US Treachery On Worldwide Display

Moon of Alabama has a lengthy piece on this topic, centering around the statement that Doug Macgregor made yesterday, which we featured: Nothing happens that the US doesn’t allow, often with the indispensable technical assistance of American assets that most countries—including Israel—lack. Recall that so many commentators were baffled that Israel knew Nasrallah’s movements. Speculation was rife that Mossad had penetrated Hezbollah. The truth is probably far simpler, as Macgregor maintained—highly sensitive and closely guarded American technical assets had located Nasrallah and gave his location to Israel. As is routinely the case in Ukraine, this strike was a joint US - Israeli strike.

With that in mind I’ll excerpt Moon’s excerpts, but follow the link for the full article. Note that the whole world knows who’s behind what’s going on—except for the American people:

Israel is now tempted to risk an all out war with Iran. There is little chance that such a war would achieve anything but an all out war in the Middle East, a rapid increase in oil prices and a severe hit on the Democratic chances in the ongoing election campaign.

Iran, who's ballistic missiles had no problems in passing Israels air defenses, has threatened an all out attack on Israel's infrastructure - electricity and gas installations as well as harbors - should Israel attempt to take revenge against Iran.

U.S. media still spreading the myth that the Biden administration is trying to hold back Israel.

The Washington Post for example headlines:

Biden works to limit conflict as Mideast edges closer to all-out war

However the piece admits that some views disagree strongly with its headline:

American officials say they are encouraging Israel to respond in a measured way, but U.S. allies in Europe are concerned that Washington is not putting sufficient pressure on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Our understanding is the Americans are not holding them back,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military matter.

Further down it comes to the heart of the issue:

Biden has been unwilling to use the most significant source of U.S. leverage — conditioning or suspending military aid to Israel — to try to change the dynamics of the war, as Israel has repeatedly rebuffed U.S. advice and counsel.

There’s an alternative view, namely, that the supposed counsels of restraint and in favor of a ceasefire is deception and gaslighting, as we discussed yesterday.

Not for one moment has Biden tried to limit Israel's ability to strike on its neighbors. A headline in the Times of Israel even proclaims that Biden is urging Israel to launch a new strike:

Biden: US opposes Israel hitting Iran nuclear sites, response should be ‘proportional’

Speaking to reporters in Washington, Biden urged Israel to respond “proportionally” to the attack. Asked whether he backs a strike on Iranian nuclear sites, Biden responded: “The answer is no.”

Yves at Naked Capitalism correctly notes that:

Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran

Yves shows that it was U.S. treachery that preceded the Israeli attack on Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah:

We now learn that Nasrallah had agreed to the ceasefire shortly before he was assassinated and Israel or the US was affirmatively duplicitous, as if that comes as a surprise. Antiwar summarizes a CNN interview with the Lebanese foreign minister:

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has said that Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah agreed to a US and French-proposed 21-day ceasefire with Israel right before Israel killed him.

Habib said the US and France told Lebanon that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed to the ceasefire proposal.

“They told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed on this, and so we also got the agreement of Hezbollah on that. And, you know what happened since then,” Habib told CNN host Christiane Amanpour.

I would put my bet on the misrepresentation being US doing, to secure agreement from Hezbollah and then hope they could use that to browbeat Israel into what it would contend was a short pause. Recall that the US has presented ceasefire proposals as originating with Israel and later ‘fessed up that they came from Biden.

It was this ceasefire lie by the Biden administration that enabled the Israeli strike which then prompted the moderate Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian to change his course. 

So, yes, the US - French ceasefire proposal enabled the Israeli strike, but in this sense: That it lured Nasrallah into a meeting with the top Hezbollah military command. But if we accept Macgregor’s view, that Israeli strike still could not have occurred without US coordination with Israel to provide the targeting information and assurances that Nasrallah would be present at the meeting.