Day after day, it is the same defense. Israel attacks Lebanon. But you can't condemn them for that. If you do, well look, someone will cry about the Holocaust, someone will post pictures of Hitler, someone will boo hoo about how people hate the Joos. None of those things have a damn thing to do with what Israel is doing today.
How about attempting a rebuttal? Wouldn't that be unique? Seriously, what did Trump think he was going to accomplish by attacking Iran?
The first is that its account seems to confirm the view that Trump was led into the war by Israel: an idea now causing increasing anger in the United States in a population which started out against the war and has increasingly turned against Israel.
Extraordinary reporting reveals how Israel made the case for regime change in Iran — and how the fallout is driving a profound shift in American opinion, amid deep uncertainty about what the war has achieved.
www.abc.net.au
Israel pushed for this war. Israel provided the intelligence, the targeting. Back to the article,
Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman report that, in that Situation Room meeting, Netanyahu and his team "outlined conditions they portrayed as pointing to near-certain victory: Iran's ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks".
"The regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz, and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against US interests in neighbouring countries was assessed as minimal."
Further, "Mossad's intelligence indicated that street protests inside Iran would begin again and — with the impetus of the Israeli spy agency helping to foment riots and rebellion — an intense bombing campaign could foster the conditions for the Iranian opposition to overthrow the regime".
Boy howdy, did they forever more miss that one. Hell, they got almost nothing right. The Strait is effectively closed. Missed that one. Yes, Iran was able to strike US interests in neighboring countries. Hell, we sent in special forces to capture a downed pilot. And street protests? Hell, we have bought the country closer together, leadership is probably more radical, and Iran's status around the world just jumped up several notches.