Mainstream media reports on how unhinged Donald Trump is becoming concentrate on his efforts to overturn the U.S. election and on his pardons, but don’t pay enough attention to his threats toward Iran. And the mainstream continues to ignore the fact that a desperate Benjamin Netanyahu keeps trying to provoke a conflict between the U.S. and Tehran.
Trump’s latest warmongering came in a two-part tweet last night. First he claimed that rockets “from IRAN” hit the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Sunday, and he included a photo of 3 of them that he said had “failed to launch.” Then:
…Some friendly health advice to Iran: If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible. Think it over.
The New York Times buried Trump’s threat on page 13. The Washington Post apparently didn’t cover it at all. There is certainly a clownish side to Trump’s blustering, but the mainstream ignores two key facts:
* Even if Iran continues to show restraint, an accident or miscalculation could trigger conflict anyway.
* Benjamin Netanyahu, who is definitely not a clown, has tried to provoke the U.S. into conflict with Iran for a decade — and as he faces yet another election in Israel, he is more desperate than ever to distract. Not just his political future, but his actual freedom from prison, is at stake.
Trita Parsi is a scholarly Iranian-American, not prone to hysteria. But last night he tweeted:
Make no mistake. Trump has already moved B52s, submarines, and other military assets to the Persian Gulf. He is planning to start a war with Iran on bogus charges in order to prevent Biden from taking office. Iran is not the real target. American democracy is.
Parsi may be giving Trump’s ability to plot too much credit. But the U.S. and Israel are deliberately raising tension in the region; the Washington Post did report yesterday that Israel had provocatively ordered one of its submarines into the Persian Gulf, alongside the aggressive U.S. escalation.
The U.S./Israeli saber-rattling raises the chances of a lethal accident. What if an Iranian patrol boat strays too close to a U.S. warship? What if U.S. sailors mistake an Iranian civilian airliner for a warplane and shoot it down — which actually happened in 1988, and killed 290 innocent Iranian civilians?
Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu is more desperate than ever. His government just collapsed, and he faces his fourth election in two years. The center-left “opposition” has mostly disintegrated, but prominent members of his own Likud party are defecting. Multiple corruption charges are hanging over his head, and his only hope to avoid jail is to win re-election as prime minister — and immunity from prosecution as long as he stays in power. Why won’t he continue the violent provocations, recognizing that his equally desperate pal Trump will let him get away with anything?
Let’s not forget that multi-billionaire Zionist zealot, Sheldon Adelson, is “encouraging” Trump and Netanyahu to initiate a war with Iran.
Two peas in a pod. Both corrupt and under investigation.
Bombing Iran would make them look so “tough” and besides, it has been Netanyahu’s fantasy for years, constantly demonizing Iran, and holding up that cartoon bomb, warning us Iran was within months of bombing us into oblivion, which by the reactions from around the world, was a cringeworthy performance. Trump is behaving like a deranged man, who still believes he won the elections. Bibi needs to prove, yet again to his voters, that he is such a great leader, and just like the timely attacks on the poor Palestinians in Gaza before elections, why not brag about his influence (or control) over Trump and “convincing” him to bomb another neighbor, that Israel claims they feel threatened by, despite the fact that killers going into Iran and assassinating their scientists should give cause for the Iranians to feel threatened, not Israel.
So yes, expect the same clowns to put on a pathetic show, at the expense of the Iranian people, who are already suffering because of harsh sanctions imposed by Trump/US at the urging of Bibi/Israel.
Let us not forget the third clown in this show, Bin Salman.
We have no better example of what a sick and twisted world in which we live.
One where brutality and lawlessness reign.
Iran has never started a war, but it is relentlessly attacked and threatened by two countries that have practiced non-stop war for over seventy years.
Netanyahu has slaughtered many thousands in Gaza, including over a thousand children. Israel has attacked every neighbor that it has, some multiple times. It warmly supports tyrants in its region because they keep their people brutally in line just the way Israel does the Palestinians. It steals. It assassinates, and it lies constantly.
Israel found a perfect American partner in a man whose own niece, a clinical psychologist who knows him well, described as a sociopath. A man who has done nothing but threaten others, starve children, oppress tens of millions in a half dozen countries during a pandemic. A man with no respect for rule of law, an assassin, a thief, a liar, and a warm supporter of the horrors of Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
And none of the advanced world associated with them says a word against relentless terror,
Not the major countries of Europe or Canada, whose behavior lacks all decency.
For the record:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/24/un-condemns-israel-most-in-2020-almost-three-times-rest-of-world
EXCERPT:
“Israel most condemned by UN in 2020 – three times other nations”
“The UNGA adopted 17 resolutions against Israel this year, compared with six for the rest of the world.” Al Jazeera, Dec. 24/2020
Netanyahu and Trump are as evil as Hitler and Mussolini and potentially just as dangerous.