Bezalel Smotrich to Palestinian members of the Knesset: "You are here because Ben Gurion did not finish the job".
"In the eyes of the [Israeli] government & the political elite in general, the moment seems to have arrived to finish the job."
"The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming... Israeli society is jubilant.... According to the latest polls, 93% of the Jewish population supports the war."
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/on-the-warpath?pc=1746
@DrALJONES US-Israel have publicly declared, multiple times, that they want all out religious war, to kill all "Amolek", to build Greater Israel through genocide, to build 3rd Temple and usher in the Messiah.
If President Trump gives them that, he will be the de facto Messiah. As whoever builds the 3rd Temple is the Messiah.
Perhaps Americans are misinterpreting #nokings Trump doesn't see himself as a king, he sees himself as the Messiah, and so do Israelis.
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Eg "The Hidden Influences Behind the Pointless War in Iran"
The Israelis convinced Trump "that the Iranians are much, much weaker than they actually were."
The US is "losing a lot of its credibility. Many of its Arab allies.. warned that this would happen, & the US did not listen to them."
"They are also seeing that the US is doing much more to protect Israel from Iranian attacks & far less to protect US bases & their territory."
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Head of US National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, has resigned over the Iran war
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran”, he wrote to Trump.
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, & it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel & its powerful American lobby.”
"This was a lie & is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war.”
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Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be Suicide Mission for US
"From day two of this war, the Trump administration has not known what to do & how to get out of this".
"The people who drove [Trump] into this war pretty much expected this".
Netanyahu dragged the US into "what he hopes will be a decisive war of annihilation against Iran.”
~Harrison Mann, fmr Army intelligence analyst who resigned over Gaza.
We get an analysis of the Trump administration’s Iran war strategy from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Harrison Mann. “From day two of this war, the Trump administration has not known what to do and how to get out of this,” says Mann, who resigned from the U.S. Army’s Defense Intelligence Agency in 2024 over the Biden administration’s policy in Gaza. As Trump is rumored to be eyeing the oil export hub of Kharg Island for seizure, Mann gives his assessment of a potential ground invasion of Iran. “Any attempt to seize this island would be close to a suicide mission,” he says. While U.S. leaders struggle to respond to Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on military bases in U.S.-allied Gulf states, Mann notes that “the people who drove [Trump] into this war pretty much expected this. I don’t think this is a surprise to Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio or Benjamin Netanyahu — who is very much getting what he wanted, which is dragging the U.S. into what he hopes will be a decisive war of annihilation against Iran.”
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