This is not a U.S. war. This is part of Israel’s demented vision of Greater Israel, of dominating the Middle East. But Israel needs the U.S. military, and its lackeys in the U.S. political class have handed over the keys to the formidable arsenal.
Blood Brothers – by Mr. Fish.
Once again, America is going to war for Israel.
Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, the U.S. will stumble blindly into a military fiasco.
Once again, Washington will do the bidding of a foreign power whose interests are not its interests, but whose lobbyists have bought up America’s political class, including Donald Trump. Once again, the U.S. will violate the U.N. Charter by attacking a country that does not pose an imminent threat.
This is not America’s war. This is part of Israel’s demented vision of Greater Israel, of dominating the Middle East. But Israel needs the U.S. military, taxpayer dollars, weapons to do it. And the U.S. has handed them the keys to its formidable arsenal.
The architects of the war with Iran, which the administration feels no need to justify to the American public or the international community, admit it will not be quick.
Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CBS News on Saturday that the goal is not only to curb Iran’s nuclear program, but “dismantle their terror support network.”
“To do all that is going to take longer than the strikes on their nuclear program last summer,” Cotton said. “We’re probably looking at weeks, not days, of joint efforts by the United States, Israel and our Arab partners, who have also been attacked this morning.”
Israel’s lackeys in the political class, along with their courtiers in the media, including former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employee Wolf Blitzer, as well as academia, are shining examples of Israel’s transparent and often illegal meddling in the American political system. Forget Russia. Forget China. No foreign government comes close to exerting Israel’s influence.
Democratic Party leaders are not opposed to attacking Iran — they are opposed to attacking Iran without being consulted. Two dozen Democrats lept to their feet and applauded every time Trump threatened Iran, or lauded Israel, in his State of the Union address.
The Biden administration and Democratic Party leadership made no effort to reinstate Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear agreement. It focused instead on sustaining the genocide in Gaza. It cheered Israel’s decapitation of Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
Kamala Harris in her feckless and tone deaf presidential campaign promised to continue funding the genocide, which alienated many voters, and labeled Iran our most dangerous enemy.
Endless war is a bipartisan project.
Netanyahu addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 26, 2025. (UN Photo/Loey Felipe)
The flagrant interference by Israel in the American political system is documented in the Al-Jazeera four-part series The Lobby, which Israel and its supporters blocked from being broadcast. Pirated copies can be watched on the website Electronic Intifada.
In the documentary, the leaders of the Israel lobby are captured on a reporter’s hidden camera explaining how, backed by the intelligence services in Israel, they discredit and silence American critics and use huge cash donations to control the American electoral process and political system.
Israel’s death grip on the U.S. political system is also documented in The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
“If you wander off the reservation and become critical of Israel, you not only will not get money, AIPAC will go to great lengths to find someone who will run against you,” Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, says in the documentary. “And they support that person very generously. The end result is you’re likely to lose your seat in Congress.”
Israel flies hundreds of members of Congress, often with their families, to Israel for lavish junkets at seaside resorts. These Congress members run up individual bills that frequently exceed $20,000. The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 attempted to restrict lobbyists from offering paid trips lasting more than one day to members of Congress.
But AIPAC, which has never been forced to register as a foreign agent, used its clout to insert a clause in the act to exclude so-called educational trips organized by charities that do not hire lobbyists. The AIPAC-affiliated charity utilized to navigate this loophole is called the American Israel Education Foundation.
The investment by Israel is worth it. The United States Congress in 2016 authorized a $38 billion per year defense aid package from 2019-2028 for Israel. The U.S. squandered $4 to $6 trillion on the futile wars Israel and its lobby pushed for in the Middle East. Congress has, as well, authorized $ 21.7 in military aid to Israel to sustain the genocide.
God knows the cost of this war, but it will likely be in the billions of dollars.
We are back to where we were in 2003 with a war whose utopian goal is regime-change. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.
The same fatuous lies have been dredged up to justify this war, with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff telling Fox News that Iran is “probably a week away” from having the materials necessary to make a nuclear bomb.
This has been Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel lobby’s mantra for three decades.
I’m not sure how we are supposed to swallow this after Trump announced last July, following U.S. air strikes, that “All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service…”
One lie supersedes the next.
Once again, we promise to bomb a country to liberate it, with Trump saying all he wants is “freedom for the people” of Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s compound was bombed and he has been killed.
