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Lead: Israel Called the Shots
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“When I came to President Trump, I told him, ‘We are going into Iran. I did not ask permission. I simply informed him.'”
Those were Netanyahu’s words during a speech on Wednesday at the Muni Expo conference for local officials in Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu also said he was told, “This is impossible,” and “not to do this.”
But Israel, knowing Washington has historically backed them no matter what, and that any escalation in Iran would put American forces in harm’s way, knew full well this would drag the U.S. into the war.
The U.S. is no victim, though, or innocent bystander; it decided to fund Israel’s military campaign, genocide and all.
In extended remarks, Netanyahu discussed his military achievements, saying Israel went “out into the arena, to initiate, to attack,” adding that “the most important thing we did” in the recent conflicts “was break the barrier of fear.”
So Israel says it broke the barrier of fear. Perhaps for itself.
Because in doing so, it brought terror to the families of the more than 20,000 children who have been killed and more than 44,000 children who were wounded in Gaza in only two years, as well as the families in Lebanon who have been bombed and displaced.
And according to his recent speech, “There is still work to be done, also in Gaza, also in Lebanon, also against Iran.”
It appears Israel is not finished yet. After all, if this is Israel’s war, then it ends when they are ready to end it.
So, to those who branded people antisemites for arguing this was “Israel’s war,” even after Marco Rubio spelled it out for everyone that the United States’ hand had been forced into the conflict, and to those who overlooked AIPAC’s unseating of a congressman who opposed U.S. military aid to Israel… has Netanyahu now made it clear this was Israel’s war from the very beginning?
Interesting timing, considering we’re supposedly winding down the latest war.
Speaking to reporters this week, President Trump said that companies, including General Motors and Ford, are discussing plans to manufacture weapons such as Patriot air-defense missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of a major expansion of U.S. military production.
“I know General Motors is all excited about building weapons now,” Trump said, adding that some civilian factories could be converted for military use as part of what he described as a “big strong economic push.”
The proposal comes after reports that the Pentagon has been meeting with major manufacturers about shifting idle production lines toward weapons production, reviving a World War II-style strategy of turning America’s industrial base into a wartime machine.
Why the sudden urgency?
Years of wasting weapons on the Ukraine war, combined with the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, have burned through large portions of America’s missile stockpile.
All for what?
And now… the U.S. must build more weapons to waste them in more useless wars, while American taxpayers foot the bill.
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