US & Israel: Stupid & Stupider
US & Israel: Stupid & Stupider
Attack on Iranian Embassy, WCK
Zionist desperation
Israel is getting desperate.
What the Russians call the "World Majority" now see the "Zionist Entity" as a rogue state – and a threat.
Although the US continues to spend taxpayer dollars giving Israel financial aid and bombs and ammunition to kill children, the upcoming election has forced the Biden Neo-Zionist regime to abstain on Security Council resolutions against Israel in an effort to look vaguely human.
But since its founding, Israel has rejected international norms – counting on knee-jerk US support – which, at least up until now, it always got – even when it sunk the USS Liberty.
But the war against Hamas is not going well.
Hezbollah is keeping the pressure on.
Israel has evacuated about 80,000 people from northern settlements and deployed 100,000 soldiers to the border. Hezbollah is progressing —and manufactures many of its own weapons, drawing on Iranian expertise and advice. In addition, it has been searching for and finding workarounds to penetrate Israel's Iron Dome system.
Hezbollah benefits from Qds Force expertise, as do the Houthis who have successfully crippled sea traffic to Israel – although the Israelis have created a land bridge between Saudi Arabia and Israel via Jordan. It can’t really compensate logistically using trucks – of course, and it also opens up new opportunities for the Axis Of Resistance.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has prepared its equipment to equip the brothers, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Jordan, to meet the needs of 12,000 fighters with light and medium weapons, anti-armor launchers, tactical missiles, millions of ammunition, and tons of explosives. Security official of the Iraqi #Hezbollah Brigades, Hajj Abu Ali Al-Askari.
The Israeli economy is sinking fast along with ships in the Red Sea.
Everyday welfare spending (long generous in Israel, owing to its socialist foundations) will be slashed in order to fund the country’s armed forces. The military budget will almost double from 2023 to 2024. Israel’s unwritten social contract, which has for 70-odd years promised both a generous welfare state and a fearsome military, is under threat.
This, in one of the world's most unequal economies!
One thing is clear: Israel's much vaunted "legitimacy" depends upon Americans being willing to pay for its support. But it is time to circle the wagons. Maybe the cavalry isn’t coming.
To the North, Syria. To the West, Lebanon. To the South, Palestine—and an increasingly unstable Egypt. To the East., Jordan –also unstable.
Gotcha surrounded.
Looks like the Zionist dream of the greater Zion, encompassing half the Middle East, may have to wait.
Stupid and stupider
The US is not evil— it is stupid.
Israel is not evil either – just me-too stupid.
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One
may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented
by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own
subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of
unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the
use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts
that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed—in
such moments the stupid person even becomes critical—and when
facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as
incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious
one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes
dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is
called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious
one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with
reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
US support for Israel is idiotic. And, in its way, worse than evil.
Israeli genocide on the Palestinians and its attacks on Lebanon and Syria and Iran are both evil and stupid.
With both the US and Israel, generations of mistakes are having consequences. If these countries disappear from the maps— hoorah!
Wishful thinking of course …
Losers double down on dumb
In the case of Israel, it is clearly losing in all areas – so what does it do?
It attacks an embassy – in a foreign country —violating international law. It kills some Iranian generals, as well as innocent civilians – which doesn't help its cause, militarily, diplomatically, or morally. Kind of like peeing in the middle of the street during rush hour. Worse because no one dies when you pee.
And Israel adds insult to injury by murdering 7 World Center Kitchen (aka WCK) workers – Polish, British, and Australian. That generated huge outrage in the West —since 1 Pole, or Brit or Aussi=a couple of hundred Palestinian children.
As Larry Johnson points out, this particular atrocity is just what the Israeli military does. He calls it “unprofessional” – I call it dumb, too.
That said, it is in some sense predictable when you have the entire culture built on victim-hood, exceptionalism, and correlative dehumanization of others.
The attack on the aid workers was an ad hoc action by a military out-of-control and with no moral or ethical sense. Simple bloody mindedness. And, sadly shared by a majority of Israelis.
The attack on the embassy in Syria was a strategic provocation – alienating both the US and Israel globally. Strategically speaking – incredibly stupid.
The US claimed it didn't know about the attack. It knows about ISIS K attacks but not Israeli ones! This is stupid too. Does anyone believe what the US says anymore? US Intelligence claims to know everything but somehow missed out on this plan? And, of course, the US tried to imply that it was all Iran's fault!
Deputy US Ambassador Robert Wood denied that his country was involved. He said, "One thing is clear: Iran and its proxy and partner groups need to avoid escalating tensions in the region."
Wood also accused Iran and Syria of backing groups that have plotted attacks on US and Israeli personnel and facilities.
Building your own funeral pyre
The Iranians of course will take revenge.
The attack on the embassy will have no effect on their support for the Syrians or Hezbollah or Hamas or the Houthis. Rather, they will upgrade that assistance, in expertise and technology, with their allies acting as their proxies.
Keep in mind that all ballistic missiles are hypersonic in the stratosphere and that the term "hypersonic" is used to describe maneuverable hypersonic vehicles, which can change course to confuse radar systems and penetrate air defenses.
There is considerable variability here and it is unlikely that Iran's hypersonic missiles are in the same class as Russia's Kinzhal and Zircon missiles.
In any case, Iran's missile systems are not yet ready for use in actual war. But that could change within a year or so – especially in view of the new, comprehensive Russia Iran treaty-- which will make possible further exchange of military technology.
In the meantime, Iran will use the Houthis and Hezbollah to test current missile systems and drones, especially with regards to targeting and guidance and air defense.
Should the Israelis attack Hezbollah in Lebanon, they will lose. But then again. Israelis are stupid enough to try.
The Israelis are touting the land corridor to the UAE through Saudi Arabia and Jordan. But truck transport is expensive and inefficient and to make this kind of thing work practically they would need railways. Trouble is that first they have to build them and then the railway systems are vulnerable to attack—especially with the kind of accurate and inexpensive drones that the Iranians, the Axis of Resistance and the Houthis have developed.
Dumb and Dumber was a movie and a comedy. Stupid and Stupider in the Middle East is real-life and a tragedy.
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Lebanon is to the North not the West. To the West is the Mediterranean.
Nitpicking here, but it was a consulate, not an embassy. Not quite as bad, but still a flagrant violation of int'l norms dating back centuries, if not further.
Also, as ZebraZ points out, Iran is already prepared for war, and their drone shipments to Russia have been helpful in the SMO/invasion.
Other than that, points well-taken as always. It seems that Israel is escalating this conflict in hopes of dragging US/NATO into it, and thereby securing victory. But American imperialism is not what it used to be, and while Israel has won its previous wars, its luck may well run out this time.