by Oui
Sun Oct 6th, 2024 at 05:40:03 AM EST
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Post Neoconic Wars, Hypocrisy Thrives In the West
Aren't We Human, Just Like You?
Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
During the eight years of the First Persian Gulf War (or the Iran-Iraq War), Iraqi forces led by Saddam Hussein developed and deployed chemical weapons, including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin gas, against both Iranian forces and Iraqi citizens. And the U.S. knew about--not just suspected--Iraq's use of chemical weapons, as recently declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency show.
[Most sources have erased/deleted the original FP article in 2013, found a blog ...
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand
See the sense of Middle East Crisis ever since the incapacitated PM Ariel Sharon and the end of the calender year 2005 when it was agreed to halt settlement building on the West Bank and George Bush promised the Arab neighbouring states, Palestine will get its own sovereign state by 2005-06. Sharon went into coma and never recover.
Sharon WB Pull-out 2008 ¶ Secret EU Report & Rafah Border Open | 25 Nov 2005 |
The Biden administration encouraged the ill-fated Abraham Accords agreed upon by crooked Donald Trump with son-in-law Jared Kushner and the fascist Israel State. Trump got his personalized illegal settlement on the Golan Heights and Jared became a rich man thanks to good relations with the corrupt Abu Dhabi of the Emirates.
Netanyahu unveils 'new Middle East' with Israel-Saudi peace at UNGA | JPost - 23 Sept 2023 |
Netanyahu: Tyrants in Tehran are nothing but a curse ●
"We must not give the Palestinians a veto over
Israel's relations with Arab states"
Israel is on the verge of creating a peace with Saudi Arabia that could transform the Middle East as long as Iran's nuclear threat is eliminated, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations on Friday morning.
"We are at the cusp of" a "dramatic breakthrough: a historic peace with Saudi Arabia," Netanyahu said as he stood before a mostly empty plenum during the high-level session that marks the opening of the 78th General Assembly.
"Such a peace will go a long way to ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will encourage other Arab states to normalize relations with Israel. It will enhance the prospects of peace with the Palestinians," Netanyahu said.
An Analysis: Israel Invades Lebanon and is hit by Iran's Missile Attack - video
The New Middle East May Not Be The Ones The U.S. Has Wished For | MofA |
"Netanyahu knows how to play the Washington game better than most US politicians," says Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat, now columnist for the Haaretz newspaper. "And he has been running rings around Biden."
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On countless occasions over the past year, Netanyahu has appeared to agree to one thing with Washington and done the opposite in practice. Whether it is wranglings over the terms of a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release, or the more recent attempt at a 21-day ceasefire with Hizbollah, each time Biden is left looking impotent. "The Biden administration seems to be saying, `We're suffering from a bit of autumn damp,' " says Pinkas. "No, this isn't seasonal damp, it's Netanyahu urinating all over you."
This has been the general theme of a media campaign for a while. "Netanyahu is steamrolling Biden and the poor guy can do nothing about it."
I do not buy it. One phone call from the White House to the Pentagon would hold resupply flights from the U.S. to Israel. Without constant supply renewal the Israeli Air Force would have to stop its bombing campaigns in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen within days if not within hours.
But instead of calling the Pentagon the whole Middle East team around Biden, Antony Blinken, Brett McGurk and IDF soldier Amos Hochstein, has been urging Israel to extend its campaign.
They are hoping, like the neoconservatives in 2006 during the Bush administration, for the 'birth pangs of a new Middle East', which will forever change the strategic situation on the ground.
Behind the scenes, Hochstein, McGurk and other top U.S. national security officials are describing Israel's Lebanon operations as a history-defining moment -- one that will reshape the Middle East for the better for years to come.
The thinking goes: Israel has obliterated Hezbollah's top command structure in Lebanon, severely undercutting the group's capabilities and weakened Iran, which used Hezbollah as a proxy and power projector.
The internal administration division seems to have dissipated somewhat in recent days, with top U.S. officials convening Monday at the White House with President Joe Biden to discuss the situation on the ground. Most agreed that the conflict, while fragile, could offer an opportunity to reduce Iran's influence in Lebanon and the region.
The conclusion from this is that Netanyahu is largely doing exactly what the Biden administration wants him to do.
The strategic situation may well change. But it is not going to be the way Biden and Netanyahu may hope for.
If Israel 'goes all out', there will be full scale war: Fmr. CIA Director | MSNBC |