(orginally published by Press TV)
by Kevin Barrett, for Press TV
Almost every politically-aware person on the planet is puzzled by
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bizarre obsession with Iran.
Netanyahu is risking his political career, his reputation, and Israel’s
future by intervening in the US presidential elections. He is using all
of Zionism’s considerable might – including organized crime assets like
“Las Vegas Godfather” Sheldon Adelson – to force Obama to attack Iran;
or, failing that, to make sure that Obama is defeated by the Zionist
puppet Romney. There are even rumors of Israeli-sponsored assassination attempts on Obama.
Even the rabidly pro-Zionist (but relatively honest) Jewish Daily Forward editorialized:
It’s difficult to recall a time when an Israeli prime minister
has inserted himself into a presidential election campaign in the way
that Benjamin Netanyahu has. It’s even harder to recall a time when a
trusted ally openly urged the American president to undertake a
questionable, unpopular and highly risky war. We sure hope Netanyahu
knows what he’s doing, because the stakes for him — and for the two
nations he professes to care about the most — could not be higher.
The Jewish Daily Forward has good reasons to wonder whether
Netanyahu knows what he’s doing. The editorialist cites polls showing
that the American people strongly oppose attacking Iran, even if war
breaks out between Iran and Israel and only US intervention could save
Israel! These polls show that American voters no longer give a damn
whether Israel, which has chosen to live by the sword, finally dies by
the sword. As Dave Lindorff observes,
Netanyahu’s mad obsession with pushing the US into yet another unwanted
war for Israel “may have fundamentally undermined the long-standing
‘special relationship’ between the US and Israel.
And still Netanyahu continues on this seemingly suicidal course. He
even orders the Mossad and its CIA assets including Gladio veteran Terry
Jones to unleash a rabidly anti-Islam film, spammed into the faces of
every Muslim on the planet via millions of dollars of computer server
time and intelligence agency expertise – an obvious attempt to fan the
flames of islamophobia and pave the way to a US war on Iran for Israel.
Obama, who is on record saying he hates Netanyahu and that Netanyahu is a
liar, and who knows that Netanyahu manufactured the “Innocence of
Muslims” crisis to try to get Romney elected, responded by refusing to meet with Netanyahu in New York, and going on the David Letterman Show instead. A more blatant snub could hardly be imagined.
So what in the world is Netanyahu really up to? Does he actually
believe that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, even though the CIA has
certified that it does not? Does he really think that even if Iran DID
have a nuclear weapons program, any Iranian government would be crazy
enough to guarantee Iran’s incineration by launching a first strike
against Israel?
Of course he doesn’t really believe such nonsense. Even hard-line
Israeli strategists admit that Iran appears to be only developing
nuclear expertise, not actual weapons, and that in their worst-case
scenario, Israel could live with a nuclear-armed Iran. After all, Iran
has not attacked another nation in centuries.
Since the “nuclear crisis” is a hoax (like alleged Iraqi WMD in 2003)
then what is the real reason for Netanyahu’s Iran obsession? Is it the
Iranian government’s support for anti-Zionist resistance groups like
Hamas and Hezbollah, and its calls for an end to Zionism through free
and fair elections?
Perhaps. Iran’s open commitment to principled anti-Zionism represents
the nearly unanimous position of the people of the Middle East, who
have never accepted the genocidal Zionist entity as a legitimate state.
Israel has been able to bully every other government in the region into
shameful silence. The Islamic Republic of Iran will not be silenced.
Leveling Iran with bombs would send a message to future Middle Eastern
governments: Do not give a voice to your people’s resistance to Zionism,
or else!
But while starting a war might punish Iran for its anti-Zionism, such
a war would carry terrible risks for Israel. Even if all went well for
Israel on the battlefield, the suffering of the people of Iran would
probably shame the world into turning against Zionism even more sharply
than the world turned against apartheid in the 1980s.
