Whenever Netanyahu is in distress, he calms his tormented soul with the deeply satisfying infliction of gratuitous pain and suffering on Palestinians.
It's also red meat to his supporters.
Making a deal with Iran would require Trump to formally accept the defeat of his regime change war and return at least some of Iran's stolen ("frozen") assets. He hasn't been willing to do that, so has spent weeks stalling for time. That gave Israel an opening to act as a spoiler, which it seized by escalating its aggression against Lebanon.
Perhaps Israel and the US thought that Iran was desperate enough for a deal to stand down. By striking Israel today, Iran has shown that it will not abandon Hezbollah and south Lebanon.
Now the onus is back on Trump: is he willing to respect Iran and Lebanon as sovereign nations and have peace, or is the cause of Greater Israel worth continuing the war.
Israel and the United States are the axis of evil in the world. They are rogue states that commit war crimes and practice terrorism.
Without unconditional American political, diplomatic, and military support, Israel would neither dare nor have the capability to commit acts of genocide.
I blame the silent of the nations, because change comes from them, not from corrupt or complicit political elites.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
@Jonathan_K_Cook@jimmy_dore They not only purposefully destroyed all bastions of society , but all markers of it too. Even the graves were destroyed, to erase even the memory of the society they seek to replace.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich participated in the "Israel Day" march in New York City.
This reflects the extent of support that prominent figures in the Israeli occupation government still enjoy, despite the ICC arrest warrant against him.
Smotrich is considered one of the most extremist members of the Israeli government due to his hardline positions and statements regarding the genocide in Gaza, settlements, and Palestinian rights.
How can one speak of international justice when those accused of violating it are received as honored guests?
🔴 Champion of Starvation
📌 Smotrich is known for statements that have sparked international condemnation, including:
📌 Justifying the starvation of Palestinians
📌 Calling for the expansion of settlements
📌 Rejecting any prospect of a Palestinian state
🔴 Extremists March Together
📌 Smotrich was joined by members of extremist evangelical groups.
📌 They view support for the Israeli occupation as a religious duty.
📌 The march united Israeli religious nationalism and the American religious right.
🔴 American officials pictured
📌 The event was attended by prominent figures and officials in New York City, along with Senator Chuck Schumer and former mayor Eric Adams.
📌 The march became a platform for legitimizing one of the most extreme figures in the Israeli occupation government, like Smotrich.
Minister Itzhak Wasserlauf, who called soldiers to smash Palestinian babies on rocks, led the Israel Day Parade in New York today, alongside some of the most deranged Israeli MKs and ministers who regularly call for genocide and ethnic cleansing. Mamdani's NYC is fully complicit.
Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City.
These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today.
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For decades, the choirmasters of the Hasbara Symphony Orchestra have had a foolproof formula:
1. Spew lies, fabrications, hatred, and dehumanization about Palestinians and Arabs (and more recently, Muslims) like it’s going out of style;
2. When called out for concocting falsehoods and promoting bigotry, play the aggrieved victim, and accuse those who reveal their fabrications of anti-Semitism and support for terrorism;
3. Intimidate adversaries by reporting them to the authorities, their employers, and others with the power to punish them.
Someone should inform Elon Musk’s pet demagogue those days are long gone, and never coming back.