By Walt Zlotow
For the first 5 weeks of President Trump’s criminal war on Iran, mainstream media pretended this was totally a US war to defend the Homeland by destroying Iran’s nuclear bomb capability and neutering its missile arsenal. Israel was barely mentioned tho they started the war by assassinating Iranian leader Ali Khamenei. Israel’s relentless bombing of Iran was largely ignored to focus on the devastating US bombing. Also ignored was Iran’s robust retaliation causing the greatest damage to Israel in its 78 year history.
The reality is that on February 28th Israel realized its three decade dream of getting a US President to serve as their proxy to destroy Iran as Israel’s last hegemonic rival in the Middle East. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the entire 21st century lobbying George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump in term one and Joe Biden to take out Iran. Netanyahu finally hit pay dirt with Donald Trump in term two. On February 11 Netanyahu met with Trump, assuring him that once Israel assassinated Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, the regime would collapse within a few days with Iran’s populous rallying around their US liberators.
Gigantic mistake. The Iranian populous coalesced around the regime which retaliated with devastating effectiveness, not only inflicting massive damage on US, Israeli resources but shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, inflicting worldwide economic decline.
Knowing he’s lost, Trump is seeking an off ramp to save his presidency. Netanyahu, the lead actor in this lost war, will have none of it. He’s sabotaging the ceasefire Trump agreed to which would have allowed Iran to survive, retain control of the Strait and keep its nuclear enrichment and its defensive missile arsenal. Netanyahu’s massive bombing of Lebanon, forbidden by Iran’s 10 Point peace plan, puts the ceasefire hanging by a thread.
Mainstream media has taken note, beginning to allow analysts to publicly state this was largely Netanyahu’s war, not Trump’s. MS NOW’s Jen Psaki gave former Secretary of State John Kerry, who negotiated the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, extensive time to review Netanyahu’s endless demands that US presidents destroy Iran on their behalf. Kerry noted how Netanyahu hyped the imminent Iranian nuclear threat to each president which was swallowed whole only by President Trump. A nuclear agreement meant nothing to Netanyahu. Regime change in a failed state Iran was the sole goal.
The more mainstream media tells the truth about Israel’s central role in Trump’s lost war upending the world economy, the more Trump will be pressured to break with Israel. Whatever Netanyahu has on Trump, whether the hundreds of millions in campaign cash or scandalous Epstein secrets, must be disregarded if Trump has any chance of salvaging his presidency, and more importantly, the world economy.
Keep it up, mainstream news. Expose the dirty secret of Trump’s dirty war launched on orders of Benjamin Netanyahu. If Trump does cut off the weapons train, Israel’s rampage against Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen may be over. Time to force Israel to make peace with their neighbours, not endless war.
Mainstream news can assist that noble goal.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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At last, an opinion piece exposing the truth behind the catastrophe unfolding in the Middle East. The world has turned a blind eye to the genocide in Palestine.
Meanwhile in Australia we are intimidated if we utter a single word that may be defined “anti-Semitic”.
Wholesale slaughter of civilians of any race or creed can never be deemed acceptable.
Methinks that not only Trump is compromised by whatever detail Mossad has accumulated on him and his sycophantic coterie of “advisors” but also on the Zionist influences that financially maintain his tenure in the White House. The main stream media, particularly lead by the Murdochracy, are more interested in publishing salacious tit-bits (no pun intended) than reporting facts about the hidden realities of geopolitics.
Methinks that not only Trump is compromised by whatever detail Mossad has accumulated but also his reliance on the Zionist influences that financially maintain his tenure in the White House. The main stream media, particularly lead by the Murdochracy, are more interested in publishing salacious tit-bits (no pun intended) than reporting the facts hidden behind the realities of geopolitics.
Perhaps the sceptics are correct when they say ”the President of the United States Butcher Bibi has ordered …..”
Meanwhile back in Washington or Mar el Lago or wherever, the PPOTUS (Pederast Protector of the Undemocratic Sewer) the senile, demented, geriatric rants about his greatness in his dreams and destroys the world economy from lack of intelligence (reported IQ=83 = moron).
The notorious “OEF” Operation Epstein Forget, continues to make the news thanks to concerned citizens like Late Night Host Stephen Colbert in NY.
Stopping Butcher Bibi is easily done; simply immediately stop all supply of US State Department supply of armaments being used against the Indigenous Palestinians to maintain the ISREVIL APARTHEID STATE and the Lebanese to expand into Greater Isrevil between the Nile & Euphrates Rivers. Then cut off all financial aid to the Knesset facilitators of this GAZA GENOCIDE.
However, removing the ZIONAZI FACTION followers of Judaism from the US government will be a more difficult task because they occur at all levels of government.
Perhaps McCarthy was correct; America was threatened but today not by the elusive Communists, from whom TACO Trumpery regularly requests advice on how to destroy the US economy without Putin firing a single rocket, but today by the ZIONAZIS employed in government today ….. after then POTUS Harry Truman enabled the formation of the state of Isrevil after the German holocaust and ZIONAZI terrorism in Jerusalem.
Isrevil is a rogue state and the USA (Undemocratic Sewer of Apartheid) is a willing accomplice. Time for Australia to review our defence relationships (See David Tyler articles).
oh gee what a surprise NOT!. The United States of Israevil. Soon to be joined by Israelia.
Good to highlight onshore as too many indie media outlets, contributors and commenters are apportioning blame for this Israeli-US war solely to Albanese, Wong and Marles; symptom of narcissism, avoiding good analysis, in fact helping or supporting the right? Too easy….
Conversely for the RW MSM ecosystem claiming ‘the left is anti-semitic’ are averting their gaze from their US where it’s in plain sight, anti-semitism of many MAGA, white Christian nationalist and Evangelicals; see the outrageous hyposcrisy with neo-Nazis on steps NSW Parliament, seemingly condoned by NSW police and authorities?
The US God botherers’ influence is missed onshore, behind Koch Heritage Project Esther using both Muslims and Jews via Jerusalem for Evangelicals’ ‘End Times’ and ‘The Rapture’; locally gets twisted into domestic point scoring?.