By Walt Zlotow
No Israel, no Iran war. That fact is AWOL from any coverage of criminal US, Israeli war destroying Iran, US Gulf States bases and possibly the world economy.
Destroying Iran as a hegemonic rival preventing their Middle East expansion of Greater Israel has been Israel’s objective for decades. But the small country of Israel, without billions in US firepower and participation could never accomplish their cherished goal. What to do? Put tremendous carrot and stick pressure on Donald Trump to achieve Israel’s Middle East supremacy.
They came close to getting George W. Bush to take out Iran after Bush demolished Afghanistan and Iraq back in 2003. But Bush stopped his war-crazed Veep Dick Cheney from pulling the Iran war trigger.
Obama was a huge problem for Israel. Instead of attacking Iran he made peace with it… or tried to. His leadership in creating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) put the end to any concern that Iran was developing nuclear weapons. Which they never were. It should have stopped Israel’s lust to destroy Iran. But it didn’t. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked on a relentless propaganda campaign to destroy the JCPOA.
His dream was realized when Trump succeeded Obama in 2017. A year later, Trump, likely following Netanyahu’s orders, withdrew from the JCPOA, putting Iran regime change back in play.
When Biden succeeded Trump in 2021, Netanyahu garnered another complacent ally in the White House. Biden did nothing to rejoin the JCPOA and normalize relations with Iran. But the Israeli genocide in Gaza, fully supported and funded by Biden, put Iran on the back burner.
Enter Donald Trump – back in power in 2025. Within 9 months he secured a ceasefire in Gaza. Palestinian genocide switched places with Iran on the forefront of destruction. Iran moved into Trump’s crosshairs to please his Israeli masters.
Had Harris succeeded Biden, likely no Iran war. Unlike Trump, Harris was neither as fully funded by the Israel lobby nor possibly subject to Israeli blackmail threatening to expose Trump’s peccadillos.
But Trump, totally in the bag for Netanyahu’s plan to destroy Iran, was fine with issuing imaginary warnings about Iran being an imminent threat to America requiring unprovoked attack. The 12 day war last June was a prelude to the Trump/Netanyahu tag team attack last month going for broke. It broke all right… but for US, Israeli defeat, not Iran’s.
So how do we know Israel instigated, promoted, demanded Trump launch his second criminal attack on Iran in 8 months? In one of the most astonishing revelations of presidential criminality in US history, Trump’s top counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, publicly quit 18 days into Trump’s Israeli inspired war. Kent, who reported to Directory of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, did more than just quit. He released a long statement laying out how Iran posed no imminent threat to America.
Mainstream news briefly mentioned Kent’s resignation and moved on. He was essentially banished from print, digital and television news. Why? Couple of reasons. Not a single person in the Trump administration could refute Kent’s accusation. The veracity of his argument was substantiated by Kent’s boss Tulsi Gabbard. At a Senate hearing, she refused to refute or criticize Kent. When asked if Iran posed an imminent threat to America, Gabbard, whose job it is to determine imminent threats, punted, saying it was only Trump who could determine imminent threats. One Senator pondered if Gabbard had any notion of what her job requirement was.
A bigger reason Kent disappeared from scrutiny is what mainstream media did not report. Kent laid the blame for Trump’s criminal invasion of Iran squarely on Israel and its American lobby. His full statement should have been splashed on every front page, every lead story on cable news
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war.
“As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”
Every person in the Trump administration, every person in the military not controlled by the Israel Lobby knows Kent spoke the truth. We’re left with a failed war of choice, the supreme international crime, killing thousands, blowing up the Middle East and possibly crashing the world economy. All this inspired by a country of 9 million people manipulating a country of 349 million people
Mainstream media disgraces public debate and discussion vital for a sane foreign policy by suppressing Kent’s irrefutable truths on Israel’s role in the Iran war.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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Joe Kent was correct ….. the present most dangerous element in world politics are the European ZIONAZIs with their religious fantasy of returning to Jerusalem after being dragged in chains to Babylon, over 2,000 years ago.
