Israel’s So-Called Seven Front War

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

From my CNN feed this morning:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country faces war on seven fronts and called them the “enemies of civilization.” Heavy Israeli airstrikes pounded southern Beirut overnight, with the military saying it was targeting Hezbollah.

Wow. And I thought a two-front war was bad.

Netanyahu is a war criminal. And whether it’s Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, U.S. leaders bow before him, giving him all the weapons, military cover, and diplomatic cover he needs to wage his so-called seven-front war.

Let’s not forget the rapturous applause Netanyahu received on his recent appearance before Congress. Half the Congress allegedly hates the other half, but they sure came together to profess their love of Netanyahu and Israel.

Maybe Netanyahu and Israel are the “enemies of civilization”? Perish the thought.

Israel is at pains to portray its neighbors as uncivilized even as Israeli bombing produces scenes like this one.

That scooter just might be Hezbollah. Maybe Israel can rig it with explosives and remotely detonate it in another one of their “precision” attacks, like all those pagers exploding in “precise” ways.

CNN, of course, always reports the Israeli perspective. Rarely if ever do you hear the Arab perspective, the Persian perspective, the Palestinian perspective. Why listen to the “uncivilized,” right?

The 2024 election in America, which has witnessed total support by Democrats and Republicans of whatever Israel does no matter how heinous, shows the utter bankruptcy of U.S. government rhetoric and the moral bankruptcy of its leaders.

Why do we continue to listen to these people? Why do we contemplate voting for them?

Coda: Netanyahu is going to keep waging war and committing crimes against humanity because that’s what’s keeping him in power. As long as the U.S. keeps arming him and blessing him, mass death will follow. How pathetic is it that our leaders clap to this man like so many trained seals?

(No insult to trained seals intended.)

William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF). He taught history for fifteen years at military and civilian schools. He writes at Bracing Views.

3 thoughts on “Israel’s So-Called Seven Front War”

  1. Netanyahu is a war criminal and is the Hitler of the 21st Century! He wants to keep the genocide in Gaza going until there is no more Gaza and is doing the same thing in Lebanon and will spread it to the West Bank and Iran and he will keep drafting people until he has to import mercenaries to fill the empty void in the military.
    Zelensky wishes he could do the same thing in the former USSR.

  2. "Why do we continue to listen to these people?"

    First, the politicians do because they're paid to by the donor class. The electorate does because they're "educated ignorant", to be corporate drones, and they have no focus outside earning a living.

    Second, Congress is not "out leaders". Our leaders are shadowy people in the major corporations, the oil companies, the MIC, the banking community, the think tanks, and even international corporations.

    A study a few years back discovered that basically 200 international corporations own 80 percent of the world's wealth. How many people are on boards of directors? Do the math, That means maybe 2,000 people control most of the world's wealth.

    That wasn't by accident. The system is set up to enable that.

    And because they have all the money and all the power – and the electorate not only has no money and no power, they don't even comprehend what's going on – there's absolutely nothing you can do about this situation.

    The one thing you can do, in the immortal words of the Honorable Henry J. LePetomane: "You watch your ass."

  3. If the Apartheid State of Israel thinks its god is planning to show up and help on their side "again", then their strategy is even MORE s**t than a "seven-front war" (a misinterpreted White Stripes song is also not a "sign") with an IDF under-equipped, already tired from Gaza, under-prepared, and wildly outnumbered.

    I really do think Netanyahu and his Washington toadies are trying to start their fabled End Times™.

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