And there is no guarantee that things would go well for Israel on the
battlefield. Iran has the capability to riddle Israel with rocket
attacks, or even to take out Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility and
perhaps render Israel and much of the surrounding region permanently
uninhabitable. And Israel does not have the capability to seriously
damage Iran’s nuclear program without US help. If the US intervened on
the side of Israel, Iran could shut the Straits of Hormuz, and possibly
sink many if not all of the ships there with Sunburn missiles, driving
gasoline prices over $10 a gallon and paralyzing the world economy.
Additionally, Iran has the capability to massively attack the US bases
that surround it, killing thousands if not tens of thousands of US
soldiers. A US president, especially one who dislikes Netanyahu and puts
America’s interests ahead of Israel’s, would be very unlikely to help
Netanyahu attack Iran.
Given that a war on Iran is a lose-lose proposition for Israel, why
is Netanyahu fanatically fanning the flames of war, to the extent that
even his American Zionist cheering section is baffled and embarrassed by
his behavior?
Some question Netanyahu’s intelligence, arguing that he is just a
furniture salesman who has been promoted far beyond his level of
incompetence. While there may be some truth to this – I certainly
wouldn’t want to overestimate Netanyahu’s intelligence – I don’t think
he’s quite that stupid. I think Netanyahu has a very good
reason to prefer war with Iran, despite all its risks, to peace. I think
he does know what he’s doing.
Netanyahu needs the 9/11-triggered 100-years-war on Islam to continue for the very good reason that if it does not, the State of Emergency
still in place in the US will be lifted, and Americans, unencumbered by
the National Security restrictions of wartime, will quickly learn what
really happened on September 11th, 2001. That possibility poses a very real existential threat to Israel – and to Netanyahu.
As Alan Sabrosky, former Director of Strategic Studies at the US Army War College, told Press TV:
“I have had long conversations over the past two weeks with contacts at
the Army War College, at the Marine Corps Headquarters, and I have made
it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100 percent certain that
9/11 was a Mossad operation. Period. If Americans ever know that Israel
did this, they are going to scrub them off the earth.” And even if
Israel were “scrubbed off the earth” peacefully through a one-state
solution, Netanyahu would certainly hang for his role in the 9/11
attacks.
Unfortunately for Netanyahu and Zionism, Dr. Sabrosky isn’t the only
US National Security insider leaking the truth about 9/11. Hundreds of
military and intelligence people have come forward (see:
http://patriotsquestion911.com/ ).The two biggest recent leaks are revelations by CIA asset Susan Lindauer
that the CIA had detailed foreknowledge of 9/11 and attributed the
controlled demolitions of the three NYC skyscrapers to “those goddamned
Israelis”; and the assertion by Gwenyth Todd,
who worked beside Richard Clarke on the National Security Council, that
Clarke (who was publicly fired from an earlier job for being an Israeli
spy) is the top suspect as hands-on controller of 9/11 from the US end.
Yes, you heard that right: Richard Clarke’s colleague on the National
Security Counsel, Gwenyth Todd, suspects Clarke of masterminding and
running the 9/11 attacks. If Todd and other high-level sources are right
about this, Clarke’s book’s title Your Government Failed You is an understatement.
Some of the same high-level sources who finger Richard Clarke as the
US boss of the Israeli-instigated 9/11 false-flag operation also claim
that President Obama, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dempsey, and
other powerful Americans are considering exposing the truth about 9/11
during a second Obama term. In other words, Obama’s re-election could
put Israel out of business, and get Netanyahu hanged from the nearest
lamp-post.
No wonder Netanyahu is “overplaying his hand” by doing everything he
can to get rid of Obama. And no wonder Netanyahu is desperately trying
to throw gasoline on the “clash of civilizations” fire and trigger war
with Iran. A huge Middle East war, no matter how destructive, would
maintain the wartime State of Emergency in the US and impede the
inexorable revelation of America’s biggest state secret: That American
traitors, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush,
Richard Myers, and others, helped Israel blow up the World Trade Center,
bomb the Pentagon, and kill 3000 Americans on 9/11.
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