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It’s not about nukes, it’s about the US shifting the power balance — Parsi

Just in time for The Speech, Dena Takruri skewers Netanyahu in this zinger of a video from Al Jazeera’s video news network, AJ+.

Covering lots of quick paced territory, Takruri mentions the recent leaked intelligence files, Netanyahu testifying before Congress in the runup to our invasion of Iraq, the omission of the fact that Israel has nukes, and a fun clip of WH press secretary Josh Earnest calling out Netanyahu. The zinger, (2:42) “It’s not about the nukes” comes when she interviews Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, querying why Netanyahu was so dead set on coming to Washington:

Parsi: The nuclear issue never really was the primary concern of the Israelis. Because the nuclear issue is actually getting resolved.

Takruri: What was the issue then?

Parsi: The issue is the geopolitical balance of power in the region; the fear that the United States striking a deal with Iran will legitimize Iran as a regional player and that it will reduce the United States’ commitment to the security of Israel, to the security of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other states that have been traditional allies in the region.

Yep, the balance of power. And if there’s any doubt in your mind this is the truth, this old video from that bastion of neocon analysisThe American Enterprise Institute (AEI) should erase all doubt. Danielle Pletka, AEI‘s Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, spilled the beans:

The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it’s Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don’t do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, “See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you that Iran wasn’t getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately…” And they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem.

Whoa, now wouldn’t that be scary? And don’t miss AEI defense analyst Thomas Donnelly’s fixation on Iran and the balance of power here.  Warmongers, the whole lot of ’em.

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Well, yes. It’s “let’s have fun with Bibi” time. But AIPAC is always in the background. Let’s see which way Clinton (is she in Congress?) and Liz go. Maybe they’ll both have urgent dentist appointments when the Israeli PM comes to Congress (and to AIPAC).

Something about all this is as fun as pulling teeth.

Iran will be the dominant state in the region, that is why the arc of resistance Iran, Syria, Iraq and Hezbollah are being attacked by the mercenaries of Islamic State and Al Nusra paid for by rich Saudi and other Gulf state individuals and on a sectarian basis, facilitated by Turkey and the US training so called moderates to fight the low hanging fruit of the arc in Syria and Lebanon. This strategy is not going well, even in Lebanon Harari’s March 14 group of Sunni muslims who are formally opposed to Hezbollah are now in talks with them in order to thwart attacks on Lebanon from the organ eating monsters. An attack on Iran is not going to happen, because Iran is too strong, and in military terms, Israel and US bases in the Gulf could be targeted with at least 150,000 rockets from both Iran and Hezbollah. The US fleet would be extremely vulnerable since Iran has so many of the latest anti-ship missiles [bought from the Chinese]. A land invasion like the Iraq debacle, would need an army of one and a half million men to try to secure the nuclear sites, in other words US conscription. With a population of nearly 80 million most of whom would fight to the death to kill any invader, [remember the Shia take their shrouds into battle]. Any aggression against such a proud and independent state would be far too costly, and Obama and his chiefs of staff know it.

“…it it will reduce the United States’ commitment to the security of Israel,”

Not to in any way slight Mr. Parsi, or imply anything about his well-spoken words, but when some people say “the security of Israel” I never know whether they mean “the security of Israel” or ‘protecting Israel from the consequences of its own intransigence and lawbreaking’.
And I still don’t know where the dividing line is. If there is one.

There have been three game simulations of war with Iran, the US has been defeated in all three. In one such encounter the US blue forces took on the Iranian red forces led by tough US marine Lt General Van Ripen [the millennium challenge 2002]. The US fleet was sunk by Van Ripen who used unconventional warfare, hundreds of small craft attacked the US fleet which succumbed to the sheer weight of numbers http://cimsec.org/learning-curve-iranian-asymmetrical-warfare-millennium-challenge-2002-2/11640 As Jack Straw former UK Foreign Secretary said not so long ago, an attack on Iran “would be nuts”.

Power is definitely what this is all about, and especially the power of the war profiteers to manufacture war. The reason the Israelis, the Republicans, and so many in the mainstream media are hammering to label the problem radical “Islamic” extremists is to deflect attention away from the radical Jewish extremists who have been slaughtering Muslims and stealing their land throughout the “Zionist project”, all financed by war profiteering banks.

The fact that 100% of the 1000’s of members of the mainstream press have so completely ignored this reality can not possibly be a coincidence. It is solid evidence of the Israeli power that controls the mainstream press. There is no other rational explanation, especially in a country with freedom of the press guaranteed in its Constitution. And that is the second tragedy of the “Zionist project” – the destruction of press freedom and democracy in America and Western Europe.

Only independent news outlets like Mondoweiss are keeping the flame of truth alive. If Obama had not managed to keep Big Money from controlling the internet, that flame would also have been gradually snuffed out. This is truly a struggle to determine if a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that ALL people are created equal shall not perish from this earth.