“ISRAEL MAY JUST HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. THE NETANYAHU CABINET IS BETTING THAT IRAN IS UNABLE TO LAUNCH A MASSIVE RETALIATORY MISSILE STRIKE AND THAT ITS THREAT TO RESPOND IF ISRAEL ATTACKS ARE JUST HOLLOW TALK. ISRAEL IS PUSHING THE BULLSHIT THAT “THIS IS A LIMITED STRIKE.” THAT IS NOT HOW IRAN VIEWS THIS.”
I have hesitated thus far to sound the alarm. But at the risk of being thought mad, it must, as an act of political responsibility, be said out loud: Israel is hurling toward the precipice and dragging the rest of the world with it.
A rational analysis of the current predicament must begin with this bedrock fact: Israel is a crazy state. Not a “bad actor.” Not a “rogue” regime. A crazy state. The full range of Israeli elite opinion, itself reflective of Israeli society at large (which overwhelmingly supports the genocidal war in Gaza; only a handful of Israelis have refused to serve), spans a mere flea’s hop:
“ISRAEL MAY JUST HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. THE NETANYAHU CABINET IS BETTING THAT IRAN IS UNABLE TO LAUNCH A MASSIVE RETALIATORY MISSILE STRIKE AND THAT ITS THREAT TO RESPOND IF ISRAEL ATTACKS ARE JUST HOLLOW TALK. ISRAEL IS PUSHING THE BULLSHIT THAT “THIS IS A LIMITED STRIKE.” THAT IS NOT HOW IRAN VIEWS THIS.”
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