The situation highlights U.S. complicity in Israel’s actions and potential escalation with Iran.
By Finian Cunningham
How absurd! U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is “frenetically” crisscrossing the Middle East “warning” that the conflict is escalating to engulf the region.
Arsonist Washington is shouting ‘Fire’ in a region it is blowing up.
This is while Washington is fueling Israel’s non-stop genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. And while the United States and Israel assassinate top Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian commanders in Lebanon and Iraq.
This is while the United States blatantly blocks calls at the United Nations for a ceasefire, and while it dispatches warships and warplanes to the region.
Blinken is touring nine countries this week including Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Israel. It’s his fifth trip to the region since October 7.
A headline on NBC declared: ‘Violence spikes in West Bank as Blinken aims to limit spread of conflict’.
As with much of the Western media coverage, Washington is portrayed as some kind of hapless peace advocate. The delusional posturing is stomach-churning when the reality is that the United States is fully complicit in the genocide against Palestinians. And it is fully complicit in dangerously escalating the region-wide conflict.
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It is a sick joke to present Blinken and the administration of President Joe Biden as trying to tamp down regional tensions that have reached boiling point precisely because of U.S. policy supporting and arming Israel’s relentless massacres.
Washington has pointedly refused to demand that Israel call a ceasefire to the slaughter that began on October 7 following Hamas attacks on Israel. The genocidal offensive by Israel is now going into its fourth month with a death toll estimated at nearly 30,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, according to Euro-Med Monitor.
The U.S. is insanely militarizing the region adding more fuel to the inferno. The deployment of naval forces in the Red Sea to counter Yemen’s blockade of Israeli shipping is just part of the broader militarization in support of Israel. There’s no need for a naval flotilla if a ceasefire were implemented.
The Biden administration has again this week rebuffed Arab and Islamic leaders calling for a ceasefire and urgent access for humanitarian aid to Gaza and the West Bank, where conditions have deteriorated to a wretched famine for nearly two million people. Still, Washington does nothing even as Israeli politicians openly talk about ethnically cleansing the occupied Palestinian territories.
If the Middle East slides into a conflagration, make no mistake, the disaster will be owned by Washington. The appeasement of the Israeli regime by the United States has been going on for decades and has fully stoked the tinderbox situation of injustice and oppression. But the last four months of total indulgence of a lawless genocidal regime is the final trigger.
One possible get-out for the U.S. is to blame Iran and its regional allies and in that way try to divide and rule the Arab nations.
Under the headline, ‘The threat of a broader conflict with Iran’, the New York Times editorialized: “Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks in Israel and Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip have emboldened a newly aggressive Iran. After launching scores of attacks across the region, Iranian proxy groups have come into direct conflict with U.S. forces twice in the past week, and Washington is openly threatening airstrikes if the violence does not abate.”
That’s an astounding feat of reality-inversion by the Times. The slaughter by Israel fully enabled by the United States is somehow projected onto Iran as being “emboldened and newly aggressive”.
But you can easily discern what Washington is getting at here. It’s trying to divert the growing region-wide hostility and disgust towards America and its hypocritical European accomplices by playing the Iranian card.
CNN reported: “Many of Blinken’s conversations with Arab leaders will focus on the specter of Iran, which is believed, experts and officials say [sic], to be trying to stir the pot while stopping short of provoking an outright war.” (That’s CNN quoting U.S. intelligence propaganda sources, by the way.)
The Americans urgently need to puncture the accumulating anger against Washington and Israel across the region by scapegoating Iran as the villain. This is an attempt to rile up past sectarian rivalries between the Sunni Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran.
Washington is trying to make out that Iran and its regional allies Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iraq, as well as the Houthis in Yemen and the Syrian state led by Assad, are the enemy of peace in the region. It is an audacious move.
This week the New York Times resurrected fears of Iran being close to building a nuclear bomb. It claimed that Tehran was only “weeks” from converting enriched uranium into three weapons. The CIA’s favorite newspaper platform also in the same article sought to portray Iran in a new alliance with Russia and China implying that the latter was now helping Iran build a bomb.
This could be the ultimate reckless gamble by Washington and its Israeli proxy.
The Israelis are unhinged enough to launch airstrikes on Iran to purportedly take out alleged nuclear facilities. Israel has threatened to do so in the past. Even though Iran has repeatedly denied having any intention of building a nuclear weapon. And, in any case, so what if Iran did? Israel has an estimated 150 nuclear bombs, all obtained illegally.
The abominable genocide that is going on in Gaza and the West Bank is demonstrating the rank exposure of American imperialist crimes. The world can see more than ever the complicity of Washington in Israel’s war crimes. Not just complicity but full-on culpability.
In its desperation to divert global attention from its blood-soaked hands, Washington and its Israeli attack dog see one way out: to escalate the conflict with Iran.
Finian Cunningham. Former editor and writer for major news media organizations. He has written extensively on international affairs
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13 responses to “US Uses Conflict With Iran as Scapegoat for Its Genocidal Crimes”
In spite of the endless propaganda from the fools in tel aviv they can’t get a reaction from iran that they want.
