Israel Lobby in US Pushing for War Against Iran: Analyst
- Israel Lobby in US Pushing for War Against Iran: Analyst
by https://www.presstv.com/
The Israel lobby in the United States is pushing the administration of President Donald Trump to launch war against Iran because the regime in Tel Aviv does not want to fight Tehran itself, according to E Michael Jones, an American writer and former professor.
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A new opinion poll shows that a vast majority of American voters oppose a military conflict with Iran and express support for US President Donald Trump’s decision last month not to launch a military strike against the Islamic Republic.
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The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, released to The Hill newspaper on Tuesday, found that 78 percent of voters said they believed Trump’s decision to call off the strike on Iran was the right move. The survey also found that 57 percent of respondents were against military confrontation with Iran if the US was not directly attacked by the country.
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“A recent poll taken in the United States says the majority of the people there supported Donald Trump’s decision not to attack Iran. This has been obvious to me for years now,” Jones told Press TV on Friday.
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“The next question is, well if the majority of the people are against it, who is in favor of it? And the answer to that, of course, is the Israel lobby. The Israel lobby controls the Congress. It controls the president to a certain extent, and the extent is precisely what we are beginning to see now, when Trump called back the attack with about ten minutes to go. This happened because he thought 150 people would die and this was not proportionate to Iran’s downing of an unmanned drone,” he added.
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“So the question is now that we know this, how we are going to proceed? Donald Trump has painted himself into a corner in the Middle East because of his support for Israel. Israel wants the United States to fight Iran because Israel does not want to lose any soldiers, or does not want to take the time or effort to fight Iran itself,” he stated.
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Tensions have been running high between the two countries since Washington’s decision in May last year to abandon the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on Tehran as part of a “maximum pressure” campaign aimed at forcing it to renegotiate a new deal that addresses its ballistic missile program and regional influence as well.
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“Iran doesn’t frighten me and I don’t think it should frighten the American people. They don’t have a bomb. They haven’t made a decision to build one. They don’t have the means to deliver one. And the Israelis have 300 atomic bombs! I mean who presents the existential threat to whom?” – Pat Buchanan (7:58 onwards)
- “The reason Iran doesn’t have a bomb is because they don’t want it. They could have built a bomb.” – Buchanan
– - Pat Buchanan Blasts Bibi: He’s “Been Crying Wolf For Decades” About Iran
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s powerpoint presentation Monday evening – allegedly demonstrating captured evidence, documents, and computer disks, showing a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program much more advanced and ambitious than the Iranian government publicly admits existed – Pat Buchanan joined Sean Hannity on his show to discuss the reality behind Bibi’s warning.
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As RealClearPolitics’ Tim Hains reports, Buchanan pulled no punches in his criticism, exclaiming that the Israeli PM has been “crying wolf for decades” about Iran and that “Bibi Netanyahu, with due respect, wants the United States to fight a war with Iran on Israel’s behalf.”
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“I don’t want my country getting into another war,” Buchanan said about Netanyahu’s revelation. “The reason Iran doesn’t have a bomb is because they don’t want it. They could have built a bomb.”
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“Tell the IAEA to go in and either confirm or deny what Netanyahu said. “Don’t rely on him. Rely on our CIA coming out and saying, ‘We were wrong, Netanyahu is right, they have a secret atomic bomb program and they’re working on it right now and they have been and we were lied to.‘“
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“If the CIA and DIA do that, I would say first to fire the guys in charge who didn’t cover it. And second, maybe we should act, but certainly not act on second-hand documents and a press conference from Bibi Netanyahu.”
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“What are we going to do, rely on a press conference from Bibi Netanyahu to go to war?”
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And Buchanan is not alone in his disdain for Bibi’s historic warmongering and lies.
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