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Was Israeli Escalation in Middle East Pre-Planned?
Was Israeli Escalation in Middle East Pre-Planned?
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The US has heightened its presence in the Middle East in recent days, sending aircraft carriers and a fighter squadron to the region as it vows to help defend Israel.
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The world stands at a perilous crossroads after Israel’s recent escalatory attacks in the Middle East, with a regional conflagration or even a world war potentially in the offing.Late last month a strike on a soccer field in the Golan Heights killed several Arab Druze children and teenagers. The authorship of the attack remains unconfirmed but Tel Aviv accused the Lebanese group Hezbollah of being behind the incident. Israel has launched several highly provocative retaliatory strikes in the days since on civilian targets in Yemen, Lebanon and, most significantly, in Iran, where the country is presumed to be responsible for an explosion that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.But former US Defense Department senior security policy analyst Michael Maloof claims the events of the past week may not have occurred by mere chance, but could have been pre-planned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, perhaps in cooperation with the United States. The expert made the provocative claim Monday on Sputnik’s The Final Countdown program.“I think it's totally in Netanyahu's hands now and he's a captive of [Itamar] Ben-Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich, two of his more radical, rabid ministers without whom his government would collapse,” warned Maloof. “And so he has to go along with their dictates, and their dictates are to take back the entire region under some… notion of biblical, historical thinking that is so extreme. Just as we would criticize ISIS for its extreme interpretation of the Quran, these guys have an extreme interpretation of the Old Testament.”“[Netanyahu] laid out his war plan before Congress and they applauded – namely, to go after Iran – and the Congress applauded,” he added, referring to the Israeli Prime Minister’s recent speech before a joint session of Congress in Washington. “Then he went home [and] immediately whacked two of the high-level people and it all started.”The US has heightened its presence in the Middle East in recent days, sending aircraft carriers and a fighter squadron to the region as it vows to help defend Israel. It is expected that the US would be assisted in any effort by allies such as the United Kingdom and Jordan, who came to Israel’s aid during a previous confrontation between Tehran and Tel Aviv in April.Speculation has emerged over the degree to which Netanyahu has purposefully prolonged – or even enabled – recent events to extend his grasp on power and solidify control over the last scraps of Palestinian territory. The government of Egypt has claimed it warned Israel of the imminent Hamas attack that took place on October 7 in advance. Other observers have wondered how Israel could have remained uninformed about Hamas’s training for the armed operation, with the Gaza Strip considered one of the most heavily-surveilled places on Earth.“No one knows why the Israelis were unable to detect the Hamas attack,” wrote journalist Liam Collins. “Historically, Israel has been perhaps the best government in the world at penetrating terrorist organizations.” Analysts have also questioned why it took so long for the Israeli military to respond to the Hamas operation as militants targeted and commandeered police and military installations with apparent ease.Host Steve Gill termed the philosophy of members of Israel’s governing cabinet as “messianic,” adding, “you've got some Christians that are supporting this as well under the Biblical belief that the only way that Jesus returns is if, basically, this sort of chaos in the Middle East occurs and Israel becomes the prime player.”“Welcome to World War III” read the title of an article in the online outlet The Diplomat in April which cited the claim of Russian foreign policy expert Fyodor Lukyanov that a global conflict had “already begun.” The brief violent confrontation between Tel Aviv and Tehran quickly came to an end, but Iran warned at the time it would strike again, with greater force, if Tel Aviv attacked it once more.For the moment, World War III had been averted. This time the world may not be so lucky.
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Was Israeli Escalation in Middle East Pre-Planned?
The US has heightened its presence in the Middle East in recent days, sending aircraft carriers and a fighter squadron to the region as it vows to help defend Israel.
The world stands at a perilous crossroads after Israel’s recent escalatory attacks in the Middle East, with a regional conflagration or even a world war potentially in the offing.
Late last month a strike on a soccer field in the Golan Heights killed several Arab Druze children and teenagers. The authorship of the attack remains unconfirmed but Tel Aviv accused the Lebanese group Hezbollah of being behind the incident. Israel has launched several highly provocative retaliatory strikes in the days since on civilian targets in Yemen, Lebanon and, most significantly, in Iran, where the country is presumed to be responsible for an explosion that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
But former US Defense Department senior security policy analyst Michael Maloof claims the events of the past week may not have occurred by mere chance, but could have been pre-planned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, perhaps in cooperation with the United States. The expert made the provocative claim Monday on
Sputnik’s The Final Countdown program.
“I think it's totally in Netanyahu's hands now and he's a captive of [Itamar] Ben-Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich, two of his more radical, rabid ministers without whom his government would collapse,” warned Maloof. “And so he has to go along with their dictates, and their dictates are to take back the entire region under some… notion of biblical, historical thinking that is so extreme. Just as we would criticize ISIS for its extreme interpretation of the Quran, these guys have an extreme interpretation of the Old Testament.”
23 December 2022, 02:03 GMT
“[Netanyahu] laid out his war plan before Congress and they applauded – namely, to go after Iran – and the Congress applauded,” he added, referring to the Israeli Prime Minister’s recent speech before a joint session of Congress in Washington. “Then he went home [and] immediately whacked two of the high-level people and it all started.”
“I think this was all premeditated. I think the United States started steaming its warships in the direction that this was all pre-planned.”
The US has heightened its presence in the Middle East in recent days, sending aircraft carriers and a fighter squadron to the region as it vows to help defend Israel. It is expected that the US would be assisted in any effort by allies such as the United Kingdom and Jordan, who came to Israel’s aid during a previous confrontation between Tehran and Tel Aviv in April.
Speculation has emerged over the degree to which Netanyahu has purposefully prolonged – or even enabled – recent events to extend his grasp on power and solidify control over the last scraps of Palestinian territory. The government of Egypt has
claimed it warned Israel of the imminent Hamas attack that took place on October 7 in advance. Other
observers have
wondered how Israel could have remained uninformed about Hamas’s training for the armed operation, with the Gaza Strip considered one of the most heavily-surveilled places on Earth.
“No one knows why the Israelis were unable to detect the Hamas attack,” wrote journalist Liam Collins. “Historically, Israel has been perhaps the best government in the world at penetrating terrorist organizations.” Analysts have also questioned why it took so long for the Israeli military to respond to the Hamas operation as militants targeted and commandeered police and military installations with apparent ease.
“That is just such rabid thinking that it's mindless, and today we're dealing in terms of nuclear weapons,” Maloof warned, referring to the beliefs of figures such as Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, adding, “what we're seeing today is straight out of ancient times.”
Host Steve Gill termed the philosophy of members of Israel’s governing cabinet as “messianic,” adding, “you've got some Christians that are supporting this as well under the Biblical belief that the only way that Jesus returns is if, basically, this sort of chaos in the Middle East occurs and Israel becomes the prime player.”
“Welcome to World War III” read the
title of an article in the online outlet The Diplomat in April which cited the claim of Russian foreign policy expert Fyodor Lukyanov that a global conflict had “already begun.” The brief violent confrontation between Tel Aviv and Tehran quickly came to an end, but Iran
warned at the time it would strike again, with greater force, if Tel Aviv attacked it once more.
For the moment, World War III had been averted. This time the world may not be so lucky.
