Tags: greater israel

Israel’s ‘kill first’ strategy is now aimed at Turkey. Will the region respond?

Hard power is needed to halt Israel’s reckless quest to redraw the borders of the Middle East in pursuit of “Greater Israel”. The power Israel lost to dictate the terms of peace on Iran, it has sought to regain in Lebanon. And Israel is now also focussing on Turkey (this has not gone down well with Trump).

War on Iran: Senior royal says Saudi Arabia avoided Israeli plan to ‘plunge region into ruin’

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a senior Saudi royal who led Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service for over two decades, said that the Gulf kingdom refused to get plunged into “an Israeli plan to ignite war between us and Iran”. He said that Riyadh had worked hard to diplomatically resolve a war it had “initially worked hard to prevent”.

NY Times reports how Netanyahu took the US into Iran War

In the Situation Room, Trump didn’t sit in his usual position at the head of the table. Instead, he sat on one side, facing large wall screens. Netanyahu sat directly opposite, and on the screen behind Netanyahu was the director of Mossad. They convinced Trump to make war on Iran (an Israeli target for over 40 years), even though US experts & Vance disagreed.