[News] US Support of Israel - ‘Fully, Fully, Fully’ or Folly, Folly, Folly?

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US Support of Israel - ‘Fully, Fully, Fully’ or Folly, Folly, Folly?October
5, 2024
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Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles towards Israel. (Photo: video
grab)

*By Jeremy Salt <https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/jeremy-salt>*

Netanyahu brought Gaza to Beirut but through mass murder and destruction in
Gaza and Lebanon, he might be bringing it to Israel as well.

The ‘fully’ repeated three times by Joe Biden is how fully the US stands
‘by’ Israel.

Through good times and bad,  through genocide, mass murder, assassinations
and occupation,  the US has stood by Israel and is standing by Israel yet
again as it threatens to attack Iran.

The US and Israel are claiming that Iran’s second retaliatory missile
attack was a failure because ‘almost all’ missiles were intercepted and no
civilians killed, apart from a Palestinian hit by a falling missile part on
the West Bank.

In fact, as numerous video clips show, the truth is closer to Iran’s claim
of an 80 percent success rate.

Military bases were hit. The Nevatim air base was badly damaged and the
Mossad headquarters was targeted.

If no civilians apart from this one Palestinian man were killed that is
because, unlike Israel and Hezbollah, Iran was not out to kill civilians.

This attack was a second warning to Israel.

Iran has warned Israel that if it retaliates there will be a third attack,
much stronger than the first two.
Rifts within US

Netanyahu brought Gaza to Beirut but through mass murder and destruction in
Gaza and Lebanon, he might be bringing it to Israel as well.

While standing by to join an attack on Iran, the US is opposed to the
bombing of nuclear installations.

This should not be taken as an indication that Israel will not do it, only
that the US will not openly be part of it.

The rifts within the US administration are growing. Policy professionals in
the State Department and the Pentagon don’t see the world in the same way
or for the same reasons as the White House.

Shock and horror at the scale of Israeli mass murder has led to
resignations and there are bound to be more as Israel drags the US further
into the morass both have created.
‘Malevolent Nature’

Israel wants to seize Iran by the throat and kill it. It wants to
decapitate its leadership, destroy all its nuclear installations and
pulverize the population into submission by another round of mass murder
and destruction.

Iran fully understands its malevolent nature – fully, fully, fully as Biden
might say – and has been preparing to defend itself for decades.

Iran is not Gaza or Lebanon, a small strip of territory and a small country
defended by a guerrilla force. It is a large country with a population of
close to 90 million and a large military.

It has armed allies across the Middle East, already attacking Israel and US
bases.

Its nuclear plants are well protected and its missile sites are buried
deeper than can be reached by the biggest bunker bombs, which naturally
raises the question of whether Israel would go as far as using tactical
nuclear weapons.

Needless to say, Iran’s armed forces are modest compared to what the US has
but its hypersonic missiles are capable of reaching anywhere in Israel as
well as US bases in Iraq, Syria and the Gulf.
The Whale Torpedo

As for US superiority at sea, Iran has the ‘supercavitating’ (consult the
internet for technical details) Hoot (Whale) torpedo.

Adapted from the Russian VIII Shkval, the Hoot travels up to more than 360
km per hour and is regarded as practically unstoppable.

Iran says the Hoot can destroy the largest surface vessels and anything
beneath the water. Only Russia and Iran have this weapon.

After the second missile attack on Israel Iran issued a short but clear
warning to the US: “Don’t attack Iran.”

Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran has taken the lead
in trying to warn
<https://twitter.com/PalestineChron/status/1841973871282717015> the US and
its allies of the consequences but Israel has threatened a “significant and
swift response.”

Whatever its hesitation, the US will be part of it.

Once released, the dogs of war will run wherever they want and “fully,
fully, fully” will turn out to be folly, folly, folly.

*(The Palestine Chronicle)*


*– Jeremy Salt taught at the University of Melbourne, at Bosporus
University in Istanbul and Bilkent University in Ankara for many years,
specializing in the modern history of the Middle East. Among his recent
publications is his 2008 book, The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History
of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press) and The
Last Ottoman Wars. The Human Cost 1877-1923 (University of Utah Press,
2019). He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.*
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