‘Ya Know Who’s Messianic? Netanyahu.’

With the drum beat for war on Iran intensifying in recent weeks, the question seems to come down to whether or not Israel is bluffing about their implied military strike on Iran before the November presidential elections in the US.

Al-Monitor yesterday interviewed “former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl” who “traveled to Israel 13 times during his tenure as the Obama administration’s top Pentagon Middle East civilian policy advisor from 2009 to the end of 2011.” Kahl, who has supported negotiations over war, thinks Israel is not “merely bluffing.”

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern seems to agree, arguing that “Netanyahu feels, with good reason, that he’s got Obama in a corner for these next three months,” and therefore, he is “willing to try it.”

Others see an Israeli strike as unlikely for three primary reasons. First, there may be some level of concern in Tel Aviv that an attack on Iran without a green light from the US would mean suffering the diplomatic consequences of that, which, despite America’s absurd deference to Israeli insolence, could be significant. Second, there is strong opposition in the Israeli defense establishment to a preventive strike on Iran, which pressures Netanyahu and Barak against an attack. Third, the rather obvious negative geopolitical consequences of attacking Iran – not least of which could include destabilizing neighboring Afghanistan, unsettling world oil markets, the breakout of international conflict in Syria, and a reconstituted Iranian nuclear weapons program (which currently doesn’t exist) – leads one to believe Netanyahu and his cabinet are smarter than that.

Many in the media and the electorate in both the US and Israel continue to latch onto two falsehoods: (1) Iran is developing nuclear weapons; and (2) if Iran has a nuclear weapon, they will use it to destroy Israel. Nobody in the official or academic communities believe either of these two ideas, but they are prominently featured in the debate about Iran right now. On the first score, both US and Israeli intelligence have said repeatedly that Iran has no nuclear weapons program. In order to believe the second idea, you’d have to throw out everything that we’ve come to understand about nuclear deterrence over 67 years.

As Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and scholar at the Center for Strategic International Studies, said back in March, “there is no argument to the contrary” of basic nuclear deterrence, “except one extremely silly argument that somehow or other the Iranians are messianic, that they want desperately to commit suicide.”

So, it’s clear Iran wouldn’t nuke Israel, but will Israel attack Iran? “Ya know who’s messianic?” Brzezinski added provocatively. “Netanyahu.”

2 thoughts on “‘Ya Know Who’s Messianic? Netanyahu.’”

  1. The mainstream media is the mouthpiece for the moneychangers pushing for war with Iran. Ahmadinejad must be silenced or he will continue exposing the Zionist deceivers. God help us all.

  2. With the drum beat for war on Iran intensifying in recent weeks, the question seems to come down to whether or not Israel is bluffing about their implied military strike on Iran before the November presidential elections in the US.

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  6. So, it’s clear Iran wouldn’t nuke Israel, but will Israel attack Iran? “Ya know who’s messianic?” Brzezinski added provocatively. “Netanyahu.”

  8. To sacrifice your self for a greater cause is not in Netenyahu's nature. He is a Satanic being and the opposite of the true messiah. Netanyahu has the power to burn us, but not to shield us from fire.

  9. I don't doubt the ferver Netanyahoo displays concerning his patriotism and desires to see Israel survive in a world surrounded by "enemies" (that they mostly create themselves) but I wonder how much of his bravado is directed at securing his place in history.

  10. Often I wish, that Eartquake 12 on Richter Scale strike Israel and this TRULY "insult to humanity" drops to the ground togheter with their arsenal off WMD….Could anybody miss this Satanic place? peter czech

  11. Iran is definetely developing a nuclear program. Like Pakistan and India and ISRAEL. If and when Iran gets the nukes it will change the entire middle east political perspective, for the only policy will become a detente between Iran and Israel, the same situation as when the USA and the USSR were mortal enemies. This will bring about peace and it will force containment on both parties. The MAD or Mutually assured destruction is the best thing that can happen, however the zionist are not ready to allow such a stretigacally reality to take place and will use the dumb americans to do the killing and the dying on their behalf.

  21. best part of this post isnegative geopolitical consequences of attacking Iran – not least of which could include destabilizing neighboring Afghanistan, unsettling world oil markets
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  22. The fact is that this generation — yours, my generation … we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.

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