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An ominous warning: ‘Netanyahu needs a war with Iran. And he needs it soon’

In a dangerous escalation, Israel last night attacked a military base near Syria’s capital, Damascus, using both warplanes and surface-to-surface missiles. News sources in Syria said the target was an Iranian installation near Al-Kiswa, 7 miles south of the city.

This attack — Israeli officials declined comment — is just the latest ominous sign from Israel that the unholy alliance of Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, may be planning to greatly expand war in the Mideast, targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, and its ally and patron, Iran.

The veteran journalist Larry Derfner reports from Israel that “everybody here feels war is coming.” He adds, “There’s so much tough talk from Israel, and the Saudis would love Israel to fight a war for their interests, and the tension is very high — all this is in the news all the time.” Derfner does not believe Hezbollah or Iran would start the conflict, “because they know they’d get crushed.” He explains, “The only one I see starting it is Israel, because Israel is both strong and paranoid.”

Bradley Burston, a respected columnist in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, also could not have been more clear the other day. His opinion piece was entitled, “Netanyahu Needs a War. He Needs It to Be With Iran. And He Needs It Soon.” Burston argues that Netanyahu has several selfish reasons for wanting a conflict:

1) The Israeli political reality is turning against him. “He’s desperate now because he’s losing ground fast in the latest opinion polls.”

2) He sees he may be out of power soon, and he’s “obsessed by his place in history.” Burston writes, “Netanyahu still has no legacy beyond the number of all those many years in power.”

3) Netanyahu may also provoke war to distract from the ongoing probes into his corruption: “He’s desperate because police detectives and investigative journalists are closing in on him.”

Burston’s allegations are astonishing, especially the last one. Israel’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon to attack Hezbollah cost it 121 lives, and more than 1000 other people also died, most of them Lebanese civilians. Would the Israeli prime minister really put his people at risk just to selfishly cover up his own (alleged) financial criminality?

Earlier this year, Larry Derfner (who has published a compelling memoir about abandoning liberal Zionism) warned in a New York Times Op-Ed article that Israel, not its neighbors, provokes the regular armed clashes. “Counterintuitive though it may be to Israeli and most Western minds, Israel, not its militant Islamic or brutal Syrian enemies, is the aggressor in these border wars.”

Anyone who only reads the U.S. mainstream press will be stunned to learn about this rising feeling in Israel that a wider war is coming. Meanwhile, Derfner reacted to last night’s Israeli strike against the Iranian base in Syria: “I oppose this latest attack just like I oppose all the others. They’re all part of Israel’s ‘neighborhood bully’ policy, which has been going on for decades. Nothing new here. The coming war won’t be anything new, either, except for all the new people who will get killed in it.”

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If Milikewski (Netanyahu) is concerned about his place in history, he should consider stopping his racist, fascist policies and reverse course very quickly. Easier said than done, I know.

“Derfner does not believe Hezbollah or Iran would start the conflict, “because they know they’d get crushed.” He explains, “The only one I see starting it is Israel, because Israel is both strong and paranoid.””
Neither Hezbollah nor Iran will start a War and Israel would be foolish to. For all its bluff and bluster, Israel suffers the aversion to body bags that comes with being a technologically oriented aggressive force. A War with a now battle-hardened, better equipped Hezbollah will involve casualties in Israel cities and IAF losses. I suspect you will see the end of Netanyahu and a more circumspect Israeli foreign policy, possibly the return of Shebaa and the Golan.
The Syrian War has not gone as planned.

A war on Syria would be a far more manageable proposition. It can be framed as ‘helping’, it is closer, it will be supported by the USA and it could affect Iran through its Syrian connection. Granted Israel could remove Assad and occupy at least parts of Syria, but it runs the risk of reviving the defense of the Ummah against the poor jews – who could and probably will be struck wherever they live. Jerusalem needs those ISIS assholes waging jihad on somebody else.

Besides Trump would consider the regime change a personal favor (he muffed that) and , probably, would ‘reciprocate’ by doing Iran – another personal growth opportunity for him.

Even some of us hicks out in the American hinterlands see this is brewing, just as we see why Kushner should be indicted as a foreign agent. WE OF COURSE NOTICE the US main media news shows are ignoring these issues, even while talking about everything else in context.

What I find interesting is that Syria says that Israel this time used ground to ground missiles to attack a Syrian military base.

http://sana.sy/en/?p=119924

The Syrian president Assad long ago claimed that the IAF is acting as Al Qaeda’s air force.

https://twitter.com/Syria_Hezb_Iran/status/856132917587791872

But now, weeks after the Israeli military said one of it’s F35 stealth jets was grounded due to being hit by a bird – while Syria hours before said it had hit an Israeli attack plane, Israel seems to use no manned jets anymore to help Al Qaeda by attacking Syria, just missiles.

And the Syrian journalist Wael said, Syria manged to intercept 3 of 5 incoming Israeli missiles yesterday:

https://twitter.com/WaelAlRussi/status/936908219535958016

It seems that Israel didn’t manage to cause much damage with the latest aggression:

https://twitter.com/obretix/status/936984386754445312

If that information all proves true in the next days, that would mark a dramatic development: Israel lost the total air superiority it had for several decades in the region.