Israel’s war on Iran: what’s happening?

Israel’s war on Iran, western hypocrisy, Trump’s incoherence, “America First” supporters’ opposition to US involvement in Netanyahu’s latest deranged escapade, and the forgotten plight of Gaza.

Five days since Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran, which led to immediate military retaliation, I examine, in my latest article on my website, Israel’s Attack on Iran Marks the Pinnacle of Netanyahu’s Long and Deranged Obsession with Seeking Israeli Security Through Endless War, the shameful hypocrisy of the west, which has been insisting yet again that Israel has "the right to defend itself", even though Israel is very clearly not the victim in this scenario, having launched its unprovoked attack on the spurious basis that Iran was about to secure nuclear weapons.

In particular, I note how, 20 months ago, the west’s unconditional support opened the door to all the horrors that have been taking place ever since, and especially the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which, until this latest development, had become so severe that western leaders were finally beginning to condemn Israel. Shamefully, as the situation in Gaza deteriorates still further, the west’s sudden indifference is especially despicable.

I also focus on the crucial role of the US, under Donald Trump, who faces a divided Republican Party — on the one hand, fanatical supporters of Israel, and neo-cons who have long hoped to wage war on Iran, and, on the other, opposition from MAGA isolationists within his own Party who support his "America First" policy, which was supposed to eschew any further involvement in ruinously expensive foreign wars.

I also mock Israeli efforts to make themselves the victims, as they finally face some blowback from their monstrous actions over the last 20 months, and I end by examining whether one imminent problem, not much discussed, is that the supply of the very expensive weapons for this type of conflict may soon run out.

There’s much more detail in the article itself, which I hope you have time to read in full on my website.

Seeking your support in my 20th year as an independent, truth-telling journalist

Also new on my website is Seeking Your Support in My 20th Year as an Independent Truth-Telling Human Rights Journalist, an appraisal of my work as an independent journalist and human rights activist in the 20th year since I first began, on a full-time basis, researching and writing about Guantánamo and the men held there, and exposing the truth about the Bush administration’s lies and distortions regarding their alleged status as “enemy combatants”, who, they claimed, in defiance of all international and domestic laws and treaties, could be held indefinitely without charge or trial.

I also reflect on my other writing over the years, most recently about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and I invite your support, if possible, for what is an ongoing truth-telling endeavour, involving in-depth articles that provide more detail than is usually available through the mainstream media, and with a moral compass that also generally eludes the “liberal” media gatekeepers, with their alleged “objectivity” and “impartiality”, which either discourages entirely valid outrage, or props up the establishment “status quo.”

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Any help you can provide will be very greatly appreciated, although I realize that times are hard, and that most decent people, if they can, are helping the people of Gaza, whose monstrous predicament continues to dwarf everything else on earth.