Netanyahu Calls on Arab States to Join War Against Iran
- Netanyahu Calls on Arab States to Join War Against Iran
by https://www.richardsilverstein.com/
In comments delivered to an Israeli TV news reporter at a Warsaw conference designed to unite world leaders against Iran, Bibi Netanyahu made his harshest statement yet, calling for war against the Islamic republic:
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What is important about this [conference]…is that this is an open meeting with representatives of leading Arab countries that are sitting down together in order to advance the common interest of war with Iran.
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What is most striking about this statement is that it’s the first time Israel or any world leader has called for a first-strike against Iran. Note that there is no conditions laid. He doesn’t say if Iran attacks, we will respond, the usual polite formulations of past U.S. and Israeli governments. This is Bibi thundering on the world stage for these 60 nations to wage war against a common enemy and destroy him.
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The conference has turned into a U.S.-led dog-and-pony show featuring the Trump administration and all its far-right European allies (Hungary, Poland, etc.) along with much of the Sunni world and Israel. Along with the official delegates, the anti-Iran terror group, the MeK has established a major presence in the Polish capital. The BBC reported today that 14,000 tweets promoting the conference have been published in the past few weeks. The vast majority originate from eight accounts. The rhetoric of the tweets clearly indicate they are associated with the MeK. Yet another example of anti-Iran social media manipulation.
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National security advisor, John Bolton, set the tone for the conference by releasing a video days before it began, threatening Iran with annihilation. He warned Ayatollah Khamenei, who’d just celebrated the 40thanniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, he “would not have many more anniversaries to enjoy.” In a separate development, U.S. media reported last month that Bolton had requested a Pentagon battle planfor an attack on Iran.
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Bellicosity like this is music to Netanyahu’s ears. After all, he stood on the verge of launching an Israeli attack on Iran two different times. He was only restrained at the last moment by his military-intelligence chiefs who persuaded the security cabinet that it was a very bad idea. Netanyahu also tried unsuccessfully to persuade two U.S. presidents to attack Iran (Bush and Obama). Finally, to have a figure like Donald Trump in the White House, advised by anti-Iran hawks like Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is a dream come true.
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Nor is this the first time the Israeli leader threatened war, though it is the first time he’d done it so explicitly. A few months ago, he told an audience at Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor:
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