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Close To Home: Israel Strikes Iran
It was a long time coming, but Israel finally responded to Iran's ballistic missile attack.
After weeks of backroom discussions with the White House, the IDF conducted what looked -- initially anyway -- like limited strikes against IRGC targets in and around Tehran early Saturday local time.
According to Pentagon officials who spoke to the press, Benjamin Netanyahu gave the US advance notice. This time. The Biden administration received no such warning on September 27, when Netanyahu ordered t
What ever happened to that “two-state solution” idea?
Meanwhile, I am putting together a growing list of potential investments in military contractors since both the “evil” autocrats and the military industrial complex have huge vested interests in keeping everything (ME, Russia/Ukraine, South China Sea) going at a destabilized level slightly above a “low level simmer”. Waiting, however, until mid/end of November, (hopefully US election results are known by then!) to see who is elected.
No settler colonial state accept a two state solution. Standard mode of operation is to genocide the natives. Israelis know this and they are trapped. It’s a losing proposition at the end. Empty crusader castles are a witness to a former colonial project.
“It’s a losing proposition at the end.”
Not always. You reckon the Native Americans are likely to drive European settlers back across the Atlantic, leaving New York City and Boston as empty castles testifying to a former colonial project any time soon?
I take your broader point, though, and God knows I’ve been pretty abrasive about making it myself at times, but what we’ve seen over the last six weeks with Israel and Hezbollah is that the military-intelligence asymmetry is simply too wide for Israel’s antagonists to overcome in the event Israel brings it to bear in a no-holds-barred fashion. Also, the crusaders didn’t have 94 nuclear warheads.
Iran hysterically downplaying effect of Israeli strikes (they hit nothing! nothing at all!) means they are climbing down, the Israel-Iran exchange of strikes is over, and Iran will sit quietly as Israel does whatever it wants against Hezzbollah, Hamas, and Houthis, and all the H’s know it.