This Middle East War is Different and About to Get Much Worse
David Haggith recently wrote: ”Existential Crisis Envelops the Middle East: Israel’s whole war paradigm has changed. The stakes are altogether different than any Middle-Eastern war in recent history.” I think he makes an excellent argument and will quote him extensively here.
“The old paradigm for Israeli wars focused on deterrence, which meant retaliation had to cost enemies more than anything they gained to make it clear that attacking Israel comes with a heavy cost and to limit Israel’s enemies’ ability to repeat their offense. Israel’s friends and foes always used the UN and other means to try to hold Israel back from all-out war, and Israel stayed within, at least, the outer limits of what many nations would consider just deterrence against terrorists in order to retain global respect.
I believe that has now changed, and I think one has to understand that in order to realize the true gravity of the present situation. I think Israel is finally done with deterrence or justice or revenge as its objective in these conflicts, so it will do whatever it believes is necessary to change the Middle-East situation around itself entirely and for good.”
II have to agree that deterrence has failed to bring peace, though it has so far allowed Israel to continue to exist as a nation despite being surrounded by numerous wealthy and more populous nations which are politically, religiously, and ideologically devoted to its destruction. But if the alternative is war on a much larger scale, can Israel, with it’s small population, possibly win? And if it can’t win conventionally on its own, is the plan to bring the United States in on their side? Would there have to be an attack against the United States in order to achieve that goal? Would one be staged if Israel’s enemies like Iran won’t initiate a massive attack on American assets itself? Failing this, is Israel’s only alternative for survival to push to the brink of, and with the threat of, mutually assured destruction? Are Israeli leaders at the point of saying we either get to neutralize the enemies devoted to our destruction, or we all go down together?
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What? Different how? Did the US tax payer stop funding the mass theft and murder operation that put more land and resources in the hands of the inbred 1% billionaire class of central bankers? No, same shit, different day, using a different operational name. Same people making out as the common folks pay the tab in blood.