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Reports from the Washington Post and others suggest that the US is anticipating an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and that this could trigger a response against US bases across the Middle East in places like Iraq and Syria.
It began Wednesday when the Pentagon authorized the “voluntary departure” of all military families and non-essential personnel from installations in Middle Eastern countries, including the US embassies in Baghdad, Kuwait, and Bahrain, following an apparent communication from Tel Aviv that Israel was “fully ready to launch an operation into Iran”.
Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh warned that same day that if a conflict was “imposed” on Iran by the Zionists, it would hold the US responsible, owing to the significant military support Washington proffers to Israel. “If a conflict is imposed on us … all US bases are within our reach and we will boldly target them in host countries,” Nasirzadeh said, according to The Cradle.
The Iranians understand that there are not only 50,000 troops, but also thousands of supporting staff, family members, contractors, and State Dept./Pentagon civilians accompanying them at 10 bases within range of Iran’s ballistic missiles. As seen during the helter skelter bombings on US bases following Hamas’ October 7th attack beyond the walls of Gaza, many of these installations are equipped to deter and neutralize rocket and mortar attacks from irregular forces, not drone swarms or modern missiles from a powerful nation-state.
According to a piece in the New York Times last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was willing to attack Iran to disrupt the ongoing diplomacy over new limits to Tehran’s nuclear program. Sources close to President Trump speaking with Politico have said that the talks are ongoing and that Trump is adamant a deal can be reached, even while GOP media entities are attempting to change his mind.
Trump has admitted that Iran’s desire to keep uranium enriched at 60% is a non-starter for talks, and that a “dire path” awaits the collapse of such discussions, but talks are set to begin for the sixth time tomorrow between Iranian negotiators and Trump’s special ambassador to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, with whom the President is said to have complete faith.
One of those GOP media heads, radio host Mark Levin, has claimed that Iran is just one week away from building a nuclear weapon, something which the intelligence services have stated is unfounded. It’s a claim that Netanyahu made when Barack Obama was negotiating the JCPOA with Iran in 2015 to try and derail talks, and also long before that in advance of George W. Bush Jr.’s invasion of Iraq.
It’s a claim that Netanyahu is still using to justify an attack on Iran today. According to The New York Times, Israeli officials close to Netanyahu believe that the “US would have no choice but to assist Israel militarily if Iran counterattacked”.
Better off dead
Rarely in the course of Israeli foreign policy is a living American as useful as a dead one. Going all the way back to a 1947 bombing plot by the Zionist terrorist organization Stern Gang to assassinate Harry Truman, if advancing Israeli interests depends on an American’s life being ended, the IDF or Mossad are generally willing to make that sacrifice.
When Witkoff successfully negotiated the release of 21-year-old New Jersey-born hostage Edan Alexander with Hamas, Netanyahu took it poorly. Times of Israel reports that the Netanyahu government was not fully briefed on the talks ahead of time, and the Prime Minister was unhappy with their existence. Having previously refused to make efforts to negotiate the release of American hostages, he had even gone as far as stating that hostages were a secondary priority in Gaza.
Was Netanyahu unhappy because the US broke a long-standing tradition of not negotiating with Palestinian terrorist organizations, or was it the reality that if the last living American left Hamas captivity, the US would have less of a reason to back Israel’s genocide in the strip? Speculation, informed or otherwise, would inevitably be the nature of any answer given, but it informed or otherwise, it would be justified.
Is Netanyahu willing to risk the biggest conflict yet because he truly believes Iran is building a nuclear weapon, or is he willing to risk a war with Iran because Tehran has said it will hold America responsible, and he therefore has the opportunity to achieve a policy he has been advocating for for 25 years without suffering any of the consequences?
Judging by the conduct of the IDF towards Americans over the course of their recent operations, from the killing of the World Central Kitchen volunteers to the shooting of Americans in the West Bank, little evidence exists that the Zionists place much value on the lives of their closest military ally’s citizens. In the 11 months following the October 7th attacks beyond the walls of Gaza, three Americans were shot in the West Bank—that is, not inside Gaza, the war zone—by IDF members.
In 1952, the failed Mossad plot Operation Susannah bombed a US information center in Egypt that may have resulted in scores of civilians being murdered if the bombs had detonated properly. The attack would then be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian communists, “unspecified malcontents”, or “local nationalists”.
The famous attack on the USS Liberty, when Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked a state-of-the-art intelligence collection platform sailing in international waters off the Sinai, killed 34 of the 294 American crew members and wounded more than 170, may have also been the case of Americans standing in the way of an Israeli foreign policy aim.
Surprisingly well-summarized on Wikipedia, the motives for the now-confirmed deliberate and continuous nature of the attack, which included strafing wounded on medical stretchers and life boats, are generally believed to be related to the IDF’s operations in Egypt and particularly the Golan Heights of Syria, which they seized in 1967 during the Six Days War when the Liberty was attacked.
In both cases, Washington’s unwillingness to follow the Zionist foreign policy towards Egypt resulted in a deliberate attack against Americans. In the case of Iran, an attack against American bases will surely result in a response, which CENTCOM commander Gen. Michael Kurilla has already prepared, and which he accepted being described as “overwhelming force” by a House Rep. who characterized it thusly. Frankly speaking, Netanyahu has every incentive to make a decision in a way that will get Americans killed, something which many of his predecessors have also been willing to make. WaL
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PICTURED ABOVE: Netanyahu with one of his maps at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. PC: UN photo, Loey Felipe.
