The Iranian strike wasn’t an attack but a long-promised retaliation for high-profile assassinations by Israel on Iranian and Lebanese soil. The Iranians had postponed it, holding out hope for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza—what a joke. The assassination of Nasrallah and other provocations forced Iran’s hand, with internal political pressures threatening the regime’s credibility. Iranian missiles hit Israeli soil, though not aimed at civilians like Israel traditionally does, but at military targets, such as the airbases from which fighter jets have spread death and destruction for a year. Of course, the “real” terrorists are always the others. And the massacres in Lebanon? Blame the Lebanese for being human shields. Like in Gaza, where it’s just another war, as always. There’s reality on one side, and what they put in our heads on the other, with politicians and media spinning parallel realities to suit dominant interests. The real tragedy, for people and the planet, is this lack of awareness, the inability to discern the truth.
As for the missile barrage, Israeli military censorship prevents news of the damage from spreading, fearing it might embolden their enemies or lead their own people to seek a better “promised land.” But the missile rain has proven that Israel is indeed vulnerable, and in today’s videogame-like times, we’re all just a click away from disaster. Even the aid from U.S. aircraft carriers and Jordan, ever loyal to stacks of green bills, didn’t help. Netanyahu and his cronies quickly fled to bunkers, and upon emerging, resumed their bloodthirsty calls for retaliation and hefty price tags. They dream of a total showdown with Iran to secure Zionist dominance in the region. Their awareness is cosmic, the stories they tell themselves are the same ones they’ve spun since playing with toy soldiers. For a year, they’ve done everything to provoke escalation, now blaming Iran and Hezbollah, playing the victim card, hoping their lobby drags the U.S. into the fray. And that’s the crucial issue. It’s been a year now. Biden’s frailty has allowed Netanyahu to do as he pleases, creating a dangerous power vacuum that this dangerous man is exploiting. And the whole West could pay the price.
Iran is a close ally of Russia and a cornerstone of the new geopolitical bloc centered around China, while we’re America’s lapdogs. This would be a senseless war that nobody wants. Not the U.S., preoccupied with elections and its decline, not Europe, lost in an existential crisis, not Iran, dealing with sanctions and its pivot to the BRICS, not Lebanon, still recovering from recent collapses, nor the other Arab states whose rulers cling to their thrones. The only one craving war is that criminal Netanyahu, who’s been trying for a year, drenching the region in blood. If his escalation fails, he might even resort to threatening nuclear strikes. After everything he’s done, nothing is off the table. A total war just because he refuses to respect U.N. resolutions, international law, and sign a peace deal with the Palestinians, putting an end to the Zionist annexation. A total war to secure his legacy as a Zionist hero instead of ending up behind bars for his crimes against humanity. Now we wait for the response to the Iranian missile rain. Will they reach an agreement to satisfy all the local bullies’ egos, or will the fight erupt? Yes, lack of awareness is the real tragedy of human life and the planet. And peace is nothing more than the natural consequence of our evolution towards human consciousness.
