by ANTHONY KAREFA ROGERS-WRIGHT
The Middle East’s only real weapons of mass destruction are Zionism, U.S. imperialism, and Israel’s nuclear arsenal—a toxic trifecta fueling endless war.
Last week, in response to Israel’s latest aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) issued a statement with a title that adroitly articulates the current situation, The Middle East is on Fire Because U.S. and Israeli Imperialism Lit the Match. Therein, BAP, in part, declares, “The idea of Israel, the zionist occupation, claiming a moral position is absurd. And the fact that the international community continues to give Israel any credibility is a dereliction of duty and forms a vacuum of morality…” To this end, any prosecution of the zionist ethnostate’s continued aggression against Arab and Persian people in the region requires an analysis of the variables that prevent even a semblance of interdiction for Israel’s impunity that’s bringing the Middle East region and the entire world to the brink of a new season of armed conflicts with the potential to draw in multiple nations directly and indirectly. Some would argue that this is already happening.
The zionist ethnostate has been spoiling for a war with Iran for decades. Who can forget the comedic, cartoonish, yet dark presentation of Benjamin Netanyahu to the United Nations in 2012 when he suggested that Iran was on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu and other neocons have been peddling the false narrative about Iran’s nuclear timeline for decades, but this time is much different because it was acted upon, which has resulted in more death, more illegal acts that are egregious violations of international law and more global instability at the hands of the zionist ethnostate and its willing collaborators in the U.S. and the West. Even a recent report by the bourgeois media outlet, CNN, indicated that according to U.S. intel, Iran was not only years away from possessing nuclear capabilities, but was also not in the process of doing so.
Nonetheless, Israel is in the process of attacking Iran, taking out its military leaders and scientists, targeting its main source of income – oil refineries and infrastructure – and signaling a desire for regime change against this sovereign nation. And Israel is doing so with the full blessing of the U.S. and Donald Trump, who declared that he was fully aware and supportive of the first round of Israeli strikes against Iran. This vindicates BAP’s statement, which also asserted, “BAP rejects the notion that the U.S. was unaware of this attack. The U.S. had the ability to stop this attack if it was serious about containing Israel’s perpetual war crimes and disregard for international law, which is a major threat to any form of true peace.”
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