OUTRAGEOUS! America shackles an ally: why?
Sometimes friends express what you are thinking and Forest Rain Marcia is one of these. With her permission, I am sharing her Facebook post with you here. You can see more of her writing on her blog, Inspiration from Zion.
OUTRAGIOUS!!
Iran launches a full-out attack on Israel, the first direct attack not through their proxies.
Israelis spent the night awake, wondering if Iran would succeed in their attack against us. Missile alerts sent terrified families to shelters – if they have them. How do you explain to small children that the entire country is under attack, that people want to kill us all? What do you do with elderly people who cannot run to shelter?
Israel’s missile defence system is good, but every system has its limits. Since October 7th, Hezbollah has been launching missiles at us, testing the systems limitations – but they could not know the limits of the system for shooting down missiles launched from Iran.
We had an additional layer of defence, Israeli fighter jets along with American and other allies shot down killer drones before they could reach Israel.
America stepped up, not for the good of Israel but to protect American interests. Now the Biden administration is already telling us not to retaliate in Iran. They do enough to prevent Israel from being obliterated and, at the same time, prevent us from doing what is necessary to protect ourselves.
Outrageous is a mild word for this behavior.
What country in the world would allow itself to be attacked and not respond?!
I don’t see enough behind the scenes to fully understand the game Americans are playing. Was this all a show, coordinated with Iran so that they will be able to pressure us to not finish the war with Hamas, not attack Hezbollah, and lose the war that began on October 7th?
Iran endangers the free world, not just Israel. For the good of the free world, it is necessary to put a stop to Iranian aggression. Why is America preventing that?
Let me just add my own $0.02: Of course countries act out of their own interests and not for moral, humanitarian, or friendly reasons unless those moral, humanitarian and friendly acts satisfy their own interests. It is true that the USA helped down those missiles and drones before 99% of them could penetrate Israeli air space. And here is one of those that landed harmlessly in the Dead Sea:
Image shared on social media. Source unknown.
That certainly was a moral, humanitarian and friendly thing to do. BUT:
We now know that the USA tricked Israel into not preparing for the Arab attack in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. We know that the USA (Obama) pressured Israel into letting Hamas run in the elections in Gaza in 2006. We know the USA is pressuring Israel not to act against militarily against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Rafah, and now the Iranian regime in Iran.
And now, Forest reminded me that Obama prevented Israel from attacking Iran when Bibi wanted to (former Mossad Director Meir Dagan told on him and Obama threatened to shoot our planes out of the sky). If we had hit Iran then, the world would now be a much safer place.
What are the American interests that such historic and contemporary military actions might harm? It is not enough to say that they want to prevent a region-wide war. So what is going on and, as Forest Rain Marcia asks: Why is America preventing Israel from attacking the head of the octopus whose tentacles in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, the Palestinian Authority in Judea-Samaria, and Yemen and more are nipping away at Israel before what is likely to be a planned all-out assault against us on all these fronts?
I too have been asking for quite some time now, why is America defending Iran? Yes, the US and others helped to prevent the Iranian attack at the weekend succeeding yet, it was an attack by Iran announced a good week in advance. Rumours and predictions were flying for days on end but what if it had been a surprise attack with little or no warning? Something is more than a little off with this scenario, isn’t it? Iran is allowed to flex its muscles, the USA is able to send a strong message to any potential players in the region, and Israel is warned off from responding to what amounted to a declaration of war by Iran. I wonder if Biden – or rather, Obiden – is preparing to shoot down IAF planes on their way to Iranian targets like Obama once threatened? Why is the US defending Iran? Money has to be at the root of it all but sooner or later Iran will cross a red line that even Obiden can’t ignore.
You write “Of course countries act out of their own interests and not for moral, humanitarian, or friendly reasons.”
Not quite. If it were true, this war would have been over forty-eight hours after it began.
We don’t know what the USA said/threatened to make it in our interest not to end the war in 48 hours.
Another way of looking at things is to consider the Iranian bombardment as a somewhat theatrical provocation and distraction, not an existential threat? The existential threats lie on the borders of Israel, namely, Hamas/PIJ in Gaza and S&J, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Iranian militias in Syria. Finishing the business with Hamas in Gaza should be Israel’s top priority along with confronting Hezbollah (and Hamas?) in Lebanon. I mean, if Israel gets involved in a shooting war with Iran (unless forced to) might that not be the optimum time for Hezbollah and what remains of Hamas together with Iranian forces in Syria to attack Israel? My gut feeling is to first remove Hamas from Rafah and end the Gazan threat to Israel’s security, and do it quickly!
Correction to above: The Iranian aggression obviously does represent an existential threat, what I meant to say iis that it might not be an immediate ongoing threat, whereas the various proxies do represent clear and present dangers.
I understand what you mean and I agree that Hamas has to be taken out totally and asap. We have already begun to go into Rafah. The north could explode in war at any moment at the same time.