Congress hasn’t declared war or authorized it, and it wasn’t precipitated by an imminent attack or a national emergency. If the war continues through Friday without congressional approval, it will be illegal, having passed the 60-day threshold that the president is given, under the War Powers Resolution, to conduct this kind of military operation.
“We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into [bombing Iran], because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.” Hochstein, a senior adviser to Biden, was born in Israel and formerly served in the Israeli military.
Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization was not an expression of American values but the purest expression of an ideology the U.S.has attached itself to under both Biden and now Trump: Zionism and the Greater Israel project, first through U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, and most recently through the joint war of aggression against Iran.
US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has known Netanyahu since he was a child, were speaking to Netanyahu and other Israeli officials nearly every day.
The neoconservative talk host tried to normalize the use of nuclear weapons and now appears irate that the president hasn’t taken his advice.
It is easier to start than end wars, but this one appears to have run its course. The larger question is whether there will be a reckoning for Israel and the central role it played in this fiasco.
As long as Washngton maintains a “special alliance” with Israel, Israeli leaders will always seek to use our military to do their dirty work. They have proved it for decades, continuing to demand more U.S. troops die on their behalf
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.
The Catholic Archbishop for the US Military Services has said the US-Israeli war against Iran is unjust, according to Catholic teaching, as Catholic leaders in the US, Rome, and the Middle East continue to criticize the conflict.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has penned an open letter to the American public. This follows an open letter to the youth of America from Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in 2015. Americans need to read them…