You'd know more than I! But I don't quite understand what you're saying? Maybe you can do an article on it? Or you have?
Perhaps you can point out the defect in my understanding.
1. In 1979 Iran's U.S. favored gov't is overthrown and oil assets "nationalized"
2. The U.S. increases presence in the region to reverse it.
3. Seeing no way to do it without a full-scale war, the U.S. essentially outsources that pressure to Israel.
4. Israel goes on a decades long campaign to paint Iran as militant Jihadist nation looking to take over the whole Middle East with its version of Islam.
5. The U.S., limited in what it can say about Iran without sounding petty, increases military support and funding to Israel.
6. Israel begins to use this help to push Palestinians out of the West Bank (to improve it's national security near Jordan) and to grow the country, etc, etc.
7. The U.S. ignores that Israel has now brainwashed itself into believing Iran and Palestinians wants all Jewish Israelis dead.
8. As the global economy begins to cool in 2017 Israel reduces money spend on domestic "defense" (Gaza border).
9. Hamas seizes its opportunity
10. Israel responds in the only way it knows how, with overwhelming military power. It doesn't negotiate. It does not listen to the U.S.
11. It is also politically held hostage by its "settler" factions.
12. The U.S. can't reverse policy with Iran without serious cuts to its defense industry. Plus, the oil services companies still want Iran back.
Iran couldn't even beat Iraq. I don't see how it's going to take over the Middle East. It has shrewdly played its limited hand. To argue that if it stopped antagonizing Israel, which it sees as a proxy for the U.S., that peace would prevail is naive? The U.S. could restart diplomatic relations with Iran today. Indeed, it tried, but, and here's the rub....
Israel needs the U.S. to view Iran as a threat. The U.S. defense industry and politicians make money, get votes, with the relationship. To Biden, and his ilk, they only KNOW what Israelis tell them about Israel. They don't look to learn things that would upset the apple-cart.
Without all that, there's no reason for the U.S. to support Israel militarily to the extent it does.
Then there are the Christian Zionists who view Israel as part of their master plan. The American and European Jews who supported Israel because of the memory of the Holocaust are dead and dying.
If all the above is true one can see that it's logical that Israel would lash out at a world they've been taught to fear (just like they accuse all Palestinians of being brought up to want to kill Jews). Netanyahu has played a perfect game of playing everyone's fears, from the U.S. to his own population, in growing the State of Israel.
Like all old men, he doesn't question his beliefs and confidence. Israelis want him to bring them back to the good days. Just like Russians hope with Putin. But you can't reheat warmed milk.
The problem is, the money is drying up. It's why Hamas was able to breach the Gaza border wall. Too much money diverted to the settlers.
Wealth inequality in Israel is also driving things. And the same problem is here in the U.S. Economic jealousy continues to grow, as it did in the 1930s.
I look forward to you comments! Thanks!