The Israeli prime minister, like Trump, is calling on the Iranians to seize the “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to “take to the streets en masse, to complete the task of overthrowing the regime that is making your lives miserable.”
“This is your time to join forces to overthrow the regime, to secure your future,” Netanyahu said.
That every other attempt at regime-change in the Middle East resulted in disaster eludes them. This time, they promise, it will work.
The U.S. may not have assembled a ground force, as Bush did in 2003 for the Iraq war, but once you open the Pandora’s box of war, war controls you. You don’t control it.
More American troops will likely be killed as Iran targets U.S. bases in the region. The Iranian navy announced it has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil chokepoint that facilitates the passage of 20 percent of the world’s oil supply. This will potentially double or triple the price of oil and devastate the global economy. Oil installations along with U.S. ships and military bases in the region will be hit.
Iran has fired missiles at Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, Al-Salem airbase in Kuwait, Al-Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and U.S. bases in Jordan. Explosions have been reported in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Thousands of innocents will die. Israel hit an elementary girls’ school on Saturday in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran. Iran’s Tasnim News Agency cited the Judiciary of Minab as saying that the death toll had risen to 85. [NYT now reports at least 175].
The steady losses, and a huge spike in oil prices, will compound the frustrations of Trump and his Israeli allies. These frustrations, like those during the two decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, will ignite a protracted regional war.
Iran, under sustained attack, could eventually fragment and splinter, sending millions of refugees over its border and igniting the chaos we engineered in Libya. But Israel, whose goal is to degrade the military capabilities of its neighbors, will get what it wants.
We will be left with the mess.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East bureau chief and Balkan bureau chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and NPR. He is the host of show “The Chris Hedges Report.”
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No, Chris, this America’s war. This is what the Ruling Class here wanted and got. Our Zionists and Israel’s Zionist state are on the same page on this. Israel does nothing without the complete backing of the US.
*“Zionist elite have truly emerged as those Who Reign Supreme in America. Those Who Reign Supreme do so because on November 22, 1963, an American president, who challenged their power, was put to death in a very ugly, public execution, in a crime, that to this day, remains unpunished. Now, today, we face the reality that came as a consequence of that crime in Dallas.” Michael Collins Piper, 2004.
2026, “Blood Brothers” by Mr. Fish, paints “REALITY.” Consequences of the ‘BBB’s “Art of The Deal” by BB’s B*tch.
* “The New Jerusalem-Zionist Power in America,” by Michael Collins Piper, 2004. First Published in February, 2005 by American Free Press, Washington, D.C.,
Somebody’s paying attention:
“On March 4, the People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA) announced five “lessons” based on an analysis of Israel’s and US actions against Iran.
“The deadliest threat is the enemy inside. The most expensive miscalculation is blind faith in the world. The most severe reality is the logic of superior firepower. The most violent paradox is the illusion of victory. The most reliable support is self-sufficiency,” PLA said in a statement on the X.”
Words of wisdom we will never hear from any of our vile and demented leaders in Israel, the USA, and Europe. We have morally and intellectually rotten leadership. They are criminally incompetent and insane, and we can’t get rid of them.
If they were ordinary people in society, they’d be committed to an asylum or imprisoned. What is wrong with this picture.
Samson Option
Iran has more than enough ballistic missiles in its stockpiles (and plenty of hypersonics waiting in the wings) to inflict serious damages on Tel Aviv and every single Washington military base throughout the gulf for at least the next few months. The IRGC has been building and planning for this exact war for over 40 years. Many Neocons and other Zio freaks actually thought that after Khamenei was martyred the Iranian people would quickly lose their resolve. What bumbling boobs.
The arrogant and sadistic Zio settlers are sooner or later going to get sick and tired of having to constantly shuttle off to shelters in the middle of the night.
From what I’m gathering, Tehran has choked off the Strait of Hormuz and is permitting petroleum trade only with China, Russia and other good-hearted allies.
The co-conspirators: Trump and the Zio supremacists, may have bit off more than they can handle, which brings up the seminal point of my comment — will the West Asian psychopathological land-thieves reach for their nukes?
If Israel finds itself backed up against a wall, I think it is highly likely that it will resort to using nuclear weapons. The fanatics who run that country have demonstrated that no crime is too great for them to commit in service of their objectives. The proof lies in Gaza.