By Mike Whitney
The drone strike on senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in southern Beirut provides compelling evidence that Israel wants to expand the conflict beyond its borders. In the last few weeks, Israel has assassinated a deputy political leader in Hamas (al-Arouri), a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, (Sayyed Razi Mousavi) and “nearly a dozen senior Iranian military officials” (Fox News) at an airport in Damascus. At the same time, Israel has launched multiple unprovoked airstrikes on Lebanon and Syria. All of these incitements suggest that Israel is exploring ways to expand the hostilities beyond Gaza in order to plunge the entire region into war.
Is Israel responsible for the terrorist attack in Iran?
The evidence is not conclusive, but it certainly fits with the pattern of recent assassinations and drone attacks in neighboring countries. The bombing incident has also infuriated the Iranian people who have flooded the streets in droves demanding retaliation. Again, the public reaction fits perfectly with Israel’s goal of provoking an emotional over-reaction that draws Iran into a direct confrontation with Israel. Keep in mind, the Biden administration has two carrier groups deployed to the region that are prepared to come to Israel’s aid at a moment’s notice. So, if Iran does respond (with missile attacks or airstrikes) the US is perfectly positioned to join the fray. This might explain why Netanyahu continues to bomb his neighbors with impunity. He knows that Uncle Sam “has his back.”
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Here’s more from Aljazeera:
Israel has launched attacks on positions in Syria and Lebanon, as part of its ongoing campaign against opposing militaries and armed forces in the Middle East.
“The [Israeli army] struck military infrastructure belonging to the Syrian Army,” the Israeli military said in a post on the social media platform X on Tuesday.
“[Israeli military] fighter jets also struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon,” it added, promising it would “continue to operate against any threat to Israel’s sovereignty”.
The latest attacks, which occurred between Monday and Tuesday, marked a spike in tensions between Israel and neighbors it has said have links to its enemy, Iran. Israeli army launches attacks on targets in Syria and Lebanon, Aljazeera
Why is Israel doing this? Why are they provoking their neighbors even while they are conducting a major operation against the Palestinians in Gaza? Don’t all these incitements suggest that Israel wants to widen the war? Here’s more from Aljazeera:
A drone strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold, killed senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday. The drone hit a Hamas office, leaving six people dead, Lebanon’s state news agency reported.
Hamas confirmed the death of al-Arouri and called it a “cowardly assassination” by Israel, adding that attacks on Palestinians “inside and outside Palestine will not succeed in breaking the will and steadfastness of our people, or undermining the continuation of their valiant resistance”. Who was Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas leader killed in Beirut?, Aljazeera
The assassination of al-Arouri was no more ‘a spontaneous act of revenge’ than the attacks on Syria, Lebanon, or Gaza. They’re all part of a Grand Plan to redraw the map of the Middle East by provoking Israel’s enemies and then drawing Washington into the hostilities. That is the basic strategy in a nutshell. Here’s how political analyst Arnaud Bertrand summed it up on Twitter:
Israel is doing its very best to trigger a regional war by bombing Lebanon and Iran left and right, presumably to get the US more involved in the fighting as some sort of Hail Mary, but neither Lebanon nor Iran nor the US are taking the bait. Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
Bertrand is right; Israel is trying to drag the US into a war of its own making. He’s also right in saying that Iran and Hezbollah have shown great restraint (so far) and have resisted the temptation to retaliate. But how long will that last? After all, they can’t allow Israel to pummel them forever without responding in kind. And they can’t simply roll-over and play dead either. And, that’s not what they’re doing. What they’re doing is following events as they unfold so they have a better idea of Israel’s broader strategy. They are biding their time while Israel moves its troops out of Gaza and up to the northern front where they are likely to clash with Hezbollah militants sometime in the next two weeks. That appears to be what is going on.
Meanwhile, the western media is trying to prepare the public for another conflict in the Middle East by reiterating the claim that a “regional war” may now be inevitable. Check out these recent headlines and see if you can detect a recurrent theme:
- U.S. strike in Baghdad raises specter of wider regional war, Washington Post
- Attacks Heighten Fears of a Wider War for the Middle East and U.S., New York Times
- ‘I’m afraid that we are really approaching a regional war,’ says Lebanese Foreign Minister, CNN
- Escalation in the Middle East: the danger of a regional war is growing, Guardian
- Blinken Set For Israel Visit As Regional War Fears Mount, Barrons
- Blinken Heads to Middle East As Risk of Broader Conflict Grows, VOA
- Blinken heads to the Mideast again as fears of regional conflict surge, AOL
Get it? The media is preparing the public for a wider regional war in the Middle East. Articles like these are being used to persuade the masses that conflict is unavoidable and resistance is pointless.
But, in whose interests are these articles being written? Whose geopolitical agenda is being promoted? Which country stands to benefit from a misinformed American public walking sheeplike into another deranged conflagration in which millions die and nothing is gained?
Why, Israel, of course.
From the looks of things, Uncle Sam is going to be asked to provide the military muscle for a lunatic operation that will pit US firepower against Hezbollah and Iran, neither of who pose any threat to American lives or US national security. The objective of this misguided war will be to eliminate Israel’s enemies so that Israel can “secure the realm” and assume the role of regional hegemon, the undisputed ruler of the Middle East.
It’s a pipe dream.
Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.
