Why did Israel attack Iran?
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Why did Israel attack Iran?
It wasn't because of an "inevitable, existential threat". This must have been planned months ago. There was no existential threat then; there is none now. The decision to go nuclear is a political one. Israel wants a radicalization of Iranian politics.
It wasn't in an attempt to jar "the great Iranian people" into rebellion against the Islamic Republic. Netanyahu's message to that effect is both cynical and mafioso in style. Bombing Iran and killing Iranians to effect "social change" is akin to starving Gazans so they rebel against Hamas. Additionally, the Iranian people will rally around the flag in these conditions even if they heartily dislike the Islamic Republic. They will do so for the same reason protesters against Netanyahu are now extolling his greatness - the immediate appeal of a national erection/catastrophe.
Israel has two reasons to attack Iran. The first is to divert the world's attention from the genocide in Gaza (and the one beginning in the besieged West Bank). Israel was on the verge of answering for its crimes. Israel had run out of options. Now, the global north will once again be able to entertain fantasies of eradicating the Muslim/Brown/Fanatic/Primitive menace with blood, and will restore Israeli immunity and impunity.
The second reason is that this is now Israel's definition of "security": Killing whoever it wants, whenever it wants for as long as it wants without paying any sort of price. This is the only way a Jewish supremacist state can exist "securely". A world that allows this to become a norm is a world whose end is near.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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