{"id":3683,"date":"2025-06-14T17:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T17:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2025-06-14T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T17:35:08","slug":"israel-doesnt-go-rogue-it-goes-with-pentagons-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/israel-doesnt-go-rogue-it-goes-with-pentagons-green-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel doesn\u2019t go rogue \u2013 it goes with Pentagon\u2019s green light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, the world\u2019s greatest bully, has enabled the attack on Iran by writing a blank check to the aggressor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having been carrying out its ongoing genocide<\/a> of the Palestinians for almost two years, wrecking Lebanon and Syria, repeatedly assaulting Iran and Yemen, and using subversion of Western political, economic, intellectual, and media elites to stifle its opponents<\/a> wherever they speak up<\/a>, Israel has now launched its most serious effort yet to either cripple or destroy Iran, its last remaining opponent with the potential to do it serious harm.<\/p>\n

As Russia for one has stated<\/a>, Israel\u2019s massive attack on Iran is unambiguously criminal. It violates the UN Charter and international law in general. In particular, it does not fulfill the narrow<\/a> \u2013 and rightly so \u2013 legal criteria for a justifiable defensive preemptive strike. Israel\u2019s shameless attempts to deploy this phrase to shield its actions are pure information warfare. They are insultingly brazen \u2013 propaganda that can \u201cwork\u201d<\/em> only on the willingly obtuse \u2013 and as absurd as the repulsive Israeli habit of trying to pass off genocide, including by starvation<\/a>, as self-defense.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, against this background, it comes as no real surprise that Israeli tactics against Iran have included the same perfidious \u2013 as in literally, technically criminal under the law of armed conflict \u2013 method recently deployed by Ukraine\u2019s Zelensky regime (and its Western helpers): Israel as well used sneak drone attacks from inside its opponent\u2019s territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In reality, if any state did have a good case for claiming the right to a preemptive strike in this case, it would have been Iran. Because the core criterion for a military strike to be considered preemptive is that it must disrupt an imminent enemy attack. With Israel and its US symbiont recently not having let a day go by without threatening Iran with pretty much the assault that has now happened, Tehran would have had excellent evidence to show just that: That an Israeli \u2013 and thus Western \u2013 attack was imminent.<\/p>\n

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Iran hits Israel with retaliatory strikes: Live updates<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yet, especially after more than a year and a half of a live-streamed Zionist colonial genocide carried out, in effect,\u00a0by Israel and the West together<\/a>, we know that international law counts for very little in the hellish\u00a0\u201crules-based\u201d<\/em>\u00a0world the \u201cvalue\u201d-<\/em>concerned West has made.<\/p>\n

Hence, the key question is not if Israel could possibly have a right to act as it does. That\u2019s a no-brainer: absolutely not. But unfortunately, that does not help its victims. Israel is impunity embodied. Among all the monstrous states that modern history has witnessed commit horrific crimes, none has been getting away with murder (mass murder, really) like Israel; except perhaps the US, of course.<\/p>\n

Indeed, as the Israeli dissident and genocide expert Raz Segal has recently explained<\/a>, the sense that they are above the law is a key factor in how so many Israelis function \u2013 and often enjoy themselves \u2013 as merciless mass murderers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the real question, the one that is relevant in the world as it really is, is why Israel can<\/em> do what it is doing. And there the short, one-word answer is of course: America. Other states of the West (as well as the EU monster association<\/a>) and the Middle East are also complicit in Israel\u2019s atrocities. But in terms of power, it is Washington that is decisive. Israel can commit its endless crimes and never face consequences only because of US support.<\/p>\n

Just try to imagine a state as territorially and demographically tiny and geopolitically precarious as Israel displaying so much aggression but without American backing. Exactly \u2013 there\u2019s nothing to imagine because it would long be gone.<\/p>\n

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Unprecedented escalation between Israel and Iran: What we know so far<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yet in the case of Israel\u2019s latest outrage, Washington is claiming that it did not participate in it, sort of. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants us to believe that Israel\u2019s assault was \u201cunilateral\u201d<\/em> and the US was \u201cnot involved.<\/em><\/a>\u201d Is there anyone left na\u00efve enough to not understand two simple facts? Namely, Washington lies easily and without hesitation, and the US-Israel symbiosis is so firm and pervasive that an Israeli strike against Iran, especially of this magnitude, without American connivance and input is inconceivable.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s set aside the obvious big fat lie. That\u2019s just the US being its bad old US self. What\u2019s more interesting is that, even on its own mendacious terms, the official American position simply makes no sense. Washington implausibly claims that it played no role in Israel\u2019s criminal attack on Iran. US mainstream media and establishment mouthpieces, such as Bloomberg and the Washington Post, go so far as to pretend that President Donald Trump\u2019s officially still ongoing negotiations with Iran may have been disturbed by Israel\u2019s oh-so-independent strike. They still uncritically quote Trump as voicing opposition to an Israeli attack as recently as the day just before the Israeli assault<\/a>. For Bloomberg, that means that Israel struck \u201cin apparent defiance\u201d<\/em> of Trump.<\/p>\n

Really? The old the-leader-didn\u2019t-know defense? That\u2019s funny because by now Trump himself has admitted that he knew about the attack, perversely blamed Iran and not Israel, and called on Tehran to \u2013 in essence \u2013 surrender<\/a> before Israel hits it so hard that nothing would be left of Iran. And all this while Israel has already threatened another two weeks<\/a> of \u201coperations\u201d<\/em> or even more, namely as long \u201cas it takes<\/a>.\u201d<\/em> Trump, consequently, has not only sided unambiguously with the aggressor Israel, but has also signaled that he is fine with his Israeli friends battering Iran as long as they like, including to the point of extermination.<\/p>\n

That is, Washington\u2019s absurdly incredible official story is first, Israel massively defied America\u2019s declared policy; second, the US does not really mind; and third, quite to the contrary, Washington just loves being made a fool of in front of the world, as long as it\u2019s done by Israel.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Perverted logic\u2019 to call Israeli attack on Iran self-defense \u2013 Russian diplomat<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It loves it so much, in fact, that the American response is to immediately side with Israel without limits, writing out a blank check for its \u201cdefiant\u201d<\/em> friends to do whatever they want, because as Trump has assured those who have just \u201capparently defied\u201d<\/em> him, not only can they hammer away at Iran to their heart\u2019s content, but in addition, the US will also always defend them against Iran in case the latter should try to strike back.<\/p>\n

Even Washington\u2019s lies are revealing. In this case the lie of not being involved casts a sharp light on just how uninhibited the US elite is by now in publicly subordinating everything, including of course the interests of ordinary Americans, to Israel and its American lobby. The truth is, of course, that the US is deeply involved in the war of aggression against Iran. After Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, the undead neocons are finally getting to the last \u2013 for now \u2013 victim on their old murder board.<\/p>\n

The lie is that the US pretends not to be involved. And the ultimate, unintentional reveal of the whole affair is that Washington\u2019s elites think a lie implying that they are absolutely obedient to Israel, even when directly \u201cdefied\u201d<\/em> by it, is a good-enough story. For absolute, craven submission to Israel is now considered perfectly normal. And that, actually, is a fundamental truth about America as it now really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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