of the US Congress, the entire GOP, its media outlets (like Fox, and the Washington Post), and a key part of the Democratic fundraising machinery to side entirely with Israel against the US president. 

I don’t think you can understand the Republican strategy for this election without factoring in a key GOP player, Benjamin Netanyahu… A global war which polarizes America and the world is exactly what Netanyahu wants. And it is exactly what the GOP needs to cut through Obama’s foreign policy advantage in this election. Because it is only through war, crisis and polarization that extremists can mobilize the emotions that keep them in power. They need war to win.

Here’s a prediction. Netanyahu, in league and concert with Romney, Santorum and Gingrich, will make his move to get rid of Obama soon. And he will be more lethal to this president than any of his domestic foes.

Sullivan makes a similar point as Max Blumenthal in this must see interview on Real News:

“Netanyahu is more immersed in the American political process, in the culture wars, and in the Republican primary than any foreign leader in recent modern history, and he’s doing so because he wants regime change in two countries, the first country is Iran, the second country is the United States.

He wants to replace Barack Obama with a Republican. He tried the same thing when he was Prime Minister in the 1990’s against President Bill Clinton. He leaned on Gingrich, he leaned on people who were seeking to impeach President Clinton using Israel as a partisan wedge issue the same way the Christian Right uses abortion and gay marriage.

And this campaign is the fulfillment of Netanyahu’s strategy to use Israel and now Iran as a political tool to unseat Barack Obama. And Newt Gingrich is just one candidate who is assisting this effort. Mitt Romney is also happy to assist this effort and he has surrounded himself with neoconservatives who have a seamless connection to Israel and to the Israeli military intelligence establishment and to Netanyahu’s advisors…….in the words of former AIPAC researcher Keith Weissman, they are advancing the ‘War of the Jews’, that’s his words.”

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Yup, that’s about the size of it.

I mentioned in a comment in a previous story that Obama really hopes to get a great photo op out of Netanyahu’s visit. Netanyahu knows this and is upping his demands on Obama. Obama might well bend over enough to actually get his photo op, but it will hardly change the underlying reality that Sullivan points out, which is that Netanyahu is attempting to destroy Obama and kick the election to the Republicans.

/Here’s a prediction. Netanyahu, in league and concert with Romney, Santorum and Gingrich, will make his move to get rid of Obama soon. And he will be more lethal to this president than any of his domestic foes./

Wow haven’t seen this much paranoia in a long time.

i hope he’s wrong, cause this has been my worst fear for over a year. but let’s be honest, much of corporate media has a zionist tilt, and perhaps they are confident they can ensure good perception management? …seems too risky though.

talk about an un-holy alliance… republican atheists who pretend to be christians to get elected, with israeli zionists who are also atheists but are all about their “jewishness”. mad men run the world, and even the actors they allow on the stage are vile transparent ethnocentric power hungry liars. (no jab at atheists intended; i am one, and would love a self-proclaimed agnostic/atheist to be POTUS)

phil, don’t tell me this is “hard to argue with” even though i agree. i know it’s possible….. but if it is at all likely, i should be tracking down a good job in south america rather than wasting my time at occupy AIPAC. oh screw it, i’ll go down with this stinking american ship.
http://www.occupyaipac.org/

Dragging the US into Israel’s war against Iran will do wonders for the US relations with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, etc. Is anyone in our government paying any attention?

Saying “Yassah Boss” will not be enough for Obama on March 5, because Bibi can always ask for more, and there are months before the election. There must be a limit (Yesh Gvul) and the time is now. Obama cannot bend over far enough and that posture only invites worse.