“If you don’t do everything I say, I’m calling you an antisemite and a nazi!” - sounds dumb, but I’m pretty sure that’s essentially what it is. And it worked practically every time on every German leader since Hitler, so far.
Hardly, maybe bibi does but Germany would have likely supported Israel the same way the US would have likely supported Israel whether or not bibi has any “blackmail” or whatever on leaders in the US.
I mean, what German politician was it who said “Israel does our dirty work for us?”
Today, three decades after he first cast Iran as the engine behind anti-Israel sentiment, Netanyahu has finally gotten his war. Israel posits the war as defense against an existential threat, but as ever, what is driving it is the impulse to suppress and displace the Palestine question. Seen this way, the Iran war once again reveals Israel’s most fundamental interest, which has remained unchanged for decades: to prosecute the question of Palestine on its own terms, whether through the continued system of apartheid or outright genocide. Netanyahu is once again proving that he would sooner redraw the map of the Middle East than push back Israel’s borders—preferring to crater Tehran and Isfahan than concede a single dunam in the West Bank.
Attacks by Iranian-backed groups in the Middle East won’t stop until Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza ends, Tehran’s top diplomat warned on Wednesday, as tensions across the region threaten to spiral into wider conflict.
“If the genocide in Gaza stops, then it will lead to the end of other crises and attacks in the region,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.
“I warn the US and its proxy Israel that if they do not immediately stop the crime against humanity and genocide in Gaza, anything is possible at any moment and the region will go out of control,” Mr Amir-Abdollahian said at a news conference in Tehran.
The shattering of the Iranian regime risks triggering a catastrophic horizontal war and vertical political collapse, as Israel remains the primary existential threat to the region’s stability—a crisis forcing the Middle East back into 19th-century power politics. This regression, driven by a US policy that is dismantling the very system it once established, effectively ends the region’s brief ‘Dengist era’ and the economic spirit that once fuelled its connectivity projects.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza has dramatically escalated tensions across the region. What began as a devastating war in Gaza has gradually transformed into a broader geopolitical confrontation particularly between the Israeli-US coalition and Iran.
The former official explained that Israel is comfortable with the current status quo in Gaza because it allows it to retain control of a depopulated 70% of the enclave, while avoiding the cost of feeding and sheltering its displaced population.
No matter what the case is with negotiations, this war is a war of choice. Particularly important in understanding its causes and possible execution is the fact that the war was started by two states that are actively engaging in genocide.
Both Israel and the U.S. are perpetrating genocide against Palestinians. The United States is further engaged in domestic genocidal processes against transgender and immigrant communities. The genocidal character of these two regimes should not be overlooked, as it helps to explain their ongoing recklessness and breathtaking disrespect for international law.
Genocidal regimes are self-radicalizing entities that see power only in wanton violence and actively seek out dramatic displays of brute force in efforts to control ever more territory (and enrich themselves while doing so). They are willing to countenance high numbers of civilian casualties to get their way and have little trouble papering over the horror and tragedy they cause with overwrought, eschatological, and particularist ideology. We can see all of this in their attacks against Iran, where both countries are attacking civilian objects, especially hospitals and schools, and threatening the use of mass casualty weapons.
Regarding the genocide in Palestine specifically, it has been clear for some time now that it is closely connected to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s larger plans for a ‘Greater Israel’ in the Middle East that would realize Israeli hegemony over the region. Iran is the greatest obstacle to this plan and a war with Iran further presents the perfect cover for the continued destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza and the Occupied Territories. While Israeli expansionism was somewhat contained under previous U.S. presidents, with the exception of the illegal settlements (which have been steadily growing over the 21st century), the Biden and Trump Administrations seem to have given Prime Minister Netanyahu a green light to expand into neighboring states. Moreover, the Gaza carnage has become a model for Israel’s prosecution of war in general.
Wait what does bibi have on the leader of Germany?
Nothing, Merz is just a massive piece of shit and seemingly fully immune to any level of shame.
“If you don’t do everything I say, I’m calling you an antisemite and a nazi!” - sounds dumb, but I’m pretty sure that’s essentially what it is. And it worked practically every time on every German leader since Hitler, so far.
Hardly, maybe bibi does but Germany would have likely supported Israel the same way the US would have likely supported Israel whether or not bibi has any “blackmail” or whatever on leaders in the US.
I mean, what German politician was it who said “Israel does our dirty work for us?”
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-merz-says-israel-doing-dirty-work-for-us-in-iran/live-72939104
Ah yes, the leader of Germany!
… In Iran. If you’re gonna quote, don’t do that in a disingenuous way.
The Iran War and the Palestinian Genocide are directly linked, I am not being disingenuous.
Are they though?
Yes you ignorant fool
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-iran-war-is-about-palestine
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/middleeast/iran-links-attacks-to-israels-war-in-gaza-intl
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67188346
https://studies.aljazeera.net/en/analyses/war-no-one-can-win-why-shattering-iranian-regime-strategic-miscalculation
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/gazas-roadmap-nowhere-why-israel-wont-give-control
https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert%3A-israel-u.s.-war-of-aggression-against-iran
Do you want me to keep going?