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14 responses to “Is Uncle Sam Being Duped Into Fighting Israel’s War?”
It is not just the Izzies trying to “draw in” the US, our Ruling Psychopathy is all in with the plan – and, may actually be the real instigator behind it all…
However the question to be asked is this; is the US going to fight an apocalyptic WWIII to support the Zionist entity? I doubt that the Pentagon would follow that crazy decision no matter what the circumstances.
Remember, it was the Zionists that brought the pentagon into the genocidal attack on Iraq. The Zionists also are chomping at their bits to draw the US into a fight with Iran.
Complete agreement, but the Zionist agenda is in their own benefit and they couldn’t care less about the US or anybody else. That means that in the regime, still are people in power with redlines about support for Israel. WWIII for Israel? I don’t think so.
Nazi 4th Reich mRNA “vaccines” (bioweapons) eugenicist mass murderers of an estimated 17-20 million worldwide will take increasingly desperate and dangerous actions to escape arrest, prosecution and punishment…
That risible scientific illiterate states of mass deaths to do vaccinations is specious nonsense and risible drivel with no serious peer reviewed studies or verifiable and repeatable empirical data to back up your Alex Jones insight posing as substance. Honestly, anti vaxxers like the climate change denial always use fringe studies, discredited ” scientists” whose peers discredit their claims or they clearly have no insight on either issue. The funny thing is both groups never have a single scientific body in the world that endorse their spurious claims.
Just the fact that a person holding the ridiculous “mainstream narrative” position is posting comments here at Information Clearing House should prove you are undoubtedly an internet disinformation operative…
Your pathetic response (likely not going to happen) to the late, great German pathologist Arne Burkhardt’s explosive final interview should be “risible”, indeed:
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/grave-dangers-pathologist-arne-burkhardts-final-warning-to-the-world/
Netanyahoo is salivating for the expansion of this war ,there is no doubt about this .It will not happen but even if Palestine is crippled for many years ,Israel will remain the pariah it has exposed itself to be . It might take years in the making but the
ICJ will write the history . Today the world populace is much more educated about Palestine.
In one way or another the US and its taxpayers have been fighting for the white supremacy Jews of Palestine for 70 years. The theives, murderers, and torturures needed the US for protection.
DEAR FRIEND, THERE ARE NO WHITE SUPREMACY JEWS IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE … YES, THERE ARE WHITE SUPREMACIST ZIONISTS IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE. THESE ZIONISTS PLANNED & ASSISTED NAZIS FOR MASSACRE OF INNOCENT JEWS IN EUROPE. JESUS WAS A BORN PALESTINIAN. HE WAS OF MIDDLE EASTERN ORIGIN & NOT WHITE. ITS THESE EUROPEAN WHITE ZIONISTS (supporters, abettors, connivers to guide & assist Hitler in committing genocide of innocent all them Jews) WHO SHOWED HITLER HOW TO DO IT. THEY ARE COMPLICIT & A PART OF THAT HENIOUS CRIME & NOW DOING SAME IN PALESTINE. JUST SEE HOW CHILDREN ARE BEING EXECUTED.. SO BRAVE ARE THESE ZIONISTS THAT THEY SLAUGHTER UNARMED CHILDREN.
Uncle Sam doesn’t need to be duped, they are willingly complicit in this.
If Anthony Blinken says he is concerned about a wider regional middle eastern war, that means the State Dept. is actively promoting it in some devious way.
Blinken is a hopeless psychopathic defender of genocide. He is also on the AIPAC/Jewish payroll
making many believe that the only way to deal with the white Jews of Palestine would be to place them on an island somewhere away from humanity of course place people like dual citizen Blinken and his ilk with them. This shouldn’t be a problem for them because they are God’s chosen people and their God, whatever god it is, will take good care of them. Leave the Semitic Jews because they have been living in the middle east mostly in peace for hundreds of years and don’t appear to be mentally ill genocidal whackos like the white Jews who created themselves as Jews in the year 600AD.
YES…. YES ; ZIONISTS WANT US TO BE DIRECTLY ENGAGED WITH HEZBOLLAH SYRIA, IRAN, TURKS, SOME OTHER ISLAMIC STATES ETC; THIS WAY ZIONIST ISRAEL WILL NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM. WE ARE INTEGRAL PART OF THEIR MASTER PLAN… .. ZIONIST ISRAEL HAS PLANS TO MAKE A NAVIGATIONAL SHIPPING CANAL FOR MAMMOTH SHIPS FROM THE PORT OF EILAT ON RED SEA PASSING THROUGH ISRAEL, NORTH GAZA TO AN OPENING IN THE MEDITTERANEAN SEA.. THIS WILL BE CALLED ‘BEN GURION CANAL’ OR TO PLEASE SLAVED PALESTINIANS,”PALESTINE CANAL”; THATS WHAT THIS GAZA VENTURE IS.. THIS WAY ZIONISTS WILL CONTROL GLOBAL SHIPPING, GLOBAL BUSINESS ROUTE, MAKING TONS OF MONEY AS CANAL TRANSIT TARRFIFS & TAXES.. SUEZ CANAL WILL BE JUST FOR CANOES CARRYING NON ESSENTIAL TRASH. SO, NORTH GAZA IS PART OF A MASTER PLAN IN WHICH WE ARE FULLY COMPLICIT IN THIS HENIOUS CRIME OF MANSLAUGHTER.