PLOTTING THE COUNTER-ATTACK

Why might Netanyahu and Colleg's desire for revenge be riskier than calculated?

 

By Sidney Hey

In the end, the Iranians did it and that's not all, through operation “True Promise” they kicked the IDF's ass. Of course, if you were informed by what the TV and radio stations of the established media said, forget it, you haven't heard anything, or rather, you have only seen what your governments have wanted you to see. What has been described in these quarters as an “unprecedented attack” or even a “terrorist attack” was in fact a retaliation in response to the Israeli air strike on April 1st that blew up the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

To understand why this happened, one has to go back to the root causes, and that is something the Western Establishment media refuses to do.

But beyond the historical-political justifications, let us look at the consequences of the Iranian attack and the considerations Tel Aviv is taking into account for a response against Tehran.

The media in the West (and in Argentina of course) showed on their screens the dance of lights and explosions at night in Israel as a result of the interception of the missiles with the batteries deployed in strategic sites in Tel Aviv and other cities of the “Iron Dome” system. Alongside these images, the journalists, following the Israeli script, added over-acted victimhood comments in favour of Israel and the experiences of Argentinian citizens living there. As they say here, “pure smoke”.

The same could be seen -and how could it be otherwise- on the BBC, on CNN and on the breaking news in Australia, which right now are cranking the machine to prepare public opinion on why it would be good for Netanyahu to launch an attack against Iran, honouring the customary subalternity that the government of the big island has with the geopolitics dictated by Washington DC.

But the effects of the attack would have been far more damaging and worrying than the actions of Netanyahu's cabinet and dutifully reproduced in the mass media. Although Tel Aviv intercepted a large part of the drones and missiles entering its capital, the same did not happen at other points where the hacking of the Iron Dome's computer system has been hinted at.

In addition, pressure on the Australian government from Netanyahu's office to join a warmongering adventure against Tehran under the pretext of aggression is causing speculation in Canberra when there is no doubt that such an idea should be dropped. It would be an intelligent contribution to peace if PM Anthony Albanese did not allow himself to be pressured by the butcher of Tel Aviv.

But what these brilliant politicians do not seem to realise is that Iran would not only be testing Israel, but all its allies.

It is also noticeable how Zionist propaganda tries to see this attack as a supposed victory because, according to some in these quarters, it would have diverted attention from what Israel is doing in Gaza and that this has realigned its hesitant European allies, but that is not so. This way of seeing things is akin to the messianic thinking that underpins Zionist ideology in which God has put them above anyone who is not Jewish and therefore they can walk all over them.

Last Saturday's attack made it clear that Israel is no longer unpunished and it is quite possible that Iran has taken this opportunity to measure and calibrate new weapons and possibly those will be the ones that hit the military bases that Tel Aviv has refused to recognise.

Israel has not yet achieved its main purpose of emptying the Gaza Strip of Palestinians, but it hopes to do so with its plans to attack Rafah. These plans could be set in motion by keeping the Iranian attack hot as a way of diverting public attention, which it would achieve with the ever-ready cooperation of the media.

But beyond these desires, reality prevails. Israel is not a power in its own right and depends (as has become abundantly clear) on material assistance from the US and its European partners. On the latter point, it is worth noting that some of the drones were intercepted by Anglo-American, French and Jordanian aircraft. To carry out two undertakings such as an offensive in Rafah and a counter-attack on Iran in retaliation for the missile barrage of Saturday 14 April is too much.

It is not only a question of cost and force management, there is another problem that Tel Aviv and in particular the media in the West are silencing and that is... Hezbollah. The northern border of what the Islamic resistance calls “occupied Palestine” has become a powder keg creating a sense of insecurity that among other consequences has pushed thousands of settlers to flee southwards and many others to return to their respective European countries or to the US.