by KATHLEEN WALLACE
“Who the fuck does he think he is? Who’s the fucking superpower here?” Bill Clinton 1996 upon meeting Benjamin Mileikowsky (Netanyahu) for the first time.
“It would be fine if they took it all” Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel during an interview with Tucker Carlson, February 2026.
The bombs have started dropping and Netanyahu is rejoicing in the prize he has been so longing for. The region is now aflame and the regional contender to thwart Israeli power is receiving massive bombardment. As is always the case, children’s blood will flow disproportionately as the protected elderly warmongers give the orders from places of safety and comfort.
A girl’s school in Iran has been wiped out, blood spattered little backpacks show the wanton violence inflicted by the Israeli bombing. “We are fighting the Epstein class. They either rape little girls or burn little girls” says Dr. Izadifoad, a professor from the University of Tehran. He’s not wrong. And before you launch into discussion about the religious zealots of Iran, know that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a 501 non-profit in the US, is fielding a reported 110+ complaints that different military units in the US are being told this war in Iran is part of a divine plan to cause Armageddon.
How have we gotten to this place? A situation where Israel essentially gives marching orders to the United States and those wishes are complied with posthaste? Those paying attention through history know the relationship has always been lopsided, but even Reagan pushed back in a very slight manner to Israeli aggression, keeping some semblance of autonomy in decision making. What has taken away even that 1% of push-back?
Of course, the Israeli propaganda, the hasbara, has been very successful in labeling those against their apartheid state as antisemitic. The thing is, that label has been used so promiscuously that it has lost almost all meaning. The true antisemitism would seem to come from the Zionists who have tried to claim all of Judaism as their own and in so doing put the Jewish diaspora at the risk of idiots who conflate the two. As the esteemed Dr. Gabor Mate has indicated, collective Jewish trauma has been exploited by Israel to justify the behavior in Gaza.
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