Just-in-Time Ceasefire Saves Israel and Preserves the Genocide

NATO destroyed one of Africa’s strongest economies, Libya, in 2011 on the false pretext that Libya’s leader Gaddafi was about to stage a massacre in Sirte. He wasn’t and didn’t but I suspect perhaps he should have done in order to crush a NATO instigated Al Qaeda/ISIS insurrection before they crushed him, which of course they did. I don’t know the numbers but I’d put it at a few thousand.

Israel today is not just suspected of carrying out, not a massacre, but is indisputably engaged in a full scale genocide, and it is absolutely certain that Israel will continue its dreadful slaughter until there is not a single Palestinian left in Gaza, and precious few left in the West Bank.

We are talking about many millions of innocent and long-oppressed people.

Just for a moment there was a hope that finally this loathsome Zionist entity was about to be held in check by a war started by Israel against Iran on the risibly false pretext that Iran, not possessing a single nuclear warhead, was a nuclear “threat” whereas Israel, with hundreds of nuclear warheads was absolutely not a problem for even a tiny fly.

Iran struck back hard and for the first time ever Israel began to experience a slither of the dread it routinely inflicts on its neighbors near and far. The US, having armed Israel and enabled its every atrocity and now its genocide of Palestine, rushed to help the Frankenstein it has created and whose instructions the Yellow Goblin now pitifully obeys.

The US bombed a couple of Iran’s dozens of nuclear power facilities, from which Iran had mindfully removed its stockpiles of enriched uranium and quite possibly centrifuges in advance, then giggled playfully while Iran wrapped it over the wrist with a meaningless strike on an evacuated base in Qatar, and then the Yellow Goblin gleefully pronounced the mighty US had won again and that the game was over. The hapless combatants fired off a few more missiles. before timidly playing along with the farce. Until now, anyway.

Game over for Iran and it’s murdered leaders and 400-900 citizens? While the Israeli slaughter in Gaza continues? Game over for Israel which subjected Iran to a completely unprovoked cruel and murderous attack? Game over for Russia whose simpering cries of concern for those few murderous Zionists who may also be Russian-speaking (pushed out of their original homeland by, well, by Soviet Russia) excuse it from honoring any obligation that does not help it crush Zelenskiy. Game over for a China that is barely roused to even a show of irritation when a key supplier of its energy is threatened?

Game over for Trump whose MAGA is now a MIGA and the I is for Israel not Iran and his people anoint Israel as the most sublime country on this vanishing planet?

Israel First! Israel First! Israel First!

One hesitates to appeal to that silly old-fashioned concept of Diplomacy but, really, wasn’t there scope in this little brush with World War Three for someone to make something conditional on Israel preserving the lives of two million people or on insisting that somebody, somewhere assume 0this most human, most sacred responsibility?

Postscript:

I notice that Gilbert Doctorow is proposing that Trump saved the world because he realized that Israel, getting badly thrashed by Iran and running out of interceptors was getting ready to nuke Iran. Trump stepped in first with his MOABS and robbed Netanyahu (whose worst fear is that the war will and he’ll be cast out of office and imprisoned for previous offenses) of this dangerous move.

The principal problem with Doctorow’s thesis is that there is not a shred of evidence for it. His principal motivation for putting it forward I suspect is that it gives him a basis on which he can disagree with those he chooses to call his “peers” - most notably John Mearsheimer with whose theory that Israel is the tail that wags the dog, Doctorow disagrees.

That there is a danger that Netanyah might use a nuclear weapon if pushed to the precipice either from the point of view of his regime’s survival or from that of his own personal freedom from incarceration is acknowledged today (Tuesday June 25) by Ray McGovern with Glenn Deisen.

I have a certain sympathy for Doctorow who seeks at every opportunity to find a logic to what Doctorow’s “peers” dismiss as lunacy, simply because I agree that many of us run the risk of being blinded in our assessments by our own very negative appraisals of Trump’s personality, values and actions.

Doctorow‘s cautions in this respect seem founded on Doctorow’s mainly business background and his estimation of Trump as an “entrepreneur, ” a status Doctorow clearly admires but in my view wrongly ascribes to Trump who is a veritable spoilt rich kid whose business experience is rooted in the least imaginative of trades, real estate.

Personally, therefore, I find all this a stretch to say the least.

Doctorow has been adopted by alternative media, in my estimation, mainly because he speaks Russian, visits Russia frequently and looks at Russian TV news and discussion shows. I value his reports on the latter but otherwise find him puzzlingly vain, sometimes pompous, and over-obsessed with the views of his “peers” into which he seems to be looking for points of division, even artificial, that can help set him apart as the great, all-knowing Guru, that he certainly is not.

Having said that I find some merit in the argument that the range of debate in this small cliquey world of alternative media does need shaking up: there are too few outlets chasing too few voices and the voices that get airtime are dominated by a handful of aging, dissident former denizens of the Deep State. The world is too complex to be served by such a narrow range.