Israel, we can deduce, is trying to start another major war in the Middle East — how boomerang Hitlerian is that?

© 2020 Peter Free

 

28 November 2020

 

 

Netanyahu's Israel probably pulled off the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh . . .

 

. . . evidently without risking meaningful future retaliation from Iran:

 

 

Iran’s top nuclear scientist, who American and Israeli intelligence have long charged was behind secret programs to design an atomic warhead, was shot and killed in an ambush on Friday as he was traveling in a vehicle in northern Iran, Iranian state media reported.

 

One American official — along with two other intelligence officials — said that Israel was behind the attack on the scientist.

 

It was unclear how much the United States may have known about the operation in advance, but the two nations are the closest of allies and have long shared intelligence regarding Iran. The White House and the C.I.A. declined to comment.

 

© 2020 Farnaz Fassihi, David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman, Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Ambush, State Media Say, New York Times (27 November 2020)

 

 

How this assassination constitutes a brilliant long-term strategic move beats me

 

Prime suspect Israel is probably already at the point where most of the planet holds it in moral disregard. And the Israel-bossed United States is not far behind.

 

Geopolitically speaking, being widely hated is unlikely to advance Israeli and American strategic goals. Even when those exclusively consist of a combination of pillaging and war criminality. People who despise you, resist and arm up.

 

The probabilities are that Israel's viciously conceived machinations reduce, rather than advance, its long-term survival. How unfortunately perverse is that?

 

 

False flag?

 

Professor Fakhrizadeh's assassination was almost certainly not a false flag operation.

 

No entity exists that would appreciably gain from such a tactic. And none exists — outside the Prime Two — that would have the resources and motives to track and target the now deceased physicist.

 

This is one of the shortcomings of regional and global unipolarity. When one's power-filled fingerprints are all over something — and no one else is in a position to gain from the wrong — there those prints remain.

 

 

The moral? — Our grandchildren will eventually see how well (or badly) . . .

 

. . . these two nations' terror-imposing patterns work out.

 

The irony is that Hitler's penchant for moral atrocity has been passed down. It now manifests in the Holocaust's primary existing symbol, Israel. With that arguable nastiness being fully and enthusiastically supported by the Third Reich's most blather-prone — "peace and freedom forever" — enemy, the United States.

 

If this historically demonstrated sequence of downstream soul-pollution does not constitute a spiritual parable, I do not know what would.

 

It's a pity. Which, of course, is one of the points to the parable. Self-destructive moral obtuseness is the other.