Recent genetic analyses show that European askenasi ZIONAZIs have no link with Palestine, so this fabricated claim is demolished.
Their pipedream of living in a racist, monotheistic, apartheid country exploiting the ”under-class” Palestinian landowners whose property they have coveted for at least 100 years, since before the 1917 Balfour Declaration extracted from the English government as part of a re-financing WWI that the Poms were losing at that time.
Currently renegade European & American ZIONAZIS are assassinating Indigenous Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank with impunity from the ZIONAZI Knesset and any legal consequences.
Perhaps Australia is lucky that the preliminary attempt to have the ZIONAZI ”Jerusalem” in Australia, or East Africa, or West Africa all failed.
Cocky said Perhaps Australia is lucky that the preliminary attempt to have the ZIONAZI ”Jerusalem” in Australia, or East Africa, or West Africa all failed.
Amen to that.
But I cannot see the value in worrying over who is in charge.
They’re in this together, for different reasons, and at one point their interests overlap.
One of the reasons for the chaos of this conflict is the difference in interests between the US and Israel.
Different interests means that there is a difference of goals and therefore of the means to achieve those goals.
But what does it matter?
The underlying fact is that we would have no conflict at all if the US did not hope for world domination.
The easing of US oil sanctions has allowed Russia to gain billions in additional revenue, with analysts estimating a boost of up to $10 billion monthly in extra export revenues as global prices rose.
Estimates suggest Russia earned roughly $6.5–$8.77 billion from fossil fuel exports in just the first two weeks following the policy shift by Trump.
This much needed revenue obviously enhances the Russian Spring offensive against Ukraine, due to start anytime.
In the meantime Trump has allowed Netanyahu to seize Southern Lebanon and consign close to one million Lebanese to refugee status in their own land – it’s most unlikely, despite UN resolutions that Israel will relinquish this land in Southern Lebanon which they are already claiming as ‘Greater Israel’!!
Is Trump an absolute menace or what? If he had done nothing but play golf since being re-elected things could not have gone worse for the planet!
Go figure!
“Enter Donald Trump – back in power in 2025. Within 9 months he secured a ceasefire in Gaza.”
WHAT ceasefire???
@ Steve: Agreed.
@ Terry Mills: Well, Putin had to get a slice of the profit from the TACO Trumpery disaster in the Straits of Hormuz, the hidden 1988 pics determined that. Then Ukraine has slipped of the MMMM front page thanks to the unscripted antics of the ZIONAZI puppet.
What’s missed in the risible Anglophere is how there is a property developer masquerading as an envoy in the backgrounded well acquainted with Trump, Netanyahu, MBS, Putin and Murdoch, Jared Kushner…..
With the ABC (Radio) on strike we have been receiving news via the BBC and what has been shown is the difference in the way the BBC are prepared to call a spade a spade and not hold back on criticism on matters affecting the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East.
If the ABC were as critical of Israel’s role as the BBC we would have cries of antisemitism directed at the broadcaster by the very noisy Jewish Lobby.
For instance, in recent days Israel has demolished the main bridges linking Lebanon’s south to the rest of the country after ordering its military to destroy all crossings over Lebanon’s Litani River and to step up the demolition of homes near the southern border.
We get this news but we tend to have it given a vanilla coating so as not to offend anybody. In reality the IDF have hustled over one million Lebanese from their homes and made them refugees in their own land, consigned to Northern Lebanon. This is a land grab and these people will not be allowed back into Southern Lebanon as their houses are being demolished and, of course, all river crossings have been destroyed by Israel.
The BBC tells it as it is with correspondents on the ground seeing what is happening and why it’s happening.
The destruction of bridges and homes marks a significant escalation in Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon — International law generally prohibits militaries from attacking civilian infrastructure, and the United Nations human rights chief has criticized Israel’s actions in Lebanon, particularly its use of widespread forced removal orders.
The UN also point to the breaches of UN Resolutions which Israel consistently ignores.
Whilst I may have some sympathy for the ABC staff and their strike, I am more concerned about the apparent fudging of the news to appease political lobby groups.