The sad part to all this is that even if Trump was President, Israel has enough leverage on him to do the same thing! Just think of it this way – any candidate who has the position and power to address Israel and hold it accountable will be “eliminated” either physically or socially/politically by this parasite of a nation! Instead of Palestinians having to find a “new home”, those in charge in Tel Aviv and DC should be placed in a “new home”- prison!
Bring on The Poiseden Option, I reckon.
Mr Finian, once again, doing doing Russian job, not a word about Russian & Chinese Fiasko in UNSC! Shame on you!
He wasn’t referring to Russia or China here. get it?
True, but wait a moment. Had Russia or China vetoed the recent UNSC on Yemen, this could have been averted. By abstaining from voting Russia and China provided legitimacy for US- act of terrorism against Yemen. UN Resolution 2722, is a historical disgrace to the international council, which claims to protect international peace and security. What is really outrageous and sickening is that Russia (and China) began condemning U.S. acts of terrorism that both Russia and China failed to vetoed. It is Libya deja vu Resolution 1973. In all this, Russia is the biggest beneficiary of the Palestinian Genocide.
The answer to that question was explained in full detail by Dr. Norm Finkelstein in a recent interview. In China’s case, their posture is due to the fear of being accused rightly or not of oppressing the Uyghur minority. Regarding Russia, he explains that by condemning the Zionist genocide they would obviously be accused (again) of attacking an innocent nation, as it happened since the start of the SMO which is not the case. We must remember that these two countries plus Iran are leaders of the new ‘Coalition of Evil’ as described by the Neocon American/European entente. No doubt that the fake narrative is dominated by the western press.
Exactly. Thank you.
Anthony Blinken——-what a disgusting man. The man of NO TRUTH. The man of NO HUMANITY—-and worst of all he is the man that is overpaid for PRETENDING to guide the world. A dangerous man—not only for his greed , but for his attempt to play all the parties at same time.
Increasingly desperate and dangerous mRNA bioweapons mass murderers of an estimated 17-20 millions worldwide fully understand there are attorneys across the Earth determined to bust them for committing the greatest crimes against humanity in world history. They are desperate enough to trigger World War III as their sole means of escaping prosecution – as at this historical turning point, the mass murderers are indeed playing for “All the marbles’”
Such articles as these that repeatedly tell us the same things would be more helpful if they gave us underlying explanations. For instance,
“The world can see more than ever the complicity of Washington in Israel’s war crimes. Not just complicity but full-on culpability.”
We all know about the complicity of Washington, so I suggest you explain why this complicity exists. Please also start from what we know how the US government is influenced. That means campaign contributions. That means bribes. Who does the bribing? For that, here’s a suggestion.
There are 275 Jewish political organizations in the US that are headed by US Jews. Anyone with political acumen understands the humongous political impact from such a large number of organizations directed solely by the political concerns of Jews, both Israeli Jews and diaspora Jews. We know their total funding is up in the 100’s of millions of dollars a year, with endowments in the billions.
Yet nobody talks about these groups, nor even mention that they exist. I mean even the most respectable journalists critical of Israel. The one exception I’ve found is Phillip Girardi, and I thank him for doing that. But how can this be? Do you suspect that the underlying reason for such secrecy is part of the underlying reason for US complicity to Jewish war crimes?
Of course there’s no proof but very probable that the vast numbers of AIPAC “non profits” are often funded through US government grants then funneled to various US congressmen and genecide projects in Israel. Indelibly in my mind are the words of Eric Holder, former attorney general, when he released a Jew who was caught stealing secrets from the Pentagon, “it would be anti Semitic” to prosecute a Jew. The Americans caught along with the Jew served jail time.
It’s obvious that I’m not a Jew hater or so called ‘anti Semitic’, description attached to people who dare to criticize the Zionist entity known as Israel. The reason being that despite my belief that every person supporting Israel is somebody possibly connected to that infamous group by their ancestry I’m not a Jew hater per se. I mention this because of the zeal and determination shown by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, moved me to check his background and alas, I found his Hungarian Jewish heritage. No wonder he is so motivated in all of his actions related to Israel. This shows that the obvious Jewish patronymic of a person is not always present, or in most cases for some peculiar reason they change their names to better blend into gentile society. A classic case is the one of Golda Meir former Israeli PM who felt that her name was not ‘Jewish’ enough and changed it from her original Ukrainian born Golda Mabovich to Golda Meir. This real (no fabricated) events, force us to maybe apply the French method implied in the expression ‘Cherchez la femme’ modified into ‘Cherchez le Jew’, in the possibility that an evil doer might be of Jewish extraction by definition. Sorry state of affairs indeed, justified by historical records. Every well educated person even being not religious, needs to read the Jewish bible together with other great works of literature. In it they will find that Jewish prophets themselves warned in the holy book:
‘Eretz Israel will be punished by the Lord because of its evil deeds’. I’m not making this up, is in their own history.