Sunday 4 August 2024

Iran and Hezbollah Being Suckered Into War

 
I am one of the first to say that Joe Biden hasn't done very well in his defence of Israel, at one point he was actually condemning the murderous attacks by Israel while providing them with the weapons to do it but America always seems to have been happy to turn a blind eye to the brutal military occupation and land grab going on against the Palestinians and have actively been looking the other way as the Israeli's commit genocide and today it was announced that they are sending their military to the area to deter Hezbollah and Iran from retaliating against the assassination of the Lebanese leader.
This all came about after Israel assassinated Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh Tehran, a move which Joe Biden said: 'doesn’t help ceasefire talks', especially as Haniyeh was one of the chief negotiator's in peace talks between Israel and Hamas.
Netanyahu has consistently moved the goalposts to hinder peace talks, Hamas agreed to the previous deal only for Netanyahu to pile on even more demands and then throw up his hands when Hamas balked which is a tactic he has used for decades when dealing with Palestine, making a deal then when it is accepted making further demands and then when the Palestinians walk away, complaining loudly that it wasn't them that walked away from negotiations and blame the Palestinians as being unreasonable.
Now we face an escalation of the Middle East crisis born out of the continuing Israeli bombardment of Gaza where the death toll is now over 40,000 and as the Israeli premier has repeatedly made clear that he does not want the ceasefire talks to succeed, killing the chief negotiator on the other side is one way of ensure it won't, especially as it was designed to provoke Hezbollah and Iran into retaliating as they did when Israel killed the three Iranian generals in the Iranian consulate in Damascus previously and Netanyahu has been desperate to try to draw in the US military.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is saying that Netanyahu knows that with his Premiership and possible freedom depending on prolonging the war,  a war that Israel has politically lost and made Israel a global pariah and by expanding the conflict will distance Netanyahu from the debacle of 7 October but it has a line which states Israel is becoming locked into wars that it will not lose but cannot win and will leave swathes of southern Lebanon and northern Israel in ruins.
Hopefully, we are not looking at an expansion of the devastating war and more deaths and cooler heads will prevail in Lebanon and Iran and not be suckered into attacking Israel because America is standing by and as we have seen, a little thing like Genocide and decades of occupation and human right abuses hasn't deterred Washington from defending Israel and it is highly unlikely it would now.  

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