The United States Declines Israels Invitation To Start WW3 (For Now) by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-04-14 at 21:24:36 )

The United States Declines Israels Invitation To Start WW3 (For Now) by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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President Biden could end all this with one phone call. The fact that he does not means he is a monster, and no amount of mass media reports about how "concerned" and "frustrated" he is regarding Israels actions will ever change that.

Iran has carried out its long-promised retaliation for Israels attack on its consulate building in Damascus, launching a massive barrage of drones and missiles which it claims hit and destroyed Israeli military targets, while Israel says they dealt only superficial damage with a few injuries. The United States and its allies reportedly helped shoot down a number of the Iranian projectiles.

Just as we discussed in the lead-up to the strike, the western political-media class are acting as though this was a completely unprovoked attack launched against the innocent, Bambi-eyed victim Israel.

Comments from western officials and pundits and headlines from the mass media are omitting the fact that Israel instigated these hostilities with its extreme act of aggression in Syria as much as possible.

Here in Australia the Sydney Morning Herald write-up about the strike did not get around to informing its readers about the attack on the Iranian consulate until the tenth paragraph of the article, and said only that Iran had "accused" Israel of launching the attack because Israel has never officially confirmed it.

UPDATED: Iran Launches Major Drone and Missile Attack on Israel
Tel Aviv condemned the move as a “dangerous escalation” and claimed to have repelled most incoming projectiles
by Will Porter TheWillPorter #Iran #Israel #IRGC #drones "please see here:"-Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) April 14, 2024

In any case, Iran says the attack is now over. Given that we are not seeing any signs of massive damage, Irans reported claim that its retaliation would be calibrated to avoid escalation into a full-scale regional war seems to have been accurate, as does Washington,D.C.s reported claim that it did not expect the strike to be large enough to draw the United States into war.

A new report from Axios says Biden has personally told Netanyahu that the United States will not be supporting any Israeli military response to the Iranian strike.

An anonymous senior White House official told Axios that Biden said to Netanyahu, "You got a win. Take the win," in reference to the number of Iranian weapons that were taken out of the sky by the international coalition in Israels defense. Apparently helping to mitigate the damage from the Iranian attack is all the military commitment the White House is willing to make against Iran at this time.

And thank all that is holy for that. A war between the United States alliance and Iran and its allies would be the stuff of nightmares, making the horrors we have been seeing in Gaza these last six months look like an episode of Peppa Pig.

But Washington,D.C. merely declining to get involved is nowhere near enough. As the Quincy Institutes Trita Parsi quipped on Twitter, "Biden needs to PREVENT further escalation, not just declare his desire to stay out of it."

Not significant enough.

Biden needs to PREVENT further escalation, not just declare his desire to stay out of it. "please see here:"-Trita Parsi (tparsi) April 14, 2024

Indeed, Israel has already made it clear that it is going to be moving forward with an escalation against Iran. Israels Channel 12 cites an unnamed senior official saying the Iranian counter strike is going to receive an "unprecedented response".

"Israel has already informed the Americans and governments in the region that its response is inevitable," The Economist reports. "Its military options include launching drones at Iran, and long-range airstrikes on Iran, possibly on military bases or nuclear installations."

It is unclear at this time how much the latest message from the Biden administration will affect the calculations of this position, but the mass media are reporting that White House officials are worried Israel is getting ready to do something extremely reckless that could draw the United States into a war it would rather avoid.

NBC News reports the following:

"Some top United States officials are concerned Israel could do something quickly in response to Irans attacks without thinking through potential fallout afterward, according to a senior administration official and a senior defense official.

"Those concerns stem in part from the administrations views of the approach Israel has taken to its war against Hamas, as well as the attack in Damascus.

"President Joe Biden has privately expressed concern that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to drag the United States more deeply into a broader conflict, according to three people familiar with his comments."

Read this piece on why Bibi chose to radically escalate with his April 1 strike on Irans diplomatic compound. It is by Paul Pillar, who knows the territory-he was once in charge of analysis of the Middle East for CIA & all other United States intelligence agencies. "please see here:"-Robert Wright (robertwrighter) April 13, 2024

People have been raising this concern for some time now. Earlier this month Responsible Statecrafts Paul Pillar wrote up a solid argument that Netanyahu stands a lot to gain personally from drawing the United States into a war with Iran to help him with his legal and political troubles and take the focus off of Israels genocide in Gaza.

Whether that is the case or not it is pretty absurd for the Biden administration to just sit around passively hoping this does not happen as though it would not have a say in the matter, and as though there is nothing it can do to prevent such an occurrence right now.

President Biden has had the ability to end this insane cycle of escalation in the middle east since it started six months ago by demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and demanding that Israel rein in its murder machine, just as United States presidents have done successfully in the past.

President Biden could end all this with one phone call.

The fact that he does not means he is a monster, and no amount of mass media reports about how "concerned" and "frustrated" he is regarding Israels actions will ever change that.

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