Israel Suddenly Has A Problem With Attacks On Population Centers by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-08-13 at 17:46:29 )

Israel Suddenly Has A Problem With Attacks On Population Centers by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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This is of course rich coming from the regime that has spent ten months turning Gaza into a flattened wasteland of rubble and civilian corpses.

Israel has been loudly and melodramatically fretting about an impending retaliatory attack from Iran and Hezbollah which it claims will likely include strikes in the vicinity of civilian population centers. This is of course rich coming from the regime that has spent ten months turning Gaza into a flattened wasteland of rubble and civilian corpses.

A Washington Post article titled "Israel anticipates direct attack from Iran; United States deploys more vessels to region" contains the following interesting paragraph:

"Israel has communicated to Iran and Hezbollah that targeting civilian population centers would be considered a red line for Israel, which is preparing for a spectrum of scenarios, including one in which Hezbollah attacks first and is joined by Iran afterward, said Yoel Guzansky, a former official on Israels National Security Council who is now a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv."

Israels fretting about attacks on its population centers is echoed in a recent Axios post titled "New Israeli intelligence suggests Iran prepares to attack Israel within days," whose Israeli intel sources "said the attacks by Hezbollah and Iran are likely to be bigger than the one conducted by Iran last April and include the launching of missiles and drones at military targets in central Israel, including in the vicinity of civilian population centers."

This claim that Iran may launch attacks "in the vicinity of civilian population centers" is funny in a couple of different ways.

Firstly, the IDF headquarters is located smack dab in the heart of Tel Aviv, so any attack on the hub of the Israeli war machine would necessarily occur in the vicinity of civilian population centers.

Secondly, it is funny because Israel has spent years justifying its attacks on Palestinian population centers by claiming Hamas is using "human shields" by surrounding themselves with civilians to deter attacks.

Placing a legitimate military target in the heart of a civilian population center and then declaring a "red line" against attacking civilian population centers where legitimate military targets are located-after launching an insanely escalatory assassination in Tehran - is obviously using civilians as human shields.

And what is wild is that Israels own claims about Hamas using human shields in the same way have been conclusively debunked, firstly by the self-evident fact that the presence of civilians obviously does not deter Israeli attacks at all, and secondly by revelations that the IDF deliberately waits to launch airstrikes on suspected Hamas members until they are at home with their families, thereby ensuring the maximum number of civilian deaths possible.

It goes without saying that Israel does not have any sincere concern for civilian lives, at least for anyone who has paid attention to its actions at any time between the states inception and today.

But it is worth highlighting these contradictions anyway, to contextualize all the histrionic garment-rending we are going to witness should an attack on or near civilian population centers occur in the coming